Marie Bakitas

Publications

• Zubkoff L, Carpenter-Song E, Lyons KD, Odom JN, Khalidi S, Azuero A, Flannery M, Taylor R, Richards J, Mustian K, Wells M, Hancock J, Wojtowicz M, Weiss M, Mohile S, Bakitas MA. A process evaluation of early palliative care implementation in the National Cancer Institute Community Oncology Research Program. JNCI Cancer Spectr. 2026 Mar 3;10(2). PubMed PMID: 41761561
• Dussel V, Orellana L, Requena ML, Avery M, Becker D, Ullrich CK, Feudtner C, Freedman JL, Kang TI, Waldman ED, Gerhardt CA, Bakitas MA, Baker JN, Friedrichsdorf SJ, Rosenberg AR, Wolfe J. Integrating Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes and Palliative Care in Pediatric Advanced Cancer: The PediQUEST Response Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial. J Clin Oncol. 2026 Mar 10;44(8):685-697. PubMed PMID: 41637683
• Verma M, Navarro V, Kosinski A, Taddei T, Kalman R, Barritt Iv AS, Jakab S, Serper M, Orman E, Balakrishnan M, Rakoski M, Rockey D, Hunt K, Cabrera R, Aytaman A, John B, Baffy G, Nathan R, Tapper E, Roytman M, McGuire B, Hoppmann N, Woodrell C, Bakitas M, Yue Y, Reeve B, Lin L, Tantala R, Volk M. Palliative Care Intervention for Patients With End-Stage Liver Disease: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2026 Jun 1;186(6):677-686. PubMed PMID: 41973444
• Bakitas M, Hoppmann N, Stockdill M, Gazaway S, Armstrong M, Khalidi S, Herbey I, Ford S, Nix Parker T, Frank J, Navarro V, Verma M. Developing palliative care interventions in liver disease using formative and summative qualitative evaluation. Hepatology. 2026 Jun 1;83(6):1557-1576. PubMed PMID: 40245343
• Gangavati A, Johnson KS, Platt A, Olsen M, Durant RW, Ejem D, Bakitas M, Dolor R, Williams-Bryant SN, Barrett N, Elk R, Quest T, Hasan M, Bethea K, Rhodes R. Disparities in Advance Care Planning: Did COVID-19 Change Anything?. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2026 Jun;74(6):1722-1728. PubMed PMID: 42124477
• Hoppmann N, Bakitas M, Stockdill M, DeNofrio J, Navarro V, Verma M. Palliative Care for Advanced Liver Disease: Hepatology and Palliative Care Specialists Experiences. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2026 Jan;71(1):157-167. PubMed PMID: 41072740
• Wechsler S, Singh S, Azuero A, Khalidi S, Stevens CJ, Hegel M, Muse C, Newman R, Dos Anjos S, Morency J, Ejem D, Bakitas M, Lyons K. Goal Satisfaction, Not Attainment, Predicted Occupational Performance Improvement During Behavioral Activation/Problem-Solving Rehabilitation After Breast Cancer. OTJR (Thorofare N J). 2026 Jan;46(1):60-73. PubMed PMID: 40012466
• Gazaway S, Oppong KD, Burke ES, Nix-Parker T, Torke AM, Perez SV, Fitchett G, Durant RW, Wells R, Bakitas M, Ejem D. Exploring Spiritual Concerns, Needs, and Resources in Outpatient Healthcare Facilities Serving Under-Resourced Black Patients: A Qualitative Study. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2026 Feb;13(1):450-462. PubMed PMID: 39661302
• Ejem D, Bakitas M, Durant RW, Parker TN, Oppong KD, Esterson J, Odom JN, Wells RD, Boockvar K, Tinetti ME. Exploring the Acceptability and Feasibility of a Self-directed Approach to Identifying Health Priorities in a Sample of Southern Older African American Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2026 Aug;13(4):2940-2957. PubMed PMID: 40410637
• Ejem D, Platt A, Rhodes RL, Gangavati A, Barrett N, Bakitas M, Hasan M, Elk R, Durant RW, Olsen M, Bethea K, Quest T, Johnson KS. Predictors of Readiness to Engage in Advance Care Planning Among Older Adults With Serious Illness: Baseline Findings From the EQUAL ACP Study. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2026 Apr;74(4):1012-1024. PubMed PMID: 41686181
• Bechthold AC, Ejem DB, McIlvennan CK, Matlock DD, Knoepke CE, Lejeune J, Bakitas MA, Odom JN. Facilitators and Barriers to Values Discussions Following LVAD Implantation: Perspectives from Diverse Patients and Family Caregivers. J Card Fail. 2025 Sep;31(9):1393-1404. PubMed PMID: 39709089
