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Death Foretold: Prophecy and Prognosis in Medical Care by Nicholas Christakis (cover)N.A. Christakis, Death Foretold: Prophecy and Prognosis in Medical Care, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1999.  (Japanese translation published by Minerva Press, Tokyo, 2006.) 
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Prognosis in Advanced Cancer by Nicholas Christakis (cover)P. Glare and N.A. Christakis, eds., Prognosis in Advanced Cancer, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine, 4th Edition, Christakis (cover)G. Hanks, N. Cherny, S. Kaasa, R. Portenoy, N.A. Christakis, and M. Fallon, eds., Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine, 4th ed., Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2009.

 

 

Original, Peer Reviewed Articles 

N.A. Christakis, “Do Medical Student Research Subjects Need Special Protection?” IRB: A Review of Human Subjects Research  7(3): 1-4 (June 1985) MS#001

B. Kachar, N.A. Christakis, T.S. Reese, and N.J. Lane, “The Intramembrane Structure of Septate Junctions Based on Direct Freezing,” Journal of Cell Science  80: 13-28 (February 1986) MS#002

N.A. Christakis and M.J. Panner, “Baby Fae and the Media: How the Law Allows Appropriate Access,” IRB: A Review of Human Subjects Research  8(2): 5-7 (April 1986) MS#003

M.J. Panner and N.A. Christakis, “The Limits of Science in On-The-Job Drug Screening,” Hastings Center Report  16(6): 7-12 (December 1986); partially reprinted in Drug Abuse, J.S. Bach, ed., St. Paul, MN: Greenhaven Press, 1988, p. 106-111 MS#004

N.A. Christakis, “Should IRB’s Monitor Research More Strictly?” IRB: A Review of Human Subjects Research  10(2): 8-10 (April 1988) MS#005

N.A. Christakis, “The Ethical Design of an AIDS Vaccine Trial in Africa,” Hastings Center Report  18(3): 31-37 (June 1988); reprinted in Applied Ethics: A Multicultural Approach, L. May and S.C. Sharratt, eds., Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1994, p. 421-430 MS#006

N.A. Christakis, “Responding to a Pandemic: International Interests in AIDS Control,” Daedalus  118(2): 113-134 (Spring 1989); reprinted in Living with AIDS, S.R. Graubard, ed., Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990, p. 329-351 MS#007

N.A. Christakis and M.J. Panner, “Appropriate Collaboration Between Industry and Government in the Development of an AIDS Vaccine,” Law, Medicine & Health Care  17(2): 130-138 (Summer 1989) MS#008

N.A. Christakis, L.A. Lynn, and A. Castelo, “Clinical AIDS Research that Evaluates Cost-Effectiveness in the Developing World,” IRB: A Review of Human Subjects Research  13(4): 6-8 (August 1991) MS#009

N.A. Christakis and M.J. Panner, “Existing International Ethical Guidelines for Human Subjects Research: Some Open Questions,” Law, Medicine & Health Care  19(3-4): 214-221 (Winter 1991); partially reprinted in Emerging Policies for Biomedical Research, W.N. Kelley, M. Osterweis, E. Rubin, eds., Washington, DC: Association of Academic Health Centers, 1993 MS#010

E.T. Ryan, J.L. Ecker, N.A. Christakis, and J. Folkman, “Hirschsprung’s Disease: Associated Abnormalities and Demography,” Journal of Pediatric Surgery  27(1): 76-81 (January 1992) MS#011

N.A. Christakis, “Ethics Are Local: Engaging Cross-Cultural Variation in the Ethics for Clinical Research,” Social Science and Medicine  35(9): 1079-1091 (October 1992); partially reprinted in Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Research with Humans, J. Arras, R. Crouch, E. Emanuel, C Grady, and J. Moreno, eds., Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming. MS#012

N.A. Christakis and D.A. Asch, “Biases in How Physicians Choose to Withdraw Life Support,” The Lancet  324: 642-646 (September 1993); reprinted in Monash Bioethics Review  13(3): 24-33 (July 1994) MS#013

K.A. Schulman, R. McDonald, I. Frank, L.A. Lynn, N.A. Christakis, and J.S. Schwartz, “Screening Surgeons for HIV Infection: Assessment of a Potential Public Health Program,” Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology  15(3): 147-155 (March 1994) MS#014

D.A. Asch and N.A. Christakis, “Different Response Rates in a Trial of Two Envelope Styles in Mail Survey Research,” Epidemiology  5(5): 364-365 (May 1994) MS#015

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

P.D. Allison and N.A. Christakis, “Logit Models for Sets of Ranked Items,” Sociological Methodology  24: 199-228 (Summer 1994) MS#017

