CPG Pocket Guides
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Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG)
Acute Change of Condition CPG
In the post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) setting a primary goal of identifying acute change of conditions (ACOC) is to enable staff to evaluate and manage a patient at the facility and avoid the transfer to a hospital or emergency room. To achieve this goal, the facility's staff and practitioners ...
Practice Management Tools
Advance Care Planning (ACP) Pocket Card (set of 5)
The Advance Care Planning (ACP) Pocket Card provides a quick reference to discussing advance care decisions with your patients. The professional is assisted in encouraging patients to consider the full range of issues informing the very personal decisions that comprise advance care planning. The ACP...
Practice Management Tools
Advance Care Planning (ACP) Series
Everything is easier with preparation — even difficult conversations. That’s why Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association (PALTmed) assembled this comprehensive guide to discussing advance care decisions with your patients. Our just-published ACP Guide begins with a helpful series of questions ...
Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG)
Altered Nutritional Status CPG
Weight has emerged as a principal screening and monitoring indicator in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) because it is easy to measure and the measurement is reasonably accurate and reproducible, noninvasive, acceptable to most patients, and relatively inexpensive to obtain. Among patients who remain ...
Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG)
Anemia CPG
Anemia is common in the post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) setting, with a prevalence ranging from 34 - 60%, increasing with each decade of life over age 70. Anemia often goes unevaluated or is inadequately evaluated in the frail elderly. Studies suggest the importance of treating anemia to improve pati...
Long Term Care Information Series
Anemia in the Long-Term Care Setting
Anemia is a common problem in the post-acute and long-term care setting (PALTC) and can be associated with increased morbidity and reduced quality of life. Anemia is associated with increased disability, decreased physical performance, decreased muscle strength, increased risk of cardiovascular events, imp...
Long Term Care Information Series
Antithrombotic Therapy in the Long-Term Care Setting
Antithrombotic therapy represents the mainstay of treatment and preventive measures in patients with atherothrombotic diseases. Both the incidence and prevalence of these diseases increase with age. Patients residing in the post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) setting are highly susceptible to atheroembol...
Practice Management Tools
Assisted Living Facility Medical Director Agreement
The Assisted Living Facility Medical Director’s Contract template is designed to be a model agreement for Assisted Living Facilities (ALFs) who are interested in contracting with a physician to provide oversight of medical services. Given the increased levels of medical complexity that is becoming more com...
Long Term Care Information Series
Atrial Fibrillation in the Long-Term Care Setting
Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is a serious health problem, the most common arrhythmia requiring hospital admission, and is associated with an increase in mortality. Because the prevalence of AF increases steadily with age, the number of patients in the post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) setting who have or a...
Assisted Living Series
Caregivers Communication Guide: Protocols for Change of Condition
Small changes may go unnoticed unless the caregiver knows what to look for and what to report. This knowledge can help the primary care practitioner take better care of the older adult. Missing small changes and not reporting them may cause problems for the older adult. This guide demonstrates ways to reco...
Long Term Care Information Series