Professor of Medicine, Hebrew Rehab Center For the Aged
Internal Medicine
Dr. Susan L. Mitchell, MD
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Susan L. Mitchell works in the field of Internal Medicine. Dr. Susan L. Mitchell is a published MD. He published 100 publications, including: 'Does artificial enteral nutrition prolong the survival of institutionalized elders with chewing and swallowing problems?' He accepts Medicare payments and is registered with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Antimicrobials at the End of Life: An Opportunity to Improve Palliative Care and Infection Management.
- A Randomized Controlled Trial of a CPR and Intubation Video Decision Support Tool for Hospitalized Patients.
- Statin discontinuation in nursing home residents with advanced dementia.
- High-risk medication use by nursing home residents before and after hospitalization.
- Infection management and multidrug-resistant organisms in nursing home residents with advanced dementia.
- Use of Medications of Questionable Benefit in Advanced Dementia.
- Effect of part d coverage restrictions for antidepressants, antipsychotics, and cholinesterase inhibitors on related nursing home resident outcomes.
- Intensive Care Utilization among Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Cognitive and Severe Functional Impairment.
- Preliminary data from an advanced dementia consult service: integrating research, education, and clinical expertise.
- Skilled Nursing Facility Admissions of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia.
- Medicare Part D Plan Generosity and Medication Use Among Dual-eligible Nursing Home Residents.
- Feeding Tubes and Health Costs Postinsertion in Nursing Home Residents With Advanced Dementia.
- Use of acute care services among older homeless adults.
- What is Family-Centered Care for Nursing Home Residents With Advanced Dementia?
- Health Insurance Status and the Care of Nursing Home Residents With Advanced Dementia.
- Survival after multiple hospitalizations for infections and dehydration in nursing home residents with advanced cognitive impairment.
- The Cost-Effectiveness of the Decision to Hospitalize Nursing Home Residents With Advanced Dementia.
- Resynchronization: considering device-based cardiac therapy in older adults.
- Do patients with advanced cognitive impairment admitted to hospitals with higher rates of feeding tube insertion have improved survival?
- Challenges in assessing nursing home residents with advanced dementia for suspected urinary tract infections.
- Randomized Controlled Trial of a Video Decision Support Tool for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Decision Making in Advanced Cancer.
- The study of pathogen resistance and antimicrobial use in dementia: study design and methodology.
- A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Goals-of-Care Video for Elderly Patients Admitted to Skilled Nursing Facilities.
- Advanced Dementia: State of the Art and Priorities for the Next Decade.
- Dying in U.S. Nursing Homes with Advanced Dementia: How Does Healthcare Use Differ for Residents with versus without End-of-Life Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility Care?
- Improving decision-making for feeding options in advanced dementia: a randomized, controlled trial.
- Sources of Stress for Family Members of Nursing Home Residents With Advanced Dementia.
- End-of-life transitions among nursing home residents with cognitive issues.
- Geriatric Syndromes in Older Homeless Adults.
- Grief among family members of nursing home residents with advanced dementia.
- Medicare expenditures among nursing home residents with advanced dementia.
- Decision-making and outcomes of feeding tube insertion: a five-state study.
- Mental Health and Exposure to Patient Distress Among Families of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia.
- Terminal Hospitalizations of Nursing Home Residents: Does Facility Increasing the Rate of Do Not Resuscitate Orders Reduce Them?
- Hospice care for persons with dementia: The growth of access in US nursing homes.
- Antipsychotic and benzodiazepine use among nursing home residents: findings from the 2004 National Nursing Home Survey.
- Hospice use and outcomes in nursing home residents with advanced dementia.
- Prediction of 6-month survival of nursing home residents with advanced dementia using ADEPT vs hospice eligibility guidelines.
- The advanced dementia prognostic tool: a risk score to estimate survival in nursing home residents with advanced dementia.
- Survival and comfort after treatment of pneumonia in advanced dementia.
- Daily medication use in nursing home residents with advanced dementia.
- Comfort feeding only: a proposal to bring clarity to decision-making regarding difficulty with eating for persons with advanced dementia.
- Hospital characteristics associated with feeding tube placement in nursing home residents with advanced cognitive impairment.
- The influence of nursing home culture on the use of feeding tubes.
- Use of video to facilitate end-of-life discussions with patients with cancer: a randomized controlled trial.
- The clinical course of advanced dementia.
- Religiousness, religious coping, and psychological well-being in nursing home residents.
