title: Nurse managers' perspectives of structural and process characteristics related to residents' advance directives in nursing homes.
abstract: This article examines associations between nursing home structural and process characteristics and presence of advance directives and trends over 5 years of advance directives in Florida nursing homes. Our results underscore the importance of nursing homes' processes in facilitating discussions of nursing home residents' end-of-life care preferences.
authors: University of South Florida, School of Aging Studies and Florida Policy Exchange Center on Aging, Tampa, 33612, USA. jkrok@mail.usf.edu
authors: Jessica
authors: J
authors: Krok
authors: Debra
authors: D
authors: Dobbs
authors: Kathryn
authors: K
authors: Hyer
authors: LuMarie
authors: L
authors: Polivka-West
mesh_terms: D016223:Advance Directives; D005431:Florida; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory