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Listed below are selected publications (co-)authored by the MATRIX45 principals.

 

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Abraham, I. L., & Schultz, S. (1983). Univariate statistical models for meta-analysis. Nursing Research, 32, 312-315.

Abraham, I. L., & Schultz, S. (1983). Multivariate effect size estimation. Proceedings of the American Statistical Association: Social Statistics, 185-189.

Abraham, I. L., & Foley, T. S. (1984). The Work Environment Scale and Ward Atmosphere Scale (Short Forms): Psychometric data. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 48, 319-322.

Abraham, I. L., & Schultz, S. (1984). The "Law of Small Numbers": An unexpected and incidental replication. Journal of Psychology, 117, 183-188.

Abraham, I. L., Schultz, S., Ozbolt, J. G., & Swain, M. A. P. (1984). A multivariate mathematical algorithm for diagnostic information systems: I. Data acquisition and storage procedures. In F. H. Roger, J. L. Willems, R. O'Moore, & B. Barber (Eds.), Medical Informatics Europe 84 (Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, Volume 24). Berlin: Springer Verlag.

Abraham, I. L., Schultz, S., Ozbolt, J. G., & Swain, M. A. P. (1984). A multivariate mathematical algorithm for diagnostic information systems: II. Procedures for clinical inference. Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, 107-111. (Silver Springs, MD: IEEE Computer Society).

Abraham, I. L. (1984). Is the subfield of preventive health psychology really new? A health professional's perspective. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 2, 355-361.

Ozbolt, J. G., Schultz, S., Swain, M. A. P., Abraham, I. L., & Farchaus-Stein, K. (1984). Developing expert systems for nursing practice. Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, 654-657. (Silver Springs, MD: IEEE Computer Society).

Abraham, I. L. (1984). Non-statistical aspects of teaching statistics in nursing. Bulletin on Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences (American Statistical Association), No. 38, Fall, 1-5.

Abraham, I. L., Schultz, S., & Kirk, L. W. (1984). Multivariate weighted mean effect size estimation. Proceedings of the American Statistical Association: Social Statistics, 285-289.

Ozbolt, J. G., Schultz, S., Swain, M. A. P., & Abraham, I. L. (1985). A proposed expert system for nursing practice: A springboard to nursing science. Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on System Sciences (Volume III), 289-302 (North Hollywood, CA: Western Periodicals).

Abraham, I. L. (1985). Causal attributions of depression: Reliability of the "Causal Dimension Scale" in research on clinical inference. Psychological Reports, 56, 415-418.

Ozbolt, J. G., Schultz, S., Swain, M. A. P., & Abraham, I. L. (1985). A proposed expert system for nursing practice. Journal of Medical Systems, 9, 57-68.

Abraham, I. L., & Fitzpatrick, J. J. (1985). Research environments in nursing: Rationale and requirements for computing. Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, 814-818. (Silver Springs, MD: IEEE Computer Society.)

Abraham, I. L. (1986). Mode of client contact, prior information, and the clinical inference of mental health. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 1, 121-132.

Abraham, I. L. (1986). Diagnostic discrepancy and clinical inference: A social-cognitive analysis. Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs, 112, 41-102.

McCain, N. L., Smith, M. C., & Abraham, I. L. (1986). Meta-analyses of nursing interventions: The codebook as a research instrument. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 8, 155-167.

Wood, J. E., Tiedje, L. B., & Abraham, I. L. (1986). Practicing autonomously: A comparison of nurses. Public Health Nursing, 3, 130-139.

Abraham, I. L., & Fitzpatrick, J. J. (1986). Expert systems for nursing practice: Developing and implementing decision-support technology in nursing. In B. Du Gas, G. Hefferman, M. Light, A. O'Connor, H. Oglivie, & E. Zwarts (Eds.), Proceedings of the National Symposium on Computer Applications for Nursing (pp. 35-39). Ottawa, Canada: University of Ottawa.

Abraham, I. L., & Krowchuk, H. V. (1986). Unemployment and health: Health promotion for jobless men. Nursing Clinics of North America, 21, 39-50.

Abraham, I. L., & Schultz, S. (1986). Knowledge representation in clinical inference in nursing: Structures and their application to expert systems. In R. Salamon, B. Blum, & M. Jorgenson (Eds.), MedInfo 86, Volume I (pp. 194-198). Amsterdam: North-Holland.

Abraham, I. L. (1986). Cognitive set and clinical inference: Referral information many not (always) affect psychosocial assessment. Social Behavior and Personality, 14, 51-58.

Abraham, I. L., Fitzpatrick, J. J., & Jane, L.-H. (1986). Computers in critical care nursing: Yet another technology? Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, 6, 325-326.

