2024
Clinician Insights into Effective Components, Delivery Characteristics, and Implementation Strategies of Ambulatory Palliative Care for People with Heart Failure: A Qualitative Analysis
Feder S, Iannone L, Lendvai D, Zhan Y, Akgün K, Ersek M, Luhrs C, Allen L, Bekelman D, Goldstein N, Kavalieratos D. Clinician Insights into Effective Components, Delivery Characteristics, and Implementation Strategies of Ambulatory Palliative Care for People with Heart Failure: A Qualitative Analysis. Journal Of Cardiac Failure 2024 PMID: 39098653, DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2024.07.009.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSpecialist palliative careVeterans Affairs Medical CenterCardiology cliniciansPalliative careImplementation strategiesDelivery characteristicsDiscussion of goals of careSpecialist palliative care cliniciansAmbulatory palliative careGoals of careGuideline-directed careQualitative descriptive studyAffairs Medical CenterSemi-structured interviewsCare deliveryAdvanced practiceLeadership supportVA systemReferral proceduresDescriptive studyAmbulatory settingClinicians insightCareHeart failureMedical CenterVariation in Uptake of Specialist Palliative Care Among People with Advanced Heart Failure Across VA Medical Centers
Zhan Y, Han L, Abel E, Akgun K, Redeker N, Feder S. Variation in Uptake of Specialist Palliative Care Among People with Advanced Heart Failure Across VA Medical Centers. Journal Of Pain And Symptom Management 2024, 67: e551-e552. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2024.02.339.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSpecialist palliative careVA Medical CenterDepartment of Veterans AffairsPalliative careVeterans AffairsRandom intercept multilevel logistic regressionPalliative care deliveryDelivery characteristicsMedical CenterMultilevel logistic regressionCare deliveryICD-9/10 codesAdvanced heart failureRetrospective cohort studyHealth careModifiable factorsCareTeam staffingCohort studyHeart failureLogistic regressionImplementation effortsIdentified factorsICD-9/10Study findings
2021
Palliative Care During a Pandemic
Feder S, Schulman-Green D, Akgün K. Palliative Care During a Pandemic. Respiratory Medicine 2021, 345-372. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-81788-6_18.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCare deliveryLung diseasePalliative careSevere acute respiratory syndromeChronic lung diseasePalliative care deliveryAcute respiratory syndromeDisease careRespiratory pathogensRespiratory syndromeFamily caregiversHealthcare providersPrevious pandemicsCarePatient autonomyDiseasePalliative communicationVirus pandemicPandemicDeliveryPatientsProvidersSyndromeCaregivers