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Overview

Betty Ferrell is affiliated with the City Of Hope National Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant number of publications centered on public health, pediatrics, oncology, general health professions, and clinical psychology.

The scientist's work emphasizes areas such as palliative care and end-of-life issues, childhood cancer survivors' quality of life, cancer survivorship and care, grief, bereavement, and mental health. Additional focal topics include religion, spirituality, and psychology, patient dignity and privacy, and family and patient care in intensive care units.

Their publication record includes research articles in several prominent venues. Frequent publication venues for their work include the Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, Journal of Palliative Medicine, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, and Psycho-Oncology.

Notable recent papers include the following:

  • "Spirituality in Serious Illness and Health," 2022, JAMA
  • "Palliative Care for Patients With Cancer: ASCO Guideline Update," 2024, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • "The Urgency of Spiritual Care: COVID-19 and the Critical Need for Whole-Person Palliation," 2020, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
  • "Interprofessional Spiritual Care Education Curriculum: A Milestone toward the Provision of Spiritual Care," 2020, Journal of Palliative Medicine
  • "Nurses' response to spiritual needs of cancer patients," 2020, European Journal of Oncology Nursing

Betty Ferrell has collaborated frequently with coauthors including William E. Rosa, Haley Buller, Virginia Sun, Patricia M. Davidson, and Judith A. Paice. The collaboration with these researchers spans numerous publications, reflecting a consistent partnership in their shared fields of interest.

In 2019, Betty Ferrell was recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), highlighting their standing within the medical research community.

Best Publications

  • Integration of Palliative Care Into Standard Oncology Care: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline Update

    Betty R. Ferrell;Jennifer S. Temel;Sarah Temin;Erin R. Alesi

  • Improving the Quality of Spiritual Care as a Dimension of Palliative Care: The Report of the Consensus Conference

    Christina Puchalski;Betty Ferrell;Rose Virani;Shirley Otis-Green

  • American Society of Clinical Oncology Provisional Clinical Opinion: The Integration of Palliative Care Into Standard Oncology Care

    Thomas J. Smith;Sarah Temin;Erin R. Alesi;Amy P. Abernethy

  • Pain in cognitively impaired nursing home patients

    Bruce A. Ferrell;Betty R. Ferrell;Lynne Rivera

  • Measurement of the quality of life in cancer survivors

    B R Ferrell;K H Dow;M Grant

  • Pain in the Nursing Home

    Bruce A. Ferrell;Betty R. Ferrell;Dan Osterweil

  • An interdisciplinary expert consensus statement on assessment of pain in older persons

    Thomas Hadjistavropoulos;Keela Herr;Dennis C. Turk;Perry G. Fine

  • National Consensus Project Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care Guidelines, 4th Edition

    Betty R. Ferrell;Martha L. Twaddle;Amy Melnick;Diane E. Meier

  • An evaluation of the quality of life among long-term survivors of breast cancer

    Karen Hassey Dow;Betty R. Ferrell;Susan Leigh;John Ly

  • Safety and benefit of discontinuing statin therapy in the setting of advanced, life-limiting illness a randomized clinical trial

    Jean S. Kutner;Patrick J. Blatchford;Donald H. Taylor;Christine S. Ritchie;Christine S. Ritchie

  • Quality of life in long-term cancer survivors.

    B R Ferrell;K H Dow;S Leigh;J Ly

  • Nurses' knowledge of pain assessment and management: how much progress have we made?

    Margo McCaffery;Betty R. Ferrell

  • Evaluation of the FICA Tool for Spiritual Assessment

    Tami Borneman;Betty Ferrell;Christina M. Puchalski

  • Quality-of-life changes in patients with thyroid cancer after withdrawal of thyroid hormone therapy.

    Karen Hassey Dow;Betty R. Ferrell;Carol Anello

  • Defining the content domain of quality of life for cancer patients with pain.

    Geraldine V. Padilla;Betty Ferrell;Marcia M. Grant;Michelle Rhiner

  • Designing therapeutic clinical trials for older and frail adults with cancer: U13 conference recommendations.

    Arti Hurria;William Dale;Margaret Mooney;Julia H. Rowland

  • Quality of life in breast cancer. Part II: Psychological and spiritual well-being.

    Betty R. Ferrell;Marcia Grant;Brandi Funk;Shirley Otis-Green

  • Quality of life as an outcome variable in the management of cancer pain

    Betty R. Ferrell;Cheryl Wisdom;Carol Wenzl

  • Quality of life outcomes in 599 cancer and non-cancer patients with colostomies.

    Robert Krouse;Marcia Grant;Betty Ferrell;Grace Dean

  • Adult Cancer Pain

    Robert A. Swarm;Amy Pickar Abernethy;Doralina L. Anghelescu;Costantino Benedetti

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas J. Smith
Thomas J. Smith Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Arti Hurria
Arti Hurria City Of Hope National Medical Center
Christine Miaskowski
Christine Miaskowski University of California, San Francisco
Amy P. Abernethy
Amy P. Abernethy Duke University
Stephen J. Forman
Stephen J. Forman City Of Hope National Medical Center
Charles S. Cleeland
Charles S. Cleeland The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Kenneth E. Schmader
Kenneth E. Schmader Duke University
Geraldine Padilla
Geraldine Padilla University of California, San Francisco
Daniel B. Carr
Daniel B. Carr Tufts University
Ruth McCorkle
Ruth McCorkle Yale University

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