Short- and long-term residents of nursing homes.

摘要: This article analyzes reported data on length of stay discharged patients from the 1977 National Nursing Home Survey. Assuming that admitted to nursing homes are one two types, short-stayers and long-stayers, statistically best-fitting proportions expected lengths for types derived. The results applied statistics characteristics resident find admission differentiate groups. Because long-stayers have quite different characteristics, home will be very if bases them discharges or a cross-section residents. For example, we estimate short-stay represent 61 per cent but only 9 A further application shows that, including deaths in hospitals, almost half die, rather than usually cited figure 25 cent.