Development of Eligibility Criteria for Comprehensive Medication Management Programs in Long-term Care Facilities Using RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method

Prevalence of inappropriate medication using Beers criteria in Japanese long-term care facilities

BACKGROUND The prevalence and risk factors of potentially inappropriate medication use among the elderly patients have been studied in various countries, but because of the difficulty of obtaining data on patient characteristics and medications they have not been studied in Japan. METHODS We conducted a retrospective cross-sectional study in 17 Japanese long-term care (LTC) facilities by coll...

Long-Term Care Eligibility Criteria for People with Alzheimer's Disease

Long-term care (LTC) eligibility criteria are applied to a sample of 8,437 people with dementia enrolled in the Medicare Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration. The authors find that mental-status-test cutoff points substantially affect the pool of potential beneficiaries. Functional criteria alone leave out people with relatively severe dementia and with behavioral problems. It is therefore importa...

The Evolution of Long-term Care Programs; Comment on “Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan”

The need for long-term care (LTC) represents a “new social risk,” one that overlaps with and complements systems of care that pre-date such programs, complicating LTC program design. This commentary expands on Ikegami’s discussion of how these structural factors must be accommodated, as well as historical and cultural factors that influence public expectations of such a...

Author ' s response to reviews Prevalence of inappropriate medication using Beers criteria in Japanese long - term care facilities

Developing an Appropriateness Criteria for Knee MRI Using the Rand Appropriateness Method (RAM)-2013

  Background: Knee pain is one of the most common reasons patients visit their physician. In this regard Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is the tool of preference for diagnosis. The aim of this study was to determine appropriate guidelines for knee MRI administration using the RAND Appropriateness Method (RAM)-2013   Methods: This qualitative study was done in the Mashhad University of Medical...