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Minimal Data Set-Home Care Has an Added Value in the Admission Procedure for a Nursing Home
Author(s) -
Jan De Lepeleire
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of nursing education and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1925-4059
pISSN - 1925-4040
DOI - 10.5430/jnep.v2n1p82
Subject(s) - minimum data set , nursing homes , observational study , set (abstract data type) , nursing , medicine , nursing minimum data set , primary nursing , nursing outcomes classification , computer science , nurse education , pathology , programming language

Objectives: To investigate how the request for nursing home admission is performed and whether Minimum Data Set (MDS) Home Care can contribute to the process of admission to a nursing home.

Methods: Design: Observational study. Participants: Persons on a priority waiting list for a public nursing home (n=47). Measurements: Inventory of the added information provided by the use of the MDS Home Care and an inventory by the general practitioner.

Results: People on the waiting list scored well for activities of daily living but live in a vulnerable home-care situation, caused by severe communication problems or/and pain or/and a higher level of cognitive problems than expected on regular data.

Conclusion: The admission procedure to nursing homes has to be adapted. The MDS Home Care can be an additional tool.

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