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Dementia in the hospital

The pandemic added to the pre-existing systemic and legal challenges clinicians face managing hospitalized patients with dementia and behavioral disturbances.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/02/09/dementia-in-the-hospital.htm
9 Feb 2022

Surgical, nonsurgical management of hip fracture compared in nursing home residents with advanced dementia

Patients who had been managed surgically had less documented pain and fewer pressure ulcers, but use of antipsychotic drugs and physical restraints did not appear to differ, and few patients in either group remained ambulatory at six months.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/05/16/2.htm
16 May 2018

Dementia

Distinguishing among the causes of dementia—including Alzheimer and Parkinson disease—is a clinical and coding imperative.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/02/09/coding-corner-dementia.htm
9 Feb 2022

February 9, 2022

ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/02/09/

Encephalopathy in 2023

It can be a challenge to distinguish between delirium and acute encephalopathy, and both encephalopathy and delirium should be documented for correct coding.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/01/11/encephalopathy-in-2023.htm
11 Jan 2023

Dementia

Whereas many major neurocognitive disorders may occur in younger people, the term dementia is customarily applied only to older adults.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/07/coding-corner-dementia.htm
15 Jul 2018

Behavioral symptoms associated with poor outcomes in hospitalized patients with dementia

A cross-sectional retrospective study of elderly U.S. inpatients found that behavioral symptoms of dementia were associated with higher in-hospital mortality, longer length of stay, higher rates of 30-day readmission, and lower likelihood of discharge to home.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/08/24/behavioral-symptoms-associated-with-poor-outcomes-in-hospitalized-patients-with-dementia.htm
24 Aug 2022

April 20, 2022

ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/04/20/

August 24, 2022

ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/08/24/

July 2018

ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/07/

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