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- Bachelors Biology University of California, Berkeley
- PhD Biomedical Sciences Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sandra F. Simmons is an American clinical psychologist and gerontologist. She is the Joe C. Davis Endowed Chair in Biomedical Science at Vanderbilt University and the director of the Vanderbilt Center for Quality Aging.
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- Relationship of nursing home staffing to quality of care. (2004) (299)
- Translating Clinical Research into Practice: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Exercise and Incontinence Care with Nursing Home Residents (2002) (261)
- Functional Incidental Training, Mobility Performance, and Incontinence Care with Nursing Home Residents (1995) (181)
- Improving food intake in nursing home residents with feeding assistance: a staffing analysis. (2001) (157)
- Individualized feeding assistance care for nursing home residents: staffing requirements to implement two interventions. (2004) (135)
- Prevention of Unintentional Weight Loss in Nursing Home Residents: A Controlled Trial of Feeding Assistance (2008) (134)
- An Intervention to Increase Fluid Intake in Nursing Home Residents: Prompting and Preference Compliance (2001) (124)
- Nutritional Intake Monitoring for Nursing Home Residents: A Comparison of Staff Documentation, Direct Observation, and Photography Methods (2000) (115)
- The Need for Higher Minimum Staffing Standards in U.S. Nursing Homes (2016) (107)
- A Controlled Trial of an Intervention to Improve Urinary and Fecal Incontinence and Constipation (2010) (106)
- The Nighttime Environment, Incontinence Care, and Sleep Disruption in Nursing Homes (1993) (101)
- Accuracy of Nursing Home Medical Record Information about Care‐Process Delivery: Implications for Staff Management and Improvement (2004) (101)
- Feeding Assistance Needs of Long‐Stay Nursing Home Residents and Staff Time to Provide Care (2006) (98)
- Does Physical Activity Improve Sleep in Impaired Nursing Home Residents? (1995) (87)
- Quality assessment in nursing homes by systematic direct observation: feeding assistance. (2002) (84)
- Selection Bias in Samples of Older Twins? (1997) (78)
- The Minimum Data Set Urinary Incontinence Quality Indicators: Do They Reflect Differences in Care Processes Related to Incontinence? (2003) (78)
- Nursing Home Staff Delivery of Oral Liquid Nutritional Supplements to Residents at Risk for Unintentional Weight Loss (2006) (75)
- Measurement sensitivity and the Minimum Data Set depression quality indicator. (2001) (74)
- Translating research into practice in nursing homes: can we close the gap? (2012) (74)
- Physical Activity Levels of Ambulatory Nursing Home Residents (1996) (70)
- Pain reports and pain medication treatment in nursing home residents with and without dementia (2014) (70)
- Geriatric Syndromes in Hospitalized Older Adults Discharged to Skilled Nursing Facilities (2016) (69)
- The Minimum Data Set Weight‐Loss Quality Indicator: Does It Reflect Differences in Care Processes Related to Weight Loss? (2003) (69)
- Selecting nursing home residents for satisfaction surveys. (1997) (68)
- Exercise with Physically Restrained Nursing Home Residents: Maximizing Benefits of Restraint Reduction (1996) (68)
- Strategies to measure nursing home residents' satisfaction and preferences related to incontinence and mobility care: implications for evaluating intervention effects. (1999) (64)
- A minimum data set prevalence of pain quality indicator: is it accurate and does it reflect differences in care processes? (2004) (62)
- Wheelchairs as Mobility Restraints: Predictors of Wheelchair Activity in Nonambulatory Nursing Home Residents (1995) (61)
- Direct observations of nursing home care quality: Does care change when observed? (2006) (58)
- Evaluation of Two Fatigability Severity Measures in Elderly Adults (2012) (56)
- Nighttime Sleep and Bed Mobility among Incontinent Nursing Home Residents (1993) (55)
- A Standardized Quality Assessment System To Evaluate Incontinence Care in the Nursing Home (2003) (54)
- Potentially Avoidable Readmissions of Patients Discharged to Post‐Acute Care: Perspectives of Hospital and Skilled Nursing Facility Staff (2017) (53)
- Cost-effectiveness of nutrition interventions in nursing home residents: A pilot intervention (2010) (51)
- The minimum data set prevalence of restraint quality indicator: does it reflect differences in care? (2004) (50)
