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2. Prevalence of unpaid caregiving, pain, and depression in older seriously ill patients undergoing elective surgery..  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.  71:2151-2162. 2023
3. The burden of pre-admission pain, depression, and caregiving on palliative care needs for seriously ill trauma patients..  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.  71:2229-2238. 2023
4. Surgeon-reported Factors Influencing Adoption of Quality Standards for Goal-concordant Care in Patients With Advanced Cancer: A Qualitative Study..  Annals of surgery.  277:e1000-e1005. 2022
5. Incidence of Infertility and Pregnancy Complications in US Female Surgeons..  JAMA surgery.  156:905-915. 2021
6. Perioperative Symptoms: A New Frontier for Surgical Palliative Care..  Annals of surgery.  274:e80-e81. 2021
7. Empowering Surgeons, Anesthesiologists, and Obstetricians to Incorporate Environmental Sustainability in the Operating Room..  Annals of surgery.  273:1108-1114. 2021
8. Older adults' perspectives 3 months after emergency general surgery highlight opportunities to improve care..  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.  69:2023-2025. 2021
9. An Honest Look in the Mirror - Cultivating a Culture of Equity in Surgery..  Annals of surgery.  273:e1-e2. 2021
10. Association of Frailty With Morbidity and Mortality in Emergency General Surgery by Procedural Risk Level..  JAMA surgery.  156:68-74. 2021
11. Identifying Patient Characteristics Associated With Deficits in Surgical Decision Making..  Journal of patient safety.  16:284-288. 2020
12. Preoperative Frailty Status and Intensity of End-of-Life Care Among Older Adults After Emergency Surgery..  Journal of pain and symptom management.  62:66-74.e3. 2020
13. Older Adult Perspectives on Medical Decision Making and Emergency General Surgery: "It had to be Done.".  Journal of pain and symptom management.  61:948-954. 2020
14. The Surgical Health Services Research Agenda for the COVID-19 Pandemic..  Annals of surgery.  272:e226-e229. 2020
15. Mortality and Health Care Utilization Among Medicare Patients Undergoing Emergency General Surgery vs Those With Acute Medical Conditions..  JAMA surgery.  155:216-223. 2020
16. Care Discontinuity in Emergency General Surgery: Does Hospital Quality Matter?.  Journal of the American College of Surgeons.  230:863-871. 2020
17. The Impact of Frailty on Long-Term Patient-Oriented Outcomes after Emergency General Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study..  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.  68:1037-1043. 2020
18. Variation in Serious Illness Communication among Surgical Patients Receiving Palliative Care..  Journal of palliative medicine.  23:411-414. 2019
19. Natural Language Processing Accurately Measures Adherence to Best Practice Guidelines for Palliative Care in Trauma..  Journal of pain and symptom management.  59:225-232.e2. 2019
20. Deficits in the Palliative Care Process Measures in Patients with Advanced Pancreatic Cancer Undergoing Operative and Invasive Nonoperative Palliative Procedures..  Annals of surgical oncology.  26:4204-4212. 2019
21. Defining Serious Illness Among Adult Surgical Patients..  Journal of pain and symptom management.  58:844-850.e2. 2019
22. Frailty Identification and Care Pathway: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Care for Older Trauma Patients..  Journal of the American College of Surgeons.  228:852-859.e1. 2019
23. Evidence-based review of trauma center care and routine palliative care processes for geriatric trauma patients; A collaboration from the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Patient Assessment Committee, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Geriatric Trauma Committee, and the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma Guidelines Committee..  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery.  86:737-743. 2019
24. Quality Measures in Surgical Palliative Care: Adapting Existing Palliative Care Measures to Improve Care for Seriously Ill Surgical Patients..  Annals of surgery.  269:607-609. 2019
25. Clinician-to-Clinician Communication of Patient Goals of Care Within a Surgical Intensive Care Unit..  The Journal of surgical research.  80-88. 2019
26. Implementation of Routine Cognitive Screening in the Preoperative Assessment Clinic..  A&A practice.  12:125-127. 2019
27. Emergency general surgery in geriatric patients: How should we evaluate hospital experience?.  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery.  86:189-195. 2019
28. Sarcopenia as a tool for preoperative decision-making..  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery.  86:377-379. 2019
29. Dying Patient and Family Contributions to Nurse Distress in the ICU..  Annals of the American Thoracic Society.  15:1459-1464. 2018
