Purpose
The mission of the Palliative & End-of-life Care Research Program is to improve the quality of palliative and end-of-life care for patients and their families. Several of the assessment tools developed and validated by the Program are used in quality improvement projects targeting end-of-life care.
Prior Research
Project to Improve Communication About Serious Illness – Pilot Study (PICSI-P)
Principal Investigator: J. Randall Curtis, MD MPH
Funder and Mechanism: National Palliative Care Research Center Pilot Award (NPCRC)
COVID-19 Family Stress Study
Principal Investigators: J. Randall Curtis, MD MPH & Timothy Amass, MD
Communication during Hospitalization about Resuscitation Trial (CHART)
Principal Investigators: Renee Stapleton, MD PhD, J. Randall Curtis, MD MPH (site PI), Erin Kross, MD (site PI)
Funder and Mechanism: NIH/National Institute on Aging R01
Improving Communication about Serious Illness (ICSI)
Principal Investigator: J. Randall Curtis, MD MPH
Funder and Mechanism: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
A Randomized Trial of an Interdisciplinary Communication Intervention to Improve Patient and Family Outcomes in the Intensive Care Unit
Principal Investigators: J. Randall Curtis, MD MPH & Ruth Engelberg, PhD
Funder and Mechanism: NIH/National Institutes of Nursing Research R01
Unmet Palliative Care Needs in Cystic Fibrosis Patients and their Families
Principal Investigation: Chris Goss, MD MPH
Funder and Mechanism: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Products
Seminal Publications