Aging of the population is one of the major challenges facing public health systems. The impact of aging on acute and long-term outcome of patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) and critical limb ischemia (CLI) is currently not sufficiently...
Functional status is associated with patient outcomes, but is rarely included in hospital readmission risk models. The objective of this study was to determine whether functional status is a better predictor of 30-day acute care readmission than...
Functional status is associated with patient outcomes, but is rarely included in hospital readmission risk models. The objective of this study was to determine whether functional status is a better predictor of 30-day acute care readmission than...
AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine’s Board of Directors member Michele Bellantoni, MD, CMD, was recently appointed to represent the Society as the primary American Medical Association (AMA) Current Procedural Terminology (...
On June 30, CMS published 2015 Open Payments data, along with newly submitted and updated payment records for the 2013 and 2014 reporting periods. The Open Payments program requires that transfers of value by manufacturers of drugs, devices,...
Tuesday July 12 from 1:30 to 3 pm ET To register or for more information, visit MLN Connects Event Registration . Space may be limited, register early. Learn about the reporting requirements for the new Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality...
The Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 requires the submission of standardized data for specific assessment categories and quality measure domains using the assessment instruments the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
Spotlight: Feedback Results in Forward Thinking for Advance Curriculum Faculty HPA: Bellantoni New AMA CPT Advisor; Open Payments Program Posts 2015 Financial Data; CMS SNF Quality Reporting Call; Transforming PAC Through Standardization and Care...
The CDC is collaborating with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), multiple state and local health departments, and healthcare facilities to investigate a multi-state outbreak of Burkholderia cepacia infections. These infections have occurred...
Like many geriatric syndromes, delirium has struggled for a long time with the “I know it when I see it” diagnostic strategy. Improvements in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders (DSM) had provided increasingly stable...
