Papers

Physician Characteristics Associated with Decisions to Withdraw Life Support

1 | Terminal Care

Citation:

N.A. Christakis and D.A. Asch, "Physician Characteristics Associated with Decisions to Withdraw Life Support" American Journal of Public Health, 85(3): 367-372 (March 1995)

Change in Self-Definition from Specialist to Generalist in a National Sample of Physicians

1 | Health Services Research

Citation:

N.A. Christakis, J.A. Jacobs, and C.M. Messikomer, "Change in Self-Definition from Specialist to Generalist in a National Sample of Physicians" Annals of Internal Medicine, 121(9): 669-675 (November 1994)

Do Clinical Clerks Suffer Ethical Erosion? Students' Perceptions of Their Ethical Environment and Their Personal Development

1 | Ethics

Citation:

C. Feudtner, D.A. Christakis, and N.A. Christakis, "Do Clinical Clerks Suffer Ethical Erosion? Students' Perceptions of Their Ethical Environment and Their Personal Development" Academic Medicine, 69(8): 670-679 (August 1994)

Biases in How Physicians Choose to Withdraw Life Support

5 | Ethics , Experiment , Methodology , NAC Favorite , Terminal Care

Citation:

N.A. Christakis and D.A. Asch, "Biases in How Physicians Choose to Withdraw Life Support" The Lancet, 342(8872): 642-646 (September 1993); reprinted in Monash Bioethics Review 13(3): 24-33 (July 1994)

Logit Models for Sets of Ranked Items

1 | Methodology

Citation:

P.D. Allison and N.A. Christakis, "Logit Models for Sets of Ranked Items" Sociological Methodology, 24: 199-228 (Summer 1994)

Timing of Referral of Terminally Ill Patients to an Outpatient Hospice

3 | Hospice Care , Social Determinants , Terminal Care

Citation:

N.A. Christakis, "Timing of Referral of Terminally Ill Patients to an Outpatient Hospice" Journal of General Internal Medicine, 9(6): 314-320 (June 1994)

Different Response Rates in a Trial of Two Envelope Styles in Mail Survey Research

1 | Methodology

Citation:

D.A. Asch and N.A. Christakis, "Different Response Rates in a Trial of Two Envelope Styles in Mail Survey Research" Epidemiology, 5(5): 364-365 (May 1994)

Screening Surgeons for HIV Infection: Assessment of a Potential Public Health Program

2 | AIDS , Infectious Disease

Citation:

K.A. Schulman, R. McDonald, I. Frank, L.A. Lynn, N.A. Christakis, and J.S. Schwartz, "Screening Surgeons for HIV Infection: Assessment of a Potential Public Health Program" Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 15(3): 147-155 (March 1994)

Ethics Are Local: Engaging Cross-Cultural Variation in the Ethics for Clinical Research

3 | Ethics , Global Health , LMIC

Citation:

N.A. Christakis, "Ethics Are Local: Engaging Cross-Cultural Variation in the Ethics for Clinical Research" Social Science and Medicine, 35(9): 1079-1091 (October 1992); partially reprinted in Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research, E. Emanuel, R. Crouch, J. Arras, J. Moreno, and C. Grady, eds., Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003

Hirschsprung's Disease: Associated Abnormalities and Demography

Citation:

E.T. Ryan, J.L. Ecker, N.A. Christakis, and J. Folkman, "Hirschsprung's Disease: Associated Abnormalities and Demography" Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 27(1): 76-81 (January 1992)