abstract：:The incidence, ecology, and mortality of gram-negative bacillary bacteremia in elderly patients were studied in an analysis of 334 episodes over a four-year-period in a 489-bed North Carolina community teaching hospital, 135 (40.4%) of which occurred in patients 70 years of age or older. The bacteremia rate per 1000 h...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： McCue JD

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A history of systolic (greater than or equal to 160 mm Hg) or diastolic (greater than or equal to 90 mm Hg) hypertension, diabetes mellitus (fasting venous plasma glucose greater than or equal to 140 mg/dl), a history of cigarette smoking, fasting serum total cholesterol greater than or equal to 200 mg/dl and greater ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Aronow WS,Starling L,Etienne F,D'Alba P,Edwards M,Lee NH,Parungao RF,Sales FF

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To better understand declining autopsy rates, data have been gathered prospectively on 1080 consecutive deaths over six years among patients admitted to a medical intensive care/coronary care unit. Overall autopsy rate was 36%. Autopsy rates declined sharply with age from 60% for those aged 16 to 34 years to 23% for t...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Campion EW,Reder VA,Mulley AG,Thibault GE

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ratio of pepsinogen I to pepsinogen II in the circulation decreases progressively with increasing severity of atrophic gastritis of the fundic gland mucosa. Fasting blood was obtained from 359 free-living and institutionalized elderly people (age range, 60 to 99 years). A pepsinogen I/pepsinogen II ratio less than...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Krasinski SD,Russell RM,Samloff IM,Jacob RA,Dallal GE,McGandy RB,Hartz SC

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements were made of the overnight mobility of a group of elderly hospital patients whose clinical status had been assessed using the Norton clinical assessment score. The number of movements on the first two nights after admission differed from subsequent nights. There was a significant correlation between mobil...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Barbenel JC,Ferguson-Pell MW,Kennedy R

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied attitudes of health professionals toward life-sustaining treatment. A patient management questionnaire sent to staff physicians and nurses in 183 Oregon nursing homes consisted of eight patient sketches which varied age, mental status, and enjoyment of life. Respondents were asked whether they would favor t...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Watts DT,Cassel CK,Hickam DH

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral temperature has long been used as a basis for clinical decisions. The ingestion of cold liquids such as iced water, which are frequently found at patients' bedsides or in clinic waiting areas, has been believed to potentially lower oral temperature readings. The degree and duration of this effect, however, has no...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Sugarek NJ

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As life expectancy increases, so do the problems of the elderly population. One major problem is that of protein calorie malnutrition; another is the susceptibility of this population to pressure sores. The purpose of this study was to determine if a correlation exists between deteriorating nutritional status and the ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Pinchcofsky-Devin GD,Kaminski MV Jr

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral blood flow (CBF) was measured by the 133Xe inhalation method in patients with multi-infarct dementia (MID, N = 26), Alzheimer's dementia (AD, N = 19), and among age-matched, neurologically normal, healthy volunteers (N = 26). Cognitive performance was assessed in all subjects using the Cognitive Capacity Scre...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Judd BW,Meyer JS,Rogers RL,Gandhi S,Tanahashi N,Mortel KF,Tawaklna T

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have identified postprandial systolic blood pressure reductions in old, frail institutionalized subjects, which do not occur in healthy, young subjects, after a morning meal. To evaluate the relative contributions of state of health and time of day to this potentially dangerous abnormality in cardiova...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Lipsitz LA,Fullerton KJ

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is a major health problem in the elderly. The existing literature indicates that depression may be qualitatively different in this population. For example, a condition said to be prevalent among the elderly is masked depression which is marked by a cluster of vegetative symptoms without prominent dysphoria ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Weiss IK,Nagel CL,Aronson MK

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred seventy-one patients, 60 years of age or older with isolated systolic hypertension, were randomly assigned to receive chlorthalidone 12.5, 25.0, or 50.0 mg or placebo once daily for 12 weeks. The majority of the patients receiving chlorthalidone 12.5 mg achieved therapeutic success with no clinically signi...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Morledge JH,Ettinger B,Aranda J,McBarron F,Barra P,Gorwit J,Davidov M

