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Sedentary Behavior, Physical Activity, and All-Cause Mortality: Dose-Response and Intensity Weighted Time-Use Meta-analysis

JAMDA
July 1, 2019
Previous studies have placed those with excessive sedentary behavior at increased risk of all-cause mortality. There is evidence of interdependency of sedentary behavior with physical activity, and its elucidation will have implications for...

June 30, 2019

Weekly Roundup
June 30, 2019
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join The June 10 AMDA On-The-Go podcast--Are SNFs Dealt an Impossible Hand?-- featured program guest (and Society president) Arif Nazir, MD, FACP, CMD, AGSF. Podcast host Wayne Saltsman, MD, PhD, CMD, began by referring...

House Ways & Means Approves Medicare Related Bills

Policy Snapshot
Medicare, Practitioners, Telemedicine
June 27, 2019
Last week the House Ways & Means Committee passed five Medicare-related bills, including legislation to expand coverage of telehealth services for mental health treatment, eliminate beneficiary cost-sharing for chronic care management services,...

The 2019 Call for MIPS Promoting Interoperability Measures and Improvement Activities Closes July 1

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Practitioners
June 27, 2019
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) deadline to submit Promoting Interoperability Measures and Improvement Activities for consideration for future years of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is Monday, July 1 . The...

MIPS Data Validation and Audit for Performance Years 2017 and 2018

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Practice Management, Practitioners
June 27, 2019
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) contracted with Guidehouse to conduct data validation and audits of some Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) eligible clinicians. Data validation and audits will help ensure MIPS is...

Deprescribing in Nursing Homes

JAMDA
June 27, 2019
I read with interest the recent article by Kua et al regarding deprescribing for nursing home residents.1 The authors reported a significant reduction in mortality associated with deprescribing (odds ratio [OR] 0.90, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0...

Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate and Muscle Mass: Their Relationship in Older Inpatients

JAMDA
June 27, 2019
The assessment of renal function drives many therapeutic and diagnostic decisions in everyday practice. Serum creatinine concentration (Cr) provides an unreliable estimate of glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), the optimal measure of which relies on...

Predictors of Nurses' Research Use in Canadian Long-term Care Homes

JAMDA
June 27, 2019
We examined the influence of individual characteristics and organizational context features on nurses' self-reported use of research evidence in long-term care (LTC) homes.

How to Make the Good News of PALTC Newsworthy

Spotlight
June 25, 2019
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join The June 10 AMDA On-The-Go podcast--Are SNFs Dealt an Impossible Hand?—started on a bit of a discouraging note. However, program guest (and Society president) Arif Nazir, MD, FACP, CMD, AGSF, quickly turned the...

June 23, 2019

Weekly Roundup
June 23, 2019
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join As medical cannabis use becomes more popular and prevalent in the United States, post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) facilities and practitioners can expect to encounter questions, concerns, demands, and...