Elderly individuals who have dementia and develop pneumonia suffer more during the 10 days following the pneumonia diagnosis and in the days before death. This is according to a prospective observational study of patients from 32 nursing homes in...
ORLANDO — One in three black Americans and one in five whites and Hispanics will develop lower extremity peripheral arterial disease during their lifetime, according to the first-ever lifetime risk estimate calculated for this important...
In response to a recent address by the American Heart Association president suggesting that peripheral arterial disease is a largely unnoticed health crisis that needs more public awareness, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) released a...
An expert panel has developed a communication framework to improve treatment of older, seriously ill patients who have surgical emergencies, which has been published in Annals of Surgery.
As clinicians know, dementia is not a specific disease but a syndrome comprising multiple etiologies, which regularly overlap. Perhaps the most insidious, destructive — and to the clinician, frustrating — form of dementia is of the “ambulance...
Patients with Alzheimer’s disease who performed poorly on early cognitive tests seemed to progress more rapidly than those with less baseline impairment, a study showed. Age was also an indicator of progression, with younger patients declining at a...
Many patients with Alzheimer’s disease can still identify a trusted individual to make decisions about participation in research, even when their cognitive abilities have declined to the point that they may not be able to give informed consent for...
Health care providers protect patient information through daily actions, but failures resulting in breaches of compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) are increasingly costly. Initially passed into law in 2003...
For doctors unable to meet meaningful use requirements for 2015, Congress has approved a blanket process for those applying for a hardship exemption to avoid having a penalty applied to their Medicare payments in 2017.
