2024
Total and Out-of-Pocket Costs Surrounding Emergency Department Care Among Older Adults Enrolled in Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage
Gettel C, Salah W, Rothenberg C, Liang Y, Schwartz H, Scott K, Hwang U, Hastings S, Venkatesh A. Total and Out-of-Pocket Costs Surrounding Emergency Department Care Among Older Adults Enrolled in Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage. Annals Of Emergency Medicine 2024, 84: 285-294. PMID: 38864783, PMCID: PMC11343654, DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.04.023.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchOut-of-pocketED visitsTraditional MedicareOlder adultsEmergency departmentMedicare AdvantageMedicare Advantage plan enrolleesMedicare Current Beneficiary SurveyEmergency department careTreat-and-releaseOut-of-pocket expensesOut-of-pocket health care spendingHealth care spendingCross-sectional analysisProportion of costsMedian totalEmergency careTreat-and-release emergency departmentBeneficiary SurveyMedian total costProportion of expensesCare spendingPlan enrolleesMedicareVisits
2022
Examination of geriatric care processes implemented in level 1 and level 2 geriatric emergency departments
Santangelo I, Ahmad S, Liu S, Southerland L, Carpenter C, Hwang U, Lesser A, Tidwell N, Biese K, Kennedy M. Examination of geriatric care processes implemented in level 1 and level 2 geriatric emergency departments. Journal Of Geriatric Emergency Medicine 2022, 3 PMID: 36970655, PMCID: PMC10035774, DOI: 10.17294/2694-4715.1041.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchGeriatric EDGeriatric fallsCare processesMedication reconciliationMedication-related adverse eventsOlder adultsGeriatric pain managementPain medication protocolUnique care needsEmergency department settingInappropriate medication administrationGeriatric Emergency DepartmentIndividual care processesDifferent screening toolsCross-sectional analysisAssessment of functionLevel 1Beers criteriaED administrationInappropriate medicationsAdverse eventsRenal functionMedication protocolsPain managementEmergency department