Long-term care (LTC) is an important setting for goals of care (GoC) discussions. Understanding clinician barriers to GoC discussions could identify opportunities for LTC-specific interventions to improve quantity and quality of GoC discussions in...
AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine and the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) have issued a joint letter in response to a House Ways Means Committee inquiry made by Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) on the...
We sought to examine the associations of osteosarcopenia with physical performance, balance, and falls and fractures in community-dwelling older adults. Additionally, we aimed to determine which clinical outcomes are associated with specific...
Antipsychotic medications are often used for the first-line management of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) contrary to guideline recommendations. The Optimizing Practices, Use, Care and Services–Antipsychotics (OPUS-AP)...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Decubiti, pressure ulcer, pressure injury, decubitus ulcer. Call it what you will, as long as the emphasis is on quality care. During an AMDA On-The-Go podcast earlier this month on this important topic, Jeffrey...
Seema Verma, administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), has announced plans to modernize Medicare’s integrity methods to protect from fraud, waste, and abuse. CMS is developing a five-pillar program integrity strategy...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a new module, A Nurse's Call to Action for Safer Opioid Prescribing Practices in the interactive online training series, Applying CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids . In this module...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) posted five Continuing Medical Education (CME) modules on Alternative Payment Models (APMs). Access them by logging into the Medicare Learning Network Learning Management System . Modules...
The identification of relevant clinical outcomes of sarcopenia could be helpful for health professionals to improve sarcopenia management and for designing valid and useful clinical trials and outcome studies. Through observational studies, a flow...
