Nine hospitals and 23 hospital affiliated nursing homes collaborated in this study.
Possible reasons for this are that the patients from the hospital affiliated nursing home had adequate medical information.
The hospital received cases from the community, including those from the hospital affiliated nursing home with which there was good communication and 24-hour physician coverage.
A nursing home-acquired BSI was defined when it occurred at the time of hospital admission or within 48 hours of admission for patients who came from the hospital affiliated nursing home.
Clinics were staffed by local community pediatricians (4 per site), together with a tertiary care affiliated nurse practitioner (NP) (0.5 full time equivalent per site), recruited specifically for this project.
The aim in this study was to identify how nurses affiliated with nursing education institutions perceive the challenges nursing education is facing in Angola.
Within the nursing homes, all wards and all affiliated qualified nurses and student nurses were involved.
Patients admitted to hospitals that were affiliated to nursing homes were excluded because the American Hospital Association (AHA) Survey data does not differentiate between hospital and nursing home nurse staffing for hospitals with associated nursing homes (15,971).
Identify contextual and implementation factors impacting the effectiveness of an organizational-level intervention to reduce preventable hospital readmissions from affiliated skilled nursing facilities (SNFs).
A minority of specimens come from outpatients or affiliated skilled nursing facilities.
