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Comparison of resource utilization for Medicaid dementia patients using nursing homes versus home and community based waivers for long-term careLaura P Sands
School of Nursing, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 2069, USA
Med Care 46:449-53. 2008..Persons with dementia can have complex caregiving needs; it is unknown whether their expenditures and resource utilization differ between community-based versus institutional settings...- Concomitant use of anticholinergics with acetylcholinesterase inhibitors in Medicaid recipients with dementia and residing in nursing homesAnkita Modi
Department of Pharmacy Practice, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 57:1238-44. 2009..To evaluate the extent of concomitant use of anticholinergic and cholinesterase inhibitor medications in Medicaid recipients with dementia residing in nursing homes... - Incremental dementia-related expenditures in a medicaid populationMurtuza F Bharmal
College of Pharmacy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 2091, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 20:73-83. 2012..The objectives of this research were to estimate incremental medical encounters and incremental Medicaid expenditures associated with dementia among Indiana Medicaid recipients 40 years or older in 2004... - Rates of acute care admissions for frail older people living with met versus unmet activity of daily living needsLaura P Sands
School of Nursing, Center on Aging and the Life Course, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 54:339-44. 2006..To determine whether older people who do not have help for their activity of daily living (ADL) disabilities are at higher risk for acute care admissions and whether entry into a program that provides for these needs decreases this risk... - Disparities between black and white patients in functional improvement after hospitalization for an acute illnessLaura P Sands
School of Nursing, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 53:1811-6. 2005.... - What explains differences between dementia patients' and their caregivers' ratings of patients' quality of life?Laura P Sands
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 2069, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 12:272-80. 2004.... - Effect of pre- and postdischarge interventions on breastfeeding outcomes and weight gain among premature infantsAzza H Ahmed
School of Nursing, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs 39:53-63. 2010..To investigate the effect of pre- and postdischarge interventions on breastfeeding outcomes and weight gain among preterm infants... - Predicting change in functional status over quarterly intervals for older adults enrolled in the PACE community-based long-term care programLaura P Sands
School of Nursing, Purdue University, IN 47907 2069, USA
Aging Clin Exp Res 20:419-27. 2008..The study sought to develop and validate a model that predicts older adults' ADL status over quarterly intervals... - Predictors of summer sun safety practice intentions among rural high school studentsHyunyi Cho
Department of Communication, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Am J Health Behav 34:412-9. 2010..To investigate the association between theoretically grounded psychosocial motivators and the sun safety practice intentions of rural youth... - The effects of postoperative pain and its management on postoperative cognitive dysfunctionYun Wang
Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 2069, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 15:50-9. 2007..Those at least risk of experiencing POCD were those who received postoperative analgesia orally... - Cost of health care and quality outcomes of patients at nurse-managed clinicsJennifer A Coddington
Purdue University School of Nursing, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Nurs Econ 26:75-83; quiz 84. 2008..One of the consistent themes in this review is the need for patient volume enhancement and the importance of reimbursement through Medicaid and third-party payers if nurse-managed clinics are to remain viable... - The effects of acute illness on ADL decline over 1 year in frail older adults with and without cognitive impairmentLaura P Sands
Center on Aging, Division of Geriatrics, University of California, San Francisco 94143 1265, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 57:M449-54. 2002..These relationships have not been described for the frailest of older adults whose high rates of acute illness and cognitive impairment put them at the greatest risk for loss of ADL functioning... - Impact of patient selection criteria on prevalence estimates and prevalence of diagnosed dementia in a Medicaid populationMurtuza F Bharmal
Quintiles Strategic Research and Safety, Falls Church, VA, USA
Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord 21:92-100. 2007..The dependence of prevalence estimates upon use of several patient selection criteria to identify patients with dementia also was evaluated... - The relationship of indwelling urinary catheters to death, length of hospital stay, functional decline, and nursing home admission in hospitalized older medical patientsJayna M Holroyd-Leduc
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:227-33. 2007..To determine the association between indwelling urinary catheterization without a specific medical indication and adverse outcomes... - Dual use of bladder anticholinergics and cholinesterase inhibitors: long-term functional and cognitive outcomesKaycee M Sink
