Publications by authors named "L F White"
Background: As Alzheimer disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (ADRD) progress, individuals increasingly require assistance from unpaid, informal caregivers to support them in activities of daily living. These caregivers may experience high levels of financial, mental, and physical strain associated with providing care. CareVirtue is a web-based tool created to connect and support multiple individuals across a care network to coordinate care activities and share important information, thereby reducing care burden.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA Gram-stain-negative, non-spore-forming, rod-shaped, obligately anaerobic bacterium, designated strain BP47G, was isolated from the hindgut of a silver drummer () fish collected from the Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand. Phylogenetic analysis based on the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the isolate indicated that it belonged to the family in the phylum . The gene sequence of BP47G was most similar to with 95.
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- The study investigates the differences in hospice care quality and enrollment between Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries and those enrolled in traditional Medicare fee-for-service (FFS).
- Using a population-based data analysis of over 4 million decedents and 2 million hospice enrollees from 2018-2019, the research aims to assess hospice usage and quality indicators.
- Findings indicate that MA plan beneficiaries are more likely to use hospice care in the last six months of life compared to FFS beneficiaries, highlighting potential disparities in hospice access.
How do referral networks and medical conditions determine where patients get care? We study this question in the US Hospice Industry, where for-profit hospice programs enroll more long-term care patients and more patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia. We find that for-profit hospice enrollees have 23% longer lifetime lengths-of-stay in hospice care than not for-profit hospice enrollees with the same medical conditions, institutional referral source, county of residence, and enrollment year. This and other differences in their end-of-life health care utilization suggest that hospice market segmentation is the result of a patient-specific selection mechanism that is partially independent of institutional barriers to hospice care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aims: Stimulant-involved overdose deaths are increasing throughout the United States. Because stimulant misuse (i.e.
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