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Nursing home utilization is common among older adults, and it represents a costly and growing sector of the health care system. As the length of hospital stays has declined, nursing homes increasingly provide short-term rehabilitative and medical care to patients who have recently been discharged from acute-care hospitals. Nursing homes may also provide palliative, hospice, and respite care. With the impending entry of the baby boom generation into Medicare eligibility and old age, there is an urgent need for information to guide the medical care of nursing home residents and to direct policy regarding long-term care. Although challenging, high-quality nursing home research is achievable with careful attention to methodological and administrative issues. Multiple publicly available data sets are available for use in nursing home research.

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Abbreviations

CASCADE:

Choices, Attitudes, and Strategies for Care of Advanced Dementia at the End-of-Life

CMS:

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

HIPAA:

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

IRB:

Institutional Review Board

MDS:

Long-term care Minimum Data Set

NLTCS:

National Long-Term Care Survey

NNHS:

National Nursing Home Survey

OSCAR:

Online Survey and Certification Reporting System

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  1. School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 3471 Fifth Avenue, Suite 500, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    Susan Hardy M.D., Ph.D.

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    Anne B. Newman

  2. Graduate School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, DeSoto Street, A510 Crabtree 130, Pittsburgh, 15261, Pennsylvania, USA

    Jane A. Cauley

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Hardy, S. (2012). Nursing Home Research. In: Newman, A., Cauley, J. (eds) The Epidemiology of Aging. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5061-6_5

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