Published in J Patient Saf on March 01, 2011
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The Six-Item Screener and AD8 for the detection of cognitive impairment in geriatric emergency department patients. Ann Emerg Med (2010) 0.90
Delirium in the older emergency department patient: a quiet epidemic. Emerg Med Clin North Am (2010) 0.89
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Interpreting the clinical importance of treatment outcomes in chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT recommendations. J Pain (2007) 8.89
A controlled trial of inpatient and outpatient geriatric evaluation and management. N Engl J Med (2002) 6.37
Utility of hemoglobin A1c in predicting diabetes risk. J Gen Intern Med (2004) 5.97
Comprehensive analysis of kinase inhibitor selectivity. Nat Biotechnol (2011) 5.65
Measuring blood pressure for decision making and quality reporting: where and how many measures? Ann Intern Med (2011) 5.31
Appropriate prescribing in elderly people: how well can it be measured and optimised? Lancet (2007) 5.20
Aging and infectious diseases: workshop on HIV infection and aging: what is known and future research directions. Clin Infect Dis (2008) 4.46
Recommendations for the management of herpes zoster. Clin Infect Dis (2007) 4.33
Influence of patient literacy on the effectiveness of a primary care-based diabetes disease management program. JAMA (2004) 4.16
Recommendations for the pharmacological management of neuropathic pain: an overview and literature update. Mayo Clin Proc (2010) 3.92
Advances in neuropathic pain: diagnosis, mechanisms, and treatment recommendations. Arch Neurol (2003) 3.80
Socioeconomic position and health among persons with diabetes mellitus: a conceptual framework and review of the literature. Epidemiol Rev (2004) 3.74
Medical clinics versus usual care for patients with both diabetes and hypertension: a randomized trial. Ann Intern Med (2010) 3.70
Clinical identifiers of complicated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. Arch Intern Med (2003) 3.31
Two self-management interventions to improve hypertension control: a randomized trial. Ann Intern Med (2009) 3.13
Pharmacist intervention to improve medication adherence in heart failure: a randomized trial. Ann Intern Med (2007) 3.11
Race, ethnicity, socioeconomic position, and quality of care for adults with diabetes enrolled in managed care: the Translating Research Into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD) study. Diabetes Care (2005) 3.09
Racial differences in blood pressure control: potential explanatory factors. Am J Med (2006) 3.04
Safety of herpes zoster vaccine in the shingles prevention study: a randomized trial. Ann Intern Med (2010) 2.73
Stage migration, selection bias, and survival associated with the adoption of positron emission tomography among medicare beneficiaries with non-small-cell lung cancer, 1998-2003. J Clin Oncol (2012) 2.72
Effect of Allowing Choice of Diet on Weight Loss: A Randomized Trial. Ann Intern Med (2015) 2.70
The effect of comorbid illness on receipt of cancer screening by older people. J Am Geriatr Soc (2002) 2.42
An interdisciplinary expert consensus statement on assessment of pain in older persons. Clin J Pain (2007) 2.37
Impact of diabetes screening on quality of life. Diabetes Care (2002) 2.37
A randomized trial of a primary care-based disease management program to improve cardiovascular risk factors and glycated hemoglobin levels in patients with diabetes. Am J Med (2005) 2.36
Poor functional status as a risk factor for surgical site infection due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2008) 2.33
Telephone-based self-management of osteoarthritis: A randomized trial. Ann Intern Med (2010) 2.27
Perceived discrimination and reported delay of pharmacy prescriptions and medical tests. J Gen Intern Med (2005) 2.25
A randomized trial of a low-carbohydrate diet vs orlistat plus a low-fat diet for weight loss. Arch Intern Med (2010) 2.25
Effects of geriatric evaluation and management on adverse drug reactions and suboptimal prescribing in the frail elderly. Am J Med (2004) 2.18
Varicella-zoster virus-specific immune responses to herpes zoster in elderly participants in a trial of a clinically effective zoster vaccine. J Infect Dis (2009) 2.13
The impact of herpes zoster and post-herpetic neuralgia on quality-of-life. BMC Med (2010) 2.01
