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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 'Minimal symptom expression' in patients with acetylcholine receptor antibody-positive refractory generalized myasthenia gravis treated with eculizumab. 
  • 1918 Influenza Pandemic: In Utero Exposure in the United States and Long-Term Impact on Hospitalizations. 
  • A Comparison of Clinical Outcomes After Unilateral or Bilateral Hip Arthroscopic Surgery: Age- and Sex-Matched Cohort Study. 
  • A New Method of Identifying Characteristics of Needing Help to Take Medications in an Older Representative Community-Dwelling Population: The Older Adults Medication Assist Scale. 
  • A brief self-administered questionnaire to determine functional capacity (the Duke Activity Status Index). 
  • A clinical trial of a rehabilitation expert clinician versus usual care for providing manual wheelchairs. 
  • A comparison of ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate at home and work on work and non-work days. 
  • A comparison of performance-based measures of function in HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders. 
  • A comparison of quality of life scores in patients with angina pectoris after angioplasty compared with after medical therapy. Outcomes of a randomized clinical trial. Veterans Affairs Study of Angioplasty Compared to Medical Therapy Investigators. 
  • A controlled trial of inpatient and outpatient geriatric evaluation and management. 
  • A daily activities list and its relation to measures of adjustment and early environment. 
  • A longitudinal study of functional change and mortality in the United States. 
  • A longitudinal study of the relationship between health behavior risk factors and dependence in activities of daily living. 
  • A low-vision rehabilitation program for patients with mild cognitive deficits. 
  • A method for adjusting capitation payments to managed care plans using multivariate patterns of health and functioning: the experience of Social/Health Maintenance Organizations. 
  • A multivariate analysis of disability and health, and its change over time in the National Channeling Demonstration data. 
  • A multivariate analysis of factors associated with depression: evaluating the role of health literacy as a potential contributor. 
  • A new classification of function and disability in China: subtypes based on performance-based and self-reported measures. 
  • A new method for correcting under-estimation of disabled life expectancy and an application to the Chinese oldest-old. 
  • A phenomenological investigation of women with Tourette or other chronic tic disorders. 
  • A pilot study of assertive community treatment for patients with chronic psychotic disorders. 
  • A qualitative study of quality of life domains and subdomains relevant to patients with spondyloarthritis. 
  • A randomized clinical trial of nursing care for recovery from cardiac surgery. 
  • A randomized clinical trial of theory-based activities for the behavioral symptoms of dementia in nursing home residents. 
  • A randomized controlled trial on rehabilitation through caregiver-delivered nurse-organized service programs for disabled stroke patients in rural china (the RECOVER trial): design and rationale. 
  • A short physical performance battery assessing lower extremity function: association with self-reported disability and prediction of mortality and nursing home admission. 
  • A systematic review of quality-of-life domains and items relevant to patients with spondyloarthritis. 
  • A systematic review of the psychometric properties of self-reported scales assessing burn contractures reveals the need for a new tool to measure contracture outcomes. 
  • A team approach: comprehensive evaluation for functional decline in older patients. 
  • A twin study of the genetic contribution to age-related functional impairment. 
  • Accelerometer-Measured Daily Activity in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: Clinical Correlates and Association With Standard Heart Failure Severity Indices. 
  • Accelerometer-Measured Hospital Physical Activity and Hospital-Acquired Disability in Older Adults. 
  • Access to health care services for the disabled elderly. 
  • Active life expectancy estimates for the U.S. elderly population: a multidimensional continuous-mixture model of functional change applied to completed cohorts, 1982-1996. 
  • Activities of daily living influence tibial cartilage T1rho relaxation times. 
  • Activities, function, and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of older adults with cancer. 
  • Activity restriction among wheelchair users. 
  • Activity scale for arthroplasty patients after total hip arthroplasty. 
  • Acupuncture for subacute stroke rehabilitation: a Sham-controlled, subject- and assessor-blind, randomized trial. 
  • Adaptation of the Possibilities for Activity Scale for women encountering cancer (PActS-W). 
  • Adaptive behavior in adolescents and adults with Down syndrome: Results from a 6-month longitudinal study. 
  • Adaptive behavior in children with fragile X syndrome. 
  • Addition of frailty and disability to cardiac surgery risk scores identifies elderly patients at high risk of mortality or major morbidity. 
  • Adherence to postacute rehabilitation guidelines is associated with functional recovery in stroke. 
  • Admission to the intensive care unit and well-being in patients with advanced chronic illness. 
  • Advance care planning and health care preferences of community-dwelling elders: the Framingham Heart Study. 
  • Aerobic exercise training and general health status in ambulatory heart failure patients with a reduced ejection fraction-Findings from the Heart Failure and A Controlled Trial Investigating Outcomes of Exercise Training (HF-ACTION)trial. 
  • Aerobic exercise training in stroke survivors. 
  • Ageing populations: the challenges ahead. 
  • Aging and cancer. 
  • Alternative statistical approaches to identifying dementia in a community-dwelling sample. 
  • An 81-year-old woman with chronic illnesses and a strong faith. 
  • An examination of the vulnerability hypothesis. 
  • Analysis of change in self-reported physical function among older persons in four population studies. 
  • Analysis of continuous 24-hour intraocular pressure patterns in glaucoma. 
  • Analyzing change in recovery patterns in the year after acute hospitalization. 
  • Anemia and Functional Disability in Older Adults With Cancer. 
  • Anemia and hemoglobin levels in older persons: relationship with age, gender, and health status. 
  • Anemia and its impact on function in nursing home residents: what do we know? 
  • Anxiety symptoms and functional impairment: A systematic review of the correlation between the two measures. 
  • Application of neuropsychological criteria to classify mild cognitive impairment in the active study. 
  • Are articular cartilage lesions and meniscus tears predictive of IKDC, KOOS, and Marx activity level outcomes after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction? A 6-year multicenter cohort study. 
  • Are coping strategies and locus of control orientation associated with health-related quality of life in older adults with and without depression? 
  • Are health-related quality-of-life measures affected by the mode of administration? 
  • Arthroscopic Surgery or Physical Therapy for Patients With Femoroacetabular Impingement Syndrome: A Randomized Controlled Trial With 2-Year Follow-up. 
  • Ascending digits task as a measure of executive function in geriatric depression. 
  • Assessing a tool to measure patient functional ability after outpatient surgery. 
  • Assessing health-related quality of life in elderly outpatients: telephone versus face-to-face administration. 
  • Assessment of Instrumental Activities of Daily Living in Older Adults with Subjective Cognitive Decline Using the Virtual Reality Functional Capacity Assessment Tool (VRFCAT). 
  • Assessment of quality of life in outpatients with advanced cancer: the accuracy of clinician estimations and the relevance of spiritual well-being--a Hoosier Oncology Group Study. 
  • Assisted early mobility for hospitalized older veterans: preliminary data from the STRIDE program. 
  • Association between APOE epsilon 2/epsilon 3/epsilon 4 polymorphism and disability severity in a national long-term care survey sample. 
  • Association between patient-reported hearing and visual impairments and functional, psychological, and cognitive status among older adults with cancer. 
  • Association of Body Mass Index With Disability in Activities of Daily Living Among Chinese Adults 80 Years of Age or Older. 
  • Association of Frailty With Recovery From Disability Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Results From Two Large U.S. Cohorts. 
  • Association of Frailty with recovery from disability among community-dwelling Chinese older adults: China health and retirement longitudinal study. 
  • Association of Nondisease-Specific Problems with Mortality, Long-Term Care, and Functional Impairment among Older Adults Who Require Skilled Nursing Care after Dialysis Initiation. 
  • Association of anxiety and depression with pulmonary-specific symptoms in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 
  • Association of attentional shift and reversal learning to functional deficits in geriatric depression. 
  • Association of environmental factors with levels of home and community participation in an adult rehabilitation cohort. 
  • Association of health-related quality of life with dual use of prescription and over-the-counter nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs. 
  • Association of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures with impaired functional status. 
  • Association of pain after trauma with long-term functional and mental health outcomes. 
  • Associations between BMI and home, school and route environmental exposures estimated using GPS and GIS: do we see evidence of selective daily mobility bias in children? 
  • Associations between functioning and PTSD symptom clusters in a dismantling trial of cognitive processing therapy in female interpersonal violence survivors. 
  • Associations of environmental factors with elderly health and mortality in China. 
  • Associations of job demands and intelligence with cognitive performance among men in late life. 
  • Associations of occupational tasks with knee and hip osteoarthritis: the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project. 
  • Barriers, facilitators, and access for wheelchair users: substantive and methodologic lessons from a pilot study of environmental effects. 
  • Baseline disability in activities of daily living predicts dementia risk even after controlling for baseline global cognitive ability and depressive symptoms. 
  • Bed rest promotes reductions in walking speed, functional parameters, and aerobic fitness in older, healthy adults. 
  • Bee Venom Acupuncture in Addition to Anti-Parkinsonian Medications may Improve Activities of Daily Living and Motor Symptoms More Than Medication Alone in Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease. 
  • Beliefs about promoting cognitive health among Filipino Americans who care for persons with dementia. 
  • Berg balance scale and outcome measures in acquired brain injury. 
  • Binge eating and weight-related quality of life in obese adolescents. 
  • Black-white disparity in disability: the role of medical conditions. 
  • Black/white differences in health status and mortality among the elderly. 
  • Blood Pressure Trajectory, Gait Speed, and Outcomes: The Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study. 
  • Body composition in ambulatory women with multiple sclerosis. 
  • Borderline Personality Disorder and the Effects of Instructed Emotional Avoidance or Acceptance in Daily Life. 
