Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones
September 14, 2023
Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about…
Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers
January 12, 2023
Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units) have been around for over a quarter of a century. Randomized trials of ACE…
Urine Catheters in the Hospital: Bad Stuff
September 12, 2014
When I was a resident, it was routine to place urine catheters (a catheter threaded up the urethra, into the…
Surrogate Decision Making in the Hospital (Or, That Family Member By the Bed is Much More Than a Visitor)
February 26, 2014
An innovative study in JAMA Internal Medicine on surrogate decision making has profound implications for how we take care of…
Transfers from the Hospital to Nursing Home: An F- Grade For Quality
August 26, 2013
Huge numbers of older persons transition from hospitals to the nursing home. Often, an older hospitalized patient needs skilled nursing…
Bed Alarms in Hospitalized Patients: Useless
November 30, 2012
Many older patients fall in the hospital and these falls often lead to injury. Hospitals are under a lot of…