Formal Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) and informal clinical guidelines are ubiquitous, with a recent PubMed search (October 19, 2021) for “clinical practice guidelines” returning over 103,000 citations.
This comprehensive clinical guideline addresses pain issues that arise in care of patients commonly seen in post-acute and long-term care settings, including very old and frail individuals with multiple chronic medical and psychiatric conditions,...
To describe recent trends in post-acute care provision within nursing homes, focusing specifically on nursing homes’ degree of specialization in post-acute care.
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People with dementia often express behavior that challenges, such as agitation and aggression. Structured care protocols aim to identify common causes of behavior and facilitate the selection of appropriate treatments. The protocols comprise...
There is limited understanding of learners’ perceptions of virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the use of virtual modalities for interprofessional education (IPE) in primary care. Four of 7 in-person annual “Booster Day” IPE...
In previous decades, the proportion of people in nursing homes (NHs) with behavioral health disorders increased steadily,1,2 as did the proportion of people younger than 65.3,4 Although we have less quantitative information about people with...
The COVID-19 pandemic created unique stressors for caregivers of persons with dementia living in long-term care (LTC) facilities. The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify the challenges associated with caring for a relative with...
To assess the effect of enhanced standardized interdisciplinary cooperation between the orthogeriatric ward, municipality, and nursing home facility (NHF) on readmission rates in patients with hip fracture.
