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Kenneth Lam, MD

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Positions

Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus 2023 -
Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco 2021 - 2023

Location

Aurora, CO 80045

USA

Kenneth Lam, MD MAS is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. His research focuses on understanding and improving the transition of older persons into long-term care facilities and how to compare institutional care options with home-based ones. As a mixed-methods health services researcher, he has experience working with functional measures and caregiving measures, frailty, complex survey data, repeated measurement, and spline and trajectory analyses in addition to conducting and analyzing semi-structured interviews and focus groups. Clinically, he works as a hospitalist, and has previously practiced in post-acute care. His past clinical and QI experience in includes working in and developing workflows for post-acute care, Geri ED accreditation, and reducing prolonged hospitalization among older Veterans through complex case conferences in the US and Canada.

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Geriatrics

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1. Daily care hours among caregivers of older emergency department patients with dementia and undiagnosed cognitive impairment.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2024
2. Long-term outcomes after rehabilitation in Medicare Advantage and fee-for-service beneficiaries.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 72:1697-1706. 2024
3. The Natural History of Disability and Caregiving Before and After Long-Term Care Entry.. JAMA internal medicine. 183:1295-1303. 2023
4. Older Adults Receiving Rehabilitation Services Are More Likely to Get Bathing and Toileting Equipment Installed.. The American journal of occupational therapy : official publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association. 77. 2023
5. Return to community living and mortality after moving to a long-term care facility: A nationally representative cohort study.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 71:569-576. 2022
6. Ensuring Assisted Living Provides the Assistance Residents Need.. JAMA network open. 5:-. 2022
7. More POLST forms are being completed in nursing homes, but is this meaningful?. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 70:1950-1953. 2022
8. Sliding scale insulin use in a national cohort study of nursing home residents with type 2 diabetes.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 70:2008-2018. 2022
9. Perspectives on ageing: a qualitative study of the expectations, priorities, needs and values of older people from two Canadian provinces.. Age and ageing. 50:1811-1819. 2021
10. Unmet Need for Equipment to Help With Bathing and Toileting Among Older US Adults.. JAMA internal medicine. 181:662-670. 2021
11. Prediabetes-A Risk Factor Twice Removed.. JAMA internal medicine. 181:520-521. 2021
12. Barriers and Facilitators to Telemedicine: Can You Hear Me Now?. American Society of Clinical Oncology educational book. American Society of Clinical Oncology. Annual Meeting. 25-36. 2021
13. Assessing Telemedicine Unreadiness Among Older Adults in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic.. JAMA internal medicine. 180:1389-1391. 2020
14. Comment on: Antipsychotics and the Risk of Mortality or Cardiopulmonary Arrest in Hospitalized Adults.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2020
15. Evaluation of a Common Prescribing Cascade of Calcium Channel Blockers and Diuretics in Older Adults With Hypertension.. JAMA internal medicine. 2020
16. Health Forums and Twitter for Dementia Research: Opportunities and Considerations.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2020
17. Often Off-label: Questionable Gabapentinoid Use Noted at Hospital Admission Warrants Deprescribing.. Journal of hospital medicine. 14:579-580. 2019
18. Does Physician Retirement Affect Patients? A Systematic Review.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2019
19. Sodium glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors and risk of genital mycotic and urinary tract infection: A population-based study of older women and men with diabetes.. Diabetes, obesity & metabolism. 2019
20. A Case of a Dispensing Error Causing Iatrogenic Orthostatic Hypotension 2018
21. Factors associated with attendance at primary care appointments after discharge from hospital: a retrospective cohort study.. CMAJ open. 2018
22. The Top Articles in Geriatrics 2016-2017.. Canadian geriatrics journal : CGJ. 2018
23. Impact of patient-centered discharge tools: A systematic review.. Journal of hospital medicine. 2017
24. Hemodialysis in a Healthy Patient--A Case of an Erroneous Laboratory Result: A Teachable Moment.. JAMA internal medicine. 2016
25. Toxic Alcohol Calculations and Misinterpretation Of Laboratory Results-Reply.. JAMA internal medicine. 2016
26. "And you, my father, there on the sad height".. CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne. 2014
27. Creating the right evidence for system change.. Healthcare quarterly (Toronto, Ont.). 2013