• Tan AJQ, Low ESQY, Yu K, Natesan N, Yeo SM, Kok HSC, Bakitas M, Odom JN, Yang GM. Patient and Caregiver Perspectives on a Coaching-Based Early Palliative Care Program (Enable, Nurture, Advise, Before Life Ends for Singapore): A Qualitative Study. J Palliat Med. 2025 Oct;28(10):1332-1339. PubMed PMID: 40862540
• Wall JA, Bratches RW, Barton WC, Boitano TKL, Li P, Tucker R, Straughn JM Jr, Bakitas MA. Specialty Palliative Care Consultation in Patients with Cervical Cancer: Who and Why?. J Palliat Med. 2025 May;28(5):632-639. PubMed PMID: 40265277
• Bechthold AC, McIlvennan CK, Matlock DD, Ejem DB, Wells RD, LeJeune J, Bakitas MA, Odom JN. "Things That You Thought Mattered, None of That Matters": A Qualitative Exploration of Family Caregiver Values following Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation. J Cardiovasc Nurs. 2025 Jul-Aug 01;40(4):334-344. PubMed PMID: 38786984
• Ejem D, Oppong KD, Gok Metin Z, Wells R, Sockwell E, Pamboukian S, Salvador C, Gul S, Bakitas M. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use among Heart Failure Patients in the Deep South. South Med J. 2025 Jul;118(7):370-375. PubMed PMID: 40663122
• Odom JN, Lee K, Currie ER, Allen-Watts K, Harrell ER, Bechthold AC, Engler S, Curry K, Kamal AH, Ritchie CS, Demiris G, Wright AA, Bakitas MA, Azuero A. Feasibility and Acceptability of Collecting Passive Smartphone Data for Potential Use in Digital Phenotyping Among Family Caregivers and Patients With Advanced Cancer. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2025 Jan;9:e2400201. PubMed PMID: 39746166
• Odom JN, Sun V, Grant M, Ersek M, Krouse R, Bakitas MA. Honoring Dr. Betty Ferrell as a Paradigm-Shifting Palliative Care and Oncology Nurse Researcher. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2025 Jan;69(1):e2-e6. PubMed PMID: 39701650
• Mazor M, Lin JJ, Smith C, Rosa WE, Moorehead D, Boorstin RM, Karpin J, Nelson A, Bakitas MA, Miller S, Odom JN. Community-engaged adaptation of ACCESS: A navigator-led early palliative care intervention for Black and Latina women with advanced breast cancer. Cancer. 2025 Feb 15;131(4):e35745. PubMed PMID: 39916311
• Parajuli J, Walsh A, Hicks A, Grant KA, Crane P, Chen ZJ, Williams GR, Sun V, Myers JS, Bakitas M. Factors affecting advance care planning in older adults with cancer. J Geriatr Oncol. 2024 Sep;15(7):101839. PubMed PMID: 39084925
• Kimball J, Hawkins-Taylor C, Anderson A, Anderson DG, Fornehed MLC, Justis P, Lalani N, Mollman S, Pravecek B, Rice J, Shearer J, Stein D, Teshale SM, Bakitas MA. Top Ten Tips Palliative Clinicians Should Know About Rural Palliative Care in the United States. J Palliat Med. 2024 Sep;27(9):1220-1228. PubMed PMID: 38489603
• Tang WHW, Bakitas MA, Cheng XS, Fang JC, Fedson SE, Fiedler AG, Martens P, McCallum WI, Ogunniyi MO, Rangaswami J, Bansal N. Evaluation and Management of Kidney Dysfunction in Advanced Heart Failure: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2024 Oct 15;150(16):e280-e295. PubMed PMID: 39253806
• Iyer AS, Wells RD, Bechthold AC, Armstrong M, O'Beirne R, Byun JY, Coffee-Dunning J, Odom JN, Buhr RG, Suen AO, Kotwal AA, Witt LJ, Brown CJ, Dransfield MT, Bakitas MA. Identifying priority challenges of older adults with COPD: A multiphase intervention refinement study. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2024 Nov;72(11):3346-3359. PubMed PMID: 39215557
• Byun JY, Wells R, Bechthold AC, Coffee-Dunning J, Armstrong M, Taylor R, O'Hare L, Dransfield MT, Brown CJ, Vance DE, Odom JN, Bakitas M, Iyer AS. Project EPIC (Empowering People to Independence in COPD): Study protocol for a hybrid effectiveness-implementation pilot randomized controlled trial of telephonic, geriatrics-palliative care nurse-coaching in older adults with COPD and their family caregivers. Contemp Clin Trials. 2024 May;140:107487. PubMed PMID: 38458558
