Search Results - "Caprio, Thomas"
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Anticholinergic medication: Related dry mouth and effects on the salivary glands
Published in Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology and oral radiology (01-12-2021)“…Salivary glands are among the most sensitive target organs of medications with anticholinergic (AC) properties, interrupting the neural stimulation of saliva…”
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Older Adults Receiving Rehabilitation Services Are More Likely to Get Bathing and Toileting Equipment Installed
Published in The American journal of occupational therapy (01-01-2023)“…Adaptive equipment, such as shower grab bars and modified toilet seating, is effective but underused in the United States. To change this, a better…”
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Construction and Validation of Risk-adjusted Rates of Emergency Department Visits for Long-stay Nursing Home Residents
Published in Medical care (01-02-2020)“…BACKGROUND:Long-stay nursing home (NH) residents are at high risk of having emergency department (ED) visits, but current knowledge regarding risk-adjusted ED…”
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Functional outcome in home health: Do racial and ethnic minority patients with dementia fare worse?
Published in PloS one (26-05-2020)“…Evaluate the independent and interactive effects of dementia and racial/ethnic minority status on functional outcomes during a home health (HH) admission among…”
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Rural-Urban Differences in Nursing Home Risk-adjusted Rates of Emergency Department Visits: A Decomposition Analysis
Published in Medical care (01-01-2021)“…BACKGROUND:Higher risk-adjusted rate of emergency department (ED) visits might reflect poor quality of nursing home (NH) care; however, existing evidence is…”
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Association Between Home Health Services and Facility Admission in Older Adults With and Without Alzheimer's Disease
Published in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (01-05-2020)“…To evaluate the association between home health (HH) services, including skilled nursing (SN), physical therapy (PT), occupational therapy, social work (SW),…”
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Skilled Nursing Facility Patients Discharged to Home Health Agency Services Spend More Days at Home
Published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) (01-07-2020)“…OBJECTIVES To investigate the association of the utilization of Medicare‐certified home health agency (CHHA) services with post‐acute skilled nursing facility…”
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Utilization and Functional Outcomes Among Medicare Home Health Recipients Varied Across Living Situations
Published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) (01-03-2021)“…BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Home health (HH) is a major type of home‐based skilled care available to Medicare beneficiaries. We examined the association between…”
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Implementation considerations of deprescribing interventions: A scoping review
Published in Journal of internal medicine (01-04-2024)“…Over half of older adults experience polypharmacy, including medications that may be inappropriate or unnecessary. Deprescribing, which is the process of…”
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Pain treatment and functional improvement in home health care: Relationship with dementia
Published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) (01-12-2021)“…Background Pain management is important to post‐acute functional recovery, yet older persons with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) are often…”
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Nursing Home and Market Factors and Risk-Adjusted Hospitalization Rates Among Urban, Micropolitan, and Rural Nursing Homes
Published in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (01-05-2021)“…Hospitalizations are common among long-stay nursing home (NH) residents, but the role of rurality in hospitalization is understudied. This study examines the…”
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Medicaid Nursing Home Policies and Risk-Adjusted Rates of Emergency Department Visits: Does Rural Location Matter?
Published in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (01-10-2020)“…Medicaid nursing home (NH) reimbursement rates and bed-hold policies have been shown to be associated with hospitalization of urban NH residents, but their…”
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How to Deprescribe Potentially Inappropriate Medications During the Hospital-to-Home Transition: Stakeholder Perspectives on Essential Tasks
Published in Clinical therapeutics (01-10-2023)“…Nearly all older patients receiving postacute home health care (HHC) use potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) that carry a risk of harm. Deprescribing…”
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Postgraduate dental resident education: A pilot in age‐friendly “mentation” training
Published in Special care in dentistry (01-11-2023)“…Objective Postdoctoral dental education in caring for older adults lacks didactic and clinical training in mentation topics, one of the core elements of the…”
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Receipt of Timely Primary Care Services Following Post-Acute Skilled Nursing Facility Care
Published in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (01-03-2021)“…Our study examined the proportion of skilled nursing facility (SNF) post-acute care residents who did not receive timely primary care provider (PCP) services…”
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How "age-friendly" are deprescribing interventions? A scoping review of deprescribing trials
Published in Health services research (01-02-2023)“…To assess how age-friendly deprescribing trials are regarding intervention design and outcome assessment. Reduced use of potentially inappropriate medications…”
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Machine learning-assisted screening for cognitive impairment in the emergency department
Published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) (01-03-2022)“…Despite a high prevalence and association with poor outcomes, screening to identify cognitive impairment (CI) in the emergency department (ED) is uncommon…”
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Medications Associated With Geriatric Syndromes (MAGS) and Hospitalization Risk in Home Health Care Patients
Published in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (01-10-2022)“…Polypharmacy is common in home health care (HHC). This study examined the prevalence of medications associated with geriatric syndromes (MAGS), its predictors,…”
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Inverse Dose-Response Relationship Between Home Health Care Services and Rehospitalization in Older Adults
Published in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (01-06-2019)“…(1) To examine the impact of specific services [skilled nursing (SN), physical therapy (PT), occupational therapy (OT), and home health aide (HA)] in…”
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