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Mary E. Tinetti

Mary E. Tinetti

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Best Female Scientists
2025

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Citations
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114
Citations
79225
World Ranking
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National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2009 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 2007 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Mary E. Tinetti is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their academic focus lies primarily in the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with substantial contributions in subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Emergency Medicine.

Their research extensively covers topics including Chronic Disease Management Strategies, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues, Healthcare Policy and Management, Emergency and Acute Care Studies, Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes, and Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes.

Recent scholarly publications by Mary E. Tinetti include:

  • "Outcome Goals and Health Care Preferences of Older Adults With Multiple Chronic Conditions" (2021, JAMA Network Open)
  • "Feasibility of Clinicians Aligning Health Care with Patient Priorities in Geriatrics Ambulatory Care" (2020, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society)
  • "A Qualitative Study of "What Matters" to Older Adults in the Emergency Department" (2022, Western Journal of Emergency Medicine)
  • "Complex and Potentially Harmful Medication Patterns in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction" (2020, The American Journal of Medicine)
  • "A Method to Quantify Mean Hypertension Treatment Daily Dose Intensity Using Health Care System Data" (2021, JAMA Network Open)

The frequent publication venues where their work appears include:

  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (12 publications)
  • JAMA Network Open (8 publications)
  • Innovation in Aging (3 publications)
  • JAMA Internal Medicine (2 publications)
  • Western Journal of Emergency Medicine (1 publication)

Mary E. Tinetti has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Aanand D. Naik (9 collaborations)
  • Jessica Esterson (6 collaborations)
  • Gregory M. Ouellet (5 collaborations)
  • Jennifer A. Ouellet (5 collaborations)
  • Andrea Ungar (5 collaborations)

Among the recognitions received, Mary E. Tinetti has been named a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 2009. They were also inducted as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2007 and the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Risk factors for falls among elderly persons living in the community.

    Mary E. Tinetti;Mark Speechley;Sandra F. Ginter

  • Performance-oriented assessment of mobility problems in elderly patients

    Mary E. Tinetti

  • A multifactorial intervention to reduce the risk of falling among elderly people living in the community.

    Mary E. Tinetti;Dorothy I. Baker;Gail McAvay;Elizabeth B. Claus

  • Falls efficacy as a measure of fear of falling.

    Mary E. Tinetti;Donna Richman;Lynda Powell

  • Clinical practice. Preventing falls in elderly persons.

    Mary E Tinetti

  • Geriatric Syndromes: Clinical, Research, and Policy Implications of a Core Geriatric Concept

    Sharon K. Inouye;Stephanie Studenski;Mary E. Tinetti;George A. Kuchel

  • Falls, Injuries Due to Falls, and the Risk of Admission to a Nursing Home

    Mary E. Tinetti;Christianna S. Williams

  • The Effects of Exercise on Falls in Elderly Patients: A Preplanned Meta-analysis of the FICSIT Trials

    M A Province;E C Hadley;M C Hornbrook;L A Lipsitz

  • Drugs and Falls in Older People: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis: I. Psychotropic Drugs

    Rosanne M. Leipzig;Robert G. Cumming;Mary E. Tinetti

  • Summary of the updated American Geriatrics Society/British Geriatrics Society clinical practice guideline for prevention of falls in older persons

    Kenny Ram.;L Z Rubenstein;M E Tinetti;K Brewer

  • Fear of falling and fall-related efficacy in relationship to functioning among community-living elders

    M E Tinetti;C F Mendes de Leon;J T Doucette;D I Baker

  • Prevention of Falls among the Elderly

    Mary E. Tinetti;Mark Speechley

  • Risk factors for serious injury during falls by older persons in the community.

    Mary E. Tinetti;John Doucette;Elizabeth Claus;Richard Marottoli

  • Potential pitfalls of disease-specific guidelines for patients with multiple conditions.

    Mary E. Tinetti;Sidney T. Bogardus;Joseph V. Agostini

  • The Patient Who Falls: “It’s Always a Trade-off”

    Mary E. Tinetti;Chandrika Kumar

  • Shared risk factors for falls, incontinence, and functional dependence, unifying the approach to geriatric syndromes

    Mary E. Tinetti;Sharon K. Inouye;Thomas M. Gill;John T. Doucette

  • A predictive model for delirium in hospitalized elderly medical patients based on admission characteristics.

    Sharon K. Inouye;Catherine M. Viscoli;Ralph I. Horwitz;Leslie D. Hurst

  • Designing health care for the most common chronic condition--multimorbidity.

    Mary E. Tinetti;Terri R. Fried;Terri R. Fried;Cynthia M. Boyd

  • Drugs and Falls in Older People: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis: II. Cardiac and Analgesic Drugs

    Rosanne M. Leipzig;Rosanne M. Leipzig;Robert G. Cumming;Mary E. Tinetti;Mary E. Tinetti

  • The effect of falls and fall injuries on functioning in community-dwelling older persons.

    Mary E. Tinetti;Christianna S. Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas M. Gill
Thomas M. Gill Yale University
Cary P. Gross
Cary P. Gross Yale University
Harlan M. Krumholz
Harlan M. Krumholz Yale University
Sharon K. Inouye
Sharon K. Inouye Harvard Medical School
John Concato
John Concato Yale University
Stephanie A. Studenski
Stephanie A. Studenski University of Pittsburgh
David B. Reuben
David B. Reuben University of California, Los Angeles
Joseph S. Ross
Joseph S. Ross Yale University
Teresa E. Seeman
Teresa E. Seeman University of California, Los Angeles
Lisa F. Berkman
Lisa F. Berkman Harvard University

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