Selected Publications
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- The Prevalence of Cognitive Impairment Among Medicare Beneficiaries Who Use Outpatient Physical Therapy.. Physical therapy. 104. 2024
- Paid Care for People with Functional Impairment and Serious Illness: Results from the Health and Retirement Study.. Journal of general internal medicine. 38:3355-3361. 2023
- Caring for aging parents in the last years of life.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 71:2871-2877. 2023
- Complex Care Needs at the End of Life for Seriously Ill Adults With Multiple Chronic Conditions.. Journal of hospice and palliative nursing : JHPN : the official journal of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association. 25:146-155. 2023
- The devil's in the details: Variation in estimates of late-life activity limitations across national cohort studies.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 71:858-868. 2022
- Functional and clinical needs of older hospice enrollees with coexisting dementia.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 71:785-798. 2022
- Symptom Management Experience of End-of-Life Family Caregivers: A Population-Based Study.. Journal of pain and symptom management. 64:513-520. 2022
- Assessing Health Care Use Trajectories After the Onset of Functional Disability: Application of a Group-Based Trajectory Model.. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences. 77:S31-S38. 2022
- Determinants of Total End-of-Life Health Care Costs of Medicare Beneficiaries: A Quantile Regression Forests Analysis.. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences. 77:1065-1071. 2022
- Fragmentation of care in the last year of life: Does dementia status matter?. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 70:2320-2329. 2022
- Prospective assessment of dementia on transitions in homeboundness using multistate Markov models.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 70:1117-1126. 2021
- Examining variation in state spending on medicaid long-term services and supports for older adults.. Home health care services quarterly. 41:54-64. 2021
- Impact of Comorbid Dementia on Patterns of Hospice Use.. Journal of palliative medicine. 25:396-404. 2021
- Prevalence of Memory-Related Diagnoses Among U.S. Older Adults With Early Symptoms of Cognitive Impairment.. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences. 76:1846-1853. 2021
- The Trauma Dyad: The Role of Informal Caregivers for Older Adults After Traumatic Injury.. Annals of surgery. 277:e907-e913. 2021
- Multiple Chronic Conditions among Seriously Ill Adults Receiving Palliative Care.. Western journal of nursing research. 45:-. 2021
- Association of Lifetime TBI and Military Employment with Late Life ADL Functioning: A Population-Based Prospective Cohort Study.. Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation. 102:2316-2324.e1. 2021
- Trends of hospitalizations among patients with both cancer and dementia diagnoses in New York 2007-2017.. Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands). 9:-. 2021
- Patterns of Material Hardship and Food Insecurity Among Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic.. Journal of general internal medicine. 36:3639-3641. 2021
- The Serious Illness Population: Ascertainment via Electronic Health Record or Claims Data.. Journal of pain and symptom management. 62:e148-e155. 2021
- Measuring communication quality in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.. Pediatric research. 91:816-819. 2021
- Virtual Geritalk: Improving Serious Illness Communication of Clinicians Who Care for Older Adults.. Journal of pain and symptom management. 62:e206-e212. 2021
- The Digital Divide: Do Older Adults with Serious Illness Access Telemedicine?. Journal of general internal medicine. 37:984-986. 2021
- Family Caregiving for Those With and Without Dementia in the Last 10 Years of Life.. JAMA internal medicine. 181:278-279. 2021
- Latent Class Analysis of Symptom Burden Among Seriously Ill Adults at the End of Life.. Nursing research. 70:443-454. 2021
- Population-Based Screening for Functional Disability in Older Adults.. Innovation in aging. 5:-. 2020
- Impact of a Novel Goals-of-Care Communication Skills Coaching Intervention for Practicing Oncologists.. Journal of palliative medicine. 24:838-845. 2020
- Family and Friend Perceptions of Quality of End-of-Life Care in Medicare Advantage vs Traditional Medicare.. JAMA network open. 3:-. 2020
- The Association Between Income and Incident Homebound Status Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 68:2594-2601. 2020
- Estimation of the Incident Homebound Population in the US Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries, 2012 to 2018.. JAMA internal medicine. 180:1022-1025. 2020
- Selecting Outcomes to Ensure Pragmatic Trials Are Relevant to People Living with Dementia.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 68 Suppl 2:S55-S61. 2020
