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List of works by Zara R. Cooper

"And I think that we can fix it": mental models used in high-risk surgical decision making.

scientific article

"Taking over somebody's life": Experiences of surrogate decision-makers in the surgical intensive care unit

scientific article published on 23 May 2017

A Conceptual Framework for Appropriateness in Surgical Care: Reviewing Past Approaches and Looking Ahead to Patient-centered Shared Decision Making

scientific article published on 23 October 2015

A Model for Better Leveraging the Point of Preoperative Assessment: Patients and Providers Look Beyond Operative Indications When Making Decisions

scientific article published on 11 December 2015

A position paper: The convergence of aging and injury and the need for a Geriatric Trauma Coalition (GeriTraC).

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A values-based conceptual framework for surgical appropriateness: an illustrative case report

scientific article published in April 2015

An Agenda for Improving Perioperative Code Status Discussion

scientific article published in June 2016

Analysis of Surgical Volume in Military Medical Treatment Facilities and Clinical Combat Readiness of US Military Surgeons

scientific article published in 2022

Are appendectomy outcomes in level I trauma centers as good as we think?

scientific article

Association Between Patient-Reported Frailty and Non-Home Discharge Among Older Adults Undergoing Surgery

scientific article published on 08 October 2020

Association Between Race and Postoperative Outcomes in a Universally Insured Population Versus Patients in the State of California

scientific article published on 5 August 2016

Association of Billed Advance Care Planning with End-of-Life Care Intensity for 2017 Medicare Decedents

scientific article published on 27 August 2020

Association of Care at Minority-Serving vs Non-Minority-Serving Hospitals With Use of Palliative Care Among Racial/Ethnic Minorities With Metastatic Cancer in the United States

Association of Frailty With Morbidity and Mortality in Emergency General Surgery By Procedural Risk Level

scientific article published on 25 November 2020

Association of Trauma Center Designation With Postdischarge Survival Among Older Adults With Injuries

scientific article published on 01 March 2022

Augmenting communication and decision making in the intensive care unit with a cardiopulmonary resuscitation video decision support tool: a temporal intervention study

scientific article published on 25 October 2012

BWH emergency radiology-surgical correlation: intraperitoneal urinary bladder rupture.

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Beyond Pain: Nurses' Assessment of Patient Suffering, Dignity, and Dying in the Intensive Care Unit

scientific article published on 16 February 2018

Care Discontinuity in Emergency General Surgery: Does Hospital Quality Matter?

scientific article published on 27 February 2020

Clinician-to-Clinician Communication of Patient Goals of Care Within a Surgical Intensive Care Unit

scientific article published on 22 March 2019

Comparing Readmissions and Infectious Complications of Blunt Splenic Injuries Using a Statewide Database

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Comparison of Frailty Measures as Predictors of Outcomes After Orthopedic Surgery

scientific article published on November 2016

Concordance in advance care preferences among high-risk surgical patients and surrogate health care decision makers in the perioperative setting

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

Conversations about treatment preferences before high-risk surgery: a pilot study in the preoperative testing center

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DELIRIUM DELAYS FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY FOLLOWING ELECTIVE SURGERY

scientific article published on 30 June 2017

Deficits in the Palliative Care Process Measures in Patients with Advanced Pancreatic Cancer Undergoing Operative and Invasive Nonoperative Palliative Procedures

scientific article published on 28 August 2019

Defining Rates and Risk Factors for Readmissions Following Emergency General Surgery

scientific article published on 11 November 2015

Defining Serious Illness Among Adult Surgical Patients

scientific article published on 09 August 2019

Demographic Disparity in Use of Telemedicine for Ambulatory General Surgical Consultation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Analysis of the Initial Public Health Emergency and Second Phase Periods

scientific article published on 05 April 2022

Do Transferred Patients Increase the Risk of Venous Thromboembolism in Trauma Centers?

scientific article published in November 2017

Do outcomes in emergency general surgery vary for minority patients based on surgeons' racial/ethnic case mix?

scientific article published on 09 January 2019

Does Hospital Experience Rather than Volume Improve Outcomes in Geriatric Trauma Patients?

scientific article published on 13 February 2016

Dying Patient and Family Contributions to Nurse Distress in the ICU

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Effect of Delirium and Other Major Complications on Outcomes After Elective Surgery in Older Adults

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Effectiveness of a Question Prompt List Intervention for Older Patients Considering Major Surgery: A Multisite Randomized Clinical Trial

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

Elder abuse: Paucity of data hampers evidence-based injury prevention

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Emergency Major Abdominal Surgical Procedures in Older Adults: A Systematic Review of Mortality and Functional Outcomes.

scientific article published on 23 November 2015

Emergency general surgery in geriatric patients: How should we evaluate hospital experience?

