Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) are highly prevalent in long-term care settings. We sought to enhance the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of primary care clinicians caring for patients with BPSD through academic detailing, an evidence-based approach for persuading health care prof...
Adoption of health information technology (HIT) in nursing homes (NHs) improves quality of care. Although there is a robust body of research on HIT adoption, the closely related process of technology abandonment is not well understood. As NHs grow more reliant on HIT, problems of technology abandonment, de...
How transitional care services are provided to patients receiving post-acute care in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) is not well understood. We aimed to determine the association of timing of physician or advanced practice provider (APP) visit after SNF admission with rehospitalization risk in a national...
Coordination of care across health care settings is needed to ensure safe patient transfers. We examined the effects of the ECHO-Care Transitions program (ECHO-CT) on readmissions, skilled nursing facility (SNF) length of stay (LOS), and costs.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently posted new and updated resources around Alternative Payment Models (APMs) and the APM Performance Pathway (APP), a reporting and scoring pathway for Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)-eligible clinicians who participate in MIPS APMs. ...
To estimate the current gap and the necessary supply of human resources for care (HRC) for older people experiencing severe care dependence in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).