N.A. Christakis and P.D. Allison, "Mortality After the Hospitalization of a Spouse" New England Journal of Medicine, 354(7): 719-730 (February 2006)

N.A. Christakis, "Social Networks and Collateral Health Effects – Have Been Ignored in Medical Care and Clinical Trials, But Need to Be Studied" British Medical Journal, l 329(7459): 184- 185 (July 2004)

N.A. Christakis and T.J. Iwashyna, "The Health Impact on Families of Health Care: A Matched Cohort Study of Hospice Use by Decedents and Mortality Outcomes in Surviving, Widowed Spouses" Social Science and Medicine, 57(3): 465-475 (August 2003)

E.B. Lamont and N.A. Christakis, "Prognostic Disclosure to Patients with Cancer Near the End of Life" Annals of Internal Medicine, 133(12): 1096-1105 (June 2001)

N.A. Christakis and E.B. Lamont, "Extent and Determinants of Error in Doctors’ Prognoses for Terminally Ill Patients: Prospective Cohort Study" British Medical Journal, 320(7233): 469-473 (February 2000); reprinted in The Western Journal of Medicine 172(5): 310-313 (May 2000)

T.J. Iwashyna, N.A. Christakis, and L.B. Becker, "Neighborhoods Matter: A Population-Based Study of Provision of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation" Annals of Emergency Medicine, 34(4): 459-468 (October 1999)

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)