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Statin Discontinuation In Nursing Home Residents With Advanced Dementia, Jennifer Tjia, Sarah Cutrona, Daniel Peterson, George Reed, Susan Andrade, Susan Mitchell
Statin Discontinuation In Nursing Home Residents With Advanced Dementia, Jennifer Tjia, Sarah Cutrona, Daniel Peterson, George Reed, Susan Andrade, Susan Mitchell
Jennifer Tjia
OBJECTIVES: To describe patterns of, and factors associated with, statin use and discontinuation in nursing home (NH) residents progressing to advanced dementia and followed for at least 90 days.
DESIGN: Retrospective inception cohort using a dataset linking 2007 to 2008 Minimum Data Set (MDS) to Medicare denominator and Part D files.
SETTING: All NHs in five states (Minnesota, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, California, Florida).
PARTICIPANTS: NH residents with dementia.
MEASUREMENTS: Residents who developed advanced dementia were observed from baseline (date of progression to very severe cognitive impairment with eating problems) and followed for at least 90 days to statin discontinuation or death. …
Dementia And Risk Of Adverse Warfarin-Related Events In The Nursing Home Setting, Jennifer Tjia, Terry Field, Kathleen Mazor, Jennifer Donovan, Abir Kanaan, George Reed, Peter Doherty, Leslie Harrold, Jerry Gurwitz
Dementia And Risk Of Adverse Warfarin-Related Events In The Nursing Home Setting, Jennifer Tjia, Terry Field, Kathleen Mazor, Jennifer Donovan, Abir Kanaan, George Reed, Peter Doherty, Leslie Harrold, Jerry Gurwitz
Jennifer Tjia
BACKGROUND: Little attention has been focused on the safety of medications administered to treat non illnesses in nursing home residents with dementia. It is unclear whether this population is at increased risk of adverse drug events. OBJECTIVES: To test the hypotheses that in nursing home residents with dementia prescribed warfarin have less time in therapeutic range and a higher incidence of nonpreventable and preventable adverse warfarin events compared to nursing home residents without dementia after controlling for facility and patient characteristics. METHODS: A prospective cohort embedded in a clinical trial of nursing home residents prescribed warfarin in 26 nursing homes …