Geriatricians are trained to pay close attention to your overall quality of life and health goals. Your office visits with them may take longer than you're used to because they'll likely ask questions about your lifestyle, family, and community. This gives them a fuller picture of your lif...
(3) Observation: To update the development of old and new questions, highlight unsolved problems, and provide strategies on how to solve the questions; (4) Symposium: A group of review articles or research articles focusing on a specific topic; (5) Review: To systemically review the most ...
A Review of Procedural Skills Performed by Advanced Practice Providers in Emergency Department and Critical Care Settings JenniferKatzMS, PA-C, ...OlgaAmusinaDNP, APRN, ACNP, inDisease-a-Month, 2021 Nurse practitioners Nurse practitioners are licensed by the state board of nursing and certified ba...
The Institutional Review Board approved the study. Geriatric assessment A team including a geriatrician and a geriatric oncologist assessed all patients by means of a CGA that incorporated validated instruments to explore eight domains: functional status, nutritional status, cognitive status, psychological...
This study, approved by our Institutional Review Board, was a retrospective chart review designed to evaluate the effect of geriatric consultants using trauma quality measures. Intervention A multidisciplinary team involving geriatric inpatient consultants, trauma surgeons, and emergency medicine physicians dev...
Review patient populations who are at a greater risk of adverse health outcomes from polypharmacy. Describe the importance of the interprofessional team approach in the management of polypharmacy and geriatric cognitive decline. Introduction With age, health-related comorbidities increase. Aging cont...
Each chapter ends with multiple-choice questions for self-assessment. Among the other topics considered are: -Differential diagnostic problems in distinguishing dementia from delirium or depression and in identifying specific dementia disorders -Insights on treating late-onset schizophrenia and identifying ...
Each item gives one point where the scoring answer is “yes” for some questions and “no” for others. A systematic review and meta-analysis on the recommended GDS-15 cut-off score of ≥ 5 found a pooled sensitivity of 0.89 and specificity of 0.77. The samples included in the ...
Exercise And Geriatric Depression: A Scoping Review Of The Research Evidence: 2262 Board #181 May 28 2:00 PM - 3:30 PMGeriatric depression is a common late-life mental health disorder that increases morbidity and mortality. It has been shown that exercise is effective in alleviating symptom...
Initial Assessment Questions11 • What time do you normally go to bed at night and wake up in the morning? • Do you have trouble falling asleep at nighttime? • How many times do you wake up during the night? • If you wake up, do you have trouble falling back asleep?