Melissa D. Aldridge — James J. Peters VA Medical Center

Area of research

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health · General Health Professions

Research interest

Research interests include Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues, Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes, Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health, and Frailty in Older Adults.

Recent publications

Hospice Improves Care Quality For Older Adults With Dementia In Their Last Month Of Life

Health Affairs 2022cited by 42position: lastdoi

Association Between Hospice Enrollment and Total Health Care Costs for Insurers and Families, 2002-2018

JAMA Health Forum 2022cited by 24position: firstdoi

Findings of Sequential Pilot Trials of Aliviado Dementia Care to Inform an Embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trial

The Gerontologist 2020cited by 15position: middledoi

Racial Differences in Health Care Transitions and Hospice Use at the End of Life

Journal of Palliative Medicine 2019cited by 38position: middledoi

Factors associated with older people’s emergency department attendance towards the end of life: a systematic review

European Journal of Public Health 2018cited by 57position: middledoi

The Impact of Reported Hospice Preferred Practices on Hospital Utilization at the End of Life

Medical Care 2016cited by 33position: firstdoi

Spousal Characteristics and Older Adults' Hospice Use: Understanding Disparities in End-of-Life Care

Journal of Palliative Medicine 2016cited by 19position: middledoi

Education, implementation, and policy barriers to greater integration of palliative care: A literature review

Palliative Medicine 2015cited by 369position: firstdoi

Methods for Constructing and Assessing Propensity Scores

Health Services Research 2014cited by 883position: lastdoi

Grants

No grants ingested yet.

Frequent collaborators

Karen McKendrick · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai2 papers (2015–2022)Emily Cherlin · University of Sheffield2 papers (2016–2019)Abraham A. Brody · New York University2 papers (2016–2020)Irene J Higginson · King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust1 papers (2018–2018)— · 1 papers (2015–2015)Carolyn W. Zhu · University of Kansas1 papers (2020–2020)Bárbara Gomes · King's College London1 papers (2018–2018)Claire K. Ankuda · University of Vermont1 papers (2022–2022)Lihua Li · Xiamen University1 papers (2022–2022)Shi‐Yi Wang · Beijing Forestry University1 papers (2019–2019)Eric J. Lee · Indiana University School of Medicine1 papers (2016–2016)Julia Verne · King's College London1 papers (2018–2018)Elizabeth H. Bradley · Albert Einstein College of Medicine1 papers (2016–2016)Susan L. Mitchell · Harvard University1 papers (2020–2020)Tara Cortes · New York University1 papers (2020–2020)Julia Paris · Brookings Institution1 papers (2014–2014)Irena Cenzer · University of California, San Francisco1 papers (2022–2022)Katherine Ornstein · Johns Hopkins Medicine1 papers (2016–2016)Catherine Evans · Cicely Saunders International1 papers (2018–2018)Simon Etkind · University of Cambridge1 papers (2018–2018)

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