Physicians need practice management professionals as partners who understand the business of medicine, the relationship between the practice of medicine and profitability, how to document, track, and analyze data, and how to free their practitioners...
Frailty research has come a long way, yet many challenges remain for investigators, clinicians and policymakers, Philip D. Sloane MD, MPH and Matteo Cesari MD, PhD, say in an editorial in this month’s JAMDA.
Potentially avoidable hospitalizations are defined by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services as hospitalizations that could have been avoided because the condition could have been prevented or treated outside of an inpatient hospital...
A county-run nursing home has been sued by the federal government alleging employment discrimination after a certified nursing assistant (CNA) claimed she had been forced to receive a flu vaccination over her religious objections.