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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. Examining annual transitions in healthcare spending among U.S. medicare beneficiaries using multistate Markov models: Analysis of medicare current beneficiary survey data, 2003-2019

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Preventive medicine reports 2023-03-24 Health systems and care delivery

    Many studies have examined factors associated with individuals of high or low healthcare spending in a given year.

  2. Effects of Patient Comorbidities and Demographics on Episode-of-Care Costs Following Total Shoulder Arthroplasty

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2023-02-08 Health systems and care delivery

    As demand for shoulder arthroplasty grows, adequate cost containment is of importance.

  3. Overall, uptake was lower among men than among women (odds ratio [OR] 0·91 [95% CI 0·88-0·94]; p<0·0001), and higher among older age groups (1·48 [1·42-1·54] among those aged 65-69 years vs those aged 55-59 years; p<0·0001), groups with less deprivation (1·89 [1·76-2·04] for the most vs the least deprived areas; p<0·0001), individuals of Asian ethnicity (1·14 [1·09-1·20] vs White ethnicity; p<0·0001), and individuals who were former smokers (1·89 [1·83-1·95] vs current smokers; p<0·0001).

  4. HEDIS Measures for Geriatric Care Quality: Evidence, Equity, and a Governance Framework

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 2023-01-30 Health systems and care delivery

    The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set provides the dominant quality measurement framework for Medicare Advantage and commercial health plans, yet HEDIS lacks validated geriatric-specific quality indicators, equitable measurement standards for diverse older adult populations, and governance controls calibrated to the high-stakes Star Ratings financial incentive context.

  5. HEDIS Measures for Geriatric Care Quality: Evidence, Equity, and a Governance Framework

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 27 out of 100. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 2023-01-30 Health systems and care delivery

    The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set provides the dominant quality measurement framework for Medicare Advantage and commercial health plans, yet HEDIS lacks validated geriatric-specific quality indicators, equitable measurement standards for diverse older adult populations, and governance controls calibrated to the high-stakes Star Ratings financial incentive context.

  6. Association of social isolation and loneliness with risk of incident hospital-treated infections: an analysis of data from the UK Biobank and Finnish Health and Social Support studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. The Lancet. Public health 2023-01-17 Long-term cohort studies

    Although loneliness and social isolation have been linked to an increased risk of non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and dementia, their association with the risk of severe infection is uncertain.

  7. Risk factors for falls among community-dwelling older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. Frontiers in medicine 2023-01-06 Clinical safety

    This study provides preliminary evidence that falls among community-dwelling older adults are associated with factors such as age, female gender, fear of falling, history of falls, unclear vision, depression, and balance disorders.

  8. At Home Versus in a Nursing Home: Long-Term Care Settings and Marginal Utility

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Not indexed 2023 Health systems and care delivery

    Marginal utility of financial resources when needing long-term care, and the related incentives for precautionary savings and insurance, may vary significantly by whether one receives care at home or in a nursing home.

  9. At Home versus in a Nursing Home: Long-term Care Settings and Marginal Utility

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Not indexed 2023 Health systems and care delivery

    Marginal utility of financial resources when needing long-term care, and the related incentives for precautionary savings and insurance, may vary significantly by whether one receives care at home or in a nursing home.

  10. Medicare Hospice Policy Changes and Beneficiaries' Rate of Live Discharge and Length-of-Stay

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Journal of pain and symptom management 2022-12-17 Health systems and care delivery

    The 2014 Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act systemized audits of long hospice stays, and the 2016 two-tier payment system decreased daily reimbursement rates after 60 days of enrollment.

  11. Population-Based Estimates of 1-Year Mortality After Major Surgery Among Community-Living Older US Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. JAMA surgery 2022-12-14 Disparities

    From 2011 to 2017, of the 1193 major surgeries (from 992 community-living participants), the mean (SD) age was 79.2 (7.1) years; 665 were women (55.7%), and 30 were Hispanic (2.5%), 198 non-Hispanic Black (16.6%), and 915 non-Hispanic White (76.7%).

