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“Prince Charles Is Living With Me”: When This Is (Not) a Delusion

JAMDA
February 13, 2016
Mrs A and Mrs B are both in their late 70s. Their families share similar stories: a few months ago, they both started to talk to famous people from the front pages of magazines laid nearby their chairs and consider them their co-tenants. Cognitive...

The Metabolic Syndrome: A Risk Factor for the Frailty Syndrome?

JAMDA
February 11, 2016
Frailty is a condition resulting from age-related decline in multiple physiological domains, clinically typified by physical weakness, in which individuals have increased the risk of adverse health outcomes and mortality when exposed to a stressor.1...

The Effects of Advance Care Planning Interventions on Nursing Home Residents: A Systematic Review

JAMDA
February 6, 2016
Advance care planning (ACP) encompasses a process by which people may express and record their values and preferences for care and treatment should they lose the capacity to communicate them in the future. We believe the effects that ACP can have on...

The Combined Utility of a Brief Functional Measure and Performance-Based Screening Test for Case Finding of Cognitive Impairment in Primary Healthcare

JAMDA
February 5, 2016
Use of a total risk score (TRS) based on vascular and sociodemographic risk factors has been recommended to identify patients at risk of cognitive impairment. Moreover, combining screening tests has been reported to improve positive predictive...

AMDA Comments on Senate Finance Chronic Care Document

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare, Accountable Care Organization (ACO), Health Information Technology (HIT), Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS)
February 5, 2016
The Senate Finance Committee Chronic Care Working Group recently released their options paper outlining policies being considered as a part of the committee’s effort to improve how Medicare treats beneficiaries with multiple, complex chronic...

Applying for an EHR Hardship Exception: FAQs

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Electronic Health Records (EHR)
February 5, 2016
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched important changes to the Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program hardship exception process that will reduce burdens on clinicians, hospitals, and Critical Access...

CMS Announces Proposed Improvements to Medicare Shared Savings Program

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Accountable Care Organization (ACO)
February 5, 2016
Plan Strengthens Incentives for ACOs to Improve Performance On January 28, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule to update the methodology used to measure the performance of Accountable Care Organizations (...

Register in Open Payments System to Review and Dispute 2015 Data

Policy Snapshot
Payment
February 5, 2016
Physicians and teaching hospitals, you must register in the Open Payments system to review any payments or transfers of value attributed to you. The review and dispute period is targeted to start in April 2016, following the close of data submission...

Poor Gait Performance and Prediction of Dementia: Results From a Meta-Analysis

JAMDA
February 4, 2016
Poor gait performance predicts risk of developing dementia. No structured critical evaluation has been conducted to study this association yet. The aim of this meta-analysis was to systematically examine the association of poor gait performance with...

Muscle Quality is More Impaired in Sarcopenic Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

JAMDA
February 2, 2016
Quadriceps muscle fiber atrophy and a loss of oxidative type I muscle fibers and mitochondrial content often occur in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which adversely affects exercise performance. Sarcopenia is an age-related syndrome...