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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Minimum Data Set"”.
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Oral education for nursing home staff: minimum data set 3.0
… home staff addressing assessment criteria of the Minimum Data Set 3.0 (MDS) dental section, a tool used by staff to evaluate residents' overall health. Relationships were tested between educating nursing home staff on the dental section and accurate completion of the MDS; between educating staff …
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ICELANDIC NURSING HOME RESIDENTS: THEIR MORTALITY, HEALTH, FUNCTIONAL PROFILE, AND CARE QUALITY, USING THE MINIMUM DATA SET OVER TIME
… to determine upper and lower thresholds for Minimum Data Set (MDS) Quality Indicators, to investigate the prevalence of quality indicators over time and their association with the health status and functional profile of residents in Icelandic nursing homes. Studies I and II included 2,206 …
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Advancing our understanding of nursing work and work role effectiveness: is the Irish nursing minimum data set for mental health psychometrically robust and can it be used to inform nursing sensitive patient outcomes?
… validity and reliability of the Irish Nursing Minimum Data Set for mental health to determine its usability in the clinical setting. A secondary aim of this study was to explore the ability of the tool to capture nursing sensitive outcomes of care, conceptualised and defined according to change …
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Stroke and Changes in Function in Long Term Care Patients
… to South Dakota long term care facilities. Data elements within the Minimum Data Set Plus of South Dakota associated with function were examined. MDS+ assessments completed on admission of CVA patients to long term care facilities were compared to annual MDS+ assessments. The proportion of …
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The Association of Nutritional Intake and Functional Ability Among Long-Term Care Residents
… into the Food Processor II analysis system. Data regarding the subject's functional ability was obtained from the Minimum Data Set. The Norton At-Risk for Pressure Sores Scale was also used to determine the subject's general functional ability.<br> The intake of a few of the subjects fell …
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A Descriptive Study of Farmers and Ranchers Entering South Dakota Nursing Homes
… purpose of the study was to generate descriptive data on the farmer and rancher population in South Dakota that entered a nursing home during 1990-1995. Data collection included the use of the South Dakota Minimum Data Set Plus nursing home resident assessment and care screening tool. The sample …
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Water Intake as it Relates to Mood, Psychosocial Well-being and Behavior Patterns in an Extended Care Facility
… psychosocial well-being was obtained from the Minimum Data Set. The data revealed that only four of the subjects exceeded 100% of water intake adequacy based on the requirement of 1,600 ml/m^ of body surface area. The mean percentage of water intake adequacy among the subjects was 66.2%. …
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Coercion in Icelandic nursing homes : a correlational study of physical restraint use
… eru gögn úr Resident Assessment Instrument Minimum Data Set (interRAI-MDS 2.0) notuð til að bera kennsl á áhrifaþætti fjötranotkunar. Svipaðar rannsóknir hafa verið gerðar í öðrum löndum með mismunandi niðurstöðum og mögulegt að menning og venjur hvers staðar hafi áhrif. Sú spurningin sem …
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Smart PIN: performance and cost-oriented context-aware personal information network
… make it difficult for users to handle their data in manual way. Consequently, there is a need for personalised automatic services which would enable data exchange across heterogeneous network and devices. To support these personalised services, user centric approaches for data delivery across …
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Association of Nutritional Intake with Psychosocial Well-being, and Mood and Behavior Among Nursing Home Residents
… 24 hour periods. Food and fluids were recorded. Data were obtained from the Minimum Data Set. Caloric intake ranged from 964 to 3009.5 kcal with a mean of 1717 kcal. The mean percent of Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for calories was 112%. The subjects had a mean intake of three calories …
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Nutritional Intake of Intermediate Care Facility Residents with Differing Cognitive, Communication/Hearing, and Vision Patterns
… and vision patterns.<br> Food and fluid intake data were recorded from a convenience/purposive sample consisting of 39 subjects(mean age 86.3 years). Cognitive, communication/hearing, and vision pattern data were obtained from the Minimum Data Set and analyzed for frequencies and measures of …
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Determining the Relationship between Quality and Staffing Characteristics in Ontario Long-term Care Homes
… and quality in Long-Term Care (LTC) settings is needed to inform how staffing relates to quality. The present thesis addresses this research gap using a systematic review and two Ontario-based empirical studies exploring the relationship between LTC quality of care outcomes and …
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UN MODELLO DI RETE PER LA GESTIONE INTEGRATA DELLA PATOLOGIA DIABETICA
… patients into the Local Health Authority database SISS (Sistema Informativo Socio Sanitario, Health and Social Informative System), as an Electronic Health Record (EHR) service. The EHR is a virtual healthcare repository that gathers all the citizen's information and clinical documents …
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An Empirical investigation into software effort estimation by analogy
… allowed the collection of historical project data and the generation of estimates for new software projects. A substantial empirical validation of the approach was made encompassing approximately 250 real historical software projects across eight industrial data sets, using stepwise regression …
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Pain Management in Nursing Home Residents with Cancer and Dementia with and without Hospice Services
… were determined a priori from the CDC 2004 data on the top 10 malignant cancers for all races and genders. Fifty-five decedents from 10 nursing homes were included in the final sample. Four instruments were used: Minimum Data Set (MDS) a standardized assessment tool required of most U.S. …
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Comparative Effectiveness of Second Generation Antidepressants on Cognition and Dementia in the Elderly
… cohort study design conducted using data from Medicare Part D claims and Minimum Data Set (MDS) from 2007-2010. The study population included elderly nursing home residents with depression who initiated treatment with second generation antidepressants classes namely Selective …
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Non-invasive ventilation during paediatric retrieval: a systematised review
… In hospital critical-care and emergency settings, non-Invasive ventilation (NIV) is increasingly used in neonatal and paediatric patients as an alternative to invasive positive pressure ventilation (IPPV). Critically ill children and babies may need transfer to higher levels of care, but …
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An exploration of culture and context for Allied Health Professionals using Care Aims in integrated community teams: A case study approach
… for Allied Health Professions in community settings. Methodology This exploratory study took place in two parts. The first part of the study investigated the Care Aims approach and the effect of culture and context for integrated team working for Allied Health Professionals in primary care …
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Optimizing Antipsychotic Use across Nursing Homes: Implications for Dementia Care
… cohort study design using Medicare claims, Minimum Data Set (MDS), and the Certification and Survey Provider Enhanced Reporting (CASPER) data from 2007-2009. The participants included individuals aged 65 years or older with Medicare continuous eligibility six months prior to the nursing home …
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