CURRICULUM VITAE
NEIL S. WENGER, M.D.
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PERSONAL HISTORY
Business Address
UCLA Department of Medicine/GIM
911 Broxton Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1736
Phone (310) 794-2288
FAX (310) 794-0732
nwenger@mednet.ucla.edu
Home Address
18640 Canasta Street
Tarzana, CA 91356
(818) 345-6313
EDUCATION
B.S.
Biochemistry (Highest Honors)
University of California, Davis
June 1980
M.D.
School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
June 1984
Resident
Internal Medicine
UCLA Department of Medicine
July 1984 - June 1987
Clinical Scholar
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
University of California, Los Angeles
July 1987 - June 1989
M.P.H.
School of Public Health
University of California, Los Angeles
June 1989
Chief Resident
Department of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
July 1989 - June 1990
LICENSURE & CERTIFICATION
California License, #G55997, 1986Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners, 1985
Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine, 1987
Diplomate in Geriatrics, American Board of Internal Medicine, 1994
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
2002 1997 - 2002
1990 - 1997
Chairman, UCLA Medical Center Ethics Committee
Co-Chairman, UCLA Medical Center Ethics Committee
1991 1989 - 1991
Director, UCLA Health System Ethics Center
2004 -
Director
Associate Director
NRSA Fellowship Program in Primary Care Research
UCLA Division of General Internal Medicine
2004 1994 - 2003
Director
2010 UCLA Kennamer Fellowship Program in Advanced General Internal Medicine
UCLA Division of General Internal Medicine
DIDACTIC TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Director, Medical Resident Clinical Ethics Conference
UCLA Department of Medicine
1989 -
Instructor
Outpatient didactic course for Medical Residents
Topics: Ethics, physician-patient relationship, quality of care,
end of life decision making, advance directives.
UCLA Department of Medicine
1988 -
Instructor, Medical Ethics Curriculum for Orthopaedic Residents
1995 - 2006
HS 249 (Ganz/Roemer): Clinical Ethics
1997, 2002 -
M 261 (Korenman): Research Ethics
2001 -
HS 265 (Shapiro): Challenges in Clinical HSR
2002 -
M 411 (Maxwell/Berman): Issues in Cancer Prevention and Control
2004 –
Instructor, Clinical Ethics
UCLA ACP Internal Medicine Board Review Course
1995 - 2003
Instructor
Introduction to Medical Ethics
Medical Ethics, Doctoring 1, 2
Medical Ethics, Foundations, Primary care and Specialty colleges
“Pulling the plug” Block 7 lecture
1988 - 1992
1993 – 1999
2002 –
2004 –
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UCLA School of Medicine
Instructor
Medical Ethics Case Conference for Medical Residents
Harbor/UCLA Medical Center
1991 - 1999
Instructor, End of Life Issues and Transplantation Ethics
Associates Program in Healthcare Ethics
St. Joseph Medical System
1998 - 99
HS 200B (Torrens): Health Services Research in HIV
1998
Instructor, Ethical Issues in Managed Care
Survey Course in Bioethics
Loyola Marymount University
1995 - 97
MD106: Understanding Managed Health Care Elective
1994 – 95
HS 288: The Role and Impact of Technology on Health Services in
The U.S.
2011
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
Member, Mortality and Morbidity Committee for Scleroderma Lung
Study II, UCLA
Consultant, CDC Laboratory Systems, Breakout Session
“Managing for Better Health”
2008 -
Committee member, Health Israel 2020 initiative
2006 - 2008
Co-chair, Quality Measurement Committee, AGS
Member, Quality Measurement Committee, AGS
2006 – 2010
2010 –
Consultant in clinical ethics, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
2009
Co-chair, NCQA Palliative Care PQRI measure development
2008
CMS Ambulatory care quality measurement TEP
2008 –
NQF TEP on Continuity and Coordination of care
2008
Member, UCLA Hospital Systemwide Policy Committee
2005 -
Member, California Science Center Ethics Advisory Committee
for “Body Worlds” exhibit
2004
Member, Anatomic Advisory Board, UCLA School of Medicine
2004 -
Member, Geriatric Measurement Advisory Panel, NCQA
2001 -
2007
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Founded, Southern California Bioethics Committee Consortium
Co-Chair, Los Angeles County Bioethics Network
Member, Los Angeles County Bioethics Network
2004 –
1997 – 98
1994 – 98
Consultant on scientific ethics, Museum of Science and Industry
1996 - 97
Member, UCLA Privacy and Confidentiality Task Force
1996 - 1999
Board member, CHEC Santa Monica/UCLA Hospital
1996 -
Member, UCLA Medical Center Medical Staff Executive Committee
1996 -
Member, UCLA Medical Center Case Management Oversight Group
1995 - 1998
Member, UCLA Department of Medicine Curriculum Development
Committee
1995 - 1998
Member, UCLA OPRS Development Task Force
1995
Member, UCLA Clinical Scholars Selection Committee
and Research Advisory Committee
1995 -
Member, UCLA Medical Center Ad Hoc Task Force on Death
and Dying
1994 - 1997
Secretary, Southern California Chapter,
Society of General Internal Medicine
1993 - 1995
Member, UCLA Pastoral Care Professional
Consultation Committee
1993 -
Member, Society of General Internal Medicine
Chair, Ethics/Humanities abstract selection committee
Co-Chair, Abstract Selection Committee
Chair, Ethics Committee
Member, Membership Committee
Member, Domain Task Force
1988 2003
2000
1999 - 2000
1993 – 1994
2002 – 2003
Member, American Geriatrics Society
1993 -
Member, Society for Health and Human Values
1992 -
Member, Intern Selection Committee
Chairman, Intern Selection Committee
UCLA Department of Medicine
1989 - 1992, 1994 1992
Member, American Federation for Clinical Research
1991 –
Member, UCLA Medical Staff
1991 - 1992
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Quality Assurance Executive Committee
Member, Quality Assurance Committee
UCLA Department of Medicine
1988 - 1992
Physician, Union Rescue Mission Homeless Clinic
1987 - 1989
Member, American Public Health Association
1988 - 1998
REVIEWER
Journal of Clinical Oncology
Annals of Internal Medicine
Journal of the American Medical Association
Journal of General Internal Medicine
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
HONORS AND SPECIAL AWARDS
Medical Student Training in Aging Research (MSTAR)
Research Mentor Award
2012
Social Work Recognition Award
2012
Full time Teaching Faculty Award Nomination
2012
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Award for Excellence in Education
2008
John Eisenberg Quality of Care Award - Research
2008
Chief Residents’ Award for Excellence in Teaching
UCLA Department of Medicine
1998
RESEARCH GRANTS RECEIVED
T89HP20746-01-00
HRSA
Affordable Care Act: Primary Care Residency Expansion
$1,800,000
09/30/10-9/29/15
HHSM-500-2005-00028I
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Outcome Measures-Medicare
$1,593,788
09/28/10-09/29/11
1R01 AG036776-01A1 (Reuben)
12/01/10 – 11/30/13
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NIH/NIA
Effects of Practice Redesign on Falls Health Outcomes and Costs
Role: Co-investigator
1R01AT005883-01 (Tarn)
09/01/10 – 08/31/14
NIH / National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Role: Co-PI
SCAN Foundation (Wenger)
07/01/09 - 04/30/11
Applying the ACOVE-2 Intervention to Advance Care Planning
Improving advance care planning in primary care practice through practice redesign
#08-1674
03/01/09-12/31/12
California Health Care Foundation
Statewide evaluation of the CHCF program to disseminate POLST
$225,000
UniHealth Foundation (Reuben)
Improving care for older community patients
$548,041
01/01/09-12/31/11
HRSA (Wenger)
T32HP19001
NRSA Primary Care Research Fellowship
$1,182,225
07/01/08-6/30/11
United Healthcare Services Inc (Wenger)
11/1/07-10/31/09
UHG_10-23-07
Measurement of Quality of Care and Cost Provided to Vulnerable Older Medicare Beneficiaries
in the Evercare Special Needs Plan
$1,380,000
ASPE HHSP233200600001T (Wenger)
HHS-100-03-0023
Report To Congress On Advance Care Planning
$452,029
9/01/06 - 5/31/08
Grant #897 (Wenger)
Unihealth Foundation
An Ethics Education Program for Ethics Committee Members
$106,657
05/20/05 12/20/06
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals
“Intervening to Improve the Care of Vulnerable Elders”
Principal Investigator
$1,500,000
8/01/04 - 7/31/06
Atlantic Philantropies (Prime site American College of Physicians)
“Intervening to Improve the Care of Vulnerable Elders”
Co-PI
9/01/05 - 8/31/08
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$750,000
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals
“Updating and Expanding the ACOVE Measurement System”
$3,500,000
Principal Investigator
7/1/01 - 6/30/04
Grant #557 / Wenger, PI
Unihealth Foundation
“A Program to Enhance the Ethics of Medical Care”
$551,030
Principal Investigator
12/1/03-11/30/06
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals
“Intervening to Improve the Care of Vulnerable Elders”
$5,200,000
Principal Investigator
3/1/01 - 2/28/04
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals
“Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders”
$4,500,000
Principal Investigator
11/1/98 - 10/31/00
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
EMS experience with and problems with POLST in California. Joint EMDAC/EMSAAC
meeting. San Francisco, CA. December 4, 2012
Complexities of Measuring Advance Care Planning. International Advance Care Planning and
End of Life Conference. Rosemont, IL. May 31, 2012
Should Allocation Be Based Solely on Life-Years Gained? ILTS 18th Annual International
Congress. San Francisco, CA. May 16, 2012
Clinical Ethics and Quality Medical Care. Grand Rounds. Eisenhower Medical Center. Rancho
Mirage, CA. December 19, 2011
Clinical Ethics and Quality Medical Care. Grand Rounds. Eisenhower Medical Center.
December 19, 2011.
Palliative Care: Facing Tough Choices, A Panel Discussion. Town Hall Los Angeles. Santa
Monica, CA. December 8, 2011.
Measuring Care for Vulnerable Older People: The ACOVE Measurement System. Keynote
address, Annual Geriatrics Day 2009. Maine Medical Center. Portland, ME. April 1, 2009.
Patient-physician communication on therapy options for cancer: Ethical issues. Assessing and
Improving Value in Cancer Care. Institute of Medicine. Washington, DC. February 10, 2009.
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Caring for family in crisis in the ICU. Neurocritical Care in the ICU of the Future. Los Angeles,
CA. January 22, 2009.
Coordination of Physician Practices and Alzheimer’s Association Chapters to Improve Care for
Dementia: A pilot study. Alzheimer’s Association National Meeting. Chicago, IL, July 28, 2008.
Quality Geriatric Emergency Care: Preparing for the Future. Society for Academic Emergency
Medicine. 2008 Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. May 31, 2008.
Measuring the quality of care provided to vulnerable elders. Ovations Professional Advisory
Committee. Minneapolis, MN, May 7, 2008.
How should we measure care for vulnerable older patients? American Geriatrics Society Ann
Meeting. Washington DC, May 3, 2008.
Measuring the quality of medical care: Can we do better? UC Davis Grand Rounds. Sacramento,
CA, March 20, 2008.
Ethical concerns and systems issues: Disclosing medical errors. UCOP Risk Management
meeting. Oakland, CA, March 4, 2008
The Physician’s role in deciding difficult clinical ethics cases. Milhaupt Seminar. UCLA Plato
Society, February 23, 2008
Defining and Approaching “Futile Care”: Reconsidering the Goals of Medicine. Department of
Medicine Grand Rounds. VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. February 20, 2008.
Dying in America: Duties, Responsibilities, Rights and Limits. Medical Dilemmas and Ethical
Decision Making: Hard Choices for Us All. Providence St. Joseph Medical Center. November
17, 2007.
Futility of Care Cases: How to Approach Them. Methodist Hospital. October 4, 2007.
Theory Practice and Implementation of Quality Measures in Older Adults—The ACOVE
Approach. Hawaii. August 5, 2007.
End of Life Issues. Department of Medicine Outpatient Didactic Conference. UCLA. April 1112, 2007.
Ethical Issues. UC Pandemic Planning Conference. UCOP. November 9, 2006.
Improving Care at the End of Life. 58th Postgraduate Assembly. Compassionate Care: Pain
Management and the Care and Treatment of the Terminally Ill. St. John’s Health Center.
September 16, 2006.
Will Ethics Be a Part of Your Future Career? The Importance of Ethics in the Professional
World. UCLA Student Committee on Ethics & Honor. UCLA. May 9, 2006.
