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30-Day Readmission Among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries with Type 2 Diabetes.
Popul Health Manag
August 2015
1 West Virginia University , School of Pharmacy, Morgantown, West Virginia.
This study retrospectively assessed rates and risk factors for all-cause hospital readmission among elderly Medicare beneficiaries with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) aged ≥65 years. Associations between 30-day readmission and patients' demographic, insurance, index hospital, and clinical characteristics; patient complexities specific to the elderly; and health care utilization were examined using multivariable logistic regressions. Of 202,496 elderly Medicare beneficiaries, 52% were female, 76% were white, the mean age was 75.
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Am J Respir Crit Care Med
November 2014
1 West Virginia University School of Medicine Morgantown, West Virginia.
The power of advance care planning in promoting hospice and out-of-hospital death in a dialysis unit.
J Palliat Med
January 2015
1 West Virginia University Schools of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Background: Despite mortality rates that exceed those of most cancers, hospice remains underutilized in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) on dialysis and nearly half of all dialysis patients die in the hospital.
Objective: To review the impact of advance care planning on withdrawal from dialysis, use of hospice, and location of death.
Design: Retrospective review.