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Citations
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World Ranking
2563
National Ranking
1250

Overview

Scott Y. H. Kim is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, focusing primarily on Medicine, Psychology, and Health Professions. Within these fields, their work addresses subfields such as Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Economics and Econometrics, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Their academic contributions emphasize themes related to Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints, Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues, Ethics in Medical Practice, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations and Quality of Life, Ethics in Clinical Research, Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health, as well as Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare.

Scott Y. H. Kim has published extensively in various journals, with frequent publication venues including:

  • The American Journal of Bioethics
  • Journal of Medical Ethics
  • Clinical Trials
  • Psychological Medicine
  • American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Their recent notable papers include:

  • "Should euthanasia and assisted suicide for psychiatric disorders be permitted? A systematic review of reasons," 2020, Psychological Medicine
  • "Should age matter in COVID-19 triage? A deliberative study," 2021, Journal of Medical Ethics
  • "Processes of consent in research for adults with impaired mental capacity nearing the end of life: systematic review and transparent expert consultation (MORECare_Capacity statement)," 2020, BMC Medicine
  • "Ethics in the time of COVID," 2020, Neurology
  • "Psychiatric euthanasia, suicide and the role of gender," 2021, The British Journal of Psychiatry

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Alex Ruck Keene
  • Gareth Owen
  • Marie Nicolini
  • Noah Berens
  • James Flory

Best Publications

  • Advance directives and outcomes of surrogate decision making before death.

    Maria J. Silveira;Scott Y.H. Kim;Kenneth M. Langa

  • Activating ESR1 mutations in hormone-resistant metastatic breast cancer

    Dan R. Robinson;Yi Mi Wu;Pankaj Vats;Fengyun Su

  • Personalized Oncology Through Integrative High-Throughput Sequencing: A Pilot Study

    Sameek Roychowdhury;Matthew K. Iyer;Dan R. Robinson;Robert J. Lonigro

  • Trends in the prevalence and mortality of cognitive impairment in the United States: Is there evidence of a compression of cognitive morbidity?

    Kenneth M. Langa;Kenneth M. Langa;Eric B. Larson;Jason H. Karlawish;David M. Cutler

  • Current state of research on decision-making competence of cognitively impaired elderly persons.

    Scott Y.H. Kim;Jason H.T. Karlawish;Eric D. Caine

  • Broad Consent for Research With Biological Samples: Workshop Conclusions

    Christine Grady;Lisa Eckstein;Ben Berkman;Dan Brock

  • Assessing the competence of persons with Alzheimer's disease in providing informed consent for participation in research.

    Scott Y. H. Kim;Eric D. Caine;Glenn W. Currier;Adrian Leibovici

  • Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide of Patients With Psychiatric Disorders in the Netherlands 2011 to 2014

    Scott Y. H. Kim;Raymond G. De Vries;Raymond G. De Vries;John R. Peteet

  • The ability of persons with Alzheimer disease (AD) to make a decision about taking an AD treatment.

    J.H.T. Karlawish;D. J. Casarett;B. D. James;S. X. Xie

  • Informed Consent for Pragmatic Trials — The Integrated Consent Model

    Scott Y H Kim;Franklin G Miller

  • Utility and Limits of the Mini Mental State Examination in Evaluating Consent Capacity in Alzheimer's Disease

    Scott Y. H. Kim;Eric D. Caine

  • Reframing Consent for Clinical Research: A Function-Based Approach

    Neal W Dickert;Nir Eyal;Sara F Goldkind;Christine Grady

  • Assessing the Quality of Democratic Deliberation: A Case Study of Public Deliberation on the Ethics of Surrogate Consent for Research

    Raymond De Vries;Aimee Stanczyk;Ian F. Wall;Rebecca Uhlmann

  • Decision-making capacity for research participation among individuals in the CATIE schizophrenia trial.

    Scott Stroup;Paul Appelbaum;Marvin Swartz;Mukesh Patel

  • Impaired Decision-Making Ability in Subjects With Alzheimer's Disease and Willingness to Participate in Research

    Scott Y.H. Kim;Christopher Cox;Eric D. Caine

  • Proxy and Surrogate Consent in Geriatric Neuropsychiatric Research: Update and Recommendations

    Scott Y.H. Kim;Paul S. Appelbaum;Dilip V. Jeste;Jason T. Olin

  • What do people at risk for Alzheimer disease think about surrogate consent for research

    Scott Y.H. Kim;Hyungjin Myra Kim;Colleen McCallum;Pierre N. Tariot

  • Evaluation of Capacity to Consent to Treatment and Research

    Scott Y. H. Kim

  • Assessing the public's views in research ethics controversies: deliberative democracy and bioethics as natural allies.

    Scott Y. H. Kim;Ian F. Wall;Aimee Stanczyk;Raymond De Vries

  • Surrogate consent for dementia research A national survey of older Americans

    S.Y.H. Kim;H. M. Kim;K. M. Langa;J. H.T. Karlawish

  • Measuring how people view biomedical research: Reliability and validity analysis of the Research Attitudes Questionnaire

    Jonathan D. Rubright;Mark S. Cary;Jason H. Karlawish;Scott Y. H. Kim

  • Advance euthanasia directives: a controversial case and its ethical implications

    David Gibbes Miller;Rebecca Dresser;Rebecca Dresser;Scott Y H Kim

Frequent Co-Authors

Raymond De Vries
Raymond De Vries University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
J. Scott Roberts
J. Scott Roberts University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David S. Knopman
David S. Knopman Mayo Clinic
Eric M. Reiman
Eric M. Reiman Arizona State University
Daniel C. Marson
Daniel C. Marson University of Alabama at Birmingham
Christine Grady
Christine Grady National Institutes of Health
David Wendler
David Wendler National Institutes of Health
Dilip V. Jeste
Dilip V. Jeste University of California, San Diego
Peter A. Ubel
Peter A. Ubel Duke University

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