Publications by authors named "Anders D Westanmo"
How and where patients with advanced cancer facing limited survival spend their time is critical. Healthcare contact days (days with healthcare contact outside the home) offer a patient-centered and practical measure of how much of a person's life is consumed by healthcare. We retrospectively analyzed contact days among decedent veterans with stage IV gastrointestinal cancer at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Healthcare System from 2010 to 2021.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Frequent visits to health care facilities can be time intensive and all-consuming for people with cancer. We measured health care contact days (days with healthcare contact outside the home) among decedents with advanced GI cancer and examined sources of contact days, their associations with demographic and clinical factors, and their temporal patterns over the course of illness.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study using a tumor registry and electronic medical record data for decedents with stage IV GI cancer between 2011 and 2019 in a large health care network in MN.
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- * A study of 2,321 eligible women Veterans found an overall breast cancer screening adherence rate of 78.2%, with no significant differences based on race, age, geography, or certain mental health issues like anxiety or PTSD.
- * Interestingly, Veterans with depression were more likely to follow screening guidelines, and having multiple mental health diagnoses did not negatively impact adherence; these findings suggest that initiatives like screening reminders could improve outcomes.
Purpose: We previously reported an interaction with warfarin anticoagulation when initiating treatment with direct-acting antiviral agents for hepatitis C infection. A decreased warfarin sensitivity led to subtherapeutic anticoagulation. To study this interaction further, we expanded our research to include patients treated with the combination of elbasvir and grazoprevir concurrent with warfarin anticoagulation and investigated changes in warfarin sensitivity during and after treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOnly minor disparities were found between patients at rural and urban clinics in this examination of the differences in the quality of health care for patients with COPD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: New regimens to treat hepatitis C virus infection have expanded the eligible patient population to include more patients receiving concurrent warfarin. The primary objective of this study was to assess whether a drug interaction occurs when these regimens are added to warfarin therapy.
Methods: This was a retrospective cohort design using a nationwide database of the Veterans Affairs Health System.
Duloxetine: a balanced and selective norepinephrine- and serotonin-reuptake inhibitor.
Am J Health Syst Pharm
December 2005
Purpose: The pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, efficacy, safety, drug interactions, dosage and administration, cost, and place in therapy of duloxetine for major depression, pain from diabetic peripheral neuropathy, and stress urinary incontinence are reviewed.
Summary: Duloxetine is a balanced selective serotonin and norepinephrine-reuptake inhibitor available in the United States for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD) and diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain (DPNP). Duloxetine has also been used for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI).