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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2011 Feb 11;13(4):332–336. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2010.12.009

Table 3.

Sources of information for patients from the two types of SNFs.

Patient EMS Family SNF
Transfer
Papers		 SNF
Phone
Call		 Electronic
Health
Record
Number of patients with at least
one information item primarily
from this source, n (%)		 Medicaid SNFs
(n=95)		 21 (22) 50 (53) 21 (22) 70 (74) 15 (16) 45 (48)
Private SNFs
(n=33)		 8 (24) 19 (58) 5 (15) 22 (67) 11 (33) 11 (33)
Mean number of information
items primarily from this source		 Medicaid SNFs 0.72 1.36 0.94 4.22 0.42 1.26
Private SNFs 1.42 1.61 0.73 4.73 1.30 1.52

‘Medicaid SNFs’ refers to SNFs which do accept Medicaid; ‘Private SNFs’ refers to SNFs which do not accept Medicaid.