The recent research letter on the use of the Surprise Question1 asserted that the research reported was intended to “establish the predictive validity of the Surprise Question in older hospitalized patients.” The findings reported may be useful in...
Osteoporosis and dementia often coexist, but the association between the 2 diseases remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between bone mineral density (BMD) and the risk of incident dementia.
Isolation and quarantines during the pandemic have led to a growing need for behavioral health care. As the pandemic woes ease, now is the time to look at incorporating or updating behavioral health services in your practice. Among the benefits are...
To investigate the effects of 12 months of physiotherapist-supervised, home-based physical exercise on the severity of frailty and on the prevalence of the 5 frailty phenotype criteria, using secondary analyses.
This position paper prepared by the Japanese Working Group on Integrated Nutrition for Dysphagic People (JWIND) aims to summarize the need for nutritional management in adult patients with dysphagia, the issues that nutrition professionals should...
We totally agree with colleague Lynn that, as she states: “the ‘no surprise’ question was developed to identify persons who were sufficiently sick or disabled that their care team should certainly know about their preferences about treatment and...
In 2018, the Australian Government established a Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety.1 Recommendations from the final report in 2021 included national monitoring of quality of care in residential aged care facilities (RACFs) and the...
Diverting the Medicare physician payment system away from its current unsustainable path and steering it instead toward physician practice sustainability will protect patient access to quality, evidence-based care while easing administrative burdens...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published 2022 Alternative Payment Model (APM) Incentive Payment details on the Quality Payment Program (QPP) website. To access this information, clinicians and surrogates can now log in to...
