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JAMDA
November 25, 2015
Caring for the Ages
July 29, 2020
Caring for the Ages
March 17, 2015
JAMDA
February 19, 2015
JAMDA
February 1, 2016
Multidrug-resistant organisms are an emerging and serious threat to the care of patients. Long-term care facilities are considered a reservoir of these organisms partly because of the over-prescribing of antibiotics. Antibiotic use is common in long-term care facilities. Antibiotic stewardship programs hav...
Caring for the Ages
June 8, 2024
Policy Snapshot
December 15, 2023
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently approved a 3.37% cut to Medicare physician payments for 2024. If Congress doesn’t act before the year ends, these proposed cuts will go into effect, worsening patients’ access to care and disproportionately harming small, independent, and rura...
JAMDA
June 28, 2018
Telomere length is associated with aging-related pathologies. Although the association between telomere length and frailty has been studied previously, only a few studies assessing longitudinal changes in telomere length and frailty exist.
JAMDA
June 8, 2020
Many nursing home residents infected with SARS-CoV-2 fail to be identified with standard screening for the associated COVID-19 syndrome. Current nursing home COVID-19 screening guidance includes assessment for fever, defined as a temperature of at least 38.0°C. The objective of this study was to describe t...
JAMDA
September 18, 2017
In response to a rising concern for multidrug resistance and infections, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services (CMS) will require all long-term care (LTC) facilities to establish an antibiotic stewardship program by November 2017. Thus far, limited evidence describes implementation of antibiotic ...