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Communication Strategies for Sharing Prognostic Information With Patients: Beyond Survival Statistics by Paladino, Joanna, Lakin, Joshua R, Sanders, Justin J

“…This Viewpoint discusses the challenges of communicating uncertain prognosis to patients and offers a framework and language that go past mortality…”
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Leveraging the End-Stage Renal Disease Patient Life Goals Survey (PaLS) to Improve Quality of Care: Avoiding a “Checkbox Measure” by Gelfand, Samantha L., Lakin, Joshua R., Mendu, Mallika L.

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Improving Communication About Serious Illness in Primary Care: A Review by Lakin, Joshua R, Block, Susan D, Billings, J Andrew, Koritsanszky, Luca A, Cunningham, Rebecca, Wichmann, Lisa, Harvey, Doreen, Lamey, Jan, Bernacki, Rachelle E

“…The Institute of Medicine recently called for systematic improvements in clinician-led conversations about goals, values, and care preferences for patients…”
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A Systematic Intervention To Improve Serious Illness Communication In Primary Care by Lakin, Joshua R, Koritsanszky, Luca A, Cunningham, Rebecca, Maloney, Francine L, Neal, Brandon J, Paladino, Joanna, Palmor, Marissa C, Vogeli, Christine, Ferris, Timothy G, Block, Susan D, Gawande, Atul A, Bernacki, Rachelle E

“…Improving communication about goals and values for patients with advancing serious illness nearing the end of life is a key opportunity to improve the value of…”
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Power and perils of prediction in palliative care by Porter, Amy S, Harman, Stephanie, Lakin, Joshua R

“…[...]emerging data on readmission programmes reinforce this worry. Without careful human interception of machine outputs and reflection on patients’ values, a…”
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Time Out Before Talking: Communication as a Medical Procedure by Lakin, Joshua R, Tulsky, James A, Bernacki, Rachelle E

“…Medical procedures encompass a set of ordered actions, each requiring unique knowledge and skills, aimed at diagnosing, prognosticating, or treating illness. A…”
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Assessing fairness in machine learning models: A study of racial bias using matched counterparts in mortality prediction for patients with chronic diseases by Wang, Yifei, Wang, Liqin, Zhou, Zhengyang, Laurentiev, John, Lakin, Joshua R., Zhou, Li, Hong, Pengyu

“…[Display omitted] Existing approaches to fairness evaluation often overlook systematic differences in the social determinants of health, like demographics and…”
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Conservative Kidney Management in Kidney Transplant Populations by Murakami, Naoka, Reich, Amanda J., Pavlakis, Martha, Lakin, Joshua R.

“…Conservative kidney management (CKM) has been increasingly accepted as a therapeutic option for seriously ill patients with advanced chronic kidney disease…”
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Palliative Care in the Advancing American Kidney Health Initiative: A Call for Inclusion in Kidney Care Delivery Models by Gelfand, Samantha L., Mandel, Ernest I., Mendu, Mallika L., Lakin, Joshua R.

“…The Advancing American Kidney Health (AAKH) Initiative aims to promote high-value patient-centered care by improving access to and quality of treatment options…”
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Implementing Serious Illness Communication Processes in Primary Care: A Qualitative Study by Paladino, Joanna, Brannen, Elise, Benotti, Emily, Henrich, Natalie, Ritchie, Christine, Sanders, Justin, Lakin, Joshua R.

“…Purpose: Primary care clinicians face barriers to engaging patients in conversations about prognosis, values, and goals (“serious illness conversations”). We…”
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Content Analysis of Serious Illness Conversation Documentation: Structured vs. Free-Text Information by Durieux, Brigitte N., Zupanc, Seth N., Tarbi, Elise C., Manz, Christopher R., Lakin, Joshua R., Lindvall, Charlotta

“…Clear, accessible, and thorough documentation of serious illness conversations helps ensure that critical information patients share with clinicians is…”
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Serious Illness Conversation Quality during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Abbas, Muhammad, Chua, Isaac S., Tabata-Kelly, Masami, Bulger, Amy L., Gershanik, Esteban, Sheu, Christina, Kerr, Emma, Ruan, Mengyuan, Dey, Tanujit, Lakin, Joshua R., Bernacki, Rachelle E.

