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The Gerontologist, Vol 31, Issue 5 648-656, Copyright © 1991 by The Gerontological Society of America

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Patient characteristics and outcomes in institutional and community long-term care

KL Braun, CL Rose and MD Finch
Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, HI 96813.

This paper examines the three-way relationships among patient characteristics, type of care (admission to a nursing home or community setting), and 6-month outcomes of 352 long-term care patients. The study found that patient characteristics influenced the type of care received and that substantial portions of the variance in the outcomes were attributable to initial differences among patients in the two types of care. Controlling for the effect of selective admission, type of care had no significant impact on patients' ADL scores, mobility scores, or disposition after 6 months in the long-term care setting.


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