Each issue of Caring for the next few months will feature a profile of a different Society committee. We want to pay tribute to these devoted Society members and encourage others to learn about our committees and consider volunteering to serve on...
Kenneth Brubaker, MD, CMD, a Pennsylvania-based medical director, talks about why positive urine tests don’t necessarily mean someone has a urinary tract infection and needs antibiotics.
Although nursing homes have begun promoting smaller, “homelike” care models, there is limited evidence as to how effective these models are, researchers have found.
Writing about the AMDA – the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine Annual Conference is always a challenge. I’m going to describe it with a thesis statement:
DENVER — Obstructive sleep apnea diagnosed later in life is associated with an increased likelihood of subsequent Alzheimer’s disease, Omonigho Bubu, MD, MPH, reported at the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.
The evolving medical delivery system demands much more from nursing facilities today. Nursing facilities now increasingly care for the most frail, complex patients. As hospital lengths of stay have been driven down, 30-day hospital readmission...
The Food and Drug Administration recently cleared for marketing the Xpert Carba-R Assay, an infection control aid that tests patient specimens to detect specific genetic markers associated with bacteria that are resistant to Carbapenem antibiotics,...
The human race gained access to a powerful force for healing and recovery when penicillin was first introduced in the 1940s. But like many innovations in health care, antibiotics have proven to be a double-edged sword.
A retrospective study of nearly 1.5 million patients over the course of 44 years showed no evidence to support the claim that neurodegenerative disorders can be transmitted between individuals through blood transfusions.
WASHINGTON — Hospital chaplains are key partners in meeting the needs of palliative care patients, according to an expert at the annual meeting of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry.