• Pfahl J, Thompson JS, Matlock DD, Allen LA, Dionne-Odom JN, Bakitas MA, McIlvennan CK. ENABLE-LVAD: Development and Implementation of a Novel Training Program for Clinicians Supporting Family Caregivers of Patients With a Left Ventricular Assist Device. J Cardiovasc Nurs. 2024 Jul-Aug 01;39(4):E136-E139. PubMed PMID: 37974325
• Wu Q, Daniels M, El-Jawahri A, Bakitas M, Li Z. Joint modeling in presence of informative censoring on the retrospective time scale with application to palliative care research. Biostatistics. 2024 Jul 1;25(3):754-768. PubMed PMID: 37805939
• Gazaway S, Odom JN, Herbey I, Armstrong M, Underwood F, Heard TV, Allen A, Ekelem C, Bakitas MA, Elk R. Cultural Values Influence on Rural Family Caregivers' Decision-Making for Ill Older Adult Loved Ones. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2024 Jul;68(1):86-95. PubMed PMID: 38641135
• Taylor RA, Bakitas M, Wells R, Dionne-Odom JN, Kennedy R, Williams GR, Frank J, Li P. Restricted life-space mobility impacts physical but not mental quality of life in older cancer survivors. Cancer Med. 2024 Jan;13(1):e6850. PubMed PMID: 38140781
• Odom JN, Young HM, Sterba K, Sannes TS, Reinhard S, Nightingale CL, Meier D, Gray TF, Ferrell B, Fernandez ME, Donovan H, Curry K, Currie ER, Bryant T, Bakitas MA, Applebaum AJ. Developing a national implementation strategy to accelerate uptake of evidence-based family caregiver support in U.S. cancer centers. Psychooncology. 2024 Jan;33(1):e6221. PubMed PMID: 37743780
• Krouse RS, Anderson GL, Arnold KB, Thomson CA, Nfonsam VN, Al-Kasspooles MF, Walker JL, Sun V, Alvarez Secord A, Han ES, Leon-Takahashi AM, Isla-Ortiz D, Rodgers P, Hendren S, Sanchez Salcedo M, Laryea JA, Graybill WS, Flaherty DC, Mogal H, Miner TJ, Pimiento JM, Kitano M, Badgwell B, Whalen G, Lamont JP, Guevara OA, Senthil MS, Dewdney SB, Silberfein E, Wright JD, Friday B, Fahy B, Anantha Sathyanarayana S, O'Rourke M, Bakitas M, Sloan J, Grant M, Deutsch GB, Deneve JL. Surgical versus non-surgical management for patients with malignant bowel obstruction (S1316): a pragmatic comparative effectiveness trial. Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2023 Oct;8(10):908-918. PubMed PMID: 37541263
• Ejem DB, Wechsler S, Gallups S, Khalidi S, Coffee-Dunning J, Montgomery AP, Stevens CJ, Keene K, Rocque GB, Chamberlin M, Hegel MT, Azuero A, Pisu M, Ellis D, Ingram SA, Lawhon VM, Gilbert T, Morrissette K, Morency J, Thorp K, Codini M, Newman R, Echols J, Cloyd D, Dos Anjos S, Muse C, Goedeken S, Laws KE, Herbert J, Bakitas M, Lyons KD. Enhancing Efficiency and Reach Using Facebook to Recruit Breast Cancer Survivors for a Telephone-Based Supportive Care Randomized Trial During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JCO Oncol Pract. 2023 Nov;19(11):1020-1030. PubMed PMID: 37733975
• Corn BW, Feldman DB, Subbiah IM, Corn PD, Bakitas MA, Krouse RS, Hudson MF, Fowler LA, Fraser V, Siegal C, Agarwal R, Ge JL, Parajuli J, Myers JS, O'Rourke MA. Feasibility and acceptability of an online intervention to enhance hopefulness among oncology professionals. JNCI Cancer Spectr. 2023 May 2;7(3). PubMed PMID: 37104744
• Bechthold AC, Knoepke CE, Ejem DB, McIlvennan CK, Wells RD, Matlock DD, Bakitas MA, Dionne-Odom JN. How Values Are Discussed, Reflected Upon, and Acted On by Patients and Family Caregivers in the Context of Heart Failure: A Scoping Review. Med Decis Making. 2023 May;43(4):508-520. PubMed PMID: 37057380
• Lee K, Lee TC, Yefimova M, Kumar S, Puga F, Azuero A, Kamal A, Bakitas MA, Wright AA, Demiris G, Ritchie CS, Pickering CEZ, Nicholas Dionne-Odom J. Using digital phenotyping to understand health-related outcomes: A scoping review. Int J Med Inform. 2023 Jun;174:105061. PubMed PMID: 37030145
• Gazaway S, Bakitas M, Underwood F, Ekelem C, Duffie M, McCormick S, Heard V, Colvin A, Elk R. Community Informed Recruitment: A Promising Method to Enhance Clinical Trial Participation. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2023 Jun;65(6):e757-e764. PubMed PMID: 36871774
