Each year the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) brings together over 3,000 leaders across the health care spectrum to explore how patients, advocates, providers, researchers, and champions in health care quality improvement can...
Anticholinergic drugs have several side effects, and they have been associated with adverse outcomes, particularly in older patients. The aim of this study was to analyze anticholinergic burden and its relationship to delirium and mortality in older...
To determine the efficacy of fall intervention programs in nursing homes (NHs) and the generalizability of these interventions to people living with cognitive impairment and dementia.
To determine which nursing home (NH) resident characteristics were most important to clinicians' decision to prescribe antibiotics for a suspected urinary tract infection (UTI), including both evidence-based and non-evidence-based characteristics.
Hospitalization-associated disability [HAD, ie, the loss of ability to perform ≥1 basic activities of daily living (ADLs) independently at discharge] is a frequent condition among older patients. The present study assessed whether a simple inpatient...
The province of Ontario in Canada is an example of a jurisdiction that is using a specific quality improvement mechanism, known as “audit and feedback,” to help clinicians enhance the care they provide to long-term care (LTC) home residents. This...
I have read with a great interest the article by Kales et al.1 I agree that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) program concentrating on discontinuation of one type of medication in dementia care, which can lead to medication...
