Death

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "The Patient Is Dying, Please Call the Chaplain": The Activities of Chaplains in One Medical Center's Intensive Care Units. 
  • A call for full public disclosure for donation after circulatory determination of death in children. 
  • A comparison of hyperbaric oxygen versus hypoxic cerebral preconditioning in neonatal rats. 
  • A prospective cohort study assessing aggressive interventions at the end-of-life among patients with solid metastatic cancer. 
  • A report of the first pediatric heart transplant following donation after circulatory death in the United States using ex-vivo perfusion. 
  • A walk on the beach. 
  • Abortion, death, and the sanctity of life. 
  • Alemtuzumab induction and triple maintenance immunotherapy in kidney transplantation from donors after cardiac death. 
  • American Society of Transplant Surgeons recommendations on best practices in donation after circulatory death organ procurement. 
  • Angiotensin Receptor-Neprilysin Inhibition Based on History of Heart Failure and Use of Renin-Angiotensin System Antagonists. 
  • Ankyrin-B syndrome: enhanced cardiac function balanced by risk of cardiac death and premature senescence. 
  • Approaching End-of-Life Decisions in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease. 
  • Association Between Delivery System Structure and Intensity of End-of-Life Cancer Care. 
  • Association Between Early Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Improvement After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement and 5-Year Clinical Outcomes. 
  • Association Between Symptom Burden and Time to Hospitalization, Nursing Home Placement, and Death Among the Chronically Ill Urban Homebound. 
  • Association between CK-MB Area Under the Curve and Tranexamic Acid Utilization in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery. 
  • Association of hospice patients' income and care level with place of death. 
  • Cardiovascular mechanism of donor brain death and heart recipient survival. 
  • Central aortic pulse pressure, thrombogenicity and cardiovascular risk. 
  • Childhood traumatic grief: a multi-site empirical examination of the construct and its correlates. 
  • Clinician End-of-Life Experiences With Pediatric Muslim Patients at a US Quaternary Care Center. 
  • Clinicians' Understanding of Preferences and Values of People with Hematological Malignancies at the End of Life: Concurrent Surveys. 
  • Combining Multiple Decedent Data Sources for a Population-Based Picture of End-of-Life Healthcare Utilization. 
  • Commentary on "Disability Trajectories at the End of Life: A Countdown Model" The Problems With Time-to-Death as a Predictor of Disability. 
  • Commentary: A longer agonal period in lungs donated after circulatory determination of death is a gamble worth taking. 
  • Comparative effects of low and high doses of the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor, lisinopril, on morbidity and mortality in chronic heart failure. ATLAS Study Group. 
  • Consent for organ donation after circulatory death at U.S. transplant centers. 
  • Coping with loss: a group experience with elderly survivors. 
  • Death is not an option, how you die is--reflections from a career in oncology nursing. 
  • Death or hospitalization of patients on chronic hemodialysis is associated with a physician-based diagnosis of depression. 
  • Detection of myocardial damage in patients with sarcoidosis. 
  • Developing the Future End-of-Life Health Care Workforce: Lessons Learned From a Survey of Advanced Health Professions Students. 
  • Disparities in end-of-life outcomes among advanced cancer patients in Sri Lanka: Results from the APPROACH study. 
  • Disparities in place of death for patients with primary brain tumors and brain metastases in the USA. 
  • Doing everything. 
  • Doing everything. 
  • Donation after cardiac death: the University of Wisconsin experience with liver transplantation. 
  • Donation after cardiac death: the University of Wisconsin experience. 
  • Donation after circulatory determination of death in heart transplant: impact on current and future allocation policy. 
  • Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease Benefits Research, Quality of Life, and End-of-Life Planning. 
  • Early parental death and remarriage of widowed parents as risk factors for Alzheimer disease: the Cache County study. 
  • End of life experiences of patients with advanced cancer in Myanmar: Results from the APPROACH study. 
  • End-of-life cost trajectories and the trade-off between treatment costs and life-extension: Findings from the Cost and Medical Care of Patients with Advanced Serious Illness (COMPASS) cohort study. 
  • Ethics of postmortem sperm retrieval: ethics of sperm retrieval after death or persistent vegetative state. 
  • Ethnic differences in the place of death of elderly hospice enrollees. 
  • Evaluating for disparities in place of death for head and neck cancer patients in the United States utilizing the CDC WONDER database. 
  • Expanding the Public Health Approach to Gun Violence Prevention. 
  • Factors Associated with Health Care Utilization at the End of Life for Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. 
  • Functional Status Modifies the Association of Blood Pressure with Death in Elders: Health and Retirement Study. 
  • Genetic factors in susceptibility to death: a comparative analysis of bivariate survival models. 
  • Genetic nature of individual frailty: comparison of two approaches. 
  • Going the distance for procurement of donation after circulatory death livers for transplantation-Does reimbursement reflect reality? 
  • Half of the variation in susceptibility to mortality is genetic: findings from Swedish twin survival data. 
  • Healthiness of survival and quality of death among oldest old in China using fuzzy sets. 
  • High-sensitivity troponin I for risk assessment in patients with atrial fibrillation: insights from the Apixaban for Reduction in Stroke and other Thromboembolic Events in Atrial Fibrillation (ARISTOTLE) trial. 
  • How heritable is individual susceptibility to death? The results of an analysis of survival data on Danish, Swedish and Finnish twins. 
  • Impact of Early Palliative Care on End-of-Life Outcomes in Hematologic Malignancies. 
  • Impact of diabetes on the risk stratification using stress single-photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with symptoms suggestive of coronary artery disease. 
  • Improved cardiac risk assessment with noninvasive measures of coronary flow reserve. 
