Christine K Cassel

Biographic Data

ID1256373
NAMEChristine K Cassel
GIVEN NAMESChristine K
FAMILY NAMECassel
SIGNATURECASSEL C K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Chicago
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS43
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • We Need to Talk

    Open AccessChristine K Cassel, Cheryl A MauranaARTICLEAcademic Medicine2024

    In this article, the authors explore the current state of divisiveness in U.S. society and its impact on medical schools. Higher education institutions are increasingly faced with challenges in supporting freedom of speech while respecting marginalized groups who may feel attacked by certain kinds of speech. “Cancel culture” has resulted in misunderstandings, job loss, and a growing fear of expressing ideas that may offend someone. These dynamics…

  • Making Doctors Effective Managers and Leaders

    Lisa S Rotenstein, Robert S Huckman et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2021

    The COVID-19 crisis has forced physicians to make daily decisions that require knowledge and skills they did not acquire as part of their biomedical training. Physicians are being called upon to be both managers—able to set processes and structures—and leaders—capable of creating vision and inspiring action. Although these skills may have been previously considered as just nice to have, they are now as central to being a physician as physiology a…

  • Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training Program

    Open AccessTerry Fulmer, Kathryn Hyer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Aging and Health2005Cited by: 3

    Geriatric interdisciplinary team training has long been a goal in health education with little progress. In 1997, the John A. Hartford Foundation funded eight programs nationally to create Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training (GITT) programs. Faculty trained 1,341 health professions students. The results of the evaluation, including presentation of new measures developed to assess interdisciplinary knowledge, are presented, and the implicati…

  • Establishing National Goals for Quality Improvement

    ELIZABETH A MCGLYNN, Christine K Cassel et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2003References: 10

    BACKGROUND: For a number of reasons, it has been difficult to garner public interest in the need to improve the quality of care delivered nationally. One possible reason for this is that the concept of quality has different meanings for different stakeholders. To make the problems of suboptimal quality more concrete and potential solutions more compelling, the Strategic Framework Board (SFB) recommended developing a set of national goals for qual…

  • Can Patients Use an Automated Questionnaire to Define Their Current Health Status

    Michael F Roizen, Dennis Coalson et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1992

    Patient management decisions rarely incorporate standardized health status assessments, since accurate and reliable measures are difficult and expensive to obtain. In prior research with various methods for obtaining health data from patients, it was found that physicians' acceptance of a method was improved if it provided an individualized printout. It was also determined that patients will readily complete a health status questionnaire on a com…

  • Trading Off Longer Life for Worsening Health

    Open AccessJay Olshansky, S Jay Olshansky et al.ARTICLEJournal of Aging and Health1991Cited by: 38References: 1

    This article demonstrates and explains why future declines in mortality will have a diminishing effect on the metric of life expectancy but a large impact on the size of future elderly cohorts. Additionally, the article addresses a hypothesis in which it is argued that morbidity and disability will decline and become compressed into a shorter duration of time before death. Although studies have demonstrated that declining mortality can lead to wo…

  • In Search of Methuselah

    Open AccessJay Olshansky, S Jay Olshansky et al.ARTICLEScience1990

    Estimates of the upper limits to human longevity have important policy implications that directly affect forecasts of life expectancy, active life expectancy, population aging, and social and medical programs tied to the size and health status of the elderly population. In the past, investigators have based speculations about the upper limits of human longevity on observations of past trends in mortality. Here the estimate of the upper bound is b…

  • The Physician and national Security

    Open AccessChristine K CasselARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1988

  • Ethics Committees in Nursing Homes

    Nancy R Zweibel, Christine K CasselARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1988

    Ethics Committees in Nursing Homes: Applying the Hospital Experience The need to develop effective methods for addressing ethical issues in clinical care is even greater in nursing homes than acute care hospitals. Institutionalization in itself raises a basic concern about the privacy and self-determination of long-term care patients. This is heightened by the fact that although 50-70 percent of these residents suffer some impairment of their dec…

  • Decisions to Forgo Life-sustaining Therapy

    Christine K CasselARTICLESocial Service Review1987

    American society appears to have been obsessed with advances in medical technology to a point where the inevitability of death, and therefore even its meaning, have been eclipsed. With this loss of meaning there has been a loss of any way for incorporating a realistic and caring mode of professional service for dying patients and their families. In the past 15 to 20 years we have seen the growth of the new field of biomedical ethics, which examin…

  • War, peace and professional responsibility

    Open AccessChristine K CasselARTICLESocial Science & Medicine1983Cited by: 2References: 7