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Mobility of Vulnerable Elders (MOVE): Study protocol to evaluate the implementation and outcomes of a mobility intervention in long-term care facilities
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Wagg, A., Estabrooks, C., Jones, A., Slaughter, S.
Background: Almost 90% of residents living in long-term care facilities have limited mobility which is associated with a loss of ability in activities of daily living, falls, increased risk of serious medical problems such as pressure ulcers, incontinence and a significant decline in...
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2012
Bostrom, A. M., Estabrooks, C. A., Deis, K., Norton, P. G., Cummings, G. G., Hutchinson, A. M., Squires, J. E.
Researchers strive to optimize data quality in order to ensure that study findings are valid and reliable. In this paper, we describe a data quality control program designed to maximize quality of survey data collected using computer-assisted personal interviews. The quality control program...
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2012
Estabrooks, C. A., Cummings, G. G., Wagg, A., Bottorff, J. L., Lynch, S. L., Abel, S. L., Bissell, L., Norton, P. G., Robinson, C. A., Lee, J. S., Masaoud, E., Cummings, G. E., Rowe, B. H., Reid, R. C.
Background Changes in health status, triggered by events such as infections, falls, and geriatric syndromes, are common among nursing home (NH) residents and necessitate transitions between NHs and Emergency Departments (EDs). During transitions, residents frequently experience care that is...
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Nursing home administrators’ perspectives on a study feedback report: A cross sectional survey.
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Hutchinson, A. M., Cranley, L. A, Estabrooks, C. A., Norton, P. G., Cummings, G. G., Bostrom, A. M.
Background This project is part of the Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC) program of research, a multi-level and longitudinal research program being conducted in 36 nursing homes in three Canadian Prairie Provinces. The overall goal of TREC is to improve the quality of care for older...
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Knowledge and understanding of urinary incontinence: Survey of family practitioners in northern Alberta.
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Wagg, A., Hunter, K. F., Nguyen, K.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate family physicians' knowledge of, attitudes toward, and understanding of urinary incontinence (UI), as well as their perceptions of barriers to continence care, as a foundation for designing interventions to improve service provision for those in northern Alberta who...
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Optimizing the mobility of residents with dementia: A pilot study promoting healthcare aide uptake of a simple mobility innovation in diverse nursing home settings.
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Estabrooks, C. A., Slaughter, S. E.
Background Almost 90 percent of nursing home residents have some type of mobility limitation. Many spend most of their waking hours lying in bed or sitting. Such inactivity can negatively affect residents’ health and general well-being. This pilot study aimed to assess (1) the effect of the...
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Sustaining Transfers through Affordable Research Translation (START): Study protocol to assess knowledge translation interventions in continuing care settings.
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Eliasziw, M., Estabrooks, C. A., Wagg, A., Slaughter, S. E., Jones, C.
Background Bridging the research-practice gap is an important research focus in continuing care facilities, because the population of older adults (aged 65 years and over) requiring continuing care services is the fastest growing demographic among countries in the Organisation for Economic...
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Translating and testing the Alberta context tool for use among nurses in Swedish elder care.
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Squires, J. E., Ehrenberg, A., Estabrooks, C. A., Eldh, A. C., Wallin, L.
Background There is emerging evidence that context is important for successful transfer of research knowledge into health care practice. The Alberta Context Tool (ACT) is a Canadian developed research-based instrument that assesses 10 modifiable concepts of organizational context considered...
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German translation of the Alberta context tool and two measures of research use: Methods, challenges and lessons learned.
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Behrens, J., Mahler, C, Berger, S., Squires, J. E., Hoben, M., Bär, M., Estabrooks, C. A.
Background Understanding the relationship between organizational context and research utilization is key to reducing the research-practice gap in health care. This is particularly true in the residential long term care (LTC) setting where relatively little work has examined the influence of...