Selected Publications
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- Engagement of outpatient providers in a deprescribing trial for hospitalized older patients transitioning to post-acute care facilities.. Health literacy and communication open. 3. 2025
- An Observational Study of Nursing Delivery of Mobility Assistance in Acute Care.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 26:-. 2025
- Time Allocated to Nursing Tasks on Hospital Units Caring for Older Patients.. Journal for healthcare quality : official publication of the National Association for Healthcare Quality. 47. 2025
- An Objective Method to Determine Nurse Staffing for an Acute Care for Elders (ACE) Hospital Unit: Discrete Event Simulation.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 73:2146-2154. 2025
- Selective serotonin/serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor serum concentrations' association with delirium duration.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 72:3594-3597. 2024
- Medication Discrepancies among Older Hospitalized Adults Discharged from Post-Acute Care Facilities to Home.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 25:-. 2024
- Emergency department visits and hospital readmissions after a deprescribing intervention among hospitalized older adults.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 72:2038-2047. 2024
- Why do older adults decline participation in research? Results from two deprescribing clinical trials.. Trials. 24:-. 2023
- Patient-Reported Barriers and Enablers to Deprescribing Recommendations During a Clinical Trial (Shed-MEDS).. The Gerontologist. 63:523-533. 2023
- Older Patient and Surrogate Attitudes Toward Deprescribing During the Transition From Acute to Post-Acute Care.. Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society. 41:788-797. 2022
- Sources of medication omissions among hospitalized older adults with polypharmacy.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 70:1180-1189. 2021
- Supratherapeutic Psychotropic Drug Levels in the Emergency Department and Their Association with Delirium Duration: A Preliminary Study.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 67:2387-2392. 2019
- A patient-centered deprescribing intervention for hospitalized older patients with polypharmacy: rationale and design of the Shed-MEDS randomized controlled trial.. BMC health services research. 19:-. 2019
- Improving Care Transitions for Hospitalized Veterans Discharged to Skilled Nursing Facilities: A Focus on Polypharmacy and Geriatric Syndromes.. Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland). 4. 2019
- Changes in vulnerability among older patients with cardiovascular disease in the first 90 days after hospital discharge: A secondary analysis of a cohort study.. BMJ open. 9:-. 2019
- A System for Managing Staff and Quality of Dementia Care in Assisted Living Facilities.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 66:1632-1637. 2018
- Managing Person-Centered Dementia Care in an Assisted Living Facility: Staffing and Time Considerations.. The Gerontologist. 58:e251-e259. 2018
- Reducing Antipsychotic Medication Use in Nursing Homes: A Qualitative Study of Nursing Staff Perceptions.. The Gerontologist. 58:e239-e250. 2018
- Shed-MEDS: pilot of a patient-centered deprescribing framework reduces medications in hospitalized older adults being transferred to inpatient postacute care.. Therapeutic advances in drug safety. 9:523-533. 2018
- A Quality Improvement System to Manage Feeding Assistance Care in Assisted-Living.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 19:262-269. 2018
- Home Health Nurses' Perspectives and Care Processes Related to Older Persons with Frailty and Depression: A Mixed Method Pilot Study.. Journal of community health nursing. 35:118-136. 2018
- Preventability of Hospital Readmissions From Skilled Nursing Facilities: A Consumer Perspective.. The Gerontologist. 57:1123-1132. 2017
- Health literacy, cognition, and urinary incontinence among geriatric inpatients discharged to skilled nursing facilities.. Neurourology and urodynamics. 37:854-860. 2017
- Pain interference and depressive symptoms in communicative people with Alzheimer's disease: a pilot study.. Aging & mental health. 22:808-812. 2017
- Potentially Avoidable Readmissions of Patients Discharged to Post-Acute Care: Perspectives of Hospital and Skilled Nursing Facility Staff.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 65:269-276. 2016
- Training Nonnursing Staff to Assist with Nutritional Care Delivery in Nursing Homes: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 65:313-322. 2016
- Determining Nurse Aide Staffing Requirements to Provide Care Based on Resident Workload: A Discrete Event Simulation Model.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 17:970-977. 2016
- Comparison Between Quality of Care Provided by Trained Feeding Assistants and Certified Nursing Assistants During Between-Meal Supplementation in Long-Term Care Settings.. Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society. 37:1391-1410. 2016
- Stability of Geriatric Syndromes in Hospitalized Medicare Beneficiaries Discharged to Skilled Nursing Facilities.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 64:2027-2034. 2016
- Medications associated with geriatric syndromes and their prevalence in older hospitalized adults discharged to skilled nursing facilities.. Journal of hospital medicine. 11:694-700. 2016
- Defining Safety in the Nursing Home Setting: Implications for Future Research.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 17:473-81. 2016
