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Jane McCusker

Researcher at McGill University

Publications -  225
Citations -  12287

Jane McCusker is an academic researcher from McGill University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Delirium & Emergency department. The author has an hindex of 59, co-authored 220 publications receiving 11538 citations. Previous affiliations of Jane McCusker include St Mary's Hospital & University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Delirium predicts 12-month mortality.

Jane McCusker, +4 more
- 25 Feb 2002 - 
TL;DR: Delirium is an independent marker for increased mortality among older medical inpatients during the 12 months after hospital admission and is a particularly important prognostic marker among patients without dementia.
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Detection of older people at increased risk of adverse health outcomes after an emergency visit: the ISAR screening tool.

Jane McCusker, +6 more
- 01 Oct 1999 - 
TL;DR: A self‐report screening tool to identify older people in the emergency department of a hospital at increased risk of adverse health outcomes, including death, admission to a nursing home or long‐term hospitalization, or a clinically significant decrease in functional status is developed.
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Delirium in older medical inpatients and subsequent cognitive and functional status: a prospective study

Jane McCusker, +4 more
- 04 Sep 2001 - 
TL;DR: For older patients with and without dementia, delirium is an independent predictor of sustained poor cognitive and functional status during the year after a medical admission to hospital.
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Use of medications with anticholinergic effect predicts clinical severity of delirium symptoms in older medical inpatients.

Ling Han, +5 more
- 23 Apr 2001 - 
TL;DR: Exposure to ACH medications is independently and specifically associated with a subsequent increase inDelirium symptom severity in elderly medical inpatients with diagnosed delirium.
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Recognition of Depression by Non-psychiatric Physicians—A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-analysis

Monica Cepoiu, +10 more
- 01 Jan 2008 - 
TL;DR: The accuracy of depression recognition by non-psychiatrist physicians is low and further research should focus on developing standardized methods of documentingnon-psychiatric physicians’ recognition of depression.