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K. Zivin and N.A. Christakis, "The Emotional Toll of Spousal Morbidity and Mortality" American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 15(9): 772-779 (September 2007)

F. Elwert and N.A. Christakis, "Widowhood and Race" ASR: American Sociological Review, 71(1): 16-41 (February 2006)

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 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)

T.J. Iwashyna, G. Brennan, J.X. Zhang, and N.A. Christakis, "Finding Married Couples in Medicare Claims Data" Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, 3(1): 75-86 (December 2002)

T.J. Iwashyna, J. Zhang, D. Lauderdale, and N.A. Christakis, "Refinements of a Methodology for Detecting Married Couples in the Medicare Data" Demography, 37(2): 251-252 (May 2000)

T.J. Iwashyna, J. Zhang, D. Lauderdale, and N.A. Christakis, "A Methodology for Identifying Married Couples in Medicare Data: Mortality, Morbidity, and Health Care Use Among the Married Elderly" Demography, 35(4): 413-419 (November 1998)

N.A. Christakis and T.J. Iwashyna, "Spousal Illness Burden Is Associated with Delayed Use of Hospice Care in Terminally Ill Patients" Journal of Palliative Medicine, 1(1): 3-10 (March 1998)