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Emergency general surgery procedures in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients

scientific article published on 28 February 2019

End-of-Life Care Intensity for Physicians, Lawyers, and the General Population

scientific article published on January 2016

End-of-Life Care in Older Patients After Serious or Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Low-Mortality Hospitals Compared With All Other Hospitals

scientific article published on 20 September 2017

Erratum to "Postdischarge complications following nonoperative management of blunt splenic injury" [Am J Surg 211 (4) (2016) 744-749].

scientific article published on 30 April 2017

Evaluation of the Perceived Association Between Resident Turnover and the Outcomes of Patients Who Undergo Emergency General Surgery: Questioning the July Phenomenon

scientific article published on 4 November 2015

Evidence-based review of trauma center care and routine palliative care processes for geriatric trauma patients; A collaboration from the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Patient Assessment Committee, the American Association for the S

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Explaining the excess morbidity of emergency general surgery: packed red blood cell and fresh frozen plasma transfusion practices are associated with major complications in nonmassively transfused patients.

scientific article published on 9 January 2016

Feasibility and Impact of a Case-Based Palliative Care Workshop for General Surgery Residents ⬇️

scientific article published on December 9, 2011

Frailty Identification and Care Pathway: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Care for Older Trauma Patients

scientific article published on 05 April 2019

Frailty Interdisciplinary Pathway: Compliance and Sustainability in a Level I Trauma Center

scientific article published on 01 January 2021

Geospatial Analysis of Access to Emergency Cesarean Delivery for Military and Civilian Populations in the US

scientific article published on 04 January 2022

Geriatric traumatic brain injury—What we know and what we donʼt

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

High Burden of Palliative Care Needs of Older Adults During Emergency Major Abdominal Surgery

scientific article published on 24 September 2018

Hospital Factors Associated With Care Discontinuity Following Emergency General Surgery

scientific article published on 16 November 2016

How Many Midnights?: Admission Status for Elders With Small Bowel Obstruction.

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How long should we fear? Long-term risk of venous thromboembolism in patients with traumatic brain injury.

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Identification of Plasma Proteome Signatures Associated With Surgery Using SOMAscan

scientific article published on 26 March 2019

Identifying Patient Characteristics Associated With Deficits in Surgical Decision Making

scientific article published on 20 September 2016

Identifying survivors with traumatic craniocervical dissociation: a retrospective study

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Implementation of Routine Cognitive Screening in the Preoperative Assessment Clinic

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Improving Serious Illness Care for Surgical Patients: Quality Indicators for Surgical Palliative Care

scientific article published on 03 June 2020

Increased hospice enrollment and decreased neurosurgical interventions without changes in mortality for older Medicare patients with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury

scientific article published in March 2018

Inferring Palliative Intent From Administrative Data: Validation of a Claims-Based Case Definition for Venting Gastrostomy Tube

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Injury in the aged: Geriatric trauma care at the crossroads

scientific article published on June 2015

Integrating Geriatric Consults into Routine Care of Older Trauma Patients: One-Year Experience of a Level I Trauma Center.

scientific article published on 3 March 2016

Intensity of treatment, end-of-life care, and mortality for older patients with severe traumatic brain injury

scientific article published on 7 March 2016

Intraoperative cholangiography during cholecystectomy among hospitalized medicare beneficiaries with non-neoplastic biliary disease

scientific article published on 23 June 2017

It's big surgery: preoperative expressions of risk, responsibility, and commitment to treatment after high-risk operations.

scientific article published on March 2014

Launching a Geriatric Surgery Center: Recommendations from the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement

scientific article published on 13 July 2020

Leveraging the Preoperative Clinic to Engage Older Patients in Shared Decision Making About Complex Surgery: An Illustrative Case

scientific article published in June 2016

Management of Pneumoperitoneum: Role and Limits of Nonoperative Treatment

scientific article published on 23 July 2019

Measuring Processes of Care in Palliative Surgery: A Novel Approach Using Natural Language Processing.

scientific article published on 3 November 2017

Measuring critical deficits in shared decision making before elective surgery.

