Pharmacists’ initiatives cut seniors’ anticholinergic drugs prescriptions by 73%
By
Alicia Lasek (f3)
Jul 22, 2022
Including pharmacists as care coordinators helped to significantly reduce anticholinergics prescriptions, researchers report.
Clinical briefs for Friday, July 22
By
Alicia Lasek (f3)
Jul 22, 2022
SNF provider Dialyze Direct to merge with Renpro Renal Services … COVID-19 lockdown had no ‘clinically relevant’ effect on residents’ mood, behavior, social functioning … Reduced post-acute care...
With ‘focus on the fundamentals,’ SNFs can remain financially viable despite industry headwinds
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Danielle Brown
Jul 22, 2022
Skilled nursing operators’ No. 1 priority should be to “focus on the fundamentals of what makes a SNF successful” to remain financially viable despite the sector’s ongoing COVID-19-related operational...
Act now to ease pandemic’s moral, emotional challenges for workers: researchers
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Danielle Brown
Jul 22, 2022
Long-term care and other providers must consider implementing interventions for healthcare workers, say researchers who found the COVID-19 pandemic caused employees significant moral and emotional challenges.
Post-COVID complaints continue to affect recovered healthcare workers, study finds
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Alicia Lasek (f3)
Jul 21, 2022
Pulmonary tests may be useful in the decision to return to work, and should be received regularly after workers with lingering issues are back on the job, investigators say.
CDC endorses Novavax’s COVID shot for primary vaccination; doses to be distributed in U.S.
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Alicia Lasek (f3)
Jul 21, 2022
Shipments of the Novavax vaccine have been cleared for release and doses will be distributed by the U.S. government in the coming days.
New findings call basis for antidepressant use into question
Jul 21, 2022
There is no evidence that serotonin is responsible for depression, raising questions about a basis for the widespread use of antidepressant drugs, say the authors of a major review of published research.
One quarter of SNFs stuck with Medicare margins below 4%
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Danielle Brown
Jul 21, 2022
Medicare margins for all freestanding skilled nursing facilities across the United States varied widely in 2020, according to new data from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.
Lingering COVID ailments hamper caregivers’ return to work, require follow-up testing: study
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Alicia Lasek (f3)
Jul 21, 2022
Nearly half of healthcare workers who had COVID-19 experience related complaints for months after coming down with the virus, said researchers releasing new study results along with back-to-work observations.
Clinical briefs for Thursday, July 21
By
Alicia Lasek (f3)
Jul 21, 2022
CDC: Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 now account for 91% of COVID cases … “Large percentage” of dementia risk is modifiable, study finds … Two-thirds of stroke survivors with depression do not receive...