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Ethics. Nigel Roberts Lecture on Healthcare Ethics. 2006 Preventive Medicine Conference.
Reno, NV. February 25, 2006.
Ethics of End-of-Life Care. 2006 Annual VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. Los
Angeles, CA. January 27, 2006.
Geriatric Advisory Board presentation. SCAN Health Plan. Los Angeles, CA. January 25, 2006.
Advance Directives, Proxies and Surrogates & Medical Futility and the Ethics of
Withdrawal/Withholding. Pain Management and Palliative Care. David Geffen School of
Medicine at UCLA. October 21, 2005.
The Ethics and Legalities of Informed Consent. General Staff Conference & Department of
Family Medicine Grand Rounds. Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center. October 17, 2005.
Improving End-of-Life Decisions and Pain Management. University of Kentucky, Lexingtion,
KY. April 12, 2005.
Key Seminar: Medical Ethics for Gastroenterologists. UCLA Integrated Fellowship Training
Program. Los Angeles, CA. April 8, 2005.
Money, Morals & Medicine: Commercialism Meets Professionalism. USC College & Student
Senate, Los Angeles, CA. March 31, 2005.
Jewish Perspectives on Medical Ethics. Stephen S. Wise Temple, Los Angeles, CA. March 28,
2005.
Can Altruistic Deeds During Life Direct Decisions Near Death? 12th Annual Collaborative
Ethics Conference: Ethics of Caring. UCLA. March 22, 2005.
Improving End of Life Care: Translating Ethics into Practice. Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical
Center. January 10, 2005.
Futile Care and Beyond. Systems Ethics Committee. Saint John’s Medical Center, Santa
Monica, CA. November 10, 2004.
Ethical Issues at the End of Life. Pain Management and Palliative Care course. Office of CME,
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Marina Del Rey, CA. October 30, 2004.
Capacity to complete an advance directive. Decision Making in End of Life Care. GRECC
Conference, Culver City, CA. August 27, 2004
Biomedical Ethics. Medical Science College Foundations Week. UCLA, July 2003 & 2004.
Futility: It’s Clinical Meaning. Palliative Care Conference. Greater Los Angeles VA
Healthcare System. June 18, 2004.
Discussing Advance Care Directives and End of Life Care. UCLA Neurology Resident Teaching
Conference. June 9, 2004.
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Trauma Care: End of Life Decision Making. Trauma Care Symposium. UCLA, September
2003.
Medical ethics for young professionals. Panel discussion with Rabbi Elliot Dorff and Vicki
Michel. Univeristy of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA. May 21, 2003.
The Quality of Medical Care Provided to Vulnerable Elder Patients. AGS 2003 Annual Meeting.
Baltimore, MD. May 16, 2003.
Caring for the Vulnerable Elderly. ACP-ASIM, San Diego, CA, April 5, 2003.
Primary Care and End of Life Issues, PriMed, Long Beach, CA, April 3, 2003.
Teaching Clinical Ethics to Orthopaedic Surgery Residents, Academic Orthopaedic Society
Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, November 7-9, 2002
Quality of care for the older patient. Regensrief Conference, Indiana, Oct 2, 2002
End of life communication. Bayer Annual meeting, Monterey, CA. Sept 24, 2002.
Introduction to Clinical Ethics, Chaplain intern orientation, UCLA, August 15, 2002
Medical and Ethical Considerations of Futile Care. Sunrise Hospital, Las Vegas, NV, March 21,
2002.
Assessing care of vulnerable elders. American Medical Directors Association National Meeting,
San Diego, CA, March 22, 2002.
Breaking bad news. UCLA Didactic session. December 5, 2001.
Ethics Committee research in Israel. UCLA Division of General Internal Medicine and Health
Services Research Noon Seminar Research Series. November 16, 2001.
Improving End of Life Care: Implications for the Anesthesiologist. UCLA School of Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology Grand Rounds. October 31, 2001.
End of life issues in the CCU. UCLA CCU Nursing seminar. October 26, 2001.
Solving clinical problems with medical ethics principles. UCLA College of Applied Anatomy.
October 17, 2001.
Improving End of Life Care. Ben Gurion Department of Medicine Grand Rounds, Beer Sheva,
Israel. June 12, 2001.
Using an Ethics Committee to Imrpove the Ethical Practice of Medicine in a Hospital. Beilenson
Hospital Management Council, Petach Tikva, Israel. June 19, 2001.
Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders in the U.S. Conference of the Israel Society for Quality in
Health Care. Tel Aviv, Israel, May 31, 2001.
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Insights about care at the end of life: Implications for care system redesign. Eighth International
Congress on Ethics in Medicine. Beer Sheva, Israel, November 6, 2000.
Improving the quality of care at the end of life. U.C. Irvine Dept of Medicine Grand Rounds,
Sept 12 2000.
Organizational Ethics. UCLA Board of Advisors Retreat. June 24, 2000.
Ethical Dilemmas: Challenging Choices for Physicians. Santa Barbara County Medical Society
Annual Meeting, May 11, 2000.
Medical care toward the end of life: Evaluation and intervention. State-of-the-Art lecture.
Western Regional Meeting, AFMR, Februay 11, 2000.
Ethical decisions at the end of life. UCLA Emerti Association lecture, January 6, 2000.
Informed consent and decision making. UCLA Family Medicine didactic lecture, January 4,
2000.
Tools to Measure Quality of Care for Vulnerable Elders. National Forum on Quality
Improvement in Health Care. New Orleans, LA, December 10, 1999.
The Ethics of Dying and The Promise and Pitfalls of Organ Transplantation. Bnai David-Judea
Congregation, Los Angeles, CA, November 20, 1999.
Common Ethical Issues in Geriatrics. 16th Annual Intensive Course in Geriatric Medicine and
Board Review. Santa Monica, CA, September 22, 1999.
An Ethical Approach to Reproductive Medicine: Multifetal Pregnancy. Kaiser Permanente
Annual Obstetrics and Gynecology Symposium. San Diego, CA, September 17, 1999.
Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders: Development of a Quality of Care Measurement System.
4th Annual UCLA Research Conference on Aging, June 23, 1999.
Incorporating Ethics into the Practice of Medicine. Keynote address: PRIMED, Long Beach,
CA, April 9, 1999.
Ethical Dilemmas in Orthopaedics, American Academic of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual
Meeting, February 4, 1999.
Using HSR Methods to Study End of Life Care, UCSD HSR Conference, December 17, 1998.
End of Life Decision Making, Cardiology Care Conference, November 2, 1998.
End of Life Research, Clinical Scholars Geriatric Curriculum (Dr. D. Reuben), July 30, 1998.
Ethical Issues for Housestaff, Presentation to incoming interns, June 18 - 19, 1998.
Clinical Research Study Design, Hartford Medical Student Geriatric Scholars Program Seminar,
June 17, 1998.
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Confidentiality in the Hospital and Conference Co-chair, Los Angeles County Bioethics Network
Annual Meeting, April 18, 1998.
The Problem of Futility: Conflicting Facts and Values. Riverside Community Hospital Annual
Ethics Program, March 7, 1998.
Ethical Issues in Outpatient Care, PRI-MED Conference, March 1, 1998.
Quality Assurance Activities to Improve End of Life Care, Nursing Quality Management
Meeting, Santa Monica Hospital, September 10, 1997.
Obstacles to Optimal End of Life Decisions in the Hospital. Ethics Committee, Kaiser,
Panorama City, July 28, 1997.
Confidentiality in Medical Practice. Dept. of Medicine Morbidity and Mortality Rounds, UCLA,
July 24, 1997.
Ethical Issues in Clinical Trials. National Cancer Institute, Office of Cancer Communications,
Clinical Trials Education Program, July 25, 1997.
Physician Assisted Suicide. Temple Aliyah, Woodland Hills, CA, April 11, 1997.
Ethical Issues in Outpatient Care. PRI-MED Conference, Long Beach, CA, April 5, 1997.
End of Life Decisions for Clergy. University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA, March 25, 1997.
Ethical Issues in Managed Care. Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, CA, March 17, 1997.
The Progression of Medical Research in Minority Communities. Panel Discussion. Drew
University, Los Angeles, CA, February 13, 1997.
End of Life Decision Making. Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine, Grand Rounds
Program, West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, December 3, 1996.
Optimal End of Life Decision Making. UCLA Department of Medicine Grand Rounds,
November 27, 1996.
Clinical Implications of the SUPPORT Study. Northridge Hospital Medical Center, Northridge,
CA, November 26, 1996.
End of Life Quality Indicators. Institute of Medicine Committee on Care at the End of Life,
Irvine, CA, November 23, 1996.
Standardized Performance Measures to Improve End of Life Care. Plenary Presentation, End of
Life Healthcare in Managed Care Systems, Minneapolis, MN, November 2, 1996.
An Ethical Analysis of Propositions 214 and 216. Los Angeles Bar Bioethics Meeting, Los
Angeles, CA, October 9, 1996.
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Understanding Suboptimal Care at the End of Life. National Hospice Organization Board of
Directors Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, August 10, 1996.
Ethical Aspects of Medical Practice in 1996. Ventura County Medical Center, Ventura, CA,
June 13, 1996.
What Should Ethics Committees Learn From the SUPPORT Study? Third Annual Conference
of the Los Angeles County Bioethics Network, June 8, 1996.
Ethical Issues in Managed Care. Ophthalmology Grand Rounds, UCLA, June 5, 1996.
End of Life Decisions in Acute Care Hospitals: Results of SUPPORT. National Hospice
Organization’s 11th Management and Leadership Conference, San Francisco, CA, May 7, 1996.
A Clinical Approach to End of Life Decision Making. InterCommunity Medical Center, Covina,
CA, April 23, 1996.
Accountability in Assisted Reproduction: The Moral Ambiance of Institutions. UC Irvine, CA,
April 11-13, 1996.
Ethical Conflicts in Managed Care. Kaiser Hospital Bioethics Program, Los Angeles, CA, April
10, 1996.
Communicating With Families About Limiting Treatment. Santa Monica Hospital, Santa
Monica, CA, March 30, 1996.
The Meaning of SUPPORT Results to Ethics Committees. Kaiser Permanente, San Diego, CA,
March 28, 1996.
The Role of Religion in End of Life Decision Making. University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA,
March 11, 1996.
Managed Care at the End of Life. Clergy Network Bioethics Conference, Sherman Oaks, CA,
February 29, 1996.
Ethical Aspects of End of Life Decision Making: Lessons From the SUPPORT Study. USC
Department of Medicine Grand Rounds, January 3, 1996.
The UCLA Policy on Withholding and Withdrawing Treatment. Los Angeles County Bioethics
Network, December 11, 1995.
The Ethics of Managed Care. Midway Hospital, Los Angeles, CA, November 30, 1995.
Ethical Dilemmas and Decision Making in the Elderly. Health Aspects of Aging. UCLA
Extension, Course X419, November 21, 1995.
Do Not Resuscitate Orders in the Operating Room. UCLA Anesthesia Teaching Conference,
November 15, 1995
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Negotiating End of Life Decisions. UCLA Family Medicine Grand Rounds, November 10,
1995.
End of Life Issues. Ethics in the 90s. Kaiser Permanente Regional Meeting, Santa Ana, CA,
November 2, 1995.
Ethical Issues in Managed Care: New Challenges for Ethics Committees. Los Angeles County
Bioethics Network Annual Meeting, July 8, 1995.
The Ethical Principles of Managed Care. Health Care Ethics Symposium. St. Joseph Hospital
Regional Cancer Center, Orange, CA, May 13, 1995.
End of Life Decision Making. Valley Hospital Medical Center, Van Nuys, CA, February 2,
1995.
Introduction to Hospital Ethics Committees. UCLA School of Nursing, Guest Lecturer,
December 6, 1994.
HIV Seroprevalence and Attitudes Towards Pregnancy with HIV Infection Among Women
Attending on Infertility Clinic. UCLA AIDS Institute Symposium: Social and Behavioral
Aspects of HIV Infection in an Underserved Population, December 1, 1994.
Ethical Issues in Geriatrics. Geriatrics Update 1994, Coronado, CA, November 8, 1994.
Physician Understanding of Patient Preferences for End of Life Issues. Harbor/UCLA Medical
Center, February 14, 1994.
Collaboration Between Internist and Pathologist. American Society of Clinical Pathology
Conference, Marina del Rey, CA, November 18, 1993.
Developing a Hospital Policy on Aggressiveness of Care. St. John’s Hospital Bioethics
Committee, Santa Monica, CA, November 18, 1993.