- The Nighttime Environment and Incontinence Care Practices in Nursing Homes (1998) (50)
- Medications associated with geriatric syndromes and their prevalence in older hospitalized adults discharged to skilled nursing facilities. (2016) (46)
- The identification of residents capable of accurately describing daily care: implications for evaluating nursing home care quality. (2001) (46)
- A Cost and Value Analysis of Two Interventions with Incontinent Nursing Home Residents (1995) (45)
- The Association Between the Probability of Sarcopenia and Functional Outcomes in Older Patients Undergoing In-Hospital Rehabilitation. (2015) (44)
- Family Members' Preferences for Nutrition Interventions to Improve Nursing Home Residents' Oral Food and Fluid Intake (2003) (43)
- The minimum data set depression quality indicator: does it reflect differences in care processes? (2004) (41)
- Improving the quality of nursing home care and medical-record accuracy with direct observational technologies. (2005) (39)
- A comparison of methods to assess nursing home residents' unmet needs. (2002) (36)
- Effects of a Controlled Exercise Trial on Pain in Nursing Home Residents (2002) (36)
- A standardized quality assessment system to evaluate pain detection and management in the nursing home. (2006) (36)
- The effect of megestrol acetate on oral food and fluid intake in nursing home residents: a pilot study. (2005) (34)
- Resident characteristics related to the lack of morning care provision in long-term care. (2013) (34)
- A continuous quality improvement pilot study: impact on nutritional care quality. (2006) (34)
- Elevated Serum Osmolality and Total Water Deficit Indicate Impaired Hydration Status in Residents of Long-Term Care Facilities Regardless of Low or High Body Mass Index. (2016) (33)
- Safety Assessment for the Frail Elderly: A Comparison of Restrained and Unrestrained Nursing Home Residents (1994) (33)
- Effects of an exercise and scheduled-toileting intervention on appetite and constipation in nursing home residents. (2004) (33)
- Prevalence of Constipation Symptoms in Fecally Incontinent Nursing Home Residents (2009) (31)
- Resident choice and the survey process: the need for standardized observation and transparency. (2009) (30)
- Reducing Antipsychotic Medication Use in Nursing Homes: A Qualitative Study of Nursing Staff Perceptions (2018) (29)
- Accuracy of minimum data set in identifying residents at risk for undernutrition: oral intake and food complaints. (2002) (28)
- The effect of dining location on nutritional care quality in nursing homes. (2005) (28)
- A patient-centered deprescribing intervention for hospitalized older patients with polypharmacy: rationale and design of the Shed-MEDS randomized controlled trial (2019) (27)
- Long-term Care Residents' Preferences for Health States on the Quality of Well-Being Scale (1996) (26)
- Resident-directed long-term care: staff provision of choice during morning care. (2011) (26)
- The Impact of Family Visitation on Feeding Assistance Quality in Nursing Homes (2014) (25)
- Quality improvement for feeding assistance care in nursing homes. (2007) (25)
- A preliminary evaluation of the paid feeding assistant regulation: impact on feeding assistance care process quality in nursing homes. (2007) (24)
- Resident complaints about the nursing home food service: relationship to cognitive status. (2009) (22)
- Resident and family satisfaction with incontinence and mobility care: sensitivity to intervention effects? (2005) (22)
- Using the Minimum Data Set to Select Nursing Home Residents for Interview About Pain (2004) (22)
- Risk factors that predict staff failure to release nursing home residents from restraints. (1992) (21)
- A staff training and management intervention in VA long-term care: impact on feeding assistance care quality (2013) (20)
- Cost‐Effectiveness of Nutrition Intervention in Long‐Term Care (2015) (20)
- Determining Nurse Aide Staffing Requirements to Provide Care Based on Resident Workload: A Discrete Event Simulation Model. (2016) (20)
- The Value of Resident Choice During Daily Care (2014) (19)
- Shed-MEDS: pilot of a patient-centered deprescribing framework reduces medications in hospitalized older adults being transferred to inpatient postacute care (2018) (19)
- Defining Safety in the Nursing Home Setting: Implications for Future Research. (2016) (18)
- Pain and Satisfaction With Pain Management Among Older Patients During the Transition From Acute to Skilled Nursing Care. (2016) (18)
