A. Summer

ORCID: 0000-0003-0230-8335
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Research Areas
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
  • Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Health, psychology, and well-being
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Health and Wellbeing Research
  • Hospital Admissions and Outcomes
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
  • Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
  • Health and Well-being Studies
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications

University of Pennsylvania
2019-2024

To quantify the frequency and patterns of clinicians' use choice frames when discussing preference-sensitive care with surrogate decision-makers in ICU.

10.1097/ccm.0000000000006360 article EN Critical Care Medicine 2024-06-24

Background Clinicians’ use of choice architecture, or how they present options, systematically influences the choices made by patients and their surrogate decision makers. However, clinicians may incompletely understand this influence. Objective To assess physicians’ abilities to predict common frames influence people’s choices. Methods We conducted a prospective mixed-methods study using scenario-based competency questionnaire semistructured interviews. Participants were senior resident...

10.1136/bmjqs-2020-011801 article EN cc-by-nc BMJ Quality & Safety 2021-01-05

Importance Patients’ expectations for future health guide their decisions and enable them to prepare, adapt, cope. However, little is known about how inaccurate may affect patients’ illness outcomes. Objective To assess the association between expectation inaccuracies health-related quality of life. Design, Setting, Participants This cohort study patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was conducted from 2017 2021, which included a 24-month follow-up period....

10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.44030 article EN cc-by-nc-nd JAMA Network Open 2023-11-21

Care management programs for chronic lung disease attempt to reduce hospitalizations, yet have not reliably achieved this goal. A key limitation of many is that they target patients with characteristics associated hospitalization risk, but do specifically modify the mechanisms lead hospitalization.

10.1016/j.chpulm.2024.100060 article EN cc-by CHEST Pulmonary 2024-05-03

Inpatient health care facilities restricted inpatient visitation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There is no existing evidence of how they communicated these policies public nor impact their communication choices on perception.This study aims describe patterns during initial peak pandemic in United States and general public, as well identify strategies that maximize positive impressions facility despite restrictions.We conducted a sequential, exploratory, mixed methods including qualitative...

10.2196/28897 article EN cc-by Journal of Medical Internet Research 2021-08-18

10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2021.06.021 article EN publisher-specific-oa Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2021-07-01

<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Inpatient health care facilities restricted inpatient visitation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There is no existing evidence of how they communicated these policies public nor impact their communication choices on perception. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> This study aims describe patterns during initial peak pandemic in United States and general public, as well identify strategies that maximize positive impressions facility despite restrictions....

10.2196/preprints.28897 preprint EN 2021-03-18
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