Advance Directives and Removal of Life Support. Century City Hospital, Los Angeles, CA,
November 15, 1993.
Completing an Advance Directive, UCLA Medical Center Partnership for Care, Los Angeles,
CA, June 6, 1993.
Institutional Ethics: Hospital Practices and Policies for Denying Life-Sustaining Treatment.
Annual Health Law Symposium, Whittier College. Los Angeles, CA, April 16, 1993.
Wenger NS, Kusseling FS. College Age Women Often Change Birth Control Methods:
Implications for Reducing Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Unwanted Pregnancy.
Presented at the Pacific Coast Infertility Society, Palm Springs, CA, April 1993.
Using Advanced Directives. UCLA TPN Support Group, February 27, 1993.
Ethical Issues in Pain Management: A Physician’s View. Overcoming Barriers to Health Care
Interventions, Los Angeles, CA, February 20, 1993.
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The Effectiveness of HIV Testing as a Preventive Intervention. National Center for Prevention
Services/HIV Update, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA, January 22, 1993.
Cardiologists’ Approach Appropriately Aggressive Care. UCLA Division of Cardiology
Research Lecture, Los Angeles, CA, January 14, 1993.
The Problem with Approaching Patients about Preferences at Hospital Admission. Choices and
Conversations: The Patient Self-Determination Act’s First Year, National Conference,
Pasadena, CA, January 9, 1993.
The Management of Sickle Cell Patients. UCLA Dept. of Medicine Noon Conference Series,
Los Angeles, August 25, 1992.
How to Develop a Hospital Ethics Committee. Ojai Valley Community Hospital, Ojai, CA, July
24, 1992.
A Physician’s Response to “The California Death with Dignity Act.” University Religious
Conference, Los Angeles, July 10, 1992.
The Use of Outcome Studies to Define Patient Choice Regarding Treatment. Los Angeles
County Bar Association Bioethics Committee, Whittier Law School, L.A., CA, June 10, 1992.
Interventions to Decrease HIV Risk Behavior in Heterosexual Adults. Health Services Research
Forum, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, May 20, 1992.
Teaching Clinical Ethics Using the Case-Based Approach. Association of Program Directors in
Internal Medicine, San Diego, CA, March 1992.
The Patient Self-Determination Act: Its effect on your practice. Department of Medicine Grand
Rounds, November 1991; Department of OB/GYN Grand Rounds, February 1992; Department
of Pediatrics Grand Rounds, March 1992.
Wenger NS, Shapiro MF, Kusseling F, Greenberg JM. HIV Testing and Education
Promote Long Term HIV Risk Communication. Presented at the Western Regional
American Federation for Clinical Research, Carmel, CA, February 1992.
Futility and the Ethics Committee. Orange County Bioethics Network Bioethics Conference,
Santa Ana, CA, October 1991.
Pre-Operative HIV Testing. UCLA Department of OB/GYN Grand Rounds, Harbor/UCLA
Medical Center, September 1991.
Thromboembolic Prophylaxis. UCLA Department of Medicine Morbidity and Mortality
Conference, August 1991.
The Impact of HIV Testing. UCLA Department of Medicine Grand Rounds, November 1989.
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RESEARCH PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS
RESEARCH PAPERS - PEER REVIEWED
1. Miller CH, Lakin ML, Stott ML, Wenger NS, Rosenblatt LS, and Winters WD. Effect of
Isoproterenol upon Serotonin N-Acetyltransferase Activity and Melatonin Production in the
Chick Pineal Gland. Neuropharmacology. 1981; 20:1059-1065.
2. Katz SJ, Wenger NS, Shapiro MF. Diagnostic Value of Bacterial and Fungal Blood Cultures
in Patients with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. American Journal of Medicine.
1990;88:S28N-32N.
3. Hilborne LH, Wenger NS, Oye RK. Physician performance of laboratory tests in self-service
facilities. JAMA. 1990;264:382-6.
4. Wenger NS, Ross JW, Young RT. An Ethics Committee’s Recommendations on Testing
Patients for HIV Antibodies When Health Care Workers Suffer Exposure to Blood-Borne
Pathogens. HEC Forum. 1991;3:329-36.
5. Wenger NS, Linn LS, Epstein M, Shapiro MF. Reduction of High Risk Sexual Behavior
Among Heterosexuals Undergoing HIV Antibody Testing: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
American Journal of Public Health. 1991;81:1580-5. PMCID: PMC1405278.
6. Wenger NS, Greenberg JM, Hilborne LH, Kusseling F, Mangotich M, Shapiro MF. Effect of
HIV antibody testing and AIDS education on communication about HIV risk and sexual
behavior. Ann Intern Med. 1992;117:905-11.
7. Wenger NS, Shpiner RB. An Analysis of Morning Report: Implications for Internal
Medicine Education. Annals of Internal Medicine. 1993;119:5:395-399.
8. Greenberg JM, Doblin D, Shapiro D, Linn L, Wenger NS. Effect of an Educational Program
on Medical Students’ Conversations with Patients about Advance Directives. Journal of
General Internal Medicine. 1993;8:683-685.
9. Shapiro DW, Wenger NS, Shapiro MF. The contributions of authors to multiauthored
biomedical research papers. JAMA. 1994;271:438-42.
10. Wenger NS, Kusseling FS, Beck K, Shapiro MF. Sexual Behavior of Individuals Infected
with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus: The Need for Intervention. Archives of Internal
Medicine. 1994;154:1849-1854.
11. Wenger NS, Oye RK, Bellamy PE, Lynn J, Phillips RS, Desbiens NA, Kussin P, Youngner
SJ. Prior Capacity of Patients Lacking Decision Making Ability Early in Hospitalization:
Implications for Advance Directive Administration. Journal of General Internal Medicine.
1994;9:539-543.
12. Wenger NS, Halpern J. Can a Patient Refuse a Psychiatric Consultation to Evaluate
Decision-Making Capacity? Journal of Clinical Ethics. 1994;5:230-234.
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13. Wenger NS, Kusseling F, Beck K, Shapiro MF. When Patients First Suspect and Find Out
They Are Infected With the Human Immunodeficiency Virus: Implications for Prevention.
AIDS Care. 1994;6:399-405.
14. Teno JM, Murphy D, Lynn J, Tosteson A, Desbiens NA, Connors AF, Hamel MB, Wu A,
Phillips RS, Wenger NS, Knaus WA. Prognosis-Based Futility Guidelines: Does Anyone
Win? Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 1994;42:1202-1207.
15. Wenger NS, Halpern J. The Physicians’ Role in Completing Advance Directives: Ensuring
Patients’ Capacity to Make Healthcare Decisions in Advance. Journal of Clinical Ethics.
1994;5:320-323.
16. Liu HH, Weiss RE, Wenger NS. Model Selection in Repeated Measures Random Effects
Models. The American Statistical Association Proceedings Biopharmaceutical Section. 1994;
371-376.
17. Kusseling FS, Wenger NS, Shapiro MF. Inconsistent Contraceptive Use Among Female
College Students: Implications for Intervention. Journal of American College Health.
1995;43:191-195.
18. Teno JM, Hakim RB, Knaus WA, Wenger NS, Phillips RS, Wu AW, Califf R, Layde P,
Connors AF, Dawson NV, Lynn J. Preferences for CPR: Physician-Patient Agreement and
Hospital Resource Use. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 1995;10:179-186.
19. Layde PM, Beam CA, Broste SK, Connors AF, Desbiens N, Lynn J, Phillips RS, Reding D,
Teno J, Vidaillet H, Wenger NS. Surrogates’ Predictions of Seriously Ill Patients’
Resuscitation Preferences. Archives of Family Medicine. 1995;4:518-523.
20. Wenger NS, Kusseling FS, Shapiro MF. Misunderstanding of ‘Safer Sex’ by Heterosexually
Active Adults. Public Health Reports. 1995;110:618-621. PMCID: PMC1381640.
21. Wenger NS, Pearson ML, Desmond KA, Hanison ER, Rubenstein LV, Rogers WH, Kahn
KL. Epidemiology of Do Not Resuscitate Orders: Disparity by Age, Diagnosis, Gender,
Race and Functional Impairment. Archives of Internal Medicine. 1995;155:2056-2062.
22. Wenger NS, Pearson ML, Desmond KA, Brook RH, Kahn KL. Outcomes of Patients with
Do Not Resuscitate Orders: Toward an Understanding of What DNR Orders Mean and How
They Affect Patients. Archives of Internal Medicine. 1995;155:2063-2068.
23. Phillips RS, Wenger NS, Teno J, Oye RK, Youngner S, Califf R, Layde P, Desbiens N,
Connors AF, Lynn J. Choices of Seriously Ill Patients About Cardiopulmonary
Resuscitation: Correlates and Outcomes. American Journal of Medicine. 1996;100:128-137.
24. Wenger NS, Oye RK, Desbiens NA, Phillips RS, Teno JM, Connors AF, Liu HH, Zemsky
MF, Kussin P. The Stability of Do Not Resuscitate Orders on Hospital Readmission.
Journal of Clinical Ethics. 1996;7:48-54.
25. Kusseling FS, Shapiro MF, Greenberg JM, Wenger NS. Understanding Why Heterosexual
Adults Do Not Practice Safer Sex. AIDS Education and Prevention. 1996;8:247-257.
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26. Rosenfeld KE, Wenger NS, Phillips RS, Connors AF, Dawson NV, Layde P, Califf R, Liu
HH, Lynn J, Oye RK. Factors Associated with Change in Resuscitation Preference of
Seriously Ill Patients. Archives of Internal Medicine. 1996;156:1558-1564.
27. Hakim RB, Teno JM, Harrell FE, Knaus WA, Wenger NS, Phillips RS, Layde P, Califf RM,
Connors AF, Lynn J. Factors Associated With Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders: Patients’
Preferences, Prognoses, and Physicians’ Judgments. Annals of Internal Medicine.
1996;125:284-293.
28. Desbiens NA, Wu AW, Olson KA, Broste SK, Wenger NS, Connors AF, Lynn J, Phillips
RS, Fulkerson W. Pain and Satisfaction with Pain Control in Seriously Ill
Hospitalized
Patients. Critical Care Medicine. 1996;24:1953-1961.
29. Rothenberg LS, Merz JD, Wenger NS, Kagawa-Singer M, Macer DRJ, Tanabe N, Fukuhara
S, Kurokawa K, Fuenzalida-Puelma HL, Figueroa P, Meran JG, Benat E, Hosata T. The
Relationship of Clinical and Legal Perspectives Regarding Medical Treatment Decision
Making in Four Cultures. Annual Review of Law and Ethics. 1996;4:335-380.
30. FitzGerald JD, Wenger NS, Califf RM, Phillips RS, Desbiens NA, Liu H, Lynn J, Wu AW,
Connors AF, Oye RK. Functional Status Among Survivors of In-Hospital Cardiopulmonary
Resuscitation. Archives of Internal Medicine. 1997;157:72-76.
31. Lynn J, Teno JM, Phillips RS, Wu AW, Desbiens N, Harold J, Claessens MT, Wenger N,
Kreling B, Connors AF. Perceptions by Family Members of the Dying Experience of Older
and Seriously Ill Patients. Annals of Internal Medicine. 1997;126:97-106.
32. Wenger NS, Pearson ML, Desmond KA, Kahn, KL. Changes Over Time in the Use of Do
Not Resuscitate Orders and the Outcomes of Patients Receiving Them. Medical Care.
1997;35:311-9.
33. Teno J, Lynn J, Wenger N, Phillips RS, Murphy DP, Connors AF, Desbiens N, Fulkerson W,
Bellamy P, Knaus WA. Advance Directives for Seriously Ill Hospitalized Patients:
Effectiveness with the Patient Self-Determination Act and the SUPPORT Intervention.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 1997;45:500-507.
34. Teno JM, Licks S, Lynn J, Wenger N, Connors AF, Phillips RS, O’ Connor MA, Murphy
DP, Fulkerson WJ, Desbiens N, et al. Do Advance Directives Provide Instructions That
Direct Care? Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 1997;45:508-512.
35. Teno J, Lynn J, Connors AF, Wenger N, Phillips RS, Alzola C, Murphy DP, Desbiens N,
Knaus WA. The Illusion of End-Of-Life Resource Savings with Advance Directives.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 1997;45:513-518.
36. Hofmann JC, Wenger NS, Davis RB, Teno J, Connors AF, Desbiens N, Lynn J, Phillips RS.
Patient Preferences for Communication with Physicians About End of Life Decisions.
Annals of Internal Medicine. 1997;127:1-12.
