Physician
Pediatrics
Dr. Sandra Simmons, MD
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Sandra Simmons works in the field of Pediatrics. She graduated from Wayne State University School of Medicine. Wayne State University School of Medicine is ranked 63/85 in Research/PrimaryCare. She over the years received 1 awards: "Fellow (FAAP)". Dr. Sandra Simmons is also published. She has 83 publications published. The lastest publication: "The nighttime environment and incontinence care practices in nursing homes.'
Publications
- Cost-Effectiveness of Nutrition Intervention in Long-Term Care.
- The value of resident choice during daily care: do staff and families differ?
- The Impact of Family Visitation on Feeding Assistance Quality in Nursing Homes.
- Pain reports and pain medication treatment in nursing home residents with and without dementia.
- A staff training and management intervention in VA long-term care: impact on feeding assistance care quality.
- Resident Characteristics Related to the Lack of Morning Care Provision in Long-term Care.
- Fatigability as a function of physical activity energy expenditure in older adults.
- Simple kcal/kg formula is comparable to prediction equations for estimating resting energy expenditure in older cognitively impaired long term care residents.
- A Controlled Trial of an Intervention to Increase Resident Choice in Long Term Care.
- The UK Standardisation of Breast Radiotherapy (START) Trial A of radiotherapy hypofractionation for treatment of early breast cancer: a randomised trial.
- Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts compared with endoscopic sclerotherapy for the prevention of recurrent variceal hemorrhage. A randomized, controlled trial.
- Effects of an exercise and scheduled-toileting intervention on appetite and constipation in nursing home residents.
- The effect of staff care practices on nursing home residents'' preferences: implications for individualizing care.
- Long-term care residents' preferences for health states on the quality of well-being scale.
- The accuracy of monthly weight assessments in nursing homes: implications for the identification of weight loss.
- The effect of dining location on nutritional care quality in nursing homes.
- Cost-effectiveness of nutrition interventions in nursing home residents: a pilot intervention.
- Testing the effect of specific orders to provide oral liquid nutritional supplements to nursing home residents: a quality improvement project.
- The identification of residents capable of accurately describing daily care: implications for evaluating nursing home care quality.
- A cost and value analysis of two interventions with incontinent nursing home residents.
- A controlled trial of an intervention to improve urinary and fecal incontinence and constipation.
- Improving food intake in nursing home residents with feeding assistance: a staffing analysis.
- Strategies to measure nursing home residents' satisfaction and preferences related to incontinence and mobility care: implications for evaluating intervention effects.
- The minimum data set depression quality indicator: does it reflect differences in care processes?
- Nutritional intake monitoring for nursing home residents: a comparison of staff documentation, direct observation, and photography methods.
- Selecting nursing home residents for satisfaction surveys.
- Risk factors that predict staff failure to release nursing home residents from restraints.
- An intervention to increase fluid intake in nursing home residents: prompting and preference compliance.
- Measurement sensitivity and the Minimum Data Set depression quality indicator.
- The nighttime environment and incontinence care practices in nursing homes.
- Does physical activity improve sleep in impaired nursing home residents?
- Functional Incidental Training, mobility performance, and incontinence care with nursing home residents.
- Effects of prompted voiding on fecal continence among nursing home residents.
- Exercise with physically restrained nursing home residents: maximizing benefits of restraint reduction.
- The dark side of incontinence: nighttime incontinence in nursing home residents.
- The nighttime environment, incontinence care, and sleep disruption in nursing homes.
- Nighttime sleep and bed mobility among incontinent nursing home residents.
- Safety assessment for the frail elderly: a comparison of restrained and unrestrained nursing home residents.
- Use of a portable ultrasound device to measure post-void residual volume among incontinent nursing home residents.
- Wheelchairs as mobility restraints: predictors of wheelchair activity in nonambulatory nursing home residents.
- Resident-directed long-term care: staff provision of choice during morning care.
- The nursing home dining assistant program.
- The importance of standardized observations to evaluate nutritional care quality in the survey process.
- Resident choice and the survey process: the need for standardized observation and transparency.
- Prevalence of constipation symptoms in fecally incontinent nursing home residents.
- Resident complaints about the nursing home food service: relationship to cognitive status.
- Prevention of unintentional weight loss in nursing home residents: a controlled trial of feeding assistance.
- A preliminary evaluation of the paid feeding assistant regulation: impact on feeding assistance care process quality in nursing homes.
- Quality improvement for feeding assistance care in nursing homes.
- What do family members notice following an intervention to improve mobility and incontinence care for nursing home residents? An analysis of open-ended comments.
- Direct observations of nursing home care quality: Does care change when observed?
- A continuous quality improvement pilot study: impact on nutritional care quality.
- Nursing home staff delivery of oral liquid nutritional supplements to residents at risk for unintentional weight loss.
- Feeding assistance needs of long-stay nursing home residents and staff time to provide care.
- A standardized quality assessment system to evaluate pain detection and management in the nursing home.
- Continuous quality improvement for nutritional care services in nursing homes: the importance of direct observation.
- Accuracy of nursing home medical record information about care-process delivery: implications for staff management and improvement.
- Selecting nursing home residents for interview.
- The minimum data set prevalence of restraint quality indicator: does it reflect differences in care?
- Relationship of nursing home staffing to quality of care.
- A minimum data set prevalence of pain quality indicator: is it accurate and does it reflect differences in care processes?
- Evaluating the accuracy of minimum data set bed-mobility ratings against independent performance assessments: systematic error and directions for improvement.
- A refined protocol for coding nursing home residents' comments during satisfaction interviews.
- Improving the quality of nursing home care and medical-record accuracy with direct observational technologies.
- Resident and family satisfaction with incontinence and mobility care: sensitivity to intervention effects?
- Individualizing nutritional care with between-meal snacks for nursing home residents.
- The effect of megestrol acetate on oral food and fluid intake in nursing home residents: a pilot study.
- Cost-effectiveness of recommended nurse staffing levels for short-stay skilled nursing facility patients.
- Residents'' care preferences as targeting criteria: measurement issues functional incidental training: applicability and feasibility in the Veterans Affairs nursing ho...
- Using the minimum data set to select nursing home residents for interview about pain.
- Individualized feeding assistance care for nursing home residents: staffing requirements to implement two interventions.
- Developing innovative models to translate guidelines into practice.
- A standardized quality assessment system to evaluate incontinence care in the nursing home.
- The minimum data set weight-loss quality indicator: does it reflect differences in care processes related to weight loss?
- The minimum data set urinary incontinence quality indicators: do they reflect differences in care processes related to incontinence?
- Accuracy of minimum data set in identifying residents at risk for undernutrition: oral intake and food complaints.
- Should reimbursement rates be increased for feeding assistance in nursing homes?
- Family members' preferences for nutrition interventions to improve nursing home residents' oral food and fluid intake.
- Effects of a controlled exercise trial on pain in nursing home residents.
- Translating clinical research into practice: a randomized controlled trial of exercise and incontinence care with nursing home residents.
- Quality assessment in nursing homes by systematic direct observation: feeding assistance.
- A comparison of methods to assess nursing home residents' unmet needs.
Schools
Wayne State University School Of Medicine
Ind University Mc
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatrics
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FAAP)
Education
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Wayne State University School of Medicine
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