Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG)
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Practice Management Tools
Recommendations for Completing Death Certificates
Designed to assist physicians through the complicated process of completing a death certificate, the guidelines include information on understanding the legal definition of death; the roles held by physicians, coroners, medical examiners, and non-physician practitioners during the process of pronouncing an...
Assisted Living Series
Medication Management Part I - Medication Management Manual: Operations Level
This medication manual provides practitioners and staff in assisted living communities with information and tools to improve medication management and reduce medication errors. It is intended as a guide for best practice.
Long Term Care Information Series
Guide to Support Effective Immunization Practices in PALTC
This guide has practical suggestions for process adjustments that will increase immunization rates, both for staff and for residents. The suggestions are based on findings from Moving Needles, a QI project funded by the CDC and led by PALTmed.
CPG Teaching Slides
Pain Management in the PALTC Setting Teaching for CNAs
These teaching slides on Pain Management emphasizes how the CNA is often the first member of the IDT to recognize a patient in pain. With an easy to understand methods that are utilized by nursing staff of recognition, assessment, treatment and monitoring, the CNA can utilize the different pain scales to h...
Transition of Care Management
Know-it-All™ Before You Call Data Collection System in the PALTC & Assisted Living Setting
A series of data collection cards intended to help nursing staff physically evaluate patients and collect relevant medical history and related medical record data before notifying a practitioner about a resident’s change in condition. This allows the practitioner to receive more complete, clinically import...
CPG Pocket Guides
Parkinson's Disease & Psychosis In The Paltc Setting Pocket Guide (Set of 5)
“Parkinson’s Disease and Psychosis in the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Setting” is a new pocket guide developed by geriatricians, neurologists, and movement disorder specialists from Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association (PALTmed). The guide includes an extensive glossary to clarify terminolog...
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...
Assisted Living Series
Medication Management Part II: For Caregivers
This guide will help caregivers learn skills and steps that can be used to better manage residents' medications. Caregivers will be able to talk about medications with their residents, family members, and primary care practioners. Learning how to manage medications can
Long Term Care Information Series