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Kate L. Lapane is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a focus on several subfields including General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Geriatrics and Gerontology, and Clinical Psychology.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics, notably:

  • Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Frailty in Older Adults
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Spondyloarthritis Studies and Treatments
  • Pain Management and Opioid Use

Kate L. Lapane has contributed to journals such as Innovation in Aging, the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, BMC Geriatrics, and Drugs & Aging, with multiple publications across these venues.

Selected recent papers by Kate L. Lapane include:

  • "Health effects of loneliness and social isolation in older adults living in congregate long term care settings: A systematic review of quantitative and qualitative evidence" (2022), Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics
  • "The Role of Limited English Proficiency and Access to Health Insurance and Health Care in the Affordable Care Act Era" (2020), Health Equity
  • "Frailty, cognitive impairment, and depressive symptoms in Chinese older adults: an eight-year multi-trajectory analysis" (2023), BMC Geriatrics
  • "Eating-related pathology at the intersection of gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, and weight status: An intersectional Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA) of the Growing Up Today Study cohorts" (2021), Social Science & Medicine
  • "Trajectories of physical frailty and cognitive impairment in older adults in United States nursing homes" (2022), BMC Geriatrics

Frequent collaborators include Jonggyu Baek, Bill M. Jesdale, Catherine Dubé, Shao-Hsien Liu, and Yiyang Yuan. These coauthors have repeatedly worked with Kate L. Lapane across various research projects.

Best Publications

  • Management of Pain in Elderly Patients With Cancer

    Roberto Bernabei;Giovanni Gambassi;Kate Lapane;Francesco Landi

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

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

  • Principles for modeling propensity scores in medical research: a systematic literature review

    Sherry Weitzen;Kate L. Lapane;Alicia Y. Toledano;Anne L. Hume;Anne L. Hume

  • Correlates and Management of Nonmalignant Pain in the Nursing Home

    Aida Won;Kate Lapane;Giovanni Gambassi;Roberto Bernabei

  • Overweight in children and adolescents in relation to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: results from a national sample.

    Molly E. Waring;Kate L. Lapane

  • High dose B-vitamin treatment of hyperhomocysteinemia in dialysis patients

    Andrew G. Bostom;Douglas Shemin;Douglas Shemin;Douglas Shemin;Kate L. Lapane;Kate L. Lapane;Kate L. Lapane;Anne L. Hume;Anne L. Hume;Anne L. Hume

  • Access to Care and Use of the Internet to Search for Health Information: Results From the US National Health Interview Survey

    Daniel J Amante;Timothy P Hogan;Timothy P Hogan;Sherry L Pagoto;Thomas M English

  • Does receipt of hospice care in nursing homes improve the management of pain at the end of life

    Susan C. Miller;Vincent Mor;Ning Wu;Pedro Gozalo

  • Persistent nonmalignant pain and analgesic prescribing patterns in elderly nursing home residents.

    Aida B. Won;Kate L. Lapane;Sue Vallow;Jeff Schein

  • Depression and frailty in later life: a synthetic review.

    Briana Mezuk;Lauren Edwards;Matt Lohman;Moon Choi

  • Hyperhomocysteinemia and traditional cardiovascular disease risk factors in end-stage renal disease patients on dialysis: a case-control study.

    Andrew G. Bostom;Douglas Shemin;Kate L. Lapane;Joshua W. Miller

  • Dementia of the Alzheimer Type

    Jessica J. Jalbert;Lori A. Daiello;Lori A. Daiello;Kate L. Lapane

  • Venous thromboembolism among elderly patients treated with atypical and conventional antipsychotic agents

    Rosa Liperoti;Claudio Pedone;Kate L. Lapane;Vincent Mor

  • The Management of Depression in Older Nursing Home Residents

    Mary N. Brown;Kate L. Lapane;Andrea F. Luisi

  • Translating research into practice: speeding the adoption of innovative health care programs.

    Elizabeth H Bradley;Tashonna R Webster;Dorothy Baker;Mark Schlesinger

  • Evaluating the impact of non-response bias in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)

    Karen L Schneider;Melissa A Clark;William Rakowski;Kate L Lapane

  • Predictors of mortality in patients with Alzheimer’s disease living in nursing homes

    Giovanni Gambassi;Francesco Landi;Kate L Lapane;Antonio Sgadari

  • Characteristics of the SAGE database: a new resource for research on outcomes in long-term care. SAGE (Systematic Assessment of Geriatric drug use via Epidemiology) Study Group.

    Roberto Bernabei;Giovanni Gambassi;Giovanni Gambassi;Kate Lapane;Antonio Sgadari

  • Predictors of mortality among nursing home residents with a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease.

    Hubert H Fernandez;Kate L Lapane

  • Influence of Facility Characteristics on Use of Antipsychotic Medications in Nursing Homes

    Carmel M. Hughes;Kate L. Lapane;Vincent Mor

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles B. Eaton
Charles B. Eaton Brown University
Timothy E. McAlindon
Timothy E. McAlindon Tufts University
Vincent Mor
Vincent Mor Brown University
Roberto Bernabei
Roberto Bernabei Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Robert J. Goldberg
Robert J. Goldberg University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Francesco Landi
Francesco Landi Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic
Lewis A. Lipsitz
Lewis A. Lipsitz Harvard Medical School
David B. Hogan
David B. Hogan University of Calgary
Catarina I. Kiefe
Catarina I. Kiefe University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Martin A. Weinstock
Martin A. Weinstock Brown University

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