05.23.2023
Clinical Alerts
05.23.2023
Physical Restraints in Advanced Illness
Physical restraints are broadly defined as any physical device, material, or equipment that limits a patient’s deliberate bodily movement or normal access to their body....
05.23.2023
NREM sleep as a novel protective cognitive reserve factor in the face of Alzheimer’s disease pathology
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology impairs cognitive function. Yet some individuals with high amounts of AD pathology suffer marked memory impairment, while others with the same...
04.24.2023
Screening for Delirium: What Clinicians Should Know
Delirium is a significant source of suffering and distress for patients and loved ones. Commonly encountered across treatment settings, it is especially prevalent among patients...
04.24.2023
Anticoagulation for Non-Valvular Diseases in Patients with a Limited Prognosis
Patients with limited prognosis often have co-morbidities requiring the use of anticoagulation, including atrial fibrillation, history of embolic stroke, and venous thromboembolic disease. Several studies...
04.24.2023
Primary Palliative Care Improves Uptake of Advance Care Planning Among Patients with Advanced Cancers
As patients near the end of their lives, they are often unable to understand and engage in complex medical decision-making. Advance care planning (ACP) is...
04.24.2023
Functional and Clinical Needs of Older Hospice Enrollees with Coexisting Dementia
The Medicare Hospice Benefit increasingly serves people dying with dementia. This study recently published in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society sought to understand...
03.22.2023
Buprenorphine Initiation – Low Dose Methods
Buprenorphine is a high affinity, partial mu-opioid agonist with increasing use as an analgesic in patients with serious illness. An X-waiver is no longer required...
03.22.2023
Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives of Deprescribing in Older Patients at the End of Life in Hospice Care: A Qualitative Study Using the Theoretical Domains Framework
Twenty doctors, nurses and pharmacists from four hospices in Northern Ireland participated in qualitative semi-structured interviews using Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF)-based topic guides. Data were...