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To thine own self be true: self-concept and motivation for abstinence among substance abusersL Downey
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, University of Washington, 98195, USA
Addict Behav 25:743-57. 2000..The perception of discrepancies between substance use and self-standards was an effective motivator of abstinence even among those who reported previous use of substances to dampen self-dissatisfaction...
Three lessons from a randomized trial of massage and meditation at end of life: patient benefit, outcome measure selection, and design of trials with terminally ill patientsLois Downey
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Am J Hosp Palliat Care 26:246-53. 2009....- Preventive screening of women who use complementary and alternative medicine providersLois Downey
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 9455, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 18:1133-43. 2009..g., vaccination), little is known about associations between CAM use and receipt of recommended preventive screening in women... - Measuring intensive care nurses' perspectives on family-centered end-of-life care: evaluation of 3 questionnairesLois Downey
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195, USA
Am J Crit Care 15:568-79. 2006..Attempts to improve end-of-life care increasingly focus on family-centered care, but few validated assessment tools exist... - Pediatric vaccination and vaccine-preventable disease acquisition: associations with care by complementary and alternative medicine providersLois Downey
Harborview Medical Center, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Box 359765, 325 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Matern Child Health J 14:922-30. 2010..Interventions enlisting the participation of complementary/alternative medicine providers in immunization awareness and promotional activities could improve adherence rates and assist in efforts to improve public health... - The Quality of Dying and Death Questionnaire (QODD): empirical domains and theoretical perspectivesLois Downey
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 39:9-22. 2010..We conclude that research based on the current version of the QODD might benefit from the use of composite measures representing the four identified domains, but that future expansion and modification of the questionnaire are in order... - Evaluating the quality of sexual health care provided to adolescents in medicaid managed care: a comparison of two data sourcesLois Downey
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Am J Med Qual 19:2-11. 2004..However, encounter data, used as an adjunct to medical record review, may increase the reliability of quality evaluations... - Gender, waitlists, and outcomes for public-sector drug treatmentLois Downey
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, University of Washington, 1107 NE 45th Street, Suite 120, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 25:19-28. 2003..The authors discuss system-level and personal characteristics that potentially affect wait times and call for additional study of whether abbreviating waits can increase women's treatment entry rates... - Primary heroin users + drug-free treatment: an equation for success?Lois Downey
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Addict Behav 28:339-46. 2003..The authors note the importance of investigating methods for increasing treatment entry rates for opiate users who desire drug-free treatment... - Quality-of-life trajectories at the end of life: assessments over time by patients with and without cancerLois Downey
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 58:472-9. 2010..To compare quality-of-life (QOL) ratings of terminally ill patients with and without cancer over time... - The impact of Medicaid-linked reimbursements on revenues of public sexually transmitted disease clinicsLois Downey
Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Sex Transm Dis 29:100-5. 2002..Public sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics faced with decreased tax revenue and increased costs must evaluate alternative revenue sources... - Sources of motivation for abstinence: a replication analysis of the reasons for quitting questionnaireL Downey
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA
Addict Behav 26:79-89. 2001..Testing with samples varying in severity of addiction consequences is recommended... - Shared priorities for the end-of-life periodLois Downey
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 37:175-88. 2009..This change would reduce respondent burden in future investigations, simplify analyses aimed at identifying domains underlying the dying-and-death experience, and exclude the top-priority item of fewer than 4% of respondents... - Might massage or guided meditation provide "means to a better end"? Primary outcomes from an efficacy trial with patients at the end of lifeLois Downey
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
J Palliat Care 25:100-8. 2009..The authors discuss the implications of their findings for integration of these complementary and alternative medicine therapies into standard hospice care... 
Development and evaluation of an interprofessional communication intervention to improve family outcomes in the ICUJ Randall Curtis
Harborview Medical Center, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Contemp Clin Trials 33:1245-54. 2012..This manuscript also reports some of the lessons that we have learned early in this study...- Integrating palliative and critical care: evaluation of a quality-improvement interventionJ Randall Curtis
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Box 359762, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 178:269-75. 2008..Palliative care in the intensive care unit (ICU) is an important focus for quality improvement... - Effect of a quality-improvement intervention on end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: a randomized trialJ Randall Curtis
Harborview Medical Center, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle Washington, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 183:348-55. 2011..Because of high mortality, end-of-life care is an important component of intensive care... - Refinement, scoring, and validation of the Family Satisfaction in the Intensive Care Unit (FS-ICU) surveyRichard J Wall
Harborview Medical Center, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Crit Care Med 35:271-9. 2007..To refine the Family Satisfaction in the Intensive Care Unit (FS-ICU) survey and develop a validated method for scoring the instrument... - Measuring the quality of end-of-life careRuth A Engelberg
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington 98104 2499, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 39:951-71. 2010..Although there is a documented need to improve end-of-life care, there are few validated and brief questionnaires that are available as outcome measures for use in improving that care... - Quality of life at the end of lifePaula Diehr
Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Health Qual Life Outcomes 5:51. 2007..Here, we describe QOL in the weeks near death and determine correlates of QOL over time, with emphasis on accounting for death and missing data... - Evaluating CAM treatment at the end of life: a review of clinical trials for massage and meditationWilliam E Lafferty
University of Washington, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Department of Health Services, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Complement Ther Med 14:100-12. 2006..There is a pressing need for improved end-of-life care. Use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) may improve the quality of care but few controlled trials have evaluated CAM at the end of life... - Using the medical record to evaluate the quality of end-of-life care in the intensive care unitBradford J Glavan
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Crit Care Med 36:1138-46. 2008..We investigated whether proposed "quality markers" within the medical record are associated with family assessment of the quality of dying and death in the intensive care unit (ICU)... - Provision of sexual health services to adolescent enrollees in Medicaid managed careWilliam E Lafferty
Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA
Am J Public Health 92:1779-83. 2002..This Seattle project measured sexual health services provided to 1112 Medicaid managed care enrollees aged 14 to 18 years... - Predictors of symptoms of posttraumatic stress and depression in family members after patient death in the ICUCynthia J Gries
University of Washington, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Chest 137:280-7. 2010..Patients' deaths in the ICU have been associated with a high burden of psychologic symptoms in families. This study identifies characteristics associated with psychologic symptoms in family members... - Discussing religion and spirituality is an advanced communication skill: an exploratory structural equation model of physician trainee self-ratingsDee W Ford
Medical University of South Carolina, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Charleston, South Carolina 29425, USA
J Palliat Med 15:63-70. 2012..The goal of this study was to develop an improved understanding of physicians' perspectives on their communication competence about religious and spiritual issues... - Psychometric characteristics of a quality of communication questionnaire assessing communication about end-of-life careRuth Engelberg
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, 98104, USA
J Palliat Med 9:1086-98. 2006..While further validation studies are needed, this assessment of the QOC represents an important step toward providing a measure of the quality of end-of-life communication...