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Title
Hospitalizations of nursing home residents in the last year of life: nursing home characteristics and variation in potentially avoidable hospitalizations.
Authors
Xing, Jingping; Mukamel, Dana B; Temkin-Greener, Helena
Abstract
To examine the incidence of, variations in, and costs of potentially avoidable hospitalizations (PAHs) of nursing home (NH) residents at the end of life and to identify the association between NH characteristics and a facility-level quality measure (QM) for PAH.
Publication
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2013, Vol 61, Issue 11, p1900