Below you will find connections to the various academic resources that are informing this study.
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The Literature
Evaluating the Quality of Medical Care
Avedis Donabedian
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
Min Chen, and David C Grabowski
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
Robert N. Butler
Self-Reported Ageism in Social Work Practitioners and Students
Priscilla D. Allen, Katie E. Cherry, and Erdman Palmore
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
Paulette V. Hunter, Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, Lilian Thorpe, Lisa M. Lix, and David C. Malloy
Strategies to reduce potentially avoidable hospitalisations among long-term care facility residents
Joseph Ouslander
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
Behavioural Supports Ontario
Agism and burnout among nurses in long-termcare facilities in Israel
Esther Iecovich, and Michal Avivi
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
Carolyn Hullick, Jane Conway, Isabel Higgins, Jacqueline Hewitt, Sophie Dilworth, Elizabeth Holliday, and John Attia
High rates of hospital admission among older residents in assisted living facilities: opportunities for intervention and impact on acute care
David B Hogan, Joseph E Amuah, Laurel A Strain, Walter P Wodchis, Andrea Soo, Misha Eliasziw, Andrea Gruneir, Brad Hagen, Gary Teare, and Colleen J Maxwell
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
Andrea Gruneir, Susan E. Bronskill, Alice Newman, Chaim M. Bell, Peter Gozdyra, Geoffrey M. Anderson, and Paula A. Rochon
Who is Looking After Mom and Dad? Unregulated Workers in Canadian Long-Term Care Homes*
Carole A. Estabrooks, Janet E. Squires, Heather L. Carleton, Greta G. Cummings, and Peter G. Norton
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 *
Margaret J. McGregor, Kimberlyn M. McGrail, Riyad B. Abu-Laban, Lisa A. Ronald, Jennifer Baumbusch, Douglas Andrusiek, and Michelle B. Cox
A unique practice model for Nurse Practitioners in long-term care homes
Carrie A. McAiney, Dilys Haughton, Jane Jennings, Dave Farr, Loretta Hillier & Pat Morden
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
Sharon D. Koehn, Atiya N. Mahmood and Sarah Stott-Eveneshen
Involvement in decisions about intravenous treatment for nursing home patients: nursing homes versus hospital wards
Kristin Klomstad, Reidar Pedersen, Reidun Ford, and Maria Romoren
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 *
Vahe Kehyayan, John P. Hirdes, Suzanne L. Tyas, and Paul Stolee
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
Stephanie B. Johnson, Phyllis N. Butow, Ian Kerridge, Melanie L. Bell, and Martin H.N. Tattersal
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
Sally C. Stearns, Jeongyoung Park, Sheryl Zimmerman, Ann L. Gruber-Baldini, Thomas R. Konrad, and Philip D. Sloane
Trajectories of Quality of Life in Older Persons with Advanced Illness
Rachel Solomon, Paul Kirwin, Peter H. Van Ness, John O’Leary, and Terri R. Fried
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
José A Sacristán
The Older Persons’ Transitions in Care (OPTIC) study: pilot testing of the transition tracking tool
Robert Colin Reid, Garnet E Cummings, Sarah L Cooper, Stephanie L Abel, Laura J Bissell, Carole A Estabrooks, Brian H Rowe, Adrian Wagg, Peter G Norton, Mike Ertel, and Greta G Cummings
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
Toronto Long-Term Care Homes & Services
A Snapshot of Advance Directives in Long-Term Care: How Often Is “Do Not” Done?
Sheril Perry, and Christina Lawand
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)
Belinda von Niederhäusern, Gordon H. Guyatt, Matthias Briel, and Christiane Pauli-Magnus
International research collaboration creates higher impact
Sally Wai-Chan
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
J. van Hoof, H. Verbeek, B. M. Janssen, A. Eijkelenboom, S. L. Molony, E. Felix, K. A. Nieboer, E. L. M. Zwerts-Verhelst, J. J. W. M. Sijstermans, and E. J. M. Wouters
Backs to the future? Reflections on women, ageing and nursing
Miriam Bernard
“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
Zak Vescera
Analytical Methods for a Learning Health System: 1. Framing the Research Question
Michael Stoto, Michael Oakes, Elizabeth Stuart, Lucy Savitz, Elisa L. Priest, Jelena Zurovac
My Aged Care and a shocking tale of neglect
Kate McDonald
An Introduction to Quality Assurance in Health Care
Avedis Donabedian
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
Beverly Williams, Marjorie C. Anderson, and Rene Day
The Personhood in Dementia Questionnaire (PDQ): establishing an association between beliefs about personhood and health providers’ approaches to person-centred care
Hunter PV, Hadjistavropoulos T, Smythe WE, Malloy DC, Kaasalainen S, and Williams J.
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.
Jodie R. Fox
MDS Cognitive Performance Scale
John N. Morris, Brant E. Fries, David R. Mehr, Catherine Hawes, Charles Phillips, Vincent Mor, and Lewis A. Lipsitz
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
Bridget Laging, Michael Bauer, Rosemary Ford, and Rhonda Nay
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
Michelle N. Grinman, Tracey Human, Mary Jane Shankel, Aynsley Young, Joe Pedulla, Anita Roopani, and Vivian Ewa
Learning, support and communication for staff in care homes: outcomes of reflective debriefing groups in two care homes to enhance end‐of‐life care
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