2020
Association Between Medicare Expenditures and Adverse Events for Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction, Heart Failure, or Pneumonia in the United States
Wang Y, Eldridge N, Metersky ML, Sonnenfeld N, Rodrick D, Fine JM, Eckenrode S, Galusha DH, Tasimi A, Hunt DR, Bernheim SM, Normand ST, Krumholz HM. Association Between Medicare Expenditures and Adverse Events for Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction, Heart Failure, or Pneumonia in the United States. JAMA Network Open 2020, 3: e202142. PMID: 32259263, PMCID: PMC7139276, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.2142.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcute myocardial infarctionMedicare Patient Safety Monitoring SystemAdverse event ratesAdverse eventsHeart failureMedicare expendituresService patientsMyocardial infarctionMedicare feeEvent ratesHigher adverse event ratesCare expendituresRisk-standardized ratesPatients 65 yearsAdverse event dataAcute care hospitalsCross-sectional studyFinal study sampleInpatient care expendituresRate of occurrenceDates of analysisPatient characteristicsCare hospitalMean ageInpatient care
2006
The effect of age and chronic illness on life expectancy after a diagnosis of colorectal cancer: implications for screening.
Gross CP, McAvay GJ, Krumholz HM, Paltiel AD, Bhasin D, Tinetti ME. The effect of age and chronic illness on life expectancy after a diagnosis of colorectal cancer: implications for screening. Annals Of Internal Medicine 2006, 145: 646-53. PMID: 17088577, DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-145-9-200611070-00006.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsChronic illnessColorectal cancerChronic conditionsLife expectancyCancer stageEarly-stage colorectal cancerPopulation-based cancer registriesPatients 67 yearsRetrospective cohort studyStage I cancerAdministrative claims dataChronic condition groupsFinal study sampleYears of ageShort life expectancyCohort studyEffect of agePatient ageI cancerCancer RegistryCancer variesHealthy patientsIndividual patientsMedicare claimsAdministrative claims
2005
Enrolling Older Persons in Cancer Trials: The Effect of Sociodemographic, Protocol, and Recruitment Center Characteristics
Gross CP, Herrin J, Wong N, Krumholz HM. Enrolling Older Persons in Cancer Trials: The Effect of Sociodemographic, Protocol, and Recruitment Center Characteristics. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2005, 23: 4755-4763. PMID: 16034051, DOI: 10.1200/jco.2005.14.365.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCancer trialsOlder personsRecruitment centerElderly enrollmentProportion of patientsEffect of patientProstate cancer trialsPatient-level variationFinal study sampleNational Cancer InstituteCross-sectional analysisEffects of sociodemographicsNonwhite patientsTrial participantsOutlier centersCancer InstitutePatientsEnrollment centerMultivariate analysisLikelihood of participantsCancer typesLogistic multilevel modelsTrialsCenter characteristicsStudy sample