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| <p><strong>ANN ARBOR GRECC FY 03 HIGHLIGHTS</strong></p> |
| <p><strong>I. Collaboration With Other VA Entities</strong></p> |
| <p>GRECC/EES Partnership Committee. (Fitzgerald)</p> |
| <p>Site for Special Fellowship Program in Academic Geriatrics. (Terpenning)</p> |
| <p><strong>II. Aging Research</strong></p> |
| <p>Applied Clinical</p> |
| <p>Maximal step length indicates disability and fall risk. (Alexander)</p> |
| <p>Health Systems Research</p> |
| <p>VISN 11 is funding a pilot examination of Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) data from VA NHCU's and community nursing homes in Michigan. (Fries)</p> |
| <p>Preliminary results show that quality in state-sponsored home- and community-based care in Michigan improved after the implementation of a new assessment system (the RAI-HC). (Fries)</p> |
| <p>Examining impact of Nurse Practitioner management of patients with chronic congestive heart failure will decrease hospitalizations (Vaitkevicius)</p> |
| <p>Basic Biomedical</p> |
| <p>Novel murine genetic models of trinucleotide repeat disorders. Positron emission tomography studies of movement disorder pathophysiology. (Albin)</p> |
| <p><strong>III. Education and Training</strong></p> |
| <p>Site for D.W. Reynolds Grant "Comprehensive Programs to Strengthen Physicians' Training in Geriatrics." (Supiano and Fitzgerald)</p> |
| <p>CBOC Survey assessing the educational needs of all CBOC personnel in VISN 11. (Fitzgerald)</p> |
| <p><strong>VI. Clinical Demonstrations/Best Practices</strong></p> |
| <p>Model program in Delirium prevention. (Kamholz)</p> |
| <p><strong>V. Dissemination of GRECC Products</strong></p> |
| <p>GRECC sponsored conferences:</p> |
| <p>Fall 2003 - The Intersection of Delirium and Frailty. (Kamholz) </p> |
| <p>Fall 2004 - Primary Care in Geriatrics: Addressing Geriatric Problems in Primary Care (Terpenning)</p> |
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