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Book Synopsis
This service-oriented guide supplies vital tools, informed tips, and provocative ideas for professionals, students, and policy makers involved in gerontology and geriatrics.

Trade Review
This excellent source for practitioners and health care administrators will also be useful to students interested in long-term care facilities in any health area... Highly recommended. Choice 2011

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Nursing Homes in the United States
Chapter 1. The Quality of Care in Nursing Homes
Chapter 2. Measuring the Quality of Care
Chapter 3. Factors Contributing to the Variability in the Quality of Care
Chapter 4. Persistent Citations for the Deficiency of Pressure Ulcers
Chapter 5. Factors Influencing Residents' Outcomes
Chapter 6. Policies regarding Minimum Staffing Levels
Chapter 7. The Relationship between Efficiency and the Quality of Care
Chapter 8. Improving Performance and the Quality of Life through Health Informatics
Conclusion. Synthesis, Prospects, and Future Directions
Appendix: Helpful Websites for Clinical Knowledge Management and the Quality of Care
References
Index

Improving the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 26 November 2010
      ISBN-13 9780801897184
      978-0801897184
      ISBN-10 0801897181
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      Medicolegal issues Care of the elderly

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This service-oriented guide supplies vital tools, informed tips, and provocative ideas for professionals, students, and policy makers involved in gerontology and geriatrics.

      Trade Review
      This excellent source for practitioners and health care administrators will also be useful to students interested in long-term care facilities in any health area... Highly recommended. Choice 2011

      Table of Contents

      Foreword
      Acknowledgments
      Introduction. Nursing Homes in the United States
      Chapter 1. The Quality of Care in Nursing Homes
      Chapter 2. Measuring the Quality of Care
      Chapter 3. Factors Contributing to the Variability in the Quality of Care
      Chapter 4. Persistent Citations for the Deficiency of Pressure Ulcers
      Chapter 5. Factors Influencing Residents' Outcomes
      Chapter 6. Policies regarding Minimum Staffing Levels
      Chapter 7. The Relationship between Efficiency and the Quality of Care
      Chapter 8. Improving Performance and the Quality of Life through Health Informatics
      Conclusion. Synthesis, Prospects, and Future Directions
      Appendix: Helpful Websites for Clinical Knowledge Management and the Quality of Care
      References
      Index

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