Background Elderly living in a Nursing Home (NH) are frequently transferred to an
Emergency Department when they need acute medical care. A proportion of these transfers …

Background Healthcare systems are overloaded and changing. In response to growing
demands on the healthcare systems, new models of healthcare delivery are emerging …

Importance An initial step to reducing emergency department (ED) visits among patients with
cancer is to identify the characteristics of patients visiting the ED and examine which of those …

Background: Studies have demonstrated that a significant minority of older persons
presenting to acute hospital services are cognitively impaired; however, the impact of …

Objectives Nursing home (NH) residents are a frail and vulnerable population often faced
with iatrogenic effects of hospital stays when transferred to emergency departments for acute …

Objectives Older nursing home residents make up the population at greatest risk of morbidity
and mortality from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection …

Background Non-specific symptoms, such as confusion, are often suspected to be caused
by urinary tract infection (UTI) and continues to be the most common reason for suspecting a …

The nursing home sector has seen a disproportionately high number of deaths as part of the
COVID-19 pandemic. This reflects, in part, the frailty and vulnerability of older people living …

Background Emergency department visits and hospital admissions are common among
nursing home residents (NHRs) and seem to be higher in Germany than in other countries …

Introduction A fall in hospital deaths in dementia has been interpreted as indicating an
improvement in end-of-life care. Whether other indicators of quality of end-of-life care, such …