Physicians lowered or eliminated doses of hypertension medications in fewer than 20% of nursing home residents who had fallen after an episode of low blood pressure, a recent study found. The researchers linked drug deintensification in patients...
William Carlos Williams, MD, born in Rutherford, New Jersey in 1883, trained as a generalist and pediatrician before returning to his home town to practice medicine the rest of his life.
Compared with usual care, an advance care planning (ACP) video did not change the rate of do-not-hospitalize (DNH) directives at 6 months among proxies for nursing home residents with advanced dementia, according to results of the Educational Video...
Medication reconciliation is the process of determining the most accurate list of medications the patient is taking. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? However, in more than 25 years as a nurse practitioner (NP) — the majority spent in inpatient settings (...
States are currently spending 30% to 80% of their Medicaid long-term care expenditures on home- and community-based long-term care compared with institutional long-term care, which means that the long-sought “rebalancing” of long-term services and...
In our current medical reality, movement of increasingly aged, comorbid and frail patients between sites of care is fraught with potential harm. Enhancing care transitions justifiably demands our attention. Witnessing the illnesses of my parents, I...
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS — Although transitioning patients from post-acute and long-term care to the emergency department (ED) remains a challenging scenario for those involved, opportunities exist to improve the process for health care providers and for...
Promising new practices and options are emerging for patients transitioning between emergency departments and skilled nursing facilities or nursing homes, such as averting ED use altogether by treating the patients in place, several speakers...
Few patients with heart failure receive palliative care, although their condition often warrants it and evidence suggests it’s helpful, a specialist in geriatrics and palliative medicine told an audience at the 2018 annual meeting of the American...
