Professor, Medicine, UCSF School of Medicine
Internal Medicine
Dr. Kenneth E. Covinsky, MD
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Kenneth Covinsky is an expert in the field of Internal Medicine. He went to medical school at University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. University of California San Francisco School of Medicine is one of the top medical schools in the US. University of California San Francisco School of Medicine is ranked 3 in research and 3 in primary care medicine Kenneth Covinsky is a published MD. He has 97 publications published. The most current publication "Identifying Older Adults with Serious Illness: A Critical Step toward Improving the Value of Health Care."
Publications
- Author response to: Clinical assessments of health status as a potential marker to identify patients who are too sick to undergo transplantation.
- Increase in Disability Prevalence Before Hip Fracture.
- Functional Decline in Patients with Cirrhosis Awaiting Liver Transplantation: Results from the Functional Assessment in Liver Transplantation (FrAILT) Study.
- Functional Impairment and Hospital Readmission in Medicare Seniors.
- Medicare and care coordination: expanding the clinician's toolbox.
- Clinician assessments of health status predict mortality in patients with end-stage liver disease awaiting liver transplantation.
- The relationship of physical performance with HIV disease and mortality.
- Living Alone, Socially Isolated or Lonely-What are We Measuring?
- The octogenarian donor: can the liver be "younger than stated age"?
- Determinants of perceived emotional recovery and perceived change in health after a disaster.
- Frailty Predicts Waitlist Mortality in Liver Transplant Candidates.
- Functional Impairment and Internet Use Among Older Adults: Implications for Meaningful Use of Patient Portals.
- Leveraging the Health and Retirement Study to Advance Palliative Care Research.
- Chronicity of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Risk of Disability in Older Persons.
- Interpreting treatment effects from clinical trials in the context of real-world risk information: end-stage renal disease prevention in older adults.
- Functional status-An important but overlooked variable in the readmissions equation.
- Making General Internal Medicine Research Relevant to the Older Patient with Multiple Chronic Comorbidities.
- Does Social Isolation Predict Hospitalization and Mortality Among HIV+ and Uninfected Older Veterans?
- Disability During the Last Two Years of Life.
- Dysphoria and Anhedonia as Risk Factors for Disability or Death in Older Persons: Implications for the Assessment of Geriatric Depression.
- Pain as a Risk Factor for Disability or Death.
- Predicting 10-year mortality for older adults.
- Use of the Medicare posthospitalization skilled nursing benefit in the last 6 months of life.
- Subjective social status and functional decline in older adults.
- Hospitalization-associated disability: "She was probably able to ambulate, but I'm not sure".
- Beyond the Prescription: Medication Monitoring and Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults.
- Dysthymia and Depression Increase Risk of Dementia and Mortality Among Older Veterans.
- Respecting elders by respecting their paid caregivers.
- Fulfilling Our Obligation to the Caregiver: It's Time for Action: Comment on 'Translation of a Dementia Caregiver Support Program in a Health Care System--REACH VA'.
- Conducting High-Value Secondary Dataset Analysis: An Introductory Guide and Resources.
- Prediction modeling to assess the prognostic significance of a biomarker panel.
- The epidemiology of pain during the last 2 years of life.
- Posttraumatic stress disorder and risk of dementia among US veterans.
- High occurrence of mood and anxiety disorders among older adults: The National Comorbidity Survey Replication.
- Medication prescribing practices for older prisoners in the Texas prison system.
- Depressive symptoms in middle age and the development of later-life functional limitations: the long-term effect of depressive symptoms.
- Commentary on "Developing a national strategy to prevent dementia: Leon Thal Symposium 2009." Dementia risk indices: A framework for identifying individuals ...
- Spouse-rated vs self-rated health as predictors of mortality.
- Functional status of elderly adults before and after initiation of dialysis.
- Pain, functional limitations, and aging.
- "Below average" self-assessed school performance and Alzheimer's disease in the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study.
- Functional limitations, socioeconomic status, and all-cause mortality in moderate alcohol drinkers.
- Current guidelines for using angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin II-receptor antagonists in chronic kidney disease: is the evidence base relevant ...
- Recovery of activities of daily living in older adults after hospitalization for acute medical illness.
