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Geriatric and Palliative Medicine

Steven Denson, MD

Associate Professor

Locations

Geriatric and Palliative Medicine

Contact Information

(414) 955-0728

Leadership Positions

Medical Director, Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE) Consult Service, FMLH.

Corrigendum to Improving the Validity of Nurse-Based Delirium Screening: A Head-to-Head Comparison of Nursing Delirium-Screening Scale and Short Confusion Assessment Method in Psychosomatics 60(2) (2019) 172-178.

(Heinrich TW, Kato H, Emanuel C, Denson S.) Psychosomatics. 2020;61(3):311 PMID: 32122633 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85080105278 03/04/2020
Improving the Validity of Nurse-Based Delirium Screening: A Head-to-Head Comparison of Nursing Delirium-Screening Scale and Short Confusion Assessment Method.

(Heinrich TW, Kato H, Emanuel C, Denson S.) Psychosomatics. 2019;60(2):172-178 PMID: 31416628 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85055634964 08/17/2019
What Can a Primary Care Physician Discuss With Older Patients to Improve Advance Directive Completion Rates? A Clin-IQ.

(Myers JM, Duthie E Jr, Denson K, Denson S, Simpson D.) J Patient Cent Res Rev. 2017;4(1):42-45 PMID: 31413970 PMCID: PMC6664363 01/31/2017
Geriatrics Education Team Model Results in Sustained Geriatrics Training in 15 Residency and Fellowship Programs and Scholarship.

(Denson S, Simpson D, Denson K, Brown D, Manzi G, Rehm J, Wessel B, Duthie EH Jr.) J Am Geriatr Soc. 2016 Apr;64(4):855-61 PMID: 27021702 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85028248760 03/30/2016
Gaming used as an informal instructional technique: effects on learner knowledge and satisfaction.

(Webb TP, Simpson D, Denson S, Duthie E Jr.) J Surg Educ. 2012;69(3):330-4 PMID: 22483133 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84859368400 04/10/2012
Objective Structured Video Examinations (OSVEs) for geriatrics education.

(Simpson D, Helm R, Drewniak T, Ziebert MM, Brown D, Mitchell J, Havas N, Denson K, Gehl S, Kerwin D, Bragg DS, Denson S, Gleason Heffron M, Harsch HH, Duthie EH.) Gerontol Geriatr Educ. 2006;26(4):7-24 PMID: 16537305 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-33745595887 03/16/2006
Help! Grandma's stroking: Balancing morbidity and mortality in the treatment of hypertension among the very old.

(Denson S.) J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2003 Jul;58(7):660-1; discussion 669-70 PMID: 12865485 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-0041843879 07/17/2003