selected publications
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academic article
- Measurement of Allostatic Load in Caregivers of Older Hispanic People With Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders.. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders. 38:178-188. 2024
- Unexpected lucidity in dementia: application of qualitative methods to develop an informant-reported lucidity measure.. Aging & mental health. 27:2395-2402. 2023
- Reports About Paradoxical Lucidity from Health Care Professionals: A Pilot Study.. Journal of gerontological nursing. 49:18-26. 2023
- The use of subjective cognitive complaints for detecting mild cognitive impairment in older adults across cultural and linguistic groups: A comparison of the Cognitive Function Instrument to the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association. 19:1764-1774. 2022
- Application of Machine Learning Techniques to Examine Social Service Needs Among Hispanic Family Caregivers of Persons with Dementia.. Studies in health technology and informatics. 507-510. 2022
- Guidelines for Designing and Evaluating Feasibility Pilot Studies.. Medical Care. 60:95-103. 2022
- Plasma Amyloid and in vivo Brain Amyloid in Late Middle-Aged Hispanics.. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD. 87:1229-1238. 2022
- Differential Item Functioning Analyses of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®) Measures: Methods, Challenges, Advances, and Future Directions.. Psychometrika. 86:674-711. 2021
- Sex differences in in vivo tau neuropathology in a multiethnic sample of late middle-aged adults.. Neurobiology of aging. 109-116. 2021
- Challenges in Measuring Applied Cognition: Measurement Properties and Equivalence of the Functional Assessment in Acute Care Multidimensional Computerized Adaptive Test (FAMCAT) Applied Cognition Item Bank.. Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation. 103:S118-S139. 2021
- In Vivo Amyloid, Neurodegeneration, and Verbal Learning in Late Middle-Aged Hispanics.. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD. 82:317-325. 2021
- Guidelines for Evaluating the Feasibility of Recruitment in Pilot Studies of Diverse Populations: An Overlooked but Important Component.. Ethnicity & disease. 30:745-754. 2020
- Metabolic syndrome and its components in relation to in vivo brain amyloid and neurodegeneration in late middle age.. Neurobiology of aging. 89-96. 2020
- Brain Amyloid Burden and Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Late Middle-Aged Hispanics.. Frontiers in neurology. -. 2020
- Evaluation of measurement equivalence of the Family Satisfaction with the End-of-Life Care (FAMCARE): Tests of differential item functioning between Hispanic and non-Hispanic White caregivers.. Palliative & supportive care. 18:544-556. 2020
- Apolipoprotein E. Neurology. 95:e2086-e2094. 2020
- Evaluation of the measurement properties of the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) in Hispanic caregivers to patients with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.. International psychogeriatrics. 32:1073-1084. 2020
- Pre-Diabetes, but not Type 2 Diabetes, Is Related to Brain Amyloid in Late Middle-Age.. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD. 75:1241-1252. 2020
- Sex Differences in in vivo Alzheimer's Disease Neuropathology in Late Middle-Aged Hispanics.. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD. 74:1243-1252. 2020
- Psychometric Properties of a Spanish-Language Version of a Short-Form FAMCARE: Applications to Caregivers of Patients With Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias.. Journal of family nursing. 25:557-589. 2019
- Commentary: Copyright Restrictions Versus Open Access to Survey Instruments.. Medical Care. 56:107-110. 2018
- Glycemia, Diabetes Status, and Cognition in Hispanic Adults Aged 55-64 Years.. Psychosomatic medicine. 77:653-63. 2015
- Mild cognitive dysfunction does not affect diabetes mellitus control in minority elderly adults.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 62:2363-8. 2014
- Depression is not associated with diabetes control in minority elderly.. Journal of diabetes and its complications. 28:798-804. 2014
- Introduction to patient-reported outcome item banks: issues in minority aging research.. Expert review of pharmacoeconomics & outcomes research. 13:183-6. 2013
- Advancing PROMIS's methodology: results of the Third Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS(®)) Psychometric Summit.. Expert review of pharmacoeconomics & outcomes research. 11:677-84. 2011
- A comparison of item response theory-based methods for examining differential item functioning in object naming test by language of assessment among older Latinos.. Psychological test and assessment modeling. 53:440-460. 2011
- Advancing PROMIS's methodology: results of the Third Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®) Psychometric Summit. Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research. 2011
- Analysis of differential item functioning in the depression item bank from the Patient Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS): An item response theory approach.. Psychology science quarterly. 51:148-180. 2009
- A comparison of three sets of criteria for determining the presence of differential item functioning using ordinal logistic regression.. Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation. 69-84. 2007
- Psychometric evaluation and calibration of health-related quality of life item banks: plans for the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS).. Medical care. 45:S22-31. 2007
- IRT health outcomes data analysis project: an overview and summary.. Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation. 121-32. 2007
- A comparison of three sets of criteria for determining the presence of differential item functioning using ordinal logistic regression. Quality of Life Research. 2007
- IRT health outcomes data analysis project: an overview and summary. Quality of Life Research. 2007
- Psychometric evaluation and calibration of health-related quality of life item banks - Plans for the patient-reported outcomes measurement information system (PROMIS). Medical Care. 2007