Joanne Lynn

Biographic Data

ID5537865
NAMEJoanne Lynn
GIVEN NAMESJoanne
FAMILY NAMELynn
SIGNATURELYNN J
AFFILIATIONSWashington Center
ORCID0000-0001-6072-7218
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX0

  • Taking long term care from crisis to thriving in the time of Covid-19

    Open AccessFrances Norwood, Joanne LynnARTICLEJournal of Aging Studies2020References: 1

  • Most Americans Face a Grim Old Age—and Disadvantaged Groups Have It Worse

    John Auerbach, Joanne LynnARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2020

    AffiliationsJohn Auerbach is with Trust for America's Health in Washington, DC. Joanne Lynn is unaffiliated

  • The Effects of Multiple Chronic Conditions on Adult Patient Readmissions and Hospital Finances: A Management Case Study

    Open AccessMichael Mihailoff, Shreyasi Deb et al.ARTICLEINQUIRY The Journal of Health…2017

    Medicare and other payers have launched initiatives to reduce hospital utilization, especially targeting readmissions within 30 days of discharge. Hospital managers have traditionally contended that hospitals would prosper better by ignoring the penalties for high readmission rates and keeping the beds more full. We aimed to test the financial effects of admissions and readmissions by persons with and without specified chronic conditions in one r…

  • Age and Gender Differences in Medicare Expenditures and Service Utilization at the End of Life for Lung Cancer Decedents

    Open AccessLisa R Shugarman, Chloe E Bird et al.ARTICLEWomen s Health Issues2008

  • Lessons From the End of Life in the Program of All-Inclusive Care of the Elderly

    Joanne LynnARTICLEMedical Care2002References: 5

    From The Washington Home Center for Palliative Care Studies, and RAND Health, Washington, DC. Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Joanne Lynn, MD, MA, MS, The Washington Home Center for Palliative Care Studies, 1400 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20016. E-mail: [email protected]

  • Generalists and Oncologists Show Similar Care Practices and Outcomes for Hospitalized Late-Stage Cancer Patients

    Julia Hannum Rose, Elizabeth E O???Toole et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2000References: 50

    OBJECTIVE: The objective of this work was to identify similarities and differences in primary attending physicians' (generalists' versus oncologists') care practices and outcomes for seriously ill hospitalized patients with malignancy. DESIGN: This was a prospective cohort study (SUPPORT project). SETTING: Subjects were recruited from 5 US teaching hospitals; data were gathered from 1989 to 1994. SUBJECTS: Included in the study was a matched samp…

  • New Ethics for the Old

    Joanne Lynn, Harry R MoodyARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1994

    of widespread physical frailty as an essential descriptive element of modern American society. Most of us will, for the first time in history, grow old and have long-term disabilities, and we will have the opportunity to reshape the health care system to serve this new reality. Moody first takes up the facts of this shift, illustrating how the context of long-term care forces reexamination of the now-classic image of the solitary patient making d…

  • Advance Care Planning Priorities for Ethical and Empirical Research

    Joan M Teno, Hilde Lindemann Nelson et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1994

    garding Life-Sustaining Treatmeant, Clinical Research 40, no. 2 (1992): 612A. 3. Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss), Green Eggs and Ham (New York: Beginner Books, 1960, 1988). 4. Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Linda L. Emanuel, Proxy Decision Making for Incompetent Patients: An Ethical and Empirical Analysis,JAMA 267, no. 15 (1992): 2067-71. 5. Robert Pearlman et al., Insights Pertaining to Patient Assessments of States Worse than Death,Journal of ClinicalEthic…

  • After the Patient Self-Determination Act The Need for Empirical Research on Formal Advance Directives

    Joanne Lynn, Joan M TenoARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1993

    Joanne Lynn, Joan M. Teno, After the Patient Self-Determination Act The Need for Empirical Research on Formal Advance Directives, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 1993), pp. 20-24

  • Cruzan and Caring for Others

    Joanne Lynn, Jacqueline GloverARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1990

  • Case Studies: When the Doctor Gives a Deadly Dose

    Howard Caplan, Nancy Dickey et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1987

  • Elizabeth Bouvia: Who Should Prevail

    Joanne Lynn, Margaret M Manning et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1985

  • Must Patients Always Be Given Food and Water

    Joanne Lynn, James F ChildressARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1983

    The widespread consensus that withholding certain life-sustaining\ntreatments, especially those entailing substantial suffering, is sometimes in\na patient's best interest conflicts with our basic instincts when the\ntreatments are food and water. Lynn and Childress examine the medical aspects\nof various nutritional options and the moral obligations pertinent to decision\nmaking. They conclude that, in certain limited cases, malnutrition and\nde…

  • What It Means to Be Dead

    Robert M Veatch, James L Bernat et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1982

    Robert M. Veatch, James L. Bernat, Charles M. Culver, Bernard Gert, James LeRoy Smith, Alexander M. Capron, Joanne Lynn, What It Means to Be Dead, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 12, No. 6 (Dec., 1982), pp. 45-46

  • Defining Death: Which Way

    James L Bernat, Charles M Culver et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1982