• Currie ER, Wolfe J, Boss R, Johnston EE, Paine C, Perna SJ, Buckingham S, McKillip KM, Li P, Dionne-Odom JN, Ejem D, Morvant A, Nichols C, Bakitas MA. Patterns of Pediatric Palliative and End-of-Life Care in Neonatal Intensive Care Patients in the Southern U.S. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2023 Jun;65(6):532-540. PubMed PMID: 36801354
• Blum M, Beasley A, Ikejiani D, Goldstein NE, Bakitas MA, Kavalieratos D, Gelfman LP. Building a Cardiac Palliative Care Program: A Qualitative Study of the Experiences of Ten Program Leaders From Across the United States. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2023 Jul;66(1):62-69.e5. PubMed PMID: 36972857
• Ejem D, Stockdill M, Edwards R, Dionne-Odom JN, Taylor R, Baehr W, Nabors LB, Bakitas M, Warren P. "It's Not Just the Seizures": Brain Tumor Caregivers' Experiences and Educational Needs in Out-of-Hospital Seizure Management. J Palliat Care. 2023 Jul;38(3):316-325. PubMed PMID: 36972511
• Parajuli J, Chen ZJ, Walsh A, Williams GR, Sun V, Bakitas M. Knowledge, beliefs, and misconceptions about palliative care among older adults with cancer. J Geriatr Oncol. 2023 Jan;14(1):101378. PubMed PMID: 36182659
• Stockdill ML, Dionne-Odom JN, Wells R, Ejem D, Azuero A, Keebler K, Sockwell E, Tims S, Burgio KL, Engler S, Durant R, Pamboukian SV, Tallaj J, Swetz KM, Kvale E, Tucker R, Bakitas M. African American Recruitment in Early Heart Failure Palliative Care Trials: Outcomes and Comparison With the ENABLE CHF-PC Randomized Trial. J Palliat Care. 2023 Jan;38(1):52-61. PubMed PMID: 33258422
• Gazaway S, Wells RD, Azuero A, Pisu M, Guastaferro K, Rini C, Taylor R, Reed RD, Harrell ER, Bechthold AC, Bratches RW, McKie P, Lowers J, Williams GR, Rosenberg AR, Bakitas MA, Kavalieratos D, Dionne-Odom JN. Decision support training for advanced cancer family caregivers: Study protocol for the CASCADE factorial trial. Contemp Clin Trials. 2023 Aug;131:107259. PubMed PMID: 37286131
• Stockdill M, Hendricks B, Barnett MD, Bakitas M, Harada CN. Peer observation of teaching: A feasible and effective method of physician faculty development. Gerontol Geriatr Educ. 2023 Apr-Jun;44(2):261-273. PubMed PMID: 35196209
• Iyer AS, Wells RD, Dionne-Odom JN, Bechthold AC, Armstrong M, Byun JY, O'Hare L, Taylor R, Ford S, Coffee-Dunning J, Dransfield MT, Brown CJ, Bakitas MA. Project EPIC (Early Palliative Care In COPD): A Formative and Summative Evaluation of the EPIC Telehealth Intervention. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2023 Apr;65(4):335-347.e3. PubMed PMID: 36496113
• Lowers J, Dellon EP, Stephenson A, Arnold R, Althouse A, Jeong K, Dubin E, Soodalter J, Hovater C, Bakitas M, Goggin J, Hunt W, Ladores S, Curseen K, Winter G, Solomon G, Ailon J, Conrad D, Kavalieratos D. Integrating specialist palliative care to improve care and reduce suffering: cystic fibrosis (InSPIRe:CF) - study protocol for a multicentre randomised clinical trial. BMJ Open Respir Res. 2022 Sep;9(1). PubMed PMID: 36126995
• Sisk BA, Keenan MA, Schulz GL, Bakitas M, Currie ER, Gilbertson-White S, Lindley LC, Roeland EJ, Mack JW. Bereaved Caregivers Perspectives of Negative Communication Experiences Near the End of Life for Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer. J Adolesc Young Adult Oncol. 2022 Oct;11(5):498-505. PubMed PMID: 34870475
• Kavalieratos D, Harinstein ME, Rose B, Lowers J, Hoydich ZP, Bekelman DB, Allen LA, Rollman BL, Ernecoff NC, Moreines LT, Bakitas MA, Arnold RM. Primary palliative care for heart failure provided within ambulatory cardiology: A randomized pilot trial. Heart Lung. 2022 Nov-Dec;56:125-132. PubMed PMID: 35863099
• Dionne-Odom JN, Azuero A, Taylor RA, Dosse C, Bechthold AC, Currie E, Reed RD, Harrell ER, Engler S, Ejem DB, Ivankova NV, Martin MY, Rocque GB, Williams GR, Bakitas MA. A lay navigator-led, early palliative care intervention for African American and rural family caregivers of individuals with advanced cancer (Project Cornerstone): Results of a pilot randomized trial. Cancer. 2022 Mar 15;128(6):1321-1330. PubMed PMID: 34874061
