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Pressure ulcer prevalence among black and white nursing home residents in New York state: evidence of racial disparity?Shubing Cai
Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, The Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, 121 South Main Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Med Care 48:233-9. 2010..The occurrence of pressure ulcers (PUs) in nursing homes is a marker for poor quality of care. We examine whether differences in PU prevalence between black and white residents are due to within- or across-facility disparities...
Despite small improvement, black nursing home residents remain less likely than whites to receive flu vaccineShubing Cai
Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 30:1939-46. 2011..Blacks were also more likely to be noted as refusing vaccination. Strategies are needed to ensure that facilities offer vaccination to all residents and to make vaccination more acceptable to black residents and their families...- Influenza vaccination and its impact on hospitalization events in nursing homesShubing Cai
Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, The Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
J Am Med Dir Assoc 12:493-8. 2011..To examine trends of influenza vaccination in nursing homes before and after public reporting (objective-1), and to assess the effect of influenza vaccinations on hospitalization events (objective-2)... - Road to the nursing home: costs and disease progression among medicare beneficiaries with ADRDJudith Bentkover
Center for Gerontology and Healthcare, Health Services Policy and Practice, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen 27:90-9. 2012..To estimate long-term care costs and disease progression among Medicare beneficiaries aged 65+ with ADRD... - Validation of the Minimum Data Set in identifying hospitalization events and payment sourceShubing Cai
Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, The Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
J Am Med Dir Assoc 12:38-43. 2011..To evaluate the accuracy of the Minimum Data Set (MDS) in identifying hospitalization events and payment source among nursing home residents... - Temporal and Geographic variation in the validity and internal consistency of the Nursing Home Resident Assessment Minimum Data Set 2.0Vincent Mor
Department of Community Health and Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, Brown University Medical School, Box G S121, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 11:78. 2011..The purpose of this paper is to summarize a series of analyses examining the internal consistency and predictive validity of the MDS data as used in the "real world" in all U.S. nursing homes between 1999 and 2007... - Obesity and pressure ulcers among nursing home residentsShubing Cai
Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, Brown University Research Health Scientist, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, RI
Med Care 51:478-86. 2013..We identified newly admitted NH residents who became long-stayers and followed them up to 1 year... - Do patients with advanced cognitive impairment admitted to hospitals with higher rates of feeding tube insertion have improved survival?Shubing Cai
Program in Public Health, Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 45:524-33. 2013..Research is conflicting on whether receiving medical care at a hospital with more aggressive treatment patterns improves survival...