Slade Matthews

TL;DR: To determine in physically healthy, unmedicated patients whether heart rate variability is reduced in major depressive disorder relative to controls, and whether HRV reductions are driven by MDD alone, comorbid generalized anxiety disorder (GAD, characterized by anxious anticipation), or comorbrid panic and posttraumatic stress disorders (PD/PTSD, characterize by anxious arousal).

TL;DR: A measure of frailty for older acute inpatients to be performed by non‐geriatricians is developed to improve the quality of care for elderly patients.

TL;DR: Frail older inpatients with AF are significantly less likely to receive warfarin than non-frail and appear more vulnerable to adverse clinical outcomes, with and without antithrombotic therapy.

TL;DR: Number of FRIDs and to a lesser extent total number of medicines at discharge were associated with recurrent falls and other measures of high-risk medication exposures is common in older people admitted with falls, especially the frail.

TL;DR: The majority of older inpatients using statins are willing to have one or more of their current medications, including statins, deprescribed, and these findings can be used to inform clinical practice and interventional statin deprescribing studies to optimise medication use in older adults.