- Elevated Serum Osmolality and Total Water Deficit Indicate Impaired Hydration Status in Residents of Long-Term Care Facilities Regardless of Low or High Body Mass Index.. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. 116:828-836.e2. 2016
- The Need for Higher Minimum Staffing Standards in U.S. Nursing Homes.. Health services insights. 13-9. 2016
- Geriatric Syndromes in Hospitalized Older Adults Discharged to Skilled Nursing Facilities.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 64:715-22. 2016
- Cost-Effectiveness of Nutrition Intervention in Long-Term Care.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 63:2308-16. 2015
- Specific Physician Orders Improve Pain Detection and Pain Reports in Nursing Home Residents: Preliminary Data.. Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses. 16:770-80. 2015
- Pain and Satisfaction With Pain Management Among Older Patients During the Transition From Acute to Skilled Nursing Care.. The Gerontologist. 56:1138-1145. 2015
- The Association Between the Probability of Sarcopenia and Functional Outcomes in Older Patients Undergoing In-Hospital Rehabilitation.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 16:951-6. 2015
- Simple solutions may not work for complex patients: A need for new paradigms in geriatric hospital medicine.. Journal of hospital medicine. 10:343-4. 2015
- Next steps for achieving person-centered care in nursing homes.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 15:615-9. 2014
- The impact of family visitation on feeding assistance quality in nursing homes.. Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society. 33:586-602. 2014
- Pain reports and pain medication treatment in nursing home residents with and without dementia.. Geriatrics & gerontology international. 14:541-8. 2013
- A staff training and management intervention in VA long-term care: impact on feeding assistance care quality.. Translational behavioral medicine. 3:189-99. 2013
- A controlled trial of an intervention to increase resident choice in long term care.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 14:345-51. 2013
- Simple kcal/kg formula is comparable to prediction equations for estimating resting energy expenditure in older cognitively impaired long term care residents.. The journal of nutrition, health & aging. 17:39-44. 2013
- Whom do veteran nursing home residents prefer to talk to about satisfaction with care?: implications for nursing staff.. Journal of gerontological nursing. 38:38-45. 2012
- Evaluation of two fatigability severity measures in elderly adults.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 60:1527-33. 2012
- The value of resident choice during daily care: do staff and families differ?. Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society. 33:655-71. 2012
- Distance coursework and coaching to improve nursing home incontinence care: lessons learned.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 60:1157-64. 2012
- Resident characteristics related to the lack of morning care provision in long-term care.. The Gerontologist. 53:151-61. 2012
- The quality of feeding assistance care practices for long-term care veterans: implications for quality improvement efforts.. Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society. 32:669-86. 2012
- Translating research into practice in nursing homes: can we close the gap?. The Gerontologist. 52:597-606. 2012
- Fatigability as a function of physical activity energy expenditure in older adults.. Age (Dordrecht, Netherlands). 35:179-87. 2011
- The coach is in: improving nutritional care in nursing homes.. The Gerontologist. 52:571-80. 2011
- Resident-directed long-term care: staff provision of choice during morning care.. The Gerontologist. 51:867-75. 2011
- The nursing home dining assistant program: a demonstration project.. Journal of gerontological nursing. 37:34-43. 2010
- The importance of standardized observations to evaluate nutritional care quality in the survey process.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 10:568-74. 2009
- Resident choice and the survey process: the need for standardized observation and transparency.. The Gerontologist. 49:517-24. 2009
- Prevalence of constipation symptoms in fecally incontinent nursing home residents.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 57:647-52. 2009
- The accuracy of monthly weight assessments in nursing homes: implications for the identification of weight loss.. The journal of nutrition, health & aging. 13:284-8. 2009
- Resident complaints about the nursing home food service: relationship to cognitive status.. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences. 64:324-7. 2009
- Prevention of unintentional weight loss in nursing home residents: a controlled trial of feeding assistance.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 56:1466-73. 2008
- A preliminary evaluation of the paid feeding assistant regulation: impact on feeding assistance care process quality in nursing homes.. The Gerontologist. 47:184-92. 2007
- Quality improvement for feeding assistance care in nursing homes.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 8:S12-7. 2007
- What do family members notice following an intervention to improve mobility and incontinence care for nursing home residents? An analysis of open-ended comments.. The Gerontologist. 47:14-20. 2007
- Nursing home staff delivery of oral liquid nutritional supplements to residents at risk for unintentional weight loss.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 54:1372-6. 2006
- Feeding assistance needs of long-stay nursing home residents and staff time to provide care.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 54:919-24. 2006
