Clinical Professor of Population Medicine, HVMA, Fenway Boston

Internal Medicine

Muriel R. Gillick is an expert in the field of Internal Medicine. He studied medicine at Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is a top medical college. Harvard Medical School is ranked 1 in research and 12 in primary care medicine Dr. Muriel R. Gillick is a published doctor and has 79 publications published. The lastest was: 'A patient-centered approach to advance medical planning in the nursing home.'

Publications

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• A Randomized Controlled Trial of a CPR and Intubation Video Decision Support Tool for Hospitalized Patients.
• The critical role of caregivers in achieving patient-centered care.
• Randomized Controlled Trial of a Video Decision Support Tool for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Decision Making in Advanced Cancer.
• A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Goals-of-Care Video for Elderly Patients Admitted to Skilled Nursing Facilities.
• Doing the Right Thing: A Geriatrician's Perspective on Medical Care for the Person with Advanced Dementia.
• No Place Like the Hospital.
• 'In technology we trust'.
• The challenge of applying advance directives in hospital practice.
• Reversing the code status of advance directives?
• Medicine as ecoculture.
• Using video images to improve the accuracy of surrogate decision-making: a randomized controlled trial.
• Controlling off-label medication use.
• Potential burdens of low-tech interventions near the end of life.
• Decision making near life's end: a prescription for change.
• The standard of caring: why do we still use feeding tubes in patients with advanced dementia?
• Health literacy not race predicts end-of-life care preferences.
• The effect of underlying health status on patient or surrogate preferences for end-of-life care: a pilot study.
• Using video images of dementia in advance care planning.
• The technological imperative and the battle for the hearts of America.
• Molecular medicine, the Medicare drug benefit, and the need for cost control.
• The use of advance care planning to guide decisions about artificial nutrition and hydration.
• Benefits and consequences for the poor and the disabled.
• Rethinking the central dogma of palliative care.
• Terminal sedation: an acceptable exit strategy?
• Medicare coverage for technological innovations--time for new criteria?
• Unilateral limitation of treatment by physicians?
• Adapting advance medical planning for the nursing home.
• A framework for meaningful Medicare reform.
• Advance care planning.
• Ethics corner: cases from the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for aged-friends.
• Nursing home characteristics associated with tube feeding in advanced cognitive impairment.
• Ethics corner: cases from the Hebrew rehabilitation center for aged-truth or consequences.
• Ethics corner: cases from the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged--sex in the facility.
• Ethics corner: cases from the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged--restraint complaint.
• Ethics corner: cases from the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged--problematic proxies.
• Do we need to create geriatric hospitals?
• Access to health care or adequacy of health: book review.
• Artificial nutrition and hydration therapy in advanced dementia.
• Video decision support tool for advance care planning in dementia: randomised controlled trial.
• Ethics corner: cases from the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged.
• CPR for patients labeled DNR.
• Caring for the frail, demented and dying. An interview with Muriel Gillick. Interviewed by Les Olson.
• The critical role of religion: caring for the dying patient from an Orthodox Jewish perspective.
• Can goal-based advance planning guide medical care in the nursing home?
• The ethics of cardiopulmonary resuscitation: another look.
• Adverse consequences of hospitalization in the elderly.
• Whether to transfer? Factors associated with hospitalization and outcome of elderly long-term care patients with pneumonia.
• An algorithm for determining best interest?
• The limits of proxy decision making: undertreatment.
• A broader role for advance medical planning.
• Medicare HMOs. The new kid on the block.
• Rethinking the role of tube feeding in patients with advanced dementia.
• Artificial nutrition and hydration in the patient with advanced dementia: is withholding treatment compatible with traditional Judaism?
• From confrontation to cooperation in the doctor-patient relationship.
• Influenza vaccination. Are we doing better than we think?
• Limiting medical care: physicians' beliefs, physicians' behavior.
• Long-term care options for the frail elderly.
• Talking with patients about risk.
• The impact of health maintenance organizations on geriatric care.
• Common-sense models of health and disease.
• Health promotion, jogging, and the pursuit of the moral life.
• Sounding boards. Is the care of the chronically ill a medical prerogative?
• Doing the right thing: quality assurance in the elderly.
• Medical decision-making in the last six months of life: choices about limitation of care.
• Medical technology at the end of life. What would physicians and nurses want for themselves?
• The limits of proxy decision making: overtreatment.
• Medical care in old age: what do nurses in long-term care consider appropriate?
• Physicians' attitudes about patients in the persistent vegetative state.
• Short-term functional outcomes of long-term care residents with pneumonia treated with and without hospital transfer.
• Choosing appropriate medical care for the elderly.
• When the nursing home resident with advanced dementia stops eating: what is the medical director to do?
• Rotating dome trochleoplasty: an experimental technique for correction of patellar luxation using a feline model.
• Effect of propranolol on platelet function.
• A patient-centered approach to advance medical planning in the nursing home.
• Referral of patients from long-term to acute-care facilities.
• Pinning down frailty.
• The high costs of dying. A way out.
• Medical decision-making for the unbefriended nursing home resident.

Schools

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• Harvard Medical School

• Boston City Hospital

• Boston University

Doctors Specialties

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• Geriatric Medicine
• Internal Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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• Aetna HMO
• Choice Plus POS II
• Cigna HMO
• Cigna PPO
• Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
• LocalPlus
• Open Access Plus
• First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
• MultiPlan PPO
• PHCS Network PPO
• Tufts PPO

Education

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• Boston University Medical Center
• Harvard Medical School

Hospital

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• Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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