Issues in Building a Nursing Home Syndromic Surveillance System with Textmining: Longitudinal Observational Study.

Background: New nursing homes (NH) data warehouses fed from residents' medical records allow monitoring the health of elderly population on a daily basis. Elsewhere, syndromic surveillance has already shown that professional data can be used for public health (PH) surveillance but not during a long-term follow-up of the same cohort.

Objective: This study aimed to build and assess a national ecological NH PH surveillance system (SS).

Healthcare costs associated with elderly chronic pain patients in primary care.

Objective: This study aimed to estimate the total healthcare costs associated with elderly chronic pain (CP) patients, define cost-related factors in this population, and examine cost evolution over two years.

Method: This is an ancillary study from the CP S.AGE subcohort, including non-institutionalized patients aged over 65 suffering from CP.

Predicting falls in elderly patients with chronic pain and other chronic conditions.

Background: The aim was to identify fall predictors in elderly suffering from chronic pain (CP) and to test their applicability among patients with other chronic conditions.

Methods: 1,379 non-institutionalized patients aged 65 years and older who were suffering from CP (S.AGE CP sub-cohort) were monitored every 6 months for 1 year.

Do male and female general practitioners differently prescribe chronic pain drugs to older patients?

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify the relationship between general practitioner (GP) gender and prescribing practice of chronic pain drugs in older adults.

Design: Cross-sectional observational study.

Setting: GPs in private practice throughout France.

Primary care management of non-institutionalized elderly diabetic patients: The S.AGES cohort - Baseline data.

Aim: S.AGES is a multicenter prospective cohort study of non-institutionalized patients aged 65 and over with atrial fibrillation, type 2 diabetes or chronic pain. Its objective is to describe the medical management in primary care.

Consequences of dextropropoxyphene market withdrawal in elderly patients with chronic pain.

Objective: Describe the consequences of dextropropoxyphene (DXP) market withdrawal on analgesic prescriptions and on the quality of therapeutic management of chronic pain.

Patients And Methods: From a cohort of non-institutionalised elderly patients with chronic pain recruited by general practitioners, we selected patients who were treated with DXP daily for at least 6 months just prior to DXP market withdrawal and who had an evaluation of pain and its impact on daily activities before and after DXP withdrawal.

Results: One hundred three patients took DXP daily for chronic pain.

National observatory on the therapeutic management in ambulatory care patients aged 65 and over, with type 2 diabetes, chronic pain or atrial fibrillation.

The primary objective of the S.AGES cohort is to describe the real-life therapeutic care of elderly patients. Patients and methods.