Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

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  Año 2014, Vol. 62, Número 11

  • Clinical investigations

    • Insomnia in long-term care facilities: a comparison of seven European countries and Israel: The services and health for elderly in long term care study

      Jacob Gindin, Tamar Shochat, Angela Chetrit, Shulamit Epstein, Yehoshua Ben- Israel, Sarah Levi, Graziano Onder, Ian Carpenter, Len C. Gray , John P. Hirdes, V. Pálmi , Brant E. Fries, Harriet Finne-Soveri, Katherine Berg , Hein P. J. van Hout, Jean Claude Henrard, Thorsten Nikolaus, MD, PhD, Eva Topinkova, Daniela Fialová, Roberto Bernabei

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      págs. 2033-2039

      

    • Sleep-disordered breathing and functional decline in older women

      Adam P. Spira, Katie L. Stone, George W. Rebok, Naresh M. Punjabi, Susan Redline, Sonia Ancoli Israel, Kristine Yaffe

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      págs. 2040-2046

      

    • Associations between serum biomarkers and pain and pain-related function in older adults with low back pain: a pilot study

      Gwendolyn A. Sowa, Subashan Perera, Bernard Bechara, Vikas Aggarwal, John Boardman, Wan Huang, Alejandra Camacho Soto, Nam Vo--, James D. Kang, Debra K. Weiner

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      págs. 2047-2055

      

    • Functional disability in late-middle-aged and older adults admitted to a safety-net hospital

      Rebecca T. Brown, Edgar Pierluissi, David Guzmán García, Eric Kessell, L. Elizabeth Goldman, Urmimala Sarkar, Michelle Schneidermann, Jeffrey M. Critchfield, Margot Kushel

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      págs. 2056-2063

      

    • Community-acquired meningitis in older adults: clinical features, etiology, and prognostic factors

      Amy Wang, Jorge D. Machicado, Nabil T. Khoury, S.H. Wootton, Lucrecia Salazar, Rodrigo Hasbún

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      págs. 2064-2070

      

    • Automobile driving in older adults: factors affecting driving restriction in men and women

      Laetitia Marie Dit- Asse, Colette Fabrigoule, Catherine Helmer, Bernard Laumon, Sylviane Lafont

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      págs. 2071-2078

      

    • Objective measures of activity level and mortality in older men

      Kristine E. Ensrud, Terri Blackwell, Jane A. Cauley, Thuy-Tien L. Dam, Peggy M. Cawthon, John T. Schousboe, Elisabeth Barrett Connor, Katie L. Stone, Douglas C. Bauer, James M. Shikany, Dawn C. Mackey

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      págs. 2079-2087

      

    • Factors influencing the use of intensive procedures at the end of life

      Evan C. Tschirhart, Qingling Du, Amy S. Kelley

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      págs. 2088-2094

      

    • Statin discontinuation in nursing home residents with advanced dementia

      Jennifer Tjia, S. L. Cutrona, Daniel Peterson, George Reed, Susan E. Andrade, Susan L. Mitchell

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      págs. 2095-2101

      

    • Postoperative medical complications associated with anesthesia in older adults with dementia

      Dallas P. Seitz, Sudeep S. Gill, Chaim M. Bell, Peter C. Austin, Andrea Gruneir, Geoffrey M. Anderson, Paula A. Rochon

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      págs. 2102-2109

      

    • Frailty status can predict further lean body mass decline in older adults

      Hee Won Jung, Sun Wook Kim, Jae-Young Lim, Ki Woong Kim, Hak Chul Jang, Cheol Ho Kim, Kwang Il Kim

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      págs. 2110-2117

      

    • Cognitive function in the prefrailty and frailty syndrome

      Deirdre A. Robertson, George M. Savva, Robert F. Coen, Rose Anne Kenny

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      págs. 2118-2124

      

  • Brief reports

    • Vitamin D levels and cognition in elderly adults in China

      Choy Lye Chei, Prassanna Raman, Zhao-Xue Yin-, Xiao-Ming Shi-, Yi Zeng, David B. Matchar

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      págs. 2125-2129

      

    • Is cognitive function a concern in independent elderly adults discharged home from the emergency department in Canada after a minor injury?

