Although a study on the benefits of geriatric assessment in older patients with cancer did not demonstrate significant improvements to quality of life, researchers said it yielded valuable insights ...
AHA: Increased Cancer Risk for Patients With Heart Failure For older patients hospitalized with heart failure, a comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) score is associated with mortality over two ...
A phase II clinical study of interleukin-11 mutein to treat patients with chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia. Background: The aim of this prospective, double-blind study was to evaluate sensitivity ...
Efficacy of a one-year exercise program to prevent bone loss in postmenopausal women prescribed aromatase inhibitor therapy: An RCT. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2013 ASCO Annual Meeting ...
The Geriatric Psychiatry Clinic provides subspecialty outpatient services for adults ages 60 and older with mental health concerns and/or dementia. The mission of our clinic is to increase access to ...
Geriatric care has been in the spotlight for being understaffed and in high demand. And a new movement is pushing hospitals and nursing facilities to work harder to treat dementia patients. The ...
The top-ranked SSM Health/Saint Louis University School of Medicine geriatric medicine fellowship (subspecialty residency) program provides comprehensive exposure to the full range of practice ...
In many cases, poor adherence to a medication regimen is a reason for uncontrolled high blood pressure and a major predictor of nursing home placement in frail geriatric patients. 1 Adherence rates in ...