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Functional decline and recovery of activities of daily living in hospitalized, disabled older women: the Women's Health and Aging Study ICynthia M Boyd
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 57:1757-66. 2009..To determine, in disabled, older, community-dwelling women who were hospitalized, the rates and predictors of functional decline, the probability and time course of subsequent functional recovery, and predictors of functional recovery...- Recovery of activities of daily living in older adults after hospitalization for acute medical illnessCynthia M Boyd
Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, School of Medicine, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 56:2171-9. 2008.... 
Frailty, hospitalization, and progression of disability in a cohort of disabled older womenCynthia M Boyd
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Center on Aging and Health, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Med 118:1225-31. 2005..To determine the association between a previously validated frailty phenotype and the development of new-onset dependence in activities of daily living, independent of hospitalizations and other established predictors of disability...
Informing clinical practice guideline development and implementation: prevalence of coexisting conditions among adults with coronary heart diseaseCynthia M Boyd
Division of Geriatric Medicine, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 59:797-805. 2011..To describe the prevalence of coexisting conditions that affect clinical decision-making in adults with coronary heart disease (CHD)...- 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... - 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)... - 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... - 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.... - Physician evaluation and management of Medicare home health patientsJennifer L Wolff
Department of Health Policy and Management, Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Med Care 47:1147-55. 2009..The Medicare home health benefit is predicated on physician referral and involvement. In this study, we investigated (1) the frequency and (2) implications of home health patients' evaluation and management by community physicians... - Difficulty assisting with health care tasks among caregivers of multimorbid older adultsErin R Giovannetti
Division of Geriatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
J Gen Intern Med 27:37-44. 2012..The difficulty they experience in providing this assistance, and related implications for their well-being, have not been well described... - Medicare home health patients' transitions through acute and post-acute care settingsJennifer L Wolff
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Med Care 46:1188-93. 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 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... - Going it together: persistence of older adults' accompaniment to physician visits by a family companionJennifer L Wolff
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Room 692, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 60:106-12. 2012..This study investigates whether older adults who are accompanied to routine physician visits (1) also receive task assistance and (2) continue to be accompanied at 12-months by the same family companion... - 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... - Hospitalization and development of dependence in activities of daily living in a cohort of disabled older women: the Women's Health and Aging Study ICynthia M Boyd
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 60:888-93. 2005..The objective of this study was to determine whether hospitalization predicts long-term Activities of Daily Living (ADL) dependence in previously ADL independent, although disabled, older women... - Framework for evaluating disease severity measures in older adults with comorbidityCynthia M Boyd
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 62:286-95. 2007..Although approaches to classifying severity of individual diseases and conditions have been developed, the utility of these classification systems has not been evaluated in the presence of multiple conditions... - 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... - Agreement between self-report of disease diagnoses and medical record validation in disabled older women: factors that modify agreementCrystal F Simpson
Center on Aging and Health Division of Geriatric Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:123-7. 2004..To determine the agreement between self-report of chronic disease and validated evidence of disease using multiple ascertainment methods and to assess effects of cognition, education, age, and comorbidity... - From Bedside to Bench: summary from the American Geriatrics Society/National Institute on Aging Research Conference on Comorbidity and Multiple Morbidity in Older AdultsCynthia M Boyd
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Aging Clin Exp Res 20:181-8. 2008..Next steps recommended include continuing clarification of terms and conceptual approaches, consideration of developing and improving measures, as well as developing new research directions... - Informing evidence-based decision-making for patients with comorbidity: availability of necessary information in clinical trials for chronic diseasesCynthia M Boyd
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e41601. 2012..Prior studies indicate that patients with comorbidities are frequently excluded from trials but do not address whether information is available in trials to draw conclusions about treatment effects for these patients... - Prevalence of diabetes treatment effect modifiers: the external validity of trials to older adultsCarlos O Weiss
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Baltimore, MD 21224 2734, USA
Aging Clin Exp Res 24:370-6. 2012.... - The Johns Hopkins Geriatric Summer Scholars Program: a model to increase diversity in geriatric medicineCrystal F Simpson
Johns Hopkins Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 53:1607-12. 2005..This article describes the outcomes of the first 3 years of the program, with an emphasis on curriculum development and the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority medical students... - 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... - A framework for organizing and selecting quantitative approaches for benefit-harm assessmentMilo A Puhan
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Room E6153, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
BMC Med Res Methodol 12:173. 2012..Our aim was to review existing quantitative approaches for benefit-harm assessment and to develop an organizing framework that clarifies differences and aids selection of quantitative approaches for a particular benefit-harm assessment... - High prevalence of potential biases threatens the interpretation of trials in patients with chronic diseaseDaniela Vollenweider
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
BMC Med 9:73. 2011..Our aim was to assess such aspects of trial design and analysis for four prevalent chronic diseases... - Quality of care for older patients with diabetes mellitus with comorbidityCynthia M Boyd
J Am Geriatr Soc 54:553-4; author reply 554. 2006 - Clinical features of high-risk older persons identified by predictive modelingMartha L Sylvia
Johns Hopkins HealthCare, 6704 Curtis Street, Glen Burnie, MD 21060, USA
Dis Manag 9:56-62. 2006.... - Guided care: cost and utilization outcomes in a pilot studyMartha L Sylvia
Johns Hopkins HealthCare, Glen Burnie, Maryland 21060, USA
Dis Manag 11:29-36. 2008..If these results are confirmed in larger, randomized studies, GC may help to increase the efficiency of health care for the aging American population... - Debate on DEBATEMartin Fortin
Am Heart J 153:e29; author reply e31-2. 2007 - Patterns of prevalent major chronic disease among older adults in the United StatesCarlos O Weiss
JAMA 298:1160-2. 2007