{"id":777,"date":"2011-08-07T21:22:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T04:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/pubs\/?page_id=777"},"modified":"2024-03-21T15:51:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T22:51:51","slug":"copd-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/past-research\/copd-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"COPD Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Improving the Quality of End of Life Care for Patients with COPD<\/strong>
\nPrincipal Investigator:\u00a0 JR Curtis
\nCareer Investigator Development Award: \u00a0American Lung Association, July 1998 to June 2002<\/p>\n

The objectives of this study were to identify the barriers and facilitators to patient-physician communication about end-of-life care for patients with end-stage COPD, to develop and validate a measure of the quality of patient-physician communication about end-of-life care for persons with end-stage COPD, and to determine whether increased quality of communication is associated with increased quality of end-of-life medical care.<\/p>\n

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Improving The Quality Of Clinician-Patient Communication For Non-English Speaking Patients With COPD<\/strong>
\nPrincipal Investigator:\u00a0 JR Curtis
\nResearch Grant:\u00a0 Firlands Foundation, July 2001 to June 2005<\/p>\n

The long-term objective of this proposal was to improve the quality of end-of-life care for patients with chronic lung diseases who are from other cultures. This was a pilot study to gain a better understanding of how to communicate with patients from other cultures and countries about end-of-life issues and by developing culturally-sensitive techniques and interventions that aimed improve communication about end-of-life care. The specific aims were: 1) to describe the role of culture and ethnicity on the attitudes that patients with severe COPD have toward communication about end-of-life care; and 2) to assess the cultural relevance of a questionnaire designed to measure the quality of communication about end-of-life care.<\/p>\n

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Publications from these studies include: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Janssen DJA, Curtis JR, Spruit MA, Downey L, Schols JMGA, Wouters EFM, Engelberg RA.\u00a0 Patient-clinician communication about end-of-life care care for Dutch and US patients with COPD. Eur Respir<\/em> .\u00a02011 Aug;38(2):268-76. Epub 2011 Jan 13.<\/p>\n

Downey L, Engelberg RA, Curtis JR, Lafferty WE, Patrick DL.\u00a0 Shared priorities for the end-of-life period.\u00a0 J Pain Symptom Manage<\/em>. 2009 Feb;37(2):175-88. Epub 2008 Aug 22.<\/p>\n

Engelberg R, Downey L, Curtis JR.\u00a0 Psychometric characteristics of a quality of communication questionnaire assessing communication about end-of-life care.\u00a0 J Palliat Med<\/em>. 2006 Oct;9(5):1086-98.<\/p>\n

Curtis JR, Engelberg RA, Wenrich MD, Au DH.\u00a0 Communication about palliative care for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.\u00a0 J Palliat Care<\/em>. 2005 Autumn;21(3):157-64.<\/p>\n

Knauft ME, Nielsen EL, Engelberg RA, Patrick DL, Curtis JR.\u00a0 Barriers and facilitators to end-of-life care communication for patients with COPD.\u00a0 Chest<\/em>. 2005;127: 2188-2196<\/p>\n

Stapleton RD, Nielsen EL, Engelberg RA, Patrick DL, Curtis JR.\u00a0 Association of depression and life-sustaining treatment preferences in patients with COPD.\u00a0 Chest<\/em>. 2005 Jan;127(1):328-34.<\/p>\n

Curtis JR, Engelberg RA, Nielsen EL, Au DH, Patrick DL.\u00a0 Patient-physician communication about end-of-life care for patients with COPD.\u00a0 Eur Respir J<\/em>. 2004; 24: 200-205.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Improving the Quality of End of Life Care for Patients with COPD Principal Investigator:\u00a0 JR Curtis Career Investigator Development Award: \u00a0American Lung Association, July 1998 to June 2002 The objectives of this study were to identify the barriers and facilitators to patient-physician communication about end-of-life care for patients with end-stage COPD, to develop and validate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":33,"menu_order":16,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/777"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1643,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/777\/revisions\/1643"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}