- An Adapted Conceptual Model Integrating Palliative Care in Serious Illness and Multiple Chronic Conditions.. The American journal of hospice & palliative care. 37:1086-1095. 2020
- Switching Between Medicare Advantage And Traditional Medicare Before And After The Onset Of Functional Disability.. Health affairs (Project Hope). 39:809-818. 2020
- Residential Setting and the Cumulative Financial Burden of Dementia in the 7 Years Before Death.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 68:1319-1324. 2020
- Lifetime history of traumatic brain injury is associated with increased loneliness in adults: A US nationally representative study.. International journal of geriatric psychiatry. 35:553-563. 2020
- The Epidemiology of Depressive Symptoms in the Last Year of Life.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 68:321-328. 2019
- Development and Validation of the ACP-CAT for Assessing the Quality of Advance Care Planning Communication.. Journal of pain and symptom management. 59:1-8.e3. 2019
- Defining Serious Illness Among Adult Surgical Patients.. Journal of pain and symptom management. 58:844-850.e2. 2019
- The National Palliative Care Registry: A Decade of Supporting Growth and Sustainability of Palliative Care Programs.. Journal of palliative medicine. 22:1026-1031. 2019
- One-Year Mortality After Dialysis Initiation Among Older Adults.. JAMA internal medicine. 179:987-990. 2019
- Candidate Claims-Based Indicators of Functional Impairment: An Exploration in a Sample of Medicare Beneficiaries.. Journal of pain and symptom management. 58:e8-e11. 2019
- Advance Care Planning Codes-Getting Paid for Quality Care.. JAMA internal medicine. 179:830-831. 2019
- Spousal Caregivers Are Caregiving Alone In The Last Years Of Life.. Health affairs (Project Hope). 38:964-972. 2019
- Emotional Quality of Life After Radiation Therapy for Oropharyngeal Carcinoma.. Advances in radiation oncology. 4:674-682. 2019
- An Examination of Downstream Effects of Bereavement on Healthcare Utilization for Surviving Spouses in a National Sample of Older Adults.. PharmacoEconomics. 37:585-596. 2019
- Identifying Older Adults With Serious Illness: Transitioning From ICD-9 to ICD-10.. Journal of pain and symptom management. 57:1137-1142. 2019
- Caregiving, Recovery, and Death After Incident ADL/IADL Disability Among Older Adults in the United States.. Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society. 39:393-397. 2019
- Managing Pain in Chronically Ill Homebound Patients Through Home-Based Primary and Palliative Care.. The American journal of hospice & palliative care. 36:333-338. 2018
- 'Til Death Do Us Part: End-of-Life Experiences of Married Couples in a Nationally Representative Survey.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 66:2360-2366. 2018
- High Burden of Palliative Care Needs of Older Adults During Emergency Major Abdominal Surgery.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 66:2072-2078. 2018
- Impact of In-Hospital Death on Spending for Bereaved Spouses.. Health services research. 53 Suppl 1:2696-2717. 2018
- Accountability for Community-Based Programs for the Seriously Ill.. Journal of palliative medicine. 21:S81-S87. 2017
- Identifying the Population with Serious Illness: The "Denominator" Challenge.. Journal of palliative medicine. 21:S7-S16. 2017
- The Denominator: Evolving the Electronic Medical Record To Discover Who Needs Palliative Care.. Journal of palliative medicine. 21:9-10. 2017
- Prospective Identification of Patients at Risk for Unwarranted Variation in Treatment.. Journal of palliative medicine. 21:44-54. 2017
- A National Profile Of End-Of-Life Caregiving In The United States.. Health affairs (Project Hope). 36:1184-1192. 2017
- Prospective Cohort Study of Hospitalized Adults With Advanced Cancer: Associations Between Complications, Comorbidity, and Utilization.. Journal of hospital medicine. 12:407-413. 2017
- Caregiving for Older Adults with Obesity in the United States.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 65:1939-1945. 2017
- Cost analysis of a prospective multi-site cohort study of palliative care consultation teams for adults with advanced cancer: Where do cost-savings come from?. Palliative medicine. 31:378-386. 2017
- The Use of Life-Sustaining Procedures in the Last Month of Life Is Associated With More Depressive Symptoms in Surviving Spouses.. Journal of pain and symptom management. 53:178-187.e1. 2016
- End-of-Life Discussions with Older Adults.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 64:1962-1967. 2016
- High Levels of Geriatric Palliative Care Needs in Hip Fracture Patients Before the Hip Fracture.. Journal of pain and symptom management. 52:533-538. 2016
- Impact of Inpatient Palliative Care on Treatment Intensity for Patients with Serious Illness.. Journal of palliative medicine. 19:936-42. 2016
- How U.S. Doctors Die: A Cohort Study of Healthcare Use at the End of Life.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 64:1061-7. 2016
