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| JUDITH E contact NELSONSummaryAffiliation: Mount Sinai School of Medicine Country: USA Publications
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Integration of palliative care in chronic critical illness managementJudith E Nelson
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
Respir Care 57:1004-12; discussion 1012-3. 2012..Finally, we highlight key ethical issues that arise in the care of chronically critically ill patients and their families...
Integrating palliative care with intensive care for critically ill patients with lung cancerElizabeth B Gay
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
Ann Intensive Care 2:3. 2012....- Surgical intensive care unit clinician estimates of the adequacy of communication regarding patient prognosisRebecca A Aslakson
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
Crit Care 14:R218. 2010..Practice guidelines recommend improving communication. However, few data, particularly in surgical ICUs, exist on health care provider opinions regarding whether communication is effective... - Models for structuring a clinical initiative to enhance palliative care in the intensive care unit: a report from the IPAL-ICU Project (Improving Palliative Care in the ICU)Judith E Nelson
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine and Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Crit Care Med 38:1765-72. 2010..To describe models used in successful clinical initiatives to improve the quality of palliative care in critical care settings... - Chronic critical illnessJudith E Nelson
Department of Medicine, Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 182:446-54. 2010.... - In their own words: patients and families define high-quality palliative care in the intensive care unitJudith E Nelson
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, and Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Crit Care Med 38:808-18. 2010..We conducted this study to obtain their views on important domains of this care... - Family meetings made simpler: a toolkit for the intensive care unitJudith E Nelson
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
J Crit Care 24:626.e7-14. 2009..Just as simple tools have helped reduce bloodstream infections, our hope is that the toolkit presented here will help critical care teams to meet the important communication needs of ICU families... 
When critical illness becomes chronic: informational needs of patients and familiesJudith E Nelson
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
J Crit Care 20:79-89. 2005..In this qualitative study, we investigated what information is relevant and important for clinician-patient/family communication when critical illness becomes chronic, as indicated by tracheotomy for prolonged mechanical ventilation...- The intensive care unit family meeting: making it happenElizabeth B Gay
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
J Crit Care 24:629.e1-12. 2009..Finally, we describe performance improvement initiatives by ICUs in different parts of the country that have achieved striking successes in making family meetings happen... - Communication about chronic critical illnessJudith E Nelson
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Arch Intern Med 167:2509-15. 2007..Our objective was to investigate the informational needs of patients with chronic critical illness and their families and the extent to which these needs are met... - Identifying and overcoming the barriers to high-quality palliative care in the intensive care unitJudith E Nelson
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine and Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Crit Care Med 34:S324-31. 2006..Specific strategies to improve intensive care unit palliative care, including consultation by palliative care specialists, and palliative care quality measurement are discussed... - The symptom burden of chronic critical illnessJudith E Nelson
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Crit Care Med 32:1527-34. 2004..To assess self-reported symptom burden of chronic critical illness... - Palliative care of the chronically critically ill patientJudith E Nelson
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Medical Intensive Care Unit, One Gustave L Levy Place, Box 1232, New York, NY 10029, USA
Crit Care Clin 18:659-81. 2002..For the CCI, whose risks of death, disability, and suffering are so high, it is essential that excellent palliative care be provided along with restorative treatment in an integrated way... - End-of-life care for the critically ill: A national intensive care unit surveyJudith E Nelson
Department of Medicine, Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Crit Care Med 34:2547-53. 2006..We conducted this study to elicit the views and experiences of ICU directors regarding barriers to optimal end-of-life care and to identify the type, availability, and perceived benefit of specific strategies that may improve this care... - End-of-life care in patients with lung cancerJohn P Griffin
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 956 Court Avenue, Room H 314, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
Chest 123:312S-331S. 2003.... - Brain dysfunction: another burden for the chronically critically illJudith E Nelson
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA
Arch Intern Med 166:1993-9. 2006..To our knowledge, no previous research has addressed brain dysfunction in the chronically critically ill, although this topic is important for medical decision making... - Pressure ulcers in the chronically critically ill patientHarold Brem
Department of Surgery and Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustav L Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA
Crit Care Clin 18:683-94. 2002..Treatment decisions should be made within the context of the patient's overall care goals...
Research Grants
- Informing Decisions in Chronic Critical Illness: An RCTJUDITH E contact NELSON; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- Chronic Critical Illness: Symptoms/Associated OutcomesJudith Nelson; Fiscal Year: 2006..We plan to evaluate such interventions in a future phase of research. ..