The Institute of Medicine has highlighted unequal treatment for African American individuals in health care. We examined the association of underuse of antidepressants in African American individuals with increased mortality.
Antibiotic use is highly prevalent in long-term care facilities (LTCFs); a resident's annual exposure to at least 1 course of antibiotic is approximately 50% to 80%. The objective of this study was to understand the extent of antibiotic use in the...
There has been significant interest in providing both quality of care and fiscally responsible care with the advent of value-based medicine. Practitioners generally need more time to provide the excellence in care that will equate to improved...
Nonpharmacologic interventions have been shown to be relatively effective in reducing agitation and improving the quality of life of patients with dementia.1,2 Programs/interventions that have been employed in many long-term care facilities include...
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can be classified into groups A/C or B/D based on symptom intensity. Different threshold values for symptom questionnaires can result in misclassification and, in turn, different treatment...
Results from a study by The Joint Commission found that some facilities had quality measure scores for residents of different races and ethnicities that differed by as much as 30 percentage points, although newer data demonstrated a similar quality...
Many of us carry around activity trackers in our purses and pockets. Step by step, mile by mile, our smartphones track where we go and how long it takes us to get there. Now researchers are putting global positioning system (GPS) technology to work...
The 2018 Annual Conference, scheduled for March 22-25, will include education on timely clinical topics such as decreasing antipsychotic use, antibiotic stewardship, wound management, regulatory issues such as billing and coding, and the popular...
