JAMDA
Volume 9, Issue 5 , Pages 354-359 , June 2008

Anemia: Its Impact on Hospitalizations and Length of Hospital Stay in Nursing Home and Community Older Adults

This work was presented, in part, at the Annual Meeting of the American Medical Directors Annual Meeting March 29-April 1, 2007: Dharmarajan TS, Pankratov A, Morris E, Jaspal P, Phillips S, Norkus EP. Does the presence of anemia and its severity in nursing home and community residents affect the rate of hospitalization and length of stay in hospital (LOS). J Am Med Dir Assoc 2007;8:B19 and at the Annual American Geriatrics Society Meeting May 2-May 6, 2007: Dharmarajan TS, Pankratov A, Qurashi S, Donepudi I, Morris E, Law G, Phillips S, Jaspal P, Norkus EP. Impact of chronic anemia on hospitalizations and healthcare costs in older adults from nursing homes (NH) and community (C). J Am Geriatr Soc 2007;55:S31.

  • T.S. Dharmarajan, MD, FACP, AGSF

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center, Bronx, NY
    • Division of Geriatrics, Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center, Bronx, NY
    • University Hospital of New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY.
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to T.S. Dharmarajan, MD, 31 Pheasant Run, Scarsdale, NY 10583l.
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  • Anna Pankratov, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Geriatrics, Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center, Bronx, NY
    • University Hospital of New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY.
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  • Evelyn Morris, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Geriatrics, Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center, Bronx, NY
    • University Hospital of New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY.
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  • Saima Qurashi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Geriatrics, Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center, Bronx, NY
    • University Hospital of New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY.
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  • Gregory Law, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Geriatrics, Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center, Bronx, NY
    • University Hospital of New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY.
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  • Sunila Phillips, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Geriatrics, Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center, Bronx, NY
    • University Hospital of New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY.
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  • Praveen Jaspal, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center, Bronx, NY
    • University Hospital of New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY.
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  • Indira Donepudi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center, Bronx, NY
    • University Hospital of New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY.
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  • Edward P. Norkus, PhD, FACN

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Research, Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center, Bronx, NY
    • University Hospital of New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY.

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 This study was internally funded as part of the Geriatric Medicine Fellowship program.

 The authors have no conflicts of interest pertaining to this article.

PII: S1525-8610(08)00100-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2008.02.008

JAMDA
Volume 9, Issue 5 , Pages 354-359 , June 2008

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