MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Decubiti, pressure ulcer, pressure injury, decubitus ulcer. Call it what you will, as long as the emphasis is on quality care. During an AMDA On-The-Go podcast earlier this month on this important topic, Jeffrey...
Seema Verma, administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), has announced plans to modernize Medicare’s integrity methods to protect from fraud, waste, and abuse. CMS is developing a five-pillar program integrity strategy...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a new module, A Nurse's Call to Action for Safer Opioid Prescribing Practices in the interactive online training series, Applying CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids . In this module...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) posted five Continuing Medical Education (CME) modules on Alternative Payment Models (APMs). Access them by logging into the Medicare Learning Network Learning Management System . Modules...
The identification of relevant clinical outcomes of sarcopenia could be helpful for health professionals to improve sarcopenia management and for designing valid and useful clinical trials and outcome studies. Through observational studies, a flow...
Older women are more likely than men to enter residential aged care (RAC) and generally stay longer. We aimed to identify and examine their trajectories of care needs over time in RAC across 3 fundamental care needs domains, including activities of...
Up to 80% of nursing home residents are affected by pain. Pain assessment aims to determine pain intensity, quality, and course of pain to underpin diagnostic decision making. In the nursing home population, pain assessment is frequently compromised...
To examine the use of residential respite care and determine associations between respite care and total days spent in residential care (respite days plus long-term care days).
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Earlier this year the Foundation for PALTC Medicine asked Society members to participate in a large-scale quality improvement study to evaluate the impact of the annual influenza vaccine choice on LTC facility...
