Older adults’ care transitions remain a significant healthcare quality and patient safety challenge. Care transitions often occur with limited information transfer, poor coordination, and ambiguity about who is responsible for the older adults’ care. Older adults’ care transitions from the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF), an in-patient sub-acute care setting where patients receive skilled healthcare services… Read more »
Telemedicine has changed how we practice medicine. We have seen telemedicine focus on implementing video visits, rather than its less technologically sophisticated but consistently reliable alternative: the telephone (audio-only) visit. This analysis of current telemedicine featuring HIP Investigator Dr. Rachel Grob outlines the important of low tech telemedicine and highlights how this approach can look… Read more »
The mission of the Wisconsin Institute for Healthy Aging (WIHA) is to advance evidence-based programs that encourage healthy living among older adults. Its core functions are to develop products and services to support healthy aging through evidence-based practices, serve as a focal point for education and training on evidence-based programs, promote evidence-based practices, and advocate… Read more »
As a NIH/NEI-funded clinician-scientist, Dr. Yao Liu leverages new technology to enhance our understanding and management of glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, and other vision-threatening eye diseases through imaging, telemedicine, implementation science, and clinical trials. Dr. Liu is the Director of the UW Teleophthalmology Program, which aims to prevent blindness by expanding access to innovative eye care… Read more »
Dr. Brennan’s clinical and research expertise focuses on the management of patients with diabetic foot ulcers. She co-directs the Madison VA’s diabetic foot ulcer clinic, a team of infectious disease providers and podiatrists working together to achieve limb salvage. She also conducts health services research on diabetic foot ulcers, specifically focusing on 1) rural disparities… Read more »
There is limited information about trends in the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) among Medicaid enrollees. This study from HIP Investigator Dr. Marguerite Burns aimed to examine the use of medications for OUD and potential indicators of quality of care in multiple states. In this exploratory serial cross-sectional study using data from 1,024,301 Medicaid… Read more »
This study including HIP Investigator Dr. Yao Liu investigated whether dietary carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin (L/Z) in the serum and macula were associated with central retinal arteriole and venule calibers in a follow-up ancillary study among 390 older women in the Women’s Health Initiative. They found that higher L/Z status in serum and retina was… Read more »
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) penalizes hospitals having excess inpatient rehospitalizations within 30 days of index inpatient stays for targeted conditions. Observation hospitalizations are increasing in frequency and may clinically resemble inpatient hospitalizations, yet HRRP excludes observation in index and 30-day rehospitalization counts. Using 100% 2014 Medicare… Read more »
Elderly patients, or older adults, who are aged 65 years and older, compose of up to 20% emergency department (ED) encounters, and they experience more patient safety incidents and negative outcomes, such as higher admission rate, increased mortality, longer hospital stay, and more ED revisits. Particularly, 18% of their ED visits are fall related, exhibiting… Read more »
In 2016, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) added multitarget stool DNA and computed tomography colonography (CTC) as accepted colorectal cancer screening modalities to the already recommended tests: fecal immunochemical test (FIT), sigmoidoscopy, and colonoscopy. The aim of this study from HIP Investigator Dr. Jennifer Weiss was to determine trends in screening after the… Read more »
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