30. Ethical considerations about emergent surgical hospitalizations in patients with advanced cancer..  Cancer.  124:4432-4434. 2018
31. The impact of inpatient palliative care on end-of-life care among older trauma patients who die after hospital discharge..  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery.  85:992-998. 2018
32. Natural Language Processing to Assess End-of-Life Quality Indicators in Cancer Patients Receiving Palliative Surgery..  Journal of palliative medicine.  22:183-187. 2018
33. Geriatric traumatic brain injury-What we know and what we don't..  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery.  85:788-798. 2018
34. High Burden of Palliative Care Needs of Older Adults During Emergency Major Abdominal Surgery..  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.  66:2072-2078. 2018
35. Indicated But Not Always Appropriate: Surgery in Terminally Ill Patients With Abdominal Catastrophe..  Annals of surgery.  268:-. 2018
36. Measuring Processes of Care in Palliative Surgery: A Novel Approach Using Natural Language Processing..  Annals of surgery.  267:823-825. 2018
37. The impact of individual physicians on outcomes after trauma: is it the system or the surgeon?.  The Journal of surgical research.  51-57. 2018
38. Survival, Healthcare Utilization, and End-of-life Care Among Older Adults With Malignancy-associated Bowel Obstruction: Comparative Study of Surgery, Venting Gastrostomy, or Medical Management..  Annals of surgery.  267:692-699. 2018
39. Increased hospice enrollment and decreased neurosurgical interventions without changes in mortality for older Medicare patients with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury..  American journal of surgery.  215:1016-1019. 2018
40. Beyond Pain: Nurses' Assessment of Patient Suffering, Dignity, and Dying in the Intensive Care Unit..  Journal of pain and symptom management.  55:1591-1598.e1. 2018
41. End-of-Life Care in Older Patients After Serious or Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Low-Mortality Hospitals Compared With All Other Hospitals..  JAMA surgery.  153:44-50. 2018
42. Palliative Care in Surgery: Defining the Research Priorities..  Annals of surgery.  267:66-72. 2018
43. The "mortality ascent": Hourly risk of death for hemodynamically unstable trauma patients at Level II versus Level I trauma centers..  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery.  84:139-145. 2018
44. Impact of Public Reporting of 30-day Mortality on Timing of Death after Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery..  Anesthesiology.  127:953-960. 2017
45. Sarcopenia increases risk of long-term mortality in elderly patients undergoing emergency abdominal surgery..  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery.  83:1179-1186. 2017
46. Do Transferred Patients Increase the Risk of Venous Thromboembolism in Trauma Centers?.  The American surgeon.  83:1241-1245. 2017
47. Training Surgeons and Anesthesiologists to Facilitate End-of-Life Conversations With Patients and Families: A Systematic Review of Existing Educational Models..  Journal of surgical education.  75:702-721. 2017
48. Preoperative Counseling in Salvage Total Laryngectomy: Content Analysis of Electronic Medical Records..  Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.  157:641-647. 2017
49. Association Between Race and Postoperative Outcomes in a Universally Insured Population Versus Patients in the State of California..  Annals of surgery.  266:267-273. 2017
50. Intraoperative cholangiography during cholecystectomy among hospitalized medicare beneficiaries with non-neoplastic biliary disease..  American journal of surgery.  214:682-686. 2017
51. Occupational Variation in End-of-Life Care Intensity..  The American journal of hospice & palliative care.  35:377-383. 2017
52. Navigating high-risk surgery: protocol for a multisite, stepped wedge, cluster-randomised trial of a question prompt list intervention to empower older adults to ask questions that inform treatment decisions..  BMJ open.  7:-. 2017
53. "Taking over somebody's life": Experiences of surrogate decision-makers in the surgical intensive care unit..  Surgery.  162:453-460. 2017
54. The Cambia Sojourns Scholars Leadership Program: Conversations with Emerging Leaders in Palliative Care..  Journal of palliative medicine.  20:804-812. 2017
55. Erratum to "Postdischarge complications following nonoperative management of blunt splenic injury" [Am J Surg 211 (4) (2016) 744-749]..  American journal of surgery.  216:186-187. 2017
56. Major trauma in the older patient: Evolving trauma care beyond management of bumps and bruises..  Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA.  29:450-455. 2017
57. Inferring Palliative Intent From Administrative Data: Validation of a Claims-Based Case Definition for Venting Gastrostomy Tube..  Journal of pain and symptom management.  53:e3-e5. 2017