  12. The cost of inaction on physical inactivity to public health-care systems: a population-attributable fraction analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. The Lancet. Global health 2022-12-05 Caregiving

    499·2 million new cases of preventable major NCDs would occur globally by 2030 if the prevalence of physical inactivity does not change, with direct health-care costs of INT$520 billion.

  13. Predictors of Documented Goals-of-Care Discussion for Hospitalized Patients With Chronic Illness

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Journal of pain and symptom management 2022-11-22 End-of-life care

    Among hospitalized patients with serious illness, documented goals-of-care discussions identified by NLP were more common among patients with older age and increased burden of acute or chronic illness, and less common among racially or ethnically minoritized patients.

  14. PROFILE OF DECEDENTS FROM A NATIONAL COHORT OF ASSISTED LIVING RESIDENTS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2022-11-01 Health systems and care delivery

    An increasing number of older adults reside in assisted living (AL) toward the end of life, and it remains unclear if this trend represents an additional place of care and end-of-life transition before eventual nursing home admission.

  15. Prevalence of use and characteristics of users of home‐based medical care in Medicare Advantage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022-10-12 Health systems and care delivery

    Overall, 1.45% of the study cohort age ≥65 received HBMC.

  16. Growth of Fee-for-Service Medicare Home-Based Medical Care Within Private Residences and Domiciliary Care Settings in the U.S., 2012-2019

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2022-10-07 Health systems and care delivery

    Home-based medical care (HBMC) delivers physician or advanced practice provider-led medical services for patients in private residences and domiciliary settings (eg, assisted living facilities, group/boarding homes).

  17. Potential association between frailty and pTau in community-dwelling older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. BMC geriatrics 2022-09-26 Biomarkers

    Among the 12 biomarkers, only pTau was higher in frail individuals than in their not-frail peers (471.3 ± 58.1 pg/mL vs. 451.9 ± 61.1 pg/mL, p = 0.022).

  18. Prevalence and Factors Associated with Pain in Nursing Home Residents: A Systematic Review of the Literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2022-09-24 End-of-life care

    This review highlights the complexities of pain in NH residents and has implications for both clinical practice and future research.

  19. Evaluation of Federal Policy Changes to the Hospice Benefit and Use of Hospice for Persons With ADRD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. JAMA health forum 2022-08-18 Health systems and care delivery

    The percentage of new enrollees with an ADRD code dropped significantly during the months of IMPACT passage (-1.42 percentage points; 95% CI, -2.13 to -0.71) and implementation (-1.98 percentage points; 95% CI, -2.70 to -1.26) but rose again during the following months.

  20. Neurological and psychiatric risk trajectories after SARS-CoV-2 infection: an analysis of 2-year retrospective cohort studies including 1 284 437 patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. The lancet. Psychiatry 2022-08-17 Getting a diagnosis

    This analysis of 2-year retrospective cohort studies of individuals diagnosed with COVID-19 showed that the increased incidence of mood and anxiety disorders was transient, with no overall excess of these diagnoses compared with other respiratory infections.

  21. Predictors of returning home after hip fracture: a prospective cohort study using the UK National Hip Fracture Database (NHFD)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Age and Ageing 2022-08-01 Risk factors

    analysis of returning home at discharge included 87,797 patients; 57,104 (65%) were discharged home.

  22. Quality and safety indicators for home care recipients in Australia: development and cross-sectional analyses

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. BMJ Open 2022-08-01 Risk factors

    A comprehensive outcome monitoring system to monitor the quality and safety of care and variation for HCP recipients was developed.

  23. Covid-19 and Aging: Challenges and Opportunities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. The Journals of Gerontology Series A 2022-07-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Very early in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, it became glaringly clear that older persons were at significantly increased risk of infection, severe illness, hospitalization, intensive care and respiratory support, and death.