  • In STEMI with multivessel CAD, complete revascularization reduced CV death or MI more than culprit lesion-only PCI. 
  • Incidence of Postreperfusion Hyperfibrinolysis in Liver Transplantation by Donor Type and Observed Treatment Strategies. 
  • Incidence, Characteristics, and Outcomes of Myocardial Infarction in Patients With Peripheral Artery Disease: Insights From the EUCLID Trial. 
  • Insurance Status and Ethnicity Impact Health Disparities in Rates of Advance Directives in Trauma. 
  • Is withholding osteoporosis medication after fracture sometimes rational? A comparison of the risk for second fracture versus death. 
  • Killing versus totally disabling: a reply to critics. 
  • Life transitions and health insurance coverage of the near elderly. 
  • Liver transplantation at the University of Wisconsin. 
  • Long-term colchicine administration leading to colchicine toxicity and death. 
  • Male-mediated prenatal loss: Functions and mechanisms. 
  • Management of pace-terminated ventricular arrhythmias. 
  • Management of the Potential Organ Donor in the ICU: Society of Critical Care Medicine/American College of Chest Physicians/Association of Organ Procurement Organizations Consensus Statement. 
  • Memory, community and the reasons for living: theological and ethical reflections on suicide and euthanasia. 
  • Noteworthy Literature Published in 2018 for Thoracic Organ Transplantation. 
  • Novel Use of Mobile Ex-Vivo Lung Perfusion in Donation After Circulatory Death Lung Transplantation. 
  • Palliative care. 
  • Polypharmacy, chemotherapy receipt, and medication-related out-of-pocket costs at end of life among commercially insured adults with advanced cancer. 
  • Pre- and postmortem diffusion coefficients in rat neural and muscle tissues. 
  • Predicting adverse outcome with exercise SPECT technetium-99m sestamibi imaging in patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease. 
  • Predicting complications of carotid endarterectomy. 
  • Predictive value of myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography and the impact of renal function on cardiac death. 
  • Processed electroencephalogram during donation after cardiac death. 
  • Prognostic validation of an algorithm to convert myocardial perfusion SPECT imaging data from a 12-segment model to a 17-segment model. 
  • Prognostic value of stress myocardial perfusion positron emission tomography: results from a multicenter observational registry. 
  • Psychiatric symptoms in bereaved versus nonbereaved youth and young adults: a longitudinal epidemiological study. 
  • Psychosomatic symptoms in parents 2 years after the death of a child with cancer. 
  • Psychotic disorders cause the greatest mortality disparity among mental disorders, though more deaths are attributable overall to mood and anxiety disorders. 
  • Randomized trial of warfarin, aspirin, and clopidogrel in patients with chronic heart failure: the Warfarin and Antiplatelet Therapy in Chronic Heart Failure (WATCH) trial. 
  • Reflections on suffering, death and medicine. 
  • Renal Transplantation with grafts affected by tumors: learning from a 'near miss' case. 
  • Reply to M.A.N. Şendur et al and J. Michels. 
  • Reply to: Systolic Blood Pressure and Mortality: Role of Reverse Causation. 
  • Rescue thrombolysis: resolution of intraglomerular thrombi after donation after circulatory death. 
  • Response to "Reassessing the death risk related to probiotics in critically ill patients". 
  • Retrospective postmortem dementia assessment. Validation of a new clinical interview to assist neuropathologic study. 
  • Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation from donation after cardiac death: successful long-term outcomes. 
  • Socio-economic inequalities in suffering at the end of life among advanced cancer patients: results from the APPROACH study in five Asian countries. 
  • Something Is Better Than Nothing: The Value of Active Intervention in Stated Preferences for Treatments to Delay Onset of Alzheimer's Disease Symptoms. 
  • Stress and adaptation in later life. 
  • The Association of Advance Care Planning Documentation and End-of-Life Healthcare Use Among Patients With Multimorbidity. 
  • The Ethics of Experimenting With Human Brain Tissue 
  • The Future of heart procurement with donation after circulatory death: Current practice and opportunities for advancement. 
  • The Volume-outcome Relationship in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation and Implications for Regionalization. 
  • The association with organ procurement techniques and early cardiac transplant outcomes using cardiac MRI. 
  • The best transplant strategy? It depends. 
  • The limits of proxy decisionmaking for incompetents. 
  • The manner of death in coronary artery disease. 
  • The terminal drop hypothesis: fact or artifact? 
  • Thrombocytopenia in hospitalized patients with severe clostridium difficile infection. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Seizures at the End of Life. 
  • Trajectories of Suffering in the Last Year of Life Among Patients With a Solid Metastatic Cancer. 
  • Trends in Place of Death for Individuals With Cardiovascular Disease in the United States. 
  • What Unites Us in Death. 
  • What constitutes quality of family experience at the end of life? Perspectives from family members of patients who died in the hospital. 
  • What is a Good Death? A Choice Experiment on Care Indicators for Patients at End of Life. 
  • Why dying doesn't seem to matter: the influence of culture on physicians in Bali, Indonesia. 
  • Willingness to Undergo a Risky Treatment to Improve Cognition Among Persons With Cognitive Impairment Who Received an Amyloid PET Scan. 
  • [End-of-life care in pediatrics: much more than a fight against entropy]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Jones, L. Gregory, Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams, Jr. Distinguished Professor of the Practice Emeritus of Christian Ministry in the Divinity School, Divinity School
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Rosenblatt, Adam R., Associate Professor of the Practice of the International Comparative Studies Program, Cultural Anthropology
  • Rudy, Mary K., Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
  • Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, Chauncey Stillman Distinguished Professor of Practical Ethics, Duke Science & Society
  • Taekman, Jeffrey Marc, Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Neuroanesthesia