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Does incorporating medications in the surveyors' interpretive guidelines reduce the use of potentially inappropriate medications in nursing homes?
July 4, 2007
Lapane KL, Hughes CM, Quilliam BJ. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2007;55(5).
The authors determined that evaluation guidelines for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services surveyors were ineffective in minimizing the use of inappropriate medications in nursing homes.
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