I read the recent article published in this journal and written by Gafoor et al1 with great interest. The authors conducted a prospective study to evaluate the effect of first- or second-generation antipsychotic drugs on fracture risk with special...
We are grateful for the opportunity to respond to comments raised by Tomoyuki Kawada. The studies1,2 referred to by Dr Kawada show a positive association between increasing frailty level and risk of fracture. Kawada highlights differences in the...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted the following Quality Payment Program (QPP) resources to the QPP Resource Library to help clinicians understand how to participate in QPP in the 2020 performance period: 2020 Merit-...
In a recent report , the Office of Inspector General (OIG) determined that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) improperly paid practitioners for some telehealth claims associated with services that did not meet Medicare...
To describe and validate the Post-acute Delayed Discharge Risk Scale (PADDRS), which classifies patients by risk of delayed discharge on admission to post-acute care settings using information collected with the interRAI Minimum Data Set (MDS) 2.0...
To map out the total use of long-term care (LTC; ie, home care or institutional care) during the last 2 years of life and to investigate to what extent gender differences in LTC use were explained by cohabitation status and age at death.
Although policy, research, and media coverage predominantly focus on opioid addiction and overdoses in younger people, older adults are also susceptible to opioid-related morbidity and mortality.1 Data suggest that all-cause opioid-related...
We summarized and compared meta-analyses of pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic interventions targeting physical health outcomes among people with dementia.
To determine the prevalence, rate of underdiagnosis and undertreatment, and association with activities of daily living dependency of spasticity in a nursing home setting.
