AHA: Increased Cancer Risk for Patients With Heart Failure For older patients hospitalized with heart failure, a comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) score is associated with mortality over two ...

Credit: Getty Images Nurse practitioners call for routine assessment for geriatric syndromes, including screening for frailty, cognitive impairment, and malnutrition. As patients live longer, it ...

A nurse-led comprehensive geriatric assessment in the emergency department (ED) reduced hospital admissions by 11.6% for older adults, without extending ED stays or boosting return visits, a recent ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Back to Healio Investigators of this study found more ...

A phase II clinical study of interleukin-11 mutein to treat patients with chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia. Background: The aim of this prospective, double-blind study was to evaluate sensitivity ...

Efficacy of a one-year exercise program to prevent bone loss in postmenopausal women prescribed aromatase inhibitor therapy: An RCT. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2013 ASCO Annual Meeting ...

In many cases, poor adherence to a medication regimen is a reason for uncontrolled high blood pressure and a major predictor of nursing home placement in frail geriatric patients. 1 Adherence rates in ...

High-risk older patients seen by geriatric-focused nurse practitioners (NPs) in the emergency department (ED) had a 10.3% shorter hospital stay than those who were not seen by an NP, according to a ...