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Sarah N. Hilmer is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant number of publications in geriatrics and gerontology.

Their recent work addresses topics related to pharmaceutical practices, patient outcomes, and health systems, with a particular emphasis on older adult populations and medication management.

Selected recent papers authored by Sarah N. Hilmer include:

  • Consumer Attitudes Towards Deprescribing: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2021) published in The Journals of Gerontology Series A
  • Withdrawal of antihypertensive drugs in older people (2020) published in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Frailty in the face of COVID-19 (2020) published in Age and Ageing
  • Chronic Polypharmacy with Increasing Drug Burden Index Exacerbates Frailty and Impairs Physical Function, with Effects Attenuated by Deprescribing, in Aged Mice (2020) published in The Journals of Gerontology Series A
  • Deprescribing in the Older Patient: A Narrative Review of Challenges and Solutions (2021) published in International Journal of General Medicine

Frequent co-authors of Sarah N. Hilmer are:

  • Danijela Gnjidic
  • Vasi Naganathan
  • Emily Reeve
  • Yun-Hee Jeon
  • John Mach

Common publication venues for their work include:

  • The Journals of Gerontology Series A
  • Drugs & Aging
  • Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
  • British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
  • Australasian Journal on Ageing

Sarah N. Hilmer's research covers several subfields such as geriatrics and gerontology, economics and econometrics, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, general health professions, and psychiatry and mental health.

The main topics addressed in their work are:

  • Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Frailty in Older Adults
  • Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Medication Adherence and Compliance
  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies

Best Publications

  • Reducing Inappropriate Polypharmacy: The Process of Deprescribing

    Ian A. Scott;Ian A. Scott;Sarah N. Hilmer;Sarah N. Hilmer;Emily Reeve;Emily Reeve;Kathleen Potter

  • Polypharmacy cutoff and outcomes: five or more medicines were used to identify community-dwelling older men at risk of different adverse outcomes.

    Danijela Gnjidic;Sarah N. Hilmer;Sarah N. Hilmer;Fiona M. Blyth;Fiona M. Blyth;Vasi Naganathan;Vasi Naganathan

  • 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

  • Calorie restriction induces mitochondrial biogenesis and bioenergetic efficiency.

    G. López-Lluch;N. Hunt;B. Jones;M. Zhu

  • A systematic review of the emerging definition of ‘deprescribing’ with network analysis: implications for future research and clinical practice.

    Emily Reeve;Danijela Gnjidic;Janet Long;Sarah Hilmer;Sarah Hilmer

  • The effects of polypharmacy in older adults.

    SN Hilmer;SN Hilmer;D Gnjidic;D Gnjidic

  • Clinical pharmacology in the geriatric patient.

    Sarah N. Hilmer;Andrew J. McLachlan;David G. Le Couteur

  • High-Risk Prescribing and Incidence of Frailty Among Older Community-Dwelling Men

    Donijela Gnjidic;Sarah Hilmer;Sarah Hilmer;Fiona Blyth;Fiona Blyth;Vasin Naganathan;Vasin Naganathan

  • A systematic review of amnestic and non-amnestic mild cognitive impairment induced by anticholinergic, antihistamine, GABAergic and opioid drugs.

    Cara Tannenbaum;Amélie Paquette;Sarah Hilmer;Jayna Holroyd-Leduc

  • Deprescribing trials: methods to reduce polypharmacy and the impact on prescribing and clinical outcomes.

    Danijela Gnjidic;David G. Le Couteur;David G. Le Couteur;Lisa Kouladjian;Sarah N. Hilmer;Sarah N. Hilmer

  • Associations between drug burden index and falls in older people in residential aged care.

    Nicholas M. Wilson;Sarah N. Hilmer;Lyn M. March;Ian D. Cameron

  • Drug Burden Index Score and Functional Decline in Older People

    Sarah N. Hilmer;Sarah N. Hilmer;Donald E. Mager;Donald E. Mager;Eleanor M. Simonsick;Shari M. Ling

  • The assessment of frailty in older people in acute care.

    Sarah N Hilmer;Vidya Perera;Sarah Mitchell;Bridin P Murnion

  • Clinical pharmacology of analgesic medicines in older people: impact of frailty and cognitive impairment

    Andrew J. McLachlan;Andrew J. McLachlan;Sally Bath;Vasi Naganathan;Vasi Naganathan;Sarah N. Hilmer;Sarah N. Hilmer

  • The impact of frailty on the utilisation of antithrombotic therapy in older patients with atrial fibrillation

    Vidya Perera;Beata V. Bajorek;Slade Matthews;Sarah N. Hilmer

  • Potentially inappropriate medication in the elderly: a systematic review of validated explicit criteria

    Fabiane Raquel Motter;Fabiane Raquel Motter;Janaína Soder Fritzen;Sarah Nicole Hilmer;Érika Vieira Paniz

  • The hepatic sinusoid in aging and cirrhosis: effects on hepatic substrate disposition and drug clearance.

    David G Le Couteur;Robin Fraser;Sarah Hilmer;Laurent P Rivory

  • Physical and cognitive performance and burden of anticholinergics, sedatives, and ACE inhibitors in older women.

    Y-J Cao;Y-J Cao;DE Mager;DE Mager;EM Simonsick;EM Simonsick;SN Hilmer;SN Hilmer

  • Dietary Approaches that Delay Age-Related Diseases

    Arthur V Everitt;Sarah N Hilmer;Jennie C Brand-Miller;Hamish A Jamieson

  • a drug burden index to define the functional burden of medications in older people. Commentary : A step forward

    Joseph Agostini;Sarah N Hilmer;Ronald I Shorr;Douglas C Bauer

Frequent Co-Authors

David G. Le Couteur
David G. Le Couteur University of Sydney
Andrew J. McLachlan
Andrew J. McLachlan University of Sydney
Robert G. Cumming
Robert G. Cumming University of Sydney
Fiona M. Blyth
Fiona M. Blyth University of Sydney
Rafael de Cabo
Rafael de Cabo National Institutes of Health
David J. Handelsman
David J. Handelsman University of Sydney
Lyn March
Lyn March University of Sydney
Markus J. Seibel
Markus J. Seibel University of Sydney
Lee-Fay Low
Lee-Fay Low University of Sydney
Eleanor M. Simonsick
Eleanor M. Simonsick National Institutes of Health

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