Publications
Explore highlighted IMPACT Collaboratory publications below. To see all IMPACT Collaboratory publications and resources, or to conduct a detailed search, go to our Knowledge Repository.
- Research by team including IMPACT members Vince Mor and Ellen McCarthy explores the varied uptake of the coadministered COVID/influenza vaccines during the pandemic
COVID-19 and influenza vaccine coadministration among older U.S. adults
February 23, 2024
- Design and Statistics core members review recent publications for adherence to key recommendations for design and analysis of stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials
- Study shows that pharmacist-led deprescribing via telehealth can reduce burden on PLWD
- Leaders of the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory celebrate its first five years in JAGS Special Issue
- IMPACT investigator publishes results of first known study to provide methods for calculating normed scores for cognitive dispersion indices among older adults
- Authors call for national conversation on health care fragmentation, continuity and coordination
- IMPACT authors explore inequities in Alzheimer’s and dementia care treatment
- IMPACT authors explore ethical challenges of using algorithms for dementia diagnosis
- IMPACT members explore partnering with social service staff on ePCTs
- Article highlights IMPACT iLibrary of potential outcomes measures
- Article looks at demential care trials in community-based settings and Medicaid home
- Supplemental NIA IMPACT study with pharmacies results in national database of older adult COVID-19 vaccine data
Data Resource Profile: COVid VAXines Effects on the Aged (COVVAXAGE)
October 18, 2023
- Preliminary Evidence for Dementia Collaborative Coaching
Preliminary Evidence for Dementia Collaborative Coaching
October 10, 2023
- Recent IMPACT team article describes formal methods for sample size and power analyses for testing subgroup-specific treatment effects in parallel-arm CRTs
- New article highlights how IMPACT Lived Experience Panel contributes to improving ePCTs in dementia care
- Authors comment on antibiotic use considerations for patients receiving end-of-life care
- Home care offers lessons to address challenges and opportunities in information sharing in elder care
- IMPACT authors assert that funding early-career researchers is vital to improving dementia care
- IMPACT members explore statistical trial issues for cardiovascular issues and dementia
- Team of IMPACT members address health equity and ePCT readiness in dementia care
- Article explores patient and public involvement in pragmatic trials
- National Cohort Study of Homebound Persons Living with Dementia: Antibiotic Prescribing Trends and Opportunities for Antibiotic Stewardship
- Using Hybrid Effectiveness Studies to Facilitate Implementation in Gerontology: Three Case Studies in Dementia Care Research
- IMPACT member investigates informal caregivers’ struggles with dementia symptom management and provider support
- IMPACT members assess booster vaccine uptake in older adults
- IMPACT members explore risk for depression among family caregivers
- IMPACT supplement awardees publish article analyzing the risks of COVID-19 vaccination in older adults
- IMPACT member leads hospice/palliative care survey in NY State to inform nursing school education
- IMPACT members publish article on evaluating the pragmatic characteristics of advance care planning outcome measures in dementia clinical trials
- Study explores how clinicians approach patient enrollment in pragmatic randomized trials
- Article explores how to protect older adults while transitioning from emergency department to community care
- IMPACT members discuss framework to include Hispanic/Latinos in ADRD clinical trials
- Article reviews relationship between vaccines and COVID-19 breakthrough infections
- IMPACT members explore how algorithms using electronic health records can identify patients with Alzheimer’s disease or related dementias
- Study explores telehealth use by people living with dementia and their caregivers during the pandemic
- Article examines antimicrobial resistance in homebound seniors using national samples to address UTIs in PLWD
- Article provides instruction on how to best design longitudinal cluster randomized trials
- IMPACT member publishes article on nursing home regulations and the pandemic
- IMPACT members recommend a risks-based approach for end-of-life care patients participating in pragmatic clinical trials
- A methodological review found that randomization is often fragile in Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trials
- Article explores pandemic affects on skilled nursing facility care
- IMPACT-C investigators find COVID-19 testing and vaccination differences across nursing home staff shifts
- A Scoping Review of Telehealth Palliative Care Interventions in Nursing Homes: Characteristics and Outcomes
Telehealth Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Scoping Review
February 6, 2023
- IMPACT members share approaches to promote health equity in pragmatic trials in ADRD
- IMPACT member joins co-authors in recommending reporting transparency related to volunteer dementia care trial
Open science in dementia care embedded pragmatic clinical trials
February 1, 2022
- IMPACT funded investigators are among team discussing opportunities to improve ADRD care through consumer-oriented health information in LHSs
- IMPACT members demonstrate impact of dementia care training on nurse care managers’ interactions with family caregivers
- IMPACT members publish results of study on aging couples’ cognition and depressive symptoms over time
- Sadarangani among authors introducing new application aimed at facilitating information exchange between primary care providers and adult day centers
- IMPACT members discuss applying power analyses for stepped wedge design with multivariate continuous outcomes
- Niznik and co-authors examine deprescribing medications for those with dementia near the end of life
- IMPACT members discuss organizational readiness in ePCTs
