Nursing Home Residents With Dementia: Association Between Place of Death and Patient Safety Culture.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Nursing homes (NHs) care for 70% of Americans dying with dementia. Many consider deaths in NHs rather than hospitals as preferable for most of these residents. NH characteristics such as staff teamwork, communication, and other components of patient safety culture (PSC), together with state minimum NH nurse staffing requirements, may influence location of death. We examined associations between these variables and place of death (NH/hospital) among residents with dementia.

Research design and methods

Cross-sectional study of 11,957 long-stay NH residents with dementia, age 65+, who died in NHs or hospitals shortly following discharge from one of 800 U.S. NHs in 2017. Multivariable logistic regression systematically estimated effects of PSC on odds o

SUBMITTER: Orth J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8809190 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature