A national study of live discharges from hospice.

PubWeight™: 1.30‹?› | Rank: Top 10%

🔗 View Article (PMID 25101752)

Published in J Palliat Med on August 07, 2014

Authors

Joan M Teno1, Michael Plotzke, Pedro Gozalo, Vincent Mor

Author Affiliations

1: 1 School of Public Health, Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research, Brown University , Providence, Rhode Island.

Articles by these authors

Family perspectives on end-of-life care at the last place of care. JAMA (2004) 10.13

Principles for modeling propensity scores in medical research: a systematic literature review. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf (2004) 7.55

Change in end-of-life care for Medicare beneficiaries: site of death, place of care, and health care transitions in 2000, 2005, and 2009. JAMA (2013) 5.76

Nursing home physician specialists: a response to the workforce crisis in long-term care. Ann Intern Med (2009) 4.26

Clinical and organizational factors associated with feeding tube use among nursing home residents with advanced cognitive impairment. JAMA (2003) 3.66

A national study of the location of death for older persons with dementia. J Am Geriatr Soc (2005) 3.45

Sharp rise in Medicare enrollees being held in hospitals for observation raises concerns about causes and consequences. Health Aff (Millwood) (2012) 3.12

Use of comprehensive geriatric assessment in older cancer patients: recommendations from the task force on CGA of the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG). Crit Rev Oncol Hematol (2005) 2.98

End-of-life transitions among nursing home residents with cognitive issues. N Engl J Med (2011) 2.87

Recent trends in state nursing home payment policies. Health Aff (Millwood) (2004) 2.86

Operative blood loss, blood transfusion, and 30-day mortality in older patients after major noncardiac surgery. Ann Surg (2010) 2.80

Does receipt of hospice care in nursing homes improve the management of pain at the end of life? J Am Geriatr Soc (2002) 2.61

Functional significance of low-intensity polyparasite helminth infections in anemia. J Infect Dis (2005) 2.56

To evacuate or not to evacuate: lessons learned from Louisiana nursing home administrators following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. J Am Med Dir Assoc (2007) 2.44

Increased ambulatory care copayments and hospitalizations among the elderly. N Engl J Med (2010) 2.42

Nursing home characteristics and potentially preventable hospitalizations of long-stay residents. J Am Geriatr Soc (2004) 2.29

Where people die: a multilevel approach to understanding influences on site of death in America. Med Care Res Rev (2007) 2.23

Weaknesses of goodness-of-fit tests for evaluating propensity score models: the case of the omitted confounder. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf (2005) 2.22

Churning: the association between health care transitions and feeding tube insertion for nursing home residents with advanced cognitive impairment. J Palliat Med (2009) 2.18

Methodology, design, and analytic techniques to address measurement of comorbid disease. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci (2007) 2.12

Factors associated with site of death: a national study of where people die. Med Care (2003) 2.12

Separate and unequal: racial segregation and disparities in quality across U.S. nursing homes. Health Aff (Millwood) (2007) 2.09

Hospice enrollment and pain assessment and management in nursing homes. J Pain Symptom Manage (2003) 1.95

End-of-life care in black and white: race matters for medical care of dying patients and their families. J Am Geriatr Soc (2005) 1.92

Hospital characteristics associated with feeding tube placement in nursing home residents with advanced cognitive impairment. JAMA (2010) 1.91

The growth of hospice care in U.S. nursing homes. J Am Geriatr Soc (2010) 1.88

Geographic concentration and correlates of nursing home closures: 1999-2008. Arch Intern Med (2011) 1.83

Prospects for transferring nursing home residents to the community. Health Aff (Millwood) (2007) 1.81

The effect of state medicaid case-mix payment on nursing home resident acuity. Health Serv Res (2006) 1.81

The effect of provider-level ascertainment bias on profiling nursing homes. Stat Med (2005) 1.79

An exploration of job, organizational, and environmental factors associated with high and low nursing assistant turnover. Gerontologist (2002) 1.79

Validation of new measures of disability and functioning in the National Health and Aging Trends Study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci (2011) 1.78

Adjuvant tamoxifen prescription in women 65 years and older with primary breast cancer. J Clin Oncol (2002) 1.75

Feeding tubes and the prevention or healing of pressure ulcers. Arch Intern Med (2012) 1.75

Decision-making and outcomes of feeding tube insertion: a five-state study. J Am Geriatr Soc (2011) 1.73

Effect of hospital-SNF referral linkages on rehospitalization. Health Serv Res (2013) 1.72

Underreporting high-risk prescribing among Medicare Advantage plans: a cross-sectional analysis. Ann Intern Med (2013) 1.65

Bereaved family member perceptions of quality of end-of-life care in U.S. regions with high and low usage of intensive care unit care. J Am Geriatr Soc (2005) 1.62

Changes in Medicare costs with the growth of hospice care in nursing homes. N Engl J Med (2015) 1.62

Daily pain that was excruciating at some time in the previous week: prevalence, characteristics, and outcomes in nursing home residents. J Am Geriatr Soc (2004) 1.56

The costs of turnover in nursing homes. Med Care (2009) 1.51

Medicaid bed-hold policy and Medicare skilled nursing facility rehospitalizations. Health Serv Res (2010) 1.49

Medicaid payment and risk-adjusted nursing home quality measures. Health Aff (Millwood) (2004) 1.49

The synergistic effect of concomitant schistosomiasis, hookworm, and trichuris infections on children's anemia burden. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2008) 1.49

Use of feeding tubes in nursing home residents with severe cognitive impairment. JAMA (2002) 1.48

Insurance parity and the use of outpatient mental health care following a psychiatric hospitalization. JAMA (2008) 1.48

Physician and nurse staffing in nursing homes: the role and limitations of the Online Survey Certification and Reporting (OSCAR) system. J Am Med Dir Assoc (2005) 1.48

Medicaid payment rates, case-mix reimbursement, and nursing home staffing--1996-2004. Med Care (2008) 1.45

Identification and evaluation of existing nursing homes quality indicators. Health Care Financ Rev (2002) 1.44

Intensive care utilization among nursing home residents with advanced cognitive and severe functional impairment. J Palliat Med (2014) 1.42

Government expenditures at the end of life for short- and long-stay nursing home residents: differences by hospice enrollment status. J Am Geriatr Soc (2004) 1.40

Elderly hispanics more likely to reside in poor-quality nursing homes. Health Aff (Millwood) (2010) 1.40

Racial disparities in access to long-term care: the illusive pursuit of equity. J Health Polit Policy Law (2008) 1.37

The use of atypical antipsychotics in nursing homes. J Clin Psychiatry (2003) 1.36

Natural history of feeding-tube use in nursing home residents with advanced dementia. J Am Med Dir Assoc (2009) 1.34

The Care Span: Growth of racial and ethnic minorities in US nursing homes driven by demographics and possible disparities in options. Health Aff (Millwood) (2011) 1.33

Effect of state Medicaid reimbursement rates on hospitalizations from nursing homes. J Am Geriatr Soc (2004) 1.32

Oversight of nursing homes: pruning the tree or just spotting bad apples? Gerontologist (2003) 1.29

Hospice and palliative care in nursing homes. Clin Geriatr Med (2004) 1.29

Nurse aide empowerment strategies and staff stability: effects on nursing home resident outcomes. Gerontologist (2005) 1.27

Medicaid nursing home payment and the role of provider taxes. Med Care Res Rev (2008) 1.26

Access to postacute nursing home care before and after the BBA. Balanced Budget Act. Health Aff (Millwood) (2002) 1.25

Hospice effect on government expenditures among nursing home residents. Health Serv Res (2008) 1.25

