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Using Standardized Tools to Characterize Adult Day Program Populations: Implications for Future Research and Clinical Practice

JAMDA
October 17, 2020
To demonstrate the usefulness of primary data collection using clinician-rated and self-rated standardized measures to describe adult day program (ADP) populations and address programming issues such as identifying members at risk of dropping out.

Protocol for Telehealth Evaluation and Follow-up of Patients With Chronic Heart Failure During the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMDA
October 16, 2020
Because of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, we were forced to cancel scheduled visits for nearly 150 patients followed in our heart failure (HF) outpatient clinic. Therefore, we structured a telephone follow-up, developing a...

Ethical Considerations During COVID-19: Informed Consent Cannot Be Made in Advance

JAMDA
October 16, 2020
Older adults in long-term care (LTC) are at the highest risk of mortality from COVID-19.1 Ontario statistics from September 15, 2020, have confirmed 1824 LTC resident deaths, or 65% of all Ontario's COVID-19–related deaths.2 At the peak of the first...

QPP Participation Status Tool Now Includes Second Snapshot of 2020 Qualifying APM Participant and MIPS APMs Data

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practice Management, Practitioners
October 16, 2020
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated its Quality Payment Program Participation Status Tool based on the second snapshot of data from Alternative Payment Model (APM) entities. The second snapshot includes data from Medicare...

Staffing Challenges & Solutions: Insights from the Frontline Webinar on October 20

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practice Management, Practitioners
October 16, 2020
Join the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for a National Learning and Action Network (LAN) webinar this Tuesday, October 20, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM ET. A LAN is a group of health care professionals and stakeholder organizations...

HHS Report: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Medicare Beneficiary Use of Health Care Services and Payments to Providers: Early Data for the First 6 Months of 2020

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practice Management, Practitioners
October 16, 2020
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a new report outlining Medicare spending on various health care settings during the pandemic. Page 4 of the report outlines such spending for skilled nursing facilities (SNF). Key findings of...

Does Psychotropic Drug Prescription Change in Nursing Home Patients the First 6 Months After Admission?

JAMDA
October 16, 2020
To explore the course of psychotropic drug (PTD) prescription from admission (BL) to 6-month follow-up (6m) in Norwegian nursing homes (NHs). To examine how clinical variables, such as neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS), cognition, physical health, and...

Patient Characteristics Are Not Associated With Documentation of Weight and Heart Failure Related Sign and Symptom Assessment in Skilled Nursing Facilities

JAMDA
October 16, 2020
Monitoring body weight and signs and symptoms related to heart failure (HF) can alert clinicians to a patient's worsening condition but the degree to which these practices are performed in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) is unknown. This study...

Longitudinal Assessment of the Relationships Between Geriatric Conditions and Loneliness

JAMDA
October 15, 2020
In response to the lack of longitudinal evidence, this study aims to disentangle time sequence and directionality between the severity of geriatric conditions (GCs) and loneliness.

Higher Resource Utilization and Costs in Long-Term Nursing Home Residents With Overactive Bladder: A Retrospective Study of Medicare Beneficiaries

JAMDA
October 15, 2020
To determine the all-cause health care resource utilization and costs among long-term nursing home (LTNH) residents with and without overactive bladder (OAB).