  • Breaking the cycle of functional decline in older dialysis patients. 
  • Burden of disease in adult patients with hypophosphatasia: Results from two patient-reported surveys. 
  • Cancer and the functional status of the elderly. 
  • Cardiovascular responses in the laboratory and in the natural environment: is blood pressure reactivity to laboratory-induced mental stress related to ambulatory blood pressure during everyday life? 
  • Caregiver Quality of Life Is Related to Severity of Otitis Media in Children. 
  • Caregivers and elderly relatives. The prevalence of caregiving in a family practice. 
  • Caregiving-related needs of family caregivers of older Singaporeans. 
  • Caring for individuals with dementia and cognitive impairment, not dementia: findings from the aging, demographics, and memory study. 
  • Carpal tunnel release. A prospective, randomized assessment of open and endoscopic methods. 
  • Categorizing the effect of comorbidity: a qualitative study of individuals' experiences in a low-vision rehabilitation program. 
  • Cerebrovascular disease and depression symptoms in the cardiovascular health study. 
  • Change in functional disability of geriatric patients in a family medicine program: implications for patient care. 
  • Changes in everyday function in individuals with psychometrically defined mild cognitive impairment in the Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly Study. 
  • Changes in functional status among persons over age sixty-five undergoing total knee arthroplasty. 
  • Changes in home care use by disabled elderly persons: 1982-1994. 
  • Changes in the age dependence of mortality and disability: cohort and other determinants. 
  • Changes in the use of personal assistance and special equipment from 1982 to 1989: results from the 1982 and 1989 NLTCS. 
  • Changes of Health Status and Institutionalization Among Older Adults in China. 
  • Changing health status and health expectancies among older adults in China: gender differences from 1992 to 2002. 
  • Changing preferences for survival after hospitalization with advanced heart failure. 
  • Characteristics and treatment options of elderly Chinese patients with cancer as determined by Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA). 
  • Characteristics of nonresponders in a community survey of the elderly. 
  • Childrens' and adolescents' use of diaries for sickle cell pain. 
  • Chronic Myeloid Leukemia-the Promise of Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor Discontinuation. 
  • Chronic disability trends in elderly United States populations: 1982-1994. 
  • Chronic tears of the reflected head of the rectus femoris: results of operative treatment. 
  • Chronicity and remission of fatigue in patients with established HIV infection. 
  • Clinical and phenomenological comparisons of late-onset and early-onset depression. 
  • Clinical and sociodemographic factors in a sample of older subjects experiencing depressive symptoms. 
  • Clinical characteristics of Kraepelinian schizophrenia: replication and extension of previous findings. 
  • Clinical prognostic model for older patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer. 
  • Clinically Meaningful Improvements After Hip Arthroscopy for Femoroacetabular Impingement in Adolescent and Young Adult Patients Regardless of Gender. 
  • Clinically significant depressive symptoms and associated factors in community elderly subjects from Sao Paulo, Brazil. 
  • Coagulation and activation of inflammatory pathways in the development of functional decline and mortality in the elderly. 
  • Cognition as an outcome measure in schizophrenia. 
  • Cognitive and physical rehabilitation of intensive care unit survivors: results of the RETURN randomized controlled pilot investigation. 
  • Cognitive effects of atypical antipsychotic medications in patients with Alzheimer's disease: outcomes from CATIE-AD. 
  • Cognitive function in late life depression: relationships to depression severity, cerebrovascular risk factors and processing speed. 
  • Cognitive performance and informant reports in the diagnosis of cognitive impairment and dementia in African Americans and whites. 
  • Cognitive stimulation and cognitive and functional decline in Alzheimer's disease: the cache county dementia progression study. 
  • Cognitive-Behavioral-Based Physical Therapy for Patients With Chronic Pain Undergoing Lumbar Spine Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Cohort Profile: The 1895, 1905, 1910 and 1915 Danish Birth Cohort Studies - secular trends in the health and functioning of the very old. 
  • Cohort changes in active life expectancy in the U.S. elderly population: experience from the 1982-2004 National Long-Term Care Survey. 
  • Combination of flavor enhancement and chemosensory education improves nutritional status in older cancer patients. 
  • Community mobility among older adults with reduced kidney function: a study of life-space. 
  • Community-based nursing: continence care for older rural women. 
  • Comorbid cognitive impairment and functional trajectories in low vision rehabilitation for macular disease. 
  • Comorbidity and functional status are independent in older cancer patients. 
  • Comparing proxy and patients' perceptions of patients' functional status: results from an outpatient geriatric clinic. 
  • Comparing three life-limiting diseases: does diagnosis matter or is sick, sick? 
  • Comparison of Patient- and Practitioner-Reported Toxic Effects Associated With Chemoradiotherapy for Head and Neck Cancer. 
  • Comparison of cognitive and physical functioning of Europeans in 2004-05 and 2013. 
  • Comparison of graded exercise and graded exposure clinical outcomes for patients with chronic low back pain. 
  • Comparison of outcome measures from a trial of mycophenolate mofetil in myasthenia gravis. 
  • Comparison of the Single Assessment Numeric Evaluation method and two shoulder rating scales. Outcomes measures after shoulder surgery. 
  • Compensatory strategies used by older adults facing mobility disability. 
  • Competing risk of household expansion or institutionalization in late life. 
  • Complications of axillary lymph node dissection for carcinoma of the breast: a report based on a patient survey. 
  • Comprehensive assessment of the elderly cancer patient: the feasibility of self-report methodology. 
  • Comprehensive care of the elderly patient with cancer. 
  • Comprehensive rehabilitative care across the spectrum of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 
  • Congestive heart failure patients' perceptions of quality of life: the integration of physical and psychosocial factors. 
  • Construct validity of the Impact of Weight on Quality of Life Questionnaire. 
  • Construction of an efficient evaluative instrument for myasthenia gravis: the MG composite. 
  • Control beliefs and risk for 4-year mortality in older adults: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Coping and thought suppression as predictors of suicidal ideation in depressed older adults with personality disorders. 
  • Correlates of ADL difficulty in a large hemodialysis cohort. 
  • Correlates of care relationship mutuality among carers of people with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. 
  • Correlates of functional capacity among centenarians. 
  • Correlates of handgrip strength and activities of daily living in elderly Sri Lankans. 
  • Correlates of lifetime alcohol misuse among older community residents in Brazil. 
  • Correlation between symptoms and function in older adults with comorbidity. 
  • Correlation of Single Assessment Numerical Evaluation Score for Sport and Activities of Daily Living to Modified Harris Hip Score and Hip Outcome Score in Patients Undergoing Arthroscopic Hip Surgery. 
  • Cost effectiveness of home and community-based care. 
  • Cost trajectories as a measure of functional resilience after hospitalization in older adults. 
  • Costs and outcomes of hip fracture and stroke, 1984 to 1994. 
  • Cross-sectional estimates of active life expectancy for the U.S. elderly and oldest-old populations. 
  • Daily pain and symptoms in children with polyarticular arthritis. 
  • Daily well-being of cancer survivors: the role of somatic amplification. 
  • Declining physical abilities with age: a cross-sectional study of older twins and centenarians in Denmark. 
  • Decompressive laparotomy for refractory intracranial hypertension after traumatic brain injury. 
  • Delivery of a patient-friendly functioning report to improve patient-centeredness of dialysis care: a pilot study. 
  • Dementia assessment and management. 
  • Dementia assessment and management. 
  • Demographic and clinical variation in Veterans Health Administration provision of assistive technology devices to veterans poststroke. 
  • Demographic and illness-related variables associated with HIV-related fatigue. 
  • Demographic differences in health preferences in the United States. 
  • Demographic trends for the aging female population. 
  • Depression and Functional Status Among African American Stroke Survivors in Inpatient Rehabilitation. 
  • Depression and increased myocardial ischemic activity in patients with ischemic heart disease. 
  • Depression and level of functioning in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. 
  • Depression and physical disability outcomes in depressed medically ill hospitalized older adults. 
  • Depression in hospitalized older patients with congestive heart failure. 
  • Depression morbidity in later life: prevalence and correlates in a developing country. 
  • Depression with atypical features in the National Comorbidity Survey: classification, description, and consequences. 
  • Depressive symptoms among informal caregivers of older adults: insights from the Singapore Survey on Informal Caregiving. 
  • Depressive symptoms in middle age and the development of later-life functional limitations: the long-term effect of depressive symptoms. 
  • Detecting geriatric needs in older patients with breast cancer through use of a brief geriatric screening tool. 
  • Developing a cancer-specific geriatric assessment: a feasibility study. 
  • Development and psychometric performance of the schizophrenia objective functioning instrument: an interviewer administered measure of function. 
  • Development of a PROMIS item bank to measure pain interference. 
  • Development of a new patient-reported outcome measure in sarcopenia. 
  • Development of a prognostic model for six-month mortality in older adults with declining health. 
  • Development of a self-report measure of fearful activities for patients with low back pain: the fear of daily activities questionnaire. 
  • Development of a test of physical performance for the nursing home setting. 
  • Development of a virtual reality assessment of everyday living skills. 
  • Development of an activities of daily living scale to screen for dementia in an illiterate rural older population in India. 
  • Development of the Osteoporosis Assessment Questionnaire--physical Function (OPAQ-PF): an osteoporosis-targeted, patient-reported outcomes (PRO) measure of physical function. 
  • Development, reliability and validation of a neurogenic bowel dysfunction score in pediatric patients with spina bifida. 
  • Differences in effectiveness of the active living every day program for older adults with arthritis. 
  • Differences in functional impairment across subtypes of dementia. 
