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Below you will find connections to the various academic resources that are informing this study.

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Our Library.

The Literature

Older Persons’ Transitions in Care (OPTIC): a study protocol

Greta G Cummings, R Colin Reid, Carole A Estabrooks, Peter G Norton, Garnet E Cummings, Brian H Rowe, Stephanie L Abel, Laura Bissell, Joan L Bottorff, Carole A Robinson, Adrian Wagg, Jacques S Lee, Susan L Lynch, and Elmabrok Masaoud

Intended and Unintended Consequences of Minimum Staffing Standards for Nursing Homes

Evaluating the Quality of Medical Care

Individual and organizational predictors of health care aide job satisfaction in long term care

Stephanie A. Chamberlain, Matthias Hoben, Janet E. Squires, and Carole A. Estabrooks

Age-Ism: Another Form of Bigotry

Self-Reported Ageism in Social Work Practitioners and Students

Delivering Person-Centered Care: Important Preferences for Recipients of Long-term Services and Supports

Katherine Marie Abbott, Rachel Klumpp, Kendall Leser, Jane K Straker, Gerald Gannod, and Kimberly Van Haitsma

The influence of individual and organizational factors on person-centred dementia care

Strategies to reduce potentially avoidable hospitalisations among long-term care facility residents

Fractured Care: A Window Into Emergency Transitions in Care for LTC Residents With Complex Health Needs

Greta G. Cummings, Patrick McLane, R. Colin Reid, Kaitlyn Tate, Sarah L. Cooper, Brian H. Rowe, Carole A. Estabrooks, Garnet E. Cummings, Stephanie L. Abel, Jacques S. Lee, Carole A. Robinson, and Adrian Wagg

Supporting Successful and Sustainable Transitions into Long-Term Care for Older Adults with Responsive Behaviours/ Personal Expressions

Agism and burnout among nurses in long-termcare facilities in Israel

Transforming emergency care for older adults

Ula Hwang, Manish N. Shah, Jin H. Han, Christopher R. Carpenter, Albert L. Siu, and James G. Adams

Emergency department transfers and hospital admissions from residential aged care facilities: a controlled pre-post design study

High rates of hospital admission among older residents in assisted living facilities: opportunities for intervention and impact on acute care

Factors associated with increased hospitalisation risk among nursing home residents in Sweden: a prospective study with a three-year follow-up

Jenny Hallgren, Marie Ernsth Bravell, Sigvard Molstad, Carl JohanOstgren, Patrik Midlov, and Anna K. Dahl Aslan

Variation in Emergency Department Transfer Rates from Nursing Homes in Ontario, Canada

Who is Looking After Mom and Dad? Unregulated Workers in Canadian Long-Term Care Homes*

Figure 1: The life cycle of a research project and areas where PPI representatives can contribute to the processes that researchers are undertaking. GCP, good clinical practice; PPI, patient and public involvement.

N Moss, J Daru, D Lanz, S Thangaratinam, and KS Khan

Emergency Department Visit Rates and Patterns in Canada’s Vancouver Coastal Health Region *

A unique practice model for Nurse Practitioners in long-term care homes

Effect of a Clinical Pathway to Reduce Hospitalizations in Nursing Home Residents With Pneumonia A Randomized Controlled Trial

Mark Loeb, Soo Chan Carusone, Ron Goeree, Stephen D. Walter, Kevin Brazil, Paul Krueger, Andrew Simor, Lorraine Moss, and Thomas Marrie

Quality of Life for Diverse Older Adults in Assisted Living: The Centrality of Control

Involvement in decisions about intravenous treatment for nursing home patients: nursing homes versus hospital wards

Transfer of nursing home residents to emergency departments: organizational differences between nursing homes with high vs. low transfer rates

Marie Kirsebom, Mariann Hedström, Ulrika Pöder, and Barbro Wadensten

Residents’ Self-Reported Quality of Life in Long-Term Care Facilities in Canada *

How Well Do Current Measures Assess the Impact of Advance Care Planning on Concordance Between Patient Preferences for End-of-Life Care and the Care Received: A Methodological Review

Developing and testing a nursing home end -of -life care chart audit tool

Genevieve N. Thompson, Susan E. McClement, Nina Labun, and Kathleen Klaasen

Determinants and Effects of Nurse Staffing Intensity and Skill Mix in Residential Care/Assisted Living Settings

Trajectories of Quality of Life in Older Persons with Advanced Illness

The Changing Landscape of Continuing Care in Alberta: Staff and Resident Characteristics in Supportive Living and Long-Term Care

Susan E. Slaughter, C. Allyson Jones, Misha Eliasziw, Carla Ickert, Carole A. Estabrooks, and Adrian S. Wagg

Patient-centered medicine and patient-oriented research: improving health outcomes for individual patients

The Older Persons’ Transitions in Care (OPTIC) study: pilot testing of the transition tracking tool

The quality of life in late-stage dementia (QUALID) scale

Myron Weiner, Kristen Martin-Cook, DA Svetlik, K Saine, B Foster, and C S Fontaine

Quality of Life in Late-Stage Dementia (QUALID) Scale

A Snapshot of Advance Directives in Long-Term Care: How Often Is “Do Not” Done?

Facilitators and barriers to safe emergency department transitions for community dwelling older people with dementia and their caregivers: A social ecological study

Belinda Parke, Kathleen F. Hunter, Laurel A. Strain, Patricia Beryl Marck, Earle H. Waugh, and Ashley J. McClelland

Academic response to improving value and reducing waste: A comprehensive framework for INcreasing QUality In patient-oriented academic clinical Research (INQUIRE)

International research collaboration creates higher impact

Strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies

Erik von Elm, Douglas G Altman, Matthias Egger, Stuart J Pocock, Peter C Gøtzsche, and Jan P Vandenbroucke

A three perspective study of the sense of home of nursing home residents: the views of residents, care professionals and relatives

Backs to the future? Reflections on women, ageing and nursing

“I Didn’t Even Make My Bed”: Hospital Relocations and Resident Adjustment in Long-Term Care Over Time

Tamara Sussman, and Brittany Orav-Lakaski

Nursing homes grapple with sick residents, insufficient budgets

Analytical Methods for a Learning Health System: 1. Framing the Research Question

My Aged Care and a shocking tale of neglect

Kate McDonald

Defining the Role of Authors and Contributors

An Introduction to Quality Assurance in Health Care

Influence of organizational context on nursing home staff burnout: A cross-sectional survey of care aides in Western Canada

Chamberlain, Gruneir, Hoben, Squires, Cummings, and Estabrooks

Undergraduate Nursing Students’ Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward Aging: Comparison of Context-Based Learning and a Traditional Program

The Personhood in Dementia Questionnaire (PDQ): establishing an association between beliefs about personhood and health providers’ approaches to person-centred care

Gargon – The COMET (Core Outcome Measures in Effectiveness Trials) Initiative

Elizabeth Gargon

Educational strategies to promote professional nursing in long-term care. An integrative review

MDS Cognitive Performance Scale

Global Collaboration in Acute Care Clinical Research: Opportunities, Challenges, and Needs

Marshall JC

Decision to transfer to hospital from the residential aged care setting: a systematic review of qualitative evidence exploring residential aged care staff experiences

Keeping Long-Term Care Patients Out of Hospital During Acute Medical Illness: Proposal for Common Elements of an Integrated Healthcare Delivery System for Long-Term Care

Learning, support and communication for staff in care homes: outcomes of reflective debriefing groups in two care homes to enhance end‐of‐life care

Jo Hockley