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Now that the benefits of treating diastolic hypertension in the elderly have been convincingly proved, attention is turning to the need for, and the choice of, treatment of isolated systolic hypertension in this age group. The hemodynamic mechanism differs in the elderly, whose isolated systolic hypertension is likely...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Gifford RW Jr

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors compared the demographic and clinical characteristics and treatment recommendations for elderly (greater than or equal to 60 years) and younger patients (17 to 59 years) seen for an emergency psychiatric consultation in a teaching general hospital. Findings revealed 11 distinctive characteristics that diff...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Pérez EL,Blouin J

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stage of a cancer at diagnosis is multiply determined, theoretically depending on such disparate factors as tumor biology, patient education, and physician behaviors. Data from all Hispanic and non-Hispanic white residents of New Mexico diagnosed with a malignancy from 1969 through 1982 were analyzed to determine ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Goodwin JS,Samet JM,Key CR,Humble C,Kutvirt D,Hunt C

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite concerted effort to rehabilitate and return patients to their homes, the majority of nursing home patients are destined to spend the remainder of their days in institutional settings. These custodial care patients are elderly, have many functional disabilities, and are often demented. The traditional medical a...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Sloane PD,Pickard CG

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diastolic left ventricular function was comparatively assessed in 19 healthy elderly individuals (mean age 71 years) and in 20 young normal subjects (mean age 26 years), using digitized echocardiograms. Peak and average filling rates were slower in the group of elderly subjects than in the younger population (128 +/- ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Manyari DE,Patterson C,Johnson D,Belenkie I,Anderson P,Melendez L,Cape R

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-three consecutive outpatients receiving tricyclic antidepressants for at least one month were asked about medication side effects, including excessive appetite and craving for sweets. Prevalence of these side effects and their relationship (Pearson r) to type of medication, dosage, patient characteristics, diag...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Stein EM,Stein S,Linn MW

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 143 physicians who returned to Temple University Medical School a questionnaire on knowledge of prescribing for the elderly constituted 25% of a stratified random sample of general practitioners (GPs), family practitioners (FPs), and practitioners in internal medicine (IMs) reimbursed under Medicare in Pennsylvani...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Ferry ME,Lamy PP,Becker LA

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Widowed residents of two nursing homes who were oriented to person, time, and place were interviewed to determine the extent to which they had hallucinatory experiences of their deceased spouse. Fifty-two interviews were completed with 46 widows and six widowers. Results are reported for the widows. Twenty-eight (61%)...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Olson PR,Suddeth JA,Peterson PJ,Egelhoff C

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the relationship between physical fitness and activity among elderly males in the traditional rural community of Chetbesi, Nepal. It takes advantage of the unique character of the Hindu caste system to implement a quasiexperimental research design that approximates random assignment to high and low...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Beall CM,Goldstein MC,Feldman ES

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quality-of-life considerations in physicians' decisions on life-sustaining therapy were explored using a patient management problem (PMP) depicting acute respiratory failure in an elderly man with chronic pulmonary disease; 205 internal medicine and family medicine physicians were interviewed. The physicians' percepti...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Pearlman RA,Jonsen A

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial creatinine clearances (5 to 14 studies) were obtained for 446 normal volunteers in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging followed between 1958 and 1981. When those subjects with possible renal or urinary tract disease and subjects on diuretics and antihypertensives were removed from the study, leaving a gro...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Lindeman RD,Tobin J,Shock NW

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic atrial fibrillation is generally thought to cause stroke by atrial thrombus formation with subsequent embolization. Rheumatic heart disease previously led to most cases of atrial fibrillation, but recent substantial declines in the incidence of rheumatic fever have changed the distribution of causes of atrial ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Wilson DB

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From this discussion, several conclusions can be drawn. First, with advancing age there is a decrease in cardiovascular responsiveness and, more specifically, there is a decrease in catecholamine-stimulated chronotropic and inotropic responses. This decreased function has its biochemical correlate in the observation t...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Heinsimer JA,Lefkowitz RJ

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of an interview survey of a defined population of 3,097 rural persons 65 years and older (the Iowa 65 + Rural Health Study), the prevalence and functional correlates of specifically defined low back pain were studied. Low back pain was reported by 23.6 per cent of the women and 18.4 per cent of the men in the ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Lavsky-Shulan M,Wallace RB,Kohout FJ,Lemke JH,Morris MC,Smith IM

