Joanne Lynn

The Medicare Hospice Payment System: A Consideration of Potential Refinements - 2009

A Systematic Review of Satisfaction with Care at the End of Life - 2008

Age and Gender Differences in Medicare Expenditures and Service Utilization at the End of Life for Lung Cancer Decedents - 2008

Evidence for Improving Palliative Care at the End of Life: A Systematic Review - 2008

A Systematic Review of Measures of End-of-Life Care and Its Outcomes - 2007

Age and Gender Differences in Medicare Expenditures at the End of Life for Colorectal Cancer Decedents - 2007

Collaborative Clinical Quality Improvement for Pressure Ulcers in Nursing Homes - 2007

Getting Services Right for Those Sick Enough to Die - 2007

Increasing Influenza Immunization for Long-Term Care Facility Staff Using Quality Improvement - 2007

The Ethics of Using Quality Improvement Methods in Health Care - 2007

The New York City Palliative Care Quality Improvement Collaborative - 2007

Using Population Segmentation to Provide Better Health Care for All: The Bridges to Health Model - 2007

Cancer Care Quality Measures: Symptoms and End-of-Life Care - 2006

Health Care Policy Issues in End-of-Life Care - 2006

Isolation of Health Services Research from Practice and Policy: The Example of Chronic Health Failure Management - 2006

Prescription Drug Spending for Medicare+Choice Beneficiaries in the Last Year of Life - 2006

Promoting Declines in the Prevalence of Late-Life Disability: Comparisons of Three Potentially High-Impact Interventions - 2006

Quality Measures for Symptoms and Advance Care Planning in Cancer: A Systematic Review - 2006

Redefining and Reforming Health Care for the Last Years of Life - 2006

The Ethics of Using QI Methods to Improve Health Care Quality and Safety - 2006

The Influence of Staff and Resident Immunization Rates on Influenza-Like Illness Outbreaks in Nursing Homes - 2006

The Medicare Hospice Payment System: A Preliminary Consideration of Potential Refinements - 2006

Vaccinating Residents and Staff Can Reduce Influenza Outbreaks in Nursing Homes - 2006

Withholding Resuscitation in Prehospital Care - 2006

Caregiving for Advanced Chronic Illness Patients - 2005

End-of-life Care: An Agenda for Policy Improvement - 2005

End-of-life Options - 2005

Living Long in Fragile Health: The New Demographics Shape End of Life Care - 2005

Qualitative Analysis of Medicare Claims in the Last 3 Years of Life: A Pilot Study - 2005

Differences in Medicare Expenditures During the Last 3 Years of Life - 2004

Management of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators in End-of-Life Care - 2004

Medicare Program Expenditures Associated with Hospice Use - 2004

Oregon's Lessons for Improving Advance Care Planning - 2004

Sick to Death and Not Going to Take it Anymore! Reforming Health Care for the Last Years of Life - 2004

The 2004 Presidential Candidates' Platforms on Serious Chronic Illness and Palliative Care - 2004

When Does Quality Improvement Count as Research? Human Subject Protection and Theories of Knowledge - 2004

Advance Care Planning for Fatal Chronic Illness: Avoiding Commonplace Errors and Unwarranted Suffering - 2003

Disaster Planning: Making Decisions in Advance for Very Sick Patients - 2003

Living Well at the End of Life: Adapting Health Care to Serious Chronic Illness in Old Age - 2003

Moral and Practical Challenges of Physician-Assisted Suicide - 2003

Patterns of Functional Decline at the End of Life - 2003

Regulating Hearts and Minds: The Mismatch of Law, Custom, and Resuscitation Decisions - 2003

A Commentary: Where to Live While Dying - 2002

Age and Gender Differences in Health Care Utilization and Spending for Medicare Beneficiaries in Their Last Years of Life - 2002

Cost Effectiveness of Aggressive Care for Patients with Nontraumatic Coma - 2002

Lessons from the End of Life in the Program of All-Inclusive Care of the Elderly - 2002

Profiles of Older Medicare Decedents - 2002

Quality Improvement in End-of-Life Care: Small-Scale Innovations Can Make a Dramatic Difference - 2002

Reforming Care for Persons Near the End of Life: The Promise of Quality Improvement - 2002

Systems of Care: Future Reform - 2002

The 107th Congress' Legislative Proposals Concerning End-of-Life Care - 2002

The Center for Patient Safety at the End of Life: Seeking Reliability and Safety in the Care of Individuals Nearing the End of Life with Serious Illness - 2002

The Use of Life-Sustaining Treatments in Hospitalized Persons Aged 80 and Older - 2002

Vulnerable People: Practical Rejoinders to Claims in Favor of Assisted Suicide - 2002

''Serious and Complex Illness'' in Quality Improvement and Policy Reform for End-of-Life Care - 2001

Are Aggressive Treatment Strategies Less Cost-Effective for Older Patients? The Case of Ventilator Support and Aggressive Care for Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure - 2001

Demands of an Aging Population for Critical Care and Pulmonary Services - 2001

Financing of Care for Fatal Chronic Disease: Opportunities for Medicare Reform - 2001

Healthcare Issues at the End of Life - 2001

Medicare Beneficiaries' Costs of Care in the Last Year of Life: End-of-Life Costs Are Only Slightly Higher for Persons Who Died Than for Survivors with Similar Characteristics - 2001

Patients with Eventually Fatal Chronic Illness: Their Importance Within a National Research Agenda on Improving Patient Safety and Reducing Medical Errors - 2001

