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ArticleJournal of pain and symptom management2022

Improving Outcomes Measurement in Palliative Care: The Lasting Impact of Randy Curtis and his Collaborators.

Christopher E Cox, Deepshikha Charan Ashana, Nita Khandelwal, Arif H Kamal, Ruth A Engelberg

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Article in Journal of pain and symptom management, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 38% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Christopher E CoxDuke University School of Medicine (C.E.C., D.C.A.), Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA; Program to Support People and Enhance Recovery (ProSPER) (C.E.C., D.C.A.), Duke University, Duke University School of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute, Durham North Carolina, USA. Electronic address: christopher.cox@duke.edu.
Deepshikha Charan AshanaDuke University School of Medicine (C.E.C., D.C.A.), Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA; Program to Support People and Enhance Recovery (ProSPER) (C.E.C., D.C.A.), Duke University, Duke University School of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute, Durham North Carolina, USA.
Nita KhandelwalDepartment of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (N.K.), University of Washington, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA; Cambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence (N.K., R.A.E.), University of Washington, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Arif H KamalDuke University School of Medicine (A.H.K.), Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Ruth A EngelbergCambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence (N.K., R.A.E.), University of Washington, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA; University of Washington, Department of Medicine (R.A.E.), Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Duke University · USUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

Research Project 3U54MD012530 · NIMHD · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI JOHNSON, KIMBERLY S. · 2017 to 2022
$8.8M
PCplanner: operationalizing needs-focused palliative care for older adults in intensiveR01AG058915 · NIA · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI COX, CHRISTOPHER ETHAN, DOCHERTY, SHARRON L · 2019 to 2023
$2.8M
Needs and triggers: improving intensive care unit-based palliative care deliveryR21NR016743 · NINR · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI COX, CHRISTOPHER ETHAN, DOCHERTY, SHARRON L · 2018 to 2019
$441k
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG058915NIMHD NIH HHS U54 MD012530NINR NIH HHS R21 NR016743
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Palliative care research is deeply challenging for many reasons, not the least of which is the conceptual and operational difficulty of measuring outcomes within a seriously ill population such as critically ill patients and their family members. This manuscript describes how Randy Curtis and his network of collaborators successfully confronted some of the most vexing outcomes measurement problems in the field, and by so doing, have enhanced clinical care and research alike. Beginning with a discussion of the clinical challenges of measurement in palliative care, we then discuss a selection of the novel measures developed by Randy and his collaborators and conclude with a look toward the future evolution of these concepts. Randy and his foundational work, including both successes as well as the occasional near miss, have enriched and advanced the field as well as (immeasurably) impacted the work of so many others-including this manuscript's authors.

Indexed as

Hospice and Palliative Care NursingPalliative CareCritical IllnessFamilyHumanscritical illnesspalliative carequality of communicationQuality of death and dying

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PMID35595371
PMCPMC9173670
OpenAlexW4280590074

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