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06/22/2022
AMDA - The Society for PALTC Medicine | June 22
COMMERCIAL: COVID-19 Update
Headlines:
New/Updated Guidance
- CMS Removes Guidance on Vaccination for Surveyors
- Vitamin, Mineral, and Multivitamin Supplementation to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement
Journal Articles/Preprints
- JAMDA: Detecting Acute Deterioration in Older Adults Living in Residential Aged Care: A Scoping Review
- MMWR: Hospitalization and Emergency Department Encounters for COVID-19 After Paxlovid Treatment — California, December 2021–May 2022
- MMWR: Dispensing of Oral Antiviral Drugs for Treatment of COVID-19 by Zip Code–Level Social Vulnerability — United States, December 23, 2021–May 21, 2022
- Challenges of Deciding Whether and How to Update COVID-19 Vaccines to Protect Against Variants
- Risk of long COVID associated with delta versus omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2
- Rapid, scalable assessment of SARS-CoV-2 cellular immunity by whole-blood PCR
- Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior of Residents in Assisted Living: A Preliminary Study
- Frequency of LATE neuropathologic change across the spectrum of Alzheimer’s disease neuropathology: combined data from 13 community-based or population-based autopsy cohorts
Research Reports/White Papers
- 2022 Scorecard on State Health System Performance: How did states do during the COVID-19 pandemic?
- COVID vaccine hesitancy threatens flu vaccine uptake
Podcasts/Webinars
- TODAY: FMDA's Journal Club | Achieving Quality Now, June 22, 2022, 12:00 PM ET
- TOMORROW: More of a Good Thing: Strategies for Integrating Career Mobility through Shared Governance in PALTC Settings, June 23, 2022, 4:00 PM ET
News/News Analysis
- Vaccination of Nursing Home Surveyors
- How the Nurse Practitioner Has Become ‘Front and Center’ as I-SNPs Demand More Complex Care
- Almost perfect: Mandated full-time infection preventionist soars hand hygiene and PPE compliance to 99 percent at skilled nursing facility
- Nursing home COVID-19 infections quadruple as booster rate slows
- Amyloid-busting drug for early Alzheimer’s fails to stop cognitive decline, long-term study concludes
- LTC data initiative plans largest health records system, analysis of nursing home residents