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| Marie A BakitasSummaryAffiliation: Dartmouth Medical School Country: USA Publications
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Proxy perspectives regarding end-of-life care for persons with cancerMarie Bakitas
School of Nursing, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Cancer 112:1854-61. 2008..Family proxies have been proposed as valuable informants regarding the quality of end-of-life care. This article describes family proxy perspectives concerning care at the end of life in patients who died of advanced cancer...
Effects of a palliative care intervention on clinical outcomes in patients with advanced cancer: the Project ENABLE II randomized controlled trialMarie Bakitas
Department of Anesthesiology, Section of Palliative Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA
JAMA 302:741-9. 2009..There are few randomized controlled trials on the effectiveness of palliative care interventions to improve the care of patients with advanced cancer...
Background noise: the experience of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathyMarie A Bakitas
School of Nursing, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Nurs Res 56:323-31. 2007..However, little is known about the symptom experience and daily life effects of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN)...
Palliative care program effectiveness research: developing rigor in sampling design, conduct, and reportingMarie A Bakitas
Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, and Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 31:270-84. 2006....
Self-determination: analysis of the concept and implications for research in palliative careMarie A Bakitas
Darmouth Medical School, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Section of Palliative Medicine, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA
Can J Nurs Res 37:22-49. 2005..Based on a synthesis of the literature, a conceptual definition is proposed and ways of integrating the concept of self-determination into palliative care intervention research are identified...
Project ENABLE: a palliative care demonstration project for advanced cancer patients in three settingsMarie Bakitas
Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Center for Psycho Oncology Research, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA
J Palliat Med 7:363-72. 2004....
The project ENABLE II randomized controlled trial to improve palliative care for rural patients with advanced cancer: baseline findings, methodological challenges, and solutionsMarie Bakitas
Department of Anesthesiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire 03756, USA
Palliat Support Care 7:75-86. 2009..We describe the ENABLE II intervention, methods, and sample baseline characteristics to increase intervention and methodological transparency, and to describe our solutions to selected methodological issues...
Quality of life of long-term survivors of breast cancer and lymphoma treated with standard-dose chemotherapy or local therapyTim A Ahles
Department of Psychiatry and Center for Psycho Oncology Research, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, One Medical Center Dr, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
J Clin Oncol 23:4399-405. 2005..This study compared the quality of life (QOL) of long-term survivors of breast cancer and lymphoma who had been treated with standard-dose systemic chemotherapy or local therapy only...
Impact on caregiver burden of a patient-focused palliative care intervention for patients with advanced cancerRoss E O'Hara
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
Palliat Support Care 8:395-404. 2010....
Reliability and validity of the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Palliative care (FACIT-Pal) scaleKathleen Doyle Lyons
Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 37:23-32. 2009..40, P<0.001). The findings support the internal consistency reliability and validity of the FACIT-Pal as a measure of health-related quality of life for persons with advanced cancer...
Joint modeling quality of life and survival using a terminal decline model in palliative care studiesZhigang Li
Section of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, U S A
Stat Med 32:1394-406. 2013..We present a detailed data analysis of our previously reported palliative care randomized clinical trial. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd...
Using quality improvement methodology to improve neuropathic pain screening and assessment in patients with cancerEllen M Lavoie Smith
Department Hematology Oncology, One Medical Center Drive, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
J Cancer Educ 24:135-40. 2009..Quality improvement methodology was used to improve neuropathic pain (NP) screening at a comprehensive cancer center...
Patients' need for information about cancer therapyKaren A Skalla
Norris Cotton Cancer Center, USA
Oncol Nurs Forum 31:313-9. 2004..To obtain detailed information about the preferences of patients with cancer and their need for information about side effects of cancer treatment to design an interactive multimedia educational program...
