Browsing by Author "Block, Susan"

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    • Association Between the Medicare Hospice Benefit and Health Care Utilization and Costs for Patients With Poor-Prognosis Cancer 

      Obermeyer, Ziad; Makar, Maggie; Abujaber, Samer; Dominici, Francesca; Block, Susan Dale; Cutler, David M. (American Medical Association (AMA), 2014)
      Importance More patients with cancer use hospice currently than ever before, but there are indications that care intensity outside of hospice is increasing, and length of hospice stay decreasing. Uncertainties regarding ...

    • Associations between Caregiver-Perceived Delirium in Patients with Cancer and Generalized Anxiety in their Caregivers 

      Buss, Mary Kathleen; Vanderwerker, Lauren C.; Inouye, Sharon; Zhang, Baohui; Block, Susan Dale; Prigerson, Holly G. (Mary Ann Liebert Inc, 2007)
      Background: Delirium, a common complication of advanced cancer, may put caregivers at risk for poor mental health outcomes. We looked for a relationship between caregiver-perceived delirium in a patient with advanced cancer ...

    • Associations Between End-of-Life Discussions, Patient Mental Health, Medical Care Near Death, and Caregiver Bereavement Adjustment 

      Wright, Alexi; Zhang, Baohui; Ray, Alaka; Mack, Jennifer; Trice, Elizabeth; Balboni, Tracy; Mitchell, Susan; Jackson, Vicki; Block, Susan; Maciejewski, Paul; Prigerson, Holly (American Medical Association (AMA), 2008-10-08)
      Context Talking about death can be difficult. Without evidence that end-of-life (EOL) discussions improve patient outcomes, physicians must balance their desire to honor patient autonomy against a concern that EOL discussions ...

    • Coping styles, health status and advance care planning in patients with hematologic malignancies 

      Loberiza, Fausto R.; Swore-Fletcher, Barbara A.; Block, Susan Dale; Back, Anthony L.; Goldman, Roberta E.; Tulsky, James Aaron; Lee, Stephanie J. (Informa UK Limited, 2011)
      This study evaluated if measures of psychological well-being, including coping style are associated with advance care planning (ACP). Data were from the HEMA-COMM study, a prospective observational study of physician-patient ...

    • Development of the Serious Illness Care Program: a randomised controlled trial of a palliative care communication intervention 

      Bernacki, Rachelle; Hutchings, Mathilde; Vick, Judith; Smith, Grant; Paladino, Joanna; Lipsitz, Stuart; Gawande, Atul A; Block, Susan D (BMJ Publishing Group, 2015)
      Introduction: Ensuring that patients receive care that is consistent with their goals and values is a critical component of high-quality care. This article describes the protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial ...

    • Influence of Patients' Preferences and Treatment Site on Cancer Patients' End-of-Life Care 

      Wright, Alexi Anne; Mack, Jennifer Williams; Kritek, Patricia A.; Balboni, Tracy; Massaro, Anthony Francis; Matulonis, Ursula Anne; Block, Susan Dale; Prigerson, Holly (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
      BACKGROUND: Research suggests that patients' end-of-life (EOL) care is determined primarily by the medical resources available, and not by patient preferences. The authors examined whether patients' desire for life-extending ...

    • Information giving and receiving in hematological malignancy consultations 

      Alexander, Stewart C.; Stewart, Susan K.; Sullivan, Amy Marie; Back, Anthony L.; Tulsky, James Aaron; Goldman, Roberta E.; Block, Susan Dale; Wilson-Genderson, Maureen; Lee, Stephanie J. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
      Purpose Little is known about communication with patients suffering from hematologic malignancies, many of whom are seen by subspecialists in consultation at tertiary-care centers. These subspecialized consultations ...

    • Prolonged Grief Disorder: Psychometric Validation of Criteria Proposed for DSM-V and ICD-11 

      Prigerson, Holly G; Horowitz, Mardi J.; Jacobs, Selby C.; Parkes, Colin M.; Aslan, Mihaela; Goodkin, Karl; Raphael, Beverley; Marwit, Samuel J.; Wortman, Camille; Neimeyer, Robert A.; Bonanno, George; Block, Susan Dale; Kissane, David; Boelen, Paul; Maercker, Andreas; Litz, Brett T.; Johnson, Jeffrey G.; First, Michael B.; Maciejewski, Paul K (Public Library of Science, 2009)
      Background: Bereavement is a universal experience, and its association with excess morbidity and mortality is well established. Nevertheless, grief becomes a serious health concern for a relative few. For such individuals, ...