Research

Advance Care Planning

• O’Hanlon CE, Walling AM, Okeke E, Stevenson S, Wenger NS.  A Framework to Guide Economic Analysis of Advance Care Planning. J Palliat Med. 2018 Oct;21(10):1480-1485. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2018.0041.
• Sudore RL, Hickman SE, Walling AM.  Controversies About Advance Care Planning.  JAMA.  2022 Feb 15; 327(7):685. doi: 10.1001/jama.2021.24727.
• Walling AM, Sudore R, Bell D, Tseng C, Ritchie C, Hays RD, Gibbs L, Rahimi M, Wenger NS.  Population-based, Pragmatic Trial of Advance Care Planning in Primary Care in the University of California Health System.  J Palliat Med. 2019 Aug 22;22(S1):72-81. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2019.0142.
• Yung VY, Walling AM, Min L, Wenger NS, Ganz DA.  Documentation of Advance Care Planning for Community-Dwelling Elders.  J Palliat Med. 2010 Jul;13(7):861-7. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2009.0341. PMCID: PMC2939845.

Cancer Care

• Anand S, Glaspy J, Roh L, Khandelwal V, Wenger N, Ritchie C, Walling AM.  Establishing a Denominator for Palliative Care Quality Metrics for Patients with Advanced Cancer.  J Palliat Med. 2020 Sep;23(9):1239-1242. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2019.0346. Epub 2020 Jan 10.
• D’Ambruoso SF, Coscarelli A, Hurvitz S, Wenger N, Coniglio D, Donaldson D, Pietras C, Walling AM.  Use of a Shared Mental Model by a Team Composed of Oncology, Palliative Care, and Supportive Care Clinicians to Facilitate Shared Decision Making in a Patient with Advanced Cancer. J Oncol Pract. 2016 Nov;12(11):1039-1045. doi: 10.1200/JOP.2016.013722. PMCID: PMC5455417.
• D'Ambruoso SF, Glaspy JA, Hurvitz SA, Wenger NS, Pietras C, Ahmed K, Drakaki A, Goldman JW, Anand S, Simon W, Kung J, Coscarelli A, Rosen LS, Peddi PF, Wong DJL, Santos K, Phung P, Karlin D, Walling AM. Impact of a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner in an Oncology Clinic: A Quality Improvement Effort. JCO Oncol Pract. 2022 Apr;18(4):e484-e494. doi: 10.1200/OP.21.00046. Epub 2021 Nov 8. PMID: 34748398.
• Walling AM, Beron PJ, Kaprealian T, Kupelian PA, Wenger NS, McCloskey SA, King CR, Steinberg M. Considerations for Quality Improvement in Radiation Oncology Therapy for Patients with Uncomplicated Painful Bone Metastases. J Palliat Med. 2017 May;20(5):478-486. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2016.0339. Epub 2017 Feb 23. PMID: 28437208; PMCID: PMC5421511.
• Walling AM, D’Ambruoso SF, Malin JL, Hurvitz S, Zisser A, Coscarelli A, Clarke R, Hackbarth A, Pietras C, Watts F, Ferrell B, Skootsky S, Wenger NS.  Effect and Efficiency of an Embedded Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner in an Oncology Clinic. J Oncol Pract. 2017 Sep;13(9):e792-e799. doi: 10.1200/JOP.2017.020990.  “Special Issue on End of Life Care.”

Dementia Care

• Gotanda H, Walling AM, Reuben DB, Lauzon M, Tsugawa Y. Trends in advance care planning and end-of-life care among persons living with dementia requiring surrogate decision-making. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 May;70(5):1394-1404. doi: 10.1111/jgs.17680. Epub 2022 Feb 4. PMID: 35122231; PMCID: PMC9106854.
• Jennings LA, Hollands S, Keeler E, Wenger NS, Reuben DB. The Effects of Dementia Care Co-Management on Acute Care, Hospice, and Long-Term Care Utilization. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 Nov;68(11):2500-2507. doi: 10.1111/jgs.16667. PMID: 32573765.
• Jennings LA, Turner M, Keebler C, Burton CH, Romero T, Wenger NS, Reuben DB. The Effect of a Comprehensive Dementia Care Management Program on End-of-Life Care. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2019 Mar;67(3):443-448. doi: 10.1111/jgs.15769. Epub 2019 Jan 24. PMID: 30675898; PMCID: PMC9859712.

Heart Failure

• Sadeghi B, Walling AM, Romano PS, Ahluwalia SC, Ong MK.  A Hospital-Based Advance Care Planning Intervention for Patients with Heart Failure: A Feasibility Study. J Palliat Med. 2016 Apr;19(4):451-5. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2015.0269. PMCID: PMC4827309.
• Otis-Green S, Thomas J, Duncan L, Walling A, Lieto C, Kung J, Pietras C, Wenger N.  Advance Care Planning: Opportunities for Clinical Social Work Leadership.  Clin Soc Work J. 2019 May 28. doi: 0.1007/s10615-019-00709-z.

