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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. Clinical Characterization and Prediction of Clinical Severity of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among US Adults Using Data From the US National COVID Cohort Collaborative

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. JAMA network open 2021-07-01 Digital health tools

    This cohort study found that COVID-19 mortality decreased over time during 2020 and that patient demographic characteristics and comorbidities were associated with higher clinical severity.

  2. Going back home digitally: gift for patients with end-stage heart failure

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 27 out of 100. European Heart Journal - Digital Health 2021-07-01 Risk factors

    Fortunately, in our experience, five of the six patients were likely to be satisfied with these digital experiences.

  3. Adverse Health Effects of Frailty: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Middle-Aged and Older Adults With Implications for Evidence-Based Practice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Worldviews on evidence-based nursing 2021-06-02 Clinical safety

    We collected a total of 29 prospective studies for the systematic literature review and meta-analysis.

  4. Social determinants of health in total knee arthroplasty : are social factors associated with increased 30-day post-discharge cost of care and length of stay?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The bone & joint journal 2021-06-01 Disparities

    Divorced marital status was significantly associated with an increased LOS following TKA.

  5. Geographical Variability in Mortality in Urban Areas: A Joint Analysis of 16 Causes of Death

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2021-05-25 Risk factors

    The geographical distribution of mortality has frequently been studied.

  6. Age and frailty are independently associated with adverse outcomes in COVID-19.

  7. Barriers to telehealth access among homebound older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021-04-13 Caregiving

    The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a large and dramatic shift to video-based telehealth use in home-based primary care.

  8. 6-month neurological and psychiatric outcomes in 236 379 survivors of COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study using electronic health records

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. The lancet. Psychiatry 2021-04-06 Getting a diagnosis

    As with incidences, HRs were higher in patients who had more severe COVID-19 (eg, those admitted to ITU compared with those who were not: 1·58, 1·50-1·67, for any diagnosis; 2·87, 2·45-3·35, for any first diagnosis).

  9. Use of antipsychotics in Denmark 1997-2018: a nation-wide drug utilisation study with focus on off-label use and associated diagnoses

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences 2021-04-06 End-of-life care

    We aimed to explore diagnoses associated with antipsychotic use, treatment patterns and characteristics of users without diagnoses relevant to antipsychotic treatment.

  10. Physical inactivity and non-communicable disease burden in low-income, middle-income and high-income countries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. British journal of sports medicine 2021-03-29 Caregiving

    The global burden associated with physical inactivity is substantial.

  11. Early specialist PC exposure reduced the risk of hospital-based acute care in the last 30 days of life for all chronic disease groups except dementia.

  12. Excess mortality for care home residents during the first 23 weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic in England: a national cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. BMC Medicine 2021-03-04 Health systems and care delivery

    Up to 7 August 2020, there were 29,542 (95% CI 25,176 to 33,908) excess deaths in all care homes.

  13. Comparison of Palliative Care Delivery in the Last Year of Life Between Adults With Terminal Noncancer Illness or Cancer

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. JAMA network open 2021-03-01 End-of-life care

    A lower proportion of patients with cancer had palliative care initiated in the home (16 088 [14.5%]) compared with patients with chronic organ failure (6904 [32.8%]; absolute difference, -18.3%) or dementia (3922 [27.9%]; absolute difference, -13.4%).

  14. Trends in predominant causes of death in individuals with and without diabetes in England from 2001 to 2018: an epidemiological analysis of linked primary care records

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology 2021-02-04 Caregiving

    We estimated how all-cause mortality and cause-specific mortality in people with diabetes have changed over time, how the composition of the mortality burden has changed, and how this composition compared with that of the non-diabetes population.

  15. How many people will need palliative care in Scotland by 2040? A mixed-method study of projected palliative care need and recommendations for service delivery

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. BMJ open 2021-02-03 Digital health tools

    By 2040 more people in Scotland are projected to die with palliative care needs, and the complexity of need will increase markedly.

  16. The economic cost of delirium: A systematic review and quality assessment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-01-21 Clinical safety

    This review found significant variation among the cost estimates and methodological quality.

  17. 6-month consequences of COVID-19 in patients discharged from hospital: a cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Lancet (London, England) 2021-01-08 How common it is

    After multivariable adjustment, patients showed an odds ratio (OR) 1·61 (95% CI 0·80-3·25) for scale 4 versus scale 3 and 4·60 (1·85-11·48) for scale 5-6 versus scale 3 for diffusion impairment; OR 0·88 (0·66-1·17) for scale 4 versus scale 3 and OR 1·77 (1·05-2·97) for scale 5-6 versus scale 3 for anxiety or depression, and OR 0·74 (0·58-0·96) for scale 4 versus scale 3 and 2·69 (1·46-4·96) for scale 5-6 versus scale 3 for fatigue or muscle weakness.