- Taljaard co-authors article exploring under- and over-recruitment in pragmatic trials
- Mor contributes to publication that explores effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccine boosters in nursing home residents
- JAGS article analyzes gap in guidance for cluster randomized trials involving PLWD in LTC homes
- IMPACT members share considerations for ePCTs of advance care planning interventions for PLWD into real-world settings
- Taljaard co-authors article addressing heterogeneity in trials and how to manage its effects
Heterogeneity in pragmatic randomized trials: sources and management
October 22, 2022
- Gabbard lead author on article examining engaging end users in design of patient portal advance care planning
- JAMDA article describes innovation of the LTC Data Cooperative
- IMPACT members co-author article analyzing imputation methods for managing missing study data
- IMPACT funded investigators author article on infectious diseases in PLWD
- IMPACT HET member among authors of article on secondary caregiver effects by gender and race
- Study looks at dementia patient outcomes for those receiving Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services in Maryland
- Fazio and Zimmerman author editorial on importance to developing dementia outcome measures
- IMPACT COVID-19 Supplement investigators find effectiveness of a second vaccine booster dose against infection, hospitalization, or death among nursing home residents
- IMPACT members find critical barriers among care partners and older adults with cognitive impairment during emergency department care transitions
- IMPACT-funded trial aimed at de-prescribing inappropriate medication use in PLWD with the help of clinician champions
- IMPACT leaders are among authors of article exploring the role of primary care providers in cognitive decline detection
- Travers, Gifford and Baier co-author qualitative study on providers’ perspectives on high-quality dementia care
Providers’ Perspectives on High-Quality Dementia Care in Long-Term Care
September 2, 2022
- Mor and Berry co-author article on testing type differences in skilled nursing facilities
- IMPACT members examine use of the label “pragmatic” in clinical trials and determine that its use is not useful
- IMPACT members publish article assessing COVID-19 multicomponent infection control intervention
- Mor and White examine incidence and outcomes of COVID-19 in nursing home care
- Study how vaccine mandates affected nursing home staff shortages co-authored by IMPACT funded investigator
- Mor co-authors article examining the effect of race and dementia prevalence on COVID-19 infection control in nursing homes
- Authors help identify levels of medical complexity for patients living with dementia in adult day centers
- IMPACT posdoc part of team proposing partnerships between High Income and Low-/Middle-Income countries to speed aging interventions
- Li and Talijaard co-author article on sample size calculators for planning stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials
- McCarthy and Bynum publish article to inform tradeoffs of approaches to test validity of Medicare claims-based algorithms
- Taljaard and Li co-author article on power analysis for cluster randomized trials with continuous coprimary endpoints
- Li, Taljaard, Hey, and Mitchell publish literature review of ethics in trials involving PLWD
- Berry co-authors AJPH article examining COVID-19 vaccine mandates for nursing home staff in Mississippi
- Pragmatic clinical trial design in emergency medicine: Study considerations and design types
- Largent examines investigators’ obligations to patient-subjects in ePCTs
- IMPACT members co-author study of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in healthcare assistants
- White, Gutman, and Mor publish research on adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccine booster in nursing home residents
- McCarthy co-authors article examining whether patients with dementia have increased risk of adverse outcomes after discharge
- Zimmerman Lead Author on Recommendations from a NIH conference
- IMPACT Members Co-Author Article Addressing Implementation and Dissemination Challenges and Opportunities
- IMPACT Members Co-Authors on Article Addressing Research Challenges and Potential Solutions from NIA Consensus Conference
- Aranda co-authors article examining how neuropsychiatric symptoms can affect caregiver relationships in Mexican Americans
- Hwang among authors considering how to include older adults in emergency department research
- Mor and co-author encourage the use of large pragmatic trials to test anti-amyloid therapies for Alzheimer’s disease
- Gitlin co-authors systematic review to assess effectiveness of educational interventions for formal caregivers
- IMPACT members co-author article evaluating whether impact of vaccination campaigns in skilled nursing facilities
- Taljaard Contributes to Publication on Challenges Distinguishing Randomized Trials for Meta-Research
- Gaugler and Gitlin co-author article exploring how Critical Race Theory can be used in recruitment of Black participants in ADRD research
- IMPACT members publish qualitative analysis of communication workflows between adult day service centers and primary care providers
- Review of pragmatic trials finds multiple primary outcomes are common but also identifies need for improved transparency in co-primary outcomes
- IMPACT members among authors of a recent publication describing reporting of informed consent information in pragmatic trial reports
- IMPACT members address methodological challenges in pragmatic trials in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in new journal article
- IMPACT researchers provide insight into facility-level strategies to increase vaccine uptake among nursing home staff
- IMPACT members co-author article summarizing barriers to identifying people with ADRD
- Nonpharmacologic interventions for family caregivers of people living with dementia in Latin-America: A scoping review
- IMPACT members publish article on sample size considerations for stepped wedge designs with subclusters