Section on Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 56:847-53. 2008..To determine the cognitive and functional consequences of dual use of cholinesterase inhibitors (ChIs) and the bladder anticholinergics oxybutynin or tolterodine... - Social cognition in nursing home residents with and without cognitive impairmentAllyson M Washburn
Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 61:P174-9. 2006..An improved understanding and assessment of the basic cognitive mechanisms underlying the ability of persons with dementia to interact with others would inform the design of interventions to optimize their social functioning... - Cognitive screening predicts magnitude of functional recovery from admission to 3 months after discharge in hospitalized eldersLaura P Sands
UCSF Mt Zion Center on Aging and Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 58:37-45. 2003..We sought to determine whether performance on a cognitive screen at the time of hospital admission predicted the magnitude of functional recovery after hospitalization... - The last 2 years of life: functional trajectories of frail older peopleKenneth E Covinsky
Division of Geriatrics, San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University ofCalifornia at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94121, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 51:492-8. 2003.... - Assessment of social cognition in frail older adults and its association with social functioning in the nursing homeAllyson M Washburn
Institute of Aging, San Francisco, CA 94112, USA
Gerontologist 43:203-12. 2003.... - Prediction of mortality in community-living frail elderly people with long-term care needsElise C Carey
Division of General Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 56:68-75. 2008..To develop and validate a prognostic index for mortality in community-living, frail elderly people... - Apolipoprotein E e4 allele increases the risk of early postoperative delirium in older patients undergoing noncardiac surgeryJacqueline M Leung
Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143 0648, USA
Anesthesiology 107:406-11. 2007..Whether patients who subsequently develop early postoperative delirium have a genetic predisposition that renders them at risk for postoperative delirium has not been determined... - Effect of guided imagery with relaxation on health-related quality of life in older women with osteoarthritisCarol L Baird
Purdue University School of Nursing, West Lafayette IN 47907-2069, USA
Res Nurs Health 29:442-51. 2006..These findings suggest that the effects of GIR on HRQOL are not limited to improvements in pain and mobility. GIR may be an easy-to-use self-management intervention to improve the QOL of older adults with OA... - The role of postoperative analgesia in delirium and cognitive decline in elderly patients: a systematic reviewHarold K Fong
Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143-0648, USA
Anesth Analg 102:1255-66. 2006..However, future investigations of sufficient study size and more standardized methods of defining outcomes are necessary to confirm the current findings... - Reports of financial disability predict functional decline and death in older patients discharged from the hospitalAlexander K Li
Veterans Affairs National Quality Scholars Fellowship Program, San Francisco, CA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 20:168-74. 2005..Therefore, we hypothesize that the inability to pay for basic needs, which we call financial disability, predicts adverse health outcomes in older patients discharged from the hospital... - Variation in care for nonmelanoma skin cancer in a private practice and a veterans affairs clinicMary Margaret Chren
Dermatology Service, Research Enhancement Award Program of the Health Services Research and Development Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California 94121, USA
Med Care 42:1019-26. 2004..Clinical variables that may affect treatment choices can be identified, but little is known about how clinicians choose among therapies... - Diagnosis-related group-adjusted hospital costs are higher in older medical patients with lower functional statusKenneth H Chuang
Veterans Affairs National Quality Scholars Fellowship Program Division of Geriatrics, San Francisco VA Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94121, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 51:1729-34. 2003.... - Unsteadiness reported by older hospitalized patients predicts functional declineElizabeth C Lindenberger
Division of Geriatrics, San Francisco VA Medical Center, California 94121, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 51:621-6. 2003.... - Skin-related quality of life in HIV-infected patients on highly active antiretroviral therapyParadi Mirmirani
Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143 0316, USA
J Cutan Med Surg 6:10-5. 2002..The overall health status and survival of HIV-infected patients has changed with the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). With this improved survival, there is a greater urgency to study quality-of-life issues...
Research Grants
- Progressive Functional Loss in Elders with DependenciesLaura Sands; Fiscal Year: 2006..Further, it will determine the health, functional, psychological and social risks of progressive functional loss in community living older adults with existing functional dependencies and multiple co-morbidities. ..
- Prognostic Significance of Insufficient ADL Help on Health Outcomes/UtilizationLaura P Sands; Fiscal Year: 2010..The results of the proposed research will inform whether subjective assessments of insufficient ADL care complement traditional assessments of need currently used by clinicians, policy makers, and researchers. ..