  • Differences in one-year health outcomes and resource utilization by definition of prolonged mechanical ventilation: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Differences in self-reported oral health among community-dwelling black, Hispanic, and white elders. 
  • Differential diagnosis and treatment for a patient with lower extremity symptoms. 
  • Differential relationships of risk factors to alternative measures of disability. 
  • Difficult behaviors in long-term care patients with dementia. 
  • Dimensionality, internal consistency, and item analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys activities of daily living instrument among patients with report of low back pain. 
  • Disability and frailty among elderly Canadians: a comparison of six surveys. 
  • Disability and health care costs in the Medicare population. 
  • Disability as a function of social networks and support in elderly African Americans and Whites: the Duke EPESE 1986--1992. 
  • Disability fingerprints: patterns of disability in spinal cord injury and multiple sclerosis differ. 
  • Disability in geriatric depression. 
  • Disability in patients with end-stage liver disease: Results from the functional assessment in liver transplantation study. 
  • Disability trends in gender and race groups of early retirement ages in the USA. 
  • Disablement and rehabilitation in end-stage renal disease. 
  • Disease severity and domain-specific arthritis self-efficacy: relationships to pain and functioning in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. 
  • Disease-specific measure of quality of life for myasthenia gravis. 
  • Disparities among older adults in measures of cognitive function by race or ethnicity. 
  • Diurnal variations in articular cartilage thickness and strain in the human knee. 
  • Do Patients With Borderline Dysplasia Have Inferior Outcomes After Hip Arthroscopic Surgery for Femoroacetabular Impingement Compared With Patients With Normal Acetabular Coverage? 
  • Do geriatric conditions increase risk of adverse drug reactions in ambulatory elders? Results from the VA GEM Drug Study. 
  • Do preparation and life completion discussions improve functioning and quality of life in seriously ill patients? Pilot randomized control trial. 
  • Does Oral Health Predict Functional Status in Late Life? Findings From a National Sample. 
  • Does This Patient Have Acute Mountain Sickness?: The Rational Clinical Examination Systematic Review. 
  • Does a helping hand mean a heavy heart? Helping behavior and well-being among spouse caregivers. 
  • Does assistive technology substitute for personal assistance among the disabled elderly? 
  • Does private religious activity prolong survival? A six-year follow-up study of 3,851 older adults. 
  • Does social support buffer functional decline in elderly patients with unipolar depression? 
  • Does the label "fibromyalgia" alter health status, function, and health service utilization? A prospective, within-group comparison in a community cohort of adults with chronic widespread pain. 
  • Domain Management Approach to Heart Failure in the Geriatric Patient: Present and Future. 
  • Domain and facet personality predictors of all-cause mortality among Medicare patients aged 65 to 100. 
  • Domestic helpers as frontline workers in China's home-based elder care: A systematic review. 
  • Donepezil treatment of older adults with cognitive impairment and depression (DOTCODE study): clinical rationale and design. 
  • Driving simulation as a performance-based test of visual impairment in glaucoma. 
  • Eculizumab improves fatigue in refractory generalized myasthenia gravis. 
  • Educating primary care physicians in geriatric rehabilitation. 
  • Education for self-care. Foreword. 
  • Education-specific estimates of life expectancy and age-specific disability in the U.S. elderly population: 1982 to 1991. 
  • Educational status and active life expectancy among older blacks and whites. 
  • Effect of Alzheimer disease on the cost of treating other diseases. 
  • Effect of a geriatric consultation team on functional status of elderly hospitalized patients. A randomized, controlled clinical trial. 
  • Effect of a tailored assistive technology intervention on older adults and their family caregiver: a pragmatic study protocol. 
  • Effect of amifostine on patient assessed clinical benefit in irradiated head and neck cancer. 
  • Effect of cancer screening and desirable health behaviors on functional status, self-rated health, health service use and mortality. 
  • Effect of graft choice on the outcome of revision anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction in the Multicenter ACL Revision Study (MARS) Cohort. 
  • Effect of improving depression care on pain and functional outcomes among older adults with arthritis: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Effect of mirtazapine orally disintegrating tablets on health-related quality of life in elderly depressed patients with comorbid medical disorders: a pilot study. 
  • Effect of motorized scooters on physical performance and mobility: a randomized clinical trial. 
  • Effect of motorized scooters on quality of life and cardiovascular risk. 
  • Effect of new disability subtype on 3-year mortality in Chinese older adults. 
  • Effect of pain location and duration on life function in the year after motor vehicle collision. 
  • Effect of physical activity guidelines on physical function in older adults. 
  • Effects of Exercise Training With and Without Ranolazine on Peak Oxygen Consumption, Daily Physical Activity, and Quality of Life in Patients With Chronic Stable Angina Pectoris. 
  • Effects of a caregiver-inclusive assistive technology intervention: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Effects of antipsychotic withdrawal in elderly nursing home residents. 
  • Effects of change in physical activity on physical function limitations in older women: mediating roles of physical function performance and self-efficacy. 
  • Effects of changes in self-reported vision on cognitive, affective, and functional status and living arrangements among the elderly. 
  • Effects of cognitive performance on change in physical function in long-stay nursing home residents. 
  • Effects of diagnosed dementia on Medicare and Medicaid program costs. 
  • Effects of exercise and weight loss on blood pressure during daily life. 
  • Effects of intraarticular IL1-Ra for acute anterior cruciate ligament knee injury: a randomized controlled pilot trial (NCT00332254). 
  • Effects of mental stress on myocardial ischemia during daily life. 
  • Effects of race and poverty on the process and outcome of inpatient rehabilitation services among stroke patients. 
  • Effects of stroke on medical resource use and costs in acute myocardial infarction. GUSTO I Investigators. Global Utilization of Streptokinase and Tissue Plasminogen Activator for Occluded Coronary Arteries Study. 
  • Effects of telerehabilitation on physical function and disability for stroke patients: a randomized, controlled trial. 
  • Emotion regulation predicts pain and functioning in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: an electronic diary study. 
  • Emotional antecedents of hot flashes during daily life. 
  • Emotional responsivity during daily life: relationship to psychosocial functioning and ambulatory blood pressure. 
  • Empirically derived Symptom Checklist 90 subgroups of chronic pain patients: a cluster analysis. 
  • Enhancing physical activity adherence and well-being in multiple sclerosis: a randomised controlled trial. 
  • Epidemiological, demographic, and social correlates of disability among the elderly. 
  • Epidemiology of chronic kidney disease among older adults: a focus on the oldest old. 
  • Epidemiology of dysphoria and depression in an elderly population. 
  • Epidemiology of persecutory ideation in an elderly population in the community. 
  • Estimates of change in chronic disability and institutional incidence and prevalence rates in the U.S. elderly population from the 1982, 1984, and 1989 National Long Term Care Survey. 
  • Estimates of future physical functioning by seriously ill hospitalized patients, their families, and their physicians. 
  • Estimating importance weights for the IWQOL-Lite using conjoint analysis. 
  • Estimating increment-decrement life tables with multiple covariates from panel data: the case of active life expectancy. 
  • Evaluating diagnosis-based risk-adjustment methods in a population with spinal cord dysfunction. 
  • Evaluating long-term care demonstrations in real time with study design and plan performance interactions. 
  • Evaluation of pedometry as a patient-centered outcome in patients undergoing hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT): a comparison of pedometry and patient reports of symptoms, health, and quality of life. 
  • Examining indirect associations between physical activity, function, and disability in independent- and assisted-living residents. 
  • Excessive Body Weight in Older Adults. 
  • Executive function deficits in acute stroke. 
  • Expectations and outcomes of gastric feeding tubes. 
  • Expected and realized benefits from cardiac surgery: an update. 
  • Experiential avoidance and well-being: a daily diary analysis. 
  • Explaining Disability Trends in the U.S. Elderly and Near-Elderly Population. 
  • Exploration of migraine pain, disability, depressive symptomatology, and coping: a pilot study. 
  • Exploring the factors that influence functional performance among nursing home residents. 
  • Exploring the use of social network analysis to measure social integration among older adults in assisted living. 
  • Exposure to stressors and trajectories of perceived stress among older adults. 
  • Factors Associated With Long-term Outcomes After Injury: Results of the Functional Outcomes and Recovery After Trauma Emergencies (FORTE) Multicenter Cohort Study. 
  • Factors associated with paranoid symptoms in a community sample of older adults. 
  • Factors associated with rapid progression to knee arthroplasty: complete analysis of three-year data from the osteoarthritis initiative. 
  • Family issues in dementia: finding a new normal. 
  • Five-factor personality traits and subjective health among caregivers: the role of caregiver strain and self-efficacy. 
  • Five-year results of endovascular treatment with the Gore TAG device compared with open repair of thoracic aortic aneurysms. 
  • Foot and ankle problems in rheumatoid arthritis. 
  • Forecasts of active life expectancy: policy and fiscal implications. 
  • Four methods of estimating the minimal important difference score were compared to establish a clinically significant change in Headache Impact Test. 
  • Frailty and mortality among Chinese at advanced ages. 
  • Frailty in liver transplantation: An expert opinion statement from the American Society of Transplantation Liver and Intestinal Community of Practice. 
  • Frailty predicts some but not all adverse outcomes in older adults discharged from the emergency department. 
  • Functional Impairments Mediate Association Between Clinical Fracture Risk and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Older Women. 
  • Functional Limitations Due to Lumbar Stiffness in Adults With and Without Spinal Deformity. 
  • Functional and mobility impairments associated with Paget's disease of bone. 
  • Functional assessment and the cancer survivor: something old, something new. 
