Organizational correlates of the risk-adjusted pressure ulcer prevalence and subsequent deficiency citation in nursing homes are not known. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between these two outcomes and selected organizational variables, including total nurse staffing levels, specialization, centralization, nursing wages, and facility ownership. Secondary data analysis was conducted on a sample of 897 California nursing homes included in the 1996 On-line Survey Certification and Reporting system and the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development financial disclosure reports of individual California nursing homes. Organizational variables explained a small amount of the variation (adjusted R2 = .04, p < .01). A higher PU prevalence was associated with lower licensed nurse centralization and facilities participating exclusively in the Medicaid program. Receipt of a deficiency was less likely in facilities having a higher total nurse staffing level (OR = .49, p < .001). It was more likely in facilities having a higher risk-adjusted PU prevalence (OR = 1.05, p < .001), more licensed nurses (OR = 2.74, p < .05), a size of 160 beds or more (OR = 1.93, p < .01), and survey teams from specific counties (OR ranging from 2.3 to 6.8, p < .05).
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G Ital Cardiol (Rome)
January 2025
S.C. Patologie Diabetiche, Dipartimento Specialistico Territoriale, Azienda Sanitaria Giuliano Isontina - Dipartimento Universitario Clinico di Scienze Mediche, Chirurgiche e della Salute, Università degli Studi, Trieste.
The world of chronic non-communicable diseases is progressively growing epidemiologically, requiring a significant commitment of resources, continuity of care, and strong integration between healthcare professionals and care settings. The National Recovery and Resilience Plan, in the Ministerial Decree 77 of 23/5/2022, identifies Community Homes as the privileged location for providing integrated, multidisciplinary and multiprofessional interventions, involving specialists and nursing clinics, general practitioners and district structures, utilizing all the necessary technological equipment, including digital platforms for telemedicine. In this context, cardiology is facing a complicated challenge: cardiologists must take care of patients with cardiovascular diseases who have also complex comorbidities and are required to extend their knowledge beyond the specific, sometimes super-specialistic, cardiovascular field, to avoid fragmentation, redundancy, and potential conflicts in the diagnostic-therapeutic care pathways.
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December 2024
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan.
Objective: The potential link between malnutrition and dysphagia along with its underlying mechanisms remains unknown. This study aimed to investigate the association between malnutrition factors and dysphagia mediated by a decline in activities of daily living (ADL) among nursing home residents.
Methods: This cross-sectional study used data from 705 nursing home residents.
Hong Kong J Occup Ther
December 2024
Department of Human Science, School of Human Science, Kibi International University, Okayama, Japan.
Objectives: The Assessment of Positive Occupation 15 (APO-15) is a scale initially developed to evaluate participation in well-being-promoting occupations among individuals with mental illness. This study examines the psychometric properties of the Japanese version of the APO-15 for individuals with physical illness, focusing on its validity, reliability, and interpretability.
Methods: We evaluated the psychometric properties of the APO-15 using a sample of 1,259 individuals with physical illness living at home, in hospitals, and in nursing homes.
Front Public Health
December 2024
Université Côte d'Azur, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice, Public Health Department, Nice, France.
Introduction: Early in 2021, the SARS-CoV-2 incidence rate was higher in the East than in the West of the Alpes-Maritimes district in France. What was the impact of social deprivation, household overcrowding and population density per km on this difference in incidence rate?
Methods: Cases were defined as persons with a first SARS-CoV-2 positive test detected between 04/01/2021 and 14/02/2021. We studied the « French Deprivation index » (FDep), rate of overcrowded households and population density/km.
Digit Health
December 2024
School of Nursing, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada.
Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments across the world implemented processes and policies to limit the spread of COVID-19, especially in long-term care (LTC) homes. This led to changes in technology use for persons living in LTC homes, their families and friends, as well as the paid workforce dedicated to caring for them.
Objective: The study describes the role of technology and its impact on the experiences of LTC staff working in northern and rural areas in Western Canada during COVID-19.
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