37. Desbiens NA, Mueller-Rizner N, Connors AF, Wenger NS. The Relationship of Nausea and
Dyspnea to Pain in Seriously Ill Patients. Pain. 1997;71:149-156.
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38. Desbiens N, Wu AW, Alzola C, Mueller-Rizner N, Wenger NS, Connors AF, Lynn J,
Phillips RS. Pain During Hospitalization is Associated With Continued Pain Six Months
Later in Survivors of Serious Illness. American Journal of Medicine 1997;102:269-76.
39. Mattimore TJ, Wenger NS, Desbiens NA, Teno JM, Hamel MB, Liu H, Califf R, Connors
AF, Lynn J, Oye RK. Surrogate and Physician Understanding of Patients’ Preferences for
Living Permanently in a Nursing Home. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
1997;45:818-824.
40. Hamel MB, Phillips RS, Davis RB, Desbiens N, Connors AF, Teno JM, Wenger NS, Lynn J,
Wu AW, Fulkerson W. Outcomes and Cost-Effectiveness of Initiating Dialysis and
Continuing Aggressive Care in Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults. Annals of Internal
Medicine 1997;127:195-202.
41. Wenger NS, Korenman SG, Beck R, Berry S. The Ethics of Scientific Research: An
Analysis of Focus Groups of Scientists and Institutional Representatives. Journal of
Investigative Medicine 1997;45:371-80.
42. Desbiens NA, Mueller-Rizner N, Connors AF, Hamel MB, Wenger NS. Pain in the oldest
old during hospitalization and up to one year later. Journal of the American Geriatric
Society 1997;45:1167-72.
43. Wenger NS, Greengold NL, Oye RK, Kussin P, Phillips RS, Desbiens NA, Liu HH, Hiatt JR,
Teno JM, Connors AJ. Do Not Resuscitate Orders in the Operating Room. Journal of
Clinical Ethics 1997;3:250-257.
44. Galanos AN, Pieper CF, Kussin PS, Winchell MT, Fulkerson WJ, Harrell FE Jr., Teno JM,
Layde P, Connors AF Jr., Phillips RS, Wenger NS. Relationship of body mass index to
subsequent mortality among seriously ill hospitalized patients. Critical Care Medicine
1997;12:1962-68.
45. Korenman SG, Berk R, Wenger NS, Lew V. Evaluation of the Research Norms of Scientists
and Administrators Responsible for Academic Research Integrity. Journal of the American
Medical Association 1998;279:41-47.
46. Wenger NS, Lieberman J. An Assessment of Orthopedic Surgeons’ Knowledge of Medical
Ethics. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 1998; 2:198-206.
47. Roach MJ, Connors AF, Dawson NV, Wenger NS, Wu AW, Tsevat J, Desbiens N, Covinsky
KE, Schubert DSP. Depressed Mood and Survival in Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults.
Archives of Internal Medicine 1998;158:397-404.
48. Jaagosild P, Dawson NV, Thomas C, Wenger NS, Tsevat J, Knaus WA, Califf RM, Goldman
L, Vidallet H, Connors AF. Outcomes of Acute Exacerbation of Severe Congestive Heart
Failure. Archives of Internal Medicine 1998;158:1081-9.
49. Weeks JC, Cook EF, O’Day SJ, Peterson LM, Wenger NS, Reding D, Harrell F, Kussin P,
Dawson NV, Connor AF, Lynn J, Phillips RS. Relationship Between Cancer Patients’
Predictions of Prognosis and Their Treatment Preferences. Journal of the American Medical
Association 1998;279:1709-14.
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50. Desbiens NA, Wu AW, Yasui Y, Lynn J, Alzola C, Wenger NS, Connors AF, Phillips RS,
Fulkerson W. Patient Empowerment and Feedback Did Not Decrease Pain in Seriously Ill
Hospitalized Adults. Pain 1998;75:237-46.
51. Wenger NS, Liu HH, Lieberman J. Teaching Medical Ethics to Orthopedic Surgical
Residents. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 1998;80:1125-31.
52. Wenger NS, Korenman SG, Berk R, Liu HH. Punishment for Unethical Behavior in the
Conduct of Research. Academic Medicine 1998;73:1187-1194.
53. Haidet P, Hamel MB, Davis RB, Wenger NS, Reding D, Kussin PS, Connors AF Jr., Lynn J,
Weeks JC, Phillips RS. Outcomes, preferences for resuscitation, and physician-patient
communiccation among patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. American Journal of
Medicine 1998;105:222-9.
54. Mosen DM, Wenger NS, Shapiro MF, Andersen RM, Cunningham WE. Is Access to
Medical Care Associated with Receipt of HIV Testing and Counseling? AIDS Care
1998;10:617-28.
55. Hamel MB, Teno JM, Goldman L, Lynn J, Davis RB, Galanos AN, Desbiens N, Connors AF
Jr, Wenger NS, Phillips RS. Patient age and decisions to withhold life-sustaining treatments
from seriously ill hospitalized adults. Annals of Internal Medicine. 1999;130:116-125.
56. Levin JR, Wenger NS, Onslander JG, Zellman G, Schnelle JF, Buchanan JL, Hirsch SH,
Reuben DB. Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions for Nursing Home Residents. Journal of
the American Geriatrics Society. 1999;47:82-87.
57. Liu HH, Weiss RE, Jennrich RI, Wenger NS. PRESS Model Selection in Repeated Measures
Data. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 1999;2:169-184.
58. Desbiens NA, Mueller-Rizner N, Connors AF, Wenger NS, Lynn J. The Symptom Burden
of Seriously Ill Hospitalized Patients. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
1999;4:248-254.
59. Wenger NS, Korenman SG, Berk R, Liu HH. Reporting Unethical Research Behavior.
Evaluation Review 1999;23:553-570.
60. Goodlin SJ, Zhong Z, Lynn J, Teno JM, Fago JP, Desbiens N, Connors AF, Wenger NS,
Phillips RS. Factors associated with use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in seriously ill
hospitalized adults. Journal of the American Medical Association. 1999;282:2333-2339.
61. Saliba D, Orlando M, Wenger NS, Hays RD, Rubenstein LS. Identifying a short functional
disability screen for older persons. Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences.
2000;55:M750-6.
62. Sloss EM, Solomon DH, Shekelle PG, Young RT, Saliba D, MacLean C, Rubenstein LZ,
Schnelle JF, Kamberg CJ, Wenger NS. Selecting target conditions for quality of care
improvement in vulnerable older adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
2000;48:363-369.
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63. Wenger NS, Lynn J, Oye RK, Liu HH, Teno JM, Phillips RS, Desbiens NA, Sehgal A,
Kussin P, Taub H, Harrell F, Knaus W. Withholding Versus Withdrawing Life-Sustaining
Treatment: Patient Factors and Documentation Associated with Dialysis Decisions. Journal
of the American Geriatrics Society 2000; 48:S75-S83.
64. Wenger NS, Phillips RS, Teno JM, Oye RK, Dawson NV, Liu HH, Califf R, Layde P, Hakim
R, Lynn J. Physician Understanding of Patient Resuscitation Preferences: Insights and
Clinical Implications. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2000; 48:S44-S51.
65. Golin CE, Wenger NS, Liu HH, Dawson NV, Teno JM, Desbiens NA, Lynn J, Oye RK,
Phillips RS. A Prospective Study of Patient-Physician Communication About Resuscitation.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2000;48:S52-S60.
66. Wu A, Yasui Y, Alzola C, Galanos AN, Tsevat J, Phillips RS, Connors AF, Teno JM,
Wenger NS and Lynn J. Predicting Functional Status Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients
Aged 80 Years and Older. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2000; 48:S6-S15.
67. Teno JM, Harrell FE, Knaus W, Phillips RS, Wu AW, Connors AF, Wenger NS, Wagner D,
Galanos A, Desbiens NA, Lynn J. Prediction of Survival for Older Hospitalized Patients:
The HELP Survival Model. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2000; 48:S16-S24.
68. Teno JM, Fisher E, Hamel MB, Wu AW, Murphy DJ, Wenger NS, Lynn J, Harrell FE Jr.
Decision-making and outcomes of prolonged ICU stays in seriously ill patients. Journal of
the American Geriatrics Society. 2000;48(5 Suppl):S70-S74.
69. Rose JH, O’Toole EE, Dawson NV, Thomas C, Connors AF, Wenger NS, Phillips RS,
Hamel MB, Cohen HJ, Lynn J. Age Differences in Care Practices and Outcomes for
Hospitalized Patients with Cancer. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2000; 48:S25S32.
70. Baker R, Wu AW, Teno JM, Kreling B, Damiano AM, Rubin HR, Roach MJ, Wenger NS,
Phillips RS, Desbiens NA, Connors AF, Knaus W, Lynn J. Family Satisfaction with End of
Life Care in Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
2000; 48:S61-S69.
71. Auerbach AD, Hamel MB, Davis RB, Connors Jr. AF, Regueiro C, Desbiens N, Goldman L,
Califf RM, Dawson NV, Wenger NS, Vidaillet H, Phillips RS. Resource Use and Survival of
Patients Hospitalized with Congestive Heart Failure: Differences in Care by Specialty of the
Attending Physician. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2000;132:191-200.
72. Rosenfeld KE, Wenger NS. Measuring Quality in End of Life Care. Clinics in Geriatric
Medicine 2000;16:384-400.
73. Berk RA, Korenman SG and Wenger NS. Measuring Consensus about Scientific Research
Norms. Science and Engineering Ethics 2000;6:315-340.
74. Rosenfeld KE, Wenger NS, Kagawa-Singer M. End Of Life Decision Making: A Qualitative
Study of Elderly Individuals. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2000;9:620-625. PMCID:
PMC1495587.
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75. Andersen R, Bozette S, Shapiro MF, Clair P St, Morton S, Crystal S, Goldman D, Wenger
NS, Gifford A, Leibowitz A, Asch S, Berry S, Nakazono T, Heslin K, Cunningham WE.
Access of Vulnerable Groups to Antiretroviral Therapy Among Persons in Care For HIV
Disease in the U.S. Health Services Research. 2000;35(2):389-416.
76. Wenger NS, Lieberman JR. Achieving Informed Consent when Patients Appear to Lack
Capacity and Surrogates. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 2000;378:78-82.
77. Wenger NS, Lieberman JR. The Orthopaedic Surgeon and Industry: Ethics and Industry
Incentives. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 2000;378:39-43.
78. Wenger NS. DeCherney AH. An Ethical Approach to Assisted Reproduction. Reproductive
Technologies. 2000:10;178-183.
79. Meredith LS, Wenger NS, Harada N, Liu HH, Kahn KL. Development of a Brief Scale to
Measure Acculturation Among Japanese Americans. Journal of Community Psychology
2000;28:103-13.
80. Auerbach AD, Hamel MB, Califf RM, Davis RB, Wenger NS, Desbiens N, Goldman L,
Vidaillet H, Connors AF, Lynn J, Dawson NV, Phillips RS. Patient characteristics
associated with care by a cardiologist among adults hospitalized with severe congestive heart
failure. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2000;36:2119-25.
81. Saliba D, Orlando M, Wenger NS, Hays RD, Rubenstein LS. Identifying a short functional
disability screen for older persons. Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences. 2000;
55:M750-6.
82. Rose JH, O'Toole EE, Dawson NV, Thomas C, Connors AF Jr, Wenger N, Phillips RS,
Hamel MB, Reding DT, Cohen HJ, Lynn J. Generalists and oncologists show similar care
practices and outcomes for hospitalized late-stage cancer patients. Med Care. 2000;38:110318.
83. Cunningham WE, Markson LE, Andersen RM, Crystal SH, Fleishman JA, Golin C,Gifford
A, Liu HH, Nakazono TT, Morton S, Bozzette SA, Shapiro MF, Wenger NS. Prevalence and
predictors of highly active antiretroviral therapy use in patients with HIV infection in the
United States Journal of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 2000;25:115-23.
84. Shen J, Wenger N, Glaspy J, Hays RD, Albert PS, Choi C, Shekelle PG. Electroacupuncture
for control of myeloablative chemotherapy-induced emesis: a randomized controlled trial.
Journal of the American Medical Association. 2000;284:2755-61.
85. Liu HH, Golin CE, Miller LG, Hays RD, Beck KC, Sanandaji S, Christian J, Maldonado T,
Duran D, Kaplan AH, Wenger NS. How best to measure medication adherence? A
Comparison Study of Adherence Measured by MEMS, Pill Count and Patient Self-Report.
Annals of Internal Medicine. 2001;134:968-977.
