ROBIN KRUSE

Summary

Affiliation: University of Missouri
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Conducting the ACTIVE randomized trial in hospice care: keys to success
    Robin L Kruse
    Curtis W and Ann H Long Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65212, USA
    Clin Trials 10:160-9. 2013
  2. ncbi Internet use by primary care patients: where is the digital divide?
    Robin L Kruse
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia 65212, USA
    Fam Med 44:342-7. 2012
  3. ncbi Intention-to-treat analysis: who is in? Who is out?
    Robin L Kruse
    Department of Family Community Medicine, University of Missouri Columbia School of Medicine, M228 Medical Sciences Bldg, Columbia, MO 65212, USA
    J Fam Pract 51:969-71. 2002
  4. ncbi Using mortality risk scores for long-term prognosis of nursing home residents: caution is recommended
    Robin L Kruse
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65212, USA
    J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 65:1235-41. 2010
  5. ncbi Data management for prospective research studies using SAS software
    Robin L Kruse
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO 65212, USA
    BMC Med Res Methodol 8:61. 2008
  6. ncbi Antibiotic treatment and survival of nursing home patients with lower respiratory tract infection: a cross-national analysis
    Robin L Kruse
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65212, USA
    Ann Fam Med 3:422-9. 2005
  7. ncbi Does hospitalization impact survival after lower respiratory infection in nursing home residents?
    Robin L Kruse
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65212, USA
    Med Care 42:860-70. 2004
  8. ncbi Issues and questions to consider in implementing secure electronic patient-provider web portal communications systems
    Douglas S Wakefield
    Center for Health Care Quality and Department of Health Management and Informatics, University of Missouri, MO 65212, USA
    Int J Med Inform 79:469-77. 2010
  9. ncbi Defining severe dementia with the Minimum Data Set
    Jenny T van der Steen
    EMGO Institute of the VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 21:1099-106. 2006
  10. ncbi Treatment strategy and risk of functional decline and mortality after nursing-home acquired lower respiratory tract infection: two prospective studies in residents with dementia
    Jenny T van der Steen
    Department of Nursing Home Medicine, EMGO Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 22:1013-9. 2007

Research Grants

  1. The Effects of Acute Events on ADL Trajectories of Nursing Home Residents
    ROBIN KRUSE; Fiscal Year: 2009
  2. The Effects of Acute Events on ADL Trajectories of Nursing Home Residents
    Robin L Kruse; Fiscal Year: 2010

