Rebecca A. Drayer

ORCID: 0000-0002-8805-7612
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Research Areas
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Cardiac Health and Mental Health
  • Pain Management and Opioid Use
  • Diabetes and associated disorders
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
  • Dialysis and Renal Disease Management
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Thyroid Disorders and Treatments
  • Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
  • Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Health and Conflict Studies
  • Older Adults Driving Studies
  • Traffic and Road Safety
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Anesthesia and Pain Management
  • Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations

Impact Technology Development (United States)
2021

University of Rochester
2007-2010

SUNY Upstate Medical University
2008-2010

Syracuse VA Medical Center
2008-2010

Canandaigua VA Medical Center
2007-2009

University of Rochester Medical Center
2006-2009

University of Pittsburgh
2002-2008

University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
2007

New York University
2006

University of Pennsylvania
2006

Background: Although depressive conditions in later life are a major public health problem, the outcomes of minor and subsyndromal depression largely unknown. Objective: To compare among patients with depression, no to examine putative outcome predictors. Design: Cohort study. Setting: Patients from primary care practices greater New York City, Philadelphia Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Patients: 622 who were at least 60 years age presented for treatment that provided usual randomized,...

10.7326/0003-4819-144-7-200604040-00008 article EN Annals of Internal Medicine 2006-04-04

Pain is often inadequately treated. To evaluate a common method of assessing pain and to identify some barriers improving control, 50 hospitalized patients in pain, their nurses, physicians were interviewed about the experienced by patients. The patients' "pain behavior" was assessed literature reviewed risk for developing iatrogenic drug addiction with no prior history abuse. Doctors nurses tended assess intensity as less than assessments. doctor's nurse's assessment same patient correlated...

10.1016/s0885-3924(99)00022-6 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 1999-06-01

Somatic symptoms of depression such as fatigue create a diagnostic dilemma when assessing an older patient with medical comorbidities, since chronic illnesses may produce similar symptoms. Alternatively, somatic attributed to illness actually be caused by depression. These analyses were designed determine if in patients are more strongly associated physical problems or depression.Reanalysis data from observational study primary care and randomized trial paroxetine nortriptyline for the...

10.1002/gps.1389 article EN International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2005-09-15

Background: Despite the high prevalence and morbidity of minor subsyndromal depression in primary care elderly people, there are few data to identify those at highest risk poor outcomes. The goal this observational cohort study was characterize one-year outcomes depression, examining predictive strength a range putative risks including clinical, functional psychosocial variables.Methods: Patients aged ≥ 65 years were recruited from medicine family practices. Of 750 enrollees, 484 (64.5%)...

10.1017/s1041610208007746 article EN cc-by-nc-nd International Psychogeriatrics 2008-09-12
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