Excess deaths associated with covid-19 pandemic in 2020: age and sex disaggregated time series analysis in 29 high income countries

N Islam, VM Shkolnikov, RJ Acosta, I Klimkin, I Kawachi… - bmj, 2021 - bmj.com
Objective To estimate the direct and indirect effects of the covid-19 pandemic on mortality in
2020 in 29 high income countries with reliable and complete age and sex disaggregated …

[HTML][HTML] Healthy aging requires a healthy home care workforce: the occupational safety and health of home care aides

MM Quinn, PK Markkanen, CJ Galligan… - Current Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review To identify important home care (HC) aide occupational safety
and health (OSH) hazards and examine how addressing these can improve aide health and …

Getting to patient-centered care in a post–Covid-19 digital world: a proposal for novel surveys, methodology, and patient experience maturity assessment

A Boissy - NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery, 2020 - catalyst.nejm.org
Patient-, person-, and relationship-centered care are essential to the development of patient
experience and ultimately will benefit all stakeholders. Today, however, these terms are …

[HTML][HTML] The family caregiving crisis meets an actual pandemic

EE Kent, KA Ornstein, JN Dionne-Odom - Journal of pain and symptom …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic presents unique challenges
to those who work with the seriously ill population, including both health care providers and …

Evaluation of racial disparities in hospice use and end-of-life treatment intensity in the REGARDS cohort

KA Ornstein, DL Roth, J Huang, EB Levitan… - JAMA network …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Although hospice use is increasing and patients in the US are increasingly dying
at home, racial disparities in treatment intensity at the end of life, including hospice use …

Population-based trends in complexity of hospital inpatients

H Naik, TM Murray, M Khan… - JAMA Internal …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Clinical experience suggests that hospital inpatients have become more
complex over time, but few studies have evaluated this impression. Objective To assess …

Deficits in advance care planning for patients with decompensated cirrhosis at liver transplant centers

AA Patel, GW Ryan, D Tisnado, E Chuang… - JAMA internal …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The burden of end-of-life care for patients with cirrhosis is increasing in the US,
and most of these patients, many of whom are not candidates for liver transplant, die in …

[HTML][HTML] Home care nurses facilitating planned home deaths. A focused ethnography

AK Sørstrøm, MS Ludvigsen, IG Kymre - BMC Palliative Care, 2023 - Springer
Background Home care nurses provide complex palliative care for patients who want to die
in their own homes. This study aimed to explore home care nurses' facilitation of planned …

Place of death before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

B Teasdale, A Narayan, S Harman… - JAMA Network …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
As recently as 2015, dying at home became more common than dying in a hospital. 1 The
COVID-19 pandemic interrupted these trends, as the acute clinical course of severe infection …

Associations between dementia diagnosis and end‐of‐life care utilization

EA Luth, A Manful, HG Prigerson… - Journal of the …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Dementia is a leading cause of death for older adults and is more common
among persons from racial/ethnic minoritized groups, who also tend to experience more …