JAMDA
Volume 13, Issue 3 , Pages 202-206 , March 2012

Recent Health Care Transitions and Emergency Department Use by Chronic Long Term Care Residents: A Population-Based Cohort Study

  • Andrea Gruneir, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Andrea Gruneir, PhD, Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, 790 Bay St., 7th floor, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1N8, Canada.
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  • Susan Bronskill, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Chaim Bell, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Sudeep Gill, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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  • Michael Schull, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research Program, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Xiaomu Ma, MS

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Geoffrey Anderson, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Paula A. Rochon, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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 This study was supported by an operating grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (Emergency Department Visits by Nursing Home Residents in Ontario: Descriptive Patterns of Resident Visits by Timing, Location, and Physician Availability, MOP 89943) and by a Team Grant (OTG-88591) from the CIHR Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes. A.G. is supported by a Career Scientist Award from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC). S.B. and S.G. are each supported by a New Investigator Award from CIHR. C.B. is supported by a CIHR and Canadian Patient Safety Institute Chair in Patient Safety and Continuity of Care. This study was supported by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), which is funded by an annual grant from the MOHLTC. The opinions, results and conclusions reported in this article are those of the authors and are independent from the funding sources. No endorsement by ICES or the Ontario MOHLTC is intended or should be inferred.

PII: S1525-8610(11)00355-0

doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2011.10.001

JAMDA
Volume 13, Issue 3 , Pages 202-206 , March 2012

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