Study: More Primary Care Physicians Needed by 2025
November 20, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
The United States will need 52,000 additional primary care physicians by 2025 to meet from population growth, population aging and insurance expansion.
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Study Examines How Older Adults and Clinicians View Tradeoffs in Treatment Options
January 13, 2011 | Program Result
From 2007 to 2010, a team of researchers at Yale University School of Medicine conducted a study examining how both older adults and clinicians view the tradeoffs faced by patients facing multiple medical conditions.
Our Neighbors to the North Receive More Physician Services, Pay Less Per Service
November 1, 1996 | Program Result
The Urban Institute analyzed physician services provided to the elderly in the United States and Canada to determine whether cost or quantity controls (or some mixture of the two) have enabled Canada to hold the line on health care expenditures.
Effects of Benefits and Harms on Older Persons' Willingness to Take Medication for Primary Cardiovascular Prevention
May 23, 2011 | Journal Article
A study of older people's willingness to take medication to prevent cardiovascular disease according to their assessment of the medication's benefits and harms found that their willingness to take a medication is predicated more on its harms than on its benefits.
Primary Care Clinicians' Experiences with Treatment Decision Making for Older Persons with Multiple Conditions
January 10, 2011 | Journal Article
A study of how primary care clinicians approach treatment decision-making for older patients with multiple diseases found that clinicians struggle with applying disease-specific guidelines and face a lack of resources and a variety of barriers to determining the ideal approach to care.
Transitions Between Frailty States Among Community-Living Older Persons
February 27, 2006 | Journal Article
The experience of frailty for persons aged 70 or older was examined in the current study. The 754 study participants were part of the Precipitating Events Project that followed older persons over a period of 54 months. Frailty was defined as the pre ...
Resilience of Community-Dwelling Older Persons
February 1, 2004 | Journal Article
While geriatric research has traditionally focused on the diseases and disabilities of old age, recent attention has focused on maintaining well-being. Resilience - defined as the capacity to remain well, recover, or even thrive in the face of adver ...
Serum Urea Nitrogen, Creatinine, and Estimators of Renal Function
May 22, 2004 | Journal Article
The relationship between mortality rate and renal dysfunction for older adults was the focus of the present study. Linearity comparisons were made between predictors of renal functioning (serum urea nitrogen (SUN) level, creatinine level, Modificati ...
Does Hospitalization Impact Survival After Lower Respiratory Infection in Nursing Home Residents?
September 1, 2004 | Journal Article
Lower respiratory infection (LRI) is the leading cause of hospitalization for many nursing home residents. However, hospitalization under these circumstances can be costly and the benefits to the patient have not been widely studied. This study comp ...
Prognostic Effect of Prior Disability Episodes Among Nondisabled Community-Living Older Persons
December 1, 2003 | Journal Article
Assessment of this sample at the 18-month marker was used as the baseline or zero-time for the present study.