The number of clinicians who primarily practice in nursing homes (NHs), recently referred
to as “SNFists,” increased by 33% between 2012 and 2015.
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Recent research suggests that SNFists provide higher-quality care to NH patients
than other clinicians,
2
and NH medicine has been proposed as a formal specialty,
3
yet little is known about the characteristics of SNFists. Such information will be
important in further linking attributes that may be associated with outcomes—for example,
training and practice setting—and which may have policy implications. Using a nationwide
sample, we compared the characteristics of physicians who were SNFists with those
of physicians who never visited NHs and those who occasionally visited NHs.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Published online: November 21, 2020
Footnotes
This study was supported by the National Institute on Aging (K01AG057824, principal investigator: Hye-Young Jung).
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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