- Direct observations of nursing home care quality: Does care change when observed?. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 7:541-4. 2006
- A continuous quality improvement pilot study: impact on nutritional care quality.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 7:480-5. 2006
- A standardized quality assessment system to evaluate pain detection and management in the nursing home.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 7:S11-9, S10. 2006
- Evaluating the accuracy of minimum data set bed-mobility ratings against independent performance assessments: systematic error and directions for improvement.. The Gerontologist. 45:731-8. 2005
- A refined protocol for coding nursing home residents' comments during satisfaction interviews.. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences. 60:S326-S330. 2005
- Continuous quality improvement for nutritional care services in nursing homes: the importance of direct observation.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 7:61-2. 2005
- Improving the quality of nursing home care and medical-record accuracy with direct observational technologies.. The Gerontologist. 45:576-82. 2005
- Resident and family satisfaction with incontinence and mobility care: sensitivity to intervention effects?. The Gerontologist. 45:318-26. 2005
- Cost-effectiveness of recommended nurse staffing levels for short-stay skilled nursing facility patients.. BMC health services research. -. 2005
- A standardized quality assessment system to evaluate pain detection and management in the nursing home.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 6:1-9. 2005
- Individualizing nutritional care with between-meal snacks for nursing home residents.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 6:215-8. 2005
- Residents' care preferences as targeting criteria: measurement issues functional incidental training: applicability and feasibility in the Veterans Affairs nursing home patient population.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 6:157-8. 2005
- The effect of megestrol acetate on oral food and fluid intake in nursing home residents: a pilot study.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 6:S5-11. 2005
- Using the minimum data set to select nursing home residents for interview about pain.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 52:2057-61. 2004
- Individualized feeding assistance care for nursing home residents: staffing requirements to implement two interventions.. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences. 59:M966-73. 2004
- Accuracy of nursing home medical record information about care-process delivery: implications for staff management and improvement.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 52:1378-83. 2004
- Relationship of nursing home staffing to quality of care.. Health services research. 39:225-50. 2004
- The minimum data set prevalence of restraint quality indicator: does it reflect differences in care?. The Gerontologist. 44:245-55. 2004
- A minimum data set prevalence of pain quality indicator: is it accurate and does it reflect differences in care processes?. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences. 59:281-5. 2004
- Developing innovative models to translate guidelines into practice.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 5:55-6. 2004
- Selecting nursing home residents for interview.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 5:-. 2004
- The effect of megestrol acetate on oral food and fluid intake in nursing home residents: a pilot study.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 5:24-30. 2004
- A standardized quality assessment system to evaluate incontinence care in the nursing home.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 51:1754-61. 2003
- The minimum data set weight-loss quality indicator: does it reflect differences in care processes related to weight loss?. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 51:1410-8. 2003
- The minimum data set urinary incontinence quality indicators: do they reflect differences in care processes related to incontinence?. Medical care. 41:909-22. 2003
- Family members' preferences for nutrition interventions to improve nursing home residents' oral food and fluid intake.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 51:69-74. 2003
- Should reimbursement rates be increased for feeding assistance in nursing homes?. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 4:52-3. 2003
- Quality assessment in nursing homes by systematic direct observation: feeding assistance.. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences. 57:M665-71. 2002
- Translating clinical research into practice: a randomized controlled trial of exercise and incontinence care with nursing home residents.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 50:1476-83. 2002
- A comparison of methods to assess nursing home residents' unmet needs.. The Gerontologist. 42:454-61. 2002
- Accuracy of minimum data set in identifying residents at risk for undernutrition: oral intake and food complaints.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 3:140-5. 2002
- Effects of a controlled exercise trial on pain in nursing home residents.. The Clinical journal of pain. 18:380-5. 2002
- Exercise with physically restrained nursing home residents: maximizing benefits of restraint reduction.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 44:507-12. 1996
- Safety assessment for the frail elderly: a comparison of restrained and unrestrained nursing home residents.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 42:586-92. 1994
- Risk factors that predict staff failure to release nursing home residents from restraints.. The Gerontologist. 32:767-70. 1992