Perhaps the largest operational change in nursing homes since the beginning of the prospective payment system is taking place today. Implementation of MDS 3.0, a resident assessment tool, starts.

So, it’s finally here. MDS 3.0, the updated resident assessment tool, has officially taken effect. So how exactly will this highly anticipated system change the way you, nursing home providers, ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the much anticipated final Minimum Data Set, Version 3.0 (MDS 3.0), on Thursday, giving nursing homes approximately one year to prepare for ...

In the present SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) providing long-term and post-acute care have been a focus of new infections and fatal illness outcomes. Decisions about health ...

Patients with histories of inflammatory bowel disease and systemic lupus erythematosus were also at elevated risks of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), the authors found. A new report shows that ...

MDS occur mainly, but not exclusively, in patients with a median age of about 70 years, and the crude incidence is 4 to 5 cases per 100,000 persons per year. 8 The true incidence is likely to be ...

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A total of 1247 patients with MDS, who were diagnosed between 1975 and 2002, were included in a joint database of the Austrian–German working group and examined in a retrospective manner. Of these ...