Musil, C. M., & Abraham, I. L. (1986). Coping, thinking, and mental health nursing: Cognitions and their application to psychosocial intervention. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 8, 191-201.

Abraham, I. L. (1987). Causal analysis in the clinical inference of depression: The influence of general cognitions about causality? Journal of Human Behavior and Learning, 4, 61-66.

Buckwalter, K. C., & Abraham, I. L. (1987). Alleviating the discharge crisis: The effects of a cognitive-behavioral nursing intervention for depressed patients and their families. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 1, 350-358.

Jewell, J. A., & Abraham, I. L., & Fitzpatrick, J. J. (1987). Selecting an appropriate problem for nursing expert system development. Proceedings of the Eleventh Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, 85-87 (Los Angeles, CA: IEEE Computer Society).

Glazer, G. L., & Abraham, I. L. (1987). The Obstetrical Complications Checklist: Description, factor analysis, and reliability. Health Care of Women International, 8, 305-316.

Buckwalter, K.C., Abraham, I. L., & Neundorfer, M. (1988). Alzheimer's Disease: Involving nursing in the development and implementation of health care for patients and their families. Nursing Clinics of North America, 23, 1-9.

HL-7 Working Group (1988). HL-7: A Level 7 standard for electronic data exchange in health care environments. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on System Science in Health Care. Lyon, France: International Society for System Science in Health Care.

Zielstorff, R. D., Abraham, I. L., Werley, H. H., Saba, V. K., & Schwirian, P. M. (1989). Guidelines for reporting innovations in computer-based information systems for nursing. Computers in Nursing, 7, 203-208.

Schultz, S., & Abraham, I. L. (1989). HL-7: An emerging standard for health information systems. In B. Barber, D. Cao, D. Qin, & G. Wagner (Eds.), MedInfo 89, Vol. 2 (pp. 1032-1035). Amsterdam: North-Holland.

Abraham, I. L., Neundorfer, M. M., Cowling, W. R., & Sutorius, S. D. (1990). Changes in resident mix in nursing homes: Cognitive and sensory data from a (redesigned) sampling plan. Psychological Reports, 66, 547-550.

Abraham, I. L., & Neundorfer, M. M. (1990). Alzheimer's: A decade of progress, a future of nursing challenges. Geriatric Nursing, 11, 116-119.

Abraham, I. L., Hasman, A., Evers, G., Tange, H., Silkens, R., & Hein, F. (1990). Informatics applications for nursing management: A Summer Institute curriculum. In R. O'Moore, S. Bengtsson, J. R. Bryant, & J. S. Bryden (Ed.), Medical Informatics Europe 90 (Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics) (pp. 402-405). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

Abraham, I. L., Fox, J. M., Harrington, D. P., Snustad, D. G., Steiner, D. A., Abraham, L. H., & Brashear, H. R. (1990). A psychogeriatric nursing assessment protocol for use in multidisciplinary practice. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 4, 242-259.

Snustad, D. G., Lee, V., Abraham, I. L., Alexander, C., Bella, D., & Cummings, C. (1991). Dietary fiber in hospitalized geriatric patients: Too soft a solution for too hard a problem? Journal of Nutrition for the Elderly, 10, 49-63.

Abraham, I. L. (1991). The Geriatric Depression Scale and Hopelessness Index: Longitudinal psychometric data on frail nursing home residents. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 72, 875-880.

Abraham, I. L., Thompson-Heisterman, A. A., Harrington, D. P., Smullen, D. E., Onega, L. L., Droney, E. G., Westerman, P. S., Manning, C. A., & Lichtenberg, P. A. (1991). Outpatient psychogeriatric nursing services: An integrative model. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 5 (3), 151-164.

Fox, J. C., & Abraham, I. L. (1991). Designing continuing care retirement communities: Towards a partnership of formal and informal care providers. Family and Community Health, 14(2), 68-80.

Abraham, I. L., Evers, G., Hasman, A., Tange, H., Silkens, R., & Hein, F. (1991). A Summer Institute on computer applications for nursing management: Background, curriculum, and evaluation. Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 22 (4), 136-142.

Abraham, I. L., Neese, J. B., & Westerman, P. S. (1991). Depression: Nursing implications of a clinical and social problem. Nursing Clinics of North America, 26 (3), 527-544.

Abraham, I. L., Niles, S. A., Thiel, B. P., Siarkowski, K. I., & Cowling, W. R. (1991). Therapeutic group work with depressed elderly. Nursing Clinics of North America, 26 (3), 635-650.

Abraham, I. L., & Williams, B. M. (1991). Hypertensive elders' perceptions and management of their disease: Health beliefs or health decisions? Journal of Applied Gerontology, 10, 455-465.

Abraham, I. L., Currie, L., & Neundorfer, M. M. (1992). Effects of cognitive group interventions on depression and cognition among elderly women in long-term care. Journal of Women and Aging, 4, 5-24.3.