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-five geriatric patients with severe motor urge incontinence were treated with terodiline and meladrazine separately and in combination. Because of poor general state of health and serious concomitant diseases the frequency of dropouts was high. Separate administration of the drugs improved the majority of the p...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Beisland HO,Fossberg E

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 26 years of surveillance of the Framingham Study Cohort of 5,209 subjects, 176 men and 119 women developed occlusive peripheral arterial disease manifested as intermittent claudication (IC). The incidence increased sharply with age until the age of 75, with about a twofold male predominance at all ages. An inci...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Kannel WB,McGee DL

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Difficulties exist in making treatment decisions for the very old and dependent patient. In the years to come, these difficulties will increase. It is argued that such persons should not be abandoned to their "rights" as autonomous persons; yet quality of life judgments should also be avoided except in limited circums...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Thomasma DC

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies found changes in regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) patterns related to both age and various cognitive tasks. However, no study has yet demonstrated a relationship between rCBF and performance on the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery (LNNB) in an elderly group. Seventy-nine elderly volunteers...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： MacInnes WD,Golden CJ,Gillen RW,Sawicki RF,Quaife M,Uhl HS,Greenhouse AJ

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The drugs prescribed for long-term use by 56 elderly patients while they were under domiciliary care in a municipal hospital were compared with the drugs prescribed for the same patients six months after they had moved to a city nursing home. All patients were at least 65 years old, and were in the hospital for at lea...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Reynolds MD

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Case examples of doctor-patient interactions are used to examine educational strategies employed by physicians to obtain compliance with medication regimens from elderly patients. The problems addressed by the physicians included the complexities of pharmaco-therapy in the elderly (the patients each presented multiple...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Coe RM,Prendergast CG,Psathas G

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-seven community-dwelling nonagenarians provided with extensive medical and social services as needed were followed for two years. Fifty-one subjects were admitted to an acute care hospital at least once. Total durations of hospitalization for those who required it averaged 44 days per individual over the two ye...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Patterson C,Crescenzi C,Steel K

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune status of 17 healthy individuals 100-103 years of age (centenarians) was investigated. Qualitative values for immunoglobulins IgG, IgM, IgA, and IgE were within normal ranges for subjects more than 60 years of age with the exception of elevated IgM in one individual. Cell marker studies employing a panel of...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Thompson JS,Wekstein DR,Rhoades JL,Kirkpatrick C,Brown SA,Roszman T,Straus R,Tietz N

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethical issues surrounding decisions to limit treatment often focus on dramatic and highly technical interventions, such as mechanical ventilation. Many less dramatic forms of therapy are considered routine, and ethical aspects of their use may be less closely examined. Nutritional support can be crucially important i...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Watts DT,Cassel CK

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug prescribing for ambulatory patients greater than or equal to 85 years of age was studied using data from the 1980 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) on office visits to physicians. NAMCS is a survey by the US National Center for Health Statistics, which collected information on office visits and extr...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Knapp DA,Knapp DA,Wiser TH,Michocki RJ,Nuessle SJ,Knapp WK

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-three elderly patients with massive bleeding of hemorrhoidal varices were treated by cryosurgery at a single outpatient session, using nitrous oxide gas, without premedication or anesthesia. The results were excellent in all but one patient, who had ulcerative colitis and required another session of cryotherapy ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Mashiah A,Mashiah T

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The initial assessments of cognitive, psychologic, and behavioral functioning of 17 adults enrolled in a day care program for victims of Alzheimer's disease are described. These evaluations by the staff, the patients themselves, and their primary caregivers made use of standardized quantitative measures, thus permitti...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Winogrond IR,Fisk AA

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contrary to earlier findings, elderly patients are not at significantly greater risk of perioperative morbidity or mortality than younger patients simply because of advanced age. Increased risk, when present, is attributable to pathologic changes that are not uniformly seen in all geriatric patients. Most perioperativ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Johnson JC

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative merits of the hospice, palliative care units, and geriatrics departments as settings for management of the dying patient are considered. ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Fisher RH,Nadon GW,Shedletsky R

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00