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JAMDA

September 28, 2016

Decisions by Default: Incomplete and Contradictory MOLST in Emergency Care

What patients intend when they make health care choices and whether they understand the meaning of orders for life-sustaining treatment forms is not well understood. The purpose of this study was to analyze the directives from a sample of emergency department (ED) patients' MOLST forms.
JAMDA

September 23, 2016

Refining Mild-to-Moderate Alzheimer Disease Screening: A Tool for Clinicians

Recent evidence suggests that a substantial minority of people clinically diagnosed with probable Alzheimer disease (AD) in fact do not fulfill the neuropathological criteria for the disease. A clinical hallmark of these phenocopies of AD is that these individuals tend to remain cognitively stable for exte...
JAMDA

September 17, 2016

Enhancing SARC-F: Improving Sarcopenia Screening in the Clinical Practice

To validate the (Brazilian) Portuguese-translated version of the SARC-F questionnaire and to verify its performance in the separate sarcopenia screening and muscle function evaluation contexts. In addition, by associating SARC-F to an anthropometric measurement (as an estimate of muscle mass), to test for ...
JAMDA

September 16, 2016

Psychotropic Drug Prescription and the Risk of Falls in Nursing Home Residents

Falling is a common and serious problem in the elderly. Previous studies suggest that the use of psychotropic drugs increases the risk of falling. However, the contribution of these drugs on fall risk has not been quantified on a daily basis among the general population of nursing homes until now.