Dr. Erik Karl Fromme MD
Hospitalist
450 BROOKLINE AVE BOSTON MA, 02215About
Dr. Fromme specializes in palliative medicine, a specialty that focuses on making patients more comfortable during cancer treatment. He also does research on managing the symptoms of cancer. He starte ...
Education and Training
University Of Oklahoma College Of Medicine 1994
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Trends in opioid use over time: 1997 to 1999.
- Characteristics and proportion of dying Oregonians who personally consider physician-assisted suicide.
- Developing an easy-to-use tablet computer application for assessing
- Discharge planning for palliative care patients: a qualitative analysis.
- A brief experiment in time travel.
- Changes in spirituality and quality of life in patients undergoing radiation therapy.
- Influence of personal preferences for life-sustaining treatment on medical decision making among pediatric intensivists.
- Does this dementia patient meet the prognosis eligibility requirements for hospice enrollment?
- "In the beginning...": tools for talking about resuscitation and goals of care early in the admission.
- Requests for care from family members.
- Quality of hospice care for individuals with dementia.
- Pediatric oncology providers' perceptions of barriers and facilitators to early integration of pediatric palliative care.
- Preferences of patients with Parkinson's disease for communication about advanced care planning.
- Die in a foreign land or forgo cancer care: difficult choices faced by the expatriate workers in the United Arab Emirates.
- Antimicrobial use for symptom management in patients receiving hospice and palliative care: a systematic review.
Treatments
- Hospital Medicine, Palliative Care, Liver Cancer
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Chronic Pain
- Heart Disease
- Heart Failure
- Brain Tumor
- Lung Cancer
- Colon Cancer
- Pain
- Extra Corporeal Shockwave Therapy
Professional Memberships
- Member American College of Physicians American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Society of Genera
Fellowships
- General Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Palliative Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2002 Pastoral Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2002 2001
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