Volume 30, Issue 1, January/February 2022
Column
ECRI Strategies
02/07/2022
Victor Lane Rose, MBA, NHA, FCPP, CPASRM—Column Editor
Root cause analysis helps fulfill federal quality assurance and performance improvement requirements for skilled nursing facilities and similar state requirements that are increasingly present for other settings on the aging services...
Root cause analysis helps fulfill federal quality assurance and performance improvement requirements for skilled nursing facilities and similar state requirements that are increasingly present for other settings on the aging services...
Root cause analysis helps...
02/07/2022
Annals of Long-Term Care
AGS Viewpoint
02/07/2022
American Geriatrics Society
These tools from AGS address new medication approvals, offer advice regarding the latest Centers for Disease and Prevention Guidelines, supply clinical checklists, discuss ways to avoid burnout among staff, and more.
These tools from AGS address new medication approvals, offer advice regarding the latest Centers for Disease and Prevention Guidelines, supply clinical checklists, discuss ways to avoid burnout among staff, and more.
These tools from AGS address new...
02/07/2022
Annals of Long-Term Care
In This Issue
02/07/2022
To meet the needs of an exponentially growing older adult population, we must be vigilant about new information and research, sharing successes and failures to learn and improve patient care.
To meet the needs of an exponentially growing older adult population, we must be vigilant about new information and research, sharing successes and failures to learn and improve patient care.
To meet the needs of an...
02/07/2022
Annals of Long-Term Care
Feature
Quality Improvement
09/10/2021
Sandra Fitzler, BSN
Emily Patry, MS
Rebekah Gardner, MD
Alyssa J. DaCunha, MPH
Stefan Gravenstein, MD, MPH
Researchers used a Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement approach, and convened a task force of experts from health care and pharmacy settings as well as academic, state government, and advocacy groups to explore contributing factors...
Researchers used a Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement approach, and convened a task force of experts from health care and pharmacy settings as well as academic, state government, and advocacy groups to explore contributing factors...
Researchers used a Quality...
09/10/2021
Annals of Long-Term Care
Perspectives
06/28/2021
Giulia-Anna Perri, MD, CCFP, COE, PC
Patrick Quail, MD, FCFP, CMD
Nadia Incardona, MD, MHSc, CCFP, EM
Leah Steinberg, MD, CCFP
Houman Khosravani, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Long-term care homes (LTCHs) require a framework for symptom management of patients with COVID-19, including palliative and end-of-life (EOL) care. In this article, authors propose a framework with considerations for respiratory symptom...
Long-term care homes (LTCHs) require a framework for symptom management of patients with COVID-19, including palliative and end-of-life (EOL) care. In this article, authors propose a framework with considerations for respiratory symptom...
Long-term care homes (LTCHs)...
06/28/2021
Annals of Long-Term Care