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Ethics Committees in Nursing Homes

Resolution and Position Statements
Care Settings/Types, End-of-Life, Ethics, Attending Physician, Medical Director, Resident
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician
Resolution D97 Becomes Policy February 1997 The American Medical Directors Association recommends that each nursing facility should have available an ethics mechanism to assist medical directors, attending physicians, residents, families...

Position Statement on Care at the End of Life

Resolution and Position Statements
Advance Directives, End-of-Life Care, End-of-Life
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician
Position Statement P97 Becomes Policy February 1997 Background Care at the end of life is an important issue to members of the American Medical Directors Association (AMDA). As primary care physicians, we help patients and their families...

Euthanasia of Infants and Children

Resolution and Position Statements
End-of-Life, Palliative Care
Patients & Families, Physician
Resolution G00 Becomes Policy March 2000 The American Medical Directors Association resolves to oppose any physician involvement in assisted suicide or active euthanasia of any person regardless of age.

White House Conference on Aging

Resolution and Position Statements
Medicare, End-of-Life, Medication Management, Mental Health, Practitioners
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician
Resolution B06 Becomes Policy March 2006 BE IT RESOLVED that AMDA support the mission and purpose of the White House Conference on Aging; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that AMDA specifically endorse the following WHCoA resolutions as highly...

Recommendations for Completing Death Certificates

Practice Management Tools
End-of-Life, Practice Management
NP/PA, Physician
Designed to assist physicians through the complicated process of completing a death certificate, the guidelines include information on understanding the legal definition of death; the roles held by physicians, coroners, medical examiners, and non-...

Palliative Care in the Long-Term Care Setting

Long-Term Care Information Series
End-of-Life, Palliative Care
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
Professionals caring for frail older adults understand that the percentage of patients dying in hospitals is decreasing while the percentage of patients dying at home or in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) facilities is increasing. Patients may...

AMDA Releases Second Round of Potentially Unnecessary Medical Tests, Procedures a s Part of the ABIM Foundation’s Choosing Wisely ® Campaig

March 20, 2015
Press Release
Nutrition, Care Settings/Types, Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care, Dementia, Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), Diabetes, End-of-Life, Infections, C. difficile, Medication, Antipsychotics, Insulin, Quality, Transitions of Care, Urinary Incontinence
Louisville, KY – AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (AMDA) has partnered with the ABIM Foundation’s Choosing Wisely® campaign to encourage discussions among physicians, patients, and other health care stakeholders about...