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Hospitalization of nursing home residents with cognitive impairments: the influence of organizational features and state policiesAndrea Gruneir
Department of Community Health, Brown Medical School, Box G S120, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Gerontologist 47:447-56. 2007..The purpose of this study was to quantify the effect of specific nursing home features and state Medicaid policies on the risk of hospitalization among cognitively impaired nursing home residents...
Hospice care in the nursing home: changes in visit volume from enrollment to discharge among longer-stay residentsAndrea Gruneir
Department of Community Health, Brown Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 32:478-87. 2006..These patterns of visit volume and configuration confirm that care is most expensive in the earliest and the latest days...
Long-term care market competition and nursing home dementia special care unitsAndrea Gruneir
Department of Community Health, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Med Care 45:739-45. 2007..Dementia special care units (SCUs), which provided NHs a competitive edge in the past, are of interest because they have traditionally served residents who now have other options...
Is dementia special care really special? A new look at an old questionAndrea Gruneir
Department of Community Health, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 56:199-205. 2008..To quantify differences in care provided to nursing home (NH) residents with dementia living on and off dementia special care units (SCUs)...
The effect of state policies on nursing home resident outcomesVincent Mor
Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research and Department of Community Health, Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 59:3-9. 2011..To test the effect of changes in Medicaid reimbursement on clinical outcomes of long-stay nursing home (NH) residents...
Nursing home safety: current issues and barriers to improvementAndrea Gruneir
Department of Community Health, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 29:369-82. 2008..We argue that systemic barriers, such as staffing shortages, NH organization, and an adversarial regulatory environment, preclude advances in NH quality...
Association between advance directives and quality of end-of-life care: a national studyJoan M Teno
Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, Brown Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:189-94. 2007..To examine the role of advance directives (ADs) 10 years after the Patient Self-Determination Act...
Depression in patients with advanced illness: an examination of Ontario complex continuing care using the Minimum Data Set 2.0Andrea Gruneir
Department of Community Health, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Palliat Support Care 3:99-105. 2005..As well, they suggest that cancer patients received better targeted end-of-life care, which resulted in an overall decrease in psychological distress when compared to other patients with similarly advanced illness...
Where people die: a multilevel approach to understanding influences on site of death in AmericaAndrea Gruneir
Brown University, USA
Med Care Res Rev 64:351-78. 2007..These results reinforce the importance of both social and structural characteristics in shaping the end-of-life experience...
Relationship between state medicaid policies, nursing home racial composition, and the risk of hospitalization for black and white residentsAndrea Gruneir
Kunin Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Toronto, ON M6A 2E1, Canada
Health Serv Res 43:869-81. 2008..To examine racial differences in the risk of hospitalization for nursing home (NH) residents...
It is time to assess the role of organizational culture in nursing home prescribing patternsAndrea Gruneir
Arch Intern Med 168:238-9; author reply 239. 2008
