Jeffrey T Berger

Summary

Affiliation: Winthrop University Hospital
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Suffering in advanced dementia: diagnostic and treatment challenges and questions about palliative sedation
    Jeffrey T Berger
    Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, New York, USA
    J Clin Ethics 17:364-6. 2006
  2. ncbi Preemptive use of palliative sedation and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
    Jeffrey T Berger
    Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, and Clinical Ethics, Department of Medicine, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, NY, USA
    J Pain Symptom Manage 43:802-5. 2012
  3. ncbi The influence of physicians' demographic characteristics and their patients' demographic characteristics on physician practice: implications for education and research
    Jeffrey T Berger
    The School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
    Acad Med 83:100-5. 2008
  4. ncbi When surrogates' responsibilities and religious concerns intersect
    Jeffrey T Berger
    SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, USA
    J Clin Ethics 18:391-3. 2007
  5. ncbi Surrogate decision making: reconciling ethical theory and clinical practice
    Jeffrey T Berger
    School of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, USA
    Ann Intern Med 149:48-53. 2008
  6. ncbi Discharge against medical advice: ethical considerations and professional obligations
    Jeffrey T Berger
    SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, USA
    J Hosp Med 3:403-8. 2008
  7. ncbi Is best interests a relevant decision making standard for enrolling non-capacitated subjects into clinical research?
    Jeffrey T Berger
    Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Winthrop University Hospital, 222 Station Plaza North, Suite 518, Mineola NY 11501, USA
    J Med Ethics 37:45-9. 2011
  8. ncbi Bedside ethics and health system catastrophe: imagine if you will
    Jeffrey T Berger
    SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine, NewYork, USA
    J Clin Ethics 21:285-7. 2010
  9. ncbi Pandemic preparedness planning: will provisions for involuntary termination of life support invite active euthanasia?
    Jeffrey T Berger
    SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine, NewYork, USA
    J Clin Ethics 21:308-11. 2010
  10. ncbi Imagining the unthinkable, illuminating the present
    Jeffrey T Berger
    S U NY Stony Brook School of Medicine, USA
    J Clin Ethics 22:17-9. 2011