A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of oxycodone and of gabapentin for acute pain in herpes zoster. Pain (2009) 2.01
The Spoken Knowledge in Low Literacy in Diabetes scale: a diabetes knowledge scale for vulnerable patients. Diabetes Educ (2005) 1.97
A two-stage genome-wide association study of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Hum Mol Genet (2009) 1.93
Accuracy of the pain numeric rating scale as a screening test in primary care. J Gen Intern Med (2007) 1.89
The impact of herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia on health-related quality of life: a prospective study. CMAJ (2010) 1.88
Communication about depression during rheumatoid arthritis patient visits. Arthritis Rheum (2008) 1.83
Is specialty care associated with improved survival of patients with congestive heart failure? Am Heart J (2003) 1.81
Home blood pressure management and improved blood pressure control: results from a randomized controlled trial. Arch Intern Med (2011) 1.80
The effect of increasing age on the risk of surgical site infection. J Infect Dis (2005) 1.75
Treatment and prevention of postherpetic neuralgia. Clin Infect Dis (2003) 1.73
A multidimensional integrative medicine intervention to improve cardiovascular risk. J Gen Intern Med (2006) 1.73
Take Control of Your Blood Pressure (TCYB) study: a multifactorial tailored behavioral and educational intervention for achieving blood pressure control. Patient Educ Couns (2007) 1.69
Overtreatment of presumed urinary tract infection in older women presenting to the emergency department. J Am Geriatr Soc (2013) 1.67
Relationship between literacy, knowledge, self-care behaviors, and heart failure-related quality of life among patients with heart failure. J Gen Intern Med (2011) 1.64
Predicting reports of unmet expectations among rheumatology patients. Arthritis Rheum (2004) 1.61
Adverse drug reaction risk factors in older outpatients. Am J Geriatr Pharmacother (2003) 1.61
Nurse administered telephone intervention for blood pressure control: a patient-tailored multifactorial intervention. Patient Educ Couns (2005) 1.59
Increased T-bet is associated with senescence of influenza virus-specific CD8 T cells in aged humans. J Leukoc Biol (2013) 1.58
Acute kidney injury in older adults. J Am Soc Nephrol (2011) 1.54
Patient education and provider decision support to control blood pressure in primary care: a cluster randomized trial. Am Heart J (2009) 1.54
Unnecessary drug use in frail older people at hospital discharge. J Am Geriatr Soc (2005) 1.54
A conceptual framework to study medication adherence in older adults. Am J Geriatr Pharmacother (2004) 1.54
Assessing symptoms and peak expiratory flow rate as predictors of asthma exacerbations. J Gen Intern Med (2004) 1.53
Walking speed predicts health status and hospital costs for frail elderly male veterans. J Rehabil Res Dev (2005) 1.48
Racial differences in blood pressure control: potential explanatory factors. J Gen Intern Med (2008) 1.43
Incidence and predictors of all and preventable adverse drug reactions in frail elderly persons after hospital stay. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci (2006) 1.42
Do the benefits of participation in a hypertension self-management trial persist after patients resume usual care? Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes (2014) 1.42
A real-time PCR assay to identify and discriminate among wild-type and vaccine strains of varicella-zoster virus and herpes simplex virus in clinical specimens, and comparison with the clinical diagnoses. J Med Virol (2009) 1.42
Diagnosis and assessment of pain associated with herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia. J Pain (2008) 1.38
Intentional and unintentional nonadherence to antihypertensive medication. Ann Pharmacother (2005) 1.37
Research recruitment through US central cancer registries: balancing privacy and scientific issues. Am J Public Health (2006) 1.37
Hypertension Intervention Nurse Telemedicine Study (HINTS): testing a multifactorial tailored behavioral/educational and a medication management intervention for blood pressure control. Am Heart J (2007) 1.36
Association of ALS with head injury, cigarette smoking and APOE genotypes. J Neurol Sci (2010) 1.34
Inappropriate medication use among frail elderly inpatients. Ann Pharmacother (2004) 1.33