      Marie-Christine Ouellet, Marie-Josée Sirois, Simon Beaulieu Bonneau, Jacques Morin, Jeffrey J. Perry, Raoul Daoust, Laura Wilding, Véronique Provencher, Stéphanie Camden, Nadine Allain Boulé, Marcel Emond

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      págs. 2130-2135

      

    • Accuracy of the wells clinical prediction rule for pulmonary embolism in older ambulatory adults

      Henrike J. Schouten, Geert Jan Geersing, Ruud Oudega, Johannes J. M. van Delden, Karel G.M. Moons, Huiberdina L. Koek

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      págs. 2136-2141

      

    • Restricting back pain and subsequent mobility disability in community-living older persons

      Una E. Makris, Liana Fraenkel, Ling Han, Linda Leo-Summers, Thomas M. Gill

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      págs. 2142-2147

      

    • Electronic surveillance and pharmacist intervention for vulnerable older inpatients on high-risk medication regimens

      Josh F. Peterson, Sunil Kripalani, Ioana Danciu, Debbie Harrell, Marketa Marvanova, Amanda S. Mixon, Carmen Rodriguez Tuchman, James S. Powers

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      págs. 2148-2152

      

  • Education and training

    • Communication skills curriculum for foreign medical graduates in an internal medicine residency program

      Ravishankar Ramaswamy, Alicia Williams, Elizabeth M. Clark, Amy S. Kelley

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      págs. 2153-2158

      

    • Identifying landmark articles for advancing the practice of geriatrics

      Camille P. Vaughan, Rachel Fowler, Richard A. Goodman, Taylor R. Graves, Jonathan M. Flacker, Theodore M. Johnson II

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      págs. 2159-2162

      

  • Models of geriatric care, quality improvement, and program dissemination

    • A system-wide analysis using a senior-friendly hospital framework identifies current practices and opportunities for improvement in the care of hospitalized older adults

      Ken S. Wong, David P. Ryan, Barbara A. Liu

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      págs. 2163-2170

      

    • Wishard volunteer advocates program: an intervention for at-risk, incapacitated, unbefriended adults

      Robin Bandy, Greg A. Sachs, Kianna Montz, Lev Inger, Robert W. Bandy, Alexia M. Torke

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      págs. 2171-2179

      

  • Innovative geriatric practice models: preliminary data

    • Assisted early mobility for hospitalized older veterans: preliminary data from the stride program

      S. Nicole Hastings, Richard Sloane, Miriam C. Morey, Juliessa M. Pavon, Helen Hoenig

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      págs. 2180-2184

      

    • Restructuring care for older adults undergoing surgery: preliminary data from the co-management of older operative patients en route across treatment environments (co-operate) model of care

      Lisa M. Walke, Ronnie A. Rosenthal, Mark Trentalange, Melissa F. Perkal, Maria Maiaroto, Sean M. Jeffery, Richard A. Marottoli

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      págs. 2185-2190

      

  • Ethnogeriatrics and special populations

    • Police on the front line of community geriatric health care: challenges and opportunities

      Rebecca T. Brown, Cyrus Ahalt, Michael A. Steinman, Kelly Kruger, Brie A. Williams

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      págs. 2191-2198

      

  • Clinical trials and tribulations

    • Treatment intervention: learning residents' rights

      Penelope Ann Shaw

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      págs. 2199-2200

      

  • Old lives tales

    • Cerebral foliage

      Kelly Sloan

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      págs. 2201-2201

      

    • Walking Mrs. Jones

      Rebecca E. MacDonell Yilmaz

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      págs. 2202-2203