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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 ...
The aims of this study were to investigate the practices of registered nurses and nurse aides at mealtimes in nursing homes (NHs) and to evaluate the attitudes of health care staff toward the nutritional care of older people.
To describe the social services received by a 2016 Swedish cohort after discharge from inpatient geriatric care and to analyze the association between level of social services post-discharge and 30-day readmission.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a final rule calling for nursing homes to disclose specific ownership and managerial information—including skilled nursing facility medical directors.
AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine has been advocating for...
Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its final rule that will implement portions of section 6101 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Affordable Care Act), which requires the disclosure of certain ownership, managerial, and other information regarding Med...
Doctors and Clinicians: Now through December 12 at 8:00 PM ET, preview your 2022 performance information before it appears on the Medicare.gov compare tool and in the Provider Data Catalog. Learn more about the 2022 Preview Period and public reporting at Care Compare: Doctors and Clinicians Initiative.
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Although observational studies have reported the association between frailty and mental disorders, the causality remains unclear. We aimed to evaluate the bidirectional causal association between frailty levels and mental disorders using a 2-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis.
PALTC24 is coming! March 9-11 is only a few months away. While there are dozens of reasons to come to San Antonio for the premier national PALTC conference, here are the top five: