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| Sydney DySummaryAffiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Country: USA Publications
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To stent or not to stent: an evidence-based approach to palliative procedures at the end of lifeSydney M Dy
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 43:795-801. 2012....- Key concepts relevant to quality of complex and shared decision-making in health care: a literature reviewSydney M Dy
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States
Soc Sci Med 74:582-7. 2012..This concept list may be useful for conceptualizing the quality of complex shared decision-making and in guiding research in this area... - Evaluation of a web-based palliative care pain management module for housestaffSydney Morss Dy
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 36:596-603. 2008..The large increase in test scores after the module suggests that this may be an effective component of a comprehensive palliative care curriculum... - Evidence-based standards for cancer pain managementSydney M Dy
Health Policy and Management, Oncology, and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Clin Oncol 26:3879-85. 2008..These standards provide an initial framework for high-quality evidence-based management of general cancer pain and pain syndromes... - Evidence-based recommendations for cancer fatigue, anorexia, depression, and dyspneaSydney M Dy
Health Policy and Management, Oncology, and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Clin Oncol 26:3886-95. 2008..CONCLUSION These standards provide a framework for evidence-based screening, assessment, treatment, and follow-up for cancer-associated symptoms... - Is patients' insurance coverage associated with prescribing after hospitalization for severe, poorly controlled hypertension?Sydney Morss Dy
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich) 10:684-91. 2008..In conclusion, markers of poor medication access were not associated with prescribing patterns. Further research is needed to explore these patterns and their impact on vulnerable populations' financial burden and adherence... - Cancer Quality-ASSIST supportive oncology quality indicator set: feasibility, reliability, and validity testingSydney M Dy
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Cancer 116:3267-75. 2010..Although measuring the quality of symptom management and end-of-life care could help provide a basis for improving supportive care for advanced cancer, few quality indicators in this area have been rigorously developed or evaluated... - Evidence-based approaches to pain in advanced cancerSydney Morss Dy
Health Policy and Management, Oncology, and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Cancer J 16:500-6. 2010..Potential spinal cord compression requires urgent evaluation and treatment. Most cancer pain can be effectively addressed with an evidence-based approach of medications, nonpharmacological approaches, and interventions when appropriate... - Evidence-based approaches to other symptoms in advanced cancerSydney Morss Dy
Health Policy and Management, Oncology, and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Cancer J 16:507-13. 2010..For fatigue, evidence supports psychosocial interventions and methylphenidate. For insomnia, evidence supports cognitive-behavioral therapy in cancer; no sleep agents have superior effectiveness... - Quality of end-of-life care for patients with advanced cancer in an academic medical centerSydney Morss Dy
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Palliat Med 14:451-7. 2011..We assessed key aspects of the quality of end-of-life care using validated explicit process quality measures in an academic medical center (hospital and cancer center) before expanding to a broader palliative care initiative... - Tell Us™: a Web-based tool for improving communication among patients, families, and providers in hospice and palliative care through systematic data specification, collection, and useSydney M Dy
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 42:526-34. 2011..Routine electronic patient-reported outcome collection in patients with advanced disease could improve communication among patients, caregivers, and providers, the timeliness of identifying problems, and effectiveness of follow-up... - A framework for classifying patient safety practices: results from an expert consensus processSydney M Dy
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21090, USA
BMJ Qual Saf 20:618-24. 2011..The authors describe issues and choices in describing and classifying diverse patient safety practices (PSPs)... - A systematic review of satisfaction with care at the end of lifeSydney Morss Dy
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 56:124-9. 2008..More focus on these satisfaction elements might improve the effectiveness of end-of-life interventions and their evaluation... - Patient characteristics and end-of-life health care utilization among Medicare beneficiaries in 1989 and 1999Sydney M Dy
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Med Care 45:926-30. 2007..To evaluate the association of institutional residence and chronic disability with end-of-life Medicare utilization in 1989 and 1999... - Hospital experience and outcomes for esophageal variceal bleedingSydney Morss Dy
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Int J Qual Health Care 15:139-46. 2003..We evaluated whether there is a volume-outcome relationship for a rarer and higher-mortality medical diagnosis, esophageal variceal bleeding... - Getting services right for those sick enough to dieSydney Dy
Johns Hopkins University, Room 609, 624 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
BMJ 334:511-3. 2007 - Enteral and parenteral nutrition in terminally ill cancer patients: a review of the literatureSydney Morss Dy
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
Am J Hosp Palliat Care 23:369-77. 2006.... - Comorbid illnesses and health care utilization among Medicare beneficiaries with lung cancerSydney M Dy
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Crit Rev Oncol Hematol 59:218-25. 2006..Accounting for these two comorbid illnesses is important in evaluating health care utilization in this population... - Why do patients and families request transfers to tertiary care? a qualitative studySydney Morss Dy
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Soc Sci Med 61:1846-53. 2005..Our results also highlight the importance of including patient or surrogate perspectives in evaluations of the appropriateness of care... - Are critical pathways effective for reducing postoperative length of stay?Sydney Morss Dy
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Med Care 41:637-48. 2003..Many hospitals use critical pathways to attempt to reduce postoperative length of stay (PLOS) for diverse conditions and procedures... - Quality measures for symptoms and advance care planning in cancer: a systematic reviewKarl A Lorenz
Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Division of General Internal Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90073, USA
J Clin Oncol 24:4933-8. 2006..This study was designed to identify systematically the quality measures and the evidence to support their use in pain, dyspnea, depression, and advance care planning (ACP), and to identify research gaps... - Developing quality indicators for cancer end-of-life care: proceedings from a national symposiumHsien Seow
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Cancer 115:3820-9. 2009..Measuring the quality of end-of-life cancer care is essential to understanding how best to improve patient outcomes and care... - Needs assessments can identify scores on HRQOL questionnaires that represent problems for patients: an illustration with the Supportive Care Needs Survey and the QLQ-C30Claire F Snyder
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 624 N Broadway, Room 657, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Qual Life Res 19:837-45. 2010..We explored using needs assessments to identify HRQOL scores associated with patient-reported unmet needs... - Concordance of cancer patients' function, symptoms, and supportive care needsClaire F Snyder
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 624 N Broadway, Room 657, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Qual Life Res 18:991-8. 2009..Although patients' function, symptoms, and supportive care needs are obviously related, a better understanding of these relationships could improve patient management... - End-of-life care: findings from a national survey of informal caregiversJennifer L Wolff
Department of Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Arch Intern Med 167:40-6. 2007..Family and friends are thought to be the predominant providers of end-of-life care, although nationally representative data on this topic have been lacking... - Asking the right questions: investigating needs assessments and health-related quality-of-life questionnaires for use in oncology clinical practiceClaire F Snyder
Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 624 N Broadway, 6th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Support Care Cancer 15:1075-85. 2007..We investigated the item content from two health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) questionnaires and two needs assessments for this purpose... - Symptoms, supportive care needs, and function in cancer patients: how are they related?Claire F Snyder
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Qual Life Res 17:665-77. 2008..To explore the associations among symptoms, supportive care needs, and function... - Short Form (SF-36) Health Survey measures are associated with decreased adherence among urban African Americans with severe, poorly controlled hypertensionMatthew Konerman
Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich) 13:385-90. 2011.... - Evidence for improving palliative care at the end of life: a systematic reviewKarl A Lorenz
Division of General Internal Medicine, Veterans Integrated Palliative Program, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California 90073, USA
Ann Intern Med 148:147-59. 2008..Many persons and their families are burdened by serious chronic illness in late life. How to best support quality of life is an important consideration for care... - A framework for assessing quality indicators for cancer care at the end of lifeHsien Seow
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 38:903-12. 2009..By using this conceptual framework, indicator developers, researchers, and policymakers can refine and implement indicator sets to effectively evaluate and improve care at the end of life... - Spiritual well-being and depression in patients with heart failureDavid B Bekelman
Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80262, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:470-7. 2007..Spiritual well-being is an important, modifiable coping resource in patients with terminal cancer and is associated with less depression, but little is known about the role of spiritual well-being in patients with heart failure... - Methodological approaches for a systematic review of end-of-life careKarl A Lorenz
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California 90073, and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Palliat Med 8:S4-11. 2005..This very large, diverse body of literature reflects the tremendous growth of the field of end-of-life care over the last decade... - Symptom burden, depression, and spiritual well-being: a comparison of heart failure and advanced cancer patientsDavid B Bekelman
Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
J Gen Intern Med 24:592-8. 2009..A lower proportion of patients with chronic heart failure receive palliative care compared to patients with advanced cancer... - Symptoms, depression, and quality of life in patients with heart failureDavid B Bekelman
Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, USA
J Card Fail 13:643-8. 2007..Little is known about symptoms and their burden in outpatients with chronic heart failure. Diverse symptoms may be associated with poor heart failure-related quality of life, and depression may be related to increased symptoms... - Critical pathway effectiveness: assessing the impact of patient, hospital care, and pathway characteristics using qualitative comparative analysisSydney M Dy
Maryland Community Hospice, Room 609, 624N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Health Serv Res 40:499-516. 2005..Because pathway utilization was not a strong predictor of pathway effectiveness, the mechanism by which critical pathways may reduce length of stay is unclear... - Instruments for evaluating shared medical decision making: a structured literature reviewSydney Morss Dy
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Medicine, MD, USA
Med Care Res Rev 64:623-49. 2007..Although instrument development tended to cluster in several areas and there were clear gaps in the literature, the diversity of instruments demonstrates the broad range of constructs involved in assessing shared decision making... - Associations between home remedy use and a validated self-reported adherence measure in an urban African-American population with poorly controlled hypertensionJon C Tilburt
Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 100:91-7. 2008..To determine associations between home remedy use and self-reported adherence among urban African Americans with poorly controlled hypertension... - Medication errors with opioids: results from a national reporting systemSydney Morss Dy
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Opioid Manag 3:189-94. 2007..Errors may be more common and more likely to be harmful with opioids than with other medications, but little research has been conducted on these errors...
Research Grants
- Artificial Nutrition in Terminally Ill Cancer PatientsSydney Dy; Fiscal Year: 2007..Dy with the skills she needs to develop into an independent clinical researcher in oncology palliative care decision-making and health services research. ..