Integration of Palliative Care and Infection Management at the End of Life in U.S. Nursing Homes.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Infections in nursing home (NH) residents are often terminal illnesses. Integration of palliative care (PC) and infection management (IM) is a new concept that can help reduce burdensome treatments and improve quality of care for NH residents at the end of life.

Objectives

To develop measures of integration, describe the integration in U.S. NHs, and examine predictors of integration.

Methods

A nationally representative sample of NHs was surveyed. An instrument to measure integration was tested using factor analyses. Descriptive analyses of each integration factor were conducted, construct validity was examined using correlations between the integration factors and validated measures of PC and IM, and multivariable linear regression models were developed to ide

SUBMITTER: Stone PW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6708746 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature