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Publikováno v:
American Behavioral Scientist. 52:1646-1663
Generalized social trust is an important component of social capital and has been linked to a variety of individual- and community-level outcomes, including low crime rates, effective government, and healthy and happy citizens. Drawing on a multicomm
Autor:
Jiska Cohen-Mansfield, Steven Lipson
Publikováno v:
Research on Aging. 30:74-92
This study clarifies the role of advance directives in the process of decision making in nursing homes. Physicians reported on the actual use of advance directives in a medical decision-making process related to status changes in 70 nursing home resi
Publikováno v:
Scopus-Elsevier
The purpose of this study is to clarify the perspectives of physicians and nurses in the medical decision-making process at the time of status change events in nursing home residents. The decision-making processes studied involved 28 cognitively impa
Autor:
Jiska Cohen-Mansfield, Steven Lipson
Publikováno v:
Behavioral Medicine. 32:64-70
The authors examined the processes and factors that influence physicians' decision-making processes as regarding hospitalization of nursing home residents. In a large nonprofit nursing home, 6 full-time male physicians and 1 female nurse practitioner
Autor:
Steven Lipson, Jiska Cohen-Mansfield
Publikováno v:
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 50:1039-1044
OBJECTIVES: This study examined the reliability and validity of geriatricians' assessments of pain in cognitively impaired nursing home residents. DESIGN: Cross-sectional analysis. SETTING: A large suburban nursing home. PARTICIPANTS: Seventy-nine nu
Publikováno v:
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 54:1094-1102
This study compared the utility of different health indicators in frail older people, as a component of a larger study of medical evaluations of 183 adult day care participants in five Maryland centers. Indices examined included: number of disease ca
Autor:
Raymond L. Woosley, Nathan Billig, Steven Lipson, Perla Werner, Jiska Cohen-Mansfield, Levi Taylor
Publikováno v:
Therapeutic Drug Monitoring. 22:688-694
This study aimed to characterize the relationships between administered dosages of psychotropic drugs, plasma drug concentration, and prolactin levels in a group of elderly nursing home residents. In a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind cro
Publikováno v:
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 52:273-280
A prospective cohort study was conducted to examine predictors of mortality in the nursing home. Participants were 399 long-term nursing home residents, who were followed up for 11 years at the end of which 380 had died, 16 were still alive, 2 were d
Autor:
Gregory Compton, Dinesh Patel, Gary B. Wilks, Margaret Smith, Damien Doyle, Consuelo Alvarez, Jiska Cohen-Mansfield, Steven Lipson, Patricia Tomsko-Nay
Publikováno v:
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 6(4)
The management of behavior problems is one of the most difficult challenges a clinician must face when treating patients with dementia. This article presents a qualitative analysis of the responses of 7 nursing home physicians and 1 nurse practitione
Publikováno v:
Scopus-Elsevier
Purpose Decisions concerning end-of-life care depend on information contained in advance directives that are documented in residents' charts in the nursing home. The availability of that information depends on the quality of the chart and on the loca