Cognitive evaluations must become routine in primary care, experts say
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 19, 2023
“Sweeping changes” are needed to improve the rate of cognitive impairment detection by primary care providers, according to new recommendations from a workgroup of national experts.
Clinicians missing ‘critical’ step in Alzheimer’s diagnoses, 2023 report finds
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 16, 2023
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...
Opioid tapering can disrupt primary care bond, lead to more ED visits
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Alicia Lasek
Feb 08, 2023
Tapering opioids when patients are receiving long-term drug therapy may trigger a series of unintended consequences, a new study finds.
Primary care clinicians on front lines of early Alzheimer’s care in rural U.S., study reveals
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Alicia Lasek
Aug 09, 2022
Primary care doctors and NPs, rather than specialists, are more likely to provide care for early-onset dementias in rural areas.
Cognitive decline rates more than double over 10 years: study
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 25, 2022
Within three years of reporting memory concerns to their doctors, 46% of adults aged 65 to 99 years old developed dementia, investigators report.
Docs struggle with making MCI diagnoses, 2022 Alzheimer’s report finds
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 23, 2022
Less than half of primary care physicians surveyed report being comfortable diagnosing mild cognitive impairment that’s due to Alzheimer’s disease. Fully 90% told researchers that it is “hard...
Nursing home clinicians still overdiagnose UTIs despite antibiotic stewardship efforts: study
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 14, 2022
As a group, primary care providers and RNs misclassified UTIs about one-third of the time, an investigator tells McKnight’s. Nurses had greater odds of an incorrect assessment.
Clinical briefs for Wednesday, Oct. 13
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Alicia Lasek
Oct 13, 2021
Governor bans vaccine mandates by ‘any entity’ in Texas … Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine may not meet booster dose criteria, FDA scientists say … A wrenching farewell: Bidding adieu to my primary...
Docs haven’t asked about hearing in years, most older adults say
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 03, 2021
At least 50% of older adults are likely to have hearing loss, but fully 80% of Americans age 50 and older say that their primary care providers have not asked about their hearing in the past two years,...
Clinical Briefs for Thursday, March 12
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 11, 2020
Operator ‘strongly’ encourages COVID-19 testing after one resident dies, another tests positive at Seattle senior living community … Encourage elders to access their EHR data, researchers urge …...