Trends in mental health admissions to nursing homes, 1999-2005. Psychiatr Serv (2009) 1.23

A problem-solving approach to stress reduction among younger women with breast carcinoma: a randomized controlled trial. Cancer (2002) 1.23

Does feeding tube insertion and its timing improve survival? J Am Geriatr Soc (2012) 1.22

Opinion networks among long-term care specialists. Med Care Res Rev (2010) 1.22

Conventional and atypical antipsychotics and the risk of hospitalization for ventricular arrhythmias or cardiac arrest. Arch Intern Med (2005) 1.22

Decisions to forgo hospitalization in advanced dementia: a nationwide study. J Am Geriatr Soc (2007) 1.21

The controversy inherent in managing frail nursing home residents during complex hurricane emergencies. J Am Med Dir Assoc (2008) 1.21

Culture change practice in U.S. Nursing homes: prevalence and variation by state medicaid reimbursement policies. Gerontologist (2013) 1.20

Determinants of performance failure in the nursing home industry. Soc Sci Med (2009) 1.20

China's rapidly aging population creates policy challenges in shaping a viable long-term care system. Health Aff (Millwood) (2012) 1.19

Conventional or atypical antipsychotics and the risk of femur fracture among elderly patients: results of a case-control study. J Clin Psychiatry (2007) 1.17

A structure-technology contingency analysis of caregiving in nursing facilities. Health Care Manage Rev (2003) 1.16

Supporting home- and community-based care: views of long-term care specialists. Med Care Res Rev (2010) 1.16

The quality of the quality indicator of pain derived from the minimum data set. Health Serv Res (2005) 1.16

The relationship between older Americans Act Title III state expenditures and prevalence of low-care nursing home residents. Health Serv Res (2012) 1.15

The impact of hospital-based skilled nursing facility closures on rehospitalizations. Health Serv Res (2012) 1.14

Venous thromboembolism among elderly patients treated with atypical and conventional antipsychotic agents. Arch Intern Med (2005) 1.14

Behavioral adaptation and late-life disability: a new spectrum for assessing public health impacts. Am J Public Health (2013) 1.13

Nonfilter and filter cigarette consumption and the incidence of lung cancer by histological type in Japan and the United States: analysis of 30-year data from population-based cancer registries. Int J Cancer (2011) 1.13

Use of physical restraints and antipsychotic medications in nursing homes: a cross-national study. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry (2009) 1.13

Nursing home organizational change: the "Culture Change" movement as viewed by long-term care specialists. Med Care Res Rev (2010) 1.12

Doing better to do good: the impact of strategic adaptation on nursing home performance. Health Serv Res (2007) 1.10

Duplicate federal payments for dual enrollees in Medicare Advantage plans and the Veterans Affairs health care system. JAMA (2012) 1.10

All-cause mortality associated with atypical and conventional antipsychotics among nursing home residents with dementia: a retrospective cohort study. J Clin Psychiatry (2009) 1.09

Relationship between state medicaid policies, nursing home racial composition, and the risk of hospitalization for black and white residents. Health Serv Res (2008) 1.08

Medicare's payment strategy for end-stage renal disease now embraces bundled payment and pay-for-performance to cut costs. Health Aff (Millwood) (2012) 1.07

Palliative care needs of cancer patients in U.S. nursing homes. J Palliat Med (2005) 1.06

Effect of nursing home ownership on the quality of post-acute care: an instrumental variables approach. J Health Econ (2012) 1.05

Maintaining continuity of care for nursing home residents: effect of states' Medicaid bed-hold policies and reimbursement rates. Health Serv Res (2008) 1.03

The use of contract licensed nursing staff in U.S. nursing homes. Med Care Res Rev (2006) 1.03

Effect of educational level and minority status on nursing home choice after hospital discharge. Am J Public Health (2006) 1.01

Medical staff organization in nursing homes: scale development and validation. J Am Med Dir Assoc (2009) 1.01