MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Infections will always be a concern in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC), but AMDA’s Infection Advisory Subcommittee will provide support, guidance, and resources. As Vice Chair Muhammad Salman Ashraf, MBBS,...
Nursing home (NH) Minimum Data Set (MDS) have frequently been used to measure medication use in epidemiologic studies, but there is little evidence on the accuracy of MDS-based medication records. We compared antipsychotic use estimated using 2 data...
To develop a clinical model to predict the risk of an individual patient developing delirium during inpatient rehabilitation, based on patient characteristics and clinical data available on admission.
One approach for improving antibiotic prescribing in nursing homes is evaluating appropriateness of initiating antibiotic therapy. However, determining appropriateness has been a challenge. To investigate this problem literature review identified...
Older patients are typically underrepresented in clinical trials despite representing a major proportion of the patient population. We aim to describe the feasibility of performing body composition measures, physical function measures, and patient-...
Family caregivers' perception that dementia is a terminal disease influence end-of-life (EoL) care of persons with severe dementia (PwSDs). Yet, this perception and the extent to which it changes over time is underexplored. We assessed PwSD...
Surgical pain is predominantly treated with prescription opioids, rather than nonpharmacologic treatments1 like occupational therapy and/or physical therapy (OT/PT).2 Evidence on the effectiveness of nonpharmacologic treatments is limited because...
To investigate the effect of a multifaceted intervention on reduction in psychotropic medication use, falls, agitation, emergency department (ED) visits, and hospitalization in residential aged care facilities (RACFs).
Choosing the optimal sarcopenia screening tool for a specific clinical scenario is challenging. We aimed to summarize all validated sarcopenia screening tools with diagnostic accuracy tested in one or more study populations.