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Mortality after emergency surgery continues to rise after discharge in the elderly: Predictors of 1-year mortality

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Mortality and Health Care Utilization Among Medicare Patients Undergoing Emergency General Surgery vs Those With Acute Medical Conditions

scientific article published on 26 December 2019

Mortality and Readmission After Cervical Fracture from a Fall in Older Adults: Comparison with Hip Fracture Using National Medicare Data

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National Study of Triage and Access to Trauma Centers for Older Adults

scientific article published on 13 November 2019

Natural Language Processing Accurately Measures Adherence to Best Practice Guidelines for Palliative Care in Trauma

scientific article published on 25 September 2019

Natural Language Processing to Assess End-of-Life Quality Indicators in Cancer Patients Receiving Palliative Surgery

article by Charlotta Lindvall et al published February 2019 in Journal of Palliative Medicine

Navigating high-risk surgery: protocol for a multisite, stepped wedge, cluster-randomised trial of a question prompt list intervention to empower older adults to ask questions that inform treatment decisions

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Never giving up: outcomes and presentation of emergency general surgery in geriatric octogenarian and nonagenarian patients.

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Occupational Variation in End-of-Life Care Intensity

scientific article published in January 2017

Older adult perspectives on medical decision making and emergency general surgery: "It had to be done."

scientific article published on 07 October 2020

Outcomes after emergency abdominal surgery in patients with advanced cancer: Opportunities to reduce complications and improve palliative care

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Outcomes of a low-osmolar water-soluble contrast pathway in small bowel obstruction

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Palliative Care Interventions for Surgical Patients: A Systematic Review.

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Palliative Care in Surgery: Defining the Research Priorities

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Palliative Care in Surgery: Defining the Research Priorities

scientific article published on 24 March 2017

Patient-reported Limitations to Surgical Buy-in: A Qualitative Study of Patients Facing High-risk Surgery.

scientific article published in January 2017

Perioperative Symptoms: A New Frontier for Surgical Palliative Care

scientific article published on 18 December 2020

Pitfalls in communication that lead to nonbeneficial emergency surgery in elderly patients with serious illness: description of the problem and elements of a solution

scientific article published on December 2014

Postdischarge complications following nonoperative management of blunt splenic injury

scientific article published on 6 January 2016

Postoperative Delirium and Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction: Overlap and Divergence

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Predictors of Mortality Up to 1 Year After Emergency Major Abdominal Surgery in Older Adults

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Preoperative Counseling in Salvage Total Laryngectomy: Content Analysis of Electronic Medical Records

scientific article published in August 2017

Preoperative Depressive Symptoms Associated with Poor Functional Recovery after Surgery

scientific article published on 08 September 2020

Preoperative assessment of surgical risk: creation of a scoring tool to estimate 1-year mortality after emergency abdominal surgery in the elderly patient

scientific article published on 3 September 2016

Preoperative frailty status and intensity of end of life care among older adults after emergency surgery

scientific article published on 16 November 2020

Prevalence, Management and Outcomes Related to Preoperative Medical Orders for life Sustaining Treatment (MOLST) in an Adult Surgical Population

scientific article published on 18 December 2020

Prolonged ICU stay and its association with 1-year trauma mortality: An analysis of 19,000 American patients

scientific article published on 29 January 2019

Quality Measures in Surgical Palliative Care: Adapting Existing Palliative Care Measures to Improve Care for Seriously Ill Surgical Patients

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Racial disparities in emergency general surgery: Do differences in outcomes persist among universally insured military patients?

scientific article published on 8 March 2016

Racial variation in the use of life-sustaining treatments among patients who die after major elective surgery

