Geriatric Syndromes: A Call for Routine Assessment and Treatment
Nurse practitioners call for routine assessment for geriatric syndromes, including screening for frailty, cognitive impairment, and malnutrition.
Nurse practitioners call for routine assessment for geriatric syndromes, including screening for frailty, cognitive impairment, and malnutrition.
Proposal would set minimum staffing to equivalent of 3 hours per resident per day, with just over a half hour of that time from a registered nurse.
Study finds that living alone is a social determinant of health in older patients with cognitive impairment, leading to a greater risk of self-neglect, falls, and having untreated medical disorders.
Researchers assessed the relationship between malnutrition and all-cause mortality in patients with COPD.
Sample diversity has improved recently, with proportion of Blacks increasing from 3.39% in 1994-2017 to 8.29% in 2018-2022.
The world’s first RSV vaccine could be rolled out by fall 2023, in time for the typical winter surge in RSV infections.
Arexvy is expected to be available for the 2023-2024 RSV season.
Author weighs evidence-based medicine vs experience and common sense when treating a patient with Alzheimer disease and cold symptoms.
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In an expert roundtable, clinicians discuss the risks, benefits, and anticipated real-world usage of lecanemab following US FDA approval.