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04/05/2023
AMDA - The Society for PALTC Medicine | April 5
News
Headlines:
New/Updated Guidance
- CMS: Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule (CMS 1779-P)
- CMS Releases New MDS RAI Manual Version with ‘Substantial Revisions’
- CMS: Strengthened Enhanced Enforcement for Infection Control Deficiencies and Quality Improvement Activities in Nursing Homes
- CDC: Adults need only one updated COVID booster shot, for now
- SAGE updates COVID-19 vaccination guidance
Journal Articles/Preprints
- JAMDA: Racial disparity in disruption to basic needs among Medicare beneficiaries during the COVID-19 pandemic
- JAMDA: Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Anxiety Symptoms in Long Term Care Residents: A multilevel Growth Curve Analysis
- JAMDA: Hospice Aide Visits Among Nursing Home Residents During the Early Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Higher COVID-19 Testing Rates for Nursing Home Staff Are Associated with Fewer Resident Infections and Deaths
- Safely Prescribing Nirmatrelvir and Ritonavir—Avoiding Drug-Drug Interactions
- Use of Sepsis Clinical Prediction Models to Improve Patient Care
- Joint association of physical activity and sleep duration with risk of all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a population-based cohort study using accelerometry
Research Reports/White Paper
- Telehealth addresses multiple care barriers for stroke survivors, review shows
- COVID widened excess death gap between US and European countries
- Study identifies SARS-CoV-2 variants with antiviral resistance mutations
- Study: Antibiotics don't reduce risk of death from viral respiratory infections
Podcasts/Webinars
News/News Analysis
- CMS Proposes 3.7% Medicare Boost for SNFs in 2024, for $1.2B Increase in Reimbursements
- Nursing Homes in ‘Post-Antibiotic Era’: Infection Prevention Confronts Deadly Superbugs, New Regulatory Scrutiny
- WHO tracking Omicron XBB.1.16 subvariant, rising cases in some countries
- Assisted living workforce shortage could be worsened by federal nursing home staffing requirements
- Fatigue Is Common Among Older Adults, and It Has Many Possible Causes
- Intrinsic capacity assessments more effective than disease management in promoting healthy aging: study
- Providers call for broader antipsychotic exclusions to help reduce schizophrenia diagnoses