Natalia Festa, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow
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- Evaluation of Claims-Based Ascertainment of Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias Across Health Care SettingsFesta N, Price M, Moura LMVR, et al. Evaluation of Claims-Based Ascertainment of Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias Across Health Care Settings. JAMA Heal Forum. 2022;3(4):e220653-e220653. doi:10.1001/JAMAHEALTHFORUM.2022.0653
- Pilot of the Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative Among Veterans With Serious Illness.Giannitrapani KF, Walling AM, Garcia A, Foglia M, Lowery JS, Lo N, Bekelman D, Brown-Johnson C, Haverfield M, Festa N, Shreve ST, Gale RC, Lehmann LS, Lorenz KA. Pilot of the Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative Among Veterans With Serious Illness. The American Journal Of Hospice & Palliative Care 2021, 38: 68-76. PMID: 32383388, DOI: 10.1177/1049909120923595.
- Identifying Medicare beneficiaries with dementia.Moura LMVR, Festa N, Price M, Volya M, Benson NM, Zafar S, Weiss M, Blacker D, Normand SL, Newhouse JP, Hsu J. Identifying Medicare beneficiaries with dementia. Journal Of The American Geriatrics Society 2021 PMID: 33901296, DOI: 10.1111/jgs.17183.
- Association Between Neighborhood Disadvantage and Functional Well-being in Community-Living Older Persons.Gill TM, Zang EX, Murphy TE, Leo-Summers L, Gahbauer EA, Festa N, Falvey JR, Han L. Association Between Neighborhood Disadvantage and Functional Well-being in Community-Living Older Persons. JAMA Internal Medicine 2021, 181: 1297-1304. PMID: 34424276, PMCID: PMC8383163, DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.4260.
- Comparative utility of frailty to a general prognostic score in identifying patients at risk for poor outcomes after aortic valve replacement.Shi S, Festa N, Afilalo J, Popma JJ, Khabbaz KR, Laham RJ, Guibone K, Kim DH. Comparative utility of frailty to a general prognostic score in identifying patients at risk for poor outcomes after aortic valve replacement. BMC Geriatrics 2020, 20: 38. PMID: 32013890, PMCID: PMC6998298, DOI: 10.1186/s12877-020-1440-4.
- Accuracy of diagnosis and health service codes in identifying frailty in Medicare data.Festa N, Shi SM, Kim DH. Accuracy of diagnosis and health service codes in identifying frailty in Medicare data. BMC Geriatrics 2020, 20: 329. PMID: 32894057, PMCID: PMC7487915, DOI: 10.1186/s12877-020-01739-w.
- Anchoring Bias as a Limiting Factor in High-Value Care: A Case of Fever of Unknown Origin in a Hospitalized Child.Festa N, Park KT, Schwenk H. Anchoring Bias as a Limiting Factor in High-Value Care: A Case of Fever of Unknown Origin in a Hospitalized Child. Hospital Pediatrics 2016, 6: 699-701. PMID: 27789539, DOI: 10.1542/hpeds.2016-0027.