Margaret V Mcdonald

Biographic Data

ID185953
NAMEMargaret V Mcdonald
GIVEN NAMESMargaret V
FAMILY NAMEMcdonald
SIGNATUREMCDONALD M V
AFFILIATIONSVNS Health
ORCID0000-0003-1045-0956
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Hospital-to-Home-Health Transition Quality (H3TQ) Index

    Alicia I Arbaje, Yea-Jen Hsu et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2024References: 24

    BACKGROUND: We developed the Hospital-to-Home-Health Transition Quality (H3TQ) Index for skilled home healthcare (HH) agencies to identify threats to safe, high-quality care transitions in real time. OBJECTIVE: Assess the validity of H3TQ in a large sample across diverse communities. RESEARCH DESIGN: A survey of recently hospitalized older adults referred for skilled HH services and their HH provider at two large HH agencies in Baltimore, MD, and…

  • Continuity of Care Versus Language Concordance as an Intervention to Reduce Hospital Readmissions From Home Health Care

    Allison Squires, Patrick Engel et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2023References: 36

    BACKGROUND: Language concordance between health care practitioners and patients have recently been shown to lower the risk of adverse health events. Continuity of care also been shown to have the same impact. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this paper is to examine the relative effectiveness of both continuity of care and language concordance as alternative or complementary interventions to improve health outcomes of people with limited English profici…

  • Individual, social, and environmental factors for infection risk among home healthcare patients

    Open AccessDavid Russell, Dawn Dowding et al.ARTICLEHealth & Social Care in the…2021

    There has been limited research into the individual, social, and environmental factors for infection risk among patients in the home healthcare (HHC) setting, where the infection is a leading cause of hospitalisation. The aims of this study were to (1) explore nurse perceptions of individual, social, and environmental factors for infection risk among HHC patients; and (2) identify the frequency of environmental barriers to infection prevention an…

  • Continuity of Nursing Care in Home Health

    Chenjuan Ma, Margaret V Mcdonald et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2021References: 15

    BACKGROUND: Home health care (HHC) is a leading form of home and community-based services for persons with dementia (PWD). Nurses are the primary providers of HHC; however, little is known of nursing care delivery and quality. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to examine the association between continuity of nursing care in HHC and rehospitalization among PWD. RESEARCH DESIGN: This is a retrospective cohort study using multiple years (20…

  • Black/Hispanic Disparities in a Vulnerable Post-Stroke Home Care Population

    Open AccessPenny H Feldman, Margaret V Mcdonald et al.ARTICLEJournal of Racial and Ethnic…2019References: 50

  • Developments in Adoption Information Legislation in Australia

    Open AccessMargaret V Mcdonald, Margaret McDonaldARTICLEAdoption & Fostering1992

    The year 1990 saw the enactment of adoption information legislation in Queensland (May 1990) and New South Wales (October 1990), the last of the Australian states to grant rights of access to information. Queensland, sometimes referred to as ‘the deep north’, is customarily seen as the most conservative of the states, so there was considerable surprise that such legislation should have passed through the Queensland Parliament unimpeded, with accl…