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Health services, long-term care and technology

1,022 studies in this group. A computer grouped them by what their titles and summaries are about, not by a hand-made list. The name describes most of the group, not every study in it.

Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0). Tap a score to see what makes it up.

Highest usefulness score first. Studies without a score come last.

  1. Epidemiology and economic burden of Lewy body dementia in the United States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Current medical research and opinion 2022-04-20 Costs and economics

    From 2010 to 2016, the incidence and prevalence rates of LBD among Medicare beneficiaries ranged from 0.21%-0.18% and 0.90%-0.83%, respectively.

  2. Memory care reduces nursing home admissions among assisted-living residents with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-01-03 Health systems and care delivery

    Residents in memory-care assisted living had a lower adjusted risk of hospitalization (risk difference = -1.8 percentage points [P = .014], hazard ratio = 0.93 [0.87-1.00]), a lower risk of nursing-home admission (risk difference = -2.2 percentage points [P < .001], hazard ratio = 0.87 [-.79-0.95]), and a lower risk of a long-term nursing home admission (risk difference = -1.1 percentage points [P < .001], hazard ratio = 0.71 [0.57-0.88]).

  3. Association of Dementia Severity and Caregiver Support With Early Discharge From Home Health

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias 2022 Caregiving

    The final cohort consisted of 91 302 Medicare beneficiaries with an ADRD diagnosis.

  4. Periodontal Disease and Risk of Dementia in Medicare Patients with Hepatitis C Virus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Costs and economics

    Of 439,760 HCV patients, the incidence rate of ADRD was higher in patients with periodontal diseases compared to those without (10.84% versus 9.26%, p < 0.001), and those with periodontal disease developed ADRD earlier compared to those without periodontal disease (13.99 versus 21.60 months, p < 0.001).

  5. Caregiver Burden in a Culturally Diverse Memory Clinic Population: The Caregiver Strain Index-Expanded

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2021-10-26 Caregiving

    Informal caregivers in the multicultural memory clinic cohort experienced a high level of caregiver burden (mean CSI-score multicultural cohort: 6.1 [SD: 3.3]; mean CSI-score native Dutch cohort: 4.8 [SD: 3.2]).

  6. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Excess Deaths During the COVID-19 Pandemic, March to December 2020

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Annals of internal medicine 2021-10-05 Disparities

    An estimated 2.88 million deaths occurred between March and December 2020.

  7. Measuring dementia incidence within a cohort of 267,153 older Australians using routinely collected linked administrative data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Scientific reports 2020-05-29 Digital health tools

    To estimate dementia incidence rates using Australian administrative datasets and compare the characteristics of people identified with dementia across different datasets.

  8. Recruitment and retention of underrepresented populations in Alzheimer's disease research: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2019-11-19 Disparities

    Overall, the quantity and quality of available evidence to inform best practices in recruitment, retention, and inclusion of underrepresented populations in ADRD research are low.

  9. The global burden of multiple chronic conditions: A narrative review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Preventive medicine reports 2018-10-19 Risk factors

    Globally, approximately one in three of all adults suffer from multiple chronic conditions (MCCs).

  10. Patient perspectives of the experience of a computerized cognitive assessment in a clinical setting

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2018-07-10 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Careful design and user-testing should be made a priority in the development of computerized assessment interfaces, as well as reevaluating the cognitive assessment process to minimize patient anxiety and discomfort.

  11. Population-based stroke and dementia incidence trends: Age and sex variations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2017-03-28 Digital health tools

    The concomitant decline in stroke and dementia incidence rates may depict how successful stroke prevention has targeted shared risk factors of both conditions, especially at advanced ages where such risk factors are highly prevalent.

  12. The association between aspects of daily life and quality of life of people with dementia living in long-term care facilities: a momentary assessment study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2016-04-12 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The results underline the importance of social interaction and a positive mood for a higher QoL.

  13. Sleep problems and associated comorbidities among adults with Down syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR 2015-11-02 Risk factors

    Sleep apnoea was associated with more common other respiratory concerns, and more frequent visits to physicians, but not with some expected medical comorbidities (cardiac).

  14. Combining billing codes, clinical notes, and medications from electronic health records provides superior phenotyping performance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2015-09-02 Digital health tools

    Multiple EHR components provide a more consistent and higher performance than a single one for the selected phenotypes.

  15. Rationales that Providers and Family Members Cited for the Use of Antipsychotic Medications in Nursing Home Residents with Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2015-01-30 Clinical safety

    Major categories of reasons for use of antipsychotic medications in the 204 NH residents in the study sample were behavioral (n = 171), psychiatric (n = 159), emotional states (n = 105), and cognitive diagnoses or symptoms (n = 114).

  16. Family Caregiver's Perception of Alzheimer's disease and caregiving in Chinese culture

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Social work in public health 2015-01-20 Caregiving

    This study examined the perception of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and caregiving among family caregivers of individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and AD in China.

  17. The Thoughts Questionnaire (TQ) for family caregivers of people with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Dementia (London, England) 2014-10-02 Caregiving

    The level of agreement with dysfunctional thought statements from the Dementia Thoughts Caregivers Questionnaire and Thoughts Questionnaire was low.

  18. Validating the 8 CPCSSN case definitions for chronic disease surveillance in a primary care database of electronic health records

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Annals of family medicine 2014-07-01 Digital health tools

    The CPCSSN diagnostic algorithms showed excellent sensitivity and specificity for hypertension, diabetes, epilepsy, and parkinsonism and acceptable values for the other conditions.

  19. Cornell scale for depression in dementia: study of residents in a northern thai long-term care home

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Psychiatry investigation 2013-12-16 Health systems and care delivery

    ROC analysis revealed a better score for those areas found under the curve for the CSDD-as against the DSM-IV criteria (0.96).

  20. Caregiver burden and needs in frontotemporal dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology 2013-07-31 Caregiving

    It appears that changes in the patients' behavior and in the interpersonal relations between caregivers and patients are associated with caregiver depression.

  21. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews – Issue 4 2008

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine 2008-11-01 Risk factors

    More than 3500 Cochrane Reviews are now available in full, including information on the methods, eligible studies, analyses, results, and conclusions.

  22. Urinary and fecal incontinence in nursing home residents

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Gastroenterology clinics of North America 2008-09 Health systems and care delivery

    Urinary and fecal incontinence are comorbid conditions affecting over 50% of nursing home residents.

  23. Family caregiver burden by relationship to care recipient with dementia in Korea

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.) 2008 Caregiving

    The purpose of this study is to compare demographic and clinical characteristics of caregivers and care recipients by caregiver type (i.e., daughter, son, daughter-in-law, and spouse) and to compare the caregiver burden among each type of caregiver.

  24. Long-term care market competition and nursing home dementia special care units

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Medical care 2007-08 Health systems and care delivery

    Competition from another NH-based SCU was associated with the presence of an SCU in a NH [adjusted odds ratio, 3.3; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.6-6.6] but there were no associations with other measures.

  25. Implementing routine cognitive screening of older adults in primary care: process and impact on physician behavior

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of general internal medicine 2007-04-20 Digital health tools

    Mini-Cog screening by office staff is feasible in primary care practice and has measurable effects on physician behavior.

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