Drug safety, polypharmacy, and deprescribing are important issues in post-acute and long-term care medicine and therefore also of great interest to JAMDA's editors and readers. This issue of JAMDA features a number of articles that advance the...
We thank the authors for their comments regarding our recent study on antihypertensive regimen intensity and incident dementia in an older Swedish population.1
In the article “Antihypertensive Medication Regimen Intensity and Incident Dementia in an Older Population” by Tan et al, the authors reported that in a prospective observational population-based cohort of 1208 older persons (mean age: 84.1 ± 5.6),...
One cross-sectional study conducted by Anrys and colleagues1 published in JAMDA has reported that the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medications was 88.3% among nursing home residents aged ≥65 years. The definition of potentially...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the first release of Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Program (QRP) quality data on Nursing Home (NH) Compare . NH Compare allows you to find and compare SNFs that are...
On October 25, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced and sought input on a new International Pricing Index (IPI) payment model to reduce what Americans pay for prescription drugs. Under the IPI model, described in an...
The following two letters consist of a critique and author's reply related to an article in this month's journal, which was published online early enough to obtain both the letter and reply in time to publish all three simultaneously. The letter by...
David Smith, MD, CMD, a past president of AMDA — The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine and a Texas-based medical director and physician, takes the fear out of Parkinson’s diagnosis.
