Four members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce have written to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services requesting more information on CMS’s role as overseer of nursing homes.
Nursing homes exposed to a comprehensive web-based educational program on the appropriateness of antipsychotic drugs in dementia patients — as well as to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Partnership to Improve Dementia Care (CMS...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Spotlight: Dr. Peter Jaggard Discusses the New Advance Care Planning Series Peter Jaggard, MD, CMD: "We all know there is a critical need to promote patient-centered advance care planning, but advance care planning...
Infectious diseases represent a common cause of morbidity and mortality in older persons and have deleterious effects if effective treatment is not received. Antibiotics are usually given by the oral, intravenous, or intramuscular route, with proven...
This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced an overhaul and streamlining effort to the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs for hospitals as well as for the Advancing Care Information performance category...
This week House and Senate committees focused on opioid legislation packages. The Senate health committee voted unanimously in favor of a package, which includes 40 bills from 38 senators. The health committee's legislation, Opioid Crisis Response...
Chronic multimorbidities and disabilities characterize older inpatients, who are the fastest-increasing group of patients admitted to hospitals.1 Because hospitals are configured for disease-oriented and episodic model rather than chronic...
We read with great interest the article by Alegre et al,1 who reported the prognostic impact of frailty measured by the Fatigue, Resistance, Ambulation, Illnesses, & Loss of Weight (FRAIL) scale in very elderly patients with acute coronary...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Traditional advance directives like the living will and power of attorney express patient choices in general terms for their medical care. More recent directives, such as physician order for life-sustaining...