- The effect of staff care practices on nursing home residents' preferences: implications for individualizing care. (2006) (18)
- Managing Person-Centered Dementia Care in an Assisted Living Facility: Staffing and Time Considerations (2018) (18)
- A controlled trial of an intervention to increase resident choice in long term care. (2013) (17)
- The accuracy of monthly weight assessments in nursing homes: Implications for the identification of weight loss (2009) (17)
- What do family members notice following an intervention to improve mobility and incontinence care for nursing home residents? An analysis of open-ended comments. (2007) (16)
- Next steps for achieving person-centered care in nursing homes. (2014) (16)
- Fatigability as a function of physical activity energy expenditure in older adults (2013) (15)
- Evaluating the accuracy of minimum data set bed-mobility ratings against independent performance assessments: systematic error and directions for improvement. (2005) (15)
- Distance Coursework and Coaching to Improve Nursing Home Incontinence Care: Lessons Learned (2012) (15)
- The coach is in: improving nutritional care in nursing homes. (2012) (14)
- A standardized quality assessment system to evaluate pain detection and management in the nursing home. (2005) (13)
- A refined protocol for coding nursing home residents' comments during satisfaction interviews. (2005) (13)
- The importance of standardized observations to evaluate nutritional care quality in the survey process. (2009) (13)
- Cost-effectiveness of recommended nurse staffing levels for short-stay skilled nursing facility patients (2005) (13)
- Preventability of Hospital Readmissions From Skilled Nursing Facilities: A Consumer Perspective (2016) (12)
- The Quality of Feeding Assistance Care Practices for Long-Term Care Veterans (2013) (12)
- Resident Safety Practices in Nursing Home Settings (2016) (11)
- Stability of Geriatric Syndromes in Hospitalized Medicare Beneficiaries Discharged to Skilled Nursing Facilities (2016) (11)
- Home Health Nurses’ Perspectives and Care Processes Related to Older Persons with Frailty and Depression: A Mixed Method Pilot Study (2018) (11)
- Training Nonnursing Staff to Assist with Nutritional Care Delivery in Nursing Homes: A Cost‐Effectiveness Analysis (2017) (11)
- Prevalence of Spasticity in Nursing Home Residents. (2020) (10)
- Noise and predictors of sleep in a nursing home environment (1993) (10)
- The nursing home dining assistant program: a demonstration project. (2011) (10)
- Health literacy, cognition, and urinary incontinence among geriatric inpatients discharged to skilled nursing facilities (2018) (9)
- Predicting nursing-home resident responsiveness to a urinary incontinence treatment protocol (1993) (7)
- Pain interference and depressive symptoms in communicative people with Alzheimer's disease: a pilot study (2018) (7)
- A Quality Improvement System to Manage Feeding Assistance Care in Assisted-Living. (2018) (6)
- The effect of megestrol acetate on oral food and fluid intake in nursing home residents: a pilot study. (2005) (6)
- Specific Physician Orders Improve Pain Detection and Pain Reports in Nursing Home Residents: Preliminary Data. (2015) (6)
- Improving Care Transitions for Hospitalized Veterans Discharged to Skilled Nursing Facilities: A Focus on Polypharmacy and Geriatric Syndromes (2019) (5)
- Changes in vulnerability among older patients with cardiovascular disease in the first 90 days after hospital discharge: A secondary analysis of a cohort study (2019) (5)
- Developing innovative models to translate guidelines into practice. (2004) (5)
- Managing Nurse Aides to Promote Quality of Care in the Nursing Home (1993) (5)
- Individualizing nutritional care with between-meal snacks for nursing home residents. (2005) (4)
- A System for Managing Staff and Quality of Dementia Care in Assisted Living Facilities (2018) (4)
- Development and testing of a frailty-focused communication (FCOM) aid for older adults. (2020) (4)
- Poster 100: Prevalence and Impact of Spasticity in a Single Nursing Home (2008) (3)
- Managing Agitation and Aggression in Congregate Living Settings: Efficacy and Implementation Challenges (2016) (3)
- Continuous quality improvement for nutritional care services in nursing homes: the importance of direct observation. (2006) (3)
- Comparison Between Quality of Care Provided by Trained Feeding Assistants and Certified Nursing Assistants During Between-Meal Supplementation in Long-Term Care Settings (2018) (3)
