Publications

End-of-Life Care

M. Collins, S. Block, R. Arnold, and N.A. Christakis, "On the Prospects for a Blame-Free Medical Culture," Social Science and Medicine  69(9): 1287-1290 (November 2009) MS#102

L. Jin and N.A. Christakis, "Investigating the Mechanism of Marital Mortality Reduction: The Transition to Widowhood and Quality of Health Care," Demography 46(3): 605-625 (August 2009) MS#100

M. Alexander and N.A. Christakis, "Bias and Asymmetric Loss in Expert Forecasts: A Study of Physician Prognostic Behavior with Respect to Patient Survival," Journal of Health Economics  27(4): 1095-1108 (July 2008) MS#086

W. Cadge, J. Freese, and N.A. Christakis, "The Provision of Hospital Chaplaincy in the United States: A National Overview," Southern Medical Journal  101(6): 626-630 (June 2008) MS#085

S.R. Connor, F. Elwert, C. Spence, and N.A. Christakis, "Racial Disparity in Hospice Use in the United States in 2002," Palliative Medicine  22(3): 205-213 (April 2008) MS#084

E.B. Lamont, J.E. Herndon, J. C. Weeks, I.C. Henderson, R. Lilenbaum, R.L. Schilsky, and N.A. Christakis, for the Cancer and Leukemia Group B, "Measuring Clinically Significant Chemo-therapy-Related Toxicities Using Medicare Claims from Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) Trial Participants," Medical Care  46(3): 303-308 (March 2008) MS#082

S.R. Connor, F. Elwert, C. Spence, and N.A. Christakis, "Geographic Variation in Hospice Use in the United States in 2002," Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 34(3): 277-285 (September 2007) MS#080

M. Wen and N.A. Christakis, "Prospective Effect of Community Distress and Subcultural Orientation on Mortality Following Life-Threatening Disease in Later Life," Sociology of Health and Illness  28(5): 558-582 (July 2006) MS#074

M. Wen, K.A. Cagney, and N.A. Christakis, "Effect of Specific Aspects of Community Social Environment on the Mortality of Individuals Diagnosed with Serious Illness," Social Science and Medicine  61(6): 1119-1134 (September 2005) MS#069

M. Wen and N.A. Christakis, "Neighborhood Effects on Post-Hospitalization Mortality: A Population-Based Cohort Study of the Elderly in Chicago," Health Services Research 40(4): 1108-1127 (August 2005) MS#068

N.A. Christakis and T.J. Iwashyna, "The Health Impact on Families of Health Care: A Matched Cohort Study of Hospice Use by Decedents and Mortality Outcomes in Surviving, Widowed Spouses," Social Science and Medicine  57(3): 465-475 (August 2003) MS#062

P. Glare, K. Virik, M. Jones, M. Hudson, S. Eychmuller, J. Simes, and N.A. Christakis, "A Systematic Review of Physicians' Survival Predictions in Terminally Ill Cancer Patients," British Medical Journal  327(7408): 195-200 (July 2003) MS#061

E.B. Lamont and N.A. Christakis, "Complexities in Prognostication in Advanced Cancer," JAMA  290(1): 98-104 (July 2003) MS#060

T.J. Iwashyna, V.W. Chang, J.X. Zhang, and N.A. Christakis, "The Lack of Effect of Market Structure on Hospice Use," Health Services Research  37(6): 1531-1551 (December 2002) MS#056

T.J. Iwashyna, J.X. Zhang, and N.A. Christakis, "Disease-Specific Patterns of Hospice and Related Healthcare Use in an Incidence Cohort of Seriously Ill Elderly Patients," Journal of Palliative Medicine  5(4): 531-538 (August 2002) MS#053

E.B. Lamont and N.A. Christakis, "Physician Factors in the Timing of Cancer Patient Referral to Hospice Palliative Care," Cancer  94(10): 2733-2737 (May 2002) MS#051

K.E. Steinhauser, N.A. Christakis, E.C. Clipp, M. McNeilly, S. Grambow, J. Parker, and J.A. Tulsky, "Preparing for the End of Life: Preferences of Patients, Families, Physicians, and Other Care Providers," Journal of Pain and Symptom Management  22(3): 727-737 (September 2001) MS#048

E.B. Lamont and N.A. Christakis, "Prognostic Disclosure to Patients with Cancer Near the End of Life," Annals of Internal Medicine  133(12): 1096-1105 (June 2001)
MS#046  (Editorial)

