Social determinants of health (SDH) are defined as the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, including the broader forces shaping those conditions.1 These determinants—housing stability, social support, food access, and...
Post-acute and long-term care (PA/LTC) operates under sustained pressure from workforce shortages, multimorbidity, and a documentation burden implicated in clinician burnout.1 In 2026, the frontier large language model (LLM) landscape, led by Claude...
We thank Sati et al for their thoughtful letter regarding our study1 of concordance between the Minimum Data Set (MDS), version 3.0 I1500 item and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) laboratory values for identifying kidney impairment among...
We read with great interest the study by Radjabova et al,1 which evaluates concordance between the Minimum Data Set (MDS) I1500 item and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) for identifying kidney impairment in nursing home residents. The...
Falls prevention occupies a dominant position in nursing home quality oversight. What has received far less scrutiny is whether the organizational response to this pressure may itself generate harm through systematic mobility restriction. We write...
Whole-body dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is widely used to assess muscle mass in older adults and serves as a reference method for sarcopenia diagnosis.1 Appendicular skeletal muscle mass, normalized to height squared, plays a central role...
Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors have become a cornerstone of contemporary type 2 diabetes management because of their established glycemic, cardiovascular, and renal benefits. However, growing evidence has demonstrated an...
Dermatoporosis—a chronic skin fragility syndrome in older adults characterized by skin atrophy, pseudoscar formation, and dissecting hematomas—remains substantially underrecognized in primary care and geriatric practice. First systematically...
We are grateful to the authors of the correspondence for their thoughtful engagement with our systematic review and meta-analysis examining the relationship between the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and sarcopenia.1 Their comments recognize...
The systematic review and meta-analysis by Wang et al1 provides valuable pooled evidence linking elevated neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) with sarcopenia. This work underscores NLR's potential as an accessible biomarker. However, a critical...
