Healthcare system redesign to improve patient outcomes. Improving the care transitions of older adults during an episode of illness. Allocation of scare healthcare resources. Qualitative research methods.

Clinical Interests: Inpatient, consultative, and primary care of older adults. General Geriatrics

Hayashi J, Phillips K, Arbaje AI, Sridharan A, Gajadhar R, Sisson S. A Curriculum to Teach Internal Medicine Residents to Perform House Calls for Older Adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2007; 55(8):1287-1294.

Arbaje AI, Wolff J, Yu Q, Powe NR, Anderson GF, Boult CE. Post-Discharge Environmental and Socioeconomic Factors and the Likelihood of Early Hospital Readmission among Community-Dwelling Medicare Beneficiaries (The Gerontologist, in press).

Arbaje AI. Curbside consultation. Determining eligibility for gastric bypass surgery [for older adults]. American Family Physician 2006;73(9):1-2.

Arbaje AI. An Older Woman with Oliguria: Prevention of Contrast-Induced Nephropathy. Published March 2, 2006, on the Johns Hopkins University Geriatric Education Website: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/gec/studies/contrast_induced_nephropathy

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