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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. Outcome Measures: Time to TKA. years (SD 8.8), 78.2% were White, 19.7%

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. Wait, first of all, what’s the incidence of calling EMS for falls over almost a decade, I think like 2007 to 2016, and what happens to people afterwards?

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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: All right. We mentioned her name before.

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Well-being and Resilience: a Podcast with Jane Thomas, Naomi Saks, Ishwaria Subbiah

GeriPal

I’ve known you since we did PSAP together, I think, back in 2007 ish. Jane 23:25 Which is, you know, I have had a few different kinds of leadership roles, and one was, as clinical director for our clinical service at Dana Farber and Brigham and women’s, overseeing the clinical operations for our whole fairly large group.

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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. Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? And the government can do something about that?!?

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