title: Clinical update on nursing home medicine: 2008.
abstract: In 2007 we provided an overview of clinical advances in the nursing home based on a series of presentations at the American Medical Directors Association. This will now be a regular yearly series. Topics covered this year are nutrition, exercise, diabetes mellitus, lipids, hypertension, pressure ulcers, COPD, and osteoporosis.
authors.affiliation: Cleveland Clinic, Section of Geriatric Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Barbara J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Messinger-Rapport
authors.forename: David R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.forename: Julie K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Gammack
authors.forename: John E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Morley