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Pharmaceutical Industry-Sponsored Meals and Physician Prescribing Patterns for Medicare Beneficiaries by DeJong, Colette, Aguilar, Thomas, Tseng, Chien-Wen, Lin, Grace A, Boscardin, W John, Dudley, R Adams

“…The association between industry payments to physicians and prescribing rates of the brand-name medications that are being promoted is controversial. In the…”
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Association Between Persistent Pain and Memory Decline and Dementia in a Longitudinal Cohort of Elders by Whitlock, Elizabeth L, Diaz-Ramirez, L Grisell, Glymour, M Maria, Boscardin, W John, Covinsky, Kenneth E, Smith, Alexander K

“…Chronic pain is common among the elderly and is associated with cognitive deficits in cross-sectional studies; the population-level association between chronic…”
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Financial ties of principal investigators and randomized controlled trial outcomes: cross sectional study by Ahn, Rosa, Woodbridge, Alexandra, Abraham, Ann, Saba, Susan, Korenstein, Deborah, Madden, Erin, Boscardin, W John, Keyhani, Salomeh

“…Objective To examine the association between the presence of individual principal investigators’ financial ties to the manufacturer of the study drug and the…”
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Preventability and Causes of Readmissions in a National Cohort of General Medicine Patients by Auerbach, Andrew D, Kripalani, Sunil, Vasilevskis, Eduard E, Sehgal, Neil, Lindenauer, Peter K, Metlay, Joshua P, Fletcher, Grant, Ruhnke, Gregory W, Flanders, Scott A, Kim, Christopher, Williams, Mark V, Thomas, Larissa, Giang, Vernon, Herzig, Shoshana J, Patel, Kanan, Boscardin, W John, Robinson, Edmondo J, Schnipper, Jeffrey L

“…Readmission penalties have catalyzed efforts to improve care transitions, but few programs have incorporated viewpoints of patients and health care…”
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Social Frailty Index: Development and validation of an index of social attributes predictive of mortality in older adults by Shah, Sachin J, Oreper, Sandra, Jeon, Sun Young, Boscardin, W John, Fang, Margaret C, Covinsky, Kenneth E

“…While social characteristics are well-known predictors of mortality, prediction models rely almost exclusively on demographics, medical comorbidities, and…”
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Social Strain is associated with Functional Decline in Older Adults after Surgery by Tang, Victoria L., Cenzer, Irena, Keny, Christina, John Boscardin, W., Covinsky, Ken, Finlayson, Emily, Kotwal, Ashwin

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The epidemiology of social isolation and loneliness among older adults during the last years of life by Kotwal, Ashwin A, Cenzer, Irena S, Waite, Linda J, Covinsky, Kenneth E, Perissinotto, Carla M, Boscardin, W John, Hawkley, Louise C, Dale, William, Smith, Alexander K

“…Social isolation and loneliness are critical to the health of older adults, but they have not been well-described at the end of life. To determine the…”
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Preoperative Medical Testing in Medicare Patients Undergoing Cataract Surgery by Chen, Catherine L, Lin, Grace A, Bardach, Naomi S, Clay, Theodore H, Boscardin, W. John, Gelb, Adrian W, Maze, Mervyn, Gropper, Michael A, Dudley, R. Adams

“…Routine preoperative testing is not recommended before cataract surgery. In this analysis of Medicare claims data, preoperative testing was common and varied…”
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Clinical Presentation of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Pregnant and Recently Pregnant People by Afshar, Yalda, Gaw, Stephanie L., Flaherman, Valerie J., Chambers, Brittany D., Krakow, Deborah, Berghella, Vincenzo, Shamshirsaz, Alireza A., Boatin, Adeline A., Aldrovandi, Grace, Greiner, Andrea, Riley, Laura, Boscardin, W. John, Jamieson, Denise J., Jacoby, Vanessa L.

