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Nursing Homes

Known as: Home, Nursing, Long-term care facility, Homes, Nursing 
A place that gives care to people who have physical or mental disabilities and need help with activities of daily living (such as taking a bath… 
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Assisted LivingHealth care facilityHospitalsIntermediate Care Facilities

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Long-Term Care FacilityResidential Facilitiesresidential care facilityskilled nursing facility

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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Atenção à saúde no domicílio: modalidades que fundamentam sua prática
A atencao domiciliar a saude e um modelo em processo de expansao por todo o Brasil e desponta como um novo espaco de trabalho… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
An indicator of appropriate neuroleptic prescribing in nursing homes.
OBJECTIVE To derive and apply objective criteria which assess the appropriateness of neuroleptic prescribing, in a random sample… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Quality of nursing home care assessed by competent nursing home patients.
Interviews were conducted with 60 chronically ill but cognitively competent nursing home patients with a mean age of 80 years… 
Review
1996
Review
1996
Drug Use in the Nursing Home
With increasing pressure on hospitals to shorten acute-care stays, and the unprecedented aging of the population in… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Geriatric Targeting Criteria as Predictors of Survival and Health Care Utilization
OBJECTIVE: To assess the utility of geriatric targeting criteria in predicting survival and health care utilization in a cohort… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Evaluation of Outpatient Geriatric Assessment: A Randomized Multi‐site Trial
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the process and outcome of outpatient consultative geriatric assessment compared with traditional… 
Review
1993
Review
1993
The emergent problem of ambulance misuse.
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Inadequate Treatment of Depressed Nursing Home Elderly
To determine the prevalence of antidepressant drug treatment among nursing home elderly with major depression. 
Review
1989
Review
1989
Prescribing of Psychotropics in Elderly Nursing Home Patients
This study examined the prescribing of psychotropic drugs for patients 65 years of age and older in nursing homes using data from… 
Review
1987
Review
1987
Use of nursing homes by the elderly: preliminary data from the 1985 National Nursing Home Survey.
Most elderly people are not in nursing homes. Of an esti­ mated 28.5 million Americans aged 65 years and over in the United… 
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