Detail Information

Publications28

  1. ncbi Suffering in advanced dementia: diagnostic and treatment challenges and questions about palliative sedation
    Jeffrey T Berger
    Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, New York, USA
    J Clin Ethics 17:364-6. 2006
  2. ncbi Preemptive use of palliative sedation and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
    Jeffrey T Berger
    Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, and Clinical Ethics, Department of Medicine, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, NY, USA
    J Pain Symptom Manage 43:802-5. 2012
    ..However, the preemptive use of palliative sedation is sometimes appropriate. The preemptive use of palliative sedation is examined through a case-based analysis of a patient with advanced amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...
  3. ncbi The influence of physicians' demographic characteristics and their patients' demographic characteristics on physician practice: implications for education and research
    Jeffrey T Berger
    The School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
    Acad Med 83:100-5. 2008
    ....
  4. ncbi When surrogates' responsibilities and religious concerns intersect
    Jeffrey T Berger
    SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, USA
    J Clin Ethics 18:391-3. 2007
  5. ncbi Surrogate decision making: reconciling ethical theory and clinical practice
    Jeffrey T Berger
    School of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, USA
    Ann Intern Med 149:48-53. 2008
    ..In this article, the authors review the research on surrogate decision making, compare it with normative standards, and offer ways in which the 2 can be reconciled for the patient's benefit...
  6. ncbi Discharge against medical advice: ethical considerations and professional obligations
    Jeffrey T Berger
    SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, USA
    J Hosp Med 3:403-8. 2008
    ....
  7. ncbi Is best interests a relevant decision making standard for enrolling non-capacitated subjects into clinical research?
    Jeffrey T Berger
    Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Winthrop University Hospital, 222 Station Plaza North, Suite 518, Mineola NY 11501, USA
    J Med Ethics 37:45-9. 2011
    ..In the context of modern norms of bioethics, the best interests standard rarely supports surrogate consent for research and should not be accepted as a routine provision...
  8. ncbi Bedside ethics and health system catastrophe: imagine if you will
    Jeffrey T Berger
    SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine, NewYork, USA
    J Clin Ethics 21:285-7. 2010
    ..Yet, it is these bedside issues that may limit or thwart the effectiveness of disaster planning, and, therefore, they ought to be carefully considered...
  9. ncbi Pandemic preparedness planning: will provisions for involuntary termination of life support invite active euthanasia?
    Jeffrey T Berger
    SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine, NewYork, USA
    J Clin Ethics 21:308-11. 2010
    ....
  10. ncbi Imagining the unthinkable, illuminating the present
    Jeffrey T Berger
    S U NY Stony Brook School of Medicine, USA
    J Clin Ethics 22:17-9. 2011
    ..Additionally, it offers insights into the processes used by committees to plan for catastrophic care...
  11. ncbi Advance health planning and treatment preferences among recipients of implantable cardioverter defibrillators: an exploratory study
    Jeffrey T Berger
    Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, New York, USA
    J Clin Ethics 17:72-8. 2006
  12. ncbi Humor in the physician-patient encounter
    Jeffrey T Berger
    Winthrop-University Hospital, 222 Station Plaza N, Suite 518, Mineola, NY 11501, USA
    Arch Intern Med 164:825-30. 2004
  13. ncbi Ethical challenges of partial do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders: placing DNR orders in the context of a life-threatening conditions care plan
    Jeffrey T Berger
    Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, NY 11501, USA
    Arch Intern Med 163:2270-5. 2003
    ..This article explores the ethical implications of partial DNR orders and identifies the need to develop care plans addressing life-threatening conditions for patients with DNR orders...
  14. ncbi Do elderly persons' concerns for family burden influence their preferences for future participation in dementia research?
    Jeffrey T Berger
    Clinical Ethics, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, New York, USA
    J Clin Ethics 16:108-15. 2005
  15. ncbi Patients' interests in their family members' well-being: an overlooked, fundamental consideration within substituted judgments
    Jeffrey T Berger
    Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, New York, USA
    J Clin Ethics 16:3-10. 2005
  16. ncbi The ethics of deactivating implanted cardioverter defibrillators
    Jeffrey T Berger
    State University of New York Stony Brook School of Medicine, USA
    Ann Intern Med 142:631-4. 2005
    ..This paper discusses bioethical considerations in disabling implantable cardioverter defibrillators...
  17. ncbi Ignorance is bliss? Ethical considerations in therapeutic nondisclosure
    Jeffrey T Berger
    Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, NY 11501, USA
    Cancer Invest 23:94-8. 2005
    ..This article discusses potential benefits and harms associated with therapeutic nondisclosure in adult patients and offers strategies to effect more appropriate disclosure when therapeutic nondisclosure is contemplated...
  18. ncbi Do potential recipients of of cardiopulmonary resuscitation want their family members to attend? A survey of public preferences
    Jeffrey T Berger
    State University of New York Stony Brook School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, USA
    J Clin Ethics 15:237-42. 2004
  19. ncbi The delivery of futile care is harmful to other patients
    Michael S Niederman
    Department of Medicine, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, NY, USA
    Crit Care Med 38:S518-22. 2010
    ..S. hospitals have received ICU, some of which may be futile. The objective of this study was to examine ways in which the delivery of futile care in the ICU can cause harm to patients other than those receiving the futile care...
  20. ncbi Rethinking guidelines for the use of palliative sedation
    Jeffrey T Berger
    Stony Brook University School of Medicine, USA
    Hastings Cent Rep 40:32-8. 2010
    ..A closer look at the kinds of cases in which palliative sedation is used suggests a way of adjusting the guidelines to resolve this seeming contradiction...
  21. ncbi Obligations and marginal decisions in a fair health system
    Jeffrey T Berger
    SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine, USA
    Am J Bioeth 4:123-4; discussion W40-2. 2004
  22. ncbi Evaluation of housestaff knowledge and perception of competence in palliative symptom management
    Paula E Lester
    Division of Geriatric Medicine, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, New York, USA
    J Palliat Med 14:139-45. 2011
    ..We aimed to assess the effectiveness of current teaching methods for housestaff in these fields...
  23. ncbi Ethics of practicing medical procedures on newly dead and nearly dead patients
    Jeffrey T Berger
    Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, NY, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 17:774-8. 2002
    ..To examine the ethical issues raised by physicians performing, for skill development, medically nonindicated invasive medical procedures on newly dead and dying patients...
  24. ncbi Say what you mean and mean what you say: a patient's conflicting preferences for care
    Jeffrey T Berger
    SUNY-Stony Brook School of Medicine, USA
    Hastings Cent Rep 36:14; discussion 14-5. 2006
  25. ncbi Protection of research subjects
    Jeffrey T Berger
    N Engl J Med 349:188-92; author reply 188-92. 2003
  26. ncbi Advance directives, due process, and medical futility
    Jeffrey T Berger
    Ann Intern Med 140:402-3; author reply 404. 2004
  27. ncbi Demographic characteristics and opioid prescribing
    Jeffrey T Berger
    JAMA 299:1773-4; author reply 1774. 2008
  28. ncbi Pharmaceutical industry influences on physician prescribing: gifts, quasi-gifts, and patient-directed gifts
    Jeffrey T Berger
    SUNY, Stony Brook School of Medicine, USA
    Am J Bioeth 3:56-7. 2003