  • Functional associations of "trouble seeing". 
  • Functional decline in older adults. 
  • Functional disability among elderly blacks and whites in two diverse areas: the New Haven and North Carolina EPESE. Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly. 
  • Functional disability, disability transitions, and depressive symptoms in late life. 
  • Functional incidental training: a randomized, controlled, crossover trial in Veterans Affairs nursing homes. 
  • Functional limitations in older adults who have cognitive impairment without dementia. 
  • Functional outcomes for clinical trials in frail older persons: time to be moving. 
  • Functional status and self-rated health in 2,262 nonagenarians: the Danish 1905 Cohort Survey. 
  • Functional status declines among cancer survivors: trajectory and contributing factors. 
  • Functionally and medically defined subgroups of nursing home populations. 
  • Gait Analysis Reveals that Total Hip Arthroplasty Increases Power Production in the Hip During Level Walking and Stair Climbing. 
  • Ganglioside GM1 in acute ischemic stroke. The SASS Trial. 
  • Gaps in receipt of regular eye examinations among medicare beneficiaries diagnosed with diabetes or chronic eye diseases. 
  • Gastric bypass significantly improves quality of life in morbidly obese patients with type 2 diabetes. 
  • Gender disparities in adult health: an examination of three measures of morbidity. 
  • Gender, educational and ethnic differences in active life expectancy among older Singaporeans. 
  • Gender-dependent association of body mass index and waist circumference with disability in the Chinese oldest old. 
  • Generalized social anxiety disorder and avoidant personality disorder: structural analysis and treatment outcome. 
  • Genetic and environmental influences on functional abilities in Danish twins aged 75 years and older. 
  • Genetic contribution to rate of change in functional abilities among Danish twins aged 75 years or more. 
  • Geriatric Assessment as a Predictor of Tolerance, Quality of Life, and Outcomes in Older Patients With Head and Neck Cancers and Lung Cancers Receiving Radiation Therapy. 
  • Geriatric Assessment of Physical and Cognitive Functioning in a Diverse Cohort of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients: A Pilot Study. 
  • Geriatric evaluation and management units in the care of the frail elderly cancer patient. 
  • Global self-ratings of health and mortality: hazard in the North Carolina Piedmont. 
  • Grading dermatologic adverse events of cancer treatments: the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events Version 4.0. 
  • Group trajectory analysis helps to identify older cancer survivors who benefit from distance-based lifestyle interventions. 
  • Group treatment improves trunk strength and psychological status in older women with vertebral fractures: results of a randomized, clinical trial. 
  • Hand grip strength: a phenotype suitable for identifying genetic variants affecting mid- and late-life physical functioning. 
  • Health Service Use Among Chinese American Older Adults: Is There a Somatization Effect? 
  • Health consequences of forest fires in Indonesia. 
  • Health decline, aging and mortality: how are they related? 
  • Health impacts of caregiving for older adults with functional limitations: results from the Singapore survey on informal caregiving. 
  • Health status of children with moderate to severe cerebral palsy. 
  • Health status of patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis at 1 and 5 years after diagnosis. 
  • Health, wealth, and happiness: financial resources buffer subjective well-being after the onset of a disability. 
  • Health-protective and adverse effects of the apolipoprotein E epsilon2 allele in older men. 
  • Health-related quality of life in children and adolescents with juvenile localized scleroderma. 
  • Health-related quality of life in older depressed psychogeriatric patients: one year follow-up. 
  • Health-related quality of life in overweight and nonoverweight black and white adolescents. 
  • Heritability of functioning in families with schizophrenia in relation to neurocognition. 
  • Heterogeneity in the three-year course of major depression among older adults. 
  • High hip center in revision arthroplasty. 
  • High, usual and impaired functioning in community-dwelling older men and women: findings from the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Aging. 
  • Higher medical morbidity burden is associated with external locus of control. 
  • Hip Arthroscopic Surgery for Femoroacetabular Impingement With Capsular Management: Factors Associated With Achieving Clinically Significant Outcomes. 
  • Hip arthroplasty in hemophilic arthropathy. 
  • Hip fusion in young adults. Using a medial displacement osteotomy and cobra plate. 
  • Home care expenses for the disabled elderly. 
  • Home health and skilled nursing facility use: 1982-90. 
  • Hospital readmission among older adults who return home with unmet need for ADL disability. 
  • Hospital stressors experienced by elderly medical inpatients: developing a Hospital Stress Index. 
  • Household responsibilities, income, and ambulatory blood pressure among working men and women. 
  • How much do persons with Alzheimer's disease cost Medicare? 
  • How strong is the relationship between functional status and quality of life among persons with stroke? 
  • Identification of comatose patients at high risk for death or severe disability. SUPPORT Investigators. Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Identification of mild cognitive impairment in ACTIVE: algorithmic classification and stability. 
  • Identifying Smoking Environments From Images of Daily Life With Deep Learning. 
  • Identifying psychosocial variables in patients with acute work-related low back pain: the importance of fear-avoidance beliefs. 
  • Impact of APOE in mild cognitive impairment. 
  • Impact of Cognition and Handfeeding Assistance on Nutritional Intake for Nursing Home Residents. 
  • Impact of TBI on caregivers of veterans with TBI: Burden and interventions. 
  • Impact of anemia on mortality, cognition, and function in community-dwelling elderly. 
  • Impact of bilateral open and closed-angle glaucoma on glaucoma-specific functioning in Asians. 
  • Impact of chronic kidney disease on activities of daily living in community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Impact of colorectal cancer diagnosis and treatment on health-related quality of life among older Americans: a population-based, case-control study. 
  • Impact of customized videotape education on quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 
  • Impact of diagnosis and treatment of clinically localized prostate cancer on health-related quality of life for older Americans: a population-based study. 
  • Impact of functional support on health-related quality of life in patients with colorectal cancer. 
  • Impact of inappropriate drug use on mortality and functional status in representative community dwelling elders. 
  • Impact of ocular surface symptoms on quality of life in a United States veterans affairs population. 
  • Impact of social support on outcome in first stroke. 
  • Impact of staged InterStim implantation on the postoperative activities of daily living and pain. 
  • Impact of symptomatic dry eye on vision-related daily activities: the Singapore Malay Eye Study. 
  • Impairment of physical and psychosocial function in recurrent syncope. 
  • Implementation of an Exercise Program in an Assisted Living Facility. 
  • Improved vision-related function after ranibizumab for macular edema after retinal vein occlusion: results from the BRAVO and CRUISE trials. 
  • Improving activities of daily living in danish centenarians--but only in women: a comparative study of two birth cohorts born in 1895 and 1905. 
  • Incorporating Geriatric Assessment into a Nephrology Clinic: Preliminary Data from Two Models of Care. 
  • Indications, labeling, and outcomes assessment for drugs aimed at improving functional status in older persons: a conversation between aging researchers and FDA regulators. 
  • Influence of racial disparities in procedure use on functional status outcomes among patients with coronary artery disease. 
  • Informal Caregiver Disability and Access to Preventive Care in Care Recipients. 
  • Informal care and caregiver's health. 
  • Inpatient care for elderly cancer patients: the role for Geriatric Evaluation and Management Units in fulfilling goals for care. 
  • Insomnia disorder. 
  • Insufficient help for activity of daily living disabilities and risk of all-cause hospitalization. 
  • Insulin-Like Growth Factor-Binding Protein-7 as a Biomarker of Diastolic Dysfunction and Functional Capacity in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: Results From the RELAX Trial. 
  • Intensity, chronicity, circumstances, and consequences of HIV-related fatigue: a longitudinal study. 
  • Inter-relationship between visual symptoms, activity limitation and psychological functioning in patients with diabetic retinopathy. 
  • Internal fixation of displaced fractures of the sacrum. 
  • Intraventricular hemorrhage in blunt head trauma: an analysis of 43 cases. 
  • Investigating the prognostic ability of health-related quality of life on survival: a prospective cohort study of adults with lung cancer. 
  • Is Functional Independence Associated With Improved Long-Term Survival After Lung Transplantation? 
  • Is it my cancer or am i just getting older?: Impact of cancer on age-related health conditions of older cancer survivors. 
  • Is medication use by community-dwelling elderly people influenced by cognitive function? 
  • Is policy well-targeted to remedy financial strain among caregivers of severely injured U.S. service members? 
  • Item analysis of the NHANES ADL instrument in a sample of patients reporting frequent severe headaches. 
  • Joint-specific hand symptoms and self-reported and performance-based functional status in African Americans and Caucasians: The Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project. 
  • Just for Us: an academic medical center-community partnership to maintain the health of a frail low-income senior population. 
  • Knee arthrodesis with circular external fixation. 
  • Lack of psychological resilience: an important correlate for urinary incontinence. 
  • Late-life Depression Modifies the Association Between Cerebral White Matter Hyperintensities and Functional Decline Among Older Adults. 
  • Leisure activities and disability in activities of daily living among the oldest-old Chinese population: evidence from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Study. 
  • Length of stay, functional outcome, and mortality following medical rehabilitation. 
  • Less is more, or almost as much: a 15-item quality-of-life instrument for myasthenia gravis. 
  • Leukocyte telomere length is associated with disability in older u.s. Population. 
  • Life events, mental health functioning and the use of health care services by the elderly. 
  • Lifestyle intervention development study to improve physical function in older adults with cancer: outcomes from Project LEAD. 
  • Limitations on physical performance and daily activities among long-term survivors of childhood cancer. 
  • Liver transplantation in alcoholics: assessment of psychological health and work activity. 
  • Long term outcomes from the IMPACT randomised trial for depressed elderly patients in primary care. 