“…OBJECTIVE:To describe the clinical presentation, symptomology, and disease course of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in pregnancy. METHODS:The PRIORITY…”
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MWF of the corpus callosum is a robust measure of remyelination: Results from the ReBUILD trial by Caverzasi, Eduardo, Papinutto, Nico, Cordano, Christian, Kirkish, Gina, Gundel, Tristan J, Zhu, Alyssa, Akula, Amit Vijay, Boscardin, W John, Neeb, Heiko, Henry, Roland G, Chan, Jonah R, Green, Ari J

“…Myelin repair is an unrealized therapeutic goal in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS). Uncertainty remains about the optimal techniques for assessing…”
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One-Year Mortality After Hip Fracture: Development and Validation of a Prognostic Index by Cenzer, Irena S., Tang, Victoria, Boscardin, W. John, Smith, Alexander K., Ritchie, Christine, Wallhagen, Margaret I., Espaldon, Roxanne, Covinsky, Kenneth E.

“…Objectives To develop a prediction index for 1‐year mortality after hip fracture in older adults that includes predictors from a wide range of domains. Design…”
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The relationship between commercial website ratings and traditional hospital performance measures in the USA by Bardach, Naomi S, Asteria-Peñaloza, Renée, Boscardin, W John, Dudley, R Adams

“…Our goal was to compare hospital scores from the most widely used commercial website in the USA to hospital scores from more systematic measures of patient…”
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Patterns of Multimorbidity in Elderly Veterans by Steinman, Michael A., Lee, Sei J., John Boscardin, W., Miao, Yinghui, Fung, Kathy Z., Moore, Kelly L., Schwartz, Janice B.

“…Objectives To determine patterns of co‐occurring diseases in older adults and the extent to which these patterns vary between the young‐old and the old‐old…”
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Age and Sex Variation in Prevalence of Chronic Medical Conditions in Older Residents of U.S. Nursing Homes by Moore, Kelly L., Boscardin, W. John, Steinman, Michael A., Schwartz, Janice B.

“…Objectives To investigate patterns in prevalences of chronic medical conditions over the age span of long‐term stay nursing home residents and between the…”
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Revisit rates and associated costs after an emergency department encounter: a multistate analysis by Duseja, Reena, Bardach, Naomi S, Lin, Grace A, Yazdany, Jinoos, Dean, Mitzi L, Clay, Theodore H, Boscardin, W John, Dudley, R Adams

“…Return visits to the emergency department (ED) or hospital after an index ED visit strain the health system, but information about rates and determinants of…”
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Sacral neuromodulation in nursing home residents: Predictors of success and complications in a national cohort of older adults by Dreyfuss, Leo D, Nik-Ahd, Farnoosh, Wang, Lufan, Shatkin-Margolis, Abigail, Covinsky, Kenneth, John Boscardin, W, Suskind, Anne M

“…There is limited evidence to support the efficacy of sacral neuromodulation (SNM) for older adults with overactive bladder (OAB). This study aims to report…”
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Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on meaningful activity engagement in racially and ethnically diverse older adults by Oh, Anna, Gan, Siqi, Boscardin, W John, Neilands, Torsten B, Stewart, Anita L, Nguyen, Tung T, Smith, Alexander K

“…Participation and active engagement in meaningful activities support the emotional and physical well-being of older adults. In 2020, the onset of the COVID-19…”
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Potential for remote vital sign monitoring to improve hospital patient sleep: A feasibility study by Beaman, Hannah, Douglas, Vanja C., Patel, Kanan, John Boscardin, W., Youn, Joy, LaHue, Sara C.

“…•For low-acuity inpatients, vital sign monitoring devices may decrease overnight patient disruptions, streamline nursing workflow, and decrease spread of…”
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Efficient and sparse feature selection for biomedical text classification via the elastic net: Application to ICU risk stratification from nursing notes by Marafino, Ben J., John Boscardin, W., Adams Dudley, R.

“…[Display omitted] •To date, ICU mortality prediction has relied on structured clinical features.•However, clinical free text features seem to perform just as…”
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Glycosylated Hemoglobin and Functional Decline in Community-Dwelling Nursing Home-Eligible Elderly Adults with Diabetes Mellitus by Yau, Celia K., Eng, Catherine, Cenzer, Irena Stijacic, John Boscardin, W., Rice-Trumble, Kathy, Lee, Sei J.

“…Objectives To determine whether glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels predict functional decline in older adults. Design Longitudinal cohort study…”
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