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Geriatric services offered by hospitals — predicting services by internal and external community characteristics
Author(s)	Connie Evashwick, James H Swan, Peggy Smith
Journal title	Home Health Care Services Quarterly, vol 19, no 3, 2001
Pages	pp 19-34
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Health services ; Hospital services ; United States of America.
Annotation	In a sample of 4571 community hospitals responding to the 1995 American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey, most offer some geriatric services. The dependent variable is an index of 13 geriatric services created from the AHA data. Independent variables are taken from the AHA survey, Area Resource File, and census data. Regression analysis explains 15% of the variance. Hospital characteristics predicting provision of geriatric services are non-profit tax status, size of hospital by number of beds, and system membership. Community characteristics predicting provision of geriatric services included higher population density, high percentage of county aged, and county nursing facility beds. Hospital characteristics yielded slightly higher predictive ability than did community characteristics. The findings suggest policies to increase hospital leadership in providing access to senior services require a multi-dimensional approach. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-010716203 A
Classmark	L: LD: 7T
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