Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Internal Medicine
Dr. Thomas Finucane, MD
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Thomas Finucane works in the field of Internal Medicine. He graduated from Emory University School of Medicine. Emory University School of Medicine is ranked 23/42 in Research/PrimaryCare. He has 6 awards "America's Top Doctors", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Top Doctors:Baltimore Area", "Top Doctors:Washington-Baltimore", "Top MD" and "Super Doctor". Thomas Finucane is also published. He has 92 publications published. The lastest publication: "From Jezebel to a dead man walking: attempting resuscitation in long-term care.' Thomas Finucane accepts all Medicare patients.
Publications
- Definitions of tremor.
- A tool to strengthen the older patient-companion partnership in primary care: results from a pilot study.
- Periodontitis, edentulism, and dementia.
- Mortals who are reconciled to being mortal.
- Strangers in strange lands: the serial transfer of individuals with severe dementia.
- The Unknown Profession: A Geriatrician.
- Mention of a Patient's "Race" in Clinical Presentations.
- Drug company-sponsored symposia: pros and cons.
- Morphologic and morphometric characterization of lung collagen content in clinically normal adult thoroughbreds in race training.
- Persistent airway hyperresponsiveness and histologic alterations after chronic antigen challenge in cats.
- Ethics in emergency cardiac care.
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm.
- Augmented muscarinic responsiveness caused by 5-lipoxygenase products secreted from alveolar macrophages in isolated-perfused rat lung.
- Thinking about life-sustaining treatment late in the life of a demented person.
- Health problems and correlates of pain in nursing home residents with advanced dementia.
- Inadvertent self-healing in desperate times.
- Medication use in nursing home residents with advanced dementia.
- Surrogate decision makers' understanding of dementia patients' prior wishes for end-of-life care.
- Lipid fractions and survival in older men.
- Potential caregivers for homebound elderly: more numerous than supposed?
- Disparities in late-life planning and treatment.
- Differences in end-of-life preferences between congestive heart failure and dementia in a medical house calls program.
- Artificially giving nutrition and fluids is not one action.
- More caution about tube feeding.
- How gravely ill becomes dying: a key to end-of-life care.
- Tube feeding in patients with advanced dementia: a review of the evidence.
- Attempting resuscitation in nursing homes: policy considerations.
- Behavioral and pharmacological treatment for insomnia.
- Limiting life-sustaining treatment as a matter of (insurance) policy.
- Textbook geriatrics: not yet of the essence.
- How do we know?
- The Elder Housecall program at Johns Hopkins.
- From Jezebel to a dead man walking: attempting resuscitation in long-term care.
- Use of tube feeding to prevent aspiration pneumonia.
- Ethical decision-making near the end of life.
- Rating long-term care facilities on pressure ulcers.
- Assisted suicide and euthanasia.
- Choosing resuscitation late in life: problems with the paradigm.
- Recovered memories.
- Abuse and neglect of elderly persons.
- Attempted resuscitation in nursing homes: so how should we presume?
- The Cruzan decision.
- Malnutrition, tube feeding and pressure sores: data are incomplete.
- Predictors of nursing home placement in community-based long-term care.
- Applying the findings of clinical trials to individual patients.
- The medical director in non-institutional long-term care programs.
- The American Geriatrics Society statement on two-step PPD testing for nursing home patients on admission.
- Planning with elderly outpatients for contingencies of severe illness: a survey and clinical trial.
- Deciding about resuscitation in a nursing home. Theory and practice.
- Dialysis patients'' attitudes about cardiopulmonary resuscitation and stopping dialysis.
- Racial bias in presentation of cases.
- The outcome of CPR initiated in nursing homes.
- The incidence of attempted CPR in nursing homes.
- Establishing advance medical directives with demented patients: a pilot study.
- Publication of sponsored symposiums in medical journals.
- Life-prolonging treatments late in life.
- Attempted cardiopulmonary resuscitation in nursing homes.
- New do-not-resuscitate policies. A first step in cost control.
- Legislating care for her mother.
- Permanent cardiac pacemakers in the elderly.
- Ethics committees, due process, and compassion.
- Home care: what a physician needs to know.
- Excessive doses of drugs.
- Flurazepam and other benzodiazepines.
- Elective discontinuation of life-sustaining mechanical ventilation on a chronic ventilator unit.
- NICE guideline for management of chronic heart failure in adults.
- When Doctors and Daughters Disagree: Twenty-Two Days and Two Blinks of an Eye.
- Post hoc ergo propter hoc: Complications and Death after Gastrostomy Placement.
- Progression from precursor disease to multiple myeloma.
- Abnormal dental status?
- Trans-Pacific parallels.
- Early Alzheimer's disease.
- Treating anemia to improve cognition.
- Cognitively impaired older drivers, risk assessment, and physician responsibility.
- Diabetic polyneuropathy and glucose control.
- Carotid disease and syncope.
- Evidence-based nutrition guidelines for critically ill adults.
- More promotional rhetoric in research: the Maryland Assisted Living Study.
- NICE on dementia: Omitting donepezil is hardly a hardship.
- Men, androgen deficiency, and pharmaceutical promotion.
- Results, rhetoric, and randomized trials: the case of donepezil.
- Gizmo idolatry.
- Incidental findings on brain MRI.
- Yes, industry influence is excessive.
- Physicians'' attitudes about artificial feeding in older patients with severe cognitive impairment in Japan: a qualitative study.
- Intensive glucose control in elderly adults.
- Tube feeding in dementia: how incentives undermine health care quality and patient safety.
- Nutrition and involuntary weight loss: a pilot study of an educational intervention for nursing home surveyors.
- When the mind goes inept.
- Neurontin for Charles Bonnet Syndrome.
- Should cholinesterase inhibitors be used to treat Alzheimer''s disease?
Schools
Emory University School Of Medicine
George Washington University Med Center
Doctors Specialties
- Geriatric Medicine
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Top Doctors:Baltimore Area
- Top Doctors:Washington-Baltimore
- Top MD
- Super Doctor
Education
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George Washington University -
Emory University School of Medicine
Hospital
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Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center -
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1083644108 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | FINUCANE | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | THOMAS | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 212246821 | |
| NPPES Provider State | MD | |
| Specialty Description | Geriatric Medicine | |
| Total Claim Count | 1145.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 1.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 15.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 1.31 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1083644108 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | FINUCANE |
| First Name Of The Provider | THOMAS |
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