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BACKGROUND: Nursing home resident care is an ongoing topic of public discussion, and there is great interest in improving the quality of resident care. This study investigated the association between...
Since the 1970s, introduction of home parenteral nutrition (HPN) has been possible for patients with gastrointestinal tract malfunction and is a more cost-effective treatment at home than in a hospital...
Most extended care facilities have admitted both the healthy and unhealthy elderly, among which members' average caring demand vary. The Aged Welfare Law, however, currently provides no reasonable basis on...
This comprehensive narrative literature review aims to extract studies related to frailty indices and their use in elective spine procedures, as limited studies regarding frailty exist in the spine literature....
PURPOSE: To compare extended care facility (ECF) and home as discharge destination after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) at a single high-volume tertiary center in South Korea.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: We retrospectively...