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Dietary Patterns and 12-Year Risk of Frailty: Results From the Three-City Bordeaux Study

JAMDA
November 12, 2016
To analyze the association between dietary patterns and the 12-year risk of frailty and its components in community-dwelling elderly French adults.

90 Minutes of Knowledge, Empowerment: Webinar Summarizes Complex New SNF Rule

Spotlight
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Federal Regulations, Antimicrobial/Antibiotic Stewardship, Infection Prevention/Control, Medication, Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI)
November 11, 2016
“We will highlight the major changes, including the timing of the adoption phases--the first of which starts on November 28 of this year," says Karl Steinberg, MD, CMD. "Then we will talk about the issues that have the greatest implication for and...

2017 PQRS Results: Submit an Informal Review by November 30

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS)
November 11, 2016
In 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will apply a downward payment adjustment to those who did not satisfactorily report for the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) in 2015 including: Individual eligible...

Value Modifier: Informal Review Request Period Open Through November 30

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practice Management
November 11, 2016
The 2015 Annual Quality and Resource Use Reports (QRURs) were released on September 26. These reports show how physician groups and physician solo practitioners performed in 2015 on the quality and cost measures used to calculate the 2017 Value...

New Guide Helps Nursing Homes Tackle Antimicrobial Stewardship

Policy Snapshot
Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Antibiotics/Antimicrobials
November 11, 2016
The HHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has a new Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide , a research-based resource with step-by-step instructions and materials to help nursing homes improve antibiotic use and decrease harm...

Care-Related Quality of Life of Informal Caregivers After Geriatric Rehabilitation

JAMDA
November 9, 2016
To describe care-related quality of life (CarerQoL) of informal caregivers after geriatric rehabilitation (GR) and identify associated determinants.

Visual Hallucinations and Parkinsonism in Dementia

JAMDA
November 9, 2016
We read with interest the article by Zahirovic et al.1 The article is informative; however, the authors’ suggestion that because the setting was a nursing home for patients with dementia, all of the elderly patients fulfilled the basic dementia...

Associations Between Geriatric Syndromes and Mortality in Community-Dwelling Elderly: Results of a National Longitudinal Study in Taiwan

JAMDA
November 9, 2016
Although geriatric syndromes have been studied extensively, their interactions with one another and their accumulated effects on life expectancy are less frequently discussed. This study examined whether geriatric syndromes and their cumulative...

Cognitive Frailty and Adverse Health Outcomes: Findings From the Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Studies (SLAS)

JAMDA
November 9, 2016
There is a recent consensus proposal of “cognitive frailty” defined by the presence of both physical frailty and cognitive impairment in the absence of dementia. The relevance, validity, and utilization of cognitive frailty, however, is presently...

Webinar to Focus on Implementing, Sustaining Antibiotic Stewardship

Spotlight
Infections, Antimicrobial/Antibiotic Stewardship, C. difficile, Infection Prevention/Control, Antibiotics/Antimicrobials
November 4, 2016
“All of us need to undo some long-term brainwashing that makes people think that antibiotics can do everything or that they can’t hurt. We have to help people move from thinking about antibiotics as something to use ‘just in case’ to ‘only when...