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| Amy S KelleySummaryAffiliation: Mount Sinai School of Medicine Country: USA Publications
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Determinants of treatment intensity for patients with serious illness: a new conceptual frameworkAmy S Kelley
Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
J Palliat Med 13:807-13. 2010..Specifically, end-of-life policy initiatives face the challenges of political feasibility, inaccurate prognostication, and gaps in the existing literature...- Hospice enrollment saves money for Medicare and improves care quality across a number of different lengths-of-stayAmy S Kelley
Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 32:552-61. 2013..Instead of attempting to limit Medicare hospice participation, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services should focus on ensuring the timely enrollment of qualified patients who desire the benefit... - Out-of-pocket spending in the last five years of lifeAmy S Kelley
Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave L Levy Place, Box 1070, New York, NY 10029, USA
J Gen Intern Med 28:304-9. 2013..Yet little is known about cumulative financial risks arising from out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures faced by older adults, particularly near the end of life... 
Disability and decline in physical function associated with hospital use at end of lifeAmy S Kelley
Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
J Gen Intern Med 27:794-800. 2012..Hospital use near the end of life is often undesirable to patients, represents considerable Medicare cost, and varies widely across regions...- Geritalk: communication skills training for geriatric and palliative medicine fellowsAmy S Kelley
Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 60:332-7. 2012.... - Opiniones: end-of-life care preferences and planning of older LatinosAmy S Kelley
Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 58:1109-16. 2010..To measure end-of-life (EOL) care preferences and advance care planning (ACP) in older Latinos and to examine the relationship between culture-based attitudes and extent of ACP... - Determinants of medical expenditures in the last 6 months of lifeAmy S Kelley
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
Ann Intern Med 154:235-42. 2011..End-of-life medical expenditures exceed costs of care during other years, vary across regions, and are likely to be unsustainable. Identifying determinants of expenditure variation may reveal opportunities for reducing costs... - Determinants of death in the hospital among older adultsAmy S Kelley
Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 59:2321-5. 2011..To investigate patient-level determinants of in-hospital death, adjusting for patient and regional characteristics... 
Differential medical and surgical house staff involvement in end-of-life decisions: A retrospective chart reviewAmy S Kelley
Department of Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York 10021, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 32:110-7. 2006..These findings have significant implications for the education of house officers on end-of-life communication...