As in past years, AMDA received many outstanding nominations for the 2012 Medical Director of the Year award. An interdisciplinary panel assessed nominees on their long- term care accomplishments in the areas of clinical... »

TAMPA – Think of both sides, said Bruce Robinson, MD, CMD. "Whenever something goes wrong with a transition, what happens? If you’re in the nursing home, you say, ‘That dang hospital.’ If you’re in the hospital, you say,... »

TAMPA – When Mara Aronson, RN, started working as director of nursing at the Spaulding Nursing and Therapy Center – North End nursing home in Boston, she noted that a suspiciously small number of drug errors were being reported.... »

TAMPA – A drive to determine competencies for a nursing home physician specialist is fueled by a recognition that long-term care residents are increasingly sicker and more clinically complex than they’ve been in the past,... »

TAMPA – Nursing homes do a balancing act between honoring their demented residents’ autonomy and keeping them safe from some of the consequences of that autonomy, according to three physician-researchers who have studied... »

TAMPA – Why would two patients respond so differently to the same medication? Although the reasons are several, recent advances support a prominent role for genetic differences in drug metabolism, according to members of a panel... »

TAMPA – There is no question that proton pump inhibitors are useful, effective, and properly prescribed in many elderly people, professor of geriatrics David R. Thomas, MD, CMD, said at the AMDA annual meeting. said.

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Stop by the AMDA product booth at Long Term Care Medicine – 2012 and find products that complement and supplement information from various educational programs at the meeting. AMDA has paired up products and programs to enhance... »