Detail Information

Publications26

  1. ncbi Conducting the ACTIVE randomized trial in hospice care: keys to success
    Robin L Kruse
    Curtis W and Ann H Long Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65212, USA
    Clin Trials 10:160-9. 2013
    ..Interdisciplinary team meetings conducted in hospices every 2 weeks provide an opportunity for hospice staff to communicate about pain management with informal caregivers of hospice patients...
  2. ncbi Internet use by primary care patients: where is the digital divide?
    Robin L Kruse
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia 65212, USA
    Fam Med 44:342-7. 2012
    ..We examined how primary care patients use the Internet, particularly patient characteristics associated with Internet use...
  3. ncbi Intention-to-treat analysis: who is in? Who is out?
    Robin L Kruse
    Department of Family Community Medicine, University of Missouri Columbia School of Medicine, M228 Medical Sciences Bldg, Columbia, MO 65212, USA
    J Fam Pract 51:969-71. 2002
    ..Nineteen of the 92 studies excluded more than 5% of randomized participants, and 10 excluded more than 10%. There is considerable variation in how researchers define and apply the principle of intention to treat...
  4. ncbi Using mortality risk scores for long-term prognosis of nursing home residents: caution is recommended
    Robin L Kruse
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65212, USA
    J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 65:1235-41. 2010
    ..We compared performance of four long-term mortality risk indices for nursing home residents-the Minimum Data Set Mortality Risk Index (MMRI), a recent revision to this index (MMRI-R), and the original and revised Flacker-Kiely models...
  5. ncbi Data management for prospective research studies using SAS software
    Robin L Kruse
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO 65212, USA
    BMC Med Res Methodol 8:61. 2008
    ..Maintaining data quality and integrity is important for research studies involving prospective data collection. Data must be entered, erroneous or missing data must be identified and corrected if possible, and an audit trail created...
  6. ncbi Antibiotic treatment and survival of nursing home patients with lower respiratory tract infection: a cross-national analysis
    Robin L Kruse
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65212, USA
    Ann Fam Med 3:422-9. 2005
    ....
  7. ncbi Does hospitalization impact survival after lower respiratory infection in nursing home residents?
    Robin L Kruse
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65212, USA
    Med Care 42:860-70. 2004
    ..Lower respiratory infection (LRI) is the leading cause of hospitalization for nursing home residents, but hospitalization is costly and may cause complications...
  8. ncbi Issues and questions to consider in implementing secure electronic patient-provider web portal communications systems
    Douglas S Wakefield
    Center for Health Care Quality and Department of Health Management and Informatics, University of Missouri, MO 65212, USA
    Int J Med Inform 79:469-77. 2010
    ..However, healthcare organizations face significant challenges in providing such highly personal and sensitive communication in an effective and user-friendly manner...
  9. ncbi Defining severe dementia with the Minimum Data Set
    Jenny T van der Steen
    EMGO Institute of the VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 21:1099-106. 2006
    ..Accurately defining severe dementia is important for care and prognosis, but is not explicitly included in the Minimum Data Set (MDS)...
  10. ncbi Treatment strategy and risk of functional decline and mortality after nursing-home acquired lower respiratory tract infection: two prospective studies in residents with dementia
    Jenny T van der Steen
    Department of Nursing Home Medicine, EMGO Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 22:1013-9. 2007
    ..Few large prospective studies have been conducted...
  11. ncbi Simplifying alcohol assessment: two questions to identify alcohol use disorders
    Daniel C Vinson
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65212, USA
    Alcohol Clin Exp Res 31:1392-8. 2007
    ..We therefore sought to develop and validate a brief assessment instrument using DSM-IV criteria for use in primary care medical practice...
  12. ncbi Dementia, lower respiratory tract infection, and long-term mortality
    Jenny T van der Steen
    EMGO Institute of the VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    J Am Med Dir Assoc 8:396-403. 2007
    ..To examine long-term mortality and its determinants in nursing home residents with dementia diagnosed with a lower respiratory tract infection (LRI)...
  13. ncbi Prediction of 6-month mortality in nursing home residents with advanced dementia: validity of a risk score
    Jenny T van der Steen
    Department of Nursing Home Medicine, EMGO Institute of the VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    J Am Med Dir Assoc 8:464-8. 2007
    ..We aim to validate a risk score that uses Minimum Data Set (MDS) to estimate 6-month mortality for nursing home residents with advanced dementia...
  14. ncbi Predictors of mortality for lower respiratory infections in nursing home residents with dementia were validated transnationally
    Jenny T van der Steen
    EMGO Institute, VU University Medical Center, Van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    J Clin Epidemiol 59:970-9. 2006
    ..Generalizability of clinical predictors for mortality from lower respiratory infection (LRI) in nursing home residents has not been assessed for residents with dementia...
  15. ncbi The cost of treating pneumonia in the nursing home setting
    Robin L Kruse
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia, MO, USA
    J Am Med Dir Assoc 4:81-9. 2003
    ..For residents at low risk of mortality, using less expensive antibiotics and reducing ED evaluation could result in cost reductions, although the effect on outcomes is unknown...
  16. ncbi Home-based comprehensive assessment of rural elderly persons: the CARE project
    David D Cravens
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri Columbia School of Medicine, Columbia, MO 65212, USA
    J Rural Health 21:322-8. 2005
    ..We sought to develop and pilot a model of rural home-based CGA to determine whether successful urban models can be adapted to rural areas...
  17. ncbi Treatment of nursing home residents with dementia and lower respiratory tract infection in the United States and The Netherlands: an ocean apart
    Jenny T van der Steen
    Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine EMGO Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    J Am Geriatr Soc 52:691-9. 2004
    ..To compare treatment of nursing home residents with dementia and lower respiratory tract infection (LRI) in Missouri and the Netherlands...
  18. ncbi Effect of do-not-resuscitate orders on hospitalization of nursing home residents evaluated for lower respiratory infections
    Steven C Zweig
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri Columbia School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri 65212, USA
    J Am Geriatr Soc 52:51-8. 2004
    ....
  19. ncbi Semen quality in relation to biomarkers of pesticide exposure
    Shanna H Swan
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, MA 306 Medical Sciences Building, University of Missouri Columbia School of Medicine, Columbia, MO 65212, USA
    Environ Health Perspect 111:1478-84. 2003
    ..These associations between current-use pesticides and reduced semen quality suggest that agricultural chemicals may have contributed to the reduction in semen quality in fertile men from mid-Missouri we reported previously...
  20. ncbi Predictors of short-term functional decline in survivors of nursing home-acquired lower respiratory tract infection
    Ellen F Binder
    Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA
    J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 58:60-7. 2003
    ....
  21. ncbi Lower respiratory infections in nursing home residents with dementia: a tale of two countries
    David R Mehr
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri Columbia, M228 Medical Sciences Building, 1 Hospital Drive, Columbia, MO 65212, USA
    Gerontologist 43:85-93. 2003
    ..We compared treatment and mortality in U.S. and Dutch nursing home residents with lower respiratory infections (LRI), which are often the immediate cause of death in dementia...
  22. ncbi Geographic differences in semen quality of fertile U.S. males
    Shanna H Swan
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri Columbia School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri 65212, USA
    Environ Health Perspect 111:414-20. 2003
    ..These data suggest that sperm concentration and motility may be reduced in semirural and agricultural areas relative to more urban and less agriculturally exposed areas...
  23. ncbi Nursing assessment of iII nursing home residents
    Cathy R Barry
    Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63108, USA
    J Gerontol Nurs 28:4-7. 2002
  24. ncbi Characteristics of smoking cessation guideline use by primary care physicians
    Daniel R Longo
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine, USA
    Mo Med 103:180-4. 2006
    ..quot;Reliance on respected colleagues for advice" was the one variable consistently identified as a predictor of guideline compliance...
  25. ncbi The ACGME core competencies: a national survey of family medicine program directors
    John E Delzell
    Department of Family Medicine, University of Tennessee, USA
    Fam Med 37:576-80. 2005
    ..Beginning in July 2002, all residencies were required to show that their residents were obtaining competency in six core areas defined by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)...
  26. ncbi Household composition and risk of fatal child maltreatment
    Michael N Stiffman
    HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55125, USA
    Pediatrics 109:615-21. 2002
    ..Our objective was to evaluate household composition as a risk factor for fatal child maltreatment...

Research Grants3

  1. The Effects of Acute Events on ADL Trajectories of Nursing Home Residents
    ROBIN KRUSE; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ....
  2. The Effects of Acute Events on ADL Trajectories of Nursing Home Residents
    Robin L Kruse; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ....