Directors at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Sloane, Zimmerman)
Assistant Professor in the Division of Gerontology, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. (Gruber-Baldini)
Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, Department of Community Practice at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. (Barba)
This research was supported by grants R01 AG13863 and R01 AG13871 from the National Institute on Aging. The authors wish to acknowledge the cooperation of the facilities, residents, and families participating in the Collaborative Studies of Long-Term Care (CS-LTC), as well as the other CS-LTC investigators, including Drs. J. Kevin Eckert and Leslie Morgan (University of Maryland, Baltimore County); Drs. J. Richard Hebel, Jay Magaziner, and Ms. Verita Custis Buie (University of Maryland, Baltimore); and Dr. Joan F. Walsh (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). Additional assistance was provided by Jane Darter (data management, University of North Carolina) and Jacob Sloane.
Address correspondence to: Philip Sloane, MD, MPH, Department of Family Medicine, CB 7595, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599. E-mail: [email protected].
