Publications by authors named "R E Savage"
Objectives: To examine transitions to a nursing home among residents of assisted living relative to community-dwelling home care recipients.
Design: Population-based retrospective cohort study emulating a target trial.
Setting And Participants: Linked, individual-level health system data were obtained from older adults (≥65 years of age) who made an incident application for a bed in a nursing home in Ontario, Canada, between April 1, 2014, and March 31, 2019, and were followed until December 31, 2019.
Background: Few studies describe how gender-related factors may contribute to polypharmacy and prescribing cascades. Describing these patterns using cross-national comparisons can improve the robustness of findings and provide lessons on the importance of considering age, sex, and gender in pharmacological research. The aim of the study was to explore the intersection of age, sex, and gender with polypharmacy and co-prescribing suggesting a potential prescribing cascade.
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- Naturally occurring retirement communities (NORCs) are areas with a high concentration of older adults, which could help support strategies for aging in place, but there's limited data on their health needs.
- A study in Ontario linked a NORC registry with health records to compare older adults living in NORCs to those in other housing types, focusing on sociodemographic and healthcare use characteristics.
- Results showed that NORC residents were generally older, had more chronic health issues, used more medications, and required more healthcare services than their counterparts in other housing situations, indicating a need for targeted support in these communities.
Background: Despite growing awareness of sex differences in inappropriate prescribing among older adults, including the initiation of problematic prescribing cascades, the impact of gender bias remains largely unexplored.
Objectives: We explored how a patient's sex and gender-related sociocultural factors influence physicians' prescribing decisions, potentially leading to prescribing cascades in older adults. A secondary objective was to explore whether and how physician sex affected prescribing decisions for female and male patients.
We examined whether Phonics + Set for Variability (SV) reading intervention would lead to better irregular word reading compared to Phonics + Morphology within a cluster randomized control trial (RCT) design with a follow-up measurement. The participants were 273 Grade 2 and 3 students with reading difficulties (139 in the Phonics + SV and 134 in the Phonics + Morphology) who received intervention in small groups (2-4 children), 4 times a week, 30 minutes each time, for 15 weeks. Results of hierarchical linear modeling showed that there was a significant effect of intervention on all reading outcomes (e.
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