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Kaldjian Publications

  • Kaldjian LC. In support of goals-of-care discussions in shared decision making - An extended response to the rejoinders. Communication & Medicine 2017;14(3):287-298.
  • Greiner AM, Kaldjian LC. Rethinking medical oaths using the physician charter and ethical virtues. Med Educ 2018 Aug;52:826-837.
  • Polacco MA, Shinkunas L, Perencevich EN, Kaldjian LC, Reisinger HS. See one, do one, teach one: Hand hygiene attitudes among medical students, interns, and faculty. Am J Infect Control. 2015 Feb;43(2):159-161.
  • Kaldjian LC. Patient care and population health: Goals, roles and costs. J Public Health Res. 2014 Aug;3(2):311.
  • Kaldjian LC. Practicing Medicine and Ethics: Integrating Wisdom, Conscience, and Goals of Care. Cambridge University Press, 2014. 
  • Decamp M, Farber NJ, Torke AM, George M, Berger Z, Keirns CC, Kaldjian LC. Ethical challenges for accountable care organizations:  a structured review. J Gen Intern Med 2014 Oct; 29(10):1392-1399.
  • Kaldjian, LC. Communicating moral reasoning in medicine as an expression of respect for patients and integrity among professionals. Commun Med. 2013; 10(2):177-83.
  • Secunda K, Gordon EJ, Sohn MW, Shinkunas LA, Kaldjian LC, Voigt MD, Levitsky J. A national survey of provider opinions on controversial characteristics of liver transplant candidates. Liver Transplantation 2013 Apr;19(4):395-403.
  • Christine PJ, Kaldjian LC. Communicating evidence in shared decision making. Virtual Mentor. 2013 Jan 1;15(1):9-17. 
  • Kaldjian LC, Shinkunas LA, Forman-Hoffman VL, Rosenbaum ME, Woodhead JC, Antes LM, Rowat JA. Do medical students recall and use the language of ethics they are taught pre- clinically once they are in the clinical training environment? An empirical study in ethics education. AJOB Primary Research 2013 Apr;4(2):23-30.  (To link to this article: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21507716.2012.757258
  • Braddock CH 3rd, Snyder L, Neubauer RL, Fischer, GS, American College of Physicians Ethics, Professionalism and Human Rights Committee, nd the Society of General Internal Medicine Ethics Committee [Kaldjian LC]. The patient-centered medical home: an ethical analysis of principles and practice. J Gen Intern Med 2013 Jan; 28(1):141-6. 
  • Kaldjian LC. Patients and borders, money and mission: responding to medically needy persons from other countries who lack financial resources. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine.2012;55(2):186-200.
  • Brandt DS, Shinkunas LA, Gehlbach TG, Kaldjian LC. Understanding goals of care statements and preferences among patients and their surrogates in the medical ICU.  Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing. 2012 Mar;14(2):126-132.
  • Ely JW, Kaldjian LC, D’Alessandro DM. Diagnostic errors in primary care: lessons learned.  Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2012;25:87-97.
  • Kaldjian LC, Rosenbaum ME, Shinkunas LA, Woodhead JC, Antes LM, Rowat JA, Forman-Hoffman VL.  Through students’ eyes: ethical and professional issues identified by third-year medical students during clerkships. Journal of Medical Ethics. 2012;38:130-132.
  • Ellingson K, Polgreen PM, Schnieder A, Shinkunas L, Kaldjian LC, Wright D, Thomas GW, Segre AM, Herman T, McDonald LC, Sinkowitz-Cochran R. Healthcare personnel perceptions of hand hygiene monitoring technology. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2011 Nov;32(11):1091-6. [Epub 2011 Sep 20]
  • Leira EC, Kaldjian LC, Ludwig BR, Torner JC, Olalde HM, Hacke W, Adams HP Jr. Lack of international consensus on ethical aspects of acute stroke trials. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disorders. 2012; 21(3):200-204. [Epub ahead of print 2010 Aug 17.]
  • Gehlbach TG, Shinkunas LA, Forman-Hoffman VL, Thomas KW, Schmidt GA, Kaldjian LC. Code status orders and goals of care in the medical intensive care unit.  CHEST. 2011; 139(4):802-809.
  • Kaldjian LC, Broderick A. Developing a policy for do not resuscitate orders within a framework of goals of care. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2011; 37:11-19.
  • Haberle TH, Shinkunas LA, Erekson ZD, Kaldjian LC. Goals of care among hospitalized patients: a validation study. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. 2011;28(5):335-341. [Epub ahead of print 2010 Nov 21 .]
  • Kaldjian LC. Teaching practical wisdom in medicine through clinical judgment, goals of care, and ethical reasoning. Journal of Medical Ethics. 2010; 36:558-562.
  • Kaldjian LC, Shinkunas LA, Bern-Klug M, Schultz SK. Dementia, goals of care, and personhood: a study of surrogate decision makers’ beliefs and values. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. 2010;27:387-397.
  • Sarrazin MV, Cannon KT, Rosenthal GE, Kaldjian LC. Racial Differences in Mortality among Veterans Hospitalized for COPD Exacerbation. Journal of the National Medical Association. 2009; 101:656-662.
  • Kaldjian LC, Erekson ZD, Haberle TH, Curtis AE, Shinkunas LA, Cannon KT, Forman-Hoffman VL. Code status discussions and goals of care among hospitalized adults. Journal of Medical Ethics. 2009; 35:338-342.
  • Kaldjian LC, Curtis AE, Shinkunas L, Cannon KT. Goals of care toward the end of life: a structured literature review. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine 2009; 25:501-511.
  • Cannon KT, Sarrazin MV, Rosenthal GE, Curtis AE, Thomas KW, Kaldjian LC. Use of mechanical and noninvasive ventilation in black and white chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients within the Veterans Administration Health Care System. Medical Care 2009; 47:129-133.
  • Kaldjian LC, Forman-Hoffman VF, Jones EW, Wu BJ, Levi BH, Rosenthal GE. Do faculty and resident physicians discuss their medical errors? Journal of Medical Ethics 2008; 34:717-722
  • Kaldjian LC, Jones EW, Wu BJ, Forman-Hoffman VF, Levi BH, Rosenthal GE. Reporting medical errors to improve patient safety: a survey of physicians in teaching hospitals. Archives of Internal Medicine 2008; 168:40-46.
  • Kaldjian, LC. Review of: Biotechnology and the Human Good, by C. Ben Mitchell, Edmund D. Pellegrino, Jean Bethke Elshtain, John F. Kilner, and Scott B. Rae. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2007. Am J Bioethics 2008; 8(6):55-56.
  • Kaldjian LC, Jones EQ, Rosenthal GE. Facilitating and impeding factors for physicians' error disclosure: a structured literature review. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf, 2006 Apr;32(4):188-98.
  • Kaldjian LC, Weir RF, Duffy TP. A clinician's approach to clinical ethical reasoning. Journal of General Internal Medicine 20:306-311, 2005.
  • Kaldjian LC, Wu BJ, Kirkpatrick JN, Thomas-Geevarghese A, Vaughan-Sarrazin M. Medical house officers' attitudes toward vigorous analgesia, terminal sedation, and physician-assisted suicide. Am J Hosp Palliat Care 2004 Sep-Oct;21(5):381-7.
  • Herwaldt LA, Kaldjian LC. "Ethical aspects of infection control." In: Lautenbach E, Woeltje K, editors. Practical handbook for healthcare epidemiologists, 2nd ed. Thorofare, NJ: SLACK Inc., pp. 25-33, 2004.