Abraham, I. L., Neundorfer, M. M., & Currie, L. (1992). Effects of group interventions on cognition and depression in nursing home residents. Nursing Research, 41, 196-202.

Abraham, I. L., Smullen, D. E., & Thompson-Heisterman, A. A. (1992). Geriatric mental health: Assessing geropsychiatric patients. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 30(9), 13-19.

Abraham, I. L., Fox, J. C., & B. Cohen (1992). Integrating the bio into the biopsychosocial: Understanding and treating biological phenomena in psychiatric-mental health nursing. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 6, 296-305.

Abraham, I. L. (1992). Longitudinal reliability of the Life Satisfaction Index (Short Form) with nursing home residents: A cautionary note. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 75, 665-666.

Abraham, I. L., & Reel, S. (1992). Cognitive nursing interventions with long-term care residents: Effects on neurocognitive dimensions. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 6, 356-365.

Abraham, I. L., Manning, C. A., Boyd, M., Neese, J. B., Newman, M., Plowfield, L., & Reel, S. (1993). Cognitive screening of nursing home residents: Factor structure of the Modified Mini-Mental State (3MS) Examination. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 8, 133-138.

Abraham, I. L., Chalifoux, Z. L., Snustad, D. G., Buckwalter, K. C., Fulmer, T., Beck, C., & Evers, G. C. M. (1993). Beyond the role of extender: Independent and interdependent contributions of nursing to geriatric rehabilitation. Neurorehabilitation, 3, 12-25.

Buckwalter, K. C., Abraham, I. L., Smith, M. A., & Smullen, D. E. (1993). Nursing outreach to rural elderly people who are mentally ill. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 44, 821-823.

Abraham, I. L., Neundorfer, M. M., & Terris, E. A. (1993). Effects of focused visual imagery on cognition and depression among nursing home residents. Journal of Mental Imagery, 17, 61-76.

Abraham, I. L., Buckwalter, K. C., Snustad, D. G., Smullen, D. E., Thompson-Heisterman, A. A., Neese, J. B., & Smith, M. (1993). Psychogeriatric outreach to rural families: The Iowa and Virginia models. International Psychogeriatrics, 5, 203-211.

Abraham, I. L. (1994). Beyond continuity and towards fluidity of care: Rethinking long-term care for an aging society. Acta Hospitalia, 33(4), 71-75.

Snustad, D. G., Thompson-Heisterman, A. A., Neese, J. B., & Abraham, I. L. (1994). Mental health outreach to rural elderly: Service delivery to a forgotten risk group. Clinical Gerontologist, 14, 95-111.

Yi, E. S., Abraham, I. L., & Holroyd, S. (1994). Alzheimer's disease and nursing: New scientific and clinical insights. Nursing Clinics of North America, 29(1), 85-99.

Abraham, I. L., Holroyd, S., Snustad, D. G., Manning, C., Brashear, H. R., Diamond, P., & Thompson-Heisterman, A. (1994). Multidisciplinary assessment of patients with Alzheimer's disease. Nursing Clinics of North America, 29(1), 113-128.

Abraham, I. L., Onega, L., Chalifoux, Z. L., & Maes, M.-J. (1994). Care environments for patients with Alzheimer's disease. Nursing Clinics of North America, 29(1), 157-172.

De Geest, S., Abraham, I., Gemoets, H., & Evers, G. (1994). Development of the long-term medication behavior self-efficacy scale: qualitative study for item development. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 19 (2), 233-238.

Abraham, I. L., Buckwalter, K. C., Neese, J. B., & Fox, J. C. (1994). Mental health of rural elderly: A research agenda for nursing. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 15, 203-213.

Abraham, I. L. (1994). Does suboptimal measurement reliability constrain the explained variance in regression? Western Journal of Nursing Research, 16, 447-452.

Goddaer, J., & Abraham, I. L. (1994). Effects of relaxing music on agitation during meals among cognitively impaired nursing home residents. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 8, 150-158.

Abraham, I. L., Manning, C. A., Snustad, D. G., Brashear, H. R., Newman, M. C., & Wofford, A. B. (1994). Cognitive screening of nursing home residents: Factor structures of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 42, 750-756.

Abraham, I. L., Currie, L. J., Neese, J. B., Yi, E. S., & Thompson-Heisterman (1994). Risk profiles for nursing home placement of rural elderly: A cluster analysis of psychogeriatric indicators. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 8, 262-271.

Abraham, I. L., Wofford, A. B., Lichtenberg, A. B., & Holroyd, S. (1994). Factor structure of the Geriatric Depression Scale in a cohort of depressed nursing home residents. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 9, 611-617.

