Clinical update on nursing home medicine: 2009.
This represents the third clinical update based on presentations at the American Medical Directors Association (AMDA) annual meeting. Topics covered this year include hypertension, heart failure, cachexia, dehydration, falls, depression, constipation, and aspiration pneumonia.
Messinger-Rapport
Barbara J
BJ
Cleveland Clinic, Section of Geriatric Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Thomas
David R
DR
Gammack
Julie K
JK
Morley
John E
JE
D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000517:prevention & control; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000928:Antidepressive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002100:Cachexia / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000517:prevention & control; D015510:Clinical Medicine; D003248:Constipation / Q000175:diagnosis; D003681:Dehydration / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000517:prevention & control; D003863:Depression / Q000188:drug therapy; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005260:Female; D005851:Geriatric Nursing; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D009735:Nursing Homes; D011015:Pneumonia, Aspiration / Q000503:physiopathology; D040242:Risk Reduction Behavior; D020521:Stroke / Q000517:prevention & control
D000928:Antidepressive Agents