  • Long-term exposure to PM2.5 and incidence of disability in activities of daily living among oldest old. 
  • Long-term safety and efficacy of eculizumab in generalized myasthenia gravis. 
  • Longer term effects of total knee arthroplasty from a national longitudinal study. 
  • Longitudinal analysis of the relationship between regular eye examinations and changes in visual and functional status. 
  • Longitudinal changes in psychosocial factors and their association with knee pain and function after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. 
  • Longitudinal evaluation of economic and physical impact of Parkinson's disease. 
  • Low back pain subgroups using fear-avoidance model measures: results of a cluster analysis. 
  • Lower education and income predict worse long-term outcomes after injury. 
  • Lower extremity function and subsequent disability: consistency across studies, predictive models, and value of gait speed alone compared with the short physical performance battery. 
  • Lower extremity physical performance and use of compensatory strategies for mobility. 
  • Lower extremity physical performance, self-reported mobility difficulty, and use of compensatory strategies for mobility by elderly women. 
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging Characterization and Clinical Outcomes After NeoCart Surgical Therapy as a Primary Reparative Treatment for Knee Cartilage Injuries. 
  • Management of prostate cancer in older men: recommendations of a working group of the International Society of Geriatric Oncology. 
  • Managing challenging behaviors at home. 
  • Managing the patient with Parkinson's disease. 
  • Massage Therapy and Quality of Life in Osteoarthritis of the Knee: A Qualitative Study. 
  • Maximizing the functional status of geriatric patients in an acute community hospital setting. 
  • Measured versus estimated creatinine clearance in a high-functioning elderly sample: MacArthur Foundation Study of Successful Aging. 
  • Measurement of motor recovery after stroke. Outcome assessment and sample size requirements. 
  • Measuring Sleep in Vulnerable Older Adults: A Comparison of Subjective and Objective Sleep Measures. 
  • Measuring agreement between patient and proxy responses to multidimensional health-related quality-of-life measures in clinical trials. An application of psychometric profile analysis. 
  • Measuring fatigue in people living with HIV/AIDS: psychometric characteristics of the HIV-related fatigue scale. 
  • Measuring health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in osteoporotic males using the Male OPAQ. 
  • Measuring outcomes of care for adolescents with emotional and behavioral problems. 
  • Medical problems associated with aging. 
  • Medical stress, appraised stress, and the psychological adjustment of mothers of children with myelomeningocele. 
  • Memory complaint as a predictor of cognitive decline: a comparison of African American and White elders. 
  • Mental stress-induced ischemia in the laboratory and ambulatory ischemia during daily life. Association and hemodynamic features. 
  • Metabolic adaptation for low energy throughput in orangutans. 
  • Metabolic syndrome predicts mobility decline in a community-based sample of older adults. 
  • Methodological challenges confronting researchers of wheeled mobility aids and other assistive technologies. 
  • Mild cognitive impairment and 10-year trajectories of disability in the Iowa Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly cohort. 
  • Modeling association in longitudinal binary outcomes: a brief review. 
  • Modeling the cross-sectional relationships between religion, physical health, social support, and depressive symptoms. 
  • Money management, mental health, and psychiatric disability: a recovery-oriented model for improving financial skills. 
  • Multidimensional success criteria and expectations for treatment of chronic pain: the patient perspective. 
  • Natural history of change in physical function among long-stay nursing home residents. 
  • Neuropsychiatric symptoms and the risk of institutionalization and death: the aging, demographics, and memory study. 
  • Neuropsychological functioning as a moderator of the relationship between psychosocial functioning and the subjective experience of self and life in schizophrenia. 
  • No man is an island: living in a disadvantaged neighborhood influences chronic pain development after motor vehicle collision. 
  • Numeric score-based conditional and overall change-in-status indices for ordered categorical data. 
  • Nutrition and function: is there a relationship between body mass index and the functional capabilities of community-dwelling elderly? 
  • OARS methodology. A decade of experience in geriatric assessment. 
  • Obesity Interventions for Older Adults: Diet as a Determinant of Physical Function. 
  • Obesity and physical frailty in older adults: a scoping review of lifestyle intervention trials. 
  • Objective burden, resources, and other stressors among informal cancer caregivers: a hidden quality issue? 
  • Occurrence, characteristics, and impact of chronic pain in formerly abused women. 
  • Oh, the Places We'll Go: Patient-Reported Outcomes and Electronic Health Records. 
  • Older age, aggressiveness of care, and survival for seriously ill, hospitalized adults. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Older person behavioral and psychological symptoms (BPS) and functional limitations mediate the association between older person cognitive impairment and depressive symptoms in the caregiver. 
  • Older spouses' perceptions of partners' chronic arthritis pain: implications for spousal responses, support provision, and caregiving experiences. 
  • One hundred eleven thumb amputations: replantation vs revision. 
  • Open reduction and cementation for femoral head fracture secondary to avascular necrosis: preliminary report. 
  • Operative versus nonoperative treatment of knee dislocations: a meta-analysis. 
  • Oral health among white, black, and Mexican-American elders: an examination of edentulism and dental caries. 
  • Osteoporosis Assessment Questionnaire-Physical Function (OPAQ-PF): a psychometrically validated osteoporosis-targeted patient reported outcome measure of daily activities of physical function. 
  • Osteoporosis and depression: shedding more light upon a complex relationship. 
  • Outcome and life satisfaction of adults with myelomeningocele. 
  • Outcome measures for assessment of treatment of the dizzy and balance disorder patient. 
  • Outcome of psychiatric hospitalization for very low-functioning demented patients. 
  • Outcomes of a consult fall prevention screening clinic. 
  • Outcomes of the operatively treated knee dislocation. 
  • PROMIS measures of pain, fatigue, negative affect, physical function, and social function demonstrated clinical validity across a range of chronic conditions. 
  • Pain and pain-related interference with function in older Canadians: the Canadian Study of Health and Aging. 
  • Pain and psychological well-being among people with dementia in long-term care. 
  • Pain behavior and pain coping strategies in low back pain and myofascial pain dysfunction syndrome patients. 
  • Pain catastrophizing and pain-related fear in osteoarthritis patients: relationships to pain and disability. 
  • Pain catastrophizing in patients with noncardiac chest pain: relationships with pain, anxiety, and disability. 
  • Pain coping strategies in children with juvenile primary fibromyalgia syndrome: correlation with pain, physical function, and psychological distress. 
  • Pain in young adults: I. Relationship to gender and family pain history. 
  • Pain measurement in elders with chronic low back pain: traditional and alternative approaches. 
  • Pain, functional disability, and their Association in Juvenile Fibromyalgia Compared to other pediatric rheumatic diseases. 
  • Paraplegia ambulatory training using Craig-Scott orthoses. 
  • Parent pain responses as predictors of daily activities and mood in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: the utility of electronic diaries. 
  • Parent perceptions of child vulnerability are associated with functioning and health care use in children with chronic pain. 
  • Parenting stress and psychological functioning among mothers of preschool children with autism and developmental delay. 
  • Parenting-related stress and psychological distress in mothers of toddlers with autism spectrum disorders. 
  • Patient age and decisions to withhold life-sustaining treatments from seriously ill, hospitalized adults. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment. 
  • Patient factors associated with quality of life in atrial fibrillation. 
  • Patient predictors of caregiver burden, optimism, and pessimism in rheumatoid arthritis. 
  • Patient-Centered Research into Outcomes Stroke Patients Prefer and Effectiveness Research: Implementing the patient-driven research paradigm to aid decision making in stroke care. 
  • Patient-related predictors of rehabilitation use for community-dwelling older Americans. 
  • Patients who want their family and physician to make resuscitation decisions for them: observations from SUPPORT and HELP. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment. Hospitalized Elderly Longitudinal Project. 
  • Patients with cancer and their spouse caregivers. Perceptions of the illness experience. 
  • Patterns and health effects of caring for people with dementia: the impact of changing cognitive and residential status. 
  • Perceived Stress, Social Support, and Dry Mouth Among US Older Chinese Adults. 
  • Perceived mental health and disablement of primary care and end-stage renal disease patients. 
  • Perceived stress and everyday memory complaints among older adult women. 
  • Perception of unmet basic needs as a predictor of depressive symptoms among community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Perception of unmet basic needs as a predictor of mortality among community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Perception of unmet basic needs as a predictor of physical functioning among community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Perceptions of health and their relationship to symptoms in African American women with type 2 diabetes. 
  • Performance of PROMIS for Healthy Patients Undergoing Meniscal Surgery. 
  • Performance of a mail-administered version of a stroke-specific outcome measure, the Stroke Impact Scale. 
  • Performance status and outcome after coronary artery bypass grafting in persons aged 80 to 93 years. 
  • Personality Traits and Successful Aging: Findings From the Georgia Centenarian Study. 
  • Personality characteristics of women seeking breast augmentation. Comparison to small-busted and average-busted controls. 
  • Personality facets and all-cause mortality among Medicare patients aged 66 to 102 years: a follow-on study of Weiss and Costa (2005). 
  • Perspective: Dietary protein needs of elderly people: protein supplementation as an effective strategy to counteract sarcopenia. 
  • Perspectives on Implementing a Multidomain Approach to Caring for Older Adults With Heart Failure. 
  • Phase 2 pilot study of Pathfinders: a psychosocial intervention for cancer patients. 
  • Phenomenology and measurement of circumscribed interests in autism spectrum disorders. 
  • Physical Function Does Not Predict Care Assessment Need Score in Older Veterans. 
  • Physical activity and functional limitations in older women: influence of self-efficacy. 
