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Overview

Joseph T. Hanlon is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with particular attention to geriatrics and gerontology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, economics and econometrics, general health professions, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Their work covers several main topics including pharmaceutical practices and patient outcomes, health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life. Other key areas of research include healthcare cost, quality, and practices, heart failure treatment and management, cardiac anesthesia and surgical outcomes, frailty in older adults, and pharmaceutical studies and practices.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Polypharmacy in Older Adults Hospitalized for Heart Failure, 2020, Circulation Heart Failure
  • A Multifaceted Antimicrobial Stewardship Program for the Treatment of Uncomplicated Cystitis in Nursing Home Residents, 2020, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Older Patient and Caregiver Perspectives on Medication Value and Deprescribing: A Qualitative Study, 2020, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
  • Deintensification of Diabetes Medications among Veterans at the End of Life in VA Nursing Homes, 2020, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
  • Development of a Metric to Detect and Decrease Low-Value Prescribing in Older Adults, 2022, JAMA Network Open

Joseph T. Hanlon frequently collaborates with several coauthors including:

  • Carolyn T. Thorpe
  • Sherrie L. Aspinall
  • Walid F. Gellad
  • Joshua D. Niznik
  • Xinhua Zhao

Their research is regularly published in prominent medical journals such as:

  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
  • Drugs & Aging
  • Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
  • JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Journal of General Internal Medicine

Best Publications

  • Clinical consequences of polypharmacy in elderly

    Robert L. Maher;Joseph T. Hanlon;Emily R. Hajjar

  • Polypharmacy in elderly patients

    Emily R. Hajjar;Angela C. Cafiero;Joseph T. Hanlon

  • Appropriate prescribing in elderly people: how well can it be measured and optimised?

    Anne Spinewine;Kenneth E Schmader;Nick Barber;Carmel Hughes

  • A method for assessing drug therapy appropriateness

    Joseph T. Hanlon;Kenneth Edwin Schmader;Gregory P. Samsa;Gregory P. Samsa;Morris Weinberger

  • Cumulative use of strong anticholinergics and incident dementia: a prospective cohort study.

    Shelly L. Gray;Melissa L. Anderson;Sascha Dublin;Joseph T. Hanlon

  • A randomized, controlled trial of a clinical pharmacist intervention to improve inappropriate prescribing in elderly outpatients with polypharmacy

    Joseph T. Hanlon;Morris Weinberger;Morris Weinberger;Gregory P. Samsa;Gregory P. Samsa;Kenneth E. Schmader;Kenneth E. Schmader

  • A Drug Burden Index to Define the Functional Burden of Medications in Older People

    Sarah N. Hilmer;Donald E. Mager;Donald E. Mager;Eleanor M. Simonsick;Ying Cao

  • Adverse Drug Events In High Risk Older Outpatients

    Joseph T. Hanlon;Kenneth E. Schmader;Michael J. Koronkowski;Morris Weinberger

  • Suboptimal Prescribing in Older Inpatients and Outpatients

    Joseph T. Hanlon;Kenneth E. Schmader;Kenneth E. Schmader;Christine M. Ruby;Morris Weinberger

  • Central Nervous System–Active Medications and Risk for Falls in Older Women

    Kristine E. Ensrud;Terri L. Blackwell;Carol M. Mangione;Paula J. Bowman

  • A summated score for the medication appropriateness index: development and assessment of clinimetric properties including content validity

    Gregory P. Samsa;Joseph T. Hanlon;Kenneth E. Schmader;Kenneth E. Schmader;Morris Weinberger;Morris Weinberger

  • Managing Medications in Clinically Complex Elders: “There's Got to Be a Happy Medium”

    Michael A. Steinman;Joseph T. Hanlon

  • Effects of geriatric evaluation and management on adverse drug reactions and suboptimal prescribing in the frail elderly

    Kenneth E Schmader;Kenneth E Schmader;Joseph T Hanlon;Joseph T Hanlon;Joseph T Hanlon;Carl F Pieper;Richard Sloane

  • Use of medications by persons 65 and over: data from the established populations for epidemiologic studies of the elderly.

    Elizabeth A. Chrischilles;Daniel J. Foley;Robert B. Wallace;Jon H. Lemke

  • Unnecessary drug use in frail older people at hospital discharge.

    Emily R. Hajjar;Joseph T. Hanlon;Richard J. Sloane;Catherine I. Lindblad

  • Adverse effects of analgesics commonly used by older adults with osteoarthritis: focus on non-opioid and opioid analgesics.

    Christine K. O'Neil;Joseph T. Hanlon;Zachary A. Marcum;Zachary A. Marcum

  • Incidence and predictors of all and preventable adverse drug reactions in frail elderly persons after hospital stay.

    Joseph T Hanlon;Carl F Pieper;Emily R Hajjar;Richard J Sloane

  • Prevalence of Unplanned Hospitalizations Caused by Adverse Drug Reactions in Older Veterans

    Zachary A. Marcum;Megan E. Amuan;Joseph T. Hanlon;Sherrie L. Aspinall;Sherrie L. Aspinall

  • Adverse drug reaction risk factors in older outpatients.

    Emily R. Hajjar;Emily R. Hajjar;Joseph T. Hanlon;Margaret B. Artz;Catherine I. Lindblad;Catherine I. Lindblad

  • Benzodiazepine use and cognitive function among community‐dwelling elderly

    Joseph T. Hanlon;Ronnie D. Horner;Kenneth E. Schmader;Gerda G. Fillenbaum

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth E. Schmader
Kenneth E. Schmader Duke University
Gerda G. Fillenbaum
Gerda G. Fillenbaum Duke University
Harvey J. Cohen
Harvey J. Cohen Duke University
Eleanor M. Simonsick
Eleanor M. Simonsick National Institutes of Health
Stephanie A. Studenski
Stephanie A. Studenski University of Pittsburgh
Gregory P. Samsa
Gregory P. Samsa Duke University
Morris Weinberger
Morris Weinberger University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Douglas C. Bauer
Douglas C. Bauer University of California, San Francisco
Anne B. Newman
Anne B. Newman University of Pittsburgh
Carl F. Pieper
Carl F. Pieper Duke University

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