18 research outputs found
Exile Vol. XLIII No. 2
41st Year
Title Page i
Epigraphy by Ezra Pound ii
Table of Contents iii / Contributors\u27 Notes 70-71
Editorial Board 72-73 ART Untitled by Kari Hernquist \u2799 4
Talking Out my Window by Heather Trabert \u2797 13
Renamed I by Ben Blake \u2797 18
photo paint by alex e. blazer \u2797 23
Butterfly by Mary Donnelley \u2797 32
unabridged by alex e. blazer \u2797 37
Holding Me In by Heather Trabert \u2797 43
Untitled by Kari Hernquist \u2797 55
Untitled by Camille Gammon-Hittelman \u2799 61
Stars by Mary Donnelley \u2797 69
POETRY
Victrola by erin c. malone \u2799 1
All by Kellam Ayres \u2797 2-3
curtailed sun in the net by alex e. blazer \u2797 5
the weaker sex by Bekah Taylor \u2700 6
A poem concerning a silent manifesto by Colin Bossen \u2798 14
Father by Alison Stine \u2700 15
Vacant by Sean Boyle \u2700 16
Ecstasy by Amy spears \u2798 17
Seven Haikus by Jen Suster \u2797 21
Pages from a Diary by Trish Klei \u2797 22
Watching an Ageless Woman and an Ancient Trade by Heather Trabert \u2797 24-25
Still Waters by Jay Brandeis \u2799 26
just shy of freedom by Sean Boyle \u2700 36
[Touch the mothers you never knew] by Heather Trabert \u2797 38
Fishing for Meaning by Bekah Taylor \u2700 39
the novel by Sara Brown \u2799 40-41
annihilation by erin c. malone \u2799 42
Upon Enlistment by Trish Klei \u2797 44
the expatriate by erin c. malone \u2799 47
Rockettes by Trish Klei \u2797 48-49
Abstraction by Colin Bossen \u2798 54
always kinesis by alex e. blazer \u2797 56-57
Lily by Alison Stine \u2700 58-59
Falling In by Bekah Taylor \u2700 60
this bird has flown by paul durica \u2700 62-63
exfoliating some sun by alex e. blazer \u2797 64
Liberation: May 8, 1945 by Jen suster \u2797 65
PROSE
Journal: 12 December 1996 through 15 January 1997 by Lynn Tramonte \u2798 7-12
Ash by paul durica \u2700 19-20
Birdhouse by Tyler Smith \u2797 27-35
Party in December by paul durica \u2700 45-46
Smoke Circles by Alison Stine \u2700 50-53
Seal by Lynn Tramonte \u2798 66-68
All submissions are reviewed on an anonymous basis, and all editorial decisions are shared equally among the members of the Editorial Board. -72
Cover art Toy Child by Ben Blake \u2797 -7
Evaluating pressure ulcer occurrence in long-term care: pitfalls in interpreting administrative data
Administrative databases for long-term care frequently collect information on fixed dates of the calendar year, rather than for entire episodes of care. Patients discharged or dying prior to an evaluation date are lost to follow-up. We used one such database, the VA Patient Assessment File, to examine pressure ulcer occurrence in long-term care. Clinical studies have established that most pressure ulcers develop during the first several weeks following admission. In these data, however, pressure ulcer development was less common in patients assessed within 2 months following admission, as compared to those examined at 3 to 6 months. This finding appears to be related to the selective discharge of patients, which makes these patient populations noncomparable. These results highlight that care must be exercised when interpreting results obtained from such administrative data
Rating long-term care facilities on pressure ulcer development: importance of case-mix adjustment
OBJECTIVE: To determine the importance of case-mix adjustment in interpreting differences in rates of pressure ulcer development in Department of Veterans Affairs long- term care facilities.
DESIGN: A sample assembled from the Patient Assessment File, a Veterans Affairs administrative database, was used to derive predictors of pressure ulcer development; the resulting model was validated in a separate sample. Facility-level rates of pressure ulcer development, both unadjusted and adjusted for case mix using the predictive model, were compared.
SETTING: Department of Veterans Affairs long-term care facilities.
PATIENTS: The derivation sample consisted of 31 150 intermediate medicine and nursing home residents who were initially free of pressure ulcers and were institutionalized between October 1991 and April 1993. The validation sample consisted of 17 946 residents institutionalized from April 1993 to October 1993.
MEASUREMENT: Development of a stage 2 or greater pressure ulcer.
RESULTS: 11 factors predicted pressure ulcer development. Validated performance properties of the resulting model were good. Model-predicted rates of pressure ulcer development at individual long-term care facilities varied from 1.9% to 6.3%, and observed rates ranged from 0% to 10.9%. Case-mix-adjusted rates and ranks of facilities differed considerably from unadjusted ratings. For example, among five facilities that were identified as high outliers on the basis of unadjusted rates, two remained as outliers after adjustment for case mix.
CONCLUSIONS: Long-term care facilities differ in case mix. Adjustments for case mix result in different judgments about facility performance and should be used when facility incidence rates are compared