Planning Medical Services for the End of Life - 2001

Reliable, High-Quality, Efficient End-of-Life Care for Cancer Patients: Economic Issues and Barriers - 2001

Serving Patients Who May Die Soon and Their Families: The Role of Hospice and Other Services - 2001

Stress in Caregivers of Hospitalized Oldest-Old Patients - 2001

A Prospective Study of Patient-Physician Communication About Resuscitation - 2000

After Aging - 2000

Age Differences in Care Practices and Outcomes for Hospitalized Patients with Cancer - 2000

Age-related Differences in Care Preferences, Treatment Decisions, and Clinical Outcomes of Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults: Lessons from SUPPORT - 2000

Blood Transfusion Administration in Seriously Ill Patients: An Evaluation of SUPPORT Data - 2000

Communication and Decision-Making in Seriously Ill Patients: Findings of the SUPPORT Project - 2000

Decision-making and Outcomes of Prolonged ICU Stays in Seriously Ill Patients - 2000

Description of the SUPPORT Intervention - 2000

Dying with Acute Respiratory Failure or Multiple Organ System Failure with Sepsis - 2000

Dying with Cancer: Patients' Function, Symptoms, and Care Preferences as Death Approaches - 2000

Dying with End Stage Liver Disease with Cirrhosis: Insights from SUPPORT - 2000

Dying with Lung Cancer or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Insights from SUPPORT - 2000

Elderly Persons' Last Six Months of Life: Findings from the Hospitalized Elderly Longitudinal Project - 2000

Family Satisfaction with End-of-Life Care in Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults - 2000

Findings from SUPPORT and HELP: An Introduction - 2000

Handling Conflict in End-of-Care - 2000

Improving Care for the End of Life: A Sourcebook for Health Care Managers and Clinicians - 2000

Ineffectiveness of the SUPPORT Intervention: Review of Explanations - 2000

Insights About Dying from the SUPPORT Project - 2000

Learning to Care for People with Chronic Illness Facing the End of Life - 2000

Length of Stay and Therapeutic Intervention Allow Estimation of In-Hospital Resource Use Independent of Site and Inflation - 2000

Living and Dying with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - 2000

Patient Characteristics Associated with Care By a Cardiologist Among Adults Hospitalized with Severe Congestive Heart Failure - 2000

Patients Who Want Their Family and Physician to Make Resuscitation Decisions for Them: Observations from SUPPORT and HELP - 2000

Physician Understanding of Patient Resuscitation Preferences: Insights and Clinical Implications - 2000

Predicting Functional Status Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients Aged 80 Years and Older - 2000

Prediction of Survival for Older Hospitalized Patients: The HELP Survival Model - 2000

Quality Improvements in End of Life Care: Insights from Two Collaboratives - 2000

Quality of Life at the End of Life - 2000

Rethinking Fundamental Assumptions: SUPPORT's Implications for Future Reform - 2000

Should Patients in Quality-Improvement Activities Have the Same Protections as Participants in Research Studies? - 2000

Sick to Death and Not Going to Take It Anymore! - 2000

Survey Methods for Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults: Practical Lessons from SUPPORT - 2000

The Effect of Nutritional Supplementation on Survival in Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults: An Evaluation of the SUPPORT Data - 2000

The Effects of Patient Race on Outcomes in Seriously Ill Patients in SUPPORT: An Overview of Economic Impact, Medical Intervention, and End-of-Life Decisions - 2000

The Last Six Months of Life for Patients with Congestive Heart Failure - 2000

Withholding Versus Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment: Patient Factors and Documentation Associated with Dialysis Decisions - 2000

Handbook for Mortals: Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness - 1999

Patient Age and Decisions to Withhold Life-Sustaining Treatments from Seriously Ill, Hospitalized Adults - 1999

Health Values of Hospitalized Patients 80 Years or Older - 1998

Influence of Patient Preferences and Local Health System Characteristics on the Place of Death - 1998

Outcomes, Preferences for Resuscitation, and Physician-Patient Communication Among Patients with Metastatic Colorectal Cancer - 1998

Patient Empowerment and Feedback Did Not Decrease Pain in Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults - 1998

Physician Experience Caring for Dying Patients and Its Relationship to Patient Outcomes - 1998

Relationship Between Cancer Patients' Predictions of Prognosis and Their Treatment Preferences - 1998

Resuscitation Preferences Among Patients with Severe Congestive Heart Failure: Results from the Support Project - 1998

Role of Written Advance Directives in Decision Making: Insights from Qualitative and Quantitative Data - 1998

Outcomes and Cost-Effectiveness of Initiating Dialysis and Continuing Aggressive Care in Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults - 1997

Pain During Hospitalization Is Associated with Continued Pain Six Months Later in Survivors of Serious Illness - 1997

Patient Preferences for Communication with Physicians About End-of-Life Decisions - 1997

Surrogate and Physician Understanding of Patients*’ Preferences for Living Permanently in a Nursing Home - 1997

Is Economic Hardship on the Families of the Seriously Ill Associated with Patient and Surrogate Care Preferences? - 1996

Identification of Comatose Patients at High Risk for Death or Sever Disability - 1995

Predicting Future Functional Status for Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults: The SUPPORT Prognostic Model - 1995

Preferences for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Physician-Patient Agreement and Hospital Resource Use - 1995

The Impact of Serious Illness on Patients' Families - 1994

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