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Response Letter Regarding the “Questions About the Results Described in the Article: The Efficacy and Safety of Tube Feeding in Advanced Dementia Patients: A Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis Study”

JAMDA
April 14, 2021
We thank Cintra and colleagues1 for pointing out the errors in our analyses.2 We re-extracted the data and recalculated the analyses and made 3 corrections. First, the mean difference of the survival period was −5.59 [95% confidence interval (CI) −...

Does Public Reporting of Staffing Ratios and Nursing Home Compare Ratings Matter?

JAMDA
April 13, 2021
Public reporting is a policy to improve quality and increase data transparency. The objective was to examine the association between publicly available staffing ratios and the Five-Star Quality Ratings from Nursing Home Compare over time.

Recovery from Coronavirus Disease 2019 among Older Adults in Post-Acute Skilled Nursing Facilities

JAMDA
April 12, 2021
To examine functional outcomes of post-acute care for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs).

April 11, 2021

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April 11, 2021
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Hypotension in Nursing Home Residents on Antihypertensive Treatment: Is it Associated with Mortality?

JAMDA
April 10, 2021
To assess whether low systolic blood pressure (SBP) or diastolic blood pressure (DBP) due to antihypertensive medications might be related to mortality among nursing home (NH) residents.

CMS Releases SNF PPS Proposed Rule for FY 2022

Policy Snapshot
April 9, 2021
Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the fiscal year 2022 Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Prospective Payment System (PPS) Proposed Rule (CMS-1746-P). In addition to the SNF PPS updates, the proposed rule also...

CMS Issues Updates to Long-Term Care Emergency Regulatory Waivers

Policy Snapshot
April 9, 2021
Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS) announced the ending of the following emergency regulatory waivers issued in response to COVID-19: The emergency blanket waivers related to notification of resident room or roommate...

AMA Analysis Shows Highest Prevalence of Medical Liability Premium Increases in 15 Years

Policy Snapshot
April 9, 2021
Medical liability insurance premiums have begun an upward trend after holding more or less steady during the past decade, according to a new analysis from the American Medical Association (AMA). In 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic,...

The Rights of Persons With Dementia and Their Meanings

JAMDA
April 9, 2021
Concern about the lack of human rights afforded to persons living with dementia has emerged in recent years. Although the literature addresses certain rights, it does not include a holistic framework of rights in terms of the lived experience of...

Factors Associated with Timing of the Start-of-Care Nursing Visits in Home Health Care

JAMDA
April 9, 2021
Home health care patients have critical needs requiring timely care following hospital discharge. Although Medicare requires timely start-of-care nursing visits, a significant portion of home health care patients wait longer than 2 days for the...