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  1. Secondary causes among adult patients presenting with first-episode psychosis to acute medical settings in Hong Kong: A 10-Year retrospective study 2026-09-04
  2. Aspirin and healthy longevity within racial and ethnic minoritized older adults in the United States 2026-08-27
  3. Baseline Statin Exposure and Incident Acute Myocardial Infarction in Adults Aged >=75 Years Without Prior Cardiovascular Disease: A Population-Based Cohort Study 2026-08-25

Studies

866 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1963 to 2026

Top journals

  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 65
  • JAMA 24
  • Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 22
  • Journal of pain and symptom management 20
  • Palliative medicine 19

387 journals in all.

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  1. Is caregiving hazardous to one's physical health? A meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Psychological bulletin 2003-11-01 Caregiving

    Caring for a family member with dementia is generally regarded as a chronically stressful process, with potentially negative physical health consequences.

  2. Predicting mortality among patients hospitalized for heart failure: derivation and validation of a clinical model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. JAMA 2003-11-01 How common it is

    The mortality rates for the derivation cohort and validation cohort, respectively, were 8.9% and 8.2% in hospital, 10.7% and 10.4% at 30 days, and 32.9% and 30.5% at 1 year.

  3. The course of delirium in older medical inpatients: a prospective study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of general internal medicine 2003-09-01 Clinical safety

    Among patients with and without dementia, symptoms of delirium persist up to 12 months after diagnosis.

  4. Dementia after delirium in patients with femoral neck fractures

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2003-07-01 Clinical safety

    Delirium in nondemented femoral neck fracture patients is associated with the development of dementia and a higher mortality rate.

  5. The prognostic significance of subsyndromal delirium in elderly medical inpatients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2003-06-01 Clinical safety

    SSD in elderly medical inpatients appears to be a clinically important syndrome that falls on a continuum between no symptoms and DSM-defined delirium.

  6. Delirium in the intensive care unit: occurrence and clinical course in older patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2003-05-01 How common it is

    Delirium is a frequent complication in older ICU patients and often persists beyond their ICU stay.

  7. Post-MI Hosp-CR and Home-CR are similarly effective in the short term and improve TWC and HRQL in each age group.

  8. Influenza vaccination and reduction in hospitalizations for cardiac disease and stroke among the elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. The New England journal of medicine 2003-04-01 Getting a diagnosis

    There were 140,055 subjects in the 1998-1999 cohort and 146,328 in the 1999-2000 cohort, of which 55.5 percent and 59.7 percent, respectively, were immunized.

  9. Long-term prognosis after lacunar infarction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2003-04-01 Prevention and risk

    Lacunar infarcts, small deep infarcts that result from occlusion of a penetrating artery, account for about a quarter of all ischaemic strokes.

  10. Practical considerations in dialysis withdrawal: "to have that option is a blessing"

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. JAMA 2003-04-01 End-of-life care

    Cessation of life-support treatment is an appropriate option for situations in which the burdens of therapy substantially outweigh the benefits.

  11. Predictors of depression and life satisfaction among spousal caregivers in hospice: application of a stress process model

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of palliative medicine 2003-04-01 Caregiving

    Using a stress process model, risk factors (caregiving stressors, caregiver health, and negative social interactions) and protective factors (caregiving appraisals and social resources) were examined as predictors of family caregiver well-being (depression and life satisfaction).

  12. The utilization of physical therapy in a palliative care unit

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of palliative medicine 2003-02-01 End-of-life care

    PT assessment and utilization were uncommon in this group.

  13. Assessing the older person: is the MNA a more appropriate nutritional assessment tool than the SGA?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2003-01-01 End-of-life care

    This study has shown the MNA to be a more appropriate nutrition assessment tool for older patients when compared to the SGA.

  14. Delirium symptoms in post-acute care: prevalent, persistent, and associated with poor functional recovery

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2003-01-01 Digital health tools

    The data from this study provide strong preliminary evidence that, in patients newly admitted to post-acute care facilities from acute care hospitals, delirium symptoms are prevalent, persistent, and associated with poor functional recovery.

  15. Burden and well-being among caregivers: examining the distinction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2002-12-01 Caregiving

    The finding that perceived social support is strongly related to well-being but unrelated to burden reinforces the conceptual distinctiveness of the latter two concepts.

  16. Ageing and infection

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Lancet. Infectious diseases 2002-11-01 End-of-life care

    Average life expectancy throughout developed countries has rapidly increased during the latter half of the 20th century and geriatric infectious diseases have become an increasingly important issue.

