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
2020
Predictors of Residential Care Admission in Community-Dwelling Older People With Dementia
Jamieson H, Abey-Nesbit R, Nishtala PS, Allore H, Han L, Deely JM, Pickering JW. Predictors of Residential Care Admission in Community-Dwelling Older People With Dementia. Journal Of The American Medical Directors Association 2020, 21: 1665-1670. PMID: 32646821, PMCID: PMC7641960, DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2020.04.021.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAged residential careSubdistribution hazard ratiosMultivariable competing-risk modelResidential care admissionAbsence of dementiaDay of assessmentOlder New ZealandersRisk prediction modelPoor cognitive performanceCompeting-risks modelInterRAI-HC assessmentInterRAI dataCare admissionHazard ratioObservational studyReduced riskDaily livingExclusion criteriaHigh riskAlcohol consumptionDementiaOlder peopleResidential careSocial isolationCognitive performance
2006
Triggered sampling could help improve longitudinal studies of persons with elevated mortality risk
Dubin JA, Han L, Fried TR. Triggered sampling could help improve longitudinal studies of persons with elevated mortality risk. Journal Of Clinical Epidemiology 2006, 60: 288-293. PMID: 17292023, DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2006.06.012.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsElevated mortality riskMortality riskChronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseLongitudinal studyCongestive heart failureObstructive pulmonary diseaseMixed effects modelsLongitudinal observational studyLongitudinal clinical studyStudy design featuresEffects modelHeart failurePulmonary diseaseAdvanced illnessTreatment preferencesClinical studiesObservational studyFirst triggerStudy designPatientsRiskValuable additionMean preferenceSimilar resultsIllness