Q&A: Clinical best practices when gauging residents’ end-of-life preferences — a POLST expert weighs...
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 29, 2021
There’s a clear need to improve the quality of Physician’s Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment, or POLST, in nursing homes, says Susan E. Hickman, Ph.D. An expert on the subject, she spoke with...
FDA says it’s time to move away from mask reuse
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 13, 2021
Healthcare facilities should move away from decontaminating and reusing disposable masks now that U.S. respirator supply has recovered, the agency says.
Switch to race-neutral equation would affect millions of U.S. kidney patients: study
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Alicia Lasek
Feb 16, 2022
A highly recommended transition away from race-based measurements of kidney function resulted in new kidney disease classifications for 5.5 million patients in an analysis of 39,000, investigators say.
CDC: COVID vaccines safe during pregnancy, allaying a top concern of nursing home workers
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 28, 2021
Pregnancy concerns are cited as one of the top reasons for vaccine hesitancy among long-term care workers, but there were no obvious signs of third trimester adverse events among pregnant women who received...
Pandemic has intensified shift away from SNFs as post-acute care destinations: study
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Alicia Lasek
Dec 16, 2021
The decrease in discharges to SNFs could have profound implications for the future of post-acute care and may hasten a reckoning about the instability of the nation’s nursing homes, physician researchers...
Greater use of unpaid post-acute caregivers raises questions about shift to home care: study
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Liza Berger
Dec 06, 2021
The rate of older adults receiving help with activities of daily living after hospital discharge more than tripled over the study period. Unpaid caregivers likely are providing this care, investigators...
Clinical briefs for Monday, March 14
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 14, 2022
Medical directors can tackle staffing ‘churn’ with these strategies, experts say … Most patients screened for depression don’t receive timely follow-up, VA study finds … Three doses of mRNA vaccine...
Clinical briefs for Wednesday, July 7
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 07, 2021
One year of aerobic exercise may stave off decline in mild cognitive impairment … Benefits of mRNA vaccine outweigh adverse heart event risks, CDC researchers conclude … Alzheimer’s Association pushes...
Feds revoke emergency use of some respirators, mask decontamination in healthcare settings
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 02, 2021
Healthcare personnel are no longer authorized to use certain respirators not approved by NIOSH or technology for cleaning disposable masks, the FDA says.
Alzheimer’s drug designed for ‘at-home’ use scores FDA breakthrough designation
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Alicia Lasek
Oct 12, 2021
The experimental Alzheimer’s drug gantenerumab is the “first and only” anti-amyloid antibody being investigated for subcutaneous administration and could potentially be given to patients...