58. Trajectory of Functional Recovery After Postoperative Delirium in Elective Surgery..  Annals of surgery.  265:647-653. 2017
59. Palliative Care in Surgery: Defining the Research Priorities..  Journal of palliative medicine.  20:702-709. 2017
60. Hospital Factors Associated With Care Discontinuity Following Emergency General Surgery..  JAMA surgery.  152:242-249. 2017
61. A position paper: The convergence of aging and injury and the need for a Geriatric Trauma Coalition (GeriTraC)..  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery.  82:419-422. 2017
62. Patient-reported Limitations to Surgical Buy-in: A Qualitative Study of Patients Facing High-risk Surgery..  Annals of surgery.  265:97-102. 2017
63. Comparison of Frailty Measures as Predictors of Outcomes After Orthopedic Surgery..  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.  64:2464-2471. 2016
64. Utility of the "Surprise" Question in Predicting Survival among Older Patients with Acute Surgical Conditions..  Journal of palliative medicine.  20:420-423. 2016
65. Preoperative assessment of surgical risk: creation of a scoring tool to estimate 1-year mortality after emergency abdominal surgery in the elderly patient..  American journal of surgery.  213:771-777.e1. 2016
66. Elder abuse: Paucity of data hampers evidence-based injury prevention..  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery.  81:603-5. 2016
67. Using a Palliative Care Framework for Seriously Ill Surgical Patients: The Example of Malignant Bowel Obstruction..  JAMA surgery.  151:695-6. 2016
68. Leveraging the Preoperative Clinic to Engage Older Patients in Shared Decision Making About Complex Surgery: An Illustrative Case..  A & A case reports.  7:30-2. 2016
69. The obesity paradox in patients with severe soft tissue infections..  American journal of surgery.  214:385-389. 2016
70. Response to mass casualty events: from the battlefield to the Stop the Bleed campaign..  Trauma surgery & acute care open.  1:-. 2016
71. How long should we fear? Long-term risk of venous thromboembolism in patients with traumatic brain injury..  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery.  81:71-8. 2016
72. An Agenda for Improving Perioperative Code Status Discussion..  A & A case reports.  6:411-5. 2016
73. American Association for the Surgery of Trauma statement on firearm injuries..  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery.  80:-. 2016
74. Intensity of treatment, end-of-life care, and mortality for older patients with severe traumatic brain injury..  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery.  80:998-1004. 2016
75. Racial disparities in emergency general surgery: Do differences in outcomes persist among universally insured military patients?.  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery.  80:764-75; discussion 775-7. 2016
76. Surgeons' Perspectives on Avoiding Nonbeneficial Treatments in Seriously Ill Older Patients with Surgical Emergencies: A Qualitative Study..  Journal of palliative medicine.  19:529-37. 2016
77. A Model for Better Leveraging the Point of Preoperative Assessment: Patients and Providers Look Beyond Operative Indications When Making Decisions..  A & A case reports.  6:241-8. 2016
78. Defining Rates and Risk Factors for Readmissions Following Emergency General Surgery..  JAMA surgery.  151:330-6. 2016
79. Never giving up: outcomes and presentation of emergency general surgery in geriatric octogenarian and nonagenarian patients..  American journal of surgery.  212:211-220.e3. 2016
80. The High Burden of Palliative Care Needs among Older Emergency General Surgery Patients..  Journal of palliative medicine.  19:352-3. 2016
81. Integrating Geriatric Consults into Routine Care of Older Trauma Patients: One-Year Experience of a Level I Trauma Center..  Journal of the American College of Surgeons.  222:1029-35. 2016
82. Evaluation of the Perceived Association Between Resident Turnover and the Outcomes of Patients Who Undergo Emergency General Surgery: Questioning the July Phenomenon..  JAMA surgery.  151:217-24. 2016
83. Does Hospital Experience Rather than Volume Improve Outcomes in Geriatric Trauma Patients?.  Journal of the American College of Surgeons.  223:32-40.e1. 2016
84. Comparing Readmissions and Infectious Complications of Blunt Splenic Injuries Using a Statewide Database..  Surgical infections.  17:191-7. 2016
85. Palliative Care Interventions for Surgical Patients: A Systematic Review..  JAMA surgery.  151:172-83. 2016
86. Are appendectomy outcomes in level I trauma centers as good as we think?.  The Journal of surgical research.  202:239-45. 2016
87. End-of-Life Care Intensity for Physicians, Lawyers, and the General Population..  JAMA.  315:303-5. 2016
88. Explaining the excess morbidity of emergency general surgery: packed red blood cell and fresh frozen plasma transfusion practices are associated with major complications in nonmassively transfused patients..  American journal of surgery.  211:656-663.e4. 2016
