Frail nursing home residents face multiple health challenges as a result of their frail status. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of HT on the psychosocial well-being of frail and prefrail nursing home residents.
To evaluate the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) pain interference items for use in a quality measure and to compare the resulting quality score, along with internal reliability and validity, to a similar item set in...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Eric Hasemeier, DO, CMD, the Society’s 2018 Medical Director of the Year, had a clear goal early in his career. “I wanted to go where I was needed,” he says. And the leadership and staff at the 8 Tennessee-based...
This week, the House Ways & Means Committee approved seven bipartisan pieces of legislation focused on reducing opioid abuse in Medicare. The package would expand coverage for medication-assisted treatment, promote non-opioid therapies for pain...
Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), announced that they changed the name of the MIPS Advancing Care Information performance category to the Promoting Interoperability performance category. Here are a few things you need...
You can now log in to the CMS Quality Payment Program website to check your group’s 2018 eligibility for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS): Log in to the feature using your Enterprise Identity Management (EIDM) credentials Browse to...
The objective of this study was to estimate the 3-month within-trial cost-effectiveness of comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) in acute medical care for frail elderly patients compared to usual medical care, by estimating health-related quality...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Spotlight: Meet Shark Tank Judges' Winner Adam Sobol, founder and CEO of CareBand, was always the “weird tech guy” in a family of physicians, but he saw the possibilities for partnerships between technology and...
Dysphagia is a frequent finding in nursing home residents. The aim of this study is to evaluate the association of dysphagia and mortality in nursing home residents and identify further risk factors for mortality in residents with dysphagia.
