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PUBLIC POLICY POSITION STATEMENTS
_____ Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment
for the Older Patient (1993)
_____ Conversion of Prescription
Drugs to Over-the-Counter Designation (reviewed in 1999)
_____ Education in Geriatric Medicine
(1993) (developed with AGS Education Committee)
_____ Financing of Long-Term Care
Services (1993)
_____ Geriatric Rehabilitation (reviewed
in 1999)
_____ Home Care and Home Care Reimbursement
(revised in 1999 by the AGS Clinical Practice Committee)
_____ Medicare (1993)
_____ Mental Health and the Elderly
(1993)
_____ Physician's Role in the Long-Term
Care Facility (1993) (developed with AGS Clinical Practice Committee)
_____ Physician Reimbursement under
Medicare (1993)
_____ Public Financing of Catastrophic
Care for the Older Patient (1993)
_____ Regulation of Nursing Facilities
(1993) (developed with AGS Clinical Practice Committee)
_____ Research and Geriatric Medicine
(reviewed in 1999 by the AGS Research Committee)
_____ The Role of the Veterans Administration
in the Care of the Elderly (1993) (devel. w/AGS Research Comm.)
ETHICS COMMITTEE POSITION STATEMENTS
_____ The Care of Dying Patients,
(1994) (reviewed and updated 1998)
_____ Informed Consent for Research
on Human Subjects with Dementia (1998)
_____ Making Treatment Decisions
for Incapacitated Elderly Patients Without Advance Directives (1995)
(reviewed and updated 1998)
_____ Physician-Assisted Suicide
and Voluntary Active Euthanasia (1994) (reviewed and updated 1998)
_____ Rational Allocation of Medical
Care (1996)
CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES
_____ Clinical Guidelines on Alcohol
Use Disorders in Older Adults (1997), Pocket Guide
_____ The Management of Chronic Pain
in Older Persons (1998)
_____ Oral Anticoagulation for Older
Adults (1997), Pocket Guide
CLINICAL PRACTICE RECOMMENDATIONS
_____ Guidelines for Restraint Use
(reviewed in 1997)
_____ Prevention and Treatment of
Influenza in the Elderly (1996)
_____ Psychotherapeutic Medications
in the Nursing Home (reviewed in 1997)
_____ The Role of Physicians in House
Calls in Geriatric Practice (1993) (reviewed and updated 1998)
_____ Screening for Cervical Carcinoma
in Elderly Women (1993) (Editorial update to be published)
_____ Two-Step PPD Testing for Nursing
Home Patients on Admission (reviewed in 1997)
_____ The Use of Oral Anticoagulants
(Warfarin) in the Elderly (1995)
_____ Alcohol Use Disorders In Older
Adults: Resources and References (1997)
_____ Clinical Practice Bibliography
(1996)
EDUCATIONAL GUIDELINES
_____ Areas of Basic Competency for
the Care of Older Patients for Medical and Osteopathic Schools (1998)
_____ Curriculum Guidelines on the
Care of the Elderly for Internal Medicine Residency Training Programs
(1996)
_____ Guidelines for Fellowship Training
Programs in Geriatric Medicine (1998)
_____ Implementation of the Geriatric
Medicine Fellowship Guidelines: Suggestions for Program Directors
(1988)
_____ The Training of Geriatrics
Fellows in Rehabilitation (reviewed in 1997)
AGS PAPERS
_____ Measuring Quality of Care at
the End of Life - A Statement of Principles (1996) (Ethics Committee)
_____ Medicare Reimbursement for
Geriatric Assessment (1990) (Public Policy Committee)
_____ Older Women's Health (1993)
(Older Women's Health Task Force)
_____ Physician Reimbursement for
the Care of the Frail Elderly (1990) (Public Policy Committee)
_____ Position on Ethnogeriatrics
(1994) (Ethnogeriatrics Advisory Committee)
_____ Position on Medicare Managed
Care (1997)
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currently undergoing revision and will be updated and/or revised
as necessary.
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