Geriatric Assessment - Statistics & numerical data
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Physician evaluation and management of Medicare home health patients.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: The Medicare home health benefit is predicated on physician referral and involvement. In this study, we investigated (1) the frequency and (2) implications of home health patients' evaluation and management by community physicians. ... Read more...

Insomnia, depression, and physical disorders in late life: a 2-year longitudinal community study in Koreans.

30 Aug 2009 STUDY OBJECTIVES: To investigate prevalence, incidence, and persistence of insomnia, and their bidirectional longitudinal associations with depression and physical disorders. DESIGN: A community based longitudinal study. SETTING: Elders living in ... Read more...

[Ethic reflexion in the care of elderly people with cancer]

13 Aug 2009 Medical ethics is concerned with practices of care, their purposes, their feasibility. It raises questions about taking care of elderly patients with cancer. The decision criteria of exploration in search of cancer or treatment of confirmed cancer ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Geriatric Assessment - Statistics & numerical data'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Physician evaluation and management of Medicare home health patients. 30 Oct 2009
• Insomnia, depression, and physical disorders in late life: a 2-year longitudinal community study in Koreans. 30 Aug 2009
• [Ethic reflexion in the care of elderly people with cancer] 13 Aug 2009
• Distress in older patients with cancer. Aug 2009
• Self-esteem stability and depressive symptoms in acute stroke rehabilitation: methodological and conceptual expansion. 30 Jul 2009
• Timely discharge of older patients from hospital: improving the process. 30 Jul 2009
• Falls and catastrophic thoughts about falls predict mobility restriction in community-dwelling older people: A structural equation modelling approach. 29 Jun 2009
• Use of primary care services by elderly people with chronic conditions, Brazil. 17 Jun 2009
• A national survey of memory clinics in Australia. 9 May 2009
• Consistency of care and blood pressure control among elderly African Americans and whites with hypertension. 29 Apr 2009
• Urinary tract infection in women over the age of 65: is age alone a marker of complication? 29 Apr 2009
• Prostate-specific antigen testing among the elderly in community-based family medicine practices. 29 Apr 2009
• Effect of smoking on the accumulation of deficits, frailty and survival in older adults: a secondary analysis from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging. 29 Apr 2009
• Sarcopenic-obesity and cardiovascular disease risk in the elderly. 29 Apr 2009
• Varying insulin use in older hospitalized patients with diabetes. 29 Apr 2009
• Usage of megestrol acetate in the treatment of anorexia-cachexia syndrome in the elderly. 29 Apr 2009
• Riboflavin supplementation and biomarkers of cardiovascular disease in the elderly. 29 Apr 2009
• C-reactive protein and fibrinogen of bedridden older patients in a six-month vitamin D supplementation trial. 29 Apr 2009
• State of the art in aspiration assessment and the idea of a new non invasive predictive test for the risk of aspiration in stroke. 29 Apr 2009
• Dietary factors in relation to daily activity energy expenditure and mortality among older adults. 29 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Geriatric Assessment'

Definition: Evaluation of the level of physical, physiological, or mental functioning in the older population group.

Descriptor UI: D015577

Alternative terms: Geriatric Assessment; Assessment, Geriatric; Assessments, Geriatric; Geriatric Assessments;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; history; statistics & numerical data; methods;

Tree Number: E05.318.308.225; I01.240.425.350; L01.280.360; N01.224.425.350; N05.715.360.300.360; N06.850.505.400.425.350; N06.850.520.308.225;

History Note: 90

Technical Notes: DF: GERIATRIC ASSESS