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Donna Zhukovsky

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Hui D, Maxwell J, de la Rosa A, Jennings K, Vidal M, Reddy A, et al.
Support Care Cancer . 2024 Oct; 32(11):714. PMID: 39377783
Purpose: Clinicians are often uncertain about their prognostic estimates, which may impede prognostic communication and clinical decision-making. We assessed the impact of a web-based prognostic calculator on physicians' prognostic confidence....
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Edwards T, Arthur J, Joy M, Lu Z, Dibaj S, Bruera E, et al.
Palliat Support Care . 2023 Jul; 1-5. PMID: 37439217
Objectives: The Cut down, Annoyed, Guilty, and Eye opener- Adapted to Include Drugs (CAGE-AID) questionnaire (CA) is a validated screening tool used to assess risk for nonmedical opioid use (NMOU)...
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Heung Y, Zhukovsky D, Hui D, Lu Z, Andersen C, Bruera E
Cancers (Basel) . 2023 May; 15(8). PMID: 37190130
To evaluate how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the quality of end-of-life care for patients with advanced cancer, we compared a random sample of 250 inpatient deaths from 1 April 2019,...
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Ann-Yi S, Wong A, Wu J, Charone M, Baumgartner K, Carmack C, et al.
J Adolesc Young Adult Oncol . 2022 Jul; 12(3):440-444. PMID: 35881858
Young adult (YA) aged cancer patients have unique psychosocial needs with studies indicating more symptoms and emotional distress compared to older patients. Our study aimed to compare clinical characteristics and...
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Agosta M, Shih K, Vidal M, Zhukovsky D, Bruera E
Palliat Support Care . 2022 Jun; 21(1):178-180. PMID: 35670297
Telehealth use has accelerated since the COVID-19 pandemic and provided access for palliative care patients often facing challenges with travel and limited specialist availability. Our palliative care clinic at the...
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Chen J, de la Rosa A, Lai D, De La Cruz M, Zhukovsky D, Revere L, et al.
J Palliat Care . 2021 Dec; 37(2):142-151. PMID: 34939878
It is unclear how well palliative care teams are staffed at US cancer centers. Our primary objective was to compare the composition of palliative care teams between National Cancer Institute...
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Hui D, Abdelghani E, Chen J, Dibaj S, Zhukovsky D, Dev R, et al.
Cancers (Basel) . 2020 Jan; 12(1). PMID: 31952220
Palliative care is seeing cancer patients earlier in the disease trajectory with a multitude of chronic issues. Chronic non-malignant pain (CNMP) in cancer patients is under-studied. In this prospective study,...
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Hui D, Kilgore K, Fellman B, Urbauer D, Hall S, Fajardo J, et al.
J Palliat Med . 2012 Jun; 15(8):902-9. PMID: 22663175
Purpose: Acute palliative care units (APCUs) provide intensive symptom support and transition of care for advanced cancer patients. Better understanding of the predictors of in-hospital mortality is needed to facilitate...
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Fainsinger R, Nekolaichuk C, Lawlor P, Hagen N, Bercovitch M, Fisch M, et al.
Eur J Cancer . 2010 May; 46(16):2896-904. PMID: 20483589
Purpose: The study's primary objective was to assess predictive validity of the Edmonton Classification System for Cancer Pain (ECS-CP) in a diverse international sample of advanced cancer patients. We hypothesised...
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Lowy J, Lebovits A, Zhukovsky D
J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother . 2009 Dec; 23(4):368-70. PMID: 19947836
A case of a 61-year-old patient with advancing cancer is presented. His care was confounded by his wife challenging the care being delivered. The case report is followed by commentaries...