Effect of collaborative dementia care on potentially inappropriate medication use: Outcomes from the Care Ecosystem randomized clinical trial.

Introduction: Potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) cause adverse events and death. We evaluate the Care Ecosystem (CE) collaborative dementia care program on medication use among community-dwelling persons living with dementia (PLWD).

Methods: Secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial (RCT) comparing CE to usual care (UC) on changes in PIMs, over 12 months between March 2015 and May 2020.

Online Marketing of Weight Loss Supplements: Labeling and Marketing Compliance with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Ban on Ephedra.

To characterize dietary supplements marketed online as "ephedra-containing or ephedra-like products" for weight management and to assess labeling/marketing compliance with the ban on the sale of ephedrine alkaloids. This cross-sectional study assessed websites selling ephedra-like supplements using the search term "buy ephedra." For each website, the first three featured products were characterized by evaluating the label for (1) sp.

What Is a Medication-Related Problem? A Qualitative Study of Older Adults and Primary Care Clinicians.

Background: Older adults often take multiple medications, leading to a myriad of medication-related problems. Addressing these problems requires thoughtful approaches that align with patients' perspectives and experiences.

Objective: To (1) identify and categorize medication-related problems from the patient perspective and (2) understand patient and clinician attitudes toward these problems and experiences with addressing these problems.

Variations in Costs of a Collaborative Care Model for Dementia.

Objectives: Care coordination programs can improve patient outcomes and decrease healthcare expenditures; however, implementation costs are poorly understood. We evaluate the direct costs of implementing a collaborative dementia care program.

Design: We applied a micro-costing analysis to calculate operational costs per-participant-month between March 2015 and May 2017.

Predictors of completeness of patients' self-reported personal medication lists and discrepancies with clinic medication lists.

Background: Transfer of medication information during transitions in care is crucial to preventing medication errors. Few studies evaluate patients' self-reported personal medication lists.

Objectives: To assess completeness of personal medication lists and identify factors associated with incomplete personal lists and discrepancies between personal and clinic medication lists.

Predictors of publication: characteristics of submitted manuscripts associated with acceptance at major biomedical journals.

Objective: To identify characteristics of submitted manuscripts that are associated with acceptance for publication by major biomedical journals.

Design, Setting And Participants: A prospective cohort study of manuscripts reporting original research submitted to three major biomedical journals (BMJ and the Lancet [UK] and Annals of Internal Medicine [USA]) between January and April 2003 and between November 2003 and February 2004. Case reports on single patients were excluded.

Association of journal quality indicators with methodological quality of clinical research articles.

Context: The ability to identify scientific journals that publish high-quality research would help clinicians, scientists, and health-policy analysts to select the most up-to-date medical literature to review.

Methods: To assess whether journal characteristics of (1) peer-review status, (2) citation rate, (3) impact factor, (4) circulation, (5) manuscript acceptance rate, (6) MEDLINE indexing, and (7) Brandon/Hill Library List indexing are predictors of methodological quality of research articles, we conducted a cross-sectional study of 243 original research articles involving human subjects published in general internal medical journals.

Results: The mean (SD) quality score of the 243 articles was 1.