Featured Publications

Safe Medication Reduction in Older Patients

• EE Vasilevskis, T Pierce, AS Shah, EK Hollingsworth, MS Shotwell, AS Mixon, SF Simmons. (2024). Medication discrepancies among older hospitalized adults discharged from post-acute care facilities to home. Journal of American Medical Directors Association. May/June. DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2024.105017.
• Lee JW, Hollingsworth EK, Shah AS, Szanton SL, Perrin N, Mixon AS, Vasilevskis EE, Boyd CM, Hae-Ra H, Green AR, Taylor J, Simmons SF. (2024). Emergency department visits and hospital readmissions after a deprescribing intervention among hospitalized older adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, April:1-10. DOI: 10.1111/jgs.18945.
• Jordano JO, Vasilevskis EE, Simmons SF, Taylor WD, Monte A, Duggan MC, Han JH. (2024). Selective serotonin/serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor serum concentrations and delirium. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, July, DOI: 10.1111/jgs.19107.
• Vasilevskis EE, Shah AS, Hollingsworth EK, Shotwell MS, Kripalani S, Mixon AS, Simmons SF. (2023) Deprescribing medications among older hospitalized adults from end of hospitalization through postacute care: A Shed-MEDS randomized clinical trial. JAMA Internal Medicine. DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2022.6545.
• Kim JL, Lewallen K, Hollingsworth EK, Shah AS, Simmons SF, Vasilevskis EE. Patient reported barriers and enablers to deprescribing recommendations during a clinical trial (Shed-MEDS). (2023). The Gerontologist 63(3): 523-533. DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnac100.
• EK Hollingsworth, AS Shah, MS Shotwell, SF Simmons, EE Vasilevskis. (2022). Older patient and surrogate attitudes toward deprescribing during the transition from acute to post-acute care. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 41(3):788-797. DOI: 10.1177/07334648211015756.