Bruce Leff

11.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
209 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Bruce Leff is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Geriatrics and Gerontology and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruce Leff has authored 209 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 162 papers in General Health Professions, 65 papers in Geriatrics and Gerontology and 56 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Bruce Leff's work include Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (123 papers), Frailty in Older Adults (58 papers) and Chronic Disease Management Strategies (49 papers). Bruce Leff is often cited by papers focused on Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (123 papers), Frailty in Older Adults (58 papers) and Chronic Disease Management Strategies (49 papers). Bruce Leff collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Australia. Bruce Leff's co-authors include Cynthia M. Boyd, Jennifer L. Wolff, Christine S. Ritchie, Chad Boult, Sarah L. Szanton, Albert L. Siu, Alex D. Federman, Katherine Ornstein, Lisa Reider and Laura N. Gitlin and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine and Neurology.

In The Last Decade

Bruce Leff

199 papers receiving 7.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Epidemiology of the Homebound Population in the United States

2015 278 citations Katherine Ornstein, Bruce Leff et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bruce Leff United States	47	4.3k	2.0k	1.6k	1.5k	1.4k	209	7.3k
Walter P. Wodchis Canada	52	4.5k 1.1×	2.2k 1.1×	2.2k 1.4×	1.0k 0.7×	1.5k 1.1×	280	10.3k
Chad Boult United States	45	4.0k 0.9×	3.1k 1.5×	2.3k 1.5×	2.3k 1.5×	1.0k 0.7×	91	7.9k
Jennifer L. Wolff United States	50	5.4k 1.3×	2.9k 1.4×	1.7k 1.1×	1.4k 0.9×	1.8k 1.3×	257	10.6k
Susan E. Bronskill Canada	44	2.5k 0.6×	1.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	1.7k 1.1×	839 0.6×	214	6.6k
Andrea Gruneir Canada	44	2.5k 0.6×	1.4k 0.7×	760 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	163	6.1k
Graham Watt United Kingdom	36	3.2k 0.7×	3.9k 1.9×	1.9k 1.2×	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	112	8.9k
Debra Saliba United States	41	3.5k 0.8×	678 0.3×	1.1k 0.7×	1.9k 1.2×	1.3k 0.9×	188	6.3k
Christine S. Ritchie United States	50	3.3k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	746 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	4.5k 3.2×	396	10.1k
Jonathan Darer United States	22	2.3k 0.5×	1.5k 0.7×	1.8k 1.2×	2.6k 1.7×	964 0.7×	36	6.6k
Catherine Hudon Canada	33	2.9k 0.7×	3.1k 1.5×	1.4k 0.9×	571 0.4×	717 0.5×	172	5.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bruce Leff

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Levine, David M., Linda V. DeCherrie, Albert L. Siu, et al.. (2025). Practice Standards for Acute Hospital Care at Home. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 73(7). 2037–2045. 1 indexed citations

Levine, David M., Meghna Desai, Linda V. DeCherrie, et al.. (2024). Hospital at home worldwide: Program and clinician characteristics from the World Hospital at Home Congress survey. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 72(12). 3824–3832. 2 indexed citations

Arbaje, Alicia I., Yea‐Jen Hsu, Ayşe P. Gürses, et al.. (2024). Hospital-to-Home-Health Transition Quality (H3TQ) Index. Medical Care. 62(8). 503–510.

