2024
Use of Hospice and End-of-Life Care Quality Among Medical Centers with High Versus Lower Specialist Palliative Care Reach Among People with Heart Failure: An Observational Study
Feder S, Han L, Zhan Y, Abel E, Akgün K, Fried T, Ersek M, Redeker N. Use of Hospice and End-of-Life Care Quality Among Medical Centers with High Versus Lower Specialist Palliative Care Reach Among People with Heart Failure: An Observational Study. Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2024 PMID: 39515377, DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2024.0182.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSpecialist palliative careVeterans Affairs Medical CenterEnd of lifeCare qualityInpatient hospiceEnd of life outcomesUse of hospiceInpatient hospice careMedical CenterMultilevel logistic regressionFamilies of patientsAffairs Medical CenterHospice carePalliative careRetrospective cohort studyAdvanced heart failureBlack adultsHospiceCohort studyFacility rateLogistic regressionStudy outcomesObservational studyCareHeart failure
2017
Oncologists’ experiences with goals of care conversations.
Smith C, Solomon R, Lin J, Feder S, Bickell N, Schulman-Green D. Oncologists’ experiences with goals of care conversations. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2017, 35: 50-50. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2017.35.31_suppl.50.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchGOC conversationsGOC discussionsCare conversationsYounger patient ageGoals of careActive patient participationCommunication training interventionsASCO guidelinesEnd of lifePatient ageAdvanced cancerCare discussionsPatient's failurePatients' beliefsOncologists' experiencesTreatment goalsPatient participationCancer severityCare plansRural hospitalsOncologistsPatientsCommunication interventionsInterpretive descriptionTraining intervention