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| Transitions across various continuing care settings | | Author(s) | Dinnus H Frijters, Vincent Mor, Jean-Noël DuPaquier |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 26, Supplement 2, September 1997 |
| Pages | pp 73-76 |
| Keywords | Admission [nursing homes] ; Discharge [nursing homes] ; Long term ; Comparison ; Cross national surveys ; Denmark ; Iceland ; Italy ; Japan ; United States of America ; Netherlands ; Switzerland. |
| Annotation | This study describes the frequency of admission and discharge, and transitions into and out of continuing care settings of nursing home residents in the US, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Japan, Italy, Denmark, and Iceland in 1993-94. Data on admission were used from the Resident Assessment Instrument Minimum Data Set (RAI/MDS) as collected in a multi-nation database at the University of Michigan. Sources and rates of admission and discharge in nursing homes vary widely between countries. In Japan, 47.5% of the sample was admitted from another long-term care setting, while in Denmark and Iceland more than 60% came from home. The longitudinal data show that in the Netherlands, residents' return home was much more likely than in Geneva or the US (27% vs 5% vs 10%), and that in the US, a relatively large number of nursing home residents (>45%) was discharged (intermittently) to a hospital within 180 days after first admission as compared to the Netherlands (10%). These differences in nursing home admissions and discharges are reflected in differences in policies, payment schemes, care patterns and routine referrals, which can be studied using cross-national data now available. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980122427 A |
| Classmark | LHB:QKH: LHB:QKJ: 4Q: 48: 3K: 76K: 76R: 76V: 7DT: 7T: 76H: 76C |
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