2024
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
2020
Where Skilled Nursing Facility Residents Get Acute Care: Is the Emergency Department the Medical Home?
Venkatesh AK, Gettel CJ, Mei H, Chou SC, Rothenberg C, Liu SL, D’Onofrio G, Lin Z, Krumholz HM. Where Skilled Nursing Facility Residents Get Acute Care: Is the Emergency Department the Medical Home? Journal Of Applied Gerontology 2020, 40: 828-836. PMID: 32842827, PMCID: PMC7904961, DOI: 10.1177/0733464820950125.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcute care visitsCare visitsEmergency departmentMedicare beneficiariesSNF staySNF servicesSkilled nursing facility residentsNursing facility residentsSkilled nursing facility servicesAcute care capabilitiesCross-sectional analysisNursing facility servicesHigher proportionAcute careMedical homeFacility residentsCare capabilitiesVisitsNumber of daysStayCareDepartmentFacility servicesBeneficiariesProportion