Course for post-acute care physicians offers educational starting point, study finds
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Kristen Fischer
Jan 25, 2024
A new curriculum designed to help clinicians care for post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) residents is feasible to enhance education for professionals that care for older adults in those settings, according...
Nurse practitioners lower emergency visits in one Japanese nursing home, study finds
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Kristen Fischer
Jan 03, 2024
One way of dealing with the shortage of doctors in nursing homes is to utilize nurse practitioners, or NPs. A new study looked at the effects of placing NPs in one nursing home in Japan.
Report discusses how geriatric care providers declining as number of older adults rises
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Kristen Fischer
Nov 13, 2023
Jerry Gurwitz was one of the first doctors to receive the designation as a geriatrician. He’s now the chief of geriatric medicine at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. Recently, he...
Most nursing home docs don’t prescribe SGLT2Is yet for diabetes: study
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 23, 2023
Most nursing home clinicians do not include sodium/glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2Is) in their diabetes treatment toolkit. But use of the glucose-lowering drugs is growing in this setting, investigators...
Unexpected physician deaths swelled during pandemic — until vaccines arrived
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Alicia Lasek
Feb 09, 2023
Tragically, physicians have experienced high mortality linked to COVID-19 early in the pandemic. But mitigation measures and vaccination appear to have reduced deadly infections in this provider group,...
SNF physicians’ unique skill set requires more definition and support, industry docs say
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 15, 2022
Insights into these doctors’ contributions and constraints are highlighted in interviews with medical directors and attending physicians.
Americans’ high trust in doctors, nurses could strengthen vaccination push, pollsters say
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Alicia Lasek
Aug 12, 2021
Fully 7 in 10 Americans trust their doctors, nurses and pharmacists to “do what’s right for them and their families either most or all of the time,” the researchers say. The findings cut across political...
Flu vaccination more likely for elderly patients with a female doctor, study shows
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 15, 2021
Patients of female physicians are vaccinated at higher rates than those of male physicians across patient gender, race and ethnic categories, a large Medicare analysis reveals.
Moral distress a common problem among physicians in eldercare
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Alicia Lasek
Feb 25, 2020
Four in ten doctors experience significant moral distress when caring for elders who cannot participate in decision-making, a new study finds.
Clinical Briefs for Monday, February 24
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Alicia Lasek
Feb 21, 2020
This season’s flu vaccines are 45% effective: CDC … ER patients may care less about a clinician’s race and gender than previously thought … New group of antibiotics hold promise in fight against...