Medical Xpress
MARCH 22, 2023
A new study, appearing today in the New England Journal of Medicine, shows that nursing homes that conducted staff surveillance testing more regularly during the COVID-19 pandemic experienced significantly lower rates of COVID infections and deaths among residents.
Scienmag
MAY 18, 2021
million elderly Americans who reside in the country’s 15,600 nursing homes. Credit: TTUHSC No matter one’s age, race, gender, socioeconomic status or political party, COVID-19 has impacted everyone at some level. That impact has been especially palpable for the approximately 1.3
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Scienmag
JUNE 23, 2021
Pandemic deepened anxiety and depression among nurses — those working in long-term care affected the most Working in the highly charged environment of COVID-19 has had a huge impact on the mental health of nurses, according to a new survey by researchers at the University of British Columbia and the Institute for Work & Health […]. (..)
Scienmag
JUNE 25, 2021
Continuity of Nursing Care Improves Patient Outcomes People with dementia receiving home health care visits are less likely to be readmitted to the hospital when there is consistency in nursing staff, according to a new study by researchers at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing.
Scienmag
MARCH 8, 2021
Nursing homes with the largest proportions of non-White residents experience 3.3 times more COVID-19 deaths than do nursing homes with the largest proportions of White residents, according to a new study from the University of Chicago.
Scienmag
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
Older racial and ethnic minority residents and their caregivers bear the severest brunt from COVID-19 across the entire spectrum of US nursing homes and assisted living communities, University of Rochester Medical Center researchers report in two groundbreaking studies in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Scienmag
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Study finds nurse practitioners helped reduce costs by up to $3.2 A study led by researchers from McGill University and Université du Québec en Outaouais shows that introducing nurse practitioners can significantly reduce […].
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