86. Bramstedt KA, Wenger NS. When withdrawal of life-sustaining care does more than “allow
death to take its course”: The dilemma of left ventricular assist devices. Journal of Heart and
Lung Transplanation. 2001;20:544-548.
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87. Wenger NS, Kanouse DE, Collins RL, Liu HH, Schuster MA, Gifford AL, Bozzette SA,
Shapiro MF. End-of-Life Discussions and Preferences Among Persons With HIV. Journal of
the American Medical Association 2001;285: 2880-2887.
88. Zingmond DS, Wenger NS, Crystal S, Joyce GF, Liu HH, Sambamoorthi U, Lillard LA,
Leibowitz AA, Shapiro MF, and Bozzette SA for the HCSUS Consortium. Circumstances at
HIV diagnosis and progression of disease in older HIV-infected Americans: Results from a
nationally representative sample. American Journal of Public Health. 2001;91:1117-20.
PMCID: PMC1446706.
89. Collins RL, Kanouse DE, Gifford AL, Senterfitt JW, Schuster MA, McCaffrey DF, Shapiro
MF, Wenger NS. Changes in health promoting behavior following diagnosis of HIV. Health
Psychology. 2001;20:351-60.
90. Turner BJ, Fleischman JA, Wenger N, London AS, Burnam MA, Shapiro MF, Bing EG,
Stein MD, Longshore D, Bozette SA. Relative Effects of Drug Abuse and Mental Disorders
on Use and Type of Antiretroviral Therapy in a National sample of HIV-infected persons.
Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2001;16:625-633.
91. Wenger NS, Shekelle PG, ACOVE Investigators. Assessing Care Of Vulnerable Elders:
ACOVE Project Overview. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2001;135:642-646.
92. Shekelle PG, Maclean CH, Morton SC, Wenger NS. Assessing Care Of Vulnerable Elders:
Methods For Developing Quality Indicators. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2001;135:647652.
93. Wenger NS, Rosenfeld K. Quality Indicators for End of Life Care in Vulnerable Elders.
Annals of Internal Medicine. 2001;135:677-685.
94. Chodosh J, Ferrell BA, Shekelle PG, Wenger NS. Quality Indicators for Pain Management in
Vulnerable Elders. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2001;135:731-735.
95. Saliba D, Elliott M, Rubenstein LZ, Solomon DH, Young RT, Kamberg CJ, Roth C,
MacLean CH, Shekelle PG, Sloss EM and Wenger NS. The Vulnerable Elders Survey: A
Tool for Identifying Vulnerable Older People in the Community. Journal of the American
Geriatrics Society. 2001;49:1691-1699.
96. Bito S, Wenger NS, Ohki M, Fukuhara S. Japanese Attitudes Toward Advance Care
Planning for End of Life Decisions. General Medicine (Japan) 2002;2:1-10.
97. Miller LG, Liu HH, Hays RD, Golin CE, Beck CK, Asch SM, Ma Y, Kaplan AH, Wenger
NS. How well do clinicians estimate patients’ adherence to combination antiretroviral
therapy? Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2002;17:1-11. PMCID: PMC1494993.
98. Landon BE, Wilson IB, Wenger NS, Cohn SE, Fichtenbaum CJ, Bozzette SA, Shapiro MF,
Cleary PD. Specialty training and specialization among physicians who treat HIV/AIDS in
the United States. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2002;17:12-22. PMCID:
PMC1495004.
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99. Wenger NS, Golan O, Shalev C, Glick S. Hospital Ethics Committees in Israel: Structure,
Function and Heterogeneity in the setting of Statutory Ethics Committees. Journal of
Medical Ethics 2002; 28;177-82. PMCID: PMC1733581.
100. Matsumura S, Bito S, Liu HH, Fukuhara S, Kagawa-Singer M, Wenger NS. Acculturation
of Attitudes Toward End-of-Life Care: A Cross-cultural Survey of Japanese Americans and
Japanese. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2002;17:531-9.
101. Shen J, Andersen R, Albert PS, Wenger N, Glaspy J, Cole M, Shekelle P. Use of
complementary/alternative therapies by women with advanced-stage breast cancer. BMC
Complement Altern Med. 2002;2:8.
102. Golin CE, Liu H, Hays RD, Miller LG, Beck CK, Ickovics J, Kaplan AH, Wenger NS. A
prospective study of predictors of adherence to combination antiretroviral medication. J
Gen Intern Med. 2002 ;17:756-65. PMCID: PMC1495120.
103. Miller LG, Golin CE, Hays RD, Liu HH, Beck CK, Kaplan AH, Wenger NS. The Impact of
Switching Antiretroviral Regimens on Medication Adherence. HIV Clinical Trials.
2002;5:355-60.
104. Miller LG, Liu HH, Hays RD, Golin CE, Ye Z, Beck CK, Kaplan AH, Wenger NS.
Knowledge of Antiretroviral Regimen and Medication Adherence. Clinical Infectious
Diseases. 2003;36:514-518.
105. Landon BE, Wilson IB, Cohn SE, Fichtenbaum CJ, Wong MD, Wenger NS, Bozzette SA,
Shapiro MF, Cleary PD. Physician specialization and antiretroviral therapy for HIV. Journal
of General Internal Medicine. 2003;18:233-41. PMCID: PMC1494839.
106. Hsiao AF, Wong MD, Kanouse DE, Collins RL, Liu H, Andersen RM, Gifford AL,
McCutchan A, Bozzette SA, Shapiro MF, Wenger NS; HCSUS Consortium.
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use and Substitution for Conventional Therapy
by HIV-Infected Patients. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.
2003;33:157-65.
107. Crystal S, Ayse A, Sambamoorthi S, Wenger NS, Fleishman J, Zingmond D, Hays RD,
Bozzette SA, Shapiro MF. The Diverse Older HIV-positive Population: A National Profile
of Economic Circumstances, Social Support and Quality of Life. Journal of Acquired
Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 2003;33:S76-83.
108. Zingmond DS, Kilbourne AM, Justice AC, Wenger NS, Rodriguez-Barradas M, Rabenick
L, Taub D, Weissman S, Briggs J, Wagner J, Smola S, Bozzette SA. Differences in
Symptom Expression in Older HIV-Positive Patients: The Veterans Aging Cohort 3 Site
Study and HIV Cost and Service Utilization Study Experience. Journal of Acquired
Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 2003;33:S84-92.
109. FitzGerald JD, Wenger NS. Didactic Teaching Conferences for IM Residents: Who
Attends, and Is Attendance Related to Medical Certifying Examination Scores? Academic
Medicine.2003;78:84-9.
110. Solomon DH, Wenger NS, Saliba D, Young RT, and the members of the Clinical
Committee: Adelman AM, Besdine RK, Blazer DG, Cassell CK, Cummings JL, Katz PR,
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Kitzman DW, Lavizzo-Mourey RJ, Mondoux LC, Popovich R, Pories WJ, Wenger NK.
Appropriateness of Quality Indicators for Older Patients with Advanced Dementia and Poor
Prognosis. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2003;51:902-7.
111. Wenger NS, Solomon DH, Roth CP, MacLean CH, Saliba D, Kamberg CJ, Rubenstein LZ,
Young RT, Sloss EM, Louie R, Adams J, Chang JT, Venus PJ, Schnelle JF, Shekelle PG.
The quality of medical care provided to vulnerable community-dwelling older patients.
Annals of Internal Medicine. 2003;139:740-7.
112. Reuben D, Roth CP, Kamberg C, Wenger NS. Restructuring primary care practices to
manage geriatric syndromes: The ACOVE-2 intervention. Journal of the American
Geriatric Society. 2003;51:1787-93.
113. The UCLA Medical Center Ethics Committee and the UCLA Renal Transplant Team.
Surrogate Consent for Living Related Organ Donation. Journal of the American Medical
Association. 2004;291:728-731.
114. Chodosh J, Solomon DH, Roth CP, Chang JT, MacLean CH, Ferrell BA, Shekelle PG,
Wenger NS. The Quality of Medical Care Provided to Vulnerable Older Patients with
Chronic Pain. Journal of the American Geriatric Society. 2004;52:756-761.
115. Higashi T, Shekelle PG, Solomon DH, Knight EL, Roth CP, Chang JT, Kamberg CJ,
MacLean CH, Young RT, Reuben DB, Avorn J, Wenger NS. The Quality of
Pharmacologic Care for Vulnerable Older Patients. Annals of Internal Medicine.
2004;140:714-720.
116. Rosen J, Spatz E, Jacobsen Gaaserud A, Abramovitch H, Weinreb B, Wenger NS, Margolis
CZ. A new approach to teaching cross cultural skills to medical students. Medical Teacher.
2004;26:126-132.
117. Gnanadesigan N, Saliba D, Roth CP, Solomon DH, Chang JT, Schnelle J, Smith R, Shekelle
PG, Wenger NS. The quality of care provided to vulnerable older community-based
patients with urinary incontinence. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.
2004;5:141-146.
118. Miller LG, Golin CE, Liu HH, Hays RD, Hua J, Wenger NS, Kaplan AH. No evidence of
an association between transient HIV viremia (“blips”) and lower adherence to the
antiretroviral medication regimen. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2004;189:1487-1496.
119. Wong MD, Cunningham WE, Shapiro MF, Andersen RM, Cleary PD, Duan N, Liu HH,
Wilson IB, Landon BE, Wenger NS for the HCSUS Consortium. Disparities in HIV
treatment and physician attitudes about delaying protease inhibitors for nonadherent
patients. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2004;19:366-374. PMCID: PMC1492193.
120. Goldzweig CL, Rowe S, Wenger NS, MacLean CH, Shekelle PG. Preventing and managing
visual disability in primary care: clinical applications. JAMA. 2004;291:1497-1502.
121. Shen J, Andersen R, Brook R, Kominski G, Albert PS, Wenger N. The effects of payment
method on clinical decision-making: physician responses to clinical scenarios. Medical
Care. 2004;42:297-302.
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122. Rubenstein LZ, Solomon DH, Roth CP, Young RT, Shekelle PG, Chang JT, MacLean CH,
Kamberg CJ, Saliba D, Wenger NS. Detection and management of falls and instability in
vulnerable elders by community physicians. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2004;52:1527-1531.
123. Steel N, Melzer D, Shekelle PG, Wenger NS, Forsyth D, McWilliams BC. Developing
quality indicators for older adults: transfer from the USA to the UK is feasible. Qual Saf
Health Care. 2004;13:260-264. PMCID: PMC1743867.
124. Fineberg IC, Wenger NS, Forrow L. Interdisciplinary education: evaluation of a palliative
care training intervention for pre-professionals. Acad Med. 2004;79:769-776.
125. Chodosh J, Petitti DB, Elliott M, Hays RD, Crooks VC, Reuben DB, Buckwalter G, Wenger
NS. Physician recognition of cognitive impairment: evaluating the need for improvement. J
Am Geriatr Soc. 2004;52:1051-1059.
126. Saliba D, Solomon D, Rubenstein L, Young R, Schnelle J, Roth C, Wenger N. Feasibility
of Quality Indicators for the Management of Geriatric Syndromes in Nursing Home
Residents. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2004;5:310-319. (Awarded 2005 “Year’s Most
Outstanding Article with the Greatest Impact on Long Term Care” by AMDA.)
127. Saliba D, Solomon D, Rubenstein L, Young R, Schnelle J, Roth C, Wenger N. Quality
Indicators for the Management of Medical Conditions in Nursing Home Residents. J Am
Med Dir Assoc. 2004;5:297-309.
128. Wenger NS, Carmel S. Physicians' religiosity and end-of-life care attitudes and behaviors.
Mt Sinai J Med. 2004;71:335-43.
129. Tarn DM, Meredith LS, Kagawa-Singer M, Matsumura S, Bito S, Oye RK, Liu H, Kahn
KL, Fukuhara S, Wenger NS. Trust in one's physician: the role of ethnic match, autonomy,
acculturation, and religiosity among Japanese and Japanese Americans. Ann Fam Med.
2005; 3:339-47. PMCID: PMC1466902.
130. Zingmond DS, Wenger NS. Regional and institutional variation in the initiation of early donot-resuscitate orders. Arch Intern Med. 2005;165:1705-12.
131. Higashi T, Shekelle PG, Adams JL, Kamberg CJ, Roth CP, Solomon DH, Reuben DB,
Chiang L, MacLean CH, Chang JT, Young RT, Saliba DM, Wenger NS. Quality of care is
associated with survival in vulnerable older patients. Ann Intern Med. 2005;143:274-81.