- Using video images to improve the accuracy of surrogate decision-making: a randomized controlled trial.
- Concerns about end-of-life care and support for euthanasia.
- Healthcare proxies of nursing home residents with advanced dementia: decisions they confront and their satisfaction with decision-making.
- Family oversight and the quality of nursing home care for residents with advanced dementia.
- Natural history of feeding-tube use in nursing home residents with advanced dementia.
- Disseminated candidiasis secondary to fungal and bacterial peritonitis in a young dog.
- Churning: the association between health care transitions and feeding tube insertion for nursing home residents with advanced cognitive impairment.
- Reporting dementia on the death certificates of nursing home residents dying with end-stage dementia.
- Associations between end-of-life discussions, patient mental health, medical care near death, and caregiver bereavement adjustment.
- Health care proxy grief symptoms before the death of nursing home residents with advanced dementia.
- Multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria in a long-term care facility: prevalence and risk factors.
- Do financial incentives of introducing case mix reimbursement increase feeding tube use in nursing home residents?
- Bereaved family members' evaluation of hospice care: what factors influence overall satisfaction with services?
- Hospice care for patients with dementia: does volume make a difference?
- Patterns of antimicrobial use among nursing home residents with advanced dementia.
- Depressive symptom trajectories and associated risks among bereaved Alzheimer disease caregivers.
- A 93-year-old man with advanced dementia and eating problems.
- Prediction of 6-month mortality in nursing home residents with advanced dementia: validity of a risk score.
- Hospice care for patients with dementia.
- Terminal trajectories of functional decline in the long-term care setting.
- Decisions to forgo hospitalization in advanced dementia: a nationwide study.
- Satisfaction with end-of-life care for nursing home residents with advanced dementia.
- The validity and reliability of scales for the evaluation of end-of-life care in advanced dementia.
- Advanced dementia research in the nursing home: the CASCADE study.
- Cholecystoenterostomy for treatment of extrahepatic biliary tract obstruction in cats: 22 cases (1994-2003).
- Occurrence and treatment of suspected pneumonia in long-term care residents dying with advanced dementia.
- Extensive small bowel resection in dogs and cats: 20 cases (1998-2004).
- Liver lobe torsion in dogs: 13 cases (1995-2004).
- Decisions to hospitalize nursing home residents dying with advanced dementia.
- A national study of the location of death for older persons with dementia.
- Terminal care for persons with advanced dementia in the nursing home and home care settings.
- Estimating prognosis for nursing home residents with advanced dementia.
- Mandibular reconstruction of a partial hemimandibulectomy in a dog with severe malocclusion.
- Tube-feeding versus hand-feeding nursing home residents with advanced dementia: a cost comparison.
- Dying with advanced dementia in the nursing home.
- Ultrasonographic detection of ingested and perforating wooden foreign bodies in four dogs.
- Megestrol acetate in pediatric oncology patients may lead to severe, symptomatic adrenal suppression.
- Clinical and organizational factors associated with feeding tube use among nursing home residents with advanced cognitive impairment.
- Nursing home characteristics associated with tube feeding in advanced cognitive impairment.
- Financial incentives for placing feeding tubes in nursing home residents with advanced dementia.
- Racial and state differences in the designation of advance directives in nursing home residents.
- The epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and natural history of older nursing home residents with a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease.
- The risk factors and impact on survival of feeding tube placement in nursing home residents with severe cognitive impairment.
- Video decision support tool for advance care planning in dementia: randomised controlled trial.
- Nurses'' perspectives on feeding decisions for nursing home residents with advanced dementia.
- Tracheal rupture associated with intubation in cats: 20 cases (1996-1998).
- The hierarchy of functional loss associated with cognitive decline in older persons.
- A cross-national comparison of institutionalized tube-fed older persons: the influence of contrasting healthcare systems.
- Survival after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy placement in older persons.
- Does artificial enteral nutrition prolong the survival of institutionalized elders with chewing and swallowing problems?
- A decision aid for long-term tube feeding in cognitively impaired older persons.
- The association between parkinsonism, Alzheimer's disease, and mortality: a comprehensive approach.
Schools
University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine
Ottawa Civic Hospital
University Ottawa
Harvard University
Doctors Specialties
- Geriatric Medicine
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
- Blue Card PPO
- BlueConnect HMO
- Preferred Blue PPO
- Medicare MCR
- Tufts PPO
- United Healthcare
Education
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center -
University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine
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