HHS urges clinicians to watch for ‘devastating’ mental health effects of long COVID
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Alicia Lasek
Jun 22, 2023
Clinicians should keep a lookout for debilitating mental health symptoms related to long COVID, a new HHS advisory cautions. Older adults may be at particularly high risk.
CMS survey: Many beneficiaries with chronic pain delaying care
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Alicia Lasek
Jun 22, 2023
A large subset of senior Medicare beneficiaries with debilitating chronic pain have trouble accessing care, or are delaying care, according to CMS survey results released Wednesday.
Clinical briefs for Thursday, June 22
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Alicia Lasek
Jun 22, 2023
Associations team up to develop best practices in assisted living, starting with infection control … ADL disability and depressive symptoms a bad combination, require timely prevention: study … Daytime...
Nursing homes should rethink care standards for AED use in cardiac arrest, doc says
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Alicia Lasek
Jun 21, 2023
Medical directors should reevaluate their facilities’ procedures for CPR attempts, especially the use of AEDs, a Johns Hopkins physician and SNF chief medical officer says in a new review.
Anemia risk 20 percent higher for seniors taking low-dose aspirin: study
Jun 21, 2023
For older adults, low-dose aspirin is associated with increased incident anemia and a decrease in ferritin when compared with placebo, researchers report.
Virtual EMR review may improve care delivery during resident transfers, nurses say
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Alicia Lasek
Jun 21, 2023
With the correct supports in place, virtual review of transferred residents’ electronic medical records may help nursing home clinicians deliver continuity of care and effective interventions, LTC nurses...
Clinical briefs for Wednesday, June 21
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Alicia Lasek
Jun 21, 2023
Feds should require full-time infection control specialists at nursing homes, association says … Nearly 10M in U.S. have diabetes-related eye disease … Loneliness linked to risk for all-cause and cancer...
Omitting race, ethnicity in clinical risk models may lead to worse care, cancer study finds
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Alicia Lasek
Jun 20, 2023
Removing race and ethnicity from clinical risk prediction algorithms may backfire, results from a new study of cancer care suggest.
Hospitalizations involving fungal infections up during COVID-19
Jun 20, 2023
During 2020 to 2021, patients hospitalized with COVID-19-associated fungal infections had higher length of stay, ICU admission and in-hospital mortality, researchers report.
Clinical briefs for Tuesday, June 20
By
Alicia Lasek
Jun 20, 2023
CDC: Seniors receive 6 months of protection against COVID-19 with bivalent shot … Single injection of new monoclonal antibody prevents COVID-19 in late-stage trial … Legal recreational cannabis use...