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Recommendations for Best Communication Practices to Facilitate Goal-concordant Care for Seriously Ill Older Patients With Emergency Surgical Conditions

scientific article published on 25 November 2015

Resident education and management of end-of-life care: the resident's perspective

scientific article published on 01 March 2010

Sarcopenia as a tool for preoperative decision making

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Sarcopenia increases risk of long-term mortality in elderly patients undergoing emergency abdominal surgery

scientific article published on 3 August 2017

Surgeons' Perspectives on Avoiding Nonbeneficial Treatments in Seriously Ill Older Patients with Surgical Emergencies: A Qualitative Study

scientific article published on 22 April 2016

Survival, Healthcare Utilization, and End-of-life Care Among Older Adults With Malignancy-associated Bowel Obstruction: Comparative Study of Surgery, Venting Gastrostomy, or Medical Management

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The "mortality ascent": Hourly risk of death for hemodynamically unstable trauma patients at Level II versus Level I trauma centers

scientific article published on 20 September 2017

The Cambia Sojourns Scholars Leadership Program: Conversations with Emerging Leaders in Palliative Care.

scientific article published on 19 May 2017

The High Burden of Palliative Care Needs among Older Emergency General Surgery Patients

scientific article published on 7 March 2016

The Impact of Frailty on Long-Term Patient-Oriented Outcomes after Emergency General Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study

scientific article published on 11 February 2020

The Language of Delirium: Keywords for Identifying Delirium from Medical Records

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The Successful Aging After Elective Surgery Study: Cohort Description and Data Quality Procedures

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The Surgical Health Services Research Agenda for the COVID-19 Pandemic

scientific article published on 09 June 2020

The association between factors promoting non-beneficial surgery and moral distress: A national survey of surgeons

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

The association of intensivists with failure-to-rescue rates in outlier hospitals: results of a national survey of intensive care unit organizational characteristics

scientific article published on 21 June 2014

The effect of cirrhosis on the risk for failure of nonoperative management of blunt liver injuries

scientific article published on 04 August 2015

The elderly patient with spinal injury: treat or transfer?

scientific article published on 30 December 2015

The excess morbidity and mortality of emergency general surgery

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The impact of individual physicians on outcomes after trauma: is it the system or the surgeon?

scientific article published on 16 April 2018

The impact of inpatient palliative care on end-of-life care among older trauma patients who die after hospital discharge

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

The interactions among cytokines, anemia, transfusions, and erythropoiesis in the critically ill patient

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

The obesity paradox in patients with severe soft tissue infections

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The truth about trauma readmissions

scientific article published on 31 December 2015

Thirty-Day Mortality After Lobectomy in Elderly Patients Eligible for Lung Cancer Screening

scientific article published on 22 October 2015

Timing is everything: Early do-not-resuscitate orders in the intensive care unit and patient outcomes

scientific article published on 18 February 2020

To Face Coronavirus Disease 2019, Surgeons Must Embrace Palliative Care

scientific article published on 28 April 2020

Training Surgeons and Anesthesiologists to Facilitate End-of-Life Conversations With Patients and Families: A Systematic Review of Existing Educational Models

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Training surgical residents for a career in academic global surgery: a novel training model.

scientific article published on 21 April 2015

Trajectory of Functional Recovery After Postoperative Delirium in Elective Surgery

scientific article published on 5 August 2016

Trauma systems are associated with increased level 3 trauma centers

scientific article published on 2 April 2015

Using Medicare Data to Identify Serious Illness in Older Surgical Patients

scientific article published on 15 April 2020

Using a Palliative Care Framework for Seriously Ill Surgical Patients: The Example of Malignant Bowel Obstruction.

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Using natural language processing to assess palliative care processes in cancer patients receiving venting gastrostomy tube

article by Charlotta Lindvall et al published November 2017 in Journal of Clinical Oncology

Utility of the "Surprise" Question in Predicting Survival among Older Patients with Acute Surgical Conditions.

scientific article published on November 2016

Utilization of ACP CPT codes among high-need Medicare beneficiaries in 2017: A brief report

scientific article published on 05 February 2020

Utilization of arterial blood gas measurements in a large tertiary care hospital

scientific article published on 01 April 2007

Variation in Patient-Reported Advance Care Preferences in the Preoperative Setting

scientific article published on 08 January 2020

Variation in Serious Illness Communication among Surgical Patients Receiving Palliative Care

scientific article published on 02 October 2019

Whatever happens to trauma patients who leave against medical advice?

scientific article published on 31 December 2015

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