  17. Attitudes towards euthanasia among physicians, nurses and the general public in Finland

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Public health 2002-11-01 Disparities

    The object of this study was to investigate the attitudes of physicians, nurses and the general public to physician-assisted suicide (PAS), active voluntary euthanasia (AVE) and passive euthanasia (PE) in Finland.

  18. Pneumonia: the demented patient's best friend? Discomfort after starting or withholding antibiotic treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2002-10-01 End-of-life care

    Irrespective of antibiotic treatment, pneumonia causes substantial suffering in demented patients.

  19. Systematic detection and multidisciplinary care of delirium in older medical inpatients: a randomized trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne 2002-10-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Delirium is common and often goes undetected in older patients admitted to medical services.

  20. The experience of dying: an ethnographic nursing home study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2002-10-01 End-of-life care

    The review of the literature disclosed that research on the experience of dying is limited; most of the studies have been conducted in acute care hospitals among people who were dying of cancer.

  21. Long-term persistence in use of statin therapy in elderly patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. JAMA 2002-07-01 How common it is

    Persistence with statin therapy in older patients declines substantially over time, with the greatest drop occurring in the first 6 months of treatment.

  22. An open trial of olanzapine for the treatment of delirium in hospitalized cancer patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Psychosomatics 2002-05-01 Clinical safety

    We conducted an open, prospective trial of olanzapine for the treatment of delirium in a sample of 79 hospitalized cancer patients.

  23. Assessing differences in care needs and service utilization in geriatric palliative care patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of pain and symptom management 2002-05-01 End-of-life care

    Little is known of the palliative care needs and experiences of older adults.

  24. Decision making in terminal care: a survey of finnish doctors' treatment decisions in end-of-life scenarios involving a terminal cancer and a terminal dementia patient

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Palliative medicine 2002-05-01 End-of-life care

    Goals The physicians' decision-making process in terminal care is complex: medical, ethical, legal and psychological aspects are all involved, particularly in critical situations.

  25. Reduced mortality in treating acutely sick, frail older patients in a geriatric evaluation and management unit. A prospective randomized trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2002-05-01 Clinical safety

    Treatment of acutely sick, frail, older patients in a GEMU substantially reduced mortality.

  26. The prevalence and documentation of impaired mental status in elderly emergency department patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Annals of emergency medicine 2002-03-01 Clinical safety

    Study objective We sought to determine the prevalence of mental status impairment in elderly emergency department patients and to assess documentation of and referrals by emergency physicians for mental status impairment after discharge from the ED.

  27. Delirium predicts 12-month mortality

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Archives of internal medicine 2002-02-01 Clinical safety

    Delirium is an independent marker for increased mortality among older medical inpatients during the 12 months after hospital admission.

  28. Development and implementation of an inpatient acute palliative care service

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of palliative medicine 2002-02-01 End-of-life care

    Mount Carmel Health has developed an APCS and APCU integrated into the mainstream of each of its hospitals, providing an opportunity for a more appropriate focus on end-of-life issues for patients with poor prognoses, intense medical needs, and complex family issues.

  29. Delirium in mechanically ventilated patients: validity and reliability of the confusion assessment method for the intensive care unit (CAM-ICU)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. JAMA 2001-12-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Compared with the reference standard for diagnosing delirium, 2 study nurses using the CAM-ICU had sensitivities of 100% and 93%, specificities of 98% and 100%, and high interrater reliability (kappa = 0.96; 95% confidence interval, 0.92-0.99).

  30. Nurses' recognition of delirium and its symptoms: comparison of nurse and researcher ratings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Archives of internal medicine 2001-11-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Delirium occurred in 239 (9%) of 2721 observations or 131 (16%) of 797 patients.

  31. Reduced employment in caregivers of frail elders: impact of ethnicity, patient clinical characteristics, and caregiver characteristics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2001-11-01 Disparities

    Our goal was to determine the patient and caregiver characteristics associated with the reduction of employment hours in caregivers of frail elders.

  32. Delirium in older medical inpatients and subsequent cognitive and functional status: a prospective study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne 2001-09-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Delirium in older hospital inpatients appears to be associated with various adverse outcomes.

  33. Agitation in Demented Patients in an Acute Care Hospital: Prevalence, Disruptiveness, and Staff Burden

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. International Psychogeriatrics 2001-06-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Ninety-five percent of the patients with dementia were reported to have at least one agitated behavior; 75% had at least one moderately disruptive behavior.

  34. Clinical correlates and drug treatment of residents with stroke in long-term care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Stroke 2001-06-01 Disparities

    Stroke is highly prevalent in long-term care.

