Open access journal: If you're charging $3500USD for publication, but asking reviewers to work for free, you are the problem.

The 4AT is this week's #DeliriumMeasure. Find this and other measures on the NIDUS Delirium Network website: deliriumnetwork.org/measurement/ #Delirium

The 4AT has excellent inter and Intra-rater reliability in a variety of craft groups with little training needed, high sensitivity and acceptable specificity - ie an excellent screening tool

theconversation.com/if-recreationa…

I'm no economist, but increasing the tobacco excise when revenue is falling due to illicit substitution seems perverse.

"A comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) should be standard practice for older people admitted to hospital with dementia, to ensure all their health and social care needs are identified and addressed." — British Geriatrics Society

Important work

NDIS: Palliative care experts warn terminally ill patients are languishing in wards while others are becoming the victims of “bed block” theage.com.au/national/victo…

Emergency departments pose heightened risks for older adults, worsened by prolonged stays and systemic issues like bed shortages. ja.ma/3HCKo4m

Snacks, PharmD, MPH This is still the best editorial contextualizing the evidence academic.oup.com/cid/article/80…

An underutilised intervention far better than prophylactic antibiotics.

Hospitals Must Better Identify And Manage Delirium In Seniors forbes.com/sites/howardgl…

Strategies to Reduce Iatrogenic Hypoglycemia and Hypotension in Vulnerable Older Adults. #geriatrics agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

This great little online game shows how misinformation arises: badvaxx.com

Presented at #ESCCongress: In patients with chronic coronary syndrome taking oral anticoagulants, adding aspirin led to higher risks of cardiovascular events, major bleeding, and death from any cause than anticoagulation alone. Full AQUATIC trial: nej.md/45AU4Wp

The Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study – Activities of Daily Living... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

"It's not the end of the world, let's just send it to another journal"

I am not and never will be a economist, certainly not a health economist, but if increasing tobacco excise creates a black market which provides tobacco at lower prices, then it is worsening health outcomes! theaustralian.com.au/nation/politic…