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

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Administrative electronic health record (EHR) datasets offer a low-cost opportunity to investigate influences on knee osteoarthritis (OA) prevalence and outcomes such as total knee arthroplasty (TKA). 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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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. Why are all these companies after me trying to get my money and get me an electronic wheelchair? And, they thought, “This is a racket.

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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.