C. Feudtner, D.A. Christakis, and N.A. Christakis, “Do Clinical Clerks Suffer Ethical Erosion?  Students’ Perceptions of Their Ethical Environment and Their Personal Development,” Academic Medicine  69(8): 670-679 (August 1994) MS#018

N.A. Christakis, J.A. Jacobs, and C.M. Messikomer, “Change in Self-Definition from Specialist to Generalist in a National Sample of Physicians,” Annals of Internal Medicine  121(9): 669-675 (November 1994) MS#019

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

N.A. Christakis, “The Similarity and Frequency of Proposals to Reform U.S. Medical Education: Constant Concerns,” JAMA  274(9): 706-711 (September 1995) MS#021

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

R.C. Fox and N.A. Christakis, “Perish and Publish: Non-Heart-Beating Organ Donation and Unduly Iterative Ethical Review,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal  5(4): 335-342 (December 1995) MS#023

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

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, “The Ellipsis of Prognosis in Modern Medical Thought,” Social Science and Medicine  44(3): 301-315 (February 1997) MS#027

D.A. Asch, M.K. Jedrziewski, and N.A. Christakis, “Response Rates to Mail Surveys Published in Medical Journals,” Journal of Clinical Epidemiology  50(10): 1129-1136 (October 1997) MS#028

D.A. Asch, N.A. Christakis, and P.A. Ubel, “Conducting Physician Mail Surveys on a Limited Budget: A Randomized Trial Comparing $2 Bill Versus $5 Bill Incentives,” Medical Care  36(1): 95-99  (January 1998) MS#029

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, “Predicting Patient Survival Before and After Hospice Enrollment,” The Hospice Journal  13(1&2): 71-87 (March 1998) MS#031

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 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, J. Zhang, D. Lauderdale, and N.A. Christakis, “A Methodology for Identifying Married Couples in Medicare Data: Mortality, Morbidity, and Health Care Use Among the Married Elderly,” Demography  35(4): 413-419  (November 1998) MS#034

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

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. Becher and N.A. Christakis, “Firearm Injury Prevention Counseling: Are We Missing the Mark?” Pediatrics  104(3): 530-535 (September 1999) MS#037

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

J. Zhang, T.J. Iwashyna, N.A. Christakis, “The Performance of Different Lookback Periods and Sources of Information for Charlson Comorbidity Adjustment in Medicare Claims,” Medical Care  37(11): 1128-1139 (November 1999) MS#039

N.A. Christakis, “Prognostication and Bioethics,” Daedalus  128(4): 197-214 (Fall 1999) MS#040

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: 469-473 (February 2000); reprinted in Western Journal of Medicine  172: 310-313 (May 2000) MS#041

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 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

T.J. Iwashyna, J. Zhang, D. Lauderdale, and N.A. Christakis, “Refinements of a Methodology for Detecting Married Couples in the Medicare Data,” Demography  37(2): 251-252 (May 2000) MS#044

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: 2476-2482 (November 2000) MS#045

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

V.W. Chang and N.A. Christakis, “Extent and Determinants of Discrepancy Between Self-Evaluations of Weight Status and Clinical Standards,” Journal of General Internal Medicine  16(8): 538-543 (August 2001) MS#047

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, D.S. Lauderdale, R.L. Schilsky, and N.A. Christakis, “Construct Validity of Medicare Chemotherapy Claims: The Case of 5FU,” Medical Care  40(3): 201-211 (March 2002) MS#049

V.W. Chang and N.A. Christakis, “Medical Modeling of Obesity: A Transition from Action to Experience in a 20th Century American Medical Textbook,” Sociology of Health and Illness  24(2): 151-177 (March 2002) MS#050

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

N.A. Christakis, T.J. Iwashyna, and J.X. Zhang, “Care After the Onset of Serious Illness (COSI): A Novel Claims-Based Dataset Exploiting Substantial Cross-Set Linkages to Study End-of-Life Care,” Journal of Palliative Medicine  5(4): 515-529 (August 2002) MS#052

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

T.J. Iwashyna, F. Curlin, and N.A. Christakis, “Racial, Ethnic, and Affluence Differences in Elderly Patients’ Use of Teaching Hospitals,” Journal of General Internal Medicine  17(9): 696-703 (September 2002) MS#054

T.J. Iwashyna, G. Brennan, J.X. Zhang, and N.A. Christakis, “Finding Married Couples in Medicare Claims Data,” Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology  3(1): 75-86 (December 2002) MS#055

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

K.E. Steinhauser, H.B. Bosworth, E.C. Clipp, M. McNeilly, N.A. Christakis, J. Parker, and J.A. Tulsky, “Initial Assessment of a New Instrument to Measure Quality of Life at the End of Life,” Journal of Palliative Medicine   5(6): 829-841 (December 2002) MS#057

V.W. Chang and N.A. Christakis, “Self-Perception of Weight Appropriateness in the U.S.,” American Journal of Preventive Medicine  24(4): 332-339 (May 2003) MS#058

