פרופ' ישעיהו בלוססקי

Prof. Yichayaou Beloosesky, M.D, MHA

Head Geriatric Department,

Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Hospital

Education

Academic and other positions

Associate Clinical Professor, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Head, Department of Geriatrics, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Hospital, Petach Tikvah, Israel

Head, "Hadasim" Hospital (a geriatric long-stay-care-for-the-elderly)

Research areas

Most of our research focuses on clinical studies in the elderly.

Major fields of interest are:

• Hip fractures in the elderly; clinical outcome, rehabilitation, nutrition, pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines.
• Medications in the elderly; polypharmacy, continuity and adherence, inappropriate prescription, medication complexity.
• Metabolic and cardiovascular diseases; orthostatic hypotension, pulse pressure, CVAs, different aspects of BMI, cholesterol levels.
• Other clinical issues; elderly abuse, comorbidities.

List of publications (2008-2012)

N. Mansur, A. Weiss, A. Hoffman, T. Gruenewald, Y. Beloosesky

Continuity and adherence to chronic drug treatment of geriatric patients after discharge from hospital.

Drugs Aging. 25:861-70, 2008.

N. Mansur, A. Weiss, Y. Beloosesky

Relationship of in-hospital medication modifications of elderly patients to post-discharge 

medications, adherence and mortality.

Annals Pharmacother. 42:783-9, 2008.

V. Hermush, D. Daliot, A. Weiss, S. Brill, Y. Beloosesky

The impact of geriatric consultation on the care of the elders in community clinics.

Arch. Gerontol. Geriatr. 49:260-2, 2009.

N. Mansur, A. Weiss, Y. Beloosesky

Is there an association between inappropriate prescription drug use and adherence in       discharged elderly patients?

Ann. Pharmacother. 43:177-84, 2009.

A. Weiss, M. Boaz, Y. Beloosesky, R. Kornowski, E. Grossman. 

Body mass index and risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in hospitalized

elderly patients with diabetes mellitus.

Diabet. Med. 26:253-9, 2009.

A. Weiss, M. Boaz, Y. Beloosesky, R. Kornowski, E. Grossman

Pulse pressure predicts mortality in elderly patients.

J. Gen. Intern. Med. 24:893-6, 2009.

Y. Beloosesky, A. Hershkovitz, A. Guz, H. Golan, M. Salai, A. Weiss

Clinical characteristics and long-term mortality of occult hip fracture elderly patients.

Injury. 41:343-7, 2010.

A. Almogue, A. Weiss, E.L. Marcus, Y. Beloosesky

Attitudes and knowledge of medical and nursing staff toward elder abuse.

   Arch. Gerontol. Geriatr. 51:86-91, 2010.

A. Hershkovitz, I. Polatov, Y. Beloosesky, S. Brill

           Factors affecting mortality of frail hip-fractured elderly patients.

           Arch. Gerontol. Geriatr. 51:113-6, 2010.

Y. Beloosesky, A. Weiss, M. Manasian, M. Salai

Handgrip strength of the elderly after hip fracture repair correlates with functional outcome.

Disabil. Rehabil. 32:367-73, 2010.

Y. Beloosesky, A. Hershkovitz, B. Solovey, M. Salai, A. Weiss

Hip fracture post-operation dysnatremia and Na+ courses in different cognitive and functional patient groups

Arch. Gerontol. Geriatr. 53:179-82, 2011.

Y. Beloosesky, A. Weiss, A. Hershkovitz, D. Hendel, V. Barak.

Serum transforming growth factor beta-1 post hip fracture repair in elderly patients.

Cytokine. 54:56-60, 2011.

A. Weiss, Y. Beloosesky*, Grossman E

    Blood pressure monitoring in the assessment of old patients with acute stroke.  

       Int. J. Stroke. 6:182-6, 2011.

       *The first two authors equally contributed to the paper.

A. Hershkovitz A, Y. Beloosesky, S. Brill

Mobility assessment of hip fracture patients during a post-acute rehabilitation program. 

Arch. Gerontol. Geriatr. 2011 Aug 24.

Y. Beloosesky, A. Weiss, M. Mansur

Validity of the medication based disease burden index compared to the Charlson’s  

Comorbidity Index and the CIRS-G.

Drugs Aging. 28:1007-14, 2011.

A.  Hershkovitz, I. Pulatov, S. Brill, Y. Beloosesky

Can hip fracture elderly patients maintain rehabilitation achievements after 1 year?

Disabil. Rehabil. 34:304-10, 2012.

       N. Mansure, A. Weiss, Y. Beloosesky

       Looking beyond polypharmacy: quantification of medication regimen complexity in the elderly.

Am. J. Geriatr. Pharmacother. 10:223-9, 2012

T. Koren-Hakim, A. Weiss, A. Hershkovitz, I. Otzrateni, B. Grosman, S. Frishman, M. Salai, Y. Beloosesky

The relationship between nutritional status of hip fracture operated elderly patients and their functioning, comorbidity and outcome.

Clin. Nutr. 2012 ;31(6):917-21.

A. Weiss, Y. Beloosesky, H. S. Weiss, E. Grossman, M. Boaz

Serum total cholesterol: A mortality predictor in elderly hospitalized patients.

Clin. Nutr. 2012 Nov 23 (in press).