Physician
Internal Medicine
Dr. Alexander K. Smith, MD
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Dr. Alexander K. Smith is an expert in the field of Internal Medicine. He went to medical school at University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. University of California San Francisco School of Medicine is one of the top medical schools in the US. University of California San Francisco School of Medicine is ranked 3 in research and 3 in primary care medicine Alexander Smith is also a published MD. He has 37 paper published. The most recent paper is: Subjective, Objective, and Observed Long-term Survival: A Longitudinal Cohort Study.
Publications
- Increase in Disability Prevalence Before Hip Fracture.
- Subjective, Objective, and Observed Long-term Survival: A Longitudinal Cohort Study.
- Discrimination in Healthcare Settings is Associated with Disability in Older Adults: Health and Retirement Study, 2008-2012.
- Viewing Hospice Decision Making as a Process.
- Usefulness and effect of online prognostic calculators.
- Pain Behind Bars: The Epidemiology of Pain in Older Jail Inmates in a County Jail.
- Leveraging the Health and Retirement Study to Advance Palliative Care Research.
- Perceptions of successful aging among diverse elders with late-life disability.
- Trends in Emergency Department Visits for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions by Elderly Nursing Home Residents, 2001 to 2010.
- Opening it Up For More Questions: Racial Disparities in Hospice Use.
- Disability During the Last Two Years of Life.
- When previously expressed wishes conflict with best interests.
- Uncertainty--the other side of prognosis.
- The Diverse Landscape of Palliative Care Clinics.
- Every patient is an individual: clinicians balance individual factors when discussing prognosis with diverse frail elderly adults.
- Advance Care Planning and the Quality of End-of-Life Care in Older Adults.
- Prognostic indices for older adults: a systematic review.
- Discussing overall prognosis with the very elderly.
- "Knowing is Better": Preferences of Diverse Older Adults for Discussing Prognosis.
- "Her Husband Doesn't Speak Much English": Conducting a Family Meeting with an Interpreter.
- Conducting High-Value Secondary Dataset Analysis: An Introductory Guide and Resources.
- The epidemiology of pain during the last 2 years of life.
- African Americans and end-of-life care #204.
- Length of stay for older adults residing in nursing homes at the end of life.
- Update in palliative medicine.
- Emergency department experiences of acutely symptomatic patients with terminal illness and their family caregivers.
- Outpatient palliative care practices.
- Am I doing the right thing? Provider perspectives on improving palliative care in the emergency department.
- Palliative care for Latino patients and their families: whenever we prayed, she wept.
- Racial and ethnic differences in end-of-life care in fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries with advanced cancer.
- Racial and ethnic differences in advance care planning among patients with cancer: impact of terminal illness acknowledgment, religiousness, and treatment preferences.
- Racial/ethnic disparities in liver transplant surgery and hospice use: parallels, differences, and unanswered questions.
- Differences in the quality of the patient-physician relationship among terminally ill African-American and white patients: impact on advance care planning and treatmen...
- On being fired: experiences of patient-initiated termination of the patient-physician relationship in palliative medicine.
- Resident approaches to advance care planning on the day of hospital admission.
- CT and MRI of retroperitoneal edema associated with large uterine leiomyomas.
Schools
University of California At San Francisco
Brigham and Women39s Hospital
Brigham and Womens Hospital Harvard
Dana Farber Canc Institute
Doctors Specialties
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
Education
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Brigham and Women's Hospital -
University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
Hospital
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San Francisco VA Medical Center
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