Diagnosis

The fifth time I told my story of why I was here, I wondered if I needed to change it to make it more interesting. Except I was in the emergency department and needed to be seen by someone.  Next...

A program that enabled virtual diagnosis and on-site fracture care kept 100% of participating LTC residents out of the emergency department and cut the need for clinic visits, a new study reveals.

Clinicians are not proactive in engaging patients on the subject of memory concerns, missing a key chance for timely diagnosis and early treatment, finds an Alzheimer’s Association report released...

The agency will start auditing nursing homes this month to determine whether residents’ schizophrenia diagnoses are accurate and appropriately coded. A pattern of inaccurate coding may result in a quality...

Diagnostic stewardship — making sure patients receive the right tests at the right time — appears to work even better than antibiotic stewardship to halt unnecessary treatment for asymptomatic UTIs,...

Drug prescriptions increase in the 20 years before a patient’s dementia diagnosis, and prescribing patterns begin to hone in on particular medical conditions, a new study finds. 

The findings support a growing body of evidence that race influences dementia diagnosis, investigators say.

Clinicians should conduct suicide risk assessments for dementia patients with early-onset disease, a recent diagnosis and/or psychiatric illness, investigators say.

An international group of clinicians and researchers have agreed that Alzheimer’s disease blood biomarkers are a significant breakthrough, but are not yet ready for general clinical and primary care...

Spending jumps by about $8,400 in the quarter following a dementia diagnosis and then falls, likely related to skilled nursing facility and inpatient treatment, investigators say.