Bartsch, Sarah M., Michael Wasserman, Raveena Singh, et al.. (2024). How the Timing of Annual COVID-19 Vaccination of Nursing Home Residents and Staff Affects Its Value. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 25(4). 639–646.e5. 2 indexed citations

Arbaje, Alicia I., Yea‐Jen Hsu, Jiangxia Wang, et al.. (2023). Development and Validation of the Hospital-to-Home-Health Transition Quality (H3TQ) Index: A Novel Measure to Engage Patients and Home Health Providers in Evaluating Hospital-to-Home Care Transition Quality. Quality Management in Health Care. 33(3). 140–148. 2 indexed citations

Burgdorf, Julia, Katherine Ornstein, Bian Liu, et al.. (2023). Variation in Home Healthcare Use by Dementia Status Among a National Cohort of Older Adults. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 79(3). 4 indexed citations

Reckrey, Jennifer M., et al.. (2023). Use of Home-Based Clinical Care and Long-Term Services and Supports Among Homebound Older Adults. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 24(7). 1002–1006.e2. 8 indexed citations

Liu, Bian, Christine S. Ritchie, Claire K. Ankuda, et al.. (2022). Growth of Fee-for-Service Medicare Home-Based Medical Care Within Private Residences and Domiciliary Care Settings in the U.S., 2012–2019. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 23(10). 1614–1620.e10. 9 indexed citations

Li, Lingsheng, Mattan Schuchman, Jennifer L. Wolff, et al.. (2022). Assessing the wellbeing of family caregivers of multimorbid and homebound older adults—A scoping literature review. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 71(1). 268–275. 3 indexed citations

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DeCherrie, Linda V., Bruce Leff, David M. Levine, & Albert L. Siu. (2021). Hospital at Home: Setting a Regulatory Course to Ensure Safe, High-Quality Care. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 48(3). 180–184. 7 indexed citations

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Aschmann, Hélène E., Cynthia M. Boyd, Craig Robbins, et al.. (2019). Balance of benefits and harms of different blood pressure targets in people with multiple chronic conditions: a quantitative benefit-harm assessment. BMJ Open. 9(8). e028438–e028438. 6 indexed citations

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Arbaje, Alicia I., Nicole E. Werner, Albert W. Wu, et al.. (2016). Learning From Lawsuits: Using Malpractice Claims Data to Develop Care Transitions Planning Tools. Journal of Patient Safety. 16(1). 52–57. 4 indexed citations

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Soones, Tacara, Alex D. Federman, Bruce Leff, Albert L. Siu, & Katherine Ornstein. (2016). Two‐Year Mortality in Homebound Older Adults: An Analysis of the National Health and Aging Trends Study. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 65(1). 123–129. 68 indexed citations

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Szanton, Sarah L., Bruce Leff, Jennifer L. Wolff, Laken Roberts, & Laura N. Gitlin. (2016). Home-Based Care Program Reduces Disability And Promotes Aging In Place. Health Affairs. 35(9). 1558–1563. 148 indexed citations

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Davis, Karen, Christine Buttorff, Bruce Leff, et al.. (2015). Innovative care models for high-cost Medicare beneficiaries: delivery system and payment reform to accelerate adoption.. PubMed. 21(5). e349–56. 18 indexed citations

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Bleich, Sara N., Cheryl Sherrod, Anne C. Chiang, et al.. (2015). Systematic Review of Programs Treating High-Need and High-Cost People With Multiple Chronic Diseases or Disabilities in the United States, 2008–2014. Preventing Chronic Disease. 12. E197–E197. 59 indexed citations

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DuGoff, Eva H., Vladimir Canudas‐Romo, Christine Buttorff, Bruce Leff, & Gerard F. Anderson. (2014). Multiple Chronic Conditions and Life Expectancy. Medical Care. 52(8). 688–694. 148 indexed citations

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Leff, Bruce, Lisa Reider, Kevin D. Frick, et al.. (2009). Guided care and the cost of complex healthcare: a preliminary report.. PubMed. 15(8). 555–9. 86 indexed citations

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Boult, Chad, Lisa Reider, Katherine P. Frey, et al.. (2008). Multidimensional Geriatric Assessment: Back to the Future Early Effects of "Guided Care" on the Quality of Health Care for Multimorbid Older Persons: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 63(3). 321–327. 145 indexed citations

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Shadmi, Efrat, et al.. (2005). The effect of guided care on quality of care.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 53(4). 3 indexed citations

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