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JAMDA

December 8, 2021

Reliability and Validity of the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia and Invariance Between Black Versus White Residents in Nursing Homes

The purpose of this study was to expand on prior work testing invariance on several depression measures in community-based older adults and explore the psychometric properties and evidence of invariance between racial groups based on the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia.

JAMDA

April 5, 2023

Reliability and Validity of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Discharge Mobility and Self-Care Quality Measures

To describe the reliability and validity of the publicly reported facility-level quality measures (“Discharge mobility score”) and (“Discharge self-care score”).

JAMDA

October 21, 2016

Reliability and Validity of the Resistiveness to Care Scale Among Cognitively Impaired Older Adults

Resistiveness to care is behavior that prevents or interferes with caregivers’ performing or assisting with activities of daily living and puts residents at risk for inappropriate use of antipsychotic drugs, other restraining interventions, social isolation, and physical abuse. The purpose of this study wa...

JAMDA

May 6, 2020

Reliability and Validity of the Tilburg Frailty Indicator in 5 European Countries

To assess the internal consistency, convergent and divergent validity, and concurrent validity of the Tilburg Frailty Indicator (TFI) within community-dwelling older people in Spain, Greece, Croatia, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.

JAMDA

September 2, 2015

Remaining Life Expectancy With and Without Polypharmacy: A Register-Based Study of Swedes Aged 65 Years and Older

To investigate the remaining life expectancy with and without polypharmacy for Swedish women and men aged 65 years and older.

Caring for the Ages

March 26, 2021

Remembering Lena

Caring for the Ages

February 26, 2024

Remembering Steven Levenson, MD, CMD

Policy Snapshot

April 12, 2024

Reminder: 2023 Data MIPS Submission and EUC Applications Close on Monday, April 15

In response to the Change Healthcare cyberattack in late February, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) extended the data submission deadline and reopened the 2023 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances (EUC) Exception Application to provide r...

Policy Snapshot

November 9, 2023

Reminder: CMS Accepting 2023 MIPS Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Exception and MIPS Promoting Interoperability Performance Category Hardship Exception Applications

The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances (EUC) Exception and MIPS Promoting Interoperability Performance Category Hardship Exception applications are available for the 2023 performance year. Applications can be submitted until 8:00 PM ET on January 2, 2024. ...

Policy Snapshot

January 26, 2024

Reminder: MIPS 2023 Data Submission is Open

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) opened data submission for Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)-eligible clinicians who participated in the 2023 performance year of the Quality Payment Program (QPP). Data can be submitted and updated until 8:00 PM ET on April 1, 2024.