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Objective(s): To create and test three prospective, increasingly restrictive definitions of serious illness.
Kelley, A. S., Covinsky, K. E., Gorges, R. J., McKendrick, K., Bollens-Lund, E., Morrison, R. S., & Ritchie, C. S.
Health Services Research
2017
Objective(s): To assess the impact of disability and social determinants of health on condition-specific readmissions beyond current risk adjustment.
Meddings, J., Reichert, H., Smith, S. N., Iwashyna, T. J., Langa, K. M., Hofer, T. P., & McMahon, L. F.
Journal of General Internal Medicine
2017
Objective(s): To measure out-of-pocket (OOP) costs incurred by Medicare beneficiaries with cancer and identify which factors and services contribute to high OOP costs.
Narang, A. K., & Nicholas, L. H.
JAMA Oncology
2017
Objective(s): The objective of this study was to determine the association between patients' use of life-sustaining procedures at the end of life and depressive symptoms in their surviving spouses.
Ornstein, K. A., Aldridge, M. D., Garrido, M. M., Gorges, R. J., Bollens-Lund, E., Siu, A. L., . . . Kelley, A. S.
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
2017
Objective(s): The objective was to identify specific combinations of chronic conditions, functional limitations, and geriatric syndromes associated with direct medical costs and inpatient utilization.
Schiltz, N. K., Jr., D. F. W., Sun, J., Bakaki, P. M., Dor, A., Given, C. W., . . . Koroukian, S. M.
Medical Care
2017
Objective(s): To determine rates of functional recovery in older adults who sustained a hip fracture based on one's previous function.
Tang, V., Sudore, R. L., Cenzer, I. S., Boscardin, W. J., Smith, A., Ritchie, C. S., . . . Covinsky, K. E.
Journal of General Internal Medicine
2017
Objective(s): To inform initiatives to reduce overuse, we compared neuroimaging appropriateness in a large Medicare cohort with a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) cohort.
Burke, J. F., Kerr, E. A., McCammon, R. J., Holleman, R., Langa, K. M., & Callaghan, B. C.
Neurology
2016
Approximately 25% of all Medicare expenditures are for care received in the last year of life. Much research has been done to understand cost and utilization patterns for Medicare beneficiaries at the end of life (EOL). However, when assessing EOL costs, most studies focus on decedents with traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare owing to the lack of cost and utilization data for the 30% of Medicare beneficiaries in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. This gap is a cause for concern because utilization and quality of care may differ between MA and FFS beneficiaries. We sought to examine differences in characteristics of decedents in MA and FFS Medicare based on detailed survey data.
Byhoff, E., Harris, J. A., & Ayanian, J. Z.
JAMA Internal Medicine
2016
Objective(s): To determine to what extent demographic, social support, socioeconomic, geographic, medical, and End-of-Life (EOL) planning factors explain racial and ethnic variation in Medicare spending during the last 6 months of life.
Byhoff, E., Harris, J. A., Langa, K. M., & Iwashyna, T. J.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
2016
Objective(s): To develop a prediction index for 1-year mortality after hip fracture in older adults that includes predictors from a wide range of domains.
Cenzer, I. S., Tang, V., Boscardin, W. J., Smith, A. K., Ritchie, C. S., Wallhagen, M. L., . . . Covinsky, K. E.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
2016
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