[HTML][HTML] Acute care inpatients with long-term delayed-discharge: evidence from a Canadian health region

AP Costa, JW Poss, T Peirce, JP Hirdes - BMC health services research, 2012 - Springer
Background Acute hospital discharge delays are a pressing concern for many health care
administrators. In Canada, a delayed discharge is defined by the alternate level of care (ALC) …

[HTML][HTML] Dying in a nursing home: treatable symptom burden and its link to modifiable features of work context

CA Estabrooks, M Hoben, JW Poss… - Journal of the American …, 2015 - Elsevier
Importance High-quality care at the end of life supports freedom from pain and other potentially
burdensome symptoms. Lowering symptom burden at the end of life is an urgent and …

[HTML][HTML] Use of the interRAI CHESS scale to predict mortality among persons with neurological conditions in three care settings

JP Hirdes, JW Poss, L Mitchell, L Korngut, G Heckman - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background Persons with certain neurological conditions have higher mortality rates than
the population without neurological conditions, but the risk factors for increased mortality …

[HTML][HTML] Adjustment of nursing home quality indicators

RN Jones, JP Hirdes, JW Poss, M Kelly, K Berg… - BMC health services …, 2010 - Springer
Background This manuscript describes a method for adjustment of nursing home quality
indicators (QIs) defined using the Center for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS) nursing …

Examining three frailty conceptualizations in their ability to predict negative outcomes for home-care clients

JJ Armstrong, P Stolee, JP Hirdes, JW Poss - Age and ageing, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Methods For these analyses, we made use of a large database (n= 23,952) with comprehensive
health information on home care clients (aged 65+) of eight Community Care Access …

Child and youth mental health needs and service utilization during COVID-19.

SL Stewart, AS Vasudeva, JN Van Dyke, JW Poss - Traumatology, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the lives of children, youth, and their
families and their access to mental health services through new virus containment measures, …

[HTML][HTML] The Method for Assigning Priority Levels (MAPLe): a new decision-support system for allocating home care resources

JP Hirdes, JW Poss, N Curtin-Telegdi - BMC medicine, 2008 - Springer
Background Home care plays a vital role in many health care systems, but there is evidence
that appropriate targeting strategies must be used to allocate limited home care resources …

Validation of Resource Utilization Groups version III for Home Care (RUG-III/HC): evidence from a Canadian home care jurisdiction

JW Poss, JP Hirdes, BE Fries, I McKillop, M Chase - Medical care, 2008 - journals.lww.com
Background: The case-mix system Resource Utilization Groups version III for Home Care (RUG-III/HC)
was derived using a modest data sample from Michigan, but to date no …

Rehabilitation in home care is associated with functional improvement and preferred discharge

RJ Cook, K Berg, KA Lee, JW Poss, JP Hirdes… - Archives of physical …, 2013 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the impact of physiotherapy (PT) and occupational therapy (OT)
services on long-stay home care patients with musculoskeletal disorders. DESIGN: …

Nursing home length of stay in 3 Canadian health regions: Temporal trends, jurisdictional differences, and associated factors

…, JA Knopp-Sihota, JM Sutherland, JW Poss… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - Elsevier
… Sutherland PhD d , Jeffrey W. Poss PhD e , Malcolm B. Doupe PhD f , Veronica Bergstrom
MA g , Peter G. Norton MD h , Corinne Schalm MSc i , Kimberley McCarthy MPH i , Kierstin …