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Janey C. Peterson

Researcher at Cornell University

Publications -  56
Citations -  9273

Janey C. Peterson is an academic researcher from Cornell University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Behavior change & Randomized controlled trial. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 56 publications receiving 7747 citations. Previous affiliations of Janey C. Peterson include Hospital for Special Surgery.

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Validation of a combined comorbidity index.

TL;DR: The estimated relative risk of death from an increase of one in the comorbidity score proved approximately equal to that from an additional decade of age.
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The Charlson comorbidity index is adapted to predict costs of chronic disease in primary care patients

TL;DR: The adapted comorbidity index can be used to predict resource utilization and may help to identify targets for reducing high costs, by prospectively identifying those at high risk.
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Severity of aortic atheromatous disease diagnosed by transesophageal echocardiography predicts stroke and other outcomes associated with coronary artery surgery: a prospective study.

TL;DR: Investigating whether varying degrees of atherosclerosis of the descending aorta, as assessed by TEE, are an independent predictor of cardiac and neurologic outcome in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) found a strong predictor of stroke and death after CABG.