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Incomplete Home Health Care Referral After Hospitalization Among Medicare Beneficiaries

JAMDA
January 5, 2021
Patients who are referred to home health care after an acute care hospitalization may not receive home health care, resulting in incomplete home health referrals. This study examines the prevalence of incomplete referrals to home health, defined as...

Implementation and Evaluation of an IPAC SWAT Team Mobilized to Long-Term Care and Retirement Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Pragmatic Health System Innovation

JAMDA
January 3, 2021
Long-term care facilities (LTCFs), retirement homes (RHs), and other congregate care settings in Canada and worldwide have experienced significant COVID-19 outbreaks. As a health system response, our acute care hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada,...

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JAMDA
January 1, 2021

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JAMDA
January 1, 2021

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JAMDA
January 1, 2021

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JAMDA
January 1, 2021

Geographic Variation in Anticoagulant Use and Resident, Nursing Home, and County Characteristics Associated With Treatment Among US Nursing Home Residents

JAMDA
January 1, 2021
To quantify geographic variation in anticoagulant use and explore what resident, nursing home, and county characteristics were associated with anticoagulant use in a clinically complex population.

Oral Anticoagulants for Atrial Fibrillation: Benefits Outweigh Risks for Older Adults

Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2021
Atrial fibrillation (AF) causes one in seven strokes overall, and one in four strokes in people over the age of 80, according to the National Institutes of Health — which makes stroke prevention a pillar of AF management. Yet oral anticoagulation (...

AMDA and Partners Offer Guidance on Crisis Standards of Care

Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2021
“When you have a time of crisis, what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.”—Milton Friedman

Spotlight on Policy: Will the Election Change PALTC Practices?

Caring for the Ages
January 1, 2021
With 2020 now over — thank goodness — the thinking now shifts to what the rest of the COVID-19 pandemic and the post-pandemic world will look like. In the midst of unpredictable change due to the pandemic, there also will be a changeover in the...