De Geest, S., Borgermans, L., Gemoets, H., Abraham, I., Vlaminck, H., Evers, G., & Vanrenterghem, Y. (1995). Incidence, determinants, and consequences of non-compliance with immunosuppressive therapy in renal transplant patients. Transplantation, 59, 340-347.

Abraham, I. L., Chalifoux, Z. L., Evers, G. C. M., & De Geest, S. (1995). Conditions, interventions, and outcomes in nursing research: A comparative analysis of North-American and European/International journals (1981-1990). International Journal of Nursing Studies, 32, 173-187.

Abraham, I. L. (1995). Differentiated neurocognitive screening of nursing home residents: Algorithms from factor-analytic studies on variants of the Mini-Mental State Examination. Facts and Research in Gerontology Journal, 81-93.

Goossen, W. T. F., Epping, P. J. J. M., & Abraham, I. L. (1996). Classification systems in nursing: Efforts in formalising nursing knowledge and its implications for nursing information systems. Methods of Information in Medicine, 35, 59-71.

Holroyd, S., Currie, L. J., & Abraham, I. L. (1996). Aggression in a rural psychogeriatric outreach program. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 11, 529-533.

Wasserbauer, L, I., Arrington, D. T, & Abraham, I. L. (1996). Using elderly volunteers to care for the elderly: Opportunities for nursing. Nursing Economics, 14, 232-238.

Chalifoux, Z. L., Neese, J. B., Buckwalter, K. C., Litwak, E., & Abraham, I. L. (1996). Mental health services for rural elderly: Innovative service strategies. Community Mental Health Journal, 32, 463-480.

Goossen, W. F., Epping, P. J. J. M., Abraham, I. L., Dassen, T. W. N., & Hasman, A. (1996). Problems with nursing information systems: Are there solutions? In J. Brender, J.P. Christensen, J.-R. Sherer, & P. McNair (eds.) Medical Informatics Europe ‘96. Amsterdam: IOS Press.

De Geest, S., Abraham, I. L., & Dunbar-Jacob, J. (1996). Measuring transplant patients’ compliance with immunosuppressive therapy. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 18, 595-605.

Glick, D.F. & Thompson, K.M. (1997). Analysis of emergency room use for primary care needs. Nursing Economics, 15(1), 42-49.

Neese, J. B., & Abraham, I. L. (1997). Cluster analysis of psychogeriatric characteristics and service use among rural elders. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 18, 1-18.

Holroyd, S., Currie, L., Thompson-Heisterman, A. A., & Abraham, I. L. (1997). A descriptive study of elderly community-dwelling alcoholic patients in the rural South. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 5, 221-228.

Onega, L. L., & Abraham I. L. (1997). Factor structure of the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression in a cohort of community-dwelling elderly. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 12, 760-764.

Steeman, E, Abraham, I. L., & Godderis, J. (1997). Risk profiles for institutionalization in a cohort of elderly people with dementia or depression. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 11, 295-303.

Onega, L. L., & Abraham I. L. (1997). Factor structure of the Dementia Mood Assessment Scale in a cohort of community-dwelling elderly. International Psychogeriatrics, 9, 449-457.

Milisen, K., Abraham, I. L., Broos, P. L. O. (1998). Postoperative variation in neurocognitive and functional status in elderly hip fracture patients. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 27, 59-67.

De Geest, S., Abraham, I., Moons, P., Vandeputte, M., Van Cleemput, J., Evers, G., Danene, W., & Vanhaecke, J. (1998). Late acute rejections and subclinical noncompliance with cyclosporine therapy in heart transplant patients. Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 17, 854-863.

De Geest, S., Renteln-Kruse, W., Steeman, E., Degraeve, S., & Abraham, I. L. (1998). Compliance issues with the geriatric population: Complexity with Aging. Nursing Clinics of North America, 33(3), 467-480.

Borgermans, L. A. D., Abraham, I . L., Milisen, K., Dejace, A. M., Gosset, C., & Rondal, P. (1998). Nursing case management for geriatric patients and their families: Description of a clinical model. Nursing Clinics of North America, 33(3), 529-542.

Fulmer, T. T. & Abraham, I. L (1998). (Re-)thinking geriatric nursing: Focus on geriatric syndromes. Nursing Clinics of North America, 33(3), 387-394.

Onega, L. L., & Abraham, I. L. (1998). Differentiated nursing assessment of depressive symptoms in community-dwelling elders. Nursing Clinics of North America, 33(3), 407-416.

Milisen, K., Foreman, M. D., Godderis, J., Abraham, I. L., & Broos, P. L. O. (1998). Delirium in the hospitalized elderly: Nursing assessment and Management. Nursing Clinics of North America, 33(3), 417-439.

