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Validation of an Administrative Knee Osteoarthritis Severity Index in a Veterans Health Affairs Cohort [Big data]

Annals of Family Medicine

The Osteoarthritis Severity Index (OASI) was developed to inform clinical trajectory of knee OA toward TKA and was previously created and validated in a nationally distributed, general population cohort of EHR data. Dataset: VHA-CDW data from 2007-2020. Results: Overall, average age at OA diagnosis was 64.0 years (SD 8.8), 78.2%

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Bisphosphonates for Osteoporosis: Podcast with James Deardorff and Sei Lee

GeriPal

This tool provides a clinical recommendation for starting/stopping medications and cancer screening based on the prognosis of the patient in front of you. And so many older adults with diagnosis of osteoporosis have never received any therapy for it. Toward the end we talk about the launch of ePrognosis’ new Time to Benefit tool.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

But when we have people in rural areas of California, so we don’t know our clinical site, we go from San Francisco all the way to the Northern California border, super rural areas. ” I think we started the blog in 2007 or 2008, we were doing that up until 2016. Eric: I’ve heard that before. Eric: All right.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

So when I was a resident at Cleveland Clinic, I got to see really cutting-edge technology, some of the best surgeons in the country, and perhaps in the world, operating on patients. Fifty percent have a diagnosis in their record of decedents have dementia. That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008. Joel: Yeah.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. Sometimes people call them health shocks, but we kind of all, like, clinically, intuitively know what these things are. Has really changed.

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