2024
Use of Hospice and End-of-Life Care Quality Among Medical Centers with High Versus Lower Specialist Palliative Care Reach Among People with Heart Failure: An Observational Study
Feder S, Han L, Zhan Y, Abel E, Akgün K, Fried T, Ersek M, Redeker N. Use of Hospice and End-of-Life Care Quality Among Medical Centers with High Versus Lower Specialist Palliative Care Reach Among People with Heart Failure: An Observational Study. Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2024 PMID: 39515377, DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2024.0182.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSpecialist palliative careVeterans Affairs Medical CenterEnd of lifeCare qualityInpatient hospiceEnd of life outcomesUse of hospiceInpatient hospice careMedical CenterMultilevel logistic regressionFamilies of patientsAffairs Medical CenterHospice carePalliative careRetrospective cohort studyAdvanced heart failureBlack adultsHospiceCohort studyFacility rateLogistic regressionStudy outcomesObservational studyCareHeart failure
2019
Medication Appropriateness in Vulnerable Older Adults: Healthy Skepticism of Appropriate Polypharmacy
Fried TR, Mecca MC. Medication Appropriateness in Vulnerable Older Adults: Healthy Skepticism of Appropriate Polypharmacy. Journal Of The American Geriatrics Society 2019, 67: 1123-1127. PMID: 30697698, PMCID: PMC6561813, DOI: 10.1111/jgs.15798.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNumber of medicationsAppropriate polypharmacyOlder adultsMedication benefitsComplex medication regimensMultiple chronic conditionsVulnerable older adultsMedication appropriatenessUnderestimate harmsInappropriate medicationsMore medicationsAdverse eventsMore observational studiesMedication regimensComplex regimenAdverse outcomesAppropriate medicationChronic conditionsMedications resultsObservational studyPolypharmacyMedicationsHealth outcomesCorrect medicationLikelihood of harm