Moons, Ph., De Geest, S., Abraham, I., Van Cleemput, J., & Vanhaecke, J. (1998). Symptom experience associated with maintenance immunosuppression after heart transplantation: Patients’ appraisal of side effects. Heart & Lung, 27, 315-325.

Smith, M., Buckwalter, K. C., Hirsch, M., Abraham, I., Mitchell, S., & Kreiter, C. (1998). From the rural Midwest to the rural Southeast: Evaluation of the generalizability of a successful geriatric mental health training program. Journal of Mental Health & Aging, 4, 125-138.

Thompson, K.M., & Glick, D.F. (1999).  Cost Analysis of Emergency Room Use by Low Income Patients.  Nursing Economics, 17(3), 142-148, 155. 

Glick, D.F., Thompson, K.M. & Ridge, R. (1999). Population based research: The foundation for development, management and evaluation of a community nursing center. Family and Community Health, 21(4).

Onega, L.L., & Abraham, I.L. (1999). Differentiated nursing assessment of depressive symptoms in community-dwelling elders. Review Series: Psychiatry, 4, 20-22.

Fulmer, T., Abraham, I., Mezey, M., O’Donnell, L., Dash, K., Vince-Whitman, C., & Bottrell, M. (1999). Profiling care and benchmarking best practice in nursing of hospitalized elderly: Psychometric properties of an institutional assessment instrument. Nursing Clinics of North America, 34 (1), 237-255

Neese, J.B., Abraham, I.L. & Buckwalter, K.C. (1999). Utilization of mental health services among rural elderly. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 13 (1), 30-40.

Valderrábano, F., Hörl, W.H., Jacobs, C., Macdougall, I.C., Parrondo, I., Cremers, S., & Abraham, I.L. (2000). European Best Practice Guidelines 1-4: Evaluating anaemia and initiating treatment. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 15, Suppl. 4, 8-14.

Jacobs, C., Hörl, W.H., Macdougall, I.C., Valderrábano, F., Parrondo, I., Segner, A., & Abraham, I.L. (2000). European Best Practice Guidelines 5: Target haemoglobin. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 15, Suppl. 4, 15-19.

Macdougall, I.C., Hörl, W.H., Jacobs, C., Valderrábano, F., Parrondo, I., Thompson, K. & Cremers, S. (2000). European Best Practice Guidelines 6–8: Assessing and optimizing iron stores. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 15 (Suppl 4), 20-32.

Jacobs, C., Hörl, W.H., Macdougall, I.C., Valderrábano, F., Parrondo, I., Abraham, I.L., & Segner, A. (2000). European Best Practice Guidelines 9-13: Anaemia management. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 15, Suppl. 4, 33-42.

Hörl, W.H., Jacobs, C., Macdougall, I.C., Valderrábano, F., Parrondo, I., Thompson, K. & Carveth, B.G. (2000). European Best Practice Guidelines 14–16: Inadequate response to epoetin. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 15 (Suppl 4), 43-50.

Hörl, W.H., Jacobs, C., Macdougall, I.C., Valderrábano, F., Parrondo, I., Carveth, B.G. & Thompson, K. (2000). European Best Practice Guidelines 17–18: Adverse effects. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 15 (Suppl 4), 51-56.

Hyer, K., Fairchild, S., Abraham, I.L., Mezey, M., & Fulmer, T. (2000). Measuring attitudes related to interdisciplinary training: revisiting the Heinemann, Schmitt and Farrell ‘attitudes toward health care teams’ scale. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 14, 249-258.

Fulmer, T., Paveza, G., Abraham, I.L., & Fairchild, S. (2000). Elder neglect assessment in the emergency department. Journal of Emergency Nursing, 26, 436-443.

Moons, P., De Geest, S., Versteven, K., Abraham, I., Vlaminck, H., Moens, G., Waer, M. (2001). Psychometric properties of the "Modified Transplant Symptom Occurrance and Symptom Distress Scale". Journal Nursing Measurement, 9, 115-134.

Milisen, K., Foreman, M. D., Abraham, I. L., De Geest, S., Godderis, J., Vandermeulen, E., Fischler, B., Delooz, H. H., Spiessens, B., & Broos, P. L. (2001). A nurse-led interdisciplinary intervention program for delirium in elderly hip-fracture patients. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 49, 523-532.

Moons, P., Siebens, K., De Geest, S., Abraham, I. L., Buts, W. & Gewillig, M. (2001). A pilot study of expenditures on, and utilization of resources in, health care in adults with congenital heart disease. Cardiology in the Young, 11 (3), 301-313.

Fulmer, T., Mezey, M., Bottrell, M., Abraham, I. L., Sazant, J., & Grisham, E. (2002). Nurses improving care for healthsystems elders (NICHE): Using outcomes and benchmarks for evidence-based practice. Geriatric Nursing, 23, 121-127.

