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| Richard H FortinskySummaryAffiliation: University of Connecticut Health Center Country: USA Publications
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Primary care physicians' dementia care practices: evidence of geographic variationRichard H Fortinsky
Center on Aging, University of Connecticut Health Center, 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT 06030 5215, USA
Gerontologist 50:179-91. 2010..This article explores primary care physicians' (PCPs) self-reported approaches and barriers to management of patients with dementia, with a focus on comparisons in dementia care practices between PCPs in 2 states...- Dementia care consultation for family caregivers: collaborative model linking an Alzheimer's association chapter with primary care physiciansRichard H Fortinsky
Center on Aging, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030 5215, USA
Aging Ment Health 13:162-70. 2009..The secondary objective is to present evidence on the intervention process to inform the feasibility and sustainability of the model featuring collaboration between primary care physicians and a voluntary sector organization... - Extent of implementation of evidence-based fall prevention practices for older patients in home health careRichard H Fortinsky
Center on Aging, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut 06030, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 56:737-43. 2008..HHA-level comparisons hold the potential to illustrate the extent of diffusion of evidence-based fall prevention practices within and between agencies... 
Fall-risk assessment and management in clinical practice: views from healthcare providersRichard H Fortinsky
Center on Aging, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut 06030 5215, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:1522-6. 2004....- Transition from home care to nursing home: unmet needs in a home- and community-based program for older adultsJulie Robison
Center on Aging, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut 06030, USA
J Aging Soc Policy 24:251-70. 2012..National and state-level policy implications are considered... - Factors associated with skilled nursing facility transfers in dementia-specific assisted livingAnne M Kenny
Center on Aging, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030 5215, USA
Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord 22:255-60. 2008..Medical, functional, and behavioral problems are associated with transitions from assisted living (AL), but limited information is available on those at highest risk for transition... - Risk factors for hospitalization among Medicare home care patientsRichard H Fortinsky
University of Connecticut Health Center, USA
West J Nurs Res 28:902-17. 2006.... 
Racial and ethnic group variations in service use in a national sample of Medicare home health care patients with type 2 diabetes mellitusAmoah Yeboah-Korang
School of Medicine, University of Connecticut, Farmington, Connecticut 06030, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 59:1123-9. 2011..716, 95% CI=0.582-0.880, P=.002) services. Lower use of skilled nursing and rehabilitation services by African Americans and of rehabilitation services by Hispanics warrant further clinical and research attention...- Rehabilitation therapy self-efficacy and functional recovery after hip fractureRichard H Fortinsky
Center on Aging, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut 06030 5215, USA
Int J Rehabil Res 25:241-6. 2002..18; 95% CI = 0.99-1.42; P= 0.07). It is concluded that rehabilitation therapy self-efficacy is a potentially important psychological factor in helping hip fracture patients recover locomotion functioning... - Measuring disability in Medicare home care patients: application of Rasch modeling to the outcome and assessment information setRichard H Fortinsky
Center on Aging, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington 06030 5215, USA
Med Care 41:601-15. 2003.... - Medicare and Medicaid home health and Medicaid waiver services for dually eligible older adults: risk factors for use and correlates of expendituresRichard H Fortinsky
Center on Aging, University of Connecticut Health Center, 263 Farmington Ave, Farmington, CT 06030 5215, USA
Gerontologist 44:739-49. 2004.... - Predictors of compliance with free endoscopic colorectal cancer screening in uninsured adultsJoseph C Anderson
Department of Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030 1845, USA
J Gen Intern Med 26:875-80. 2011..With cost and provider barriers removed, we were able to examine patient related factors influencing compliance with colonoscopy in an ethnically diverse sample of underinsured adults... - Promoting healthy and successful aging in everyday clinical practiceRichard H Fortinsky
University of Connecticut Center on Aging, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030-5215, USA
Conn Med 67:455-60. 2003 - Diagnosis and management of Alzheimer's diseasePatrick P Coll
University of Connecticut Center on Aging, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, USA
Conn Med 67:505-10. 2003..All physicians whose practice includes older patients need to possess some familiarity with the diagnosis and management of Alzheimer's disease... - Data, information, and quality indicators for home healthcare: rapid implementation, what's next?Richard H Fortinsky
Medicine and the Physician Health Services, Center on Aging, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, USA
J Healthc Qual 26:44-51. 2004.... - 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.... - Accuracy in the Outcomes and Assessment Information Set (OASIS): results of a video simulationElizabeth A Madigan
Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH 44106, USA
Res Nurs Health 26:273-83. 2003..Continued monitoring of OASIS data collection accuracy is recommended to maximize the value of the OASIS instrument in home health care research, practice, and policy... - Loss of independence in activities of daily living in older adults hospitalized with medical illnesses: increased vulnerability with ageKenneth E Covinsky
Division of Geriatrics, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 51:451-8. 2003..To describe the changes in activities of daily living (ADL) function occurring before and after hospital admission in older people hospitalized with medical illness and to assess the effect of age on loss of ADL function... - Efficacy of a geriatrics team intervention for residents in dementia-specific assisted living facilities: effect on unanticipated transitionsSandra Bellantonio
Baystate Medical Center Tufts University School of Medicine, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 56:523-8. 2008..To determine whether a multidisciplinary team intervention minimizes unanticipated transitions from assisted living for persons with dementia... - Physicians' views on dementia care and prospects for improved clinical practiceRichard H Fortinsky
Aging Clin Exp Res 19:341-3. 2007 - Perceptions of physicians on the barriers and facilitators to integrating fall risk evaluation and management into practiceWilliam C Chou
Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:117-22. 2006..Falls are common, treatable, and result in considerable morbidity in older adults. However, fall risk factor evaluation and management targeted at high-risk patients is largely neglected in clinical practice... - Changes in physical therapy providers' use of fall prevention strategies following a multicomponent behavioral change interventionCynthia J Brown
University of Alabama at Birmingham, VAMC GRECC 11 G Room 8225, 1530 3rd Ave S, Birmingham, AL 35294 0001, USA
Phys Ther 85:394-403. 2005.... - 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... - Dissemination of an evidence-based multicomponent fall risk-assessment and -management strategy throughout a geographic areaDorothy I Baker
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
J Am Geriatr Soc 53:675-80. 2005..Project results have implications for efforts to diffuse evidence-based practices for multifactorial geriatric conditions such as falls... - Interrater reliability of the outcomes and assessment information set: results from the fieldElizabeth A Madigan
Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106 4904, USA
Gerontologist 44:689-92. 2004..60. We conclude that OASIS item interrater reliability was highly adequate in this study, but we recommend routine interrater-reliability evaluation by agencies to maximize the quality of OASIS data nationally... - 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.... - OASIS is here to stay. Where do you go from here?Elizabeth A Madigan
International Health, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Caring 21:6-8; quiz 9-10. 2002..The authors focus on factors affecting OASIS accuracy within the agency and strategies to evaluate and improve OASIS accuracy...