What is she best known for?
The fields of study she is best known for:
- Internal medicine
- Nursing
- Health care
Her primary areas of investigation include Palliative care, Coping, Family medicine, End-of-life care and Cancer.
Her Palliative care study is concerned with the larger field of Nursing.
Her work carried out in the field of Coping brings together such families of science as Anxiety, Prospective cohort study, Gerontology and Social support.
She combines subjects such as Guideline adherence, Ambulatory care, Curriculum, Quality of life and Lifelong learning with her study of Family medicine.
The various areas that Susan D. Block examines in her Quality of life study include Prolonged grief disorder, Grief and Psychological intervention.
Susan D. Block interconnects Severity of illness and Intensive care unit, Intensive care medicine in the investigation of issues within Cancer.
Her most cited work include:
- Associations between end-of-life discussions, patient mental health, medical care near death, and caregiver bereavement adjustment. (1719 citations)
- Prolonged Grief Disorder: Psychometric Validation of Criteria Proposed for DSM-V and ICD-11 (1031 citations)
- Prolonged Grief Disorder: Psychometric Validation of Criteria Proposed for DSM-V and ICD-11 (1031 citations)
What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?
Family medicine, Palliative care, Nursing, Advance care planning and Cancer are her primary areas of study.
Her study in Family medicine is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Advanced cancer, Psychosocial, Terminal care, Medical emergency and Depression.
In her work, Mental health is strongly intertwined with Grief, which is a subfield of Depression.
Her study on End-of-life care is often connected to Context as part of broader study in Palliative care.
While the research belongs to areas of Nursing, Susan D. Block spends her time largely on the problem of Health care, intersecting her research to questions surrounding Intensive care.
Her work deals with themes such as Intervention and Gerontology, which intersect with Advance care planning.
She most often published in these fields:
- Family medicine (39.22%)
- Palliative care (36.75%)
- Nursing (30.74%)
What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2018-2021)?
- Young adult (15.55%)
- Cancer (18.37%)
- Family medicine (39.22%)
In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:
Susan D. Block mainly investigates Young adult, Cancer, Family medicine, Palliative care and Advance care planning.
The concepts of her Cancer study are interwoven with issues in Feeling, Cohort study and Pediatrics.
Her work in Pediatrics tackles topics such as Distress which are related to areas like Qualitative research, Quality of life and Exploratory research.
Her Family medicine study incorporates themes from Quality management, Health care and End-of-life care.
Her Intensive care medicine research extends to Palliative care, which is thematically connected.
Her research in Advance care planning intersects with topics in Intervention, Spirituality, Emergency department and Medical emergency.
Between 2018 and 2021, her most popular works were:
- Tracheostomy in the COVID-19 era: global and multidisciplinary guidance. (129 citations)
- Evaluating an Intervention to Improve Communication Between Oncology Clinicians and Patients With Life-Limiting Cancer: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial of the Serious Illness Care Program. (63 citations)
- Effect of the Serious Illness Care Program in Outpatient Oncology: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial. (61 citations)
In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Internal medicine
- Nursing
- Health care
Susan D. Block focuses on Young adult, Treatment decision making, Cancer, Cancer treatment and Family medicine.
Her Young adult research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Information quality, Distress and Pediatrics.
Her Distress research incorporates elements of Exploratory research and Quality of life.
Her study in Family medicine is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Qualitative research, Response rate and Palliative care.
Susan D. Block is involved in the study of Palliative care that focuses on Advance care planning in particular.
The study incorporates disciplines such as Psychological intervention, End-of-life care, Health communication and Medical record in addition to Intervention.
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