Reel, S., Morgan-Judge, T., Peros, D. S, & Abraham, I. L. (2002). School-based rural case management: A model to prevent and reduce risk. Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, 14, 291-296.

Moons P., Steeman E., Milisen K., Bollen S., Wouters B., Indenkleef S., Manhaeve D., Abraham I., De Geest S. (2002). Rehospitalisation and institutionalisation in elderly heart failure patients receiving case management. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 1, 302-303.

Milisen, K., Foreman, M., Wouters, B., Driesen, R., Godderis, J., Abraham, I. L., Broos, P.L.O. (2002). Documentation of delirium in elderly patients with hip fracture. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 28(11), 23-29.

Rosencher, N., Kerkkamp, H., Macheras, G., Munuera, L., Menichella, G., Barton, D, Cremers, S., Ozier, Y., Abraham, I. for the OSTHEO Investigation (2003). Orthopedic Surgery Transfusion Hemoglobin European Overview (OSTHEO) study: Blood management in elective knee and hip arthroplasty in Europe. Transfusion, 43, 59-69.

Denhaerynck, K., Abraham, I., Gourley. G., Drent, G., De Vleeschouwer, P., Papajcik, D., Lince, E., & De Geest, S. (in press).  Validity testing of the Long-Term Medication Behavior Self-Efficacy Scale.  Journal of Nursing Measurement. 

Fulmer, T., Guadagno, L., Paveza, G., VandeWeerd, C., Baglioni, A.J., & Abraham, I.  (in press).  Profiles of older adults who screen positive for neglect during an emergency department visit.  Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect.

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Books,

Monographs, and Guest-Edited Journals

 

HL-7 Working Group (1987).  HL-7 Standards: An application protocol for electronic data exchange in health care environments. Philadelphia, PA: HL-7.

Abraham, I. L., Buckwalter, K. C., & Neundorfer, M. (Eds.) (1988). Alzheimer's Disease. (Nursing Clinics of North America, Vol. 23:1). Philadelphia, PA: W. B. Saunders.

HL-7 Working Group (1988). HL-7 Standards: An application protocol for electronic data exchange in health care environments (2nd revised ed.). Philadelphia, PA: HL-7.

Abraham, I. L., Nadzam, D. M., & Fitzpatrick, J. J. (Eds.) (1989). Statistics and quantitative methods in nursing: Issues and strategies for research and education. Philadelphia, PA: W. B. Saunders.

Abraham, I. L., & Fletcher, K. (Eds.). (1991). Community care of the elderly (Family and Community Health, Vol. 14:2). Rockville, MD: Aspen.

Abraham, I. L. (Ed.). (1991). Depression (Nursing Clinics of North America, Vol. 26:3). Philadelphia, PA: W. B. Saunders.

Abraham, I. L., Schroeder, M. A., & Schwirian, P. M. (1992). Using computers in nursing research: A theoretical perspective. Washington, DC: American Nurses Publishing.

National Center for Nursing Research (1993). Nursing informatics: Enhancing patient care (A report of the NCNR Priority Expert Panel on Nursing Informatics). Bethesda, MD (I. Abraham, Consulting Author).

Abraham, I. L. (1994). Alzheimer's Disease (Nursing Clinics of North America, Vol. 29:1). Philadelphia, PA: W. B. Saunders.

Abraham, I. L., Buckwalter, K. C., Harper, M., & Hight, V. A. (Guest editors) (1994). Geropsychiatric nursing: Bringing advances in practice and research to education (Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, Vol. 32:4).

O’Toole, M. (Editor-in-Chief; Abraham I. L., Research Editor) (1997). Miller-Keane Encyclopedia & Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health (6th ed.). Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders.

Abraham, I. L., Fulmer, T. T., & Milisen, K. (Eds.). (1998). Advances in geriatric nursing (Nursing Clinics of North America). Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders.

Abraham, I., & Peuskens, J.(1998). Patiententoewijzing in de psychiatrische verpleegkunde: Concept en methodiek [Primary patient care in psychiatric nursing: Concepts and methods]. Leuven, Belgium: Garant.

Abraham, I. L., Bottrell, M. M., Fulmer, T. T., Mezey, M. D. (Eds.). (1999). Geriatric nursing protocols for best practice. New York, NY: Springer. [translated into German as Abraham, I. L., Bottrell, M. M., Fulmer, T. T., Mezey, M. D. (Hrsg) (2001). Pflegestandards für die Versorgung alter Menschen. Bern, Switzerland: Verlag Hans Huber.] [Translated into Japanese 2003. Tokyo, Japan: Igaku-Shoin.]

Abraham, I., & Peuskens, J. (1999). Organisatie en effecten van psychiatrische thuisverpleegkunde [The organization and effects of home-based psychiatric nursing]. Leuven, Belgium: Garant.