  24. Cannabis in Palliative Care: A Systematic Review of Current Evidence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. Journal of pain and symptom management 2022-06-12 End-of-life care

    Fifty-two studies (20 randomised; 32 non-randomised) with 4786 participants diagnosed with cancer (n = 4491), dementia (n = 43), AIDS (n = 235), spasticity (n = 16), NORSE syndrome (n = 1) were included.

  25. Effect of a multi-domain lifestyle intervention on cardiovascular risk in older people: the FINGER trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 84 out of 100. European heart journal 2022-06-01 Prevention trials

    A 2-year multi-domain lifestyle intervention among older adults was effective in preventing cerebrovascular events and also total CVD events among those who had history of CVD.

  26. Evaluation of four gamma-based methods for calculating confidence intervals for age-adjusted mortality rates when data are sparse

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Population Health Metrics 2022-05-07 Risk factors

    The three modifications had comparable performance when the number of deaths was large relative to the denominator and the age distribution was as in the standard population.

  27. Characterizing Heterogeneity in Neuroimaging, Cognition, Clinical Symptoms, and Genetics Among Patients With Late-Life Depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. JAMA psychiatry 2022-05-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Late-life depression (LLD) is characterized by considerable heterogeneity in clinical manifestation.

  28. Effects of Changes in Multiple Chronic Conditions on Medical Costs among Older Adults in South Korea

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Healthcare 2022-04-15 Health systems and care delivery

    This study aims to analyze the relationship between cognitive function and out-of-pocket cost of the state change of multiple chronic conditions in individuals aged 60 or older.

  29. Long-term exposure to air pollution and mortality in a Danish nationwide administrative cohort study: Beyond mortality from cardiopulmonary disease and lung cancer

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Environment international 2022-04-12 Disparities

    Long-term exposure to PM 2.5 , NO 2 , and/or BC in Denmark were associated with mortality beyond cardiorespiratory diseases, including diabetes, dementia, psychiatric disorders, asthma, and ALRI.

  30. American Indian and Alaska Native veterans in the Indian Health Service: Health status, utilization, and cost

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. PloS one 2022-04-02 Health systems and care delivery

    Many rural American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) veterans receive care from the Indian Health Service (IHS).

  31. Risk of persistent and new clinical sequelae among adults aged 65 years and older during the post-acute phase of SARS-CoV-2 infection: retrospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. BMJ 2022-02-09 Health systems and care delivery

    Among individuals who were diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2, 32% (27 698 of 87 337) sought medical attention in the post-acute period for one or more new or persistent clinical sequelae, which was 11% higher than the 2020 comparison group.

  32. Initiating second-line antidiabetic medication among older adults with type 2 diabetes on Metformin

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. BMC Geriatrics 2022-02-03 Health systems and care delivery

    Over half of participants (54%) received SFU as initial second-line ADM, 14% received BI, and 32% received another ADM.

  33. Revised recommendations on standards and norms for palliative care in Europe from the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC): A Delphi study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Palliative medicine 2022-02-03 End-of-life care

    Most recommendations on standards and norms for palliative care in Europe remain unchanged since 2009.

  34. Walking and Talking: Recommendations for Doing Mobile Interviews with Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. Journal of Aging and Environment 2022-02-03 Risk factors

    Mobile methods, including walking interviews, have rarely been used in research with older adults.

  35. Benefits and Cost of a $35 Insulin Cost-Sharing Cap for Medicare Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Not indexed 2022-01-07 Health systems and care delivery

    Additionally, it is unknown whether the benefits of this cap would vary between Medicare patients with type 1 versus type 2 diabetes.

  36. In patients aged 65 years and older undergoing hip fracture surgery, regional anesthesia without sedation did not significantly reduce the incidence of postoperative delirium compared with general anesthesia.

