Professor of Medicine, University Pennsylvania Director of Hospice and Palliative Care, University of Pennsylvania Health System
Internal Medicine
Dr. David J. Casarett, MD
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David Casarett works in the field of Internal Medicine. He went to medical school at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He has 1 awards "Regional Top Doctor". David J. Casarett, MD is a published physician as well. He has 64 publications published. The latest was: The Impact of Inpatient Palliative Care Consultations on 30-Day Hospital Readmissions.
Publications
- The Impact of Inpatient Palliative Care Consultations on 30-Day Hospital Readmissions.
- Measuring What Matters: Top-Ranked Quality Indicators for Hospice and Palliative Care From the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Hospice and Pall...
- What is different about patients with hematologic malignancies? A retrospective cohort study of cancer patients referred to a hospice research network.
- The quality imperative for palliative care.
- Timing of Survey Administration After Hospice Patient Death: Stability of Bereaved Respondents.
- Increasing inpatient hospice use versus patient preferences in the USA: are patients able to die in the setting of their choice?
- Comparison of Pediatric and Adult Hospice Patients Using Electronic Medical Record Data from Nine Hospices in the United States, 2008-2012.
- Hospice Admissions for Cancer in the Final Days of Life: Independent Predictors and Implications for Quality Measures.
- Are advance directives associated with better hospice care?
- Can Hospices Predict which Patients Will Die within Six Months?
- Family Involvement at the End of Life and Receipt of Quality Care.
- Family Perceptions of Quality of Hospice Care in the Nursing Home.
- The "Comfortable Dying" Measure: How Patient Characteristics Affect Hospice Pain Management Quality Scores.
- Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Deactivation: A Hospice Quality Improvement Initiative.
- Breast cancer survivors willingness to participate in an acupuncture clinical trial: a qualitative study.
- All Hospice Patients Are Not Equal: Development of a Visit-Based Acuity Index.
- Survival after Dialysis Discontinuation and Hospice Enrollment for ESRD.
- Can Palliative Home Care Reduce 30-Day Readmissions? Results of a Propensity Score Matched Cohort Study.
- Five things physicians and patients should question in hospice and palliative medicine.
- Effect of the Medicare Face-to-Face Visit Requirement on Hospice Utilization.
- Patterns of Functional Decline in Hospice: What Can Individuals and Their Families Expect?
- Which Hospice Patients With Cancer Are Able to Die in the Setting of Their Choice? Results of a Retrospective Cohort Study.
- Utilization of Supportive and Palliative Care Services among Oncology Outpatients at One Academic Cancer Center: Determinants of Use and Barriers to Access.
- Defining Patient Safety in Hospice: Principles to Guide Measurement and Public Reporting.
- The Art versus Science of Predicting Prognosis: Can a Prognostic Index Predict Short-Term Mortality Better than Experienced Nurses Do?
- Modelling study of prognostic indicators for patients with locally advanced or metastatic cancer identifies variables that predict short-term survival in palliative care.
- Hospice eligibility in patients who died in a tertiary care center.
- Foreword: quality improvement efforts: advancing the science of palliative care.
- Does Hospice Improve Quality of Care for Persons Dying from Dementia?
- One Big Happy Family? Interdisciplinary Variation in Job Satisfaction among Hospice Providers.
- Rethinking hospice eligibility criteria.
- A memory and organizational aid improves Alzheimer disease research consent capacity: results of a randomized, controlled trial.
- Introduction: finding the future of international palliative care.
- Improving communication and rethinking hospice care.
- Families' perceptions of veterans' distress due to post-traumatic stress disorder-related symptoms at the end of life.
- Got volunteers? Association of hospice use of volunteers with bereaved family members' overall rating of the quality of end-of-life care.
- Comfort feeding only: a proposal to bring clarity to decision-making regarding difficulty with eating for persons with advanced dementia.
- Palliative medicine: politics and policy.
- The terrible choice: re-evaluating hospice eligibility criteria for cancer.
- Older adults' attitudes toward enrollment of non-competent subjects participating in Alzheimer's research.
- Race, treatment preferences, and hospice enrollment: eligibility criteria may exclude patients with the greatest needs for care.
- Do phase 1 patients have greater needs for palliative care compared with other cancer patients?
- "I'm not ready for hospice": strategies for timely and effective hospice discussions.
- You won't know if you're improving unless you measure: recommendations for evaluating Hospice-Veteran Partnerships.
- How should nations measure the quality of end-of-life care for older adults? Recommendations for an international minimum data set.
- Would caregivers of Alzheimer disease patients involve their relative in a decision to use an AD-slowing medication?
- How well are we caring for caregivers? Prevalence of grief-related symptoms and need for bereavement support among long-term care staff.
- How should clinicians describe hospice to patients and families?
- Are depressed patients more likely to share health care decisions with others?
- Why would caregivers not want to treat their relative's Alzheimer's disease?
- Identifying ambulatory cancer patients at risk of impaired capacity to consent to research.
- Caregivers' satisfaction with hospice care in the last 24 hours of life.
- Assessing decision-making capacity in the setting of palliative care research.
- Ethical challenges of palliative care research.
- Surveys to assess satisfaction with end-of-life care: does timing matter?
- Alzheimer's disease patients' and caregivers' capacity, competency, and reasons to enroll in an early-phase Alzheimer's disease clinical trial.
- Is satisfaction with pain management a valid and reliable quality indicator for use in nursing homes?
- A taxonomy of value in clinical research.
- Must patients with advanced cancer choose between a Phase I trial and hospice?
- Are hospices ready to participate in palliative care research? Results of a national survey.
- Does a palliative care clinic have a role in improving end-of-life care? Results of a pilot program.
- Advocacy and activism: missing pieces in the quest to improve end-of-life care.
- Making difficult discussions easier: using prognosis to facilitate transitions to hospice.
Schools
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Doctors Specialties
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Regional Top Doctor
Education
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University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics -
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Hospital
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Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
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