A controlled trial of including symptom data in computer-based care suggestions for managing patients with chronic heart failure. Am J Med (2004) 1.31
Clinically important drug-disease interactions and their prevalence in older adults. Clin Ther (2006) 1.30
Variations in use of PET among Medicare beneficiaries with non-small cell lung cancer, 1998-2007. Radiology (2013) 1.30
Use of inappropriate prescription drugs by older people. J Am Geriatr Soc (2002) 1.30
Clinical and financial outcomes due to methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus surgical site infection: a multi-center matched outcomes study. PLoS One (2009) 1.28
Clinician awareness of adherence to hypertension guidelines. Am J Med (2004) 1.28
Impact of inappropriate drug use on mortality and functional status in representative community dwelling elders. Med Care (2002) 1.26
The effect of surgical site infection on older operative patients. J Am Geriatr Soc (2009) 1.24
A prospective study of the herpes zoster severity of illness. Clin J Pain (2010) 1.22
Association of adverse drug reactions with drug-drug and drug-disease interactions in frail older outpatients. Age Ageing (2010) 1.22
A model of psychosocial and cultural antecedents of blood pressure control. J Natl Med Assoc (2002) 1.21
The Take Control of Your Blood pressure (TCYB) study: study design and methodology. Contemp Clin Trials (2006) 1.19
Low literacy is associated with increased risk of hospitalization and death among individuals with heart failure. J Gen Intern Med (2013) 1.19
The veterans' study to improve the control of hypertension (V-STITCH): design and methodology. Contemp Clin Trials (2005) 1.18
How well do clinic-based blood pressure measurements agree with the mercury standard? J Gen Intern Med (2005) 1.18
Improving the quality of anticoagulation of patients with atrial fibrillation in managed care organizations: results of the managing anticoagulation services trial. Am J Med (2002) 1.17
Simultaneous control of intermediate diabetes outcomes among Veterans Affairs primary care patients. J Gen Intern Med (2006) 1.17
Secondary prevention risk interventions via telemedicine and tailored patient education (SPRITE): a randomized trial to improve postmyocardial infarction management. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes (2011) 1.16
Using BMI to determine cardiovascular risk in childhood: how do the BMI cutoffs fare? Pediatrics (2009) 1.16
Multisite randomized trial of a single-session versus multisession literacy-sensitive self-care intervention for patients with heart failure. Circulation (2012) 1.15
Variation in use of surveillance colonoscopy among colorectal cancer survivors in the United States. BMC Health Serv Res (2010) 1.15
"Not the 'grim reaper service'": an assessment of provider knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions regarding palliative care referral barriers in heart failure. J Am Heart Assoc (2014) 1.14
Do diabetic veterans use the Internet? Self-reported usage, skills, and interest in using My HealtheVet Web portal. Telemed J E Health (2010) 1.14
Comparison of a one-time educational intervention to a teach-to-goal educational intervention for self-management of heart failure: design of a randomized controlled trial. BMC Health Serv Res (2009) 1.12
Measuring the quality of medication use in older adults. J Am Geriatr Soc (2009) 1.12
Effect of nosocomial bloodstream infections on mortality, length of stay, and hospital costs in older adults. J Am Geriatr Soc (2014) 1.12
The effect of progressive, reinforcing telephone education and counseling versus brief educational intervention on knowledge, self-care behaviors and heart failure symptoms. J Card Fail (2011) 1.11
Frequency and predictors of adverse health outcomes in older Medicare beneficiaries discharged from the emergency department. Med Care (2008) 1.10
The medication appropriateness index at 20: where it started, where it has been, and where it may be going. Drugs Aging (2013) 1.10
Impact of inappropriate drug use on health services utilization among representative older community-dwelling residents. Am J Geriatr Pharmacother (2004) 1.09
Safety of zoster vaccine in elderly adults following documented herpes zoster. J Infect Dis (2013) 1.09
Veterans Affairs primary care organizational characteristics associated with better diabetes control. Am J Manag Care (2005) 1.09