K.E. Steinhauser, N.A. Christakis, E.C. Clipp, M. McNeilly, L. McIntyre, and J.A. Tulsky, "Factors Considered Important at the End of Life by Patients, Family, Physicians, and Other Care Providers," JAMA  284(19): 2476-2482 (November 2000) MS#045

N.A. Christakis and T.J. Iwashyna, "The Impact of Individual and Market Factors on the Timing of Initiation of Hospice Terminal Care," Medical Care  38(5): 528-541 (May 2000) MS#043

K.E. Steinhauser, E.C. Clipp, M. McNeilly,  N.A. Christakis, L.M. McIntyre, and J.A.Tulsky,  "In Search of a Good Death: Observations of Patients, Families, and Providers," Annals of Internal Medicine  132(10): 825-832 (May 2000) MS#042

N.A. Christakis and E.B. Lamont, "Extent and Determinants of Error in Doctors' Prognoses for Terminally Ill Patients: Prospective Cohort Study," British Medical Journal  320(7233): 469-473 (February 2000); reprinted in The Western Journal of Medicine  172(5): 310-313 (May 2000) MS#041  (Editorial)

T.J. Iwashyna, N.A. Christakis, and L.B. Becker, "Neighborhoods Matter: A Population-Based Study of Provision of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation," Annals of Emergency Medicine  34(4): 459-468 (October 1999) MS#038

D.A. Asch, K. Faber-Langendoen, J.A. Shea, and N.A. Christakis, "The Sequence of Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment from Patients," American Journal of Medicine 107(2): 153-156 (August 1999) MS#036

E.B. Lamont and N.A. Christakis, "Some Elements of Prognosis in Terminal Cancer," Oncology  13(8): 1165-1170 (August 1999) MS#035

N.A. Christakis and T.J. Iwashyna, "Attitude and Self-Reported Practice Regarding Prognostication in a National Sample of Internists," Archives of Internal Medicine 158 (23): 2389-2395  (November 1998) MS#033

T.J. Iwashyna and N.A. Christakis, "Attitude and Self-Reported Practice Regarding Hospice Referral in a National Sample of Internists," Journal of Palliative Medicine 1(3): 241-248  (September 1998) MS#032

N.A. Christakis, "Predicting Patient Survival Before and After Hospice Enrollment," The Hospice Journal  13(1-2): 71-87 (March 1998) MS#031

N.A. Christakis and T.J. Iwashyna, "Spousal Illness Burden Is Associated with Delayed Use of Hospice Care in Terminally Ill Patients," Journal of Palliative Medicine  1(1): 3-10  (March 1998) MS#030

N.A. Christakis and J.J. Escarce, "Survival of Medicare Patients After Enrollment in Hospice Programs," New England Journal of Medicine  335(3): 172-178 (July 1996); partially reprinted in A.O. Berg, Year Book of Family Practice, St. Louis, MO: Mosby-Year Book, Inc., 1998 MS#026

N.A. Christakis and G.A. Sachs, "The Role of Prognosis in Clinical Decision Making," Journal of General Internal Medicine  11(7): 422-425 (July 1996) MS#025

D.A. Asch and N.A. Christakis, "Why Do Physicians Prefer to Withdraw Some Forms of Life Support Over Others?  Intrinsic Attributes of Life Sustaining Treatments Are Associated with Physicians’ Preferences," Medical Care  34(2): 103-111 (February 1996) MS#024

N.A. Christakis and D.A. Asch, "Medical Specialists Prefer to Withdraw Familiar Technologies When Discontinuing Life Support," Journal of General Internal Medicine 10(9): 491-494 (September 1995) MS#022

N.A. Christakis and D.A. Asch, "Physician Characteristics Associated with Decisions to Withdraw Life Support," American Journal of Public Health  85(3): 367-372 (March 1995) MS#020  (Editorial)

N.A. Christakis, "Timing of Referral of Terminally Ill Patients to an Outpatient Hospice," Journal of General Internal Medicine  9(6): 314-320 (June 1994) MS#016

N.A. Christakis and D.A. Asch, "Biases in How Physicians Choose to Withdraw Life Support," The Lancet  342(8872): 642-646 (September 1993); reprinted in Monash Bioethics Review  13(3): 24-33 (July 1994) MS#013

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