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Kimberly Sherell Johnson

Brenda E. Armstrong, M. D. Distinguished Professor
Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Care
Duke Box 3003, Durham, NC 27710
3502 Hosp South, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications


Priority areas for outcomes improvement among older adults undergoing inpatient general surgery inclusive of geriatric-pertinent complications.

Journal Article World J Surg · November 2024 BACKGROUND: Comprehensive studies on priority areas for improving geriatric surgery outcomes, inclusive of geriatric-pertinent data, are limited. METHODS: The ACS NSQIP geriatric database (2014-2018) was used to abstract older adults (≥65 years) undergoing ... Full text Link to item Cite

Implementing Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Stakeholder Engagement Principles in Models of Palliative Care Delivery and Advance Care Planning Research.

Journal Article Med Care · October 1, 2024 BACKGROUND: Given the many challenges of conducting research that addresses the palliative and end-of-life care needs of patients with serious illnesses, stakeholder engagement starting from the moment of study conceptualization and design is critical to e ... Full text Link to item Cite

Improving Equity in Shared Decision-Making-Reply.

Journal Article JAMA Intern Med · September 1, 2024 Full text Link to item Cite

Validating a tool to measure spiritual beliefs, needs and resources in serious illness: The I-SPIRIT.

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · July 2024 BACKGROUND: Seriously ill patients rely on spiritual and existential beliefs to support coping and approach crucial treatment and healthcare decisions. Yet, we lack gold standard, validated approaches to gathering information on those spiritual beliefs. Th ... Full text Link to item Cite

Discriminatory and valuing communication behaviors in cardiology encounters.

Journal Article Patient Educ Couns · June 2024 OBJECTIVE: Many have found racial differences in clinician-patient communication using validated codebooks that represent effective communication. No codebooks used for examining racial differences, however, have included patient input. In this paper, we d ... Full text Link to item Cite

BOLD: Blood-gas and Oximetry Linked Dataset.

Journal Article Sci Data · May 24, 2024 Pulse oximeters measure peripheral arterial oxygen saturation (SpO2) noninvasively, while the gold standard (SaO2) involves arterial blood gas measurement. There are known racial and ethnic disparities in their performance. BOLD is a dataset that aims to u ... Full text Link to item Cite

Racial Differences in Shared Decision-Making About Critical Illness.

Journal Article JAMA Intern Med · April 1, 2024 IMPORTANCE: Shared decision-making is the preferred method for evaluating complex tradeoffs in the care of patients with critical illness. However, it remains unknown whether critical care clinicians engage diverse patients and caregivers equitably in shar ... Full text Link to item Cite

Race differences in patient trust and distrust from audio-recorded cardiology encounters.

Journal Article Patient Educ Couns · February 2024 OBJECTIVE: Many have reported racial disparities in self-reported trust in clinicians but have not directly assessed expressions of trust and distrust in physician-patient encounters. We created a codebook to examine racial differences in patient trust and ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mobile Application-Based Communication Facilitation Platform for Family Members of Critically Ill Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Journal Article JAMA Netw Open · January 2, 2024 IMPORTANCE: Unmet and racially disparate palliative care needs are common in intensive care unit (ICU) settings. OBJECTIVE: To test the effect of a primary palliative care intervention vs usual care control both overall and by family member race. DESIGN, S ... Full text Link to item Cite

Perspectives on Transfusions for Hospice Patients With Blood Cancers: A Survey of Hospice Providers.

Journal Article J Pain Symptom Manage · January 2024 CONTEXT: Patients with blood cancers have low rates of hospice use. While lack of transfusion access in hospice is posited to substantially contribute to these low rates, little is known about the perspectives of hospice providers regarding transfusion acc ... Full text Link to item Cite

Design and pilot test of an implicit bias mitigation curriculum for clinicians.

Journal Article Front Med (Lausanne) · 2024 INTRODUCTION: Clinician implicit racial bias (IB) may lead to lower quality care and adverse health outcomes for Black patients. Educational efforts to train clinicians to mitigate IB vary widely and have insufficient evidence of impact. We developed and p ... Full text Link to item Cite

BOLD: Blood-gas and Oximetry Linked Dataset - Open Source Research.

Journal Article medRxiv · October 3, 2023 Pulse oximeters measure peripheral arterial oxygen saturation (SpO 2 ) noninvasively, while the gold standard (SaO 2 ) involves arterial blood gas measurement. There are known racial and ethnic disparities in their performance. BOLD is a new comprehensive ... Full text Link to item Cite

Acceptability of a Serious Illness Conversation Guide to Black Americans: Results from a focus group and oncology pilot study.

Journal Article Palliat Support Care · October 2023 OBJECTIVES: Serious illness conversations (SICs) can improve the experience and well-being of patients with advanced cancer. A structured Serious Illness Conversation Guide (SICG) has been shown to improve oncology patient outcomes but was developed and te ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Experience of Black Patients With Serious Illness in the United States: A Scoping Review.

Journal Article J Pain Symptom Manage · October 2023 CONTEXT: Black patients experience health disparities in access and quality of care. OBJECTIVE: To identify and characterize the literature on the experiences of Black patients with serious illness across multiple domains - physical, spiritual, emotional, ... Full text Link to item Cite

Dementia and Parkinson's disease diagnoses in electronic health records vs. Medicare claims data: a study of 101,980 linked patients.

Journal Article BMC Neurol · September 12, 2023 BACKGROUND: Medicare claims and electronic health record data are both commonly used for research and clinical practice improvement; however, it is not known how concordant diagnoses of neurodegenerative diseases (NDD, comprising dementia and Parkinson's d ... Full text Link to item Cite

Advancing Equity in Cancer Research: Opportunities for Sponsors, Institutions, and Investigators.

Journal Article N C Med J · September 2023 Numerous studies have documented patient-level barriers to research participation that are often connected to social determinants of health. As described in this paper, to significantly move the needle toward greater diversity and inclusion in cancer resea ... Full text Link to item Cite

Delivering Acupuncture Therapy in an Interdisciplinary Global Health Setting in Guatemala: Pilot Study and Lessons Learned

Journal Article Medical Acupuncture · August 1, 2023 Objective: Pain, stress, and diabetes mellitus (DM) are common complaints for Guatemalans seeking health care. Because acupuncture therapy (AT) is a low-cost, effective treatment for these concerns, it was offered to Guatemalans during a health care missio ... Full text Cite