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Caring for the Ages
April 1, 2016
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Caring for the Ages
April 1, 2016
For the next several months, Caring for the Ages will feature a profile of a different AMDA committee. As a volunteer-driven organization, AMDA depends on and is indebted to those individuals who devote their time, talents, and energies to AMDA...
Caring for the Ages
April 1, 2016
Transitional care interventions for patients discharged from skilled nursing facilities that are delayed even by a few days are unlikely to help lower rates of rehospitalization and adverse drug events, a pilot study conducted within a 265-physician...
Caring for the Ages
April 1, 2016
Arif Nazir, MD, CMD, talks about the basics of accountable care organizations and what they mean to you or your elder loved ones.
Caring for the Ages
April 1, 2016
There is finally some clarity about how to report and return Medicare overpayments, under a final rule released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Caring for the Ages
April 1, 2016
Retail prices for medications most commonly used by Medicare patients rose almost 10% in 2013 — more than six times faster than the rate of inflation, according to an analysis by the AARP Public Policy Institute.
Caring for the Ages
April 1, 2016
On a freezing early February morning, after an exhaustive search for the place that would suit her needs, my husband David moved his mother, Eloise, from her garden apartment in Westchester, NY, to an assisted living facility on the Upper West Side...
Caring for the Ages
April 1, 2016
Oral prednisolone is as effective as indomethacin for relieving pain in acute gout and should be considered a first-line treatment option, according to a report published online in Annals of Internal Medicine.
Caring for the Ages
April 1, 2016
The ABIM Foundation, in partnership with AMDA, is launching the Choosing Wisely Champions program. This new program seeks to highlight individual clinicians, or teams of clinicians who are going above and beyond to make significant contributions to...
Caring for the Ages
April 1, 2016
Tracey Delaplain, MD, an obstetrician-gynecologist blogging at “What’s for dinner, Doc?” ( http://whatsfordinnerdoc.com/ ), documented her experience with a hospitalist who ignored her dying sister’s pain and later excused his callousness by saying...