T E Finucane

Summary

Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Tube feeding in patients with advanced dementia: a review of the evidence
    T E Finucane
    Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
    JAMA 282:1365-70. 1999
  2. ncbi Care of patients nearing death: another view
    Thomas E Finucane
    Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 5505 Hopkins Bayview Circle, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    J Am Geriatr Soc 50:551-3. 2002
  3. ncbi Gizmo idolatry
    Bruce Leff
    Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
    JAMA 299:1830-2. 2008
  4. ncbi Tube feeding in dementia: how incentives undermine health care quality and patient safety
    Thomas E Finucane
    Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    J Am Med Dir Assoc 8:205-8. 2007
  5. ncbi When the mind goes inept
    Thomas E Finucane
    Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Geriatric Center, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 61:1312-3. 2006
  6. ncbi Should cholinesterase inhibitors be used to treat Alzheimer's disease?
    Thomas E Finucane
    Division of Geriatric Medicine at Johns Hopkins, The Johns Hopkins Bayview Care Circle, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Nat Clin Pract Neurol 2:118-9. 2006
  7. ncbi Advance care planning by or on behalf of peritoneal dialysis patients in long-term care
    John E Anderson
    Division of Renal Medicine, Department of Surgery, and Division of Geriatric Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Am J Kidney Dis 48:122-7. 2006
  8. ncbi Association of funding and findings of pharmaceutical research at a meeting of a medical professional society
    Thomas E Finucane
    Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
    Am J Med 117:842-5. 2004
  9. ncbi Planning for death but not serious future illness: qualitative study of housebound elderly patients
    Joseph A Carrese
    Phoebe R Berman Bioethics Institute, Johns Hopkins University, and Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 4940 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    BMJ 325:125. 2002
  10. ncbi Nutrition and involuntary weight loss: a pilot study of an educational intervention for nursing home surveyors
    Joan C Chang
    The Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Baltimore, MD 21239, USA
    J Am Med Dir Assoc 8:110-4. 2007

