4032.0 Healthcare Practices and Utilization among Older Adults

Tuesday, November 10, 2009: 8:30 AM
Oral
Moderator:
Daniela Friedman, PhD

8:30 AM
Racial Disparities in Use of Medicare Home Health Care Among Patients with Diabetes
Amoah Yeboah-Korang and Richard Fortinsky, PhD
  
8:45 AM
Disparity implications of utilization-based eligibility criteria for medication therapy management services
Junling Wang, PhD, C. Daniel Mullins, PhD, Song Hee Hong, PhD, Lawrence Brown, Ya-Chen Shih, Samuel Dagogo-Jack and William Cushman
9:00 AM
Medication use in an elderly hypertensive sample: A comparison of Caucasians and African-Americans in the EPESE
Mimi Misung Kim, PhD, Daniel L. Howard, PhD, Jay Kaufman, PhD and DaJuanicia N. Holmes
  
9:15 AM
Role of Hospital and Physician Volume in Outcome Disparity Among Elderly Prostate Cancer Patients
Ravi Jayadevappa, PhD, Sumedha Chhatre, PhD, Joseph Gallo and S. Bruce Malkowicz, MD
  
9:30 AM
Preventive Care: Supports and Barriers to Best Practices
Terri G. Tobin, PhD
  

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Gerontological Health
Endorsed by: Social Work

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

See more of: Gerontological Health
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