Antipsychotics for Sleep: When Did This Become a Thing?
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) Sleep. It’s sometimes hard enough to get enough at home with all the distractions of…
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) Sleep. It’s sometimes hard enough to get enough at home with all the distractions of…
by: Ken Covinsky @geri_doc A colleague of mine, who is chief of the Geriatrics Division at a major medical school,…
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) There are two main drug classes use to treat Alzheimer’s disease, cholinesterase inhibitors (ChEIs) and the…
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) We’ve written about the harms and lack of efficacy of docusate a fair amount on Geripal…
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) Doctors want to believe that they will die differently than the rest of the US. Just…
by: Meera Sheffrin (@doctormeera) The SPRINT trial came out about 6 months ago– it was supposed to revolutionize the way…
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) This week’s JAMA IMincludes a case of a woman in her 90s with advanced dementia who…
By Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD Hospice has taken some tough blows in the last few years. Funding cuts. A reporter at…
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD We’re thrilled to announce that our other major project (other than GeriPal, that is) has undergone…
by: Lena Makaroun, @LenaKMakaroun Since 2010, the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) has been reporting hospital quality measures…