Tyler Kent
West Health
6 Papers
1 Citations
Tyler Kent is an academic researcher from West Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dementia & Geriatrics. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 6 publications.
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Papers
30-Day Emergency Department Revisit Rates among Older Adults with Documented Dementia
TL;DR: This work evaluated the odds ratio (OR) of 30‐day ED revisits among older adults with dementia using a nationally representative sample and found that the OR was higher among those with dementia than among those without dementia.
Association of Generic Competition With Price Decreases in Physician-Administered Drugs and Estimated Price Decreases for Biosimilar Competition.
Sean Dickson,Tyler Kent +1 more
- 01 Nov 2021
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effect of generic and biosimilar competition on the price change of biologic and generic drugs under Medicare Part B and estimated the cost savings to the program of subjecting Biologic and biologic therapies to a similar price competition.
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A Method for Segmenting Medicare Expenditures to Inform Cost Effective Care Delivery for Older Adults.
Christopher Crowley,Tyler Kent,Liane Wardlow,Martha L. Twaddle +3 more
- 16 Jul 2019
TL;DR: With monthly health care expenditures concentrated among small numbers of migrating patients, potential cost-effectiveness in tiered care delivery models is suggested, where small subgroups receive direct, active care interactions, while the remainder experience surveillance-level care.
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Delirium as a predictor of mortality in US Medicare beneficiaries discharged from the emergency department: a national claims-level analysis up to 12 months
TL;DR: The results demonstrate delirium is a significant marker of mortality among seniors in the ED, and mortality risk is most salient in the first 3 months following an ED visit, given the significant clinical and financial implications.
Association of dementia diagnosis with urinary tract infection in the emergency department.
Lindsey C. Yourman,Lindsey C. Yourman,Tyler Kent,Juhi Israni,Kelly J. Ko,Adriane Lesser +5 more
- 20 Oct 2020
TL;DR: Overdiagnosis of urinary tract infections among people living with dementia is a nationally recognized problem associated with morbidity from antibiotics as well as multidrug‐resistant bacteria, but whether this problem also exists in the emergency department is currently unknown.