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Margaret L Schwarze, MD, MPP, FACS

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Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Madison, WI

I study decision making for older adults with life-limiting illnesses

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GEMSSTAR awardee

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1. Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know Before Their Patient Undergoes Surgery.. Journal of palliative medicine. 2024
2. "The Equipoise Ruler:" A National Survey on Surgeon Judgment about the Value of Surgery.. Annals of surgery. 2024
3. Preparing older adults for major abdominal surgery with preoperative comprehensive geriatric assessments: a three-phase research protocol using systems engineering and implementation science (Preprint). JMIR Research Protocols. 2024
4. Palliative Care Training in Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship: A Cross-Sectional Survey.. Kidney360. 4:1437-1444. 2023
5. Identifying Patterns in Preoperative Communication about High-Risk Surgical Intervention: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.. Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making. 43:487-497. 2023
6. Factors Associated With Provision of Nonbeneficial Surgery: A National Survey of Surgeons.. Annals of surgery. 277:405-411. 2022
7. Best Case/Worst Case: protocol for a multisite randomised clinical trial of a scenario planning intervention for patients with kidney failure.. BMJ open. 12:-. 2022
8. Surgical Overtreatment and Shared Decision-making-The Limits of Choice.. JAMA surgery. 157:5-6. 2022
9. How to Support Patients Near the End of Life Whose Pain Is Best Treated With Surgery?. AMA journal of ethics. 23:E772-777. 2021
10. Top ten strategies to enhance grant-writing success.. Surgery. 170:1727-1731. 2021
11. Frequency of Preoperative Advance Care Planning for Older Adults Undergoing High-risk Surgery: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.. JAMA surgery. 156:-. 2021
12. Qualitative Analysis of Single-Site Headache Surgery: Is It Different From Multiple-Site Surgery?. Annals of plastic surgery. 87:73-79. 2021
13. Benefits of Clear Masks in Communication With Patients.. JAMA surgery. 156:378-379. 2021
14. Best Case/Worst Case: ICU (COVID-19)-A Tool to Communicate with Families of Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19.. Palliative medicine reports. 1:3-4. 2020
15. Opportunities to Improve Shared Decision Making in Dialysis Decisions for Older Adults with Life-Limiting Kidney Disease: A Pilot Study.. Journal of palliative medicine. 23:627-634. 2020
16. Effectiveness of a Question Prompt List Intervention for Older Patients Considering Major Surgery: A Multisite Randomized Clinical Trial.. JAMA surgery. 155:6-13. 2020
17. Surgery Hurts: Characterizing the Experience of Pain in Surgical Patients as Witnessed by Medical Students.. Journal of surgical education. 76:1506-1515. 2019
18. Cost and Outcomes Information Should Be Part of Shared Decision Making-Reply.. JAMA surgery. 154:-. 2019
19. Risk Calculators and Decision Aids Are Not Enough for Shared Decision Making.. JAMA surgery. 154:3-4. 2019
20. Using Implementation Science to Adapt a Training Program to Assist Surgeons with High-Stakes Communication.. Journal of surgical education. 76:165-173. 2018
21. Hospice Use and End-of-Life Care for Patients With End-stage Renal Disease: Too Little, Too Late.. JAMA internal medicine. 178:799-801. 2018
22. Patient-reported Limitations to Surgical Buy-in: A Qualitative Study of Patients Facing High-risk Surgery.. Annals of surgery. 265:97-102. 2017
23. Conflict in the intensive care unit: Nursing advocacy and surgical agency.. Nursing ethics. 25:69-79. 2016
24. Constructing High-stakes Surgical Decisions: It's Better to Die Trying.. Annals of surgery. 263:64-70. 2016
25. Primary care physician decision making regarding severe obesity treatment and bariatric surgery: a qualitative study.. Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery. 12:893-901. 2015
26. Using time-limited trials to improve surgical care for frail older adults.. Annals of surgery. 261:639-41. 2015
27. Beyond 30-day mortality: aligning surgical quality with outcomes that patients value.. JAMA surgery. 149:631-2. 2014
28. The role of surgeon error in withdrawal of postoperative life support.. Annals of surgery. 256:10-5. 2012
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1. Testing Whether Providing Older Patients with a List of Questions to Ask Their Surgeons Improves Decision Making and Well-Being 2020