“Urinary Tract Infections in the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Setting” is the latest pocket guide from the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association (PALTmed). Based on the consensus statement published in JAMDA in 2020, the pocket guide includes steps to help clinicians with the recognition, asse...
A simple and inexpensive tool for screening of sarcopenia would be helpful for clinicians. The present study was performed to determine whether the SARC-F questionnaire is useful in screening of patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) for impaired physical function.
To compare the Fried criteria for frailty diagnosis with the Frailty Screening Index (FSI) and the fatigue, resistance, ambulation, illness, and loss of weight (FRAIL) scale in older patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD).
Nursing home care is common and costly. Accountable care organization (ACO) payment models, which have incentives for care that is better coordinated and less reliant on acute settings, have the potential to improve care for this high-cost population. We examined the association between ACO attribution sta...