Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

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  Año 2009, Vol. 57, Número 3

  • Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation of Fever and Infection in Older Adult Residents of Long-Term Care Facilities: 2008 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

    Kevin P. High

    págs. 375-394

    

  • Fewer Emergency Readmissions and Better Quality of Life for Older Adults at Risk of Hospital Readmission: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Determine the Effectiveness of a 24-Week Exercise and Telephone Follow-Up Program

    Courtney Mary, et. al.

    págs. 395-402

    

  • Risk of Dementia in Older Breast Cancer Survivors: A Population-Based Cohort Study of the Association with Adjuvant Chemotherapy

    Nancy N. Baxter, Sara B. Durham, Kelly-Anne Phillips, Elizabeth B. Habermann, Beth A. Virning

    págs. 403-411

    

  • Persistent Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Up-to-Date Colorectal Cancer Testing in Medicare Enrollees

    Pamela Green, Daniel J. Tancredi, Peter Franks, Laura-Mae Baldwin, Joshua J. Fenton

    págs. 412-418

    

  • Body Mass Index and Risk of Adverse Cardiac Events in Elderly Patients with Hip Fracture: A Population-Based Study

    Batsis John A., et. al., John A. Batsis

    págs. 419-426

    

  • Association Between Anticholinergic Drugs and Apolipoprotein E ɛ4 Allele and Poorer Cognitive Function in Older Cardiovascular Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study

    Uusvaara Juho, et. al.

    págs. 427-431

    

  • Long-Term Function in an Older Cohort—The Cardiovascular Health Study All Stars Study

    Anne B. Newman

    págs. 432-440

    

  • Scheduled Bright Light for Treatment of Insomnia in Older Adults

    Friedman Leah, et. al.

    págs. 441-452

    

  • Cognitive Impairment Improves the Predictive Validity of the Phenotype of Frailty for Adverse Health Outcomes: The Three-City Study

    José Alberto Avila Funes

    págs. 453-461

    

  • Which Providers Should Communicate Which Critical Information About a New Medication? Patient, Pharmacist, and Physician Perspectives

    Camille S. Cipri, Neil S. Wenger, Derjung M. Tarn, Debora A. Paterniti, Bradley R. Williams

    págs. 462-469

    

  • Responsiveness and Clinical Utility of the Geriatric Self-Efficacy Index for Urinary Incontinence

    Tannenbaum Cara, et. al., Cara Tannenbaum

    págs. 470-475

    

  • Long-Term Effect on Mortality of a Home Intervention that Reduces Functional Difficulties in Older Adults: Results from a Randomized Trial

    Sandy Schinfeld, Laura N. Gitlin, Marie P. Dennis, Walter W. Hauck, Laraine Winter, Nancy Hodgson

    págs. 476-481

    

  • Respiratory Syncytial Virus Outbreak in a Long-Term Care Facility Detected Using Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction: An Argument for Real-Time Detection Methods

    Caram L. Brett, et. al.

    págs. 482-485

    

  • The Nursing Home Minimum Data Set for Vision and Its Association with Visual Acuity and Contrast Sensitivity

    Cynthia Owsley, Mark W. Swanson, Gerald McGwin, Jr., Amanda F. Elliott

    págs. 486-491

    

  • A Comparison of Frailty Indexes for the Prediction of Falls, Disability, Fractures, and Mortality in Older Men

    Kristine E. Ensrud

    págs. 492-498

    

  • Level and Change in Cognitive Test Scores Predict Risk of First Stroke

    Triveni DeFries, M. Maria Glymour, Mauricio Avendano

    págs. 499-505

    

  • Healthcare Costs Associated with Depression in Medically Ill Fee-for-Service Medicare Participants

    Jürgen Unützer, Michael Schoenbaum, Wayne J. Katon, Ming-Yu Fan, Harold Alan Pincus, Diane Hogan, Jennifer Taylor

    págs. 506-510

    

  • The Co-Occurrence of Chronic Diseases and Geriatric Syndromes: The Health and Retirement Study

    Pearl Lee, Christine Cigolle, Caroline Blaum

    págs. 511-516

    

  • Inconsistency in Classification and Reporting of In-Hospital Falls

    Bernadette Massey, Terry P. Haines, Paul Varghese, Len C. Gray , Jennifer M. Fleming

    págs. 517-523

    

  • A Brief, Intensive, Clinically Focused Geriatrics Course During the Third Year of Medical School

    Fisher Alfred L., et. al.

    págs. 524-529

    

  • Emergency Medical Service Attitudes Toward Geriatric Prehospital Care and Continuing Medical Education in Geriatrics

    Rollin J. Fairbanks, Manish N. Shah, Lars-Kristofer N. Peterson, Aaron Z. Hettinger

    págs. 530-535

    

  • Systematic Review of Measures of Clinical Significance Employed in Randomized Controlled Trials of Drugs for Dementia

    Frank J. Molnar, Malcolm Man-Son-Hing, Dean Fergusson

    págs. 536-546

    

  • A Practice-Based Intervention to Improve Primary Care for Falls, Urinary Incontinence, and Dementia: (See editorial comments by C. Seth Landefeld, pp 000-000)

    Neil S. Wenger

    págs. 547-555

    

  • Pragmatic Approaches that Improve Care for Geriatric Conditions: Balancing the Promise and the Peril of Quality Indicators

    C. Seth Landefeld

    págs. 556-558

    

  • Obturator hernia: An unusual cause of intestinal obstruction

    Hui-Wen Pai, Chia Ming Chang, I-Chien Wu

    págs. 559-560

    

  • Multimorbidity and polypharmacy: How to reduce the harmful drug load and yet add needed drugs in the elderly? Proposal of a new drug classification

    Martin Wehling

    págs. 560-561

    

  • Oral midazolam for dementia-related response agitation

    Michael J. Passmore, Les Sheldon, Stuart Lax, Michael Wilkins-Ho, Martin Illing

    págs. 561-562

    

  • Treatment with metformin is protective against limitations in instrumental activities of daily living in older subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus

    Mazziotti Gherardo, et. al., Gherardo Mazziotti

    págs. 562-564

    

  • An unusual case of nightmares with galantamine

    Abid Iraqi, Terry Lynn Hughes

    págs. 565-565

    

  • Not a retreat, but advancing on numerous fronts

    M. Clare Robertson, A. John Campbell

    págs. 565-566