Dr. Feudtner is a pediatrician who focuses on how to improve the quality of life for children with complex chronic conditions (CCCs) and their families. As an investigator, Chris is investigating the epidemiology and health care experience of children with CCCs, with particular emphasis on palliative, end-of-life, and bereavement care. He is the Director of Research for the Pediatric Advanced Care Team (PACT) and the Integrated Care Service (ICS) at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He has active interests in ethics and medical history, and recently published a book, Bittersweet: Diabetes, Insulin, and the Transformation of Illness (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003).
BIOSKETCH :
Access an up-to-date version of Dr. Feudtner's NIH-format biosketch.
PROJECTS :
Below is a list of some of Dr. Feudtner's projects he either is working on or has completed with links to supplemental materials.
| 1. Predicting the Risk of Pediatric Mortality After Hospitalization |
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Access a summary of this project, funded by an R21 from the National Institute of Nursing Research: Click here.
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| 2.Profiling the needs of Dying Children |
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Access a summary of this series of projects, funded by a KO8 award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: click here.
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| 3. Hospital Care in the Last Year of Life |
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This study was published in BMC Medicine 1(3), 2003.
For the Stata programming used to conduct this study: click here.
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| 4. Hopeful Thinking and Palliative Care |
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Access and questionnaire used to survey nurses: click here.
Access an article on hope and palliative care: click here.
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| 5. A Systematic review of bereavement care interventions |
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Access a list of the citations found in the initial literature search: click here.
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6.Bittersweet: Diabetes, Insulin, and the Transformation of Illness |
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For more information about the book: click here.
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