The sooner patients are identified as having chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the better. So why not provide practitioners with a quick and easy tool to recognize these individuals at admission? That was the thought of Gwendolen Buhr,...
Physical exercise can help prevent functional decline in older individuals, particularly those who began regular exercise routines earlier in life, according to an observational study in Hong Kong.
Researchers in Australia and Canada have concluded that individualized management and supportive strategies lead to lower delirium symptom scores and a shorter duration of delirium symptoms compared with the administration of risperidone and...
AMDA – the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine announced the formation of a Practice Management Section at its 40th Annual Conference in Phoenix. This mechanism for expansion of the organization’s membership base sets the stage for...
QAPI is the coordinated application of two mutually reinforcing aspects of a quality management system: Quality Assurance (QA) and Performance Improvement (PI). QAPI takes a systematic, comprehensive, and data-driven approach to maintaining and...
Nurses who completed an online training course in antimicrobial stewardship showed increased knowledge about infections in long-term care residents and understanding of the nursing staff’s role in infection control, a small study has found.
As a card-carrying baby boomer, the dawn of the global economy has been difficult for me to conceptualize. This includes a bias that care transitions are an American issue. But as the younger generation might reply, “Guess again!”
Every day we make individualized treatment decisions with patients and their families in the skilled nursing facility. All too often, however, these decisions are not informed by evidence. Much of the evidence base for treatment of common medical...