89. Postdischarge complications following nonoperative management of blunt splenic injury..  American journal of surgery.  211:744-749.e1. 2016
90. Recommendations for Best Communication Practices to Facilitate Goal-concordant Care for Seriously Ill Older Patients With Emergency Surgical Conditions..  Annals of surgery.  263:1-6. 2016
91. The truth about trauma readmissions..  American journal of surgery.  211:649-55. 2015
92. Whatever happens to trauma patients who leave against medical advice?.  American journal of surgery.  211:677-83. 2015
93. The elderly patient with spinal injury: treat or transfer?.  The Journal of surgical research.  202:58-65. 2015
94. The Successful Aging after Elective Surgery (SAGES) Study: Cohort Description and Data Quality Procedures..  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.  63:2463-2471. 2015
95. Predictors of Mortality Up to 1 Year After Emergency Major Abdominal Surgery in Older Adults..  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.  63:2572-2579. 2015
96. A Conceptual Framework for Appropriateness in Surgical Care: Reviewing Past Approaches and Looking Ahead to Patient-centered Shared Decision Making..  Anesthesiology.  123:1450-4. 2015
97. Controversies in anaesthesia for noncardiac surgery in older adults..  British journal of anaesthesia.  115 Suppl 2:ii15-25. 2015
98. Effect of Delirium and Other Major Complications on Outcomes After Elective Surgery in Older Adults..  JAMA surgery.  150:1134-40. 2015
99. How Many Midnights?: Admission Status for Elders With Small Bowel Obstruction..  Annals of surgery.  262:904-6. 2015
100. Emergency Major Abdominal Surgical Procedures in Older Adults: A Systematic Review of Mortality and Functional Outcomes..  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.  63:2563-2571. 2015
101. Thirty-Day Mortality After Lobectomy in Elderly Patients Eligible for Lung Cancer Screening..  The Annals of thoracic surgery.  101:541-6. 2015
102. Mortality and Readmission After Cervical Fracture from a Fall in Older Adults: Comparison with Hip Fracture Using National Medicare Data..  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.  63:2036-42. 2015
103. Mortality after emergency surgery continues to rise after discharge in the elderly: Predictors of 1-year mortality..  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery.  79:349-58. 2015
104. Outcomes after emergency abdominal surgery in patients with advanced cancer: Opportunities to reduce complications and improve palliative care..  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery.  79:399-406. 2015
105. The effect of cirrhosis on the risk for failure of nonoperative management of blunt liver injuries..  Surgery.  158:1676-85. 2015
106. The Language of Delirium: Keywords for Identifying Delirium from Medical Records..  Journal of gerontological nursing.  41:34-42. 2015
107. Injury in the aged: Geriatric trauma care at the crossroads..  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery.  78:1197-209. 2015
108. BWH emergency radiology-surgical correlation: intraperitoneal urinary bladder rupture..  Emergency radiology.  22:713-6. 2015
109. Training surgical residents for a career in academic global surgery: a novel training model..  Journal of surgical education.  72:e104-10. 2015
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111. "And I think that we can fix it": mental models used in high-risk surgical decision making..  Annals of surgery.  261:678-84. 2015
112. A values-based conceptual framework for surgical appropriateness: an illustrative case report..  Annals of palliative medicine.  4:54-7. 2015
113. The excess morbidity and mortality of emergency general surgery..  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery.  78:306-11. 2015
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115. Racial variation in the use of life-sustaining treatments among patients who die after major elective surgery..  American journal of surgery.  210:52-8. 2014
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117. Conversations about treatment preferences before high-risk surgery: a pilot study in the preoperative testing center..  Journal of palliative medicine.  17:701-7. 2014
118. It's big surgery: preoperative expressions of risk, responsibility, and commitment to treatment after high-risk operations..  Annals of surgery.  259:458-63. 2014
119. Measuring critical deficits in shared decision making before elective surgery..  Patient education and counseling.  94:328-33. 2013
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121. Racial disparities in intensity of care at the end-of-life: are trauma patients the same as the rest?.  Journal of health care for the poor and underserved.  23:857-74. 2012
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