  37. Prediction of Postoperative Delirium in Geriatric Hip Fracture Patients: A Clinical Prediction Model Using Machine Learning Algorithms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Geriatric orthopaedic surgery & rehabilitation 2021-12-13 Digital health tools

    The clinical prediction model can play a beneficial role in decision-making for preventative measures for patients at risk of developing a delirium.

  38. Prevalence of Oropharyngeal Dysphagia and Risk of Pneumonia, Malnutrition, and Mortality in Adults Aged 60 Years and Older: A Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Gerontology 2021-12-13 Clinical safety

    Early identification and management of OD should consider geriatric syndromes and neurogenic comorbidities to prevent malnutrition and pneumonia and reduce mortality in adults aged 60 years and older.

  39. Cardiovascular risk prediction in healthy older people

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. GeroScience 2021-11-11 Digital health tools

    Identification of individuals with increased risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) is important.

  40. Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Adult Day Services and the Families They Serve

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias 2021-10-15 Health systems and care delivery

    The COVID-19 pandemic forced adult day services (ADS) to close and abruptly end in-person services to clients.

  41. Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Impact of Delirium on Hospitalized Older Adults With Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2021-10-12 Clinical safety

    These findings suggested high prevalence and detrimental impact of DSD in hospitalized older adults, highlighting a need for early identification, prevention, and treatments.

  42. Child maltreatment and incident mental disorders in middle and older ages: a retrospective UK Biobank cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. The Lancet regional health. Europe 2021-09-27 Long-term cohort studies

    Understanding the mental health consequences of child maltreatment at different life stages is important in accurately quantifying the burden of maltreatment.

  43. Risk prediction of covid-19 related death and hospital admission in adults after covid-19 vaccination: national prospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2021-09-17 Risk factors

    Of 6 952 440 vaccinated patients in the derivation cohort, 5 150 310 (74.1%) had two vaccine doses.

  44. Machine-learning-based COVID-19 mortality prediction model and identification of patients at low and high risk of dying

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Critical care (London, England) 2021-09-08 Digital health tools

    An accurate COVID-19 mortality prediction model among hospitalized patients based on the clinical features and comorbidities may play a beneficial role in the clinical setting to better management of patients with COVID-19.

  45. Association of postoperative delirium with cognitive outcomes: A meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Journal of clinical anesthesia 2021-09-02 Clinical safety

    Main results Eighteen studies were included.

  46. Admissions to High‐Quality Nursing Homes from Community: Racial Differences and Medicaid Policy Effects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Health Services Research 2021-09-01 Risk factors

    Key independent variables included the interaction of NH quality (measured by 5‐star rating) and race (i.e. black versus white), and interaction of NH quality, race, and state Medicaid dementia‐related add‐on policies.

  47. Delirium in critical illness: clinical manifestations, outcomes, and management

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Intensive care medicine 2021-08-16 Risk factors

    Delirium is the most common manifestation of brain dysfunction in critically ill patients.

  48. Risk factors for postoperative delirium: An umbrella review of systematic reviews

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. International journal of surgery (London, England) 2021-08-16 Clinical safety

    Given the wealth of existing literature, future research should avoid simple risk factor evaluation except for novel candidates, validate existing prognostic models where possible, and instead focus on interventional research.

  49. Non-pharmacological interventions for preventing delirium in hospitalised non-ICU patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 81 out of 100. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2021-07-19 Clinical safety

    There is moderate-certainty evidence regarding the benefit of multicomponent non-pharmacological interventions for the prevention of delirium in hospitalised adults, estimated to reduce incidence by 43% compared to usual care.

  50. Machine Learning Algorithm Using Electronic Chart-Derived Data to Predict Delirium After Elderly Hip Fracture Surgeries: A Retrospective Case-Control Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Frontiers in surgery 2021-07-13 Digital health tools

    About 245 patients were included and postoperative delirium affected 12.2% (30/245) of the patients.

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