Milisen, K., De Maesschalck, L. & Abraham, I. (2002). Verpleegkundige zorgaspecten bij ouderen [Nursing care of the elderly]. Maarssen, The Netherlands: Elsevier. [To be published in German in 2003 as K. Milisen, L. De Maesschalck, & I. Abraham, Die Pflege alter Menschen in speziellen Lebenssituationen - modern, wissenschaftlich, praktisch. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag. English translation being planned).

Fulmer, T. T., Mezey, M. D., Abraham, I. L. & Zwicker, D. (Eds.) (2003). Geriatric nursing protocols for best practice (2nd revised edition). New York: Springer.

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Chapters

 

Dzurec, L. C., & Abraham, I. L. (1986).  Analogy between phenomenology and multivariate statistical analysis.  In P. Chinn (Ed.), Nursing research methodology: Issues and implementation (pp. 55‑66).  Rockville, MD: Aspen.

 

Abraham, I. L. (1986).  Chronological analysis of nursing research content in an international context.  In S. Stinson & J. Kerr (Eds.), International issues in nursing research (pp. 259‑288). London: Croon Helm; Philadelphia: Charles Press.

 

Abraham, I. L., Schultz, S., Polis, N., Vines, S., & Smith, M. C. (1987).  Research‑on‑research: The meta‑analysis of nursing and health research.  In M. Cahoon (Ed.), Research methodology (pp. 126-147) (Recent Advances in Nursing, vol. 17).  Edinburgh, GB: Churchill Livingstone.

 

Abraham, I. L. (1987).  Issues in the application of artificially intelligent decision support technology to nursing diagnosis.  In K. J. Hannah, M. Reimer, W. C. Mills, & S. Letourneau (Eds.), Clinical judgment and decision‑making: The future with nursing diagnosis (pp. 519‑527). New York: Wiley.

 

Abraham, I. L., Nadzam, D. M., & Fitzpatrick, J. J. (1989).  Statistics in nursing curricula.  In I. L. Abraham, D. M. Nadzam, & J. J. Fitzpatrick (Eds.), Statistics and quantitative methods in nursing: Issues and strategies for research and education (pp. 14-23).  Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders.

 

Abraham, I. L., Neundorfer, M. M., Martin, R. J., Jeffrey, J. E., Cowling, W. R., Terris, E. A., Rice, C. V., Sutorius, S. D., Thiel, B. P., Niles, S. A., & Kinkelaar, K. I. (1989).  Methodological issues in nursing research with the demented.  In, Finding the key: Nursing research and clinical management of Alzheimer's Disease (pp. 17-31).  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

  

Ozbolt, J. G., Schultz, S., Swain, M. A., & Abraham, I. L. (1989).  A proposed expert system for nursing practice: A springboard to nursing science.  In V. K. Saba, K. Rieder, & D. Pocklington (Eds.), Nursing and computers: An anthology (pp. 257-269).  New York: Springer-Verlag.

 

Abraham, I. L., Bakker, A. R., De Becker, P., Hannah, K. J., McCormick, K. A., & Sweeney, M. A. (1990).  Decision support for nursing research.  In J. Ozbolt, D. Vandewal, & K. Hannah (Eds.), Decision support systems for nursing: A look to the future (pp. 41-53).  St. Louis: Mosby.

 

Abraham, I. L., & Neundorfer, M. M. (1990).  The design and analysis of time series studies.  In L. Moody (Ed.), Advancing nursing science through research, vol. 2 (pp. 143-172).  Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

 

Ozbolt, J. G., Abraham, I. L., & Schultz, S. (1990). Nursing information systems.  In E. H. Shortliffe, L. E. Perreault, G. C. M. Wiederhold, & L. M. Fagan (Eds.), Medical informatics: Computer applications in health care (pp. 244-272).  Menlo Park, CA: Addison‑Wesley.

 

Abraham, I. L. (1992).  The Jefferson Area Rural Elder Health Outreach Program.  In S. Shortell & U. Reinhardt (Eds.), Improving health policy and management: Nine critical research issues for the 1990's (p.410).  Ann Arbor, MI: Health Administration Press.

 

Abraham I. L., Chalifoux, Z., & Evers, G. C. M. (1992).  Conditions, interventions, and outcomes: A quantitative analysis of nursing research (1981-1990).  In P. Moritz (Ed.), Patient outcomes research: Examining the effectiveness of nursing practice (pp. 70-87).  Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health (NIH Publication No. 93-3411).

 

Abraham, I. L. (1992).  Modeling events over time: A practical orientation to time series analysis.  In M. A. Carey (Ed.), Advanced quantitative methodology for nursing research.  Bethesda, MD: National Center for Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health.

