Steven Lipson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3620697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Lipson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Lipson |
| SIGNATURE | LIPSON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | American Institutes for Research, Washington, D.C. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Geographies of Trust
Generalized social trust is an important component of social capital and has been linked to a variety of individual- and community-level outcomes, including low crime rates, effective government, and healthy and happy citizens. Drawing on a multicommunity survey conducted in several American towns and cities in 2002, the authors examine the individual and contextual origins of general social trust using the techniques of Hierarchical Linear Model…
To Hospitalize or Not to Hospitalize? That Is the Question
The authors examined the processes and factors that influence physicians' decision-making processes as regarding hospitalization of nursing home residents. In a large nonprofit nursing home, 6 full-time male physicians and 1 female nurse practitioner completed questionnaires that described the medical decision-making process for 52 nursing home residents for whom hospitalization was considered. The questionnaire covered the following topics: medi…
Medical Decision-Making around the Time of Death of Cognitively Impaired Nursing Home Residents
The purpose of this article is to describe the end-of-life process in the nursing home for three groups of cognitively-impaired nursing home residents: those who died with a medical decision-making process prior to death; those who died without such a decision-making process; and those who had a status-change event and a medical decision-making process, and did not die prior to data collection. Residents had experienced a medical status-change ev…
Which Signs and Symptoms Warrant Involvement of Medical Staff? The Definition and Identification of Status-change Events in the Nursing Home
In this article, the authors clarify the concept of status-change events (a significant clinical change that calls for medical follow-up by a physician) by providing preliminary descriptions of these events, and attempting to differentiate them from incidents that did not qualify as status-change events. Participants were residents from a large, nonprofit nursing home. Data were collected about the source of information, the nature of the inciden…
Geographies of Trust
Generalized social trust is an important component of social capital and has been linked to a variety of individual- and community-level outcomes, including low crime rates, effective government, and healthy and happy citizens. Drawing on a multicommunity survey conducted in several American towns and cities in 2002, the authors examine the individual and contextual origins of general social trust using the techniques of Hierarchical Linear Model…
Which Signs and Symptoms Warrant Involvement of Medical Staff? The Definition and Identification of Status-change Events in the Nursing Home
In this article, the authors clarify the concept of status-change events (a significant clinical change that calls for medical follow-up by a physician) by providing preliminary descriptions of these events, and attempting to differentiate them from incidents that did not qualify as status-change events. Participants were residents from a large, nonprofit nursing home. Data were collected about the source of information, the nature of the inciden…
Medical Decision-Making around the Time of Death of Cognitively Impaired Nursing Home Residents
The purpose of this article is to describe the end-of-life process in the nursing home for three groups of cognitively-impaired nursing home residents: those who died with a medical decision-making process prior to death; those who died without such a decision-making process; and those who had a status-change event and a medical decision-making process, and did not die prior to data collection. Residents had experienced a medical status-change ev…
To Hospitalize or Not to Hospitalize? That Is the Question
The authors examined the processes and factors that influence physicians' decision-making processes as regarding hospitalization of nursing home residents. In a large nonprofit nursing home, 6 full-time male physicians and 1 female nurse practitioner completed questionnaires that described the medical decision-making process for 52 nursing home residents for whom hospitalization was considered. The questionnaire covered the following topics: medi…
Geographies of Trust
Generalized social trust is an important component of social capital and has been linked to a variety of individual- and community-level outcomes, including low crime rates, effective government, and healthy and happy citizens. Drawing on a multicommunity survey conducted in several American towns and cities in 2002, the authors examine the individual and contextual origins of general social trust using the techniques of Hierarchical Linear Model…
Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Family medicine (2 works) · Medical decision making (2 works) · Nursing homes (2 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (2 works) · Civic engagement (1 work) · Clinical decision making (1 work)