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Tammy T. Hshieh

Researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital

Publications -  70
Citations -  3435

Tammy T. Hshieh is an academic researcher from Brigham and Women's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Delirium & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 60 publications receiving 2175 citations. Previous affiliations of Tammy T. Hshieh include Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center & Harvard University.

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Delirium in Older Persons: Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment.

TL;DR: Avoiding use of antipsychotics and other sedating medications for treatment of severe agitation that poses risk to patient or staff safety or threatens interruption of essential medical therapies is recommended.
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Effectiveness of Multicomponent Nonpharmacological Delirium Interventions: A Meta-analysis

TL;DR: A meta-analysis supports the use of multicomponent nonpharmacological delirium prevention interventions to advance acute care for older persons, with a trend toward decreasing length of stay and avoiding institutionalization.
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The Low Density Lipoprotein Receptor-related Protein (LRP) Is a Novel β-Secretase (BACE1) Substrate

TL;DR: In this paper, a new fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based assay of protein proximity, fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM), and co-immunoprecipitation was demonstrated that the light chain of LRP interacts with BACE on the cell surface in association with lipid rafts.
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Hospital Elder Life Program: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Effectiveness

TL;DR: The systematic review revealed that programs were generally successful in adhering to or appropriately adapting HELP and in finding the volunteer role to be valuable, with a trend toward decreasing length of stay and preventing institutionalization.