Geriatric Library Page 3

On this Page of the Library you will find articles for:

• Predictors of motality in older individuals
• Medication Use in Older Adults
• Advance Care Planning
• Eliciting Patient Preferences

 Predictors of Mortality in Older Individuals

Walter LC, Brand RJ, Counsell SR, Palmer RM, Landefled CS, Fortinsky RH, Covinsky KE. Developement and validation of a prognostica index for 1-year Mortality in older adults after hospitalization. JAMA. 2001;285(23):2987-94.

Mitchell SL, Kiely DK, Hamel MB, Park PS, Morris JN, Fries BE. Estimating prognosis for nursing home residents with advanced dementia. JAMA. 2004;291(22):2734-2740.

 Medication use in Older Adults

Gandhi TK, Weingart SN, Borus J, et al. Adverse drug events in ambulatory care. N Engl J Med. 2003;348:1556-64.

Goulding MR. Inappropriate medication prescribing for elderly ambulatory care patients. Arch Intern Med. 2004:164:305-312

Gurwitz JH. Polypharmacy: A new paradigm for quality drug therapy in the elderly? Arch Intern Med. 2004;164:1957-59.

Rochon PA, Gurwitzh JH. Optimizing drug treatment for elderly people: The prescirbinh cascade. BMJ. 1997;315:1096-99.

Liperoti R, Pedone C, Lapane KL, et al. Venous Thromboembolism Among Elderly Patients Treated with Atypical and Conventional Antipsychoatic Agents. Arch Intern Med. 2005;165:2577-2682

Wang PS, Schneeweiss S, Avorn J, Et al. Risk of Death in Elderly Users of Conventional vs. Atypical Antipsychotic Medications. N Engl J Med. 2005;352:2335-41

 Advance Care Planning

Gillick MR. Advance Care Planning. N Engl J Med. 2004;350(1):7-8.

Winzelberg GS, Hanson LC, Tulsky JA. Beyond autonomy: Diversitying end-of-Life decision-making approaches to sever patients and families. JAGS. 2005;53:1046-50.

 Eliciting Patient Preferences

Fried TR, Bradley EH, Towle VR, Allore H. Understanding the treatment preferences of seriously illl patients. N Engl J Med. 2002;346(14):1061-66.

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