Long-term care (LTC) facilities are being incentivized to shift toward value-based reimbursement, with a focus on achieving the Triple Aim—enhanced patient experience, improved population health, and reduced costs.1,2 High staff turnover is also...
To compare the accumulation of hospital days, a proposed proxy for overall drug safety, between antipsychotic initiators and noninitiators with Alzheimer's disease (AD).
To describe and evaluate changes in the collection of microbiological cultures across Veterans Affairs (VA) Community Living Centers (CLCs) nationally.
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join It is essential for practitioners to familiarize themselves with the 2017 Guidelines for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adultsfrom the American College of Cardiology...
As I was reading Stuart and Thielke's excellent introduction to the concept of a conditional do-not-attempt-resuscitation (DNR) order,1 I was taken back to a personal experience over 30 years ago involving exactly this situation.
In 1987, the Omnibus Reconciliation Act (OBRA) called for a dramatic overhaul of the nursing home (NH) quality assurance system. This study examines trends in facility, resident, and quality characteristics since passage of that legislation.
The 2019 Quality Payment Program (QPP) Exception Applications for the Promoting Interoperability (PI) performance category and Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) are now available on the QPP...
The 2019 Quality Payment Program (QPP) Exception Applications for the Promoting Interoperability (PI) performance category and Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) are now available on the QPP...