- Berry co-authors article to COVID-19 vaccine response among healthcare workers and nursing home residents
- Mor co-authors systematic review of long-term care facility characteristics associated with COVID-19 outcomes
- Gaugler, Gitlin, and Zimmerman write editorial on “Aligning Dementia Care Science With the Urgent Need for Dissemination and Implementation”
- White authors commentary on study examining underreporting of early nursing home COVID-19 data
- Karlawish and Grill co-author article considering ethical guidance for clinical trials in neurodegenerative disease
- Niznik and Hanson among authors of publication analyzing incidence of deprescribing bisphosphonates among nursing home residents with dementia
- IMPACT researchers examine racial and ethnic disparities in vaccine acceptance among nursing home staff and residents
- Gutman and Mor co-author article comparing adverse events follow one dose of COVID-19 vaccination among nursing home residents
- IMPACT members co-author publication analyzing a national survey of perceptions of COVID-19 vaccines among healthcare assistants
- Chodosh co-authors study of barriers and facilitators to vaccination for people with Parkinson’s Disease
- Zimmerman publishes editorial advocating that clinicians consider five critical issues for research measurements
What Clinicians Need to Know About Measurement
July 29, 2021
- Mor and White write correspondence to the editor of the NEJM regarding IMPACT-C supplement study
- Bynum, Travison, and Mor co-author article summarizing presentations from 2020 Dementia Care, Caregiving, and Services Research Summit
- Aranda and Hinton explore impact of dementia from 2020 National Research Summit
- Karlawish contributes to review article on research participation by persons living with dementia and their caregivers
- Taljaard authors paper on unique considerations for pilot and feasibility studies for pragmatic trials
- Karlawish writes commentary considering how creative care can be used in treating people with dementia
- Sadarangani and Travers are authors on editorial on engaging CNAs to enhance COVID-19 vaccine receptivity
- Van Haitsma co-authors article discussing the state of research on workforce development in dementia care
- Mor contributes to publication providing evidence of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness in a real-world nursing home setting
- Hey co-authors magazine article examining the paradox of evidence-based decision making
- Hey and Taljaard co-authors on review of pragmatic clinical trials
- IMPACT members co-author article sharing lessons learned from nursing home staff on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
- Harrison, Mor and Gifford co-author article examining vaccine hesitancy among staff in skilled nursing facilities
- IMPACT researchers examine systematic approach to address advance care planning during COVID-19 pandemic
- Laura Gitlin and Nancy Hodgson author chapter on family care programs
- Sadarangani among authors of publication on consequences of adult day centers closing due to COVID-19 and the factors supporting their resiliency
- Largent and Karlawish authors on a publication discussing the future of p-Tau and Alzheimer’s disease blood tests
- IMPACT leaders reflect on article collection of interdisciplinary approach to dementia
Reflections on the IJHPR’s article collection on dementia
October 6, 2020
- IMPACT members discuss the importance of comprehensive dementia care
Editorial: How Do We Make Comprehensive Dementia Care a Benefit?
September 25, 2020
- Hodgson and Hanson co-author article describing alternative consent models in pragmatic palliative care clinical trials
- Quiñones and Allore are authors on a paper addressing multimorbidity and racial and ethnic disparities in ADRD
- Statewide effort to reduce COVID-19 infections could be used as model for national effort
Stemming the Tide of COVID-19 Infections in Massachusetts Nursing Homes
September 15, 2020
- Gitlin and Gaugler contribute to “Application of randomization techniques for balancing site covariates in the adult day service plus pragmatic cluster-randomized trial”
- JAGS article studies national trends in potentially preventable hospitalizations of older adults with dementia
- Karlawish and Hoffman call for reconsidering visitor bans in long-term care facilities
- IMPACT Technical Data Core members explore diagnosed prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in Medicare Advantage plans
- JAGS Special Issue: Statistical Considerations for Embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trials in People Living with Dementia
- JAGS Special Issue: Engaging Stakeholders in the Design and Conduct of Embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trials for Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease–Related Dementias
- JAGS Special Issue: Selecting Outcomes to Ensure Pragmatic Trials Are Relevant to People Living with Dementia
- JAGS Special Issue: Using Healthcare Data in Embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trials among People Living with Dementia and Their Caregivers: State of the Art
- JAGS Special Issue: Transforming Dementia Care Through Pragmatic Clinical Trials Embedded in Learning Healthcare Systems
- JAGS Special Issue: Ethical and Regulatory Issues for Embedded Pragmatic Trials Involving People Living with Dementia
- JAGS Special Issue: Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence-Based Dementia Care Using Embedded Pragmatic Trials
- JAGS Special Issue: Training the Workforce to Conduct Embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trials to Improve Care for People Living with Dementia and Their Caregivers
- JAGS Special Issue: Building a National Program for Pilot Studies of Embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trials in Dementia Care
- JAGS Special Issue: Achieving Health Equity in Embedded Pragmatic Trials for People Living with Dementia and Their Family Caregivers
- JAGS Special Issue: Embedded Pragmatic Trials in Dementia Care: Realizing the Vision of the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory
