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  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Alan M. Jette is affiliated with the MGH Institute of Health Professions in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with 60 publications in this main field. Within medicine, they contribute to several subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health; General Health Professions; Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty; and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The scientist's work covers several prominent research topics such as meta-analysis and systematic reviews, health sciences research and education, statistical methods in clinical trials, cerebral palsy and movement disorders, health systems, economic evaluations, quality of life, health and medical research impacts, and musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation.

They have published extensively in the following venues:

  • Physical Therapy
  • Journal of physiotherapy
  • Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • Journal of Manual & Manipulative Therapy
  • Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy

Recent papers by Alan M. Jette include:

  • Opening the Black Box of Rehabilitation Interventions, 2020, Physical Therapy
  • The Importance of Collecting Data on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) in Rehabilitation Research, 2020, Physical Therapy
  • Burden and Patterns of Multimorbidity, 2020, American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
  • Statistical inference through estimation: recommendations from the International Society of Physiotherapy Journal Editors, 2021, Journal of physiotherapy
  • Defining and Measuring Preclinical Mobility Limitation: An Expert Consensus Exercise Informed by a Scoping Review, 2023, The Journals of Gerontology Series A

Frequent collaborators of Alan M. Jette include:

  • Arianne P. Verhagen
  • Jean-Michel Brismée
  • Mark R. Elkins
  • Rafael Zambelli Pinto
  • Anne Söderlund

Alan M. Jette holds membership in the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) since 2013, reflecting recognition within the scientific community.

Best Publications

  • The Disablement Process.

    Lois M. Verbrugge;Alan M. Jette

  • The Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly (PASE): development and evaluation.

    Richard A. Washburn;Kevin W. Smith;Alan M. Jette;Carol A. Janney

  • Adverse Events Associated with Testosterone Administration

    Shehzad Basaria;Andrea D. Coviello;Thomas G. Travison;Thomas W. Storer

  • Toward a Common Language for Function, Disability, and Health

    Alan M Jette

  • The Functional Status Questionnaire: reliability and validity when used in primary care.

    Alan M. Jette;Allyson R. Davies;Paul D. Cleary;David R. Calkins

  • A prospective study of long-term care institutionalization among the aged.

    L G Branch;A M Jette

  • A Telecommunications System for Monitoring and Counseling Patients with Hypertension: Impact on Medication Adherence and Blood Pressure Control

    Robert H. Friedman;Lewis E. Kazis;Alan Jette;Mary Beth Smith

  • A Randomized, Controlled Trial of a Group Intervention to Reduce Fear of Falling and Associated Activity Restriction in Older Adults

    Sharon Tennstedt;Jonathan Howland;Margie Lachman;Elizabeth W. Peterson

  • Nutrition and health risks in the elderly: the nutrition screening initiative.

    B M Posner;A M Jette;K W Smith;D R Miller

  • Covariates of Fear of Falling and Associated Activity Curtailment

    Jonathan Howland;Margie E. Lachman;Elizabeth Walker Peterson;Jennifer Cote

  • The functional independence measure: Tests of scaling assumptions, structure, and reliability across 20 diverse impairment categories

    Margaret G. Stineman;Judy A. Shea;Alan Jette;Charles J. Tassoni

  • The Framingham Disability Study: II. Physical disability among the aging.

    A M Jette;L G Branch

  • The Future of Disability in America

    Marilyn J Field;Alan M Jette

  • Late Life Function and Disability Instrument I. Development and Evaluation of the Disability Component

    Alan M Jette;Stephen M Haley;Wendy J Coster;Jill T Kooyoomjian

  • Disentangling the Disablement Process

    Renée H. Lawrence;Alan M. Jette

  • Late Life Function and Disability Instrument II. Development and Evaluation of the Function Component

    Stephen M. Haley;Alan M. Jette;Wendy J. Coster;Jill T. Kooyoomjian

  • Exercise--it's never too late: the strong-for-life program.

    A M Jette;M Lachman;M M Giorgetti;S F Assmann

  • Functional recovery after hip fracture.

    Jette Am;Harris Ba;Cleary Pd;Campion Ew

  • Physical Disablement Concepts for Physical Therapy Research and Practice

    Alan M Jette

  • Hip fracture: a prospective study of hospital course, complications, and costs.

    Edward W. Campion;Alan M. Jette;Paul D. Cleary;Bette Ann Harris

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter R. Frontera
Walter R. Frontera University of Puerto Rico
Kenneth J. Ottenbacher
Kenneth J. Ottenbacher The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
David S. Tulsky
David S. Tulsky University of Delaware
Lewis E. Kazis
Lewis E. Kazis Boston University
Allen W. Heinemann
Allen W. Heinemann Northwestern University
Suzanne G. Leveille
Suzanne G. Leveille University of Massachusetts Boston
Paul D. Cleary
Paul D. Cleary Yale University
Mark Meterko
Mark Meterko Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center
Pamela W. Duncan
Pamela W. Duncan Wake Forest University
P. Hunter Peckham
P. Hunter Peckham Case Western Reserve University

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