Journal article
Nursing Home Resident Admission Characteristics and Potentially Preventable Emergency Department Transfers
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To determine which nursing home (NH) resident-level admission characteristics are associated with potentially preventable emergency department (PPED) transfers.
DESIGN: We conducted a population-level retrospective cohort study on NH resident data collected using the Resident Assessment Instrument-Minimum Data Set Version 2.0 and linked to the National Ambulatory Care Reporting System for ED transfers.
Authors
Aryal K; Mowbray F; Gruneir A; Griffith LE; Howard M; Jabbar A; Jones A; Tanuseputro P; Lapointe-Shaw L; Costa AP
Journal
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, Vol. 23, No. 8, pp. 1291–1296
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
August 2022
DOI
10.1016/j.jamda.2021.11.020
ISSN
1525-8610