  • Physical activity in patients with advanced-stage cancer: a systematic review of the literature. 
  • Physical activity, long-term symptoms, and physical health-related quality of life among breast cancer survivors: a prospective analysis. 
  • Physical and cognitive functioning of people older than 90 years: a comparison of two Danish cohorts born 10 years apart. 
  • Physical fitness and functional limitations in community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Physical fitness predicts functional tasks in individuals with Down syndrome. 
  • Physical function and independence 1 year after myocardial infarction: observations from the Translational Research Investigating Underlying disparities in recovery from acute Myocardial infarction: Patients' Health status registry. 
  • Physical health functioning among United Methodist clergy. 
  • Physical resilience of older cancer survivors: An emerging concept. 
  • Physical therapy utilization of graded exposure for patients with low back pain. 
  • Plasma hypertonicity: another marker of frailty? 
  • Poor functional status as a risk factor for surgical site infection due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. 
  • Poor functional status is an independent predictor of surgical site infections due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in older adults. 
  • Population-based study of medical comorbidity in early dementia and "cognitive impairment, no dementia (CIND)": association with functional and cognitive impairment: The Cache County Study. 
  • Postacute rehabilitation quality of care: toward a shared conceptual framework. 
  • Pre- and intraoperative variables affecting early outcomes in elderly patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy. 
  • Pre-diagnosis health-related quality of life, surgery, and survival in women with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer: A SEER-MHOS study. 
  • Predicting 10-year care requirements for older people with suspected Alzheimer's disease. 
  • Predicting changes in physical performance in a high-functioning elderly cohort: MacArthur studies of successful aging. 
  • Predicting functional status outcomes in hospitalized patients aged 80 years and older. 
  • Prediction of survival for older hospitalized patients: the HELP survival model. Hospitalized Elderly Longitudinal Project. 
  • Predictors and Outcomes of Crossover to Surgery from Physical Therapy for Meniscal Tear and Osteoarthritis: A Randomized Trial Comparing Physical Therapy and Surgery. 
  • Predictors of and health services utilization related to depressive symptoms among elderly Koreans. 
  • Predictors of function among the old-old: a 10-year follow-up. 
  • Predictors of general activity 8 weeks after cardiac surgery. 
  • Predictors of longevity: evidence from the oldest old in China. 
  • Predictors of mortality in 2,249 nonagenarians--the Danish 1905-Cohort Survey. 
  • Predictors of nursing home admission in a biracial population. 
  • Predictors of partial remission in older patients treated for major depression: the role of comorbid dysthymia. 
  • Predictors of recurrence in remitted late-life depression. 
  • Predictors of response to pain management treatment. The role of family environment and changes in cognitive processes. 
  • Predictors of two-year post-hospitalization mortality among elderly veterans in a study evaluating a geriatric consultation team. 
  • Preferences for separating or combining events. 
  • Preliminary evidence that self-efficacy predicts physical activity in multiple sclerosis. 
  • Preliminary results of patient-defined success criteria for individuals with musculoskeletal pain in outpatient physical therapy settings. 
  • Preoperative functional status as a predictor of short-term outcome in adult spinal deformity surgery. 
  • Prevalence and Correlates of Frailty Among Community-Dwelling Chinese Older Adults: The China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. 
  • Prevalence and correlates of functional status in an older community--representative sample in Brazil. 
  • Prevalence and health correlates of anaemia among community-dwelling Chinese older adults: the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. 
  • Prevalence of Activity Limitations and Association with Multimorbidity Among US Adults 50 to 64 Years Old. 
  • Prevalence of neuropsychiatric symptoms and their association with functional limitations in older adults in the United States: the aging, demographics, and memory study. 
  • Prevalence, Incidence, and Risk Factors for Overall, Physical, and Cognitive Independence Among Those From Exceptionally Long-Lived Families: The Long Life Family Study. 
  • Prevalence, correlates and perceived causes of limitations in activities of daily living among older Singaporeans. 
  • Problems meeting basic needs moderate the association between the APOE epsilon4 allele and cognitive decline. 
  • Profile of depressive symptoms in younger and older medical inpatients with major depression. 
  • Prognostic factors, disability, and functional status among patients in a headache specialty practice. 
  • Projecting the number of older singaporeans with activity of daily living limitations requiring human assistance through 2030. 
  • Prospective Mediation Models of Sleep, Pain, and Daily Function in Children With Arthritis Using Ecological Momentary Assessment. 
  • Prospective study of neuropsychologic testing and quality-of-life assessment of adults with primary malignant brain tumors. 
  • Prospective study of recovery from copperhead snake envenomation: an observational study. 
  • Proximal femoral focal deficiency: results of rotationplasty and Syme amputation. 
  • Psychological and physiological effects of physical conditioning on the elderly. 
  • Psychometric Evaluation of the Patient's Knee Implant Performance Questionnaire. 
  • Psychometric properties of the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (NEI-VFQ). NEI-VFQ Field Test Investigators. 
  • Psychosocial and clinical predictors of unipolar depression outcome in older adults. 
  • Psychosocial and physical correlates of chronic depression. 
  • Public preferences for prevention versus cure: what if an ounce of prevention is worth only an ounce of cure? 
  • QMG and MG-ADL correlations: Study of eculizumab treatment of myasthenia gravis. 
  • Quality of life after coronary angioplasty or continued medical treatment for angina: three-year follow-up in the RITA-2 trial. Randomized Intervention Treatment of Angina. 
  • Quality of life after late invasive therapy for occluded arteries. 
  • Quality of life after surgery for intracranial meningioma. 
  • Quality of life and Parkinson's disease. 
  • Quality of life and disability in patients with treatment-failure gout. 
  • Quality of life and functional health of primary care patients. 
  • Quality of life and physical activity associated to lower prevalence of depression in community-dwelling elderly subjects from Sao Paulo. 
  • Quality of life and recovery after cardiac surgery. 
  • Quality of life for children and adolescents: impact of HIV infection and antiretroviral treatment. 
  • Quality of life in hearing-impaired adults: the role of cochlear implants and hearing aids. 
  • Quality of life of adult long-term survivors of bone marrow transplantation: a qualitative analysis of narrative data. 
  • Quality of life with defibrillator therapy or amiodarone in heart failure. 
  • Race Differences in ADL Disability Decline 1984-2004: Evidence From the National Long-Term Care Survey. 
  • Racial and ethnic differences in obesity and overweight as predictors of the onset of functional impairment. 
  • Racial and ethnic differences in osteoarthritis: prevalence, outcomes, and medical care. 
  • Racial variations in ischemic stroke-related physical and functional impairments. 
  • Radiographic and clinical outcomes following single-level anterior cervical discectomy and allograft fusion without plate placement or cervical collar. 
  • Randomized study of adjunctive belimumab in participants with generalized myasthenia gravis. 
  • Rankin scale as a potential measure of global disability in early Parkinson's disease. 
  • Rapid assessment of rehabilitation options for functional disability. 
  • Rationale and Design of the VITALITY-HFpEF Trial. 
  • Rationale and design of a randomized clinical trial to assess the safety and efficacy of cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients with advanced heart failure: the Multicenter InSync Randomized Clinical Evaluation (MIRACLE). 
  • Recent declines in chronic disability in the elderly U.S. population: risk factors and future dynamics. 
  • Recommendations for the nomenclature of cognitive change associated with anaesthesia and surgery-2018. 
  • Recurrent syncope as a chronic disease: preliminary validation of a disease-specific measure of functional impairment. 
  • Rehabilitation Therapy in Older Acute Heart Failure Patients (REHAB-HF) trial: Design and rationale. 
  • Relation of clinical and angiographic factors to functional capacity as measured by the Duke Activity Status Index. 
  • Relations of a marker of endothelial activation (s-VCAM) to function and mortality in community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Relationship Between Chronic Conditions and Disability in African American Men and Women. 
  • Relationship Between Dual-Task Gait Speed and Walking Activity Poststroke. 
  • Relationship Between PROMIS Computer Adaptive Tests and Legacy Hip Measures Among Patients Presenting to a Tertiary Care Hip Preservation Center. 
  • Relationship between physician specialty and the selection and outcome of ischemic stroke patients. 
  • Relationship between self-reported disability and caregiver hours. 
  • Relationship between the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index Physical Function Subscale and physical performance measures in patients with hip osteoarthritis. 
  • Relationships Between Sleep Quality and Pain-Related Factors for People with Chronic Low Back Pain: Tests of Reciprocal and Time of Day Effects. 
  • Relevant concepts of functioning for patients with systemic lupus erythematosus identified in a Delphi exercise of experts and a literature review. 
  • Reliability of impairment and physical performance measures for persons with Parkinson's disease. 
  • Religiosity and mental health in southern, community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Religiosity and self-rated health among Latin American and Caribbean elders. 
  • Religiosity, psychological resources, and physical health. 
  • Religious attitudes and practices of hospitalized medically ill older adults. 
  • Religious coping in the nursing home: a biopsychosocial model. 
  • Religiousness affects mental health, pain and quality of life in older people in an outpatient rehabilitation setting. 
  • Report of the national institute on aging task force on comorbidity. 
  • Reported activities of daily living: agreement between elderly subjects with and without dementia and their caregivers. 
  • Resident challenges with daily life in Chinese long-term care facilities: A qualitative pilot study. 
  • Resilience and long-term outcomes after trauma: An opportunity for early intervention? 
  • Resiliency Groups Following Hip Fracture in Older Adults. 
  • Resolving inconsistencies in trends in old-age disability: report from a technical working group. 
  • Results after replantation and revascularization in the upper extremity in children. 
