To investigate the effect of an exercise program on falls in intermediate and high-level long-term care (LTC) residents and to determine whether adherence, physical capacity, and cognition modified outcomes.
Testing interventions in real-world settings requires fidelity monitoring to ensure implementation integrity. However, strategies to enhance, monitor, and measure fidelity deployed in efficacy trials may not be feasible in pragmatic trials or sustainable in practice. This paper reviews published translatio...
We conducted 2 trials of a music intervention for managing behaviors in nursing home (NH) residents with dementia, before (2019) and during (2021) the pandemic. In this report, we compare adherence fidelity across the trials using the Framework for Implementation Fidelity (FIF).
Nursing home (NH) staff often report not having adequate dementia-specific knowledge to effectively care for these residents. Between 2011 and 2019, 9 states in the United States implemented dementia training requirements for NH staff. This study evaluated whether the state-mandated dementia training for N...
The objective of this study was to examine the impact of a point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) program among people with ascites receiving home-based palliative care by measuring the association of POCUS with ascites-related days spent out of the home, compared with outcomes before POCUS implementation.
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Nursing homes will have to publicly disclose information about their medical directors, along with other managing employees, under a new transparency rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Patients do not take their medicine as prescribed 50% of the time, and of medication-related hospital admissions in the United States, 33% to 69% are due to poor medication adherence, at a cost of approximately $100 billion a year. Continue CareRx (CCRx) is a novel home-based medication management program ...