• Umaretiya PJ, Ilowite M, Fisher L, Bakitas M, Currie ER, Gilbertson-White S, Lindley L, Roeland EJ, Mack JW, Bona K. Missing Voices: Lessons Learned from Nonparticipating Caregivers in Palliative Care Research. J Palliat Med. 2022 Mar;25(3):455-460. PubMed PMID: 34981972
• Gazaway S, Bakitas MA, Elk R, Eneanya ND, Dionne-Odom JN. Engaging African American family Caregivers in Developing a Culturally-responsive Interview Guide: A Multiphase Process and Approach. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2022 Jun;63(6):e705-e711. PubMed PMID: 35247583
• Rosa WE, Buck HG, Squires AP, Kozachik SL, Huijer HA, Bakitas M, Boit JM, Bradley PK, Cacchione PZ, Chan GK, Crisp N, Dahlin C, Daoust P, Davidson PM, Davis S, Doumit MAA, Fink RM, Herr KA, Hinds PS, Hughes TL, Karanja V, Kenny DJ, King CR, Klopper HC, Knebel AR, Kurth AE, Madigan EA, Malloy P, Matzo M, Mazanec P, Meghani SH, Monroe TB, Moreland PJ, Paice JA, Phillips JC, Rushton CH, Shamian J, Shattell M, Snethen JA, Ulrich CM, Wholihan D, Wocial LD, Ferrell BR. International consensus-based policy recommendations to advance universal palliative care access from the American Academy of Nursing Expert Panels. Nurs Outlook. 2022 Jan-Feb;70(1):36-46. PubMed PMID: 34627615
• Corn BW, Feldman DB, Hull JG, O'Rourke MA, Bakitas MA. Dispositional hope as a potential outcome parameter among patients with advanced malignancy: An analysis of the ENABLE database. Cancer. 2022 Jan 15;128(2):401-409. PubMed PMID: 34613617
• Dionne-Odom JN, Wells RD, Guastaferro K, Azuero A, Hendricks BA, Currie ER, Bechthold A, Dosse C, Taylor R, Reed RD, Harrell ER, Gazaway S, Engler S, McKie P, Williams GR, Sudore R, Rini C, Rosenberg AR, Bakitas MA. An Early Palliative Care Telehealth Coaching Intervention to Enhance Advanced Cancer Family Caregivers' Decision Support Skills: The CASCADE Pilot Factorial Trial. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2022 Jan;63(1):11-22. PubMed PMID: 34343621
• Bail JR, Bail SV, Cagle J, Tiesi K, Caffey J, Bakitas M, Demark-Wahnefried W. Health behaviors and well-being among those "living" with metastatic cancer in Alabama. Support Care Cancer. 2022 Feb;30(2):1689-1701. PubMed PMID: 34562170
• Geller BJ, Sinha SS, Kapur NK, Bakitas M, Balsam LB, Chikwe J, Klein DG, Kochar A, Masri SC, Sims DB, Wong GC, Katz JN, van Diepen S. Escalating and De-escalating Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support in Cardiogenic Shock: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2022 Aug 9;146(6):e50-e68. PubMed PMID: 35862152
• DeNofrio JC, Verma M, Kosinski AS, Navarro V, Taddei TH, Volk ML, Bakitas M, Ramchandran K. Palliative Care Always: Hepatology-Virtual Primary Palliative Care Training for Hepatologists. Hepatol Commun. 2022 Apr;6(4):920-930. PubMed PMID: 34719137
• Hui D, Darke AK, Guthrie KA, Subbiah IM, Unger JM, Hershman DL, Krouse RS, Bakitas M, O'Rourke MA. Association Between Health-Related Quality of Life and Progression-Free Survival in Patients With Advanced Cancer: A Secondary Analysis of SWOG Clinical Trials. JCO Oncol Pract. 2022 Apr;18(4):e442-e451. PubMed PMID: 34606328
• Currie ER, Johnston EE, Bakitas M, Roeland E, Lindley LC, Gilbertson-White S, Mack J. Caregiver Reported Quality of End-of-Life Care of Adolescent and Young Adult Decedents With Cancer. J Palliat Care. 2022 Apr;37(2):87-92. PubMed PMID: 33752501
• Wells R, Dionne-Odom JN, Azuero A, Buck H, Ejem D, Burgio KL, Stockdill ML, Tucker R, Pamboukian SV, Tallaj J, Engler S, Keebler K, Tims S, Durant R, Swetz KM, Bakitas M. Examining Adherence and Dose Effect of an Early Palliative Care Intervention for Advanced Heart Failure Patients. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2021 Sep;62(3):471-481. PubMed PMID: 33556493
