Selected Publications
O'Brien K, Harkins K, Peifer M, Kleid M, Coykendall C, Shea J, Karlawish J, Burke R: Designing an Intervention to Improve Cognitive Evaluations in Primary Care Implementation Science Communications 6 (9): 2025.
Erickson C, Largent EA, O'Brien K: Paving the way for Alzheimer’s blood-based biomarkers in primary care Alzheimer's & Dementia : 2024.
O'Brien K, Largent E A., Karlawish J: Applying recommendations for diagnostic disclosure of mild cognitive impairment and dementia: Practical guidance for clinicians Alzheimer's & Dementia : 2024.
O’Brien, K.S., Mechanic-Hamilton, D.J., Rascovsky, K., Hamilton, R.H: Degenerative Disorders of Cognition Achieving Equity in Neurological Practice: Principles and Pathways (1): 71-89,2024.
Cousins KAQ, Phillips JS, Das SR, O'Brien K, Tropea TF, Chen-Plotkin A, Shaw LM, Nasrallah IM, Mechanic-Hamilton D, McMillan CT, Irwin DJ, Lee EB, Wolk DA: Pathologic and cognitive correlates of plasma biomarkers in neurodegenerative disease Alzheimer's & Dementia 20 (6): 3889-3905,2024.
Kyra O’Brien MD, Kristin Harkins MPH, MaryAnne Peifer MD MSIS, Melanie Kleid, Cameron Coykendall, Robert Burke MD MS, Judy Shea PhD, Jason Karlawish MD: Clinician-reported factors influencing performance of cognitive evaluations in primary care Poster session presented at the 2024 American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting, Denver, CO : 2024.
O'Brien K, Coykendall C, Kleid M, Harkins K, Chin N, Clapp JT, Karlawish J: Determinants of Plasma Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarker Use by Primary Care Providers and Dementia Specialists Journal of General Internal Medicine 39 (9): 1713-1720,2024.
Bennett AV, O'Brien K, Moreno M, Lanigan K, Maslow K, Malone CA, Hanson LC, Zimmerman S, Karlawish J, Largent EA, Aranda MP, Hinton L, Nicholson BP, Phillips L, Fazio S, Epstein-Lubow G.: Development of a Lived Experience Panel to inform the design of embedded pragmatic trials of dementia care interventions Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 72 (1): 139-148,2023.
O'Brien K, Feng R, Sieber F, Marcantonio ER, Tierney A, Magaziner J, Carson JL, Dillane D, Sessler DI, Menio D, Ayad S, Stone T, Papp S, Schwenk ES, Marshall M, Jaffe JD, Luke C, Sharma B, Azim S, Hymes R, Chin KJ, Sheppard R, Perlman B, Sappenfield J, Hauck E, Hoeft MA, Karlawish J, Mehta S, Donegan DJ, Horan A, Ellenberg SS, Neuman MD: Outcomes with spinal versus general anesthesia for patients with and without preoperative cognitive impairment: Secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial Alzheimer's & Dementia 19 (9): 4008-4019,2023.
Kyra O’Brien MD, Justin Clapp PhD MPH, Shana D. Stites PsyD MS MA, Kristin Harkins MPH, Cameron Coykendall, Melanie Kleid, Jason Karlawish MD, Emily Largent JD PhD RN: Improving hospitalizations and care transitions for people living with dementia: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
Poster session presented at the 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society : 2023.
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