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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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2013
Stewart, N., Morgan, D. G., Estabrooks, C. A., Norton, P., Squires, J. E., Poss, J. W., Doupe, M., Teare, G. F., Cummings, G. G.
Nursing homes have become complex care environments where residents have significant needs and most have age-related dementia. Building on research by Hirdes et al. (2011), we describe a resident profile in a representative sample of 30 urban nursing homes in the prairie provinces using Resident...
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Facility versus unit level reporting of quality indicators in nursing homes when performance monitoring is the goal.
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Teare, G. F., Poss, J., Murray, M., Norton, P., Estabrooks, C. A., Cummings, G. G., Doupe, M., Squires, J.
Objectives To demonstrate the benefit of defining operational management units in nursing homes and computing quality indicators on these units as well as on the whole facility. Design Calculation of adjusted Resident Assessment Instrument – Minimum Data Set 2.0 (RAI–MDS 2.0) quality indicators...
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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...
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Linguistic validation of the Alberta Context Tool and two measures of research use, for German residential long term care.
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Kruse, A., Behrens, J., Mahler, C., Bär, M., Hoben, M., Berger, S., Squires, J., Estabrooks, C. A.
Background To study the association between organizational context and research utilization in German residential long term care (LTC), we translated three Canadian assessment instruments: the Alberta Context Tool (ACT), Estabrooks’ Kinds of Research Utilization (RU) items and the Conceptual...
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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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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...