• Hendricks BA, B Vo J, Dionne-Odom JN, Bakitas MA. Parentification Among Young Carers: A Concept Analysis. Child Adolesc Social Work J. 2021 Oct;38(5):519-531. PubMed PMID: 38828384
• Rosa WE, Buck HG, Squires AP, Kozachik SL, Huijer HA, Bakitas M, Boit JM, Bradley PK, Cacchione PZ, Chan GK, Crisp N, Dahlin C, Daoust P, Davidson PM, Davis S, Doumit MAA, Fink RM, Herr KA, Hinds PS, Hughes TL, Karanja V, Kenny DJ, King CR, Klopper HC, Knebel AR, Kurth AE, Madigan EA, Malloy P, Matzo M, Mazanec P, Meghani SH, Monroe TB, Moreland PJ, Paice JA, Phillips JC, Rushton CH, Shamian J, Shattell M, Snethen JA, Ulrich CM, Wholihan D, Wocial LD, Ferrell BR. American Academy of Nursing Expert Panel consensus statement on nursing's roles in ensuring universal palliative care access. Nurs Outlook. 2021 Nov-Dec;69(6):961-968. PubMed PMID: 34711419
• Schenker Y, Althouse AD, Rosenzweig M, White DB, Chu E, Smith KJ, Resick JM, Belin S, Park SY, Smith TJ, Bakitas MA, Arnold RM. Effect of an Oncology Nurse-Led Primary Palliative Care Intervention on Patients With Advanced Cancer: The CONNECT Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2021 Nov 1;181(11):1451-1460. PubMed PMID: 34515737
• Dionne-Odom JN, Azuero A, Taylor RA, Wells RD, Hendricks BA, Bechthold AC, Reed RD, Harrell ER, Dosse CK, Engler S, McKie P, Ejem D, Bakitas MA, Rosenberg AR. Resilience, preparedness, and distress among family caregivers of patients with advanced cancer. Support Care Cancer. 2021 Nov;29(11):6913-6920. PubMed PMID: 34031751
• Mack JW, Currie ER, Martello V, Gittzus J, Isack A, Fisher L, Lindley LC, Gilbertson-White S, Roeland E, Bakitas M. Barriers to Optimal End-of-Life Care for Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer: Bereaved Caregiver Perspectives. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2021 May;19(5):528-533. PubMed PMID: 33571955
• Bakitas M, Cheville AL, Mulvey TM, Peppercorn J, Watts K, Dionne-Odom JN. Telehealth Strategies to Support Patients and Families Across the Cancer Trajectory. Am Soc Clin Oncol Educ Book. 2021 Mar;41:413-422. PubMed PMID: 34010046
• Dionne-Odom JN, Williams GR, Warren PP, Tims S, Huang CS, Taylor RA, Ledbetter L, Lever T, Mitchell K, Thompson M, Dosse C, Engler S, Holmes A, Connelley B, Hicks J, Bakitas MA, Nabors B, Tucker R. Implementing a Clinic-Based Telehealth Support Service (FamilyStrong) for Family Caregivers of Individuals with Grade IV Brain Tumors. J Palliat Med. 2021 Mar;24(3):347-353. PubMed PMID: 32721254
• Damluji AA, van Diepen S, Katz JN, Menon V, Tamis-Holland JE, Bakitas M, Cohen MG, Balsam LB, Chikwe J. Mechanical Complications of Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2021 Jul 13;144(2):e16-e35. PubMed PMID: 34126755
• Feldman DB, O'Rourke MA, Bakitas MA, Krouse RS, Deininger HE, Hudson MF, Corn BW. Hope, Burnout, and Life Satisfaction: An Intriguing Trinity Among Investigators of the SWOG Cancer Research Network. JCO Oncol Pract. 2021 Jul;17(7):e908-e916. PubMed PMID: 33900801
• Bailey FA, Williams BR, Goode PS, Kennedy RE, Redden DT, Kvale E, Bakitas M, Dionne-Odom JN, Burgio KL. Comparison of Two Methods for Implementing Comfort Care Order Sets in the Inpatient Setting: a Cluster Randomized Trial. J Gen Intern Med. 2021 Jul;36(7):1928-1936. PubMed PMID: 33547573
• Stockdill ML, Barnett MD, Taylor R, Dionne-Odom JN, Bakitas M. Telehealth in Palliative Care: Communication Strategies From the COVID-19 Pandemic. Clin J Oncol Nurs. 2021 Feb 1;25(1):17-22. PubMed PMID: 33480883
• Allen Watts K, Malone E, Dionne-Odom JN, McCammon S, Currie E, Hicks J, Tucker RO, Wallace E, Elk R, Bakitas M. Can you hear me now?: Improving palliative care access through telehealth. Res Nurs Health. 2021 Feb;44(1):226-237. PubMed PMID: 33393704
• Ejem D, Steinhauser K, Dionne-Odom JN, Wells R, Durant RW, Clay OJ, Bakitas M. Exploring Culturally Responsive Religious and Spirituality Health Care Communications among African Americans with Advanced Heart Failure, Their Family Caregivers, and Clinicians. J Palliat Med. 2021 Dec;24(12):1798-1806. PubMed PMID: 34182804