End-Stage Liver Disease

• Hernaez R, Patel A, Jackson LK, Braun UK, Walling AM, Rosen HR.  Considerations for Prognosis, Goals of Care, and Specialty Palliative Care for Hospitalized Patients With Acute-On-Chronic Liver Failure.  Hepatology.  2020 Sep;72(3):1109-1116. doi: 10.1002/hep.31316. Review.
• Patel A, Asch S, Antonio AL, Kanwal F, Lorenz K, Riopelle D, Dickey A, Larkin J, Lee M, Walling A.  Measuring the Quality of Palliative Care for Patients with End-Stage Liver Disease.  Dig Dis Sci. 2020 Jan 11. doi: 10.1007/s10620-019-05983-y. [Epub ahead of print].
• Patel AA, Ryan GW, Tisnado D, Chuang E, Walling AM, Saab S, Khemichian S, Sundaram V, Brook RH, Wenger NS.  Deficits in Advance Care Planning for Patients with Decompensated Cirrhosis at Liver Transplant Centers.  JAMA Intern Med.  2021 May 1;181(5):652-660. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.0152. PMCID: PMC7961470.
• Patel AA, Walling AM, Ricks-Oddie J, May FP, Saab S, Wenger N.  Palliative Care and Health Care Utilization for Patients with End-Stage Liver Disease at the End of Life. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2017 Oct;15(10):1612-1619.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2017.01.030. PMCID: PMC5544588.

Surgical Patients

• Lee KC, Walling AM, Senglaub SS, Bernacki R, Fleisher LA, Russell MM, Wenger NS, Cooper Z.  Improving Serious Illness Care for Surgical Patients: Quality Indicators for Surgical Palliative Care.  Ann Surg.  2022 Jan 1;275(1):196-202. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000003894.
• Lee KC, Walling AM, Senglaub SS, Kelley AS, Cooper Z.  Defining Serious Illness Among Adult Surgical Patients.  J Pain Symptom Manage. 2019 Nov;58(5):844-850.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2019.08.003. Epub 2019 Aug 9.

POLST

• Haynes CA, Dashiell-Earp CN, Wenger NS, Simon WM, Skootsky SA, Clarke R, Watts FA, Walling AM.  Improving Communication About Resuscitation Preference for Patients Discharged from Hospital to Nursing Home: A Quality Improvement Project.  J Palliat Med. 2019 May;22(5):557-560. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2018.0419.
• Zingmond DS, Powell D, Jennings LA, Escarce JJ, Liang LJ, Parikh P, Wenger NS. POLST completion and continuity in California nursing homes. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 Jul;70(7):2148-2150. doi: 10.1111/jgs.17610. PMID: 34927721; PMCID: PMC9207153.
• Jennings LA, Wenger NS, Liang LJ, Parikh P, Powell D, Escarce JJ, Zingmond D. Care preferences in physician orders for life sustaining treatment in California nursing homes. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 Jul;70(7):2040-2050. doi:10.1111/jgs.17737. PMID: 35275398; PMCID: PMC9283229.

Intensive Care

• Neville TH, Wiley JF, Kardouh M, Curtis JR, Yamamoto MC, Wenger NS. Change in inappropriate critical care over time. J Crit Care. 2020 Dec;60:267-272. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2020.08.028. PMID: 32932112; PMCID: PMC7736139.
• Neville TH, Tarn DM, Pavlish CL, Wenger NS. The Community Perspective on Potentially Inappropriate Treatment. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2020 Jul;17(7):854-859. doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201912-890OC. PMID: 32348687; PMCID: PMC7328181.p
• Neville TH, Taich Z, Walling AM, Bear D, Cook DJ, Tseng CH, Wenger NS. The 3 Wishes Program Improves Families' Experience of Emotional and Spiritual Support at the End of Life. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 May 17:1–7. doi: 10.1007/s11606-022-07638-7. PMID: 35581456; PMCID:PMC9113739.

Measurement of Advance Care Planning and Palliative Care

• Lindvall C, Lilley EJ, Zupanc SN, Chien I, Udelsman BV, Walling A, Cooper Z, Tulsky JA.  Natural Language Processing to Assess End-of-Life Quality Indicators in Cancer Patients Receiving Palliative Surgery. J Palliat Med. 2019 Feb;22(2):183-187. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2018.0326.
• O’Hanlon CE, Lindvall C, Lorenz KA, Giannitrapani KF, Garrido M, Asch SM, Wenger N, Malin J, Dy SM, Canning M, Gamboa RC, Walling AM.  Measure Scan and Synthesis of Palliative and End-of-Life Process Quality Measures for Advanced Cancer.  JCO Oncol Prac.  2021 Feb;17(2):e140-e148. doi: 10.1200/OP.20.00240. Epub 2020 Aug 6.