Health
Here's how university health centers are 'adopting' households to fight health disparities
When Marie Antoine was diagnosed with lupus and kidney failure, she was overwhelmed by the complexities of her illnesses.
Mar 28, 2022
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News tagged with medical home
Pediatrics
Socioeconomic deprivation ups missed clinic visits for children
Children with medical complexity (CMC) living in areas of greater socioeconomic deprivation have an increased risk for missing patient-centered medical home (PCMH) visits, according to a study published online March 7 in ...
Mar 7, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Looking beyond the numbers to see pandemic's effect on nursing home residents
Nursing homes throughout the United States have been devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic with many perceptions and misperceptions but little documentation about what has happened on a day-by-day basis to residents in these ...
Jul 14, 2021
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Having the same nurse for home health visits may prevent rehospitalization for people with dementia
People with dementia receiving home health care visits are less likely to be readmitted to the hospital when there is consistency in nursing staff, according to a new study by researchers at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. ...
Jun 25, 2021
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Health
Is your living room the future of hospital care?
Hospital-level care at home—some of it provided over the internet—is poised to grow after more than a decade as a niche offering, boosted both by hospitals eager to ease overcrowding during the pandemic, and growing interest ...
May 24, 2021
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Medical economics
Growth in home health care failing to keep up with surging demand, study finds
Recent growth in the number of health care workers providing home care for Medicare patients is "small and inadequate" compared with the increasing demand in an aging America, a new study suggests.
Apr 16, 2021
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Medical research
Evidence emerging of inappropriate use of 'do not attempt CPR' orders in care homes during pandemic
Imagine that death is just around the corner. How will you spend your final moments? Quietly with loved ones? With a priest giving last rites? Perhaps listening to your favorite music? Or how about being subjected to 300-joule ...
Mar 30, 2021
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Medications
Prescribing of psychotropic meds up in nursing homes during COVID-19
(HealthDay)—Prescribing of psychotropic drugs increased for residents of nursing homes in Ontario, Canada, from January-February 2020 to March-September 2020, according to a study published online March 16 in JAMA Internal ...
Mar 16, 2021
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Vaccination
Norway says no link between vaccine and post-jab deaths
Norway said Monday no link had been established between Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine and post-vaccination deaths in the country, but recommended doctors consider the overall health of the most frail before giving them ...
Jan 18, 2021
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Gerontology & Geriatrics
Nursing home residents with POLST forms three times more likely to have preferences known
Nursing home residents with medical order forms indicating their treatment preferences were three times more likely to have their current preferences documented in their medical record than residents without the forms, according ...
Nov 20, 2020
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