Peter Ubel

Withdrawal of Life-supporting Treatment in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

JAMA Surgery · 2020 · 138 citations

Importance: There are limited data on which factors affect the critical and complex decision to withdraw life-supporting treatment (LST) in patients with severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI). Objective: To determine demographic and clinical factors associated with the decision to withdraw LST in patients with sTBI. Design, Setting, and Participants: This retrospective analysis of inpatient data from more than 825 trauma centers across the US in the American College of Surgeons Trauma Quality Imp…

Minority Tax Reform — Avoiding Overtaxing Minorities When We Need Them Most

New England Journal of Medicine · 2021 · 128 citations

Minority Tax Reform Black faculty members are often expected to engage in diversity initiatives, a drain on their time and resources known as the “minority tax.” But taxes can be reformed, and seve...

Strategies for research participant engagement: A synthetic review and conceptual framework

Clinical Trials · 2021 · 51 citations

Background: Research participant engagement, which we define as recruitment and retention in clinical trials, is a costly and challenging issue in clinical research. Research teams have leveraged a variety of strategies to increase research participant engagement in clinical trials, although a framework and evidence for effective participant engagement strategies are lacking. We (1) developed a novel conceptual framework for strategies used to recruit and retain participants in clinical trials b…

The ALIGN Framework

Neurology · 2022 · 41 citations

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Clinicians often communicate complex, uncertain, and distressing information about neurologic prognosis to parents of critically ill infants. Although communication tools have been developed in other disciplines and settings, none address the unique needs of the neonatal and pediatric neurology context. We aimed to develop a parent-informed framework to guide clinicians in communicating information about neurologic prognosis. METHODS: Parents of infants with neurologic…

Gain–loss framing and patients’ decisions: a linguistic examination of information framing in physician–patient conversations

Journal of Behavioral Medicine · 2020 · 19 citations