132. Lorenz KA, Hays RD, Shapiro MF, Cleary PD, Asch SM, Wenger NS. Religiousness and
spirituality among HIV-infected Americans. J Palliat Med. 2005;8:774-81.
133. Fein S, Hilborne L, Kagawa-Singer M, Spiritus E, Keenan C, Seymann G, Sojania K,
Wenger NS. A Conceptual Model for Disclosure of Medical Errors. Advances in Patient
Safety: From Research to Implementation, Volume 2. Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality. Rockville, MD. 2005. 483-494. (AHRQ Publication No. 05-0021-2)
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134. Hsiao AF, Hays RD, Ryan GW, Coulter ID, Andersen RM, Hardy ML, Diehl DL, Hui KK,
Wenger NS. A Self-Report Measure of Clinicians' Orientation toward Integrative Medicine.
Health Serv Res. 2005;40:1553-69. PMCID: PMC1361208.
135. Min LC, Reuben DB, Maclean CH, Shekelle PG, Solomon DH, Higashi T, Chang JT, Roth
CP, Kamberg CJ, Adams J, Young RT, Wenger NS. Predictors of overall quality of care
provided to vulnerable older people. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2005;53:1705-11.
136. Higashi T, Hays RD, Brown JA, Kamberg CJ, Pham C, Reuben DB, Shekelle PG, Solomon
DH, Young RT, Roth CP, Chang JT, Maclean CH, Wenger NS. Do proxies reflect patients'
health concerns about urinary incontinence and gait problems? Health Qual Life Outcomes.
2005;3:75. PMCID: PMC1308844.
137. Hsiao AF, Ryan GW, Hays RD, Coulter ID, Andersen RM, Wenger NS. Variations in
provider conceptions of integrative medicine. Soc Sci Med. 2006;62:2973-87.
138. MacLean CH, Louie R, Shekelle PG, Roth CP, Saliba D, Higashi T, Adams J, Chang JT,
Kamberg CJ, Solomon DH, Young RT, Wenger NS. Comparison of administrative data and
medical records to measure the quality of medical care provided to vulnerable older
patients. Med Care. 2006;44:141-8.
139. Liu H, Miller LG, Hays RD, Golin CE, Wu T, Wenger NS, Kaplan AH. Repeated
measures longitudinal analyses of HIV virologic response as function of percent adherence,
dose timing, genotypic sensitivity, and other factors. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr.
2006;41:315-22.
140. Hsiao AF, Wong MD, Goldstein MS, Yu HJ, Andersen RM, Brown ER, Becerra LM,
Wenger NS. Variation in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use across
racial/ethnic groups and the development of ethnic-specific measures of CAM use. J Altern
Complement Med. 2006;12:281-90.
141. Chang JT, Hays RD, Shekelle PG, MacLean CH, Solomon DH, Reuben DB, Roth CP,
Kamberg CJ, Adams J, Young RT, Wenger NS. Patients' global ratings of their health care
are not associated with the technical quality of their care. Ann Intern Med. 2006;144:66572.
142. Liu H, Miller LG, Golin CE, Hays RD, Wu T, Wenger NS, Kaplan AH. Repeated measures
analyses of dose timing of antiretroviral medication and its relationship to HIV virologic
outcomes. Stat Med. 2006;
143. Tarn DM, Heritage J, Paterniti DA, Hays RD, Kravitz RL, Wenger NS. Physician
communication when prescribing new medications. Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:1855-62.
144. Tarn DM, Paterniti DA, Heritage J, Hays RD, Kravitz RL, Wenger NS. Physician
communication about the cost and acquisition of newly prescribed medications. Am J
Manag Care. 2006;12:657-64.
145. Min LC, Elliott MN, Wenger NS, Saliba D. Higher vulnerable elders survey scores predict
death and functional decline in vulnerable older people. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2006;54:507-11.
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146. Ganz DA, Chang JT, Roth CP, Guan M, Kamberg CJ, Niu F, Reuben DB, Shekelle PG,
Wenger NS, MacLean CH. Quality of osteoarthritis care for community-dwelling older
adults. Arthritis Rheum. 2006;55:241-7.
147. Liu H, Miller LG, Hays RD, Golin CE, Zhao H, Wenger NS, Kaplan AH. A comprehensive
evaluation of survey questions for adherence to antiretroviral medications and exploratory
analyses for identifying optimal sets of survey questions. AIDS Patient Care STDS. 2006;
20:760-72.
148. Hsiao AF, Wong MD, Goldstein MS, Becerra LS, Cheng EM, Wenger NS. Complementary
and alternative medicine use among Asian-American subgroups: prevalence, predictors, and
lack of relationship to acculturation and access to conventional health care. J Altern
Complement Med. 2006;12:1003-10.
149. Liu H, Miller LG, Hays RD, Wagner G, Golin CE, Hu W, Kahn K, Haubrich R, Kaplan
AH, Wenger NS. A practical method to calibrate self-reported adherence to antiretroviral
therapy. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2006;43 Suppl 1:S104-12.
150. Bito S, Matsumura S, Kagawa Singer M, Meredith LS, Fukuhara S and Wenger NS.
Acculturation and End-of-Life Decision Making: Comparison of Japanese and JapaneseAmerican focus groups. Bioethics. 2007;21:251-62.
151. Ganz DA, Wenger NS, Roth CP, Kamberg CJ, Chang JT, MacLean CH, Young RT,
Solomon DH, Higashi T, Min L, Reuben DB, Shekelle PG. The effect of a quality
improvement initiative on the quality of other aspects of health care: the law of unintended
consequences? Med Care. 2007;45:8-18.
152. Zingmond DS, Wilbur KH, MacLean CH, Wenger, NS. Measuring the quality of care
provided to community dwelling vulnerable elders dually enrolled in Medicare and
Medicaid. Med Care. 2007;45:931-8. PMCID: PMC2849015.
153. Wenger NS, Solomon DH, Amin A, et al. Application of assessing care of vulnerable
elders-3 quality indicators to patients with advanced dementia and poor prognosis. J Am
Geriatr Soc. 2007;55 Suppl 2:S457-63.
154. Wenger NS, Roth CP, Shekelle P; ACOVE Investigators. Introduction to the assessing care
of vulnerable elders-3 quality indicator measurement set. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2007;55 Suppl
2:S247-52.
155. Wenger NS, Young RT. Quality indicators for continuity and coordination of care in
vulnerable elders. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2007;55 Suppl 2:S285-92.
156. Lorenz KA, Rosenfeld K, Wenger N. Quality indicators for palliative and end-of-life care in
vulnerable elders. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2007;55 Suppl 2:S318-26.
157. Nakajima GA, Wenger NS. Quality indicators for the care of depression in vulnerable
elders. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2007;55 Suppl 2:S302-11.
158. Min LC, Wenger NS, Fung C, Chang JT, Ganz DA, Higashi T, Kamberg CJ, MacLean CH,
Roth CP, Solomon DH, Young RT, Reuben DB. Multimorbidity is associated with better
quality of care among vulnerable elders. Med Care. 2007;45:480-8.
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159. Zingmond DS, Wilbur KH, MacLean CH, Wenger NS. Measuring the quality of care
provided to community dwelling vulnerable elders dually enrolled in Medicare and
Medicaid. Med Care. 2007; 45:931-8.
160. Higashi T, Wenger NS, Adams JL, Fung C, Roland M, McGlynn EA, Reeves D, Asch SM,
Kerr EA, Shekelle PG. Relationship between number of medical conditions and quality of
care. N Engl J Med. 2007;356:2496-504.
161. Fein SP, Hilborne LH, Spiritus EM, Seymann GB, Keenan CR, Shojania KG, KagawaSinger M, Wenger NS. The many faces of error disclosure: a common set of elements and a
definition. J Gen Intern Med. 2007;22:755-61. PMCID: PMC2219850.
162. Shiotani LM, Parkerton PH, Wenger NS, Needleman J. Internal medicine work hours:
trends, associations, and implications for the future. Am J Med. 2008;121:80-5.
163. Tarn DM, Paterniti DA, Kravitz RL, Heritage J, Liu H, Kim S, Wenger NS. How much time
does it take to prescribe a new medication? Patient Educ Couns. 2008; 72:311-9. PMCID:
PMC2582184.
164. Hsiao AF, Wong MD, Miller MF, Ambs AH, Goldstein MS, Smith A, Ballard-Barbash R,
Becerra LS, Cheng EM, Wenger NS. Role of religiosity and spirituality in complementary
and alternative medicine use among cancer survivors in California. Integr Cancer Ther.
2008;7:139-46.
165. Tarn DM, Heritage J, Paterniti DA, Hays RD, Kravitz RL, Wenger NS. Prescribing new
medications: A taxonomy of physician-patient communication. Communication &
Medicine. 2008;5(2):195-208. PMCID: PMC2717738.
166. Min LC, Wenger NS, Reuben DB, Saliba D. A short functional survey is responsive to
changes in functional status in vulnerable older people. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2008;56:1932-6.
PMCID: PMC2597478.
167. Walling AM, Brown-Saltzman K, Barry T, Quan RJ, Wenger NS. Assessment of
implementation of an order protocol for end-of-life symptom management. J Palliat Med.
2008;11:857-65. PMCID: PMC2988455.
168. Walling AM, Lorenz KA, Dy SM, Naeim A, Sanati H, Asch SM, Wenger NS. Evidencebased recommendations for information and care planning in cancer care. J Clin Oncol.
2008;26:3896-902.
169. Wenger NS, Roth CP, Shekelle PG, Young RT, Solomon DH, Kamberg CJ, Chang JT,
Louie R, Higashi T, MacLean CH, Adams J, Min LC, Ransohoff K, Hoffing M, Reuben
DB. A practice-based intervention to improve primary care for falls, urinary incontinence,
and dementia. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2009;57:547-55.
170. Terrell KM, Hustey FM, Hwang U, Gerson LW, Wenger NS, Miller DK. Quality Indicators
for Geriatric Emergency Care. Acad Emerg Med. 2009 Mar 28. [Epub ahead of print]
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171. Tarn DM, Paterniti DA, Williams BR, Cipri CS, Wenger NS. Which providers should
communicate which critical information about a new medication? Patient, pharmacist, and
physician perspectives. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2009;57:462-9. PMCID: PMC2731774.
172. Zingmond DS, Saliba D, Wilber KH, MacLean CH, Wenger NS. Measuring the quality of
care provided to dually enrolled Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries living in nursing
homes. Med Care. 2009;47:536-44.
173. Terrell KM, Hustey FM, Hwang U, Gerson LW, Wenger NS, Miller DK. Quality Indicators
for Geriatric Emergency Care. Academic Emergency Medicine. 2009;16(5):441-449.
174. Tarn DM, Paterniti DA, Williams BR, Cipri CS, Wenger NS. Which providers should
communicate which critical information about a new medication? Patient, pharmacist, and
physician perspectives. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2009 Mar;57(3):462-9. Epub 2009 Jan 17.
PubMed PMID: 19175439; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2731774.
175. Tarn DM, Paterniti DA, Kravitz RL, Fein S, Wenger NS. How Do Physicians
Conduct Medication Reviews? J Gen Intern Med. 2009;24(12):1296-302. PMCID:
PMC2787945.
176. Min L, Yoon W, Mariano J, Wenger NS, Elliott MN, Kamberg C, Saliba D. The
Vulnerable Elders-13 Survey Predicts 5-Year Functional Decline and Mortality Outcomes
in Older Ambulatory Care Patients. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2009;57(11):2070-6. PMCID:
PMC3181130.
177. Wenger NS, Roth CP, Hall WJ, Ganz DA, Snow V, Byrkit J, Dzielak E, Gullen DJ, Loepfe
TR, Sahler C, Snooks Q, Beckman R, Adams J, Rosen M, Reuben DB. Practice redesign to
improve care for falls and urinary incontinence: primary care intervention for older patients.
Arch Intern Med. 2010 Oct 25;170(19):1765-72. PubMed PMID: 20975026.
178. Kelley AS, Morrison RS, Wenger NS, Ettner SL, Sarkisian CA. Determinants of treatment
intensity for patients with serious illness: a new conceptual framework. J Palliat Med. 2010
Jul;13(7):807-13. PubMed PMID: 20636149.
179. Yung VY, Walling AM, Min L, Wenger NS, Ganz DA. Documentation of advance care
planning for community-dwelling elders. J Palliat Med. 2010 Jul;13(7):861-7. PubMed
PMID: 20618087; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2939845.
