Emergency Department Visits Among Patients With Dementia Before and After Diagnosis
Gettel C, Song Y, Rothenberg C, Kitchen C, Gilmore-Bykovskyi A, Fried T, Brody A, Nothelle S, Wolff J, Venkatesh A. Emergency Department Visits Among Patients With Dementia Before and After Diagnosis. JAMA Network Open 2024, 7: e2439421. PMID: 39401040, PMCID: PMC11581500, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.39421.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEnd‐of‐life emergency department use and healthcare expenditures among older adults: A nationally representative study
Gettel C, Kitchen C, Rothenberg C, Song Y, Hastings S, Kennedy M, Ouchi K, Haimovich A, Hwang U, Venkatesh A. End‐of‐life emergency department use and healthcare expenditures among older adults: A nationally representative study. Journal Of The American Geriatrics Society 2024 PMID: 39311623, DOI: 10.1111/jgs.19199.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEnd-of-lifeOut-of-pocket spendingED visitsTotal healthcare spendingMedicare beneficiariesHealthcare spendingEmergency departmentOlder adultsMedicare Current Beneficiary Survey dataAnalysis of Medicare beneficiariesPooled cross-sectional analysisEmergency department usePrimary outcomeDecreased likelihoodDiagnosis of dementiaOut-of-pocket costsNationally representative studyNationally representative sampleAdult decedentsHospice statusDepartment useED useED servicesHealth careHealthcare expenditures