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Mark Unruh
Researcher at Cornell University
Publications - 309
Citations - 14789
Mark Unruh is an academic researcher from Cornell University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Kidney disease & Population. The author has an hindex of 53, co-authored 269 publications receiving 12617 citations. Previous affiliations of Mark Unruh include George Washington University & Harvard University.
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Sleep Disorders in Chronic Kidney Disease
Lee K. Brown,Mark Unruh +1 more
TL;DR: Emerging evidence suggests that sleep disorders may contribute to the high rates of medical and psychological comorbidity in CKD patients.
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Risk Factors for Hospitalization of Home Hospice Enrollees Development and Validation of a Predictive Tool.
Veerawat Phongtankuel,Phyllis Johnson,M. C. Reid,Ronald D. Adelman,Zachary M. Grinspan,Mark Unruh,Erika L. Abramson +6 more
TL;DR: A model predictive of hospitalization after enrollment into home hospice using prehospice admission risk factors identifies patients at risk for hospitalization and can serve as a benchmark for future model development.
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Cognitive assessment in a predominantly Hispanic and Native American population in New Mexico and its association with kidney transplant wait-listing.
Yue-Harn Ng,Saleem Al Mawed,Vernon S. Pankratz,Christos Argyropoulos,Pooja Singh,Saeed Kamran Shaffi,Larissa Myaskovsky,Mark Unruh,Antonia Harford +8 more
TL;DR: Cognitive impairment was common in pre‐KT patients and was associated with a lower likelihood of KT wait‐listing, and being Native American and having kidney disease due to diabetes or hypertension were associated with longer time to wait‐ listing.
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Trends in Medical and Surgical Admission Length of Stay by Race/Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status: A Time Series Analysis.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess differences in average adjusted length of stay (aALOS) over time by race/ethnicity, and SES stratified by discharge destination (home or non-home).
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The patient-driven payment model: addressing perverse incentives, creating new ones.
TL;DR: The Patient-Driven Payment Model addresses perverse incentives in Medicare's previous payment system for skilled nursing facilities, but it includes new incentives that may be problematic.