- Simple solutions may not work for complex patients: A need for new paradigms in geriatric hospital medicine. (2015) (2)
- Patient-reported barriers and enablers to deprescribing recommendations during a clinical trial. (2022) (2)
- Residents' care preferences as targeting criteria: measurement issues functional incidental training: applicability and feasibility in the Veterans Affairs nursing home patient population. (2005) (2)
- Quality of feeding assistance care in nursing homes (2009) (2)
- Sources of medication omissions among hospitalized older adults with polypharmacy (2021) (2)
- HEALTH LITERACY, COGNITION AND URINARY INCONTINENCE AMONG GERIATRIC INPATIENTS DISCHARGED TO SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES: MP31‐10 (2017) (2)
- Selecting Nursing Home Residents for Satisfaction Surveys 1 (2008) (2)
- Supratherapeutic Psychotropic Drug Levels in the Emergency Department and Their Association with Delirium Duration: A Preliminary Study (2019) (1)
- Nutrition in Institutions (2009) (1)
- High Body Mass Index Does Not Protect Long Term Care Residents from Impaired Hydration Status, Inadequate Fluid Intake or Dehydration Risk (2015) (1)
- Whom do veteran nursing home residents prefer to talk to about satisfaction with care?: implications for nursing staff. (2012) (1)
- Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety-Informed Interview Guide (2018) (1)
- The Minimum Data Set: An Opportunity to Improve Spasticity Screening. (2020) (1)
- Effect of physical and occupational therapy on delirium duration in older emergency department patients who are hospitalized (2023) (1)
- Clinical trials in nursing homes (2016) (1)
- Older Patient and Surrogate Attitudes Toward Deprescribing During the Transition From Acute to Post-Acute Care (2022) (1)
- MULTIPRONGED APPROACH TO OBTAIN A MEDICATION HISTORY FOR OLDER ADULTS IN THE ACUTE CARE SETTING (2018) (0)
- Enhancing Performance of a Spasticity Screening Tool Using the Minimum Data Set. (2021) (0)
- DO DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IMPROVE AS OLDER ADULTS TRANSITION FROM HOSPITAL TO POST-ACUTE CARE TO HOME? (2018) (0)
- PAIN INTERFERENCE AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE: A PILOT STUDY (2017) (0)
- A Continuous Quality Improvement Pilot Study: Impact on Nutritional Care (2006) (0)
- EFFECTS OF WHOLE BRAIN FITNESS PROGRAM ON APATHY IN RESIDENTS WITH MILD TO MODERATE DEMENTIA IN ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES (2016) (0)
- Should reimbursement rates be increased for feeding assistance in nursing homes? (2003) (0)
- Fatigability as a function of physical activity energy expenditure in older adults (2011) (0)
- CHANGE IN VULNERABILITY AMONG OLDER CARDIAC ADULTS AFTER HOSPITAL DISCHARGE: ROLE OF POST-ACUTE HOME HEALTH (2018) (0)
- How "Age-Friendly" Are Deprescribing Interventions? A Scoping Review of Deprescribing Trials. (2022) (0)
- Families Differ ? The Value of Resident Choice During Daily Care : Do Staff and (2012) (0)
- Summary of Key Informant Calls (2016) (0)
- MEDICATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH GERIATRIC SYNDROMES AND HOSPITALIZATION RISK IN HOME HEALTHCARE PATIENTS (2022) (0)
- TOILETING AND MOBILITY ASSISTANCE PREFERENCES OF PATIENTS ON AN ACUTE CARE FOR ELDERS (ACE) UNIT (2022) (0)
- Summary Tables of Recent Systematic Reviews Addressing Interventions for Common Format Safety Events (2016) (0)
- Training nursing aides to communicate choices to nursing home residents: An innovative model (2012) (0)
- Implementation considerations of deprescribing interventions: A scoping review. (2022) (0)
- POLYPHARMACY AND GERIATRIC SYNDROMES IN OLDER HOSPITALIZED VETERANS (2017) (0)
- Residents?? Care Preferences as Targeting Criteria: Measurement Issues Functional Incidental Training (2005) (0)
- Selecting nursing home residents for interview. (2004) (0)
- Comparative Studies of Interventions Addressing Common Format Safety Events in the Nursing Home Published After the Publication of Systematic Reviews Included in This Technical Brief (2016) (0)
- Deprescribing Medications Among Older Adults From End of Hospitalization Through Postacute Care: A Shed-MEDS Randomized Clinical Trial. (2023) (0)
- 97 THE MINIMUM DATA SET DEPRESSION QUALITY INDICATOR: DOES IT REFLECT DIFFERENCES IN CARE PROCESSES RELATED TO DEPRESSION? (2004) (0)
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