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Cost-Effectiveness of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Adapted to Primary Care

JAMDA
May 13, 2022
To estimate the cost-effectiveness of a pragmatic trial of comprehensive geriatric assessment adapted to primary care, compared with care as usual.

Effect of Geriatric Comanagement in Older Patients Undergoing Surgery for Gastrointestinal Cancer: A Retrospective, Before-and-After Study

JAMDA
May 12, 2022
To determine the effect of geriatric comanagement on clinical outcomes of older patients undergoing surgery for gastrointestinal cancer.

Advocacy, Passion, and Volunteerism Aren’t New for AMDA Secretary

Spotlight
May 11, 2022
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join “Being on the AMDA board has been the opportunity of a lifetime,” says new Society Secretary Leslie Eber, MD, CMD, who is an attending physician and medical director in Colorado. “It has given me the opportunity to...

Deficiency Citations on Inappropriate Psychotropics Use Related to Care for Behavioral Symptoms of Dementia

JAMDA
May 11, 2022
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) initiated the National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes in 2012, which helped decrease antipsychotics use. However, inappropriate use of antipsychotics and other psychotropic...

Conversion Between the Mini-Mental State Examination and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment for Patients With Different Forms of Dementia

JAMDA
May 10, 2022
The Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE) and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) are 2 frequently used brief cognitive screening tasks. Here, we provide a conversion method from MMSE to MoCA for patients with Alzheimer's dementia,...

Impact of COVID-19 on Structure and Function of Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) Sites in North Carolina

JAMDA
May 9, 2022
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) deeply affected all forms of long-term care for older adults, highlighting infection control issues, provider and staff shortages, and other challenges. As a comparatively new, community-based long-term...

CMS Reweighting 2021 MIPS Cost Performance Category

Policy Snapshot
May 6, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recognizes the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic public health emergency (PHE) continued to have on clinicians and the services they provided in the 2021 performance period. Due to COVID-19’s...

Skilled Nursing Facilities: Care Compare April Preview Reports and Refresh

Policy Snapshot
May 6, 2022
Review your preview report by May 30 before the July refresh. View the April refresh of Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program data on the Care Compare webpage and in the Provider Data Catalog . To learn more, visit the Updates section...

Now Available: Updated eCQM Specifications and Implementation Resources for 2023 Reporting/ Performance Period

Policy Snapshot
May 6, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted the electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) specifications for the 2023 reporting/performance period for the Eligible Hospitals (EHs) and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), Hospital...

Impact of Psychotic Symptoms and Concurrent Neuropsychiatric Symptoms on the Quality of Life of People With Dementia Living in Nursing Homes

JAMDA
May 6, 2022
The aim of the present study was to determine whether psychotic symptoms in people with dementia (PwD) living in nursing homes were associated with reduced quality of life and to understand the additional impact of other concurrent neuropsychiatric...