Equipping nursing home staff with proper training and techniques to provide effective oral care to residents reduced the number of pneumonia cases at facilities during the first year of a two-year ...
Objective: To characterize care of nursing home residents who became ill with nursing home–acquired pneumonia (NHAP) in a group-model, nonprofit HMO, and to pilot-test a strategy to implement ...
Background. This study sought to identify modifiable risk factors for pneumonia in elderly nursing home residents. Methods. A cohort of 613 elderly residents (age, >65 years) of 5 nursing homes in the ...
BOSTON — When elderly nursing home residents contract pneumonia, it is a blow to their already fragile health. Simin Nikbin Meydani, DVM, PhD of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on ...
Nursing home-acquired pneumonia (NHAP) is the leading cause of death among long-term care residents. PSI class V showed the highest Youden index (0.45), specificity (66.7%), positive predictive value ...
Frank Scannapieco consults for: Sirona/Dentsupply and Colgate-Palmolive, and has received grant funding from the National Institutes of Health and Colgate Palmolive Elderly people in nursing homes ...
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