- Identifying Older Adults with Serious Illness: A Critical Step toward Improving the Value of Health Care.. Health services research. 52:113-131. 2016
- Spousal Characteristics and Older Adults' Hospice Use: Understanding Disparities in End-of-Life Care.. Journal of palliative medicine. 19:509-15. 2016
- Advance Care Planning and HIV Infection in the Era of Antiretroviral Therapy: A Review.. Topics in antiviral medicine. 23:174-80. 2016
- Palliative Care Teams' Cost-Saving Effect Is Larger For Cancer Patients With Higher Numbers Of Comorbidities.. Health affairs (Project Hope). 35:44-53. 2016
- Predictors of Mortality Up to 1 Year After Emergency Major Abdominal Surgery in Older Adults.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 63:2572-2579. 2015
- The burden of health care costs for patients with dementia in the last 5 years of life.. Annals of internal medicine. 163:729-36. 2015
- The Myth Regarding the High Cost of End-of-Life Care.. American journal of public health. 105:2411-5. 2015
- Palliative Care for the Seriously Ill.. The New England journal of medicine. 373:747-55. 2015
- Association Between Hospice Use and Depressive Symptoms in Surviving Spouses.. JAMA internal medicine. 175:1138-46. 2015
- Epidemiology of the Homebound Population in the United States.. JAMA internal medicine. 175:1180-6. 2015
- Prospective Cohort Study of Hospital Palliative Care Teams for Inpatients With Advanced Cancer: Earlier Consultation Is Associated With Larger Cost-Saving Effect.. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 33:2745-52. 2015
- Factors influencing the use of intensive procedures at the end of life.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 62:2088-94. 2014
- Communication skills curriculum for foreign medical graduates in an internal medicine residency program.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 62:2153-8. 2014
- A standardized bleeding risk score aligns anticoagulation choices with current evidence.. Critical pathways in cardiology. 13:109-13. 2014
- Defining "serious illness".. Journal of palliative medicine. 17:-. 2014
- Methods for constructing and assessing propensity scores.. Health services research. 49:1701-20. 2014
- Leveraging the health and retirement study to advance palliative care research.. Journal of palliative medicine. 17:506-11. 2014
- The effectiveness of the Geritalk communication skills course: a real-time assessment of skill acquisition and deliberate practice.. Journal of pain and symptom management. 48:738-44.e1-6. 2014
- Health care utilization among homebound elders: does caregiver burden play a role?. Journal of aging and health. 25:1036-49. 2013
- Epidemiology of care for patients with serious illness.. Journal of palliative medicine. 16:730-3. 2013
- Hospice enrollment saves money for Medicare and improves care quality across a number of different lengths-of-stay.. Health affairs (Project Hope). 32:552-61. 2013
- Out-of-pocket spending in the last five years of life.. Journal of general internal medicine. 28:304-9. 2012
- Disability and decline in physical function associated with hospital use at end of life.. Journal of general internal medicine. 27:794-800. 2012
- Geritalk: communication skills training for geriatric and palliative medicine fellows.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 60:332-7. 2011
- Determinants of death in the hospital among older adults.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 59:2321-5. 2011
- Treatment intensity at end of life--time to act on the evidence.. Lancet (London, England). 378:1364-5. 2011
- Determinants of medical expenditures in the last 6 months of life.. Annals of internal medicine. 154:235-42. 2011
- Palliative care--a shifting paradigm.. The New England journal of medicine. 363:781-2. 2010
- Determinants of treatment intensity for patients with serious illness: a new conceptual framework.. Journal of palliative medicine. 13:807-13. 2010
- Opiniones: end-of-life care preferences and planning of older Latinos.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 58:1109-16. 2010
- Evidence for new standard of care in non-small cell lung cancer patients.. Seminars in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. 22:193-4. 2010
- Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator deactivation at the end of life: a physician survey.. American heart journal. 157:702-8.e1. 2009
- Management of patients with ICDs at the end of life (EOL): a qualitative study.. The American journal of hospice & palliative care. 25:440-6. 2008
- Pitfalls and recommendations regarding the management of acute pain among hospitalized patients with dementia.. Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.). 9:581-6. 2008
- Differential medical and surgical house staff involvement in end-of-life decisions: A retrospective chart review.. Journal of pain and symptom management. 32:110-7. 2006