The rural nursing home industry: A national description

被引：10

作者：

Coward, RT

Duncan, RP

Uttaro, R

机构：

[1] Center on Rural Health and Aging, Univ. of Florida Hlth. Sci. Center, Gainesville, FL 32610-0177

[2] Dept. of Hlth. Plcy. and Epidemiol., University of Florida

[3] University of Florida, Institute for Gerontology

[4] Institute for Health Policy Research, Univ. of Florida Hlth. Sci. Center

来源：

JOURNAL OF APPLIED GERONTOLOGY | 1996年 / 15卷 / 02期

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D O I：

10.1177/073346489601500202

中图分类号：

R4 [临床医学]; R592 [老年病学];

学科分类号：

1002 ; 100203 ; 100602 ;

摘要：

Although the rural component of the nursing home industry is an $11 billion per year enterprise, very little is known about the unique character and structure of rural nursing homes. Using data from a 1991 national census of nursing homes, this investigation compares facilities (N = 13,081) in nine different county types. Significant variation by geographic location was observed in the availability, size, and character of long-ten care facilities. Such differences have important implications for the role rural nursing homes may assume in a health care system that in the future will be dominated by managed care principles and the creation of integrated health care systems that include a wide range of patient care services.

引用

页码：153 / 171

页数：19

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