This is the 11th annual Clinical Update from the AMDA meeting article. This year the topics covered are hypertension after the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk factors, diagnosis and management...
“Most of the time [President Taft] simply did not and could not function in alert fashion…Often when I was talking to him after a meal his head would fall over on his breast and he would be sound asleep for ten or fifteen minutes. He would waken and...
For Society Board of Directors State Presidents Council Representative Thomas Lehner, MD, CMD, advocating for his patients and his profession isn’t just a privilege; it’s an obligation.
Advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) and multidisciplinary support teams can reduce hospitalizations among nursing home residents, researchers found when evaluating results of the Missouri Quality Initiative (MOQI), a 4-year prospective,...
SAN FRANCISCO — Reducing antibiotic use in hospitals and nursing homes is crucial to reversing the epidemic of antibiotic-resistant infections that threatens both the healthy and the ill. Now a new study has reported that a multipronged antibiotic...
In-hospital palliative care consultations that focused on goals of care in the context of poor prognoses did little to steer older patients away from nursing home admission under the Medicare skilled nursing facility (SNF) benefit and from an “...
