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Abstracts from the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
BRIEF METHODOLOGICAL REPORTS
Mild Cognitive Impairment and Objective Instrumental Everyday Functioning: The Everyday Cognition Battery Memory Test
Jason C. Allaire, PhD, Alyssa Gamaldo, MS, Brian J. Ayotte, PhD, Regina Sims, PhD, and Keith Whitfield, PhD
OBJECTIVES: To examine the performance subjects with and without mild cognitive impairment (MCI) on an objective measure of everyday or real-world memory and subjective items assessing competency within the same instrumental domains; to determine whether the Everyday Cognition Battery (ECB) can uniquely predi
Abstracts from the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
CLINICAL INVESTIGATIONS
Effect of a Risk-Based Multifactorial Fall Prevention Program on the Incidence of Falls
Marika J. Salminen, PhD, Tero J. Vahlberg, MSc, Maritta T. Salonoja, MD, Pertti T.T. Aarnio, MD, PhD, and Sirkka-Liisa Kivelä, MD, PhD
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effects of a multifactorial fall prevention program on falls and to identify the subgroups that benefit the most.
DESIGN: Randomized controlled trial.
SETTING: Community-dwelling subjects who had fallen at least once during the previous 12 months.
PARTICIPANTS
Abstracts from the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Training Nursing Staff to Recognize Depression in Home Healthcare
Ellen L. Brown, EdD, RN, Patrick J. Raue, PhD, Bernard A. Roos, MD, Thomas Sheeran, PhD, ME, and Martha L. Bruce, PhD, MPH
OBJECTIVES: To describe the implementation and acceptability of the TRaining In the Assessment of Depression (TRIAD) intervention, which has been tested in a randomized trial. The primary aim of TRIAD is to improve the ability of homecare nurses to detect depression in medically ill, older adult homecare patients.
DESIGN: Description of the important components of TRIAD,
JAGS Abstracts: From the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
CLINICAL INVESTIGATIONS
Effect of Influenza Vaccination of Nursing Home Staff on Mortality of Residents: A Cluster-Randomized Trial
Magali Lemaitre, MPH, Thierry Meret, MD, Monique Rothan-Tondeur, PhD, Joel Belmin, MD, Jean-Louis Lejonc, MD, Laurence Luquel, MD, François Piette, MD, Michel Salom, MD, Marc Verny, MD, PhD, Jean-Marie Vetel, MD, Pierre Veyssier, MD, and Fabrice Carrat, MD, PhD
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effect of staff influenza vaccination on all-cause mortality in nursing home residents.
DESIGN: Pair-matched cluster-randomized trial.
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JAGS Abstracts: From the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
The Effect of Age on Functional and Mortality Outcomes After Acute Myocardial Infarction
Suzanne V. Arnold, MD, MHA, Karen P. Alexander, MD, Frederick A. Masoudi, MD, MSPH, P. Michael Ho, MD, PhD, Lan Xiao, PhD, and John A. Spertus, MD, MPH
OBJECTIVES: To determine the prevalence of post-myocardial infarction (MI) functional decline and to describe its association with chronological age in survivors of MI.
DESIGN: Prospective observational registry.
SETTING: Nineteen U.S. hospitals.
PARTICIPANTS: Two thousand four hundred eighty-one patients with acute MI.
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Brief Reports
Nursing Home Assessment of Cognitive Impairment: Development and Testing of a Brief Instrument of Mental Status
Joshua Chodosh, MD, MSHS, Maria Orlando Edelen, PhD, Joan L. Buchanan, PhD, Julia Ann Yosef, MS, Joseph G. Ouslander, MD, Dan R. Berlowitz, MD, MPH, Joel E. Streim, MD, and Debra Saliba, MD, MPH
OBJECTIVES: To test the accuracy of a brief cognitive assessment of nursing home (NH) residents and to determine whether facility nurses can reliably perform this assessment.
DESIGN: Cross-sectional, indep
Abstracts from the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Serum Parathyroid Hormone Levels Predict Falls in Older Adults with Diabetes Mellitus
Denise K. Houston, PhD, Ann V. Schwartz, PhD, Jane A. Cauley, DrPH, Frances A. Tylavsky, DrPH, Eleanor M. Simonsick, PhD, Tamara B. Harris, MD, Nathalie de Rekeneire MD, Gary G. Schwartz, PhD, and Stephen B. Kritchevsky, PhD, for the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study
OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between serum parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels and incident falls in older adults with diabetes mellitus.
DESIGN: Longitudinal analysis of incident falls over 1 year in a s
JAGS Abstracts: From the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Types, Prevalence, and Potential Clinical Significance of Medication Administration Errors in Assisted Living
Heather M. Young, PhD, GNP, Shelly L. Gray, PharmD, MS, Wayne C. McCormick, MD, MPH, Suzanne K. Sikma, PhD, RN, Susan Reinhard, PhD, RN, Linda Johnson Trippett, RNC, MSN, Carol Christlieb, RN, MSN, and Tiffany Allen, BS
OBJECTIVES: To describe the types and potential clinical significance of medication administration errors in assisted living (AL).
DESIGN: Cross-sectional observational study.
SETTING: This study was conducted in 12 AL settings in three
JAGS Abstracts: From the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Identification of Older Patients with Heart Failure Who May Be Candidates for Hospice Care: Development of a Simple Four-Item Risk Score
Bao C. Huynh, MD, PharmD, Aleksandr Rovner, MD, and Michael W. Rich, MD
OBJECTIVES: To identify predictors of 6-month mortality in older patients with heart failure (HF) and to develop a risk score for identifying potential candidates for hospice care.
DESIGN: Secondary data analysis of a previously conducted randomized, clinical trial.
SETTING: Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri.
PARTICIPANTS: Two hundred eighty-
JAGS Abstracts: From the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of the Cognitive Effect, Safety, and Tolerability of Oral Extended-Release Oxybutynin in Cognitively Impaired Nursing Home Residents with Urge Urinary Incontinence
Thomas E. Lackner, PharmD, Jean F. Wyman, PhD, Teresa C. McCarthy, MD, Melinda Monigold, MS, and Cynthia Davey, MS
OBJECTIVES: Determine the cognitive effect, safety, and tolerability of oral extended-release oxybutynin in cognitively impaired older nursing home residents with urge urinary incontinence.
DESIGN: Randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial.
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