  35. Development and validation of a prognostic index for 1-year mortality in older adults after hospitalization

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. JAMA 2001-06-01 How common it is

    Our prognostic index, which used 6 risk factors known at discharge and a simple additive point system to stratify medical patients 70 years or older according to 1-year mortality after hospitalization, had good discrimination and calibration and generalized well in an independent sample of patients at a different site.

  36. Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist: evaluation of a new screening tool

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Intensive care medicine 2001-05-01 Getting a diagnosis

    This study suggests that the Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist can easily be applied by a clinician or a nurse in a busy critical care setting to screen all patients even when communication is compromised.

  37. Reducing delirium after hip fracture: a randomized trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2001-05-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Delirium (or acute confusional state) affects 35% to 65% of patients after hip-fracture repair, and has been independently associated with poor functional recovery.

  38. Psychiatric illness and mortality after hip fracture

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Lancet (London, England) 2001-04-01 Clinical safety

    People with dementia or delirium have increased mortality in the 6 months after hip fracture, but depression might take longer to have an effect.

  39. Use of medications with anticholinergic effect predicts clinical severity of delirium symptoms in older medical inpatients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Archives of internal medicine 2001-04-01 Risk factors

    Exposure to ACH medications is independently and specifically associated with a subsequent increase in delirium symptom severity in elderly medical inpatients with diagnosed delirium.

  40. Frailty in Older Adults: Evidence for a Phenotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The Journals of Gerontology Series A 2001-03-01 How common it is

    This study provides a potential standardized definition for frailty in community-dwelling older adults and offers concurrent and predictive validity for the definition.

  41. Perspectives on care at the close of life. Serving patients who may die soon and their families: the role of hospice and other services

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. JAMA 2001-02-01 End-of-life care

    The case story of a 47-year-old man with advanced rectal carcinoma illustrates the professional services and care system strategies available to help clinicians serve patients coming to the end of life.

  42. Anticholinergic effects of medication in elderly patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. The Journal of clinical psychiatry 2001-01-01 Caregiving

    Anticholinergic toxicity is a common problem in the elderly.

  43. Ethnicity and end-of-life care: the use of feeding tubes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Ethnicity & disease 2001-01-01 End-of-life care

    Feeding tube use is significantly more common in Blacks than in Whites.

  44. Validation of the Delirium Rating Scale-revised-98: comparison with the delirium rating scale and the cognitive test for delirium

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences 2001-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The DRS-R-98, a 16-item clinician-rated scale with 13 severity items and 3 diagnostic items, was validated against the Cognitive Test for Delirium (CTD), Clinical Global Impression scale (CGI), and Delirium Rating Scale (DRS) among five diagnostic groups (N=68): delirium, dementia, depression, schizophrenia, and other.

  45. Assessment of pain in cognitively impaired older adults: a comparison of pain assessment tools and their use by nonprofessional caregivers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2000-12-01 End-of-life care

    The mean age of the CI subjects was 83, and 83% were women.

  46. Palliative care consultations: how do they impact the care of hospitalized patients?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of pain and symptom management 2000-09-01 End-of-life care

    To provide a detailed description of the recommendations of a Palliative Care Service (PCS) and to describe the impact of these recommendations on the care of terminally ill patients in an academic medical center, we describe data from all consecutive patients referred by their attending physicians to the PCS of an academic teaching hospital over a 15-month period.

  47. The application of the principles of geriatrics to the management of the older person with cancer

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Critical reviews in oncology/hematology 2000-09-01 Clinical safety

    The risk of comorbid conditions increases with age and may result in underdiagnosis: in older patients, new symptoms may not be clearly recognized by the patient and may be dismissed by practitioners as manifestations of preexisting conditions.

  48. Practice Guidelines for the Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2000-08-01 Risk factors

    The of establishing the diagnosis of pneumonia and cause is with the antibiotic studies for of community-acquired studies for of community-acquired The diagnosis of is based on a of clinical and laboratory The diagnosis of is and and as well as disease, congestive heart failure, with pneumonia and cases of and are of do not require and are the of antibiotic antimicrobial is usually for and a chest radiography is usually to establish the diagnosis of examination to or is for detecting pneumonia Chest radiography is considered is for the etiologic the and or conditions.

  49. Psychiatric illness predicts poor outcome after surgery for hip fracture: a prospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Psychological medicine 2000-07-01 Clinical safety

    Psychiatric illness is common after hip fracture, and has significant effects on important outcomes.

  50. Delirium is independently associated with poor functional recovery after hip fracture

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2000-06-01 How common it is

    Delirium is common, persistent, and independently associated with poor functional recovery 1 month after hip fracture even after adjusting for prefracture frailty.

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