Dr. Joan M Teno MD
Hospice and Palliative Care Specialist | Hospice and Palliative Medicine
593 Eddy St Providence RI, 02903About
Dr. Joan Teno is a hospice and palliative care specialist practicing in Providence, RI. Dr. Teno provides care to people who are seriously ill. As a hospice and palliative care specialist, Dr. Teno works to relieve the pain and suffering of people who have a severe medical condition and are in a critical state. Hospice and palliative care specialists try to improve the quality of life for a person who may not have much time left to live.
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Methodological challenges for measuring quality of care at the end of life.
- Lessons learned and not learned from the SUPPORT project.
- Advance directives for nursing home residents: achieving compassionate,
- Patients who want their family and physician to make resuscitation decisions for them: observations from SUPPORT and HELP. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment. Hospitalized Elderly Longitudinal Project.
- Communication and decision-making in seriously ill patients: findings of the SUPPORT project. The Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments.
- Putting patient and family voice back into measuring quality of care for the dying.
- Patient race and decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatments for seriously ill hospitalized adults. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments.
- Persistent pain in nursing home residents.
- The quality of care in the last month of life among Rhode Island nursing home residents.
- Validation of Toolkit After-Death Bereaved Family Member Interview.
- The impact of the Patient Self-Determination Act's requirement that states describe law concerning patients' rights.
- Palliative care teams: self-reflection - past, present, and future.
- Use of feeding tubes in nursing home residents with severe cognitive impairment.
- Factors associated with site of death: a national study of where people die.
- Clinical and organizational factors associated with feeding tube use among nursing home residents with advanced cognitive impairment.
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