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HHS Report: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Medicare Beneficiary Use of Health Care Services and Payments to Providers: Early Data for the First 6 Months of 2020

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practice Management, Practitioners
October 16, 2020
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a new report outlining Medicare spending on various health care settings during the pandemic. Page 4 of the report outlines such spending for skilled nursing facilities (SNF). Key findings of...

Does Psychotropic Drug Prescription Change in Nursing Home Patients the First 6 Months After Admission?

JAMDA
October 16, 2020
To explore the course of psychotropic drug (PTD) prescription from admission (BL) to 6-month follow-up (6m) in Norwegian nursing homes (NHs). To examine how clinical variables, such as neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS), cognition, physical health, and...

Patient Characteristics Are Not Associated With Documentation of Weight and Heart Failure Related Sign and Symptom Assessment in Skilled Nursing Facilities

JAMDA
October 16, 2020
Monitoring body weight and signs and symptoms related to heart failure (HF) can alert clinicians to a patient's worsening condition but the degree to which these practices are performed in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) is unknown. This study...

Longitudinal Assessment of the Relationships Between Geriatric Conditions and Loneliness

JAMDA
October 15, 2020
In response to the lack of longitudinal evidence, this study aims to disentangle time sequence and directionality between the severity of geriatric conditions (GCs) and loneliness.

Higher Resource Utilization and Costs in Long-Term Nursing Home Residents With Overactive Bladder: A Retrospective Study of Medicare Beneficiaries

JAMDA
October 15, 2020
To determine the all-cause health care resource utilization and costs among long-term nursing home (LTNH) residents with and without overactive bladder (OAB).

Outcomes of Nursing Home COVID-19 Patients by Initial Symptoms and Comorbidity: Results of Universal Testing of 1970 Residents

JAMDA
October 14, 2020
Clinical implications of asymptomatic cases of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in nursing homes remain poorly understood. We assessed the association of symptom status and medical comorbidities on mortality and hospitalization risk...

Pandemic and QIHO Project Put Focus on Plight of Unbefriended

Spotlight
October 14, 2020
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join When Howard Finger, DO, received the Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine’s Quality Improvement & Health Outcomes (QIHO) Award earlier this year, the COVID-19 pandemic was in the early stages...

Instrumental Swallowing Assessment in Adults in Residential Aged Care Homes: A Scoping Review

JAMDA
October 14, 2020
To systematically describe evidence on the use of instrumental swallowing assessment for residents of aged care homes.

A Novel Fortified Dairy Product and Sarcopenia Measures in Sarcopenic Older Adults: A Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial

JAMDA
October 13, 2020
To evaluate the efficacy of daily consumption of fortified yogurt with beta-Hydroxy beta-Methyl Butyrate (HMB) and vitamins D and C on measures of sarcopenia, inflammation, and quality of life in sarcopenic older adults.

October 11, 2020

Weekly Roundup
October 11, 2020
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