| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Loss of Independence in Activities of Daily Living in Older Adults Hospitalized with Medical Illnesses: Increased Vulnerability with Age | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2003 | 1,254 |
| 2 | Polypharmacy and Prescribing Quality in Older People | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2006 | 437 |
| 3 | Potential Overtreatment of Diabetes Mellitus in Older Adults With Tight Glycemic Control | JAMA Internal Medicine | 2015 | 317 |
| 4 | Fluoroquinolone prescribing in the United States: 1995 to 2002 | American Journal of Medicine | 2005 | 271 |
| 5 | Predictors of Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic Prescribing for Acute Respiratory Tract Infections in Adult Primary Care | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2003 | 236 |
| 6 | PSA Screening Among Elderly Men With Limited Life Expectancies | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2006 | 235 |
| 7 | Self-restriction of medications due to cost in seniors without prescription coverage | Journal of General Internal Medicine | 2001 | 223 |
| 8 | Adverse events in older patients undergoing colonoscopy: a systematic review and meta-analysis | Gastrointestinal Endoscopy | 2011 | 219 |
| 9 | The Last 2 Years of Life: Functional Trajectories of Frail Older People | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2003 | 201 |
| 10 | Cognitive Impairment, Depressive Symptoms, and Functional Decline in Older People | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2002 | 198 |
| 11 | Correlates of Quality of Life in Older Adults With Diabetes | Diabetes Care | 2011 | 188 |
| 12 | Pitfalls of Converting Practice Guidelines Into Quality Measures | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2004 | 183 |
| 13 | Time lag to benefit after screening for breast and colorectal cancer: meta-analysis of survival data from the United States, Sweden, United Kingdom, and Denmark | BMJ, The | 2012 | 183 |
| 14 | Interactions between pharmaceutical representatives and doctors in training | Journal of General Internal Medicine | 2005 | 137 |
| 15 | Health status versus quality of life in older patients: does the distinction matter? | American Journal of Medicine | 1999 | 133 |
| 16 | Polypharmacy, Drug–Drug Interactions, and Potentially Inappropriate Medications in Older Adults with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2014 | 129 |
| 17 | Prevalence and Risk Factors for Depressive Symptoms in Persons with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease | Journal of General Internal Medicine | 2008 | 128 |
| 18 | A Framework for Crafting Clinical Practice Guidelines that are Relevant to the Care and Management of People with Multimorbidity | Journal of General Internal Medicine | 2014 | 125 |
| 19 | Advance Care Planning in the Elderly | Medical Clinics of North America | 2015 | 124 |
| 20 | An advance directive redesigned to meet the literacy level of most adults: A randomized trial | Patient Education and Counseling | 2007 | 119 |
| 21 | Reduced Employment in Caregivers of Frail Elders: Impact of Ethnicity, Patient Clinical Characteristics, and Caregiver Characteristics | Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences | 2001 | 95 |
| 22 | Clinician awareness of adherence to hypertension guidelines | American Journal of Medicine | 2004 | 88 |
| 23 | Screening mammography for frail older women | Journal of General Internal Medicine | 2001 | 85 |
| 24 | Diagnosis-Related GroupâAdjusted Hospital Costs Are Higher in Older Medical Patients with Lower Functional Status | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2003 | 85 |
| 25 | The Relationship Between Self‐Rated Health and Mortality in Older Black and White Americans | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2007 | 84 |
| 26 | Self-restriction of medications due to cost in seniors without prescription coverage | Journal of General Internal Medicine | 2001 | 82 |
| 27 | Older adults' attitudes about continuing cancer screening later in life: a pilot study interviewing residents of two continuing care communities | BMC Geriatrics | 2006 | 73 |
| 28 | The relationship of physical performance with HIV disease and mortality | Aids | 2014 | 72 |
| 29 | Copyright and Open Access at the Bedside | New England Journal of Medicine | 2011 | 71 |
| 30 | Unmet Need for ADL Assistance Is Associated With Mortality Among Older Adults With Mild Disability | Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences | 2015 | 71 |
| 31 | The ‘worthy’ patient: rethinking the ‘hidden curriculum’ in medical education | Anthropology and Medicine | 2013 | 68 |
| 32 | Use of Opioids and Other Analgesics by Older Adults in the United States, 1999–2010 | Pain Medicine | 2015 | 67 |
| 33 | Improving Antibiotic Selection | Medical Care | 2006 | 66 |
| 34 | Pain as a Risk Factor for Disability or Death | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2013 | 61 |
| 35 | What’s in a Name? Use of Brand versus Generic Drug Names in United States Outpatient Practice | Journal of General Internal Medicine | 2007 | 58 |
| 36 | Functional Limitations, Socioeconomic Status, and All‐Cause Mortality in Moderate Alcohol Drinkers | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2009 | 54 |
| 37 | Colorectal Cancer Screening and Surveillance in the Elderly Patient | American Journal of Gastroenterology | 2011 | 52 |
| 38 | Conflicts and Concordance Between Measures of Medication Prescribing Quality | Medical Care | 2007 | 50 |
| 39 | An Individualized Approach to Cancer Screening Decisions in Older Adults: A Multilevel Framework | Journal of General Internal Medicine | 2016 | 50 |
| 40 | Goals of Glycemic Control in Frail Older Patients With Diabetes | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2011 | 49 |
| 41 | Ten‐Year Trajectory of Potentially Inappropriate Medications in Very Old Women: Importance of Cognitive Status | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2013 | 48 |
| 42 | Health Literacy Matters More Than Experience for Advance Care Planning Knowledge Among Older Adults | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2019 | 43 |
| 43 | Unsteadiness Reported by Older Hospitalized Patients Predicts Functional Decline | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2003 | 41 |
| 44 | Organizational Predictors of Colonoscopy Follow-up for Positive Fecal Occult Blood Test Results: An Observational Study | Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention | 2015 | 40 |
| 45 | Risk of Hip Fracture in Disabled Community-Living Older Adults | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2003 | 39 |
| 46 | Regional Differences in Prescribing Quality Among Elder Veterans and the Impact of Rural Residence | Journal of Rural Health | 2013 | 39 |
| 47 | Brief report: Quality of ambulatory care for women and men in the veterans affairs health care system | Journal of General Internal Medicine | 2005 | 38 |
| 48 | Functional Status as Measured by Geriatric Assessment Predicts Inferior Survival in Older Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Recipients | Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation | 2020 | 38 |
| 49 | Quality Indicators for Older Adults | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2011 | 36 |
| 50 | Benefits and Harms of Screening Mammography by Comorbidity and Age: A Qualitative Synthesis of Observational Studies and Decision Analyses | Journal of General Internal Medicine | 2016 | 33 |
