Improving Care in the Nursing Home or Correspondence of Alfred Marshall Economist

Improving Care in the Nursing Home: Comprehensive Reviews of Clinical Research

Author: Laurence Z Rubenstein

In recent years, the nursing home has emerged as the dominant health-related institution in U.S. health care. Yet, the knowledge base regarding nursing home patients, care, and outcomes is underdeveloped compared to that of acute and ambulatory care. Improving Care in the Nursing Home provides systematic reviews of the state of clinical and health services research in patient-care problem areas pertinent to nursing homes. Each chapter defines progress on a specific clinical nursing home problem and provides a critical synthesis and review of research information. Topics covered include medication use, infection control, pressure ulcers, falls, urinary incontinence, and behavior problems. This volume also includes sections on managing nurse aides, clinical interventions for nutritional problems, and clinical research on falls in nursing homes. Improving Care in the Nursing Home is essential reading for those in the health professions interested in quality of care in the nursing home. "The language is clear and approachable without excess medical jargon. . . . The chapters are well organized, self-contained, and easily digested, reflective of a great deal of effort by both the authors and editors. . . . [This book] is a worthwhile addition to the libraries of academically oriented nursing homes and of researchers in the issues of clinical practice in the long-term care setting." --Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Clinical Research in the Nursing Home
1	Rehabilitation in the Nursing Facility	1
2	Improving Medication Use in the Nursing Home	33
3	Infections and Infection Control	65
4	Pressure Ulcers in the Nursing Home	102
5	Assessment, Treatment, and Management of Urinary Incontinence in the Nursing Home	131
6	A Review of Research on Common Bowel Problems in the Nursing Home	160
7	Nutritional Problems in the Nursing Home Population: Opportunities for Clinical Interventions	195
8	Clinical Research on Falls in the Nursing Home	216
9	The Assessment and Control of Pain in the Nursing Home	241
10	The Management of Depression in the Nursing Home	251
11	Assessment and Management of Behavior Problems in the Nursing Home	275
12	Managing Nurse Aides to Promote Quality of Care in the Nursing Home	314
	Index	332
	About the Contributors	338

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Correspondence of Alfred Marshall, Economist: Volume 1, Climbing, 1868-1890

Author: Alfred Marshall

This three-volume work constitutes a comprehensive scholarly edition of the correspondence of the English economist, Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), one of the leading figures in the development of economics and the founder of the Cambridge School of Economics. The edition fills a long- standing gap in the history of economic thought and contains hitherto unpublished material. Notable for their frankness and spontaneity, Marshall's letters provide much new information about his views on economic, social and political issues, his struggles to promote the teaching of economics at the University of Cambridge, and his relations with colleagues there and elsewhere.