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Measuring health outcomes for older people using the sage [i.e. SAGE] database
Author(s)	Giovanni Gambassi, Kate L Lapane, Antonio Sgadari
Journal title	Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 19, supplement 2, Fall 2000
Pages	pp 67-86
Keywords	Health [elderly] ; Medical care ; Evaluation ; Nursing homes ; United States of America.
Annotation	The authors establish the potential for outcomes evaluation of the Systematic Assessment of Geriatric drug use via Epidemiology (SAGE), a long-term care population-based dataset. Data come from the Health Care Financing Administration's case mix and quality demonstration project including all Medicare/Medicaid certified homes of five US states during 1992-1994. Using the Minimum Data Set (MDS), the authors identified nearly 70,000 residents over 65 years of age with congestive heart failure. They provide a preliminary analysis of pharmacotherapy of congestive heart failure and its effects on decline in physical functioning. Functional outcome, expressed as the rate of activities of daily living (ADL) decline, was improved for patients on combination therapy relative to those on digoxin or ACE-inhibitors alone. The availability of a population-based data set provides a means of evaluating current policies and practices. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-010219205 A
Classmark	CC: LK: 4C: LHB: 7T
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