There is unmet need for an easy, noninvasive urine collection method to diagnose urinary tract infections (UTIs) in nursing home residents suffering from urinary incontinence or cognitive impairments. UTIs are highly prevalent in nursing home residents, and urine specimen collection can be difficult. The o...
Historically, fee-for-service Medicare reimbursed long-term care hospital (LTCH) stays as a lump-sum payment, which was substantially reduced for discharges before the diagnosis-specific short-stay outlier (SSO) threshold day, leading to large spikes in discharges on the threshold day. The objective of thi...
Literature regarding dietary protein intake and risk of falls is limited to a few studies with relatively small sample sizes and short follow-ups, which have reported contrasting findings. Thus, we investigated whether dietary protein intake is associated with risk of falls in a large cohort of North Ameri...