Delirium prevention, detection, and treatment in emergency medicine settings: a geriatric emergency care applied research (GEAR) network scoping review and …

CR Carpenter, N Hammouda, EA Linton… - Academic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Older adult delirium is often unrecognized in the emergency department (ED),
yet the most compelling research questions to overcome knowledge‐to‐practice deficits …

Care transitions and social needs: a geriatric emergency care applied research (GEAR) network scoping review and consensus statement

CJ Gettel, CI Voils, AA Bristol… - Academic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Individual‐level social needs have been shown to substantially impact
emergency department (ED) care transitions of older adults. The Geriatric Emergency care …

Moving the needle on fall prevention: a geriatric emergency care applied research (GEAR) network scoping review and consensus statement

N Hammouda, CR Carpenter, WW Hung… - Academic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Although falls are common, costly, and often preventable, emergency
department (ED)‐initiated fall screening and prevention efforts are rare. The Geriatric …

[HTML][HTML] Reach and adoption of a geriatric emergency department accreditation program in the United States

M Kennedy, A Lesser, J Israni, SW Liu… - Annals of emergency …, 2022 - Elsevier
Study objective The objectives of this study were to describe the reach and adoption of
Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation (GEDA) program and care processes …

30‐day emergency department revisit rates among older adults with documented dementia

T Kent, A Lesser, J Israni, U Hwang… - Journal of the …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
OBJECTIVES Published literature on national emergency department (ED) revisit rates
among older adults with dementia is sparse, despite anecdotal evidence of higher ED …

Delirium as a predictor of mortality in US Medicare beneficiaries discharged from the emergency department: a national claims-level analysis up to 12 months

J Israni, A Lesser, T Kent, K Ko - BMJ open, 2018 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Background Delirium is common among seniors discharged from the emergency
department (ED) and associated with increased risk of mortality. Prior research has …

Association between physical therapy in the emergency department and emergency department revisits for older adult fallers: a nationally representative analysis

A Lesser, J Israni, T Kent, KJ Ko - Journal of the American …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To determine whether providing physical therapy (PT) services in the emergency
department (ED) improves outcomes for older adults who fall. Design We used Medicare …

[HTML][HTML] Motivation and satisfaction among community health workers administering rapid diagnostic tests for malaria in Western Kenya

LK Winn, A Lesser, D Menya… - Journal of global …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The continued success of community case management (CCM) programs in
low-resource settings depends on the ability of these programs to retain the community …

[HTML][HTML] Community knowledge and acceptance of larviciding for malaria control in a rural district of east-central Tanzania

LEG Mboera, RA Kramer, ML Miranda… - International journal of …, 2014 - mdpi.com
The use of microbial larvicides, a form of larval source management, is a less commonly
used malaria control intervention that nonetheless has significant potential as a component …

[HTML][HTML] Factors influencing malaria control policy-making in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania

CM Mutero, RA Kramer, C Paul, A Lesser, ML Miranda… - Malaria journal, 2014 - Springer
Background Policy decisions for malaria control are often difficult to make as decision-
makers have to carefully consider an array of options and respond to the needs of a large …