180. Brown-Saltzman K, Upadhya D, Larner L, Wenger NS. An intervention to improve
respiratory therapists' comfort with end-of-life care. Respir Care. 2010 Jul;55(7):858-65.
PubMed PMID: 20587097.
181. Walling AM, Asch SM, Lorenz KA, Roth CP, Barry T, Kahn KL, Wenger NS. The quality
of care provided to hospitalized patients at the end of life. Arch Intern Med. 2010 Jun
28;170(12):1057-63. PubMed PMID: 20585072; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2917197.
182. Kelley AS, Wenger NS, Sarkisian CA. Opiniones: end-of-life care preferences and planning
of older Latinos. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2010 Jun;58(6):1109-16. Epub 2010 May 7. PubMed
PMID: 20487080; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2924957.
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183. Reuben DB, Roth CP, Frank JC, Hirsch SH, Katz D, McCreath H, Younger J, Murawski M,
Edgerly E, Maher J, Maslow K, Wenger NS. Assessing care of vulnerable elders-Alzheimer's disease: a pilot study of a practice redesign intervention toimprove the quality
of dementia care. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2010 Feb;58(2):324-9. Epub 2010 Jan 26. Erratum in: J
Am Geriatr Soc. 2010 Aug;58(8):1623. PubMed PMID: 20374405.
184. Wenger NS, Vespa PM. Ethical issues in patient-physician communication about therapy
for cancer: professional responsibilities of the oncologist. Oncologist. 2010;15 Suppl 1:438. PubMed PMID: 20237217.
185. Wenger NS, Roth CP, Hall WJ, Ganz DA, Snow V, Byrkit J, Dzielak E, Gullen DJ, Loepfe
TR, Sahler C, Snooks Q, Beckman R, Adams J, Rosen M, Reuben DB. Practice redesign to
improve care for falls and urinary incontinence: primary care intervention for older patients.
Arch Intern Med. 2010;170:1765-72. PubMed PMID: 20975026.
186. Min LC, Reuben DB, Keeler E, Ganz DA, Fung CH, Shekelle P, Roth CP, Wenger NS. Is
patient-perceived severity of a geriatric condition related to better quality of care? Med
Care. 2011;49:101-7. PubMed PMID: 21079526.
187. Kelley AS, Ettner SL, Morrison RS, Du Q, Wenger NS, Sarkisian CA. Determinants of
medical expenditures in the last 6 months of life. Ann Intern Med. 2011 Feb 15;154(4):23542. PubMed PMID: 21320939.
188. Walling AM, Ettner SL, Barry T, Yamamoto MC, Wenger NS. Missed opportunities: use of
an end-of-life symptom management order protocol among inpatients dying expected
deaths. J Palliat Med. 2011 Apr;14(4):407-12. Epub 2011 Mar 9. PubMed PMID:
21388254; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3070140.
189. Zingmond DS, Ettner SL, Wilber KH, Wenger NS. Association of claims-based quality of
care measures with outcomes among community-dwelling vulnerable elders. Med Care.
2011 Jun;49(6):553-9. PubMed PMID: 21499140.
190. Carpenter CR, Heard K, Wilber S, Ginde AA, Stiffler K, Gerson LW, Wenger NS, Miller
DK; Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Geriatric Task Force. Research
priorities for high-quality geriatric emergency care: medication management, screening, and
prevention and functional assessment. Acad Emerg Med. 2011 Jun;18(6):644-54. PMID:
21676064; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3117251.
191. Min LC, Reuben DB, Adams J, Shekelle PG, Ganz DA, Roth CP, Wenger NS. Does better
quality of care for falls and urinary incontinence result in better participant-reported
outcomes? J Am Geriatr Soc. 2011 Aug;59(8):1435-43. Epub 2011 Aug 1. PubMed PMID:
21806560.
192. Kelley AS, Ettner SL, Wenger NS, Sarkisian CA. Determinants of death in the hospital
among older adults. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2011 Dec;59(12):2321-5. Epub 2011 Nov 8. PubMed
PMID: 22092014.
193. Walling AM, Asch SM, Lorenz KA, Malin J, Roth CP, Barry T, Wenger NS. The quality of
supportive care among inpatients dying with advanced cancer. Support Care Cancer. 2012
Sep;20(9):2189-94. Epub 2012 Apr 29. PubMed PMID: 22544290.
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194. Belmin J, Min L, Roth C, Reuben D, Wenger N. Assessment and management of patients
with cognitive impairment and dementia in primary care. J Nutr Health Aging. 2012
May;16(5):462-7. PubMed PMID: 22555792.
195. Tarn DM, Mattimore TJ, Bell DS, Kravitz RL, Wenger NS. Provider views about
responsibility for medication adherence and content of physician-older patient discussions. J
Am Geriatr Soc. 2012 Jun;60(6):1019-26. Epub 2012 May 30. PubMed PMID: 22646818;
PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3381510.
196. Scheuner MT, Hilborne L, Brown J, Lubin IM; members of the RAND Molecular Genetic
Test Report Advisory Board. A report template for molecular genetic tests designed to
improve communication between the clinician and laboratory. Genet Test Mol Biomarkers.
2012 Jul;16(7):761-9. Epub 2012 Jun 25. PubMed PMID: 22731646.
197. Roth CP, Ganz DA, Nickles L, Martin D, Beckman R, Wenger NS. Nurse care manager
contribution to quality of care in a dual-eligible special needs plan. J Gerontol Nurs. 2012
Jul;38(7):44-54. PubMed PMID: 22833891.
198. Wenger NS, Citko J, O'Malley K, Diamant A, Lorenz K, Gonzalez V, Tarn DM.
Implementation of Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment in Nursing Homes in
California: Evaluation of a Novel Statewide Dissemination Mechanism. J Gen Intern Med.
2012 Aug 10. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 22878851.
199. Tarn DM, Paterniti DA, Wenger NS, Williams BR, Chewning BA. Older patient, physician
and pharmacist perspectives about community pharmacists' roles. Int J Pharm Pract. 2012
Oct;20(5):285-93. doi: 10.1111/j.2042-7174.2012.00202.x. Epub 2012 Apr 11. PubMed
PMID: 22953767; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3442941.
200. Walling AM, Asch SM, Lorenz KA, Wenger NS. Impact of Consideration of
Transplantation on End-of-Life Care for Patients During a Terminal Hospitalization.
Transplantation. 2012 Nov 28. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 23197177.
RESEARCH PAPERS - PEER REVIEWED (IN PRESS)
1. Sugiyama T, Zingmond DS, Lorenz K, Diamant A, O’Malley K, Citko J, Gonzalez V,
Wenger NS. Implementing Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment in California
Hospitals: Factors associated with adoption. Journal of the America Geriatrics Society.
RESEARCH PAPERS - PEER REVIEWED (SUBMITTED)
RESEARCH PAPERS - NON-PEER REVIEWED
1. Wenger NS. Commentary on Indeterminate Western Blot Results and HIV Infection. ACP
Journal Club, 1991; 115 Suppl:22.
2. Wenger NS. Response of the UCLA Medical Center Ethics Committee. HEC Forum,
1994;6:315-317.
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3. Ross JW, Wenger NS. Institutional Ethics: Hospital Practices and Policies for Denying
Life-Sustaining Treatment. Whittier Law Review 1994;15:33-49.
4. Wenger NS. The Physician and Managed Care. Ethical Currents 1996;46 (Summer):9-11.
5. Wenger NS. Educating Employees About Health Insurance Choices: Is There a Role for
Ethics Committees? Ethical Currents 1996;47(Fall):3-4.
6. FitzGerald J, Wenger N. The Invalid Advance Directive. Bioethics Forum 1997;13
(Summer):32-4.
7. Wenger NS, Shapiro MF. Consent and Discontent. Canadian Medical Association Journal
1997;157:1691-2. PMCID: PMC1228649.
8. Wenger NS. Guidance that Matters. (Review of Dorff E: Matters of Life and Death). Jewish
Journal; Nov 6, 1998:24.
9. Wenger NS. A Matter of Life or Death. UCLA Magazine. Spring 1999, p. 20-1.
10. Wenger NS. The HEC Model of the Future Builds on the Deficiencies of the Past. HEC
Forum. 2000;12:33-8.
11. Reuben D, Wenger NS. Quality of Care for Older Persons at the Dawn of the Third
Millennium. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2003;51:S346-50.
12. Larson EB, Fihn SD, Kirk LM, Levinson W, Loge RV, Reynolds E, Sandy L, Schroeder S,
Wenger N, Williams M. The future of general internal medicine. Report and
recommendations from the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Task Force on the
Domain of General Internal Medicine. J Gen Intern Med. 2004;19:69-77.
13. Lieberman JR, Wenger N. New technology and the orthopaedic surgeon: are you protecting
your patients? Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2004:338-41.
14. Tarn DM, Mattimore TJ, Wenger NS. Physician-patient communication about new
medications. J Clin Outcomes Measurement. 2007;14:404-10.
15. Singh, B, Bell D, Diamant AL, Roth CP, Friedman J, Wenger NS. Quality of Care Education and
Practicum in an Internal Medicine Training Program. Proceedings of UCLA Healthcare. 2009;13.
CHAPTERS
1. Wenger NS and Lieberman JR. Teaching Clinical Ethics to Orthopaedic Surgery Residents.
AAOS Instructional Course Lectures 2000;49:639-642.
2. Wenger NS and Davis JW. Resources, Autonomy, and Lack of Focus on the Common Good:
End of Life Decision Making for Older Patients in the United States. p. 179-189. In:
Lessons on Aging From Three Nations. Volume II: The Art of Caring for Older Adults.
Eds. Sarah Carmel, Carol A. Morse and Fernando M. Torres-Gill. Baywood Publishing,
2007.
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3. Walling AM, Wenger NS. Ethical Issues Related to Assessing Decision Making Capacity.
269-274. In: Management of Cancer in the Older Patient. Eds. Arash Naeim, David B.
Reuben and Patricia A. Ganz. Elsevier, 2012.
LETTERS
1. Rosenfeld KE, Wenger NS. Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders in the Elderly: Age Discrimination
or Patient Preferences? Archives of Internal Medicine 1997;157:1041,1043.
2. Liu H, Kaplan AH, Wenger NS. Measuring patient adherence. Annals of Internal Medicine.
2002;137:72-3.
3. Walling A, Hays RD, Fish J, Mahajan AP, Vazirani S, Friedman J, Wenger NS. Work hour
restrictions and internal medicine residents' health-related quality of life. Med Teach.
2009;31:186.
EDITORIALS
1. Wenger NS, Shapiro MF. The Clinical Application of Prediction Models in Medicine:
Predicting Myobacterium avium complex bacteremia. Clinical Infectious Disease
1994;19:675-676.
2. Shapiro MF, Wenger NS. Rethinking Utilization Review. New England Journal of
Medicine 1995;333:1353-4.
3. Wenger NS. Waiting for conflict before requesting an ethics consultation. Western Journal
of Medicine 2001;175:31.
PAPERS IN PREPARATION
1. Wenger NS, et al. Antiretroviral Medication Adherence: Associated Factors and
Intervention Targets: A study of a nationally representative sample of persons with HIV.
SELECTED PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS
1.
Wenger NS, Shapiro MF, Linn LS. Sexual Practice and Health Benefits among High
Risk Heterosexuals Consenting to Human Immunodeficiency Virus Testing. Clinical
Research 1989;37:824A.
2.
Wenger NS, Shapiro MF, Linn LS. The Effect of Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Testing Upon Sexual Behavior and Risk Communication. Clinical Research
1989;37:328A.
3.
Wenger NS, Shapiro MF, Greenberg JM, Hilborne LH, Kusseling F, Mangotich M. A
Randomized Trial of AIDS Education and HIV Testing for College Students. Clinical
Research 1990;38:743A.
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4.
Wenger NS, Shapiro MF, Kusseling F, Greenberg JM. HIV Testing and Education
Promote Long Term HIV Risk Communication. Clinical Research 1992;40:98A.
5.
Wenger NS, Oye RK, Teno JM, Phillips RS, Layde PM, Lynn J, Califf RM, Dawson
NV. Physicians Often Do Not Know Patients’ Goals For Care: Factors Associated with
Misunderstanding. Clinical Research 1992;40:620A.
6.
Wenger NS, Oye RK, Teno JM, Lynn J, Layde PM, Phillips RS, Mayer-Oakes SA,
Connors AF, Califf RM. Patient Age, Race and Perceived Health Status Are Associated
with Preferences for Comfort Care. Clinical Research 1992;40:620A.
7.
