Journal Highlights From the February Issue of JAMDA

Residents in post-acute and long-term care facilities experience twice the rate of admission to intensive care units due to sepsis, a longer hospital stay, and more than twice the mortality than non-nursing home residents, but these outcomes may be preventable. In an article in JAMDA, Robin L. P. Jump, MD, PhD, of the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, and colleagues propose that nursing home staff can serve as “first responders” and activate an emergency system.
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