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long-term care

Known as: care long term, Long Term Care, treatment long term 
Care over an extended period, usually for a chronic condition or disability, requiring periodic, intermittent, or continuous care.
National Institutes of Health

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Respite care of patientterminal patient care

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Review
2007
Review
2007
A qualitative study explaining nurses' perceptions of quality care for older people in long-term care settings in Ireland.
AIM The aim of this research was to explore nurses' perceptions of the attributes of quality care and the factors that facilitate… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Cost-effectiveness of an intensive pressure ulcer prevention protocol in long-term care.
Conducted in a 77-bed long-term-care facility, this study compared the costs of implementing an intensive pressure ulcer… 
Review
1996
Review
1996
Minority use of community long-term care services: a comparative analysis.
A series of national surveys since 1982 have examined health needs of elders. Small proportions of minority elders in each sample… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Long-term treatment of hypercholesterolemia with dietary fiber.
1994
1994
Integrating acute and long-term care.
Advocates of health system reform are striving to assure that a valuable new benefit for home- and community-based long-term care… 
Review
1992
Review
1992
The Long Term Care Crisis: Elders Trapped in the No-Care Zone
Introduction PART ONE: OVERVIEW Prospective Payment Revolution and Long Term Care Restructuring of the Nonprofit Sector PART TWO… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Long-term care: variations on a quality assurance theme.
  • R. KaneR. Kane
  • Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization…
  • 1988
  • Corpus ID: 43745736
Quality assurance in long-term care (LTC) diverges from approaches in acute care because of inherent features of LTC: the slower… 
Review
1988
Review
1988
The evaluation of the National Long Term Care Demonstration. 1. An overview of the channeling demonstration and its evaluation.
The channeling demonstration sought to substitute community care for nursing home care to reduce long-term care costs and improve… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
One-year experience with a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet in patients with coronary heart disease.
For 3 mo, 14 patients with severe coronary heart disease and serum cholesterol levels of 6-9.5 mmol/l were treated with a diet… 
1983
1983
Why acute-care hospitals must undertake long-term care.
FROM 1970 to 1980 the elderly population (those over age 65) grew by 14.8 per cent in Massachusetts and by 27.3 per cent in the… 
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