- Health-related quality of life following coronary artery bypass graft surgery in post-menopausal women.
- Chronic conditions and mortality among the oldest old.
- Coronary bypass surgery and long-term cognitive decline.
- Screening mammography in older women. Effect of wealth and prognosis.
- Prediction of mortality in community-living frail elderly people with long-term care needs.
- The Women's Initiative for Nonsmoking (WINS) XI: age-related differences in smoking cessation responses among women with cardiovascular disease.
- Effect of arthritis in middle age on older-age functioning.
- Childhood social and economic well-being and health in older age.
- The relationship between self-rated health and mortality in older black and white Americans.
- Late-life mortality in older Jews exposed to the Nazi regime.
- Octogenarians and nonagenarians starting dialysis in the United States.
- The relationship of indwelling urinary catheters to death, length of hospital stay, functional decline, and nursing home admission in hospitalized older medical patients.
- Anxiety symptoms and decline in physical function over 5 years in the health, aging and body composition study.
- Envisioning better approaches for dementia care.
- Functional impairment, race, and family expectations of death.
- Caregiver characteristics are associated with neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia.
- Mortality risk stratification in chronic kidney disease: one size for all ages?
- Age and rising rates of cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor use. Results from a national survey.
- Development and validation of a prognostic index for 4-year mortality in older adults.
- Development and validation of an index to predict activity of daily living dependence in community-dwelling elders.
- Rates of acute care admissions for frail older people living with met versus unmet activity of daily living needs.
- Prevalence and correlates of perceived societal racism in older African-American adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Mortality risk and prospective medicare expenditures for persons with dementia.
- Disparities between black and white patients in functional improvement after hospitalization for an acute illness.
- Black-white disparities in functional decline in older persons: the role of cognitive function.
- Reports of financial disability predict functional decline and death in older patients discharged from the hospital.
- Development and validation of a functional morbidity index to predict mortality in community-dwelling elders.
- The relation of autopsy rate to physicians' beliefs and recommendations regarding autopsy.
- Ethnic differences in the prevalence and pattern of dementia-related behaviors.
- Pitfalls of converting practice guidelines into quality measures: lessons learned from a VA performance measure.
- Relationship between health status and use of screening mammography and Papanicolaou smears among women older than 70 years of age.
- Urinary incontinence and its association with death, nursing home admission, and functional decline.
- Dementia, prognosis, and the needs of patients and caregivers.
- Association of older age and female sex with inadequate reach of screening flexible sigmoidoscopy.
- Diagnosis-related group-adjusted hospital costs are higher in older medical patients with lower functional status.
- Patient and caregiver characteristics associated with depression in caregivers of patients with dementia.
- Depressive symptoms and risk of mortality in frail, community-living elderly persons.
- Additive effects of cognitive function and depressive symptoms on mortality in elderly community-living adults.
- Predicting 12-month mortality for persons with dementia.
- Unsteadiness reported by older hospitalized patients predicts functional decline.
- Loss of independence in activities of daily living in older adults hospitalized with medical illnesses: increased vulnerability with age.
- The last 2 years of life: functional trajectories of frail older people.
- Diet monotony as a correlate of poor nutritional intake among hemodialysis patients.
- Differences in mortality of black and white patients enrolled in the program of all-inclusive care for the elderly.
- Risk of hip fracture in disabled community-living older adults.
- Donepezil for nursing home patients with dementia: a reinterpretation of the evidence.
- Malnutrition and bad outcomes.
- Cognitive impairment, depressive symptoms, and functional decline in older people.
- Patient and caregiver characteristics and nursing home placement in patients with dementia.
- Serum albumin concentration and clinical assessments of nutritional status in hospitalized older people: different sides of different coins?
- Individualizing life expectancy estimates for older adults using the gompertz law of human mortality.
- Identifying Older Adults with Serious Illness: A Critical Step toward Improving the Value of Health Care.
Schools
University of California At San Francisco
Beth Israel Deaconess Hp M C
Doctors Specialties
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
Education
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center -
Johns Hopkins University -
University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
Hospital
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San Francisco VA Medical Center -
UCSF Medical Center
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