Antidepressants are often underprescribed in blacks, placing them at greater risk for mortality, according to a longitudinal cohort study in metropolitan St. Louis.
National efforts to improve the use of antibiotics include changes made by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services to the Requirements of Participation for Long-Term Care Facilities, which require an antibiotic stewardship program “that...
David Smith, MD, CMD, multi-facility medical director and past president of AMDA – the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, talks about post-traumatic stress disorder in the elderly.
More than three-quarters of medication lists from skilled nursing and long-term care facility pharmacies had at least one medication discrepancy, a recent study has found.
A study recently published in JAMA Internal Medicine demonstrated that remote training and support for the INTERACT program’s implementation had no overall statistically significant effect on hospitalizations or emergency department (ED) visit rates...
When a patient is seriously or terminally ill, it is common to focus on treatment options and possible interventions to cure the illness or at least prolong life. However, this isn’t always the focus patients want.
There is a war on opioids in this country — and on the people who prescribe them. We are in the midst of a public health crisis of addiction that has already taken the lives of many people and is straining our limited resources for first responders...
Antidepressant use was associated with an increased risk of head and brain injuries in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease in a Finnish nationwide matched cohort study.
