Search Results - "Frain, Laura"
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Launching a Geriatric Surgery Center: Recommendations from the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement
Published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) (01-09-2020)“…To prepare for the increasing numbers of older adults undergoing surgery, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) has recently launched the Geriatric Surgery…”
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Association of cancer and Alzheimer's disease risk in a national cohort of veterans
Published in Alzheimer's & dementia (01-12-2017)“…To examine the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) among cancer survivors in a national database. Retrospective cohort of 3,499,378 mostly male US veterans aged…”
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“I Can’t Take Any Chances”: A Mixed Methods Study of Frailty, Isolation, Worry, and Loneliness Among Aging Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Published in Journal of applied gerontology (01-05-2023)“…Little is known about how frailty has shaped experiences of living through the COVID-19 pandemic. In this cross-sectional mixed methods study, we analyzed data…”
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Validation of the Pictorial Fit-Frail Scale in a Thoracic Surgery clinic
Published in Annals of surgery (01-05-2023)“…Examine feasibility and construct validity of Pictorial Fit-Frail scale (PFFS) for the first time in older surgical patients. The PFFS uses visual images to…”
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From research to bedside: Incorporation of a CGA‐based frailty index among multiple comanagement services
Published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) (01-01-2022)“…The comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) is the core tool used by geriatricians across diverse clinical settings to identify vulnerabilities and estimate…”
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Thoracic surgery with geriatric assessment and collaboration can prepare frail older adults for lung cancer surgery
Published in Journal of surgical oncology (01-08-2022)“…Background and Objectives We assessed frailty, measured by a comprehensive geriatric assessment‐based frailty index (FI‐CGA), and its association with…”
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Disease Trajectories and End-of-Life Care for Dementias: Latent Topic Modeling and Trend Analysis Using Clinical Notes
Published in AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings (2018)“…Despite the increasing prevalence, growing costs, and high mortality of dementia in older adults in the U.S., little is known about the course of these…”
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Outcomes of trimodality CROSS regimen in older adults with locally advanced esophageal cancer
Published in European journal of surgical oncology (01-10-2021)“…Chemoradiotherapy for Esophageal cancer followed by Surgery (CROSS regimen) is standard of care for locally-advanced esophageal cancer. We evaluated CROSS…”
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Implementing 4-meter gait speed as a routine vital sign in a thoracic surgery clinic
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Perioperative Esophagectomy Outcomes in Older Esophageal Cancer Patients in Two Different Time Eras
Published in Seminars in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery (01-01-2023)“…To investigate perioperative outcomes of esophagectomies by age groups. Retrospective analysis of esophageal cancer patients undergoing esophagectomy from 2005…”
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Polypharmacy and frailty in older adults evaluated at a multidisciplinary geriatric-thoracic clinic prior to surgery
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Opportunities for quality improvement in the morbidity pattern of older adults undergoing pulmonary lobectomy for cancer
Published in Journal of geriatric oncology (01-04-2021)“…There is limited information on the frequency of complications among older adults after oncological thoracic surgery in the modern era. We hypothesized that…”
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Prehabilitation vs Postoperative Rehabilitation for Frail Patients
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Power and limitations of daily prognostications of death in the medical intensive care unit
Published in Critical care medicine (01-03-2011)“…OBJECTIVE:We tested the accuracy of predictions of impending death for medical intensive care unit patients, offered daily by their professional medical…”
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Quality of Life in Older Adults After Major Cancer Surgery: The GOSAFE International Study
Published in JNCI : Journal of the National Cancer Institute (11-07-2022)“…Abstract Background Accurate quality of life (QoL) data and functional results after cancer surgery are lacking for older patients. The international,…”
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Predicting Functional Recovery and Quality of Life in Older Patients Undergoing Colorectal Cancer Surgery: Real-World Data From the International GOSAFE Study
Published in Journal of clinical oncology (01-12-2023)“…The GOSAFE study evaluates risk factors for failing to achieve good quality of life (QoL) and functional recovery (FR) in older patients undergoing surgery for…”
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Adaptation of the comprehensive geriatric assessment to a virtual delivery format
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Long-term Outcomes Following Esophagectomy in Older and Younger Adults with Esophageal Cancer
Published in Journal of gastrointestinal surgery (01-06-2022)“…Background Patterns of overall and disease-free survival after esophagectomy for esophageal cancer in older adults have not been carefully studied. Methods…”
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GOSAFE - Geriatric Oncology Surgical Assessment and Functional rEcovery after Surgery: early analysis on 977 patients
Published in Journal of geriatric oncology (01-03-2020)“…AbstractObjectiveOlder patients with cancer value functional outcomes as much as survival, but surgical studies lack functional recovery (FR) data. The value…”
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Prehabilitation vs Postoperative Rehabilitation for Frail Patients
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