  18. Compared with men, women had decreased risk of any LEA (hazard ratio [HR], 0.34 [95% CI, 0.31-0.37]).

  19. A Web-Based Multidomain Lifestyle Intervention for Older Adults: The eMIND Randomized Controlled Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 81 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2021-01-01 Prevention trials

    Providing multidomain lifestyle training through a web-platform is feasible and well-accepted, but the training should be challenging enough and adequately progress according to participants' capabilities to increase adherence.

  20. International Exercise Recommendations in Older Adults (ICFSR): Expert Consensus Guidelines

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2021-01-01 Risk factors

    Ageing and a sedentary lifestyle are associated with declines in muscle function and cardiorespiratory fitness, resulting in an impaired capacity to perform daily activities and maintain independent functioning.

  21. Trends in Noninvasive and Invasive Mechanical Ventilation Among Medicare Beneficiaries at the End of Life

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. JAMA internal medicine 2021-01-01 End-of-life care

    Compared with 2000, the adjusted odds ratio (AOR) for the increase in NIV use was 2.63 (95% CI, 2.46-2.82; % receipt: 0.8% vs 2.0%) for 2005 and 11.84 (95% CI, 11.11-12.61; % receipt: 0.8% vs 7.1%) for 2017.

  22. How to measure the effects and potential adverse events of palliative sedation? An integrative review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Palliative medicine 2020-12-14 End-of-life care

    There are palliative care validated instruments to assess the sedation effect but this review shows the need for a more standardized approach when assessing it.

  23. Clinical Characteristics, Frailty, and Mortality of Residents With COVID-19 in Nursing Homes of a Region of Madrid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2020-12-11 End-of-life care

    Mortality of the residents living in NHs with COVID-19 was almost 45%.

  24. Prognostic factors for severity and mortality in patients infected with COVID-19: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. PloS one 2020-11-17 Risk factors

    Identified prognostic factors can help clinicians and policy makers in tailoring management strategies for patients with COVID-19 infectious disease while researchers can utilise our findings to develop multivariable prognostic models that could eventually facilitate decision-making and improve patient important outcomes.

  25. Antibiotic use during end-of-life care: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Infection control and hospital epidemiology 2020-11-11 End-of-life care

    Future studies are needed to evaluate the benefits and harms of using antibiotics for patients during EOL care in diverse patient populations.

  26. The risk factors for postoperative delirium in adult patients after hip fracture surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2020-10-29 Clinical safety

    Patients possessed above risk factors might be high-risk patients.

  27. Elderly Perception of Distance to the Grocery Store as a Reason for Feeling Food Insecurity—Can Food Policy Limit This?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Nutrients 2020-10-19 Risk factors

    The sense of food insecurity in a group of elderly people may be determined by the perception of distance to food outlets.

  28. Machine Learning to Develop and Internally Validate a Predictive Model for Post-operative Delirium in a Prospective, Observational Clinical Cohort Study of Older Surgical Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Journal of general internal medicine 2020-10-19 Digital health tools

    We developed machine learning prediction models for post-operative delirium that performed better than chance and are comparable with traditional stepwise logistic regression.

  29. In this systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials of patients with primarily noncancer illness, palliative care, compared with usual care, was statistically significantly associated with less acute health care use and modestly lower symptom burden, but there was no significant difference in quality of life.

  30. Preexisting Comorbidities Predicting COVID-19 and Mortality in the UK Biobank Community Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2020-10-01 How common it is

    There are specific high-risk preexisting comorbidities for COVID-19 hospitalization and related deaths in community-based older men and women.

  31. COVID‐19 Pandemic in Assisted Living Communities: Results from Seven States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020-09-21 Risk factors

    State case fatality ranged from 3.32% in North Carolina to 9.26% in Connecticut, but for ALs in these states it was 12.89% and 31.59%, respectively.

  32. Are family carers part of the care team providing end-of-life care? A qualitative interview study on the collaboration between family and professional carers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Palliative medicine 2020-09-15 End-of-life care

    This qualitative study about the experiences and perceptions of family carers of people with a chronic life-limiting illness living at home regarding the collaboration with different healthcare providers in the last phase life, showed that family carers experience a lot of possibilities, but perceive missed opportunities as well, for healthcare professionals to effectively collaborate with them for palliative care.

  33. Comorbidities associated with mortality in 31,461 adults with COVID-19 in the United States: A federated electronic medical record analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. PLoS medicine 2020-09-10 Disparities

    At the beginning of June 2020, there were nearly 7 million reported cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide and over 400,000 deaths in people with COVID-19.

  34. Deconstructing the Complexities of Advance Care Planning Outcomes: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go? A Scoping Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020-09-07 End-of-life care

    ACP is complex, and trial characteristics were heterogeneous.

  35. Race Differences in Characteristics and Experiences of Black and White Caregivers of Older Americans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. The Gerontologist 2020-09-01 Disparities

    Relative to white caregivers, blacks more often provided in excess of 40 hr of care per week (54.3% vs 38.6%) and more often cared for an older adult with dementia (27.1% vs 20.7%) who was living below the federal poverty line (31.7% vs 11.9%) or was Medicaid-eligible (42.2% vs 11.8%).

  36. Discontinuation of Statins in Veterans Admitted to Nursing Homes near the End of Life

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020-08-12 End-of-life care

    Most veterans with LLE/AD taking statins for secondary prevention do not discontinue statins following CLC admission.

  37. Evaluation of Racial Disparities in Hospice Use and End-of-Life Treatment Intensity in the REGARDS Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. JAMA network open 2020-08-03 Disparities

    Black decedents were less likely than White decedents to use hospice for 3 or more days (132 of 378 [34.9%] vs 385 of 834 [46.2%]; P Conclusions and relevance Despite the increase in the use of hospice care in recent decades, racial disparities in the use of hospice remain, especially for noncancer deaths.

  38. Prevention and Management of Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine 2020-08-03 Prevention and risk

    Delirium is a debilitating form of brain dysfunction frequently encountered in the intensive care unit (ICU).

  39. Advance Care Planning Video Intervention Among Long-Stay Nursing Home Residents: A Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 83 out of 100. JAMA internal medicine 2020-08-01 End-of-life care

    There was no significant reduction in hospital transfers per 1000 person-days alive in the intervention vs control groups (rate [SE], 3.7 [0.2]; 95% CI, 3.4-4.0 vs 3.9 [0.3]; 95% CI, 3.6-4.1; rate difference [SE], -0.2 [0.3]; 95% CI, -0.5 to 0.2).

  40. Does Medicaid Hcbs Generosity Influence Nursing Home Placement for Dually Eligible Adrd Patients?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Health Services Research 2020-08-01 Risk factors

    After accounting for individual and county level covariates, we found that a 10 percentage‐point increase in HCBS breadth among individuals with ADRD was associated with 1.1 percentage point reduction (P < 0.01) in the likelihood of NH placement.

  41. Early integration of palliative care in a long-term care home: A telemedicine feasibility pilot study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Palliative & supportive care 2020-08-01 End-of-life care

    For the 61 residents, the average age of the residents was 87 years, with 61% being female and 69% having dementia as the primary diagnosis.

  42. Is Being Home Good for Your Health? Outcomes of Medicaid Home‐ and Community‐Based Long‐Term Care Relative to Nursing Home Care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Health Services Research 2020-08-01 Risk factors

    We combine the MAX data with Medicare claims to identify hospital admissions, our main outcome variable, and with state and county data on the percent of individuals receiving HCBS versus nursing home care.

  43. Antihypertensive Deprescribing in Older Adult Veterans at End of Life Admitted to Veteran Affairs Nursing Homes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2020-07-25 End-of-life care

    Real-world deprescribing patterns of antihypertensives among NH residents with HTN and LLE/AD appear to reflect variation in recommendations for HTN treatment intensity and individualization of patient care in a population with potential overtreatment.

  44. Studies implementing research methods (30 studies) demonstrated the role of family members as both proxy decision-makers and supporting decision-making for the person with impaired capacity.

  45. Association between palliative care and healthcare outcomes among adults with terminal non-cancer illness: population based matched cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2020-07-06 End-of-life care

    These findings highlight the potential benefits of palliative care in some non-cancer illnesses.

  46. Economic Burden of Postoperative Neurocognitive Disorders Among US Medicare Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. JAMA network open 2020-07-01 Clinical safety

    The findings of this cohort study suggest that among older Medicare patients undergoing surgical treatment, a diagnosis of a PND was associated with an increase in health care costs for up to 1 year following the surgical procedure.

  47. Family Caregiving at the End of Life and Hospice Use: A National Study of Medicare Beneficiaries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2020-06-30 End-of-life care

    Older adults at the end of life receive a high number of hours of help at the end of life, many from more than one caregiver, which may shape hospice access.

  48. Frailty and Mortality in Hospitalized Older Adults With COVID-19: Retrospective Observational Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2020-06-09 Clinical safety

    Although their prognosis is worse, even the oldest and most severely frail patients may benefit from hospitalization for COVID-19, if sufficient resources are available.

  49. 1414-P: Characteristics Associated with Sulfonylureas and Basal Insulin Use following Metformin in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Diabetes 2020-06-01 Health systems and care delivery

    Further research is needed to elucidate factors underlying differences in SFU and BI prescribing patterns.

  50. IoT Wearable Sensors and Devices in Elderly Care: A Literature Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) 2020-05-16 Digital health tools

    The increasing ageing global population is causing an upsurge in ailments related to old age, primarily dementia and Alzheimer's disease, frailty, Parkinson's, and cardiovascular disease, but also a general need for general eldercare as well as active and healthy ageing.

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