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| CHARLES BOULTSummaryAffiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Country: USA Publications
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A matched-pair cluster-randomized trial of guided care for high-risk older patientsChad Boult
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Gen Intern Med 28:612-21. 2013..Patients at risk for generating high health care expenditures often receive fragmented, low-quality, inefficient health care. Guided Care is designed to provide proactive, coordinated, comprehensive care for such patients...
Early effects of "Guided Care" on the quality of health care for multimorbid older persons: a cluster-randomized controlled trialChad Boult
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 63:321-7. 2008....- Perspective: transforming chronic care for older personsChad Boult
Roger C Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care, Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Acad Med 83:627-31. 2008.... - Comprehensive primary care for older patients with multiple chronic conditions: "Nobody rushes you through"Chad Boult
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
JAMA 304:1936-43. 2010.... 
A pilot test of the effect of guided care on the quality of primary care experiences for multimorbid older adultsCynthia M Boyd
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:536-42. 2008..The objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of a pilot intervention to enhance the quality of primary care experiences for chronically ill older persons (Guided Care)...- Physician satisfaction with chronic care processes: a cluster-randomized trial of guided careJill A Marsteller
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Ann Fam Med 8:308-15. 2010..This study evaluates the effect of the Guided Care model on primary care physicians' impressions of processes of care for chronically ill older patients... - Effects of guided care on family caregiversJennifer L Wolff
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Gerontologist 50:459-70. 2010..The purpose of this study was to determine whether GC improves patients' primary caregivers' depressive symptoms, strain, productivity, and perceptions of the quality of care recipients' chronic illness care... - Caregiving and chronic care: the guided care program for families and friendsJennifer L Wolff
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 64:785-91. 2009.... - The effect of guided care teams on the use of health services: results from a cluster-randomized controlled trialChad Boult
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Room 693, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Arch Intern Med 171:460-6. 2011..This study aimed to measure the effect of guided care teams on multimorbid older patients' use of health services... - The effects of interdisciplinary outpatient geriatrics on the use, costs and quality of health services in the fee-for-service environmentJoanna Case Famadas
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Aging Clin Exp Res 20:556-61. 2008.... - Guided care and the cost of complex healthcare: a preliminary reportBruce Leff
School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
Am J Manag Care 15:555-9. 2009..Our objective was to evaluate the preliminary effects of GC on health service utilization and costs... - Effects of quality on outcomes in primary care: a review of the literatureChun Ju Hsiao
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Am J Med Qual 23:302-10. 2008..The limited available evidence suggests that higher quality in the personal aspects of primary care is associated with some but not all outcomes of care. Additional research is needed to define these relationships more clearly... - Newly reported chronic conditions and onset of functional dependencyJennifer L Wolff
Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care, Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 53:851-5. 2005..To examine the relationship between newly reported chronic conditions and subsequent functional dependency in older adults... - Morbidity and older persons' perceptions of the quality of their primary careEfrat Shadmi
Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 54:330-4. 2006..To quantify the association between community-dwelling older persons' level of morbidity and their perceptions of the quality of their primary care... - Clinical practice guidelines and quality of care for older patients with multiple comorbid diseases: implications for pay for performanceCynthia M Boyd
Division of Geriatric Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
JAMA 294:716-24. 2005..Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) have been developed to improve the quality of health care for many chronic conditions. Pay-for-performance initiatives assess physician adherence to interventions that may reflect CPG recommendations... - Moving beyond round pegs and square holes: restructuring Medicare to improve chronic careJennifer L Wolff
Department of Health Policy and Management, Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Ann Intern Med 143:439-45. 2005.... - Postdischarge environmental and socioeconomic factors and the likelihood of early hospital readmission among community-dwelling Medicare beneficiariesAlicia I Arbaje
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
Gerontologist 48:495-504. 2008..This study attempts to determine the associations between postdischarge environmental (PDE) and socioeconomic (SES) factors and early readmission to hospitals... - Construct validity of the Work Productivity and Activity Impairment questionnaire across informal caregivers of chronically ill older patientsErin R Giovannetti
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Value Health 12:1011-7. 2009.... - Care needs of higher-functioning nursing home residentsMatthew K McNabney
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Am Med Dir Assoc 8:409-12. 2007..To quantify and characterize the chronic conditions of older Americans who live in nursing homes (NHs) but have minimal disability and might be able to live in less restrictive and less expensive settings... - The geriatric floating interdisciplinary transition teamAlicia I Arbaje
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 5505 Hopkins Bayview Circle, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 58:364-70. 2010..Geri-FITT may be a feasible approach to enhancing inpatient management and transitional care for older adults. Further study of its effect on these and other outcomes in other healthcare settings seems warranted... - The effects of guided care on the perceived quality of health care for multi-morbid older persons: 18-month outcomes from a cluster-randomized controlled trialCynthia M Boyd
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Gen Intern Med 25:235-42. 2010..The quality of health care for older Americans with chronic conditions is suboptimal... - Guided care for multimorbid older adultsCynthia M Boyd
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Gerontologist 47:697-704. 2007..The purpose of this study was to test the feasibility of a new model of health care designed to improve the quality of life and the efficiency of resource use for older adults with multimorbidity... - Successful models of comprehensive care for older adults with chronic conditions: evidence for the Institute of Medicine's "retooling for an aging America" reportChad Boult
Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 57:2328-37. 2009..S. healthcare system. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services would need new statutory flexibility to pay for care by the nurses, social workers, pharmacists, and physicians who staff these promising models... - Identifying workers at risk for high health care expenditures: a short questionnaireChad Boult
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Dis Manag 7:124-35. 2004..Healthcare organizations could use this questionnaire to help target new workers for care management and disease management interventions...
Research Grants
- Guided Care: Integrating High Tech and High TouchCHARLES BOULT; Fiscal Year: 2005....
- Training in Gerontological Health Services ResearchCHARLES BOULT; Fiscal Year: 2007..This program will be conducted by 12 core and eight affiliated faculty members who have demonstrated outstanding sustained commitment, expertise, and productivity in education and research in GHSR. ..
- Guided Care: Integrating High Tech and High TouchCHARLES BOULT; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- Guided Care: Integrating High Tech and High TouchCHARLES BOULT; Fiscal Year: 2009..abstract_text> ..