  • Results following treatment of traumatic dislocations of the knee joint. 
  • Retaining the meaning of the words religiousness and spirituality: a commentary on the WHOQOL SRPB group's "a cross-cultural study of spirituality, religion, and personal beliefs as components of quality of life" (62: 6, 2005, 1486-1497). 
  • Revision of the acetabulum without cement with use of the Harris-Galante porous-coated implant. Two to eight-year results. 
  • Risk due to inactivity in physically capable older adults. 
  • Risk factors for hip fracture in skilled nursing facilities: who should be evaluated? 
  • Role of frailty in patients with cardiovascular disease. 
  • Role of weight history on functional limitations and disability in late adulthood: the ARIC study. 
  • Rotationplasty after failed limb-sparing tumor surgery: a report of two cases. 
  • Scoring nonresponse on the Mini-Mental State Examination. 
  • Screening mammography use in older women according to health status: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Screening the elderly. A brief instrumental activities of daily living measure. 
  • Secular Trends in Meal and Snack Patterns among Adolescents from 1999 to 2010. 
  • Sedative, hypnotic, and antianxiety medication use in an aging cohort over ten years: a racial comparison. 
  • Selective costimulation modulation with abatacept: a look at quality-of-life outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. 
  • Self-Care for Older People (SCOPE): a cluster randomized controlled trial of self-care training and health outcomes in low-income elderly in Singapore. 
  • Self-Reported pain and disease symptoms persist in juvenile idiopathic arthritis despite treatment advances: An electronic diary study. 
  • Self-report benefits of Tai Chi practice by older adults. 
  • Self-reported delay in seeking care has poor validity for predicting adverse outcomes. 
  • Senior adult oncology clinical practice guidelines in oncology. 
  • Seriously ill hospitalized adults: do we spend less on older patients? Support Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preference for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Serum IL-6 level and the development of disability in older persons. 
  • Serum albumin in older persons: relationship with age and health status. 
  • Serum carboxymethyl-lysine, disability, and frailty in older persons: the Cardiovascular Health Study. 
  • Serum metal ion concentration: comparison between small and large head metal-on-metal total hip arthroplasty. 
  • Sex differences in the level and rate of change of physical function and grip strength in the Danish 1905-cohort study. 
  • Sex differences in the relationship between subthreshold depression and mortality in a community sample of older adults. 
  • Significance of cold intolerance in upper extremity disorders. 
  • Simulating the impact of long-term care policy on family eldercare hours. 
  • Singapore Tele-technology Aided Rehabilitation in Stroke (STARS) trial: protocol of a randomized clinical trial on tele-rehabilitation for stroke patients. 
  • Single-blind, placebo phase-in trial of two escalating doses of selegiline in the chronic fatigue syndrome. 
  • Sleep disturbance in psychiatric disorders: effects on function and quality of life in mood disorders, alcoholism, and schizophrenia. 
  • Smaller orbital frontal cortex volumes associated with functional disability in depressed elders. 
  • Social and sexual activity after cardiac surgery. A report of the first 6 months. 
  • Social functioning in urban, predominantly African American, socially disadvantaged patients with first-episode nonaffective psychosis. 
  • Social support and mortality in an elderly community population. 
  • Social/health maintenance organization and fee-for-service health outcomes over time. 
  • Sociodemographic and health indicators of older women with urinary incontinence: 2010 National Survey of Residential Care Facilities. 
  • Spiritual coping, religiosity and quality of life: a study on Muslim patients undergoing haemodialysis. 
  • Spouse-assisted coping skills training in the management of knee pain in osteoarthritis: long-term followup results. 
  • Staging classification of aortic stenosis based on the extent of cardiac damage. 
  • Steroid treatment and the development of scoliosis in males with duchenne muscular dystrophy. 
  • Strength training, walking, and social activity improve sleep in nursing home and assisted living residents: randomized controlled trial. 
  • Stress and rheumatoid arthritis: can a cognitive coping model help explain a link? 
  • Stress and silent myocardial ischemia. A new research study at Duke University Medical Center. 
  • Structure, process, and outcomes in stroke rehabilitation. 
  • Study protocol: home-based telehealth stroke care: a randomized trial for veterans. 
  • Studying disability trends in aging populations. 
  • Subcortical white matter lesions and functional impairment in geriatric depression. 
  • Successful aging and subjective well-being among oldest-old adults. 
  • Successful aging. 
  • Successful use of the Unified Dyskinesia Rating Scale regardless of PD- or dyskinesia-duration. 
  • Surgical Predictors of Clinical Outcomes After Revision Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction. 
  • Surrogates' perceptions about feeding tube placement decisions. 
  • Survival Prognosis in Very Old Adults. 
  • Survival analysis in amputees based on physical independence grade achievement. 
  • Survival and health care utilization in elderly medical inpatients with major depression. 
  • Survival, disabilities in activities of daily living, and physical and cognitive functioning among the oldest-old in China: a cohort study. 
  • Surviving critical illness: acute respiratory distress syndrome as experienced by patients and their caregivers. 
  • Survivorship and Outcome of Hip Arthroscopy for Femoroacetabular Impingement Syndrome Performed With Modern Surgical Techniques. 
  • Symptom clusters in children with cancer. 
  • Symptoms of depression among community-dwelling elderly African-American and white older adults. 
  • Systematic review of the effectiveness of non-pharmacological interventions to improve quality of life of people with dementia. 
  • Systemic lupus erythematosus in three ethnic groups. IV. Factors associated with self-reported functional outcome in a large cohort study. LUMINA Study Group. Lupus in Minority Populations, Nature versus Nurture. 
  • Tailoring cognitive-behavioral treatment for cancer pain. 
  • Taking heart failure to new heights: its pathophysiology at simulated altitude. 
  • Taming the wilderness: the lifestyle improvement movement in rural Japan, 1925-1965. 
  • Television viewing and pedometer-determined physical activity among multiethnic residents of low-income housing. 
  • Temporal trends in self-reported functional limitations and physical disability among the community-dwelling elderly population: the Framingham heart study. 
  • Ten dimensions of health and their relationships with overall self-reported health and survival in a predominately religiously active elderly population: the cache county memory study. 
  • The 'longlong' population of Ialibu District, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea: contact with health services and care in the village. 
  • The APOE-E4 allele and the risk of functional decline in a community sample of African American and white older adults. 
  • The Association Between Lipoproteins, Disability, and Physical Function Among Older Costa Rican Adults. 
  • The Association of Frailty With In-Hospital Bleeding Among Older Adults With Acute Myocardial Infarction: Insights From the ACTION Registry. 
  • The Effect of Patient Characteristics on 1 to 2-Year and Minimum 5-Year Outcomes After Total Ankle Arthroplasty. 
  • The Effect of altering ADL thresholds on active life expectancy estimates for older persons. 
  • The Effects of Social Support on Physical Functioning in Older African Americans: Longitudinal Results from the Baltimore Study of Black Aging. 
  • The Impact of Reactogenicity After the First Dose of Recombinant Zoster Vaccine on the Physical Functioning and Quality of Life of Older Adults: An Open-Label, Phase III Trial. 
  • The Influence of Body Mass Index on Outcomes After Hip Arthroscopic Surgery With Capsular Plication for the Treatment of Femoroacetabular Impingement. 
  • The Myositis Activities Profile -- initial validation for assessment of polymyositis/dermatomyositis in the USA. 
  • The NeuroAiD II (MLC901) in vascular cognitive impairment study (NEURITES). 
  • The Patient Acceptable Symptomatic State for the Modified Harris Hip Score and Hip Outcome Score Among Patients Undergoing Surgical Treatment for Femoroacetabular Impingement. 
  • The Performance and Association Between Patient-reported and Performance-based Measures of Physical Functioning in Research on Individuals with Arthritis. 
  • The Relationship between Pain, Disability, and Sex in African Americans. 
  • The Sarcoidosis Health Questionnaire: a new measure of health-related quality of life. 
  • The Schizophrenia Cognition Rating Scale: an interview-based assessment and its relationship to cognition, real-world functioning, and functional capacity. 
  • The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales: supplementary norms for individuals with autism. 
  • The accuracy of new wheelchair users' predictions about their future wheelchair use. 
  • The association between oral health and general health and quality of life in older male cancer patients. 
  • The association between self-rated health and mortality in a well-characterized sample of coronary artery disease patients. 
  • The association between socioeconomic status and disability after stroke: findings from the Adherence eValuation After Ischemic stroke Longitudinal (AVAIL) registry. 
  • The association of childhood socioeconomic conditions with healthy longevity at the oldest-old ages in China. 
  • The association of depression and mortality in elderly persons: a case for multiple, independent pathways. 
  • The association of pain and fear of movement/reinjury with function during anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction rehabilitation. 
  • The combined effect of visual impairment and cognitive impairment on disability in older people. 
  • The complex association between religious activities and functional limitations in older adults. 
  • The complex relationship between depressive symptoms and functional limitations in community-dwelling older adults: the impact of subthreshold depression. 
  • The comprehensive assessment of community dwelling elderly: why functional status is not enough. 
  • The consortium to establish a registry for Alzheimer's disease (CERAD). Part XIV: Demographic and clinical predictors of survival in patients with Alzheimer's disease. 
  • The course of depressive symptoms in older adults with comorbid major depression and dysthymia. 
  • The design of an industry-sponsored randomized controlled trial to compare synthetic mesh versus biologic mesh for inguinal hernia repair. 
  • The dynamics of dimensions of age-related disability 1982 to 1994 in the U.S. elderly population. 
  • The dynamics of population aging: demography and policy analysis. 
