Ellen McCreedy
· Associate Professor of Health Services Policy & PracticeBrown University · Biology
Active 2014–2026
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About
Ellen McCreedy is an Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. Her research focuses on pragmatic evaluation of nonpharmaceutical interventions for managing neuropsychiatric symptoms in people living with dementia. Dr. McCreedy is currently leading an embedded pragmatic trial testing the effects of personalized music on agitation and antipsychotic use for nursing home residents with dementia, and a trial testing the effects of an enhanced advance care planning intervention on documentation of care wishes for people with dementia in assisted living centers. She has previously served as measurement lead for a trial testing the effect of tunable LED lighting on agitation and sleep for nursing home residents with dementia. Dr. McCreedy is also a Steering Committee member of the Technical and Data Core of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) IMbedded Pragmatic Alzheimer's disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) Clinical Trials (IMPACT) Collaboratory. She received her MPH in Global Health from the University of South Florida, her PhD in Health Services Research from the University of Minnesota, and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Brown University, Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research.
Research topics
- Medicine
- Nursing
- Computer Science
- Medical emergency
- Database
- Gerontology
- World Wide Web
- Family medicine
Selected publications
Advance Care Planning Video Intervention Among Long-Stay Nursing Home Residents
JAMA Internal Medicine · 2020 · 84 citations
Importance: Standardized, evidenced-based approaches to conducting advance care planning (ACP) in nursing homes are lacking. Objective: To test the effect of an ACP video program on hospital transfers, burdensome treatments, and hospice enrollment among long-stay nursing home residents with and without advanced illness. Design, Setting, and Participants: The Pragmatic Trial of Video Education in Nursing Homes was a pragmatic cluster randomized clinical trial conducted between February 1, 2016, a…
Impact of an Advance Care Planning Video Intervention on Care of Short‐Stay Nursing Home Patients
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2020 · 26 citations
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: To assess whether an advance care planning (ACP) video intervention impacts care among short-stay nursing home (NH) patients. DESIGN: PRagmatic trial of Video Education in Nursing Homes (PROVEN) was a pragmatic cluster randomized clinical trial. SETTING: A total of 360 NHs (N = 119 intervention, N = 241 control) owned by two healthcare systems. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 2,538 and 5,290 short-stay patients with advanced dementia or cardiopulmonary disease (advanced illness)…
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2020 · 22 citations
Embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) are embedded in healthcare systems as well as their data environments. For people living with dementia (PLWD), settings of care can be different from the general population and involve additional people whose information is also important. The ePCT designs have the opportunity to leverage data that becomes available through the normal delivery of care. They may be particularly valuable in Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease‐related dementia (AD/…
INQUIRY The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing · 2025-01-01 · 8 citations
reviewOpen accessThe Age-Friendly Health System (AFHS) movement has spread widely in recent years, with nearly 5000 healthcare organizations across the country recognized as Age-Friendly. Despite this broad recognition, there is little focus on how AFHS are implemented and the impact of implementation. The objectives of this study were to describe the strategies employed to support AFHS implementation in outpatient settings and to identify the measures used to evaluate implementation and effectiveness. We conduc…
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2024-10-21 · 1 citations
articleOpen accessPeople living with dementia (plwd) are often unable to live at home as long as desired due to limited home safety, personal health support, and community services.1 As the US population ages, dementia prevalence is also increasing. It is estimated that 14 million Americans will have dementia by 2060, an increase from 6.7 million in 2023.2 For many plwd, a diagnosis is made by a neurologist followed by a return to primary care, often with little guidance on the implications for the plwd and famil…
Frequent coauthors
- 126 shared
Vincent Mor
Providence College
- 92 shared
Rosa Baier
Providence College
- 78 shared
Kali S. Thomas
Johns Hopkins University
- 52 shared
Robert L Kane
- 44 shared
James L. Rudolph
Brown University
- 44 shared
Roee Gutman
- 38 shared
A. Lynn Snow
Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center
- 37 shared
Susan L. Mitchell
Harvard University
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