2018
Does Caregiving Strain Increase as Patients With and Without Dementia Approach the End of Life?
Vick J, Ornstein K, Szanton S, Dy S, Wolff J. Does Caregiving Strain Increase as Patients With and Without Dementia Approach the End of Life? Journal Of Pain And Symptom Management 2018, 57: 199-208.e2. PMID: 30453054, PMCID: PMC6348024, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2018.11.004.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEnd of lifeDementia caregiversOlder adultsNondementia caregiversCaregivers of older adultsCommunity-living older adultsEnd-of-life statusHigher caregiver strainOlder adult deathsPrevalence of dementiaProportion of caregiversCare of personsMedicare enrollment filesEnd-of-lifeNationally representative sampleMultivariate logistic regressionFamily caregiversCaregiving strainCaregiver strainCaregiver factorsProviding careSelf-careEnrollment filesPrimary caregiversCaregivers
2015
The utility of the surprise question in identifying patients most at risk of death.
Vick J, Pertsch N, Hutchings M, Neville B, Lipsitz S, Gawande A, Block S, Bernacki R. The utility of the surprise question in identifying patients most at risk of death. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2015, 33: 8-8. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2015.33.29_suppl.8.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSurprise QuestionRisk of deathOncology cliniciansSerious Illness Care ProgramEnd-of-life goalsEnd-of-lifeDana-Farber Cancer InstituteRandomized controlled trialsHigher risk of deathCare programPropensity score approachStructural interventionsPrediction of patient deathC-statisticCancer InstitutePredictive of deathComplete dataPatient deathDana-FarberCancer stageCliniciansIllness phasePredictive valueHigh riskProportion of survival