A new Issue of Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

June 14, 2007

As pre-released online. Full content is available by subscription only.

Brief Reports

“Organizational Relationships Between Nursing Homes and Hospitals and Quality of Care During HospitalNursing Home Patient Transfers” by Kenneth S. Boockvar, MD, MS, and Orah R. Burack, MA

“Exercise: A Potential Contributing Factor to the Relationship Between Folate and Dementia” by Laura E. Middleton, MSc, Susan A. Kirkland, PhD, Colleen J. Maxwell, PhD, David B. Hogan, MD, and Kenneth Rockwood, MD

“An Educational Intervention to Improve Antimicrobial Use in a Hospital-Based Long-Term Care Facility. (See Editorial Comments by Dr. Lona Mody on pp 000000)”by David N. Schwartz, MD, Homer Abiad, MD, Patricia L. DeMarais, MD, Emilian Armeanu, MD, William E. Trick, MD, Yue Wang, PhD, and Robert A. Weinstein, MD

“Caring for Patients with Dementia: How Good Is the Quality of Care? Results from Three Health Systems” by Joshua Chodosh, MD, MSHS, Brian S. Mittman, PhD, Karen I. Connor, RN, MBA, Stefanie D. Vassar, MS, Martin L. Lee, PhD, Robert W. DeMonte, MD, Theodore G. Ganiats, MD, Lisa E. Heikoff, MD, Laurence Z. Rubenstein, MD, MPH, Richard D. Della Penna, MD, and Barbara G. Vickrey, MD, MPH

“Patient Perceptions Regarding Electronic Prescriptions: Is the Geriatric Patient Ready?”by Kate L. Lapane, PhD, Catherine Dubé, EdD, Karen L. Schneider, BA, and Brian J. Quilliam, PhD

Ethics, Public Policy, and Medical Economics

“Effect of the Medicaid Deficit Reduction Act on Older Adults”by Diana B. Koss, MD

Clinical Investigations

“Inconsistency Over Time in the Preferences of Older Persons with Advanced Illness for Life-Sustaining Treatment” by Terri R. Fried, MD, John O’Leary, MA, Peter Van Ness, PhD, and Liana Fraenkel, MD, MPH