End-of-Life Care

Stories

• DeCourtney, C.  Lars’s Story. Journal of Palliative Care 26:1/2010; 65-66.

• DeCourtney, C.  Eleanor McMullen’s Story. Journal of Palliative Care 26:1/2010; 67.

• Berman, A.   Living Life In My Own Way – And Dying That Way As Well.  Health Affairs 31:4 (2012):871-874.

• Meier, D., Learning from Amy Berman:  Barriers To Palliative Care And How We Might Overcome Them. Health Affairs Blog 31: 4 (2012): 1277-1285. 

• Gawande, A.   Letting Go.  The New Yorker.  August 2010.
  
  

Strategies

• DeCourtney, C.A. ET AL. Establishing a Culturally Sensitive Palliative Care Program in Rural Alaska Native American Communities.  Journal of Palliative Medicine, Volume 6, Number 3, 2003.

• “In Brief - Improving Advanced Illness Care:  The Evolution of State POLST Programs.”  AARP Public Policy Institute.  April 2011.

• “Improving Advanced Illness Care:  The Evolution of State POLST Programs.”  AARP Public Policy Institute.  April 2011.

• “Patient-Centered Care and Human Mortality.”  Massachusetts Expert Panel on End-of-Life Care. October 2010.
  
  

Research

• DeCourtney, C.A., Branch, P.K., Morgan, K.M.  Gathering Information to Develop Palliative Care Programs for Alaska’s Aboriginal Peoples.  Journal of Palliative Care 26:1/2010; 22-31.  

• Smith, A., McCarthy, et al.  Half Of Older Americans Seen In Emergency Department In Last Month Of Life; Most Admitted To Hospital, And Many Die There.  Health Affairs 31, No.6 (2012):  1277-1285.  

• Nicholas, L.H., Langa, K.M., Iwashyna, T.J., Weir, D.R.. Regional Variation in the Association Between Advance Directives and End-of-Life Medicare Expenditures.  JAMA, October 5, 2011.

• Detering, K.M., Hancock, A.D., Reade, M.C., Silvester, W.  The impact of advance care planning on end of life care in elderly patients: randomised controlled trial.  BMJ 2010; 340:c1345  doi:10.1136/bmj.c1345.

• Goodman, D.C., Esty, A.R., Fisher, E.S., Hua Chang, C.  “Trends and Variation in End-of-Life Care for Medicare Beneficiaries with Severe Chronic Illness.”  The Dartmouth Atlas, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Center for Health Policy Research.  April 12, 2011. (18mgs)

• “Advance Care Planning: Preferences for Care at the End of Life”.  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.  March 2003.

Updated:08/14/12