3311.0 End-of-Life Care Quality in Nursing Homes Symposium

Monday, November 8, 2010: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Oral
This session will focus on the quality of care provided to nursing home decedents. National longitudinal and cross-sectional data will be used to measure end of life quality of care and to assess end of life practice patterns in NHs across the US.
Session Objectives: 1. Analyze patterns of end-of-life quality of care in nursing homes. 2. Identify organizational and facility factors associated with variations in end-of-life care quality. 3. Describe how risk-adjusted end-of-life care quality in nursing homes can be measured.
Organizer:
Helena Temkin-Greener, PhD
Moderator:
Helena Temkin-Greener, PhD

2:30pm
Are nursing home patients with serious mental illness less likely to have advance care plans than other nursing home patients?
Xueya Cai, PhD, Peter Cram, MD, MBA and Yue Li, PhD
     
2:42pm
SESSION ABSTRACT - Quality of End-of-Life Care in Nursing Homes
Helena Temkin-Greener, PhD
2:54pm
Trends and Patterns in Place of Death for Nursing Home Residents: CY2003-2007
Helena Temkin-Greener, PhD, Nan (Tracy) Zheng and Dana B. Mukamel, PhD
3:06pm
Developing an end-of-life quality measure (QM) for nursing homes based on place of death
Dana B. Mukamel, PhD, Thomas Caprio, MD, Richard Ahn, MA, Nan (Tracy) Zheng and Helena Temkin-Greener, PhD
3:18pm
Impact of Organizational Factors on Hospice Use among Nursing Home Decedents
Nan Tracy Zheng, PhD, Dana B. Mukamel, PhD, Thomas Caprio, MD and Helena Temkin-Greener, PhD
3:30pm
Nursing Home Residents with End-Stage Dementia and Medicare SNF Care: How Is Hospice Enrollment Associated with Site of Death?
Susan C. Miller, PhD, Julie Lima, PhD and Susan L. Mitchell, MD MPH
  

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Gerontological Health (newly approved name Aging & Public Health)
Endorsed by: American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Caucus, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights, Social Work

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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