• Mo J, Darke AK, Guthrie KA, Sloan JA, Unger JM, Hershman DL, O'Rourke M, Bakitas M, Krouse RS. Association of Fatigue and Outcomes in Advanced Cancer: An Analysis of Four SWOG Treatment Trials. JCO Oncol Pract. 2021 Aug;17(8):e1246-e1257. PubMed PMID: 34255538
• Rodenbach RA, Althouse AD, Schenker Y, Smith TJ, Chu E, White DB, Bakitas M, Arnold RM. Relationships Between Advanced Cancer Patients' Worry About Dying and Illness Understanding, Treatment Preferences, and Advance Care Planning. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2021 Apr;61(4):723-731.e1. PubMed PMID: 32926962
• Gazaway SB, Barnett MD, Bowman EH, Ejem D, Harrell ER, Brown CJ, Bakitas M. Health Professionals Palliative Care Education for Older Adults: Overcoming Ageism, Racism, and Gender Bias. Curr Geriatr Rep. 2021;10(4):148-156. PubMed PMID: 34745842
• Verma M, Bakitas MA. Creating Effective Models for Delivering Palliative Care in Advanced Liver Disease. Curr Hepatol Rep. 2021;20(2):43-52. PubMed PMID: 33868897
• Bakitas MA, Dionne-Odom JN, Ejem DB, Wells R, Azuero A, Stockdill ML, Keebler K, Sockwell E, Tims S, Engler S, Steinhauser K, Kvale E, Durant RW, Tucker RO, Burgio KL, Tallaj J, Swetz KM, Pamboukian SV. Effect of an Early Palliative Care Telehealth Intervention vs Usual Care on Patients With Heart Failure: The ENABLE CHF-PC Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2020 Sep 1;180(9):1203-1213. PubMed PMID: 32730613
• Iyer AS, Dionne-Odom JN, Khateeb DM, O'Hare L, Tucker RO, Brown CJ, Dransfield MT, Bakitas MA. A Qualitative Study of Pulmonary and Palliative Care Clinician Perspectives on Early Palliative Care in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. J Palliat Med. 2020 Apr;23(4):513-526. PubMed PMID: 31657654
• Lowe MA, Prapanjaroensin A, Bakitas MA, Hites L, Loan LA, Raju D, Patrician PA. An Exploratory Study of the Influence of Perceived Organizational Support, Coworker Social Support, the Nursing Practice Environment, and Nurse Demographics on Burnout in Palliative Care Nurses. J Hosp Palliat Nurs. 2020 Dec;22(6):465-472. PubMed PMID: 32976315
• Roeland EJ, Lindley LC, Gilbertson-White S, Saeidzadeh S, Currie ER, Friedman S, Bakitas M, Mack JW. End-of-life care among adolescent and young adult patients with cancer living in poverty. Cancer. 2020 Feb 15;126(4):886-893. PubMed PMID: 31724747
• Iyer AS, Goodrich CA, Dransfield MT, Alam SS, Brown CJ, Landefeld CS, Bakitas MA, Brown JR. End-of-Life Spending and Healthcare Utilization Among Older Adults with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Am J Med. 2020 Jul;133(7):817-824.e1. PubMed PMID: 31883772
• Hadler RA, Curtis BR, Ikejiani DZ, Bekelman DB, Harinstein M, Bakitas MA, Hess R, Arnold RM, Kavalieratos D. "I'd Have to Basically Be on My Deathbed": Heart Failure Patients' Perceptions of and Preferences for Palliative Care. J Palliat Med. 2020 Jul;23(7):915-921. PubMed PMID: 31916910
• Bakitas M, Allen Watts K, Malone E, Dionne-Odom JN, McCammon S, Taylor R, Tucker R, Elk R. Forging a New Frontier: Providing Palliative Care to People With Cancer in Rural and Remote Areas. J Clin Oncol. 2020 Mar 20;38(9):963-973. PubMed PMID: 32023156
• Williams BR, Bailey FA, Goode PS, Kvale EA, Slay LA, Bakitas MA, Burgio KL. "Online Training Is Great but Human Interaction Is Better": Training Preferences of VA Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Consult Teams. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2020 Oct;37(10):800-808. PubMed PMID: 32122166
• Bagcivan G, Bakitas M, Palmore J, Kvale E, Nichols AC, Howell SL, Dionne-Odom JN, Mancarella GA, Osisami O, Hicks J, Huang CS, Tucker R. Looking Back, Moving Forward: A Retrospective Review of Care Trends in an Academic Palliative and Supportive Care Program from 2004 to 2016. J Palliat Med. 2019 Aug;22(8):970-976. PubMed PMID: 30855204
