JAMDA
September 3, 2016
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JAMDA
September 3, 2016
Comparing Public Quality Ratings for Accredited and Nonaccredited Nursing Homes
Compare quality ratings of accredited and nonaccredited nursing homes using the publicly available Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Nursing Home Compare data set.
JAMDA
September 3, 2016
Frailty as a Major Factor in the Increased Risk of Death and Disability in Older People With Diabetes
To assess the role of frailty in predicting death and incident disability in older adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
JAMDA
September 3, 2016
Predicting Delirium in Older Patients Hospitalized for Community-Acquired Pneumonia
JAMDA
September 3, 2016
A New Prognosis Score to Predict Mortality After Acute Pneumonia in Very Elderly Patients
Acute pneumonia (AP) induces an excess of mortality among the elderly. We evaluated the value of a new predictive biomarker index compared to usual prognosis scores for predicting in-hospital and 1-year mortalities in elderly inpatients with AP.
JAMDA
September 1, 2016
Use of Frailty in Deciding Clinical Treatment Goals for Chronic Disease in Elderly Patients in the Community
JAMDA
September 1, 2016
A Multidimensional Risk Score to Predict All-Cause Hospitalization in Community-Dwelling Older Individuals With Obstructive Lung Disease
JAMDA
September 1, 2016
Predictive Performance of a Fall Risk Assessment Tool for Community-Dwelling Older People (FRAT-up) in 4 European Cohorts
The fall risk assessment tool (FRAT-up) is a tool for predicting falls in community-dwelling older people based on a meta-analysis of fall risk factors. Based on the fall risk factor profile, this tool calculates the individual risk of falling over the next year. The objective of this study is to evaluate ...
JAMDA
August 31, 2016
Sitting Time and Mortality in Older Adults With Disability: A National Cohort Study
The progressive aging of the population has increased the number of older adults with disabilities. Regular physical activity has shown to improve health among these individuals, but the effects of sedentary behavior are mostly unknown. Thus, this study examined the association between sitting time and mor...
JAMDA
August 31, 2016
Differences in Nursing Home Quality Between Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare Patients
Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment is steadily growing, but little is known about the quality of nursing home (NH) care provided to MA enrollees compared to enrollees in traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare.