  • The effect of equipment usage and residual task difficulty on use of personal assistance, days in bed, and nursing home placement. 
  • The effect of major depression on functional status in patients with coronary artery disease. 
  • The effect of poststroke cognitive impairment on rehabilitation process and functional outcome. 
  • The effect of progressive resistance training on leg strength, aerobic capacity and functional tasks of daily living in persons with Down syndrome. 
  • The effect of upper extremity trauma on handedness. 
  • The effects of antidepressant medication adherence as well as psychosocial and clinical factors on depression outcome among older adults. 
  • The effects of cultural background on patient-perceived impact of psoriatic arthritis - a qualitative study conducted in Brazil and France. 
  • The effects of in-home rehabilitation on task self-efficacy in mobility-impaired adults: A randomized clinical trial. 
  • The effects of nutrition-related factors on four-year mortality among a biracial sample of community-dwelling elders in the North Carolina piedmont. 
  • The effects of total hip arthroplasty on physical functioning in the older population. 
  • The effects of total knee arthroplasty on physical functioning and health among the under age 65 population. 
  • The effects of total knee arthroplasty on physical functioning in the older population. 
  • The family routines inventory: development and validation. 
  • The family routines inventory: theoretical origins. 
  • The functional approach to the care of the elderly: a conceptual framework. 
  • The genetic component of discrete disability traits: an analysis using liability models with age-dependent thresholds. 
  • The health burden of diabetes for the elderly in four communities. 
  • The impact of Tourette Syndrome in adults: results from the Tourette Syndrome impact survey. 
  • The impact of anemia on nursing home residents. 
  • The impact of cataract, cataract types, and cataract grades on vision-specific functioning using Rasch analysis. 
  • The impact of corrected and uncorrected refractive error on visual functioning: the Singapore Malay Eye Study. 
  • The impact of depressive symptomatology on physical disability: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging. 
  • The impact of functional dependency on outcomes after complex general and vascular surgery. 
  • The impact of health insurance on health outcomes and spending of the elderly: evidence from China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme. 
  • The impact of menopause on functional status in women with rheumatoid arthritis. 
  • The impact of personality and social status factors upon levels of activity and psychological well-being. 
  • The influence of depression on cognitive decline in community-dwelling elderly persons. 
  • The influence of problems with concentration and memory on emotional distress and daily activities in chronic pain patients. 
  • The older pedestrian. 
  • The oldest-old in China - Authors' reply. 
  • The patient perspective on absence of disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis: a survey to identify key domains of patient-perceived remission. 
  • The prognostic value of pre-diagnosis health-related quality of life on survival: a prospective cohort study of older Americans with lung cancer. 
  • The rates of osteolysis and loosening associated with a modular posterior stabilized knee replacement. Results at five to fourteen years. 
  • The relationship between visual acuity and functioning and well-being among diabetics. 
  • The relationship of arthritis self-efficacy to daily pain, daily mood, and daily pain coping in rheumatoid arthritis patients. 
  • The relationship of daily mood and stressful events to symptoms in juvenile rheumatic disease. 
  • The relative effect of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, disability, and comorbidities on cost of care for elderly persons. 
  • The reliability of a self-reported measure of disease, impairment, and function in persons with spinal cord dysfunction. 
  • The role of biomedical and psychosocial processes in the intellectual and academic functioning of children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis. 
  • The role of cognitive costs, attitudes about aging, and intrinsic motivation in predicting engagement in everyday activities. 
  • The role of community-based and philanthropic organizations in meeting cancer patient and caregiver needs. 
  • The role of strength in rising from a chair in the functionally impaired elderly. 
  • The role of the built environment in the disablement process. 
  • The surgical intensive care unit optimal mobility score predicts mortality and length of stay. 
  • The symptoms of osteoarthritis and the genesis of pain. 
  • The targets of violence committed by young offenders with alcohol dependence, marijuana dependence and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: findings from a birth cohort. 
  • The use of patient-reported outcomes (PRO) within comparative effectiveness research: implications for clinical practice and health care policy. 
  • The utility of cone beam volume CT in the evaluation of thrombosed intracranial aneurysms in subarachnoid hemorrhage. 
  • The validity in persons with spinal cord injury of a self-reported functional measure derived from the functional independence measure. 
  • The wellbeing of the elderly. Approaches to multidimensional assessment. 
  • Thirteen dimensions of health in elderly Sri Lankans: results from a National Sri Lanka Aging Survey. 
  • Total hip arthroplasty in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Two to eleven-year results. 
  • Toward a threshold for subthreshold depression: an analysis of correlates of depression by severity of symptoms using data from an elderly community sample. 
  • Towards a composite scoring solution for the Neurobehavioral Functioning Inventory. 
  • Trajectories and profiles of adaptive behavior in males with fragile X syndrome: multicenter studies. 
  • Trajectories of mobility and IADL function in older patients diagnosed with major depression. 
  • Trajectory of declines in physical activity in community-dwelling older women: social cognitive influences. 
  • Transfemoral amputation following total knee arthroplasty: mortality and functional outcomes. 
  • Treatment efficacy: cognitive-communicative disorders resulting from traumatic brain injury in adults. 
  • Treatment expectation for pain coping skills training: relationship to osteoarthritis patients' baseline psychosocial characteristics. 
  • Treatment of insomnia in depressed insomniacs: effects on health-related quality of life, objective and self-reported sleep, and depression. 
  • Trends in ADL and IADL disability in community-dwelling older adults in Shanghai, China, 1998-2008. 
  • Trends in physician management of uncomplicated acute myocardial infarction, 1970 to 1987. 
  • Trends in the Incidence of Activities of Daily Living Disability Among Chinese Older Adults From 2002 to 2014. 
  • Triglycerides Paradox Among the Oldest Old: "The Lower the Better?" 
  • Trust, health, and longevity. 
  • Undermet needs for assistance in personal activities of daily living among community-dwelling oldest old in China from 2005 to 2008. 
  • Understanding the relative importance of preserving functional abilities in Alzheimer's disease in the United States and Germany. 
  • Underuse of indicated medications among physically frail older US veterans at the time of hospital discharge: results of a cross-sectional analysis of data from the Geriatric Evaluation and Management Drug Study. 
  • Unmet Need for ADL Assistance Is Associated With Mortality Among Older Adults With Mild Disability. 
  • Urban-rural differences in the association between access to healthcare and health outcomes among older adults in China. 
  • Use of a standardized assessment to predict rehabilitation care after acute stroke. 
  • Use of health-related quality of life measures to predict health utility in postmenopausal osteoporotic women: results from the Multiple Outcomes of Raloxifene Evaluation study. 
  • Using intake and change in multiple psychosocial measures to predict functional status outcomes in people with lumbar spine syndromes: a preliminary analysis. 
  • Using step activity monitoring to characterize ambulatory activity in community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Validation of a novel diabetic retinopathy utility index using discrete choice experiments. 
  • Validation of an item bank in a sample of community-dwelling survivors of a stroke. 
  • Validation of the NHANES ADL scale in a sample of patients with report of cervical pain: factor analysis, item response theory analysis, and line item validity. 
  • Validity and Reliability of the Positive Aspects of Caregiving (PAC) Scale and Development of Its Shorter Version (S-PAC) Among Family Caregivers of Older Adults. 
  • Validity and factor structure of the AUSCAN Osteoarthritis Hand Index in a community-based sample. 
  • Validity and reliability of the Caregiver Reaction Assessment scale among primary informal caregivers for older persons in Singapore. 
  • Validity of pain behaviors in persons with mild to moderate cognitive impairment. 
  • Valuing morbidity: an integration of the willingness-to-pay and health-status index literatures. 
  • Variability in negative emotions among individuals with chronic low back pain: relationships with pain and function. 
  • Variability of plasma IL-6 and crosslinked fibrin dimers over time in community dwelling elderly subjects. 
  • Virtual reality assessment of functional capacity in the early course of schizophrenia: Associations with cognitive performance and daily functioning. 
  • Vision impairment and major causes of vision loss impacts on vision-specific functioning independent of socioeconomic factors. 
  • Visual function impairments in relation to gender, age, and visual acuity in patients who undergo cataract surgery. 
  • Walking in old age and development of metabolic syndrome: the health, aging, and body composition study. 
  • Weight change in Alzheimer's disease. 
  • Weight loss, exercise, or both and physical function in obese older adults. 
  • What do these scores mean? Presenting patient-reported outcomes data to patients and clinicians to improve interpretability. 
  • What is perfect health to an 85-year-old?: evidence for scale recalibration in subjective health ratings. 
  • Wheelchair use by veterans newly prescribed a manual wheelchair. 
  • Which daily functions are most affected by stiffness following total lumbar fusion: comparison of upper thoracic and thoracolumbar proximal endpoints. 
  • Willingness to pay for improved respiratory and cardiovascular health: a multiple-format, stated-preference approach. 
  • Women's health issues with fibromyalgia syndrome. 
  • Younger Patients Are Differentially Affected by Stiffness-Related Disability Following Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery. 
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  • Attarian, David Edward, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedics
  • Bettger, Janet Prvu, Associate Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke Science & Society
  • Charles, Hal Cecil, Associate Professor of Radiology, Radiology
  • Clendaniel, Richard Alan, Assistant Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
  • Cohen, Seth Morris, Associate Professor of Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences, Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
  • Dupre, Matthew E., Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences, Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development
  • Grambow, Steven C., Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, with tenure, School of Nursing
  • Milano, Carmelo Alessio, Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma
  • Ostbye, Truls, Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health
  • Schanberg, Laura Eve, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Rheumatology