“…The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately impacted non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic patients. However, little is known about the quality of serious illness…”
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Creating KidneyPal: A Specialty-Aligned Palliative Care Service for People with Kidney Disease by Lakin, Joshua R, Sciacca, Kate, Leiter, Richard, Killeen, Kelsey, Gelfand, Samantha, Tulsky, James A, Anderson, Shelly, Zupanc, Sophia N, Williams, Trey, Mandel, Ernest I

“…Patients with kidney disease have notable unmet palliative care needs and represent an underserved population for specialty palliative care teams. We designed…”
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A Mixed Methods Analysis of Standardized Documentation of Serious Illness Conversations Within an Electronic Health Record Module During Hospitalization by Serna, Myrna Katalina, Yoon, Catherine, Fiskio, Julie, Lakin, Joshua R., Schnipper, Jeffrey L., Dalal, Anuj K.

“…Background Analysis of documented Serious Illness Conversations (SICs) in the inpatient setting can help clinicians align management to address patient and…”
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Cancer survivorship and palliative care: Shared progress, challenges, and opportunities by Geerse, Olaf P., Lakin, Joshua R., Berendsen, Annette J., Alfano, Catherine M., Nekhlyudov, Larissa

“…Despite seeming superficially paradoxical, palliative care and survivorship care may have more in common than in opposition. An increased focus on…”
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Natural Language Processing to Identify Advance Care Planning Documentation in a Multisite Pragmatic Clinical Trial by Lindvall, Charlotta, Deng, Chih-Ying, Moseley, Edward, Agaronnik, Nicole, El-Jawahri, Areej, Paasche-Orlow, Michael K., Lakin, Joshua R., Volandes, Angelo, Tulsky, The ACP-PEACE Investigators, James A.

“…Large multisite clinical trials studying decision-making when facing serious illness require an efficient method for abstraction of advance care planning (ACP)…”
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Trends in Place of Death for Individuals With Deaths Attributed to Advanced Chronic or End-Stage Kidney Disease in the United States by Cross, Sarah H., Lakin, Joshua R., Mendu, Mallika, Mandel, Ernest I., Warraich, Haider J.

“…An important aspect of end-of-life care, place of death is understudied in advanced chronic (CKD) and end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). We sought to examine…”
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The Association of Standardized Documentation of Serious Illness Conversations With Healthcare Utilization in Hospitalized Patients: A Propensity Score Matched Cohort Analysis by Serna, Myrna K., Yoon, Catherine, Fiskio, Julie, Lakin, Joshua R., Schnipper, Jeffrey L., Dalal, Anuj K.

“…Background: Serious Illness Conversations (SICs) conducted during hospitalization can lead to meaningful patient participation in the decision-making process…”
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Looking Beyond Mortality Prediction: Primary Care Physician Views of Patients' Palliative Care Needs Predicted by a Machine Learning Tool by Rotenstein, Lisa, Wang, Liqin, Zupanc, Sophia N, Penumarthy, Akhila, Laurentiev, John, Lamey, Jan, Farah, Subrina, Lipsitz, Stuart, Jain, Nina, Bates, David W, Zhou, Li, Lakin, Joshua R

“…To assess primary care physicians' (PCPs) perception of the need for serious illness conversations (SIC) or other palliative care interventions in patients…”
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A Retrospective Observational Study Exploring 30- and 90-Day Outcomes for Patients With COVID-19 After Percutaneous Tracheostomy and Gastrostomy Placement by Kiser, Stephanie B., Sciacca, Kate, Jain, Nelia, Leiter, Richard, Mazzola, Emanuele, Gelfand, Samantha, Jehle, Jonathan, Bernacki, Rachelle, Lamas, Daniela, Cooper, Zara, Lakin, Joshua R.

“…To determine the 30- and 90-day outcomes of COVID-19 patients receiving tracheostomy and percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG). Retrospective observational…”
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