Geriatric medicine

Effectiveness of an eHealth self-management tool for older adults with multimorbidity (KeepWell): protocol for a hybrid effectiveness–implementation randomised controlled trial

Monika Kastner, Julie Makarski, Leigh Hayden, Jemila S Hamid, Jayna Holroyd-Leduc, Margo Twohig, Charlie Macfarlane, Mary Trapani Hynes, Leela Prasaud, Barb Sklar, Joan Honsberger, Marilyn Wang, Gloria Kramer, Gerry Hobden, Heather Armson, Noah Ivers, Fok-Han Leung, Barbara Liu, Sharon Marr, Michelle Greiver, Sophie Desroches, Kathryn Sibley, Hailey Saunders, Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai, Eric McArthur, Sarah Harvey, Kithara Manawadu, Kadia Petricca, Sharon E Straus

10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048350

February 17, 2021

Laying the foundation for a Core Set of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health for community-dwelling older adults in primary care: relevant categories of their functioning from the research perspective, a scoping review

Johanna Tomandl, Stefan Heinmüller, Melissa Selb, Elmar Graessel, Ellen Freiberger, Thomas Kühlein, Susann Hueber, Stephanie Book, Susann Gotthardt

10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037333

February 17, 2021

Help-seeking behaviours among older adults: a scoping review protocol

Kelly Teo, Ryan Churchill, Indira Riadi, Lucy Kervin, Theodore Cosco

10.1136/bmjopen-2020-043554

February 16, 2021

Community-based complex interventions to sustain independence in older people, stratified by frailty: a protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis

Thomas F Crocker, Andrew Clegg, Richard D. Riley, Natalie Lam, Ram Bajpai, Magda Jordão, Eleftheria Patetsini, Ridha Ramiz, Joie Ensor, Anne Forster, John R F Gladman

10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045637

February 15, 2021

Feasibility of 3-month melatonin supplementation for brain oxidative stress and sleep in mild cognitive impairment: protocol for a randomised, placebo-controlled study

Zoe Menczel Schrire, Craig L Phillips, Shantel L Duffy, Nathaniel S Marshall, Loren Mowszowski, Haley M La Monica, Christopher J Gordon, Julia L Chapman, Bandana Saini, Simon J G Lewis, Sharon L Naismith, Ronald R Grunstein, Camilla M Hoyos

10.1136/bmjopen-2020-041500

February 10, 2021

Deprescribing fall-risk increasing drugs (FRIDs) for the prevention of falls and fall-related complications: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Justin Lee, Ahmed Negm, Ryan Peters, Eric K C Wong, Anne Holbrook

10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035978

February 10, 2021

Improvement of transitional care from hospital to home for older patients, the TIGER study: protocol of a randomised controlled trial

Martina Rimmele, Jenny Wirth, Sabine Britting, Thomas Gehr, Margit Hermann, Dirk van den Heuvel, Andreas Kestler, Thomas Koch, Oliver Schoeffski, Dorothee Volkert, Klaus Wingenfeld, Susanne Wurm, Ellen Freiberger, Cornel Sieber

10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037999

February 8, 2021

Identifying patterns of health care utilisation among physical elder abuse victims using Medicare data and legally adjudicated cases: protocol for case–control study using data linkage and machine learning

Tony Rosen, Yuhua Bao, Yiye Zhang, Sunday Clark, Katherine Wen, Alyssa Elman, Philip Jeng, Elizabeth Bloemen, Daniel Lindberg, Richard Krugman, Jacquelyn Campbell, Ronet Bachman, Terry Fulmer, Karl Pillemer, Mark Lachs

10.1136/bmjopen-2020-044768

February 5, 2021

Diagnostic and predictive accuracy of the Clinical Frailty Scale among hospitalised older medical patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

Aoife Leahy, Margaret O’Connor, Jennifer Condon, Sarah Heywood, Elaine Shanahan, Catherine Peters, Rose Galvin

10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040765

January 20, 2021

Changes of perceptions and behaviours during the phases of COVID-19 pandemic in German elderly people with neurological disorders: an observational study using telephone interviews

Hannah M Zipprich, Aline Schönenberg, Ulrike Teschner, Tino Prell

10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045780

January 12, 2021