| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Family Perspectives on End-of-Life Care at the Last Place of Care | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2004 | 1,261 |
| 2 | The Balance Scale: reliability assessment with elderly residents and patients with an acute stroke | Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine | 1995 | 772 |
| 3 | Influence of Patient Preferences and Local Health System Characteristics on the Place of Death | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 1998 | 363 |
| 4 | The Concept of Quality of Life of Dying Persons in the Context of Health Care | Journal of Pain and Symptom Management | 1999 | 295 |
| 5 | Functional transitions among the elderly: patterns, predictors, and related hospital use. | American Journal of Public Health | 1994 | 281 |
| 6 | Patient-Focused, Family-Centered End-of-Life Medical Care | Journal of Pain and Symptom Management | 2001 | 271 |
| 7 | Gender matters: an integrated model for understanding men's and women's health | Social Science and Medicine | 1999 | 270 |
| 8 | Evaluating transdisciplinary science | Nicotine and Tobacco Research | 2003 | 247 |
| 9 | The psychosocial impact of cancer on older versus younger patients and their families | Cancer | 1994 | 238 |
| 10 | Does Receipt of Hospice Care in Nursing Homes Improve the Management of Pain at the End of Life? | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2002 | 228 |
| 11 | Gender Differences in Spousal Caregiving and Unmet Need for Care | Journal of Gerontology | 1994 | 223 |
| 12 | The Structure of Social Engagement among Nursing Home Residents | Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences | 1995 | 219 |
| 13 | Discourse of successful aging in The Globe & Mail: Insights from critical gerontology | Journal of Aging Studies | 2010 | 219 |
| 14 | Nursing Home Characteristics and Potentially Preventable Hospitalizations of Long-Stay Residents | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2004 | 218 |
| 15 | A Commitment to Change: Revision of HCFA's RAI | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 1997 | 203 |
| 16 | Facility Characteristics Associated With Hospitalization of Nursing Home Residents | Medical Care | 1999 | 197 |
| 17 | The Prevalence and Consequences of Unmet Need | Medical Care | 1997 | 196 |
| 18 | The Residential History File: Studying Nursing Home Residents' Long‐Term Care Histories* | Health Services Research | 2011 | 192 |
| 19 | Medical Care Inconsistent with Patients' Treatment Goals: Association with 1-Year Medicare Resource Use and Survival | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2002 | 184 |
| 20 | Hospice enrollment and hospitalization of dying nursing home patients | American Journal of Medicine | 2001 | 178 |
| 21 | Comfort Feeding Only: A Proposal to Bring Clarity to Decision‐Making Regarding Difficulty with Eating for Persons with Advanced Dementia | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2010 | 173 |
| 22 | Factors Associated with Nursing Home Staff Turnover | Gerontologist, The | 1996 | 170 |
| 23 | A Hierarchical Exercise Scale to Measure Function at the Advanced Activities of Daily Living (AADL) Level | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 1990 | 160 |
| 24 | Association of Lonafarnib Treatment vs No Treatment With Mortality Rate in Patients With Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2018 | 159 |
| 25 | Family Satisfaction with End‐of‐Life Care in Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2000 | 155 |
| 26 | Variation in Health Service Use Among HIV-lnfected Patients | Medical Care | 1992 | 154 |
| 27 | The Management of Depression in Older Nursing Home Residents | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2002 | 154 |
| 28 | Using Clinical Outcomes to Explore the Theory of Expert Practice in Physical Therapy | Physical Therapy | 2003 | 151 |
| 29 | Growth Of Racial And Ethnic Minorities In US Nursing Homes Driven By Demographics And Possible Disparities In Options | Health Affairs | 2011 | 149 |
| 30 | Association of the Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) with Changes in Function, Cognition, and Psychosocial Status | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 1997 | 145 |
| 31 | Aging in Place: Evolution of a Research Topic Whose Time Has Come | Journal of Aging Research | 2012 | 142 |
| 32 | Does Feeding Tube Insertion and Its Timing Improve Survival? | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2012 | 140 |
| 33 | A problem-solving approach to stress reduction among younger women with breast carcinoma | Cancer | 2002 | 139 |
| 34 | Predicting Functional Status Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients Aged 80 Years and Older | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2000 | 137 |
| 35 | Effect of the National Resident Assessment Instrument on Selected Health Conditions and Problems | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 1997 | 132 |
| 36 | Prediction of Survival for Older Hospitalized Patients: The HELP Survival Model | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2000 | 129 |
| 37 | Changes in Hospitalization Associated with Introducing the Resident Assessment Instrument | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 1997 | 124 |
| 38 | Changes in Advance Care Planning in Nursing Homes Before and After the Patient Self‐Determination Act: Report of a 10‐State Survey | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 1997 | 120 |
| 39 | Hospital Characteristics Associated With Feeding Tube Placement in Nursing Home Residents With Advanced Cognitive Impairment | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2010 | 120 |
| 40 | Hospitalization of Nursing Home Residents: The Effects of States' Medicaid Payment and Bed-Hold Policies | Health Services Research | 2007 | 114 |
| 41 | Role of written advance directives in decision making | Journal of General Internal Medicine | 1998 | 109 |
| 42 | Tube Feeding in US Nursing Home Residents With Advanced Dementia, 2000-2014 | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2016 | 105 |
| 43 | An Industry in the Making: The Emergence of Institutional Elder Care in Urban China | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2011 | 101 |
| 44 | Inappropriate drug prescriptions for elderly residents of board and care facilities. | American Journal of Public Health | 1997 | 99 |
| 45 | Methodological Challenges for Measuring Quality of Care at the End of Life | Journal of Pain and Symptom Management | 1999 | 99 |
| 46 | The Treatment Decision-Making Process: Age Differences in a Sample of Women Recently Diagnosed With Nonrecurrent, Early-Stage Breast Cancer | Gerontologist, The | 1997 | 98 |
| 47 | Gender Roles, Marital Intimacy, and Nomination of Spouse as Primary Caregiver | Gerontologist, The | 1999 | 98 |
| 48 | Physicians “Missing in Action”: Family Perspectives on Physician and Staffing Problems in End‐of‐Life Care in the Nursing Home | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2005 | 94 |
| 49 | Solving the disjuncture between research and practice: Telehealth trends in the 21st century | Health Policy | 2007 | 94 |
| 50 | Using Clinical Outcomes to Identify Expert Physical Therapists | Physical Therapy | 2003 | 87 |
