To investigate the effects of 12 months of physiotherapist-supervised, home-based physical exercise on the severity of frailty and on the prevalence of the 5 frailty phenotype criteria, using secondary analyses.
This position paper prepared by the Japanese Working Group on Integrated Nutrition for Dysphagic People (JWIND) aims to summarize the need for nutritional management in adult patients with dysphagia, the issues that nutrition professionals should...
We totally agree with colleague Lynn that, as she states: “the ‘no surprise’ question was developed to identify persons who were sufficiently sick or disabled that their care team should certainly know about their preferences about treatment and...
In 2018, the Australian Government established a Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety.1 Recommendations from the final report in 2021 included national monitoring of quality of care in residential aged care facilities (RACFs) and the...
Diverting the Medicare physician payment system away from its current unsustainable path and steering it instead toward physician practice sustainability will protect patient access to quality, evidence-based care while easing administrative burdens...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published 2022 Alternative Payment Model (APM) Incentive Payment details on the Quality Payment Program (QPP) website. To access this information, clinicians and surrogates can now log in to...
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has contracted with a data analytics and research firm to survey nursing facilities on the current state of health...