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Publications35

  1. ncbi Tube feeding in patients with advanced dementia: a review of the evidence
    T E Finucane
    Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
    JAMA 282:1365-70. 1999
    ..Further, risks are substantial. The widespread practice of tube feeding should be carefully reconsidered, and we believe that for severely demented patients the practice should be discouraged on clinical grounds...
  2. ncbi Care of patients nearing death: another view
    Thomas E Finucane
    Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 5505 Hopkins Bayview Circle, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    J Am Geriatr Soc 50:551-3. 2002
    ..A person whose near future necessarily contains all this will often need a trusted, unhurried companion, acting with gentle advocacy and humility. This paper offers perspective and suggestions to such companions/advocates...
  3. ncbi Gizmo idolatry
    Bruce Leff
    Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
    JAMA 299:1830-2. 2008
  4. ncbi Tube feeding in dementia: how incentives undermine health care quality and patient safety
    Thomas E Finucane
    Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    J Am Med Dir Assoc 8:205-8. 2007
    ..Realigning incentives in these ways could, we believe, improve the quality of care, quality of life, and safety of these vulnerable individuals, likely with reduced costs of care...
  5. ncbi When the mind goes inept
    Thomas E Finucane
    Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Geriatric Center, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 61:1312-3. 2006
  6. ncbi Should cholinesterase inhibitors be used to treat Alzheimer's disease?
    Thomas E Finucane
    Division of Geriatric Medicine at Johns Hopkins, The Johns Hopkins Bayview Care Circle, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Nat Clin Pract Neurol 2:118-9. 2006
  7. ncbi Advance care planning by or on behalf of peritoneal dialysis patients in long-term care
    John E Anderson
    Division of Renal Medicine, Department of Surgery, and Division of Geriatric Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Am J Kidney Dis 48:122-7. 2006
    ..Advance care planning (ACP) is recommended for dialysis patients, especially those living in long-term-care facilities. Factors influencing ACP and the effect of plans on outcome are incompletely studied...
  8. ncbi Association of funding and findings of pharmaceutical research at a meeting of a medical professional society
    Thomas E Finucane
    Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
    Am J Med 117:842-5. 2004
    ..To evaluate the association between funding and findings of pharmaceutical research presented at an annual meeting of a medical professional society...
  9. ncbi Planning for death but not serious future illness: qualitative study of housebound elderly patients
    Joseph A Carrese
    Phoebe R Berman Bioethics Institute, Johns Hopkins University, and Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 4940 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    BMJ 325:125. 2002
    ..To understand how elderly patients think about and approach future illness and the end of life...
  10. ncbi Nutrition and involuntary weight loss: a pilot study of an educational intervention for nursing home surveyors
    Joan C Chang
    The Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Baltimore, MD 21239, USA
    J Am Med Dir Assoc 8:110-4. 2007
    ..To describe the knowledge and attitudes of nursing home (NH) surveyors before and after a brief educational intervention related to nutrition and involuntary weight loss in nursing home residents...
  11. ncbi Getting donepezil into the nursing home
    Thomas E Finucane
    J Am Geriatr Soc 51:133-4; author reply 134. 2003
  12. ncbi Another advertisement for donepezil
    Thomas E Finucane
    J Am Geriatr Soc 52:843; author reply 845-6. 2004
  13. ncbi Memantine for patients with Alzheimer disease
    Thomas E Finucane
    JAMA 291:1695; author reply 1695. 2004
  14. ncbi Another data/rhetoric mismatch on donepezil
    Thomas E Finucane
    J Am Geriatr Soc 53:1831; author reply 1831-3. 2005
  15. ncbi More promotional rhetoric in research: the Maryland Assisted Living Study
    Thomas E Finucane
    J Am Geriatr Soc 56:185; author reply 1185-6. 2008
  16. ncbi The promotion of gabapentin
    Thomas E Finucane
    Ann Intern Med 146:312-3; author reply 313-4. 2007
  17. ncbi Frail older adults and palliative care
    Thomas E Finucane
    JAMA 297:1193-4; author reply 1194-5. 2007
  18. ncbi Cholinesterase inhibitors for Alzheimer disease
    Thomas E Finucane
    JAMA 289:2359; author reply 2360-1. 2003
  19. ncbi Physicians' attitudes about artificial feeding in older patients with severe cognitive impairment in Japan: a qualitative study
    Kaoruko Aita
    Department of Social Gerontology, School of Health Sciences and Nursing, The University of Tokyo, 7 3 1 Hongo, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo 113 0033, Japan
    BMC Geriatr 7:22. 2007
    ..The objective of this study was to identify and analyze factors related to the decision to provide ANH through percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) in older Japanese adults with severe cognitive impairment...
  20. ncbi Yes, industry influence is excessive
    Amit A Shah
    Section of Geriatric Medicine, University of Texas-Southwestern, Dallas TX, USA
    Int Psychogeriatr 19:1004-10; discussion 1014-20. 2007
  21. ncbi NICE on dementia: Omitting donepezil is hardly a hardship
    Thomas E Finucane
    BMJ 335:954. 2007
  22. ncbi "Quality," nutrition, and pressure ulcers
    Thomas E Finucane
    Arch Intern Med 162:100. 2002
  23. ncbi Delirium at the end of life
    Thomas E Finucane
    Ann Intern Med 137:295; author reply 295. 2002
  24. ncbi The AGS' fondness for celecoxib
    Thomas E Finucane
    J Am Geriatr Soc 50:1602; author reply 1602-3. 2002
  25. ncbi Attempting resuscitation in nursing homes: cargo cult or resurrections?
    Thomas E Finucane
    J Am Med Dir Assoc 7:399-400. 2006
  26. ncbi Pressure ulcers: guidelines and data
    Thomas E Finucane
    J Am Geriatr Soc 52:164; author reply 164. 2004
  27. ncbi Alzheimer disease: current concepts and emerging diagnostic and therapeutic strategies
    Thomas E Finucane
    Ann Intern Med 140:71. 2004
  28. ncbi Advance directives, due process, and medical futility
    Thomas E Finucane
    Ann Intern Med 140:403; author reply 404. 2004
  29. ncbi Memories of loved ones about care at the end of life
    Carlos O Weiss
    JAMA 291:1445-6; author reply 1446. 2004
  30. ncbi Decision-making during grave illness: how to show respect for the person
    Thomas E Finucane
    J Am Med Dir Assoc 5:278-9. 2004
  31. ncbi Drug therapy in Alzheimer's disease
    Thomas E Finucane
    N Engl J Med 351:1911-3; author reply 1911-3. 2004
  32. ncbi In response to Business and Research
    Thomas E Finucane
    Am J Med 118:801. 2005
  33. ncbi Advertising the new hypnotics
    Thomas E Finucane
    J Am Geriatr Soc 54:170; author reply 170-2. 2006
  34. ncbi Cholinesterase inhibitors for Alzheimer's disease
    Thomas E Finucane
    Lancet 360:1332; author reply 1332-3. 2002
  35. ncbi Results, rhetoric, and randomized trials: the case of donepezil
    John R Gilstad
    Division of Internal Medicine, United States Naval Hospital Yokosuka, Yokosuka, Japan
    J Am Geriatr Soc 56:1556-62. 2008
    ..Data in the trials are highly consistent. This observation generates the hypothesis that rhetoric in vendor-supported published RCTs may promote vendors' products...