Wenger NS, Oye RK, Bellamy PE, Lynn J, Phillips RS, Desbiens NA, Kussin P,
Youngner SJ. Hospitalized Patients Not Interviewable About Care Preferences Had
Decision-Making Capacity Prior to Admission. Clinical Research 1992;40:620A.
8.
Wenger NS, Greengold NL, Oye RK, Liu HH, Phillips RS, Kussin P, Teno JM, Hiatt JR,
Kryda MJ, Connors AF. Surgical Treatment, Preferences and Survival of Patients with
Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders. Clinical Research 1993;41:583A.
9.
Wenger NS, Pearson ML, Kahn KL, Desmond KA, Brook RH. The Outcome of Patients
with Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders. Clinical Research 1993;41:553A.
10.
Wenger NS, Kahn KL, Pearson ML, Desmond KA, Harrison ER, Rubenstein LV, Rogers
WH. Epidemiology of Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders. Clinical Research 1993;41:153A.
11.
Wenger NS, Ross JW, Bellamy PE, Halpern J, Young RT. Medical Staff Consensus on
Appropriately Aggressive Care for Patients in the Persistent Vegetative State. Journal of
General Internal Medicine 1994;9(Supp 2):99.
12.
Wenger NS, Zemsky MF, Oye RK, Phillips RS, Desbiens NA, Teno JM, Kussin P, Liu
HH, Connors AF. Readmission Resuscitation Status After Hospitalization with a Do Not
Resuscitate Order. Journal of General Internal Medicine 1994;9(Supp 2):100.
13.
Wenger NS, Lynn J, Phillips RS, Oye RK, Connors AF, Galonos A, Teno JM, Liu HH,
Desbiens NA. Do Surrogates Understand Older Patients’ Preferences for Future Health
States? Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1994;42:SA67.
14.
Wenger NS, Dawson NV, Phillips RS, Teno JM, Layde PM, Connors AF, Califf RM,
Lynn J, Liu HH, Oye RK. Physician Characteristics Associated with Understanding
Patient Resuscitation Preferences. Journal of General Internal Medicine 1995;10:115.
15.
Rosenfeld KE, Wenger NS, Phillips RS, Connors AF, Dawson NV, Layde PM, Califf
RM, Liu HH, Lynn J, Oye RK. Factors Associated with Change in Resuscitation
Preference of Seriously Ill Patients. Journal of General Internal Medicine 1995;10:114.
16.
FitzGerald JD, Wenger NS, Wu A, Connors AF, Califf RM, Phillips RS, Desbiens NA,
Lynn J, Liu HH, Oye RK. Functional Status Among Survivors of In-Hospital
Resuscitation. Journal of General Internal Medicine 1995;10(Supp):108.
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17.
Wenger NS, Berk R, Berry S, Korenman SG. The Ethics of Scientific Research: Focus
Group Analysis of Scientists and Institutional Representatives. Journal of Investigative
Medicine 1996;44:230A.
18.
Wenger NS, Oye RK, Phillips RS, Teno JM, Califf R, Desbiens N, Bellamy PE,
Connors
AF, Dawson NV, Liu HH, Lynn J, Knaus W. A Quantifiable Adverse Outcome of
Aggressive Medical Care. Journal of General Internal Medicine 1996;11(Supp):120.
19.
Bito S, Wenger NS, Connors AF, Phillips RS, Desbiens N, Califf RM, Lynn J, Liu HH,
Oye RK. Influences on Seriously Ill Patients’ Medical Decisions. Journal of General
Internal Medicine 1996;11(Supp):113.
20.
Shen J, Wenger N, Glaspy J, Hays R, Elliot M, Choi E, Shekelle P. Adjunct Antiemesis
Acupuncture in Myeloablative Chemotherapy. Research in Complementary Medicine
1996;3:295.
21.
Liu HH, Wenger NS, Hamel MB, Oye RK. Correlates of Resource Use Among Patients
with Long Hospital Stays: A Repeated Measures Analysis. Journal of General Internal
Medicine 1997;12(Supp 1):75.
22.
Golin CE, Wenger NS, Liu HH, Phillips RS, Dawson NV, Teno J, Desbiens N, Oye RK.
A Prospective Evaluation of Factors Associated with Patient-Physician Communication
About Resuscitation. Journal of General Internal Medicine 1997;12(Supp 1):103.
23.
Rosenfeld KE, Wenger NS, Kagawa-Singer M. Elderly Individuals’ Goals for End-ofLife Decision Making. Journal of General Internal Medicine 1997;12(Supp 1):104.
24.
Wenger NS, Bellamy PE, Phillips RS, Liu HH, Connors AF, Dawson NV, Desbiens N,
Lynn J, Oye RK. Variation in Withdrawing the Ventilator From Dying Patients. Journal
of General Internal Medicine 1997;12(Supp 1):105.
25.
Shen J, Wenger NS. Fee-for-service versus capitated medical care: are there differences
in physicians’ treatment decisions and perceived conflict? Association for Health
Services Research (abstract book) 1998;15:132-3.
26.
Bito S, Matsumura S, Fukuhara S, Wenger NS. Acculturation and End of Life Decision
Making: Focus Group Comparision of Japanese and Japanese-Americans. Journal of
General Internal Medicine 1998;13(Supp 1):93.
27.
Wenger NS, DE Kanouse, Liu HH, Collins RL, Schuster MA, Gifford AL, Bozzette SA,
Shapiro MF. Preferences for Aggressiveness of Care Among HIV-Infected Persons and
Use of Advance Directives. Journal of General Internal Medicine. Presented at National
Society of General Internal Medicine Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 25, 1998.
28.
Traum AE, Wenger NS, Litwin MS. Responding to a Request for Vasectomy from a
Young Man Without Children. Journal of General Internal Medicine. Presented at
National Society of General Internal Medicine Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 25,
1998.
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29.
Shen J, Wenger NS. Differences in Physicians’ Treatment Decisions and Perceived
Conflict Under Fee-For-Service and Capitated Care. Journal of General Internal
Medicine. Presented at national Society of General Internal Medicine Meeting, Chicago,
Illinois, April 23, 1998.
30.
Wenger NS, Gifford A, Liu HH, Chesney M, Golin C, Crystal C, Berry S, Coplan PM,
Bozzette S, Shapiro MF. Patient Characteristics and Attitudes Associated with
Antiretroviral Adherence. Presented at the 6th Conference on Retroviruses and
Opportunistic Infections, Chicago, Illinois, January 31, 1999.
31.
JA Katz, HH Liu, AS Stiemle and NS Wenger. Physicians’ Misinterpretation of the
Meaning of DNR Orders. Presented at national Society of General Internal Medicine
meeting, San Francisco, California, April 29, 1999. Journal of General Internal
Medicine,14 (Supp 2) April 1999, p. 44.
32.
C Golin, A Kaplan, HH Liu, L Miller, K Beck, J Ickovics, NS Wenger. Patient Factors
Associated with and Self-Reported Reasons for Nonadherence to Antiretroviral Therapy.
Journal of General Internal Medicine. 1999;14 (Supp 2):34.
33.
HH Liu, NS Wenger, C Golin, L Miller, RD Hays, K Beck, et al. How Best to Measure
Medication Adherence? Journal of General Internal Medicine. 1999;14(Supp 2):50.
34.
S Matsumura, S Bito, HH Liu, S Fukuhara, K Yamamoto and NS Wenger. Acculturation
of End-of-Life Decision Making Attitudes: Cross-Cultural Survey in Nagoya and Los
Angeles. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 1999;14(Supp 2):53.
35.
DS Zingmond, NS Wenger, MF Shapiro, S Crystal, U Sambamoorthi, G Joyce, et al.
Clinical Course of Older Americans with HIV-Infection. Journal of General Internal
Medicine. 1999;14(Suppl 2):82.
36.
J FitzGerald and NS Wenger. Determinates of Internal Medicine Residents’ Attendance
at Teaching Conferences. Presented at national Society of General Internal Medicine
meeting, San Francisco, California, April 29, 1999. Journal of General Internal
Medicine,14 (Supp 2) April 1999, p. 134.
37.
Lorenz KA, Wenger NS, Hays RD, Cleary P, Bozette SA, Nederend S, Shapiro MF.
Description and predictors of religiousity and spirituality in a nationally representative
sample of patients with HIV infection from the HIV cost and services utilization study
(HCSUS). Association for Health Services Research 1999;16:396-7.
38.
Higashi T, Avorn J, Knight E, Solomon DH, Shekelle PG, Wenger NS. Quality of
pharmacologic care for vulnerable elders. Journal of General Internal Medicine
2001;16(Supp 1):200.
39.
Wenger NS, Solomon D, MacLean C, Saliba D, Roth C, Kamberg C, Rubenstein L,
Schnelle J, Young RT, Shekelle PG. Vulnerable elders receive worse quality car for
geriatric conditions than for medical conditions. Journal of General Internal Medicine
2001;16(Supp 1):222.
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40.
Young RT, Solomon D, Saliba D, Roth C, MacLean C, Shekelle PG, Wenger NS.
Measuring the continuity and coordination of care among vulnerable elders. Journal of
General Internal Medicine 2001;16(Supp 1):222.
41.
Rosenfeld KE, MacLean C, Solomon D, Roth C, Saliba D, Louie R, Young RT, Shekelle
PG, Wenger NS. Quality of end of life care for vulnerable elders. Journal of General
Internal Medicine 2001;16(Supp 1):222.
42.
Higashi T, Wenger NS. Where are inappropriate medications prescribed to older
patients? Journal of General Internal Medicine 2003;18(Supp):284.
43.
Hsiao AF, Ryan GW, Coulter ID, Diehl DL, Andersen RM, Wenger NS. Developing a
conceptual framework and model of integrative medicine. Journal of General Internal
Medicine 2003;18(Suppl):274.
44.
Higashi T, Hays RD, Brown J, Kamberg CJ, Pham C, Shekelle PG, Reuben DB,
Solomon DH, Young RT, Roth CP, Chang JT, Wenger NS. Accuracy of surrogates about
the health status and health concerns of older patients. Journal of General Internal
Medicine 2003;18(Supp 1):194.
45.
Chang JT, Shekelle PG, MacLean CH, Saliba D, Roth CP, Solomon DH, Kamber C,
Young RT, Wenger NS. The relationship of patients’ evaluation of physician’s
communication skills with quality of care measurement by chart, interview, and claims
data. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2003;18(Suppl):281.
46.
Zingmond D, Wenger NS. The use of DNR orders in general acute care hospitals: A
population-based study. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2003;18(Suppl):231.
47.
Hodes SA, Wong MD, Landon BE, Wilson I, Cleary PD, Bozzette SA, Shapiro MF,
Wenger NS. Which physicians discuss end-of-life issues with their patients with HIV?
Journal of General Internal Medicine 2003;18(Supp):232.
48.
Chang JT, MacLean CH, Roth CP, Wenger NS. A Comparison of the Quality of
Medical Care Measured by Interview and Medical Record. Journal of General Internal
Medicine 2004;19(Suppl 1):109.
49.
Hsiao AF, Hays RD, Ryan GW, Andersen RM, Hardy ML, Diehl DL, Wenger NS.
Development of a Measure of a Practitioner’s Orientation Toward Integrative Medicine.
Journal of General Internal Medicine 2004;19(Suppl 1):138.
50.
Friedman J, Vazirani S, Tillisch J, Wenger NS. Improving Medical Resident Fatigue
May Require More Than Work Hour Limits. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2004;
19(Suppl 1):166.
51.
Fein SP, Hilborne LH, Spiritus EM, Seymann GB, Keenan CR, Shojania KG, KagawaSinger M, Wenger NS. Shades of Grey: The Spectrum of Medical Error Disclosure and
its Influences. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2004; 19(Suppl 1):210.
52.
Higashi T, Shekelle PG, Solomon DH, Knight E, Roth CP, Chang JT, Kamberg C,
Catherine M, Young RT, Adams JL, Reuben DB, Avorn J, Wenger NS. The Quality of
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Pharmacological Care for Community-Dwelling Vulnerable Older Patients. Journal of
General Internal Medicine 2004; 19(Suppl 1):224.
VIDEO TEACHING MODULES
1. Wenger NS, Lieberman JR. Ethical Issues In Orthopaedic Surgery. Videotape and discussion
guidebook. Produced by the University of California, Los Angeles and the Academic
Orthopaedic Society, 1998.
2. Wenger NS, Lieberman JR. Ethical Issues In Orthopaedic Surgery. Videotape and discussion
guidebook. Produced by the University of California, Los Angeles and the American Academy
of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 2003.