E.B. Lamont, N.A. Christakis, and D.S. Lauderdale, “Favorable Cardiovascular Risk Among Elderly Breast Carcinoma Survivors,” Cancer  98:2-10 (July 2003) MS#059

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

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: 195-200 (July 2003) MS#061

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

T.J. Iwashyna and N.A. Christakis, “Marriage, Widowhood, and Health Care Use,” Social Science and Medicine  57(11): 2137-2147  (December 2003) MS#063

N.A. Christakis, “Social Networks and Collateral Health Effects – Have Been Ignored in Medical Care and Clinical Trials, But Need to Be Studied,” British Medical Journal 329: 184-185 (July 2004) MS#064

V.W. Chang and N.A. Christakis,  “Income Inequality and Weight Status in U.S. Metropolitan Areas,” Social Science and Medicine  61(1): 83-96  (July 2005) MS#065

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, “Criterion Validity of Medicare Chemotherapy Claims in Cancer and Leukemia Group B Breast and Lung Cancer Trial Participants,” Journal of the National Cancer Institute  97(14): 1080-1083 (July 2005) MS#066

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#067

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#068

M. Maltoni, A. Caraceni, C. Brunelli, B. Broeckaert, N.A. Christakis, S. Eychmueller, P. Glare, M. Nabal, A. Viganò, P. Larkin, F. De Conno, G. Hanks, and S. Kaasa, “Prognostic Factors in Advanced Cancer Patients: Evidence-Based Clinical Recommendations,” Journal of Clinical Oncology  23(25): 6240-6248 (September 2005) MS#069

K.E. Steinhauser, C.I. Voils, E.C. Clipp, H.B. Bosworth, N.A. Christakis, and J.A. Tulsky, “’Are You at Peace?’ One Item to Probe Spiritual Concerns at the End of Life,” Archives of Internal Medicine  166(1): 101-105 (January 2006) MS#070

N.A. Christakis and P.D. Allison, “Mortality After the Hospitalization of a Spouse,” New England Journal of Medicine  354(7): 719-730 (February 2006) MS#071

F. Elwert and N.A. Christakis, “Widowhood and Race,” ASR: American Sociological Review  71(1): 16-41 (February 2006) MS#072 (For supplementary online material about this paper, click here.)

M. Wen and N.A. Christakis, “Prospewctive 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#073

P.D. Allison and N.A. Christakis, “Fixed Effects Methods for the Analysis of Non-Repeated Events,” Sociological Methodology  36(1): 155-172 (Summer 2006) MS#074

E.B. Lamont, J.E. Herndon, J.C. Weeks, I.C. Henderson, C.C. Earle, R.L. Schilsky, and N.A. Christakis, for the Cancer and Leukemia Group B, “Measuring Disease-Free Survival and Cancer Relapse Using Medicare Claims from CALGB Breast Cancer Trial Participants,” Journal of the National Cancer Institute  98(18): 1335-1338(September 2006) MS#075

K. E. Steinhauser, E. C. Clipp, J. C. Hays, M. Olsen, R. Arnold,  N.A. Christakis,  J.H. Lindquist,  and J.A. Tulsky, “Identifying, Recruiting, And Retaining Seriously-Ill Patients And Their Caregivers in Longitudinal Research At The End Of Life,” Palliative Medicine  20(8): 745-754 (December 2006) MS#076

N.A. Christakis and J.H. Fowler, “The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network Over 32 Years,” New England Journal of Medicine  357(4): 370-379 (July 2007) MS#077 (For supplementary online material about this paper, click here.)

K. Zivin and N.A. Christakis, “The Emotional Toll of Spousal Morbidity and Mortality,” American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 15 (9): 772-779 (September 2007) MS#078

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#079

W. Cadge, J. Freese, and N.A. Christakis, “The Provision of Hospital Chaplaincy in the United States: A National Overview,” Southern Medical Journal in press

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 CALGB Breast and Lung Cancer Trial Participants,” Medical Care  forthcoming (2008)

S.V. Subramanian, F. Elwert, and N.A. Christakis, “Widowhood and Mortality Among the Elderly: The Modifying Role of Neighborhood Concentration of Widowed Individuals” Social Science and Medicine  forthcoming (2008)

K.P. Smith and N.A. Christakis, “Health and Social Networks,” Annual Review of Sociology  forthcoming (2008)

F. Elwert and N.A. Christakis, “Variation in the Effect of Widowhood on Mortality by the Causes of Death of Both Spouses,” American Journal of Public Health  forthcoming (July 2008)

M. Alexander and N.A. Christakis, “Bias and Asymmetric Loss in Expert Forecasts: A Study of Physician Prognostic Behavior,” Journal of Health Economics  forthcoming (2008)

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