• Iyer AS, Dionne-Odom JN, Ford SM, Crump Tims SL, Sockwell ED, Ivankova NV, Brown CJ, Tucker RO, Dransfield MT, Bakitas MA. A Formative Evaluation of Patient and Family Caregiver Perspectives on Early Palliative Care in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease across Disease Severity. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2019 Aug;16(8):1024-1033. PubMed PMID: 31039003
• Bagcivan G, Bredle J, Bakitas M, Guciz Dogan B. Reliability and Validity of the Turkish Version of the FACIT-PAL Quality of Life Instrument. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2019 Aug;58(2):297-305.e4. PubMed PMID: 31096004
• Romo RD, Carpenter JG, Buck H, Lindley LC, Xu J, Owen JA, Sullivan SS, Bakitas M, Dionne-Odom JN, Zubkoff L, Matzo M. HPNA 2019-2022 Research Agenda: Development and Rationale. J Hosp Palliat Nurs. 2019 Aug;21(4):E17-E23. PubMed PMID: 31166302
• Calton BA, Rabow MW, Branagan L, Dionne-Odom JN, Parker Oliver D, Bakitas MA, Fratkin MD, Lustbader D, Jones CA, Ritchie CS. Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Telepalliative Care. J Palliat Med. 2019 Aug;22(8):981-985. PubMed PMID: 31237467
• Turkman YE, Williams CP, Jackson BE, Dionne-Odom JN, Taylor R, Ejem D, Kvale E, Pisu M, Bakitas M, Rocque GB. Disparities in Hospice Utilization for Older Cancer Patients Living in the Deep South. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2019 Jul;58(1):86-91. PubMed PMID: 30981781
• Fliedner M, Zambrano S, Schols JM, Bakitas M, Lohrmann C, Halfens RJ, Eychmüller S. An early palliative care intervention can be confronting but reassuring: A qualitative study on the experiences of patients with advanced cancer. Palliat Med. 2019 Jul;33(7):783-792. PubMed PMID: 31068119
• Gul S, Turkman YE, Bakitas MA, Dionne-Odom JN. Surrogates' Perceptions of Service Quality While Making Decisions for ICU Patients. West J Nurs Res. 2019 Oct;41(10):1370-1384. PubMed PMID: 30574823
• Bejarano S, Freed ME, Zeron D, Medina R, Zuniga-Moya JC, Kennedy L, Bruce ML, Zubkoff L, Bakitas MA, Lyons KD. Feasibility of a Symptom Management Intervention for Honduran Adults Undergoing Chemotherapy. West J Nurs Res. 2019 Oct;41(10):1517-1539. PubMed PMID: 30755109
• Stockdill ML, Patrician PA, Bakitas M. Understanding and Measuring Symptom Burden in Heart Failure: A Concept Analysis. West J Nurs Res. 2019 Oct;41(10):1423-1447. PubMed PMID: 30895895
• Beasley AM, Bakitas MA, Ivankova N, Shirey MR. Evolution and Conceptual Foundations of Nonhospice Palliative Care. West J Nurs Res. 2019 Oct;41(10):1347-1369. PubMed PMID: 31170893
• Sun V, Bakitas M. Palliative and Supportive Care: …End of the Beginning. West J Nurs Res. 2019 Oct;41(10):1343-1346. PubMed PMID: 31271114
• Akyar I, Dionne-Odom JN, Ozcan M, Bakitas MA. Needs Assessment for Turkish Family Caregivers of Older Persons with Cancer: First-Phase Results of Adapting an Early Palliative Care Model. J Palliat Med. 2019 Sep;22(9):1065-1074. PubMed PMID: 30969144
• Verma M, Kosinski AS, Volk ML, Taddei T, Ramchandran K, Bakitas M, Green K, Green L, Navarro V. Introducing Palliative Care within the Treatment of End-Stage Liver Disease: The Study Protocol of a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. J Palliat Med. 2019 Sep;22(S1):34-43. PubMed PMID: 31486722
• Ejem DB, Barrett N, Rhodes RL, Olsen M, Bakitas M, Durant R, Elk R, Steinhauser K, Quest T, Dolor RJ, Johnson K. Reducing Disparities in the Quality of Palliative Care for Older African Americans through Improved Advance Care Planning: Study Design and Protocol. J Palliat Med. 2019 Sep;22(S1):90-100. PubMed PMID: 31486728
• Lyons KD, Bruce ML, Hull JG, Kaufman PA, Li Z, Stearns DM, Lansigan F, Chamberlin M, Fuld A, Bartels SJ, Whipple J, Bakitas MA, Hegel MT. Health Through Activity: Initial Evaluation of an In-Home Intervention for Older Adults With Cancer. Am J Occup Ther. 2019 Sep Oct;73(5):7305205070p1-7305205070p11. PubMed PMID: 31484031