 

Abraham, I. L. (1994).  Foreword: The multidisciplinary need for geriatric psychology.  In P. Lichtenberg, A guide to psychological practice in geriatric long-term care (pp. ix-xiii).  Binghamton, NY: Haworth.

 

Wasserbauer, L. I., & Abraham, I. L. (1995).  Research design: Purpose, major concepts, and selection.  In L. A. Talbot (Ed.), Principles and practice of nursing research (pp. 197-216).  St. Louis, MO: Mosby Yearbook.

 

Wasserbauer, L. I., & Abraham, I. L. (1995).  Quantitative designs.  In L. A. Talbot (Ed.), Principles and practice of nursing research (pp. 217-239).  St. Louis, MO: Mosby Yearbook.

Thompson, K.M. (1996). Economic issues in health care. In J.L. Cresia & B. Parker (Eds.), Conceptual Foundations of Professional Nursing Practice. St. Louis:  Mosby.

Abraham, I. L., & Onega, L. L. (1996).  Nursing interventions for older adults with cognitive impairment: Some conceptual and clinical issues.  In E. A. Swanson & T. Tripp-Reimer (Eds.), Advances in gerontological nursing.  Volume 1: Issues for the 21st century (pp. 103-132).  New York: Springer.

 

Abraham, I. L., Onega, L. L., Reel, S., & Wofford, A. B. (1997).  Thinking better but perhaps not feeling better: Effects of cognitive group interventions on depressed frail nursing home residents.  In R. Rubinstein & P. Lawton (Eds.), Depression in long term and residential care: Advances in research and treatment (pp. 154‑168).  New York: Springer.

 

Glick, D.F., & Thompson, K.M. (1998). Program development, management, and evaluation. In B.J. Lancaster & W. Lancaster (Eds.), Nursing Issues in Leading and Managing Change.  St. Louis:  Mosby.

 

De Geest, S., Abraham, I., Dunbar-Jacob, J., & Vanhaecke, J. (1998).  Behavioral strategies to enhance long-term survival after solid organ transplantation.  In J. M. Métry & U. Meyer (Eds.), Drug regimen compliance: Issues in clinical trials and patient management.  New York: Wiley.

 

Abraham, I. L., & De Geest, S.  (1998).  Applied research.  In J. J. Fitzpatrick (ed.), Encyclopedia of Nursing Research.  New York: Springer.

 

Abraham, I. L., & Wasserbauer, L. I.  (1998).  Experimental research.  In J. J. Fitzpatrick (ed.), Encyclopedia of Nursing Research.  New York: Springer.

 

Abraham, I. L., & Wasserbauer, L. I. (1998).  Quasi-experimental research.  In J. J. Fitzpatrick (ed.), Encyclopedia of Nursing Research.  New York: Springer.

 

Abraham, I. L., & De Geest, S.  (1999).  Applied research.  In J. J. Fitzpatrick (ed.), Nursing research digest.  New York: Springer.

 

Abraham, I. L., & Wasserbauer, L. I. (1999).  Experimental research.  In J. J. Fitzpatrick (ed.), Nursing research digest.  New York: Springer.

 

Abraham, I. L., & Wasserbauer, L. I. (1999).  Quasi-experimental research.  In J. J. Fitzpatrick (ed.), Nursing research digest.  New York: Springer.

 

Jones, C.B., & Thompson, K.M. (2000). Economics of health care delivery. In M.Stanhope & J. Lancaster (Eds.), Community Health Nursing:  Process and Practice for Promoting Health (5th ed). St. Louis:  Mosby.

  

Fulmer, T., McDougall, G., Abraham I., & Wilson, R. (2000).  Providing care for elders who exhibit disturbing behaviors.  In J. Grimley-Evans, T. F. Williams, B. L. Beattie, J.-P. Michel, & G. K. Wilcock (eds.), Oxford textbook of geriatric medicine (2nd ed.).  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Goossen, W., Epping, P., & Abraham, I. (2000).  Classification systems in nursing.  In W. T. F. Goossen, Towards strategic use of information in the Netherlands.  Groningen, The Netherlands: Regenboog.

 

Milisen, K., De Geest, S., Abraham, I. L. & Delooz, H. H. (2001).  Delirium.  In  T. T.  Fulmer, M. D. Foreman, M. Walker, & K. J. Montgomery (Eds.), Critical Care Nursing of the Elderly [2nd ed]. (pp. 44-52).  New York, NY: Springer.

 

Nadzam, D. M., & Abraham, I. L. (2003).  Measuring performance, improving quality. In Fulmer, T.  T., Mezey, M. D., Abraham, I. L. & Zwicker, D. (Eds.).  Geriatric nursing protocols for best practice (2nd ed.).  New York: Springer.

 

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