Researchers sought to gain insight into how substitution of elderly care physicians by nurse practitioners, physician assistants, or registered nurses in nursing homes contributed to the perceived quality of healthcare.
FRI second-leading diagnosis for readmission with FRI and cognitive impairment at index admission.
NPs and PAs who specialize in oncology are frequently grouped together, but there may be significant differences between the regions in which they practice and the type of malignancies they treat.
Estimated 0.049 elevation seen in the entorhinal cortex tau standardized uptake value ratio.
Statin use in elderly women with coronary artery disease may prevent bone loss.
Every day, low health literacy results in patients’ misunderstanding the instructions of their clinicians, sometimes with very serious consequences.
Per study data published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, investigators hypothesized that the correlation between higher Frailty Index scores and increased caregiver burden was partially mediated by increased behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia.
Higher symptom count seen with increasing age and for women vs men.
Factors may ID older men and women at short- and long-term risk for injurious falls.
Most common medication error category was omitted medicine or ingredient.
