Associate Professor, Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine
Internal Medicine
Dr. Karl Lorenz, MD
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Karl Lorenz is an expert in the field of Internal Medicine. He attended Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine. Karl Lorenz is a published doctor as well. He has 100 publications published. The latest was: Association of IgA-anti-Fab autoantibodies with disease stage in head-and-neck cancer.
Publications
- "Because I was sick": seriously ill veterans' perspectives on reason for 30-day readmissions.
- A Scalable Web-Based Module for Improving Surgical and Medical Practitioner Knowledge and Attitudes about Palliative and End-of-Life Care.
- Measuring Experience with End-of-Life Care: A Systematic Literature Review.
- Proactive Case Finding to Concurrently Improve Curative and Palliative Care in Patients with End-Stage Liver Disease.
- Community-Partnered Collaboration to Build an Integrated Palliative Care Clinic: The View From Urology.
- Barriers and Strategies to an Iterative Model of Advance Care Planning Communication.
- Evaluating the Quality of Supportive Oncology Using Patient-Reported Data.
- Developing an Informatics Tool To Advance Supportive Care: The Veterans Health Care Administration Palliative Care National Clinical Template.
- The Quality of Supportive Cancer Care in the Veterans Affairs Health System and Targets for Improvement.
- Implementing physician orders for life-sustaining treatment in california hospitals: factors associated with adoption.
- Advocacy at the end of life: meeting the needs of vulnerable latino patients.
- Provider approaches to palliative dyspnea assessment: implications for informatics-based clinical tools.
- Urologist Attitudes Toward End-of-life Care.
- "There's no cure for this condition": How physicians discuss advance care planning in heart failure.
- Implementation of Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment in nursing homes in California: evaluation of a novel statewide dissemination mechanism.
- 30-Day Readmissions among Seriously Ill Older Adults.
- Impact of Consideration of Transplantation on End-of-Life Care for Patients During a Terminal Hospitalization.
- Experiences with advanced cancer among latinas in a public health care system.
- The quality of supportive care among inpatients dying with advanced cancer.
- Emergency medicine physicians' perspectives of providing palliative care in an emergency department.
- Translation of Evidence-Based Clinical Standards into a New Prehospital Resuscitation Policy in Los Angeles County.
- Missed Opportunities for Advance Care Planning Communication During Outpatient Clinic Visits.
- Prescription sharing, alcohol use, and street drug use to manage pain among veterans.
- Quality of End-of-Life Care for Patients with Advanced Cancer in an Academic Medical Center.
- Quality of Supportive Care for Patients with Advanced Cancer in a VA Medical Center.
- Evaluating a Palliative Care Intervention for Veterans: Challenges and Lessons Learned in a Longitudinal Study of Patients with Serious Illness.
- "I want to be taking my own last breath": patients' reflections on illness when presenting to the emergency department at the end of life.
- Nursing staff, patient, and environmental factors associated with accurate pain assessment.
- Does screening for pain correspond to high quality care for veterans?
- Factors associated with clinician intention to address diverse aspects of pain in seriously ill outpatients.
- How might VA-Medicare differences inform the delivery of end-of-life cancer care?
- Cancer Quality-ASSIST supportive oncology quality indicator set: feasibility, reliability, and validity testing.
- The quality of care provided to hospitalized patients at the end of life.
- Addressing patients' concerns about pain management and addiction risks.
- Feasibility of discussing end-of-life care goals with inpatients using a structured, conversational approach: the go wish card game.
- Provider communication and patient understanding of life-limiting illness and their relationship to patient communication of treatment preferences.
- A framework for assessing quality indicators for cancer care at the end of life.
- Heart failure: the hidden problem of pain.
- Emergency department research in palliative care: challenges in recruitment.
- Exploring alternative approaches to routine outpatient pain screening.
- Randomized controlled trial of mindfulness-based therapy for dyspnea in chronic obstructive lung disease.
- Developing quality indicators for cancer end-of-life care: proceedings from a national symposium.
- Caring for special populations: total pain theory in advanced heart failure: applications to research and practice.
- Quality measures for supportive cancer care: the Cancer Quality-ASSIST Project.
- Development and initial validation of the PEG, a three-item scale assessing pain intensity and interference.
- Paramedic and emergency medical technicians views on opportunities and challenges when forgoing and halting resuscitation in the field.
- Early identification of co-occurring pain, depression and anxiety.
- How reliable is pain as the fifth vital sign?
- Potential impact of a verbal prehospital DNR policy.
- Are rural hospices at a financial disadvantage? Evidence from California.
- A comparative study of pain in heart failure and non-heart failure veterans.
- Promoting efficiency and quality of care in the Hummer Health Care System.
- Paying the price at the end of life: a consideration of factors that affect the profitability of hospice.
- The relationship of reported pain severity to perceived effect on function of nursing home residents.
- Progress in quality-of-care research and hope for supportive cancer care.
- Evidence-based standards for cancer pain management.
- Evidence-based recommendations for cancer fatigue, anorexia, depression, and dyspnea.
- Evidence-based recommendations for information and care planning in cancer care.
- Evidence-based recommendations for cancer nausea and vomiting.
- Advance care planning among the oldest old.
- Evidence for improving palliative care at the end of life: a systematic review.
- A systematic review of measures of end-of-life care and its outcomes.
- Developing quality indicators for the appropriateness of resuscitation in prehospital atraumatic cardiac arrest.
- Quality indicators for palliative and end-of-life care in vulnerable elders.
- Pain and palliative medicine.
- Quality measures for symptoms and advance care planning in cancer: a systematic review.
- Health care policy issues in end-of-life care.
- Negotiating end-of-life decision making: a comparison of Japanese and U.S. residents'' approaches.
- Comparing strategies for United States veterans' mortality ascertainment.
- Methodological approaches for a systematic review of end-of-life care.
- Accommodating ethnic diversity: a study of California hospice programs.
- Oregon's lessons for improving advance care planning.
- Hospice admission practices: where does hospice fit in the continuum of care?
- End-of-life education using the dramatic arts: the Wit educational initiative.
- Charity for the dying: who receives unreimbursed hospice care?
- Cash and compassion: profit status and the delivery of hospice services.
- Effect of N-chlorotaurine mouth rinses on plaque regrowth and plaque vitality.
- How to select study designs and parameters to investigate the effect of mouthrinses? Part II: comparisons between the parameters used.
- Unilateral open and minimally invasive procedures for primary hyperparathyroidism: a review of selective approaches.
- Association of IgA-anti-Fab autoantibodies with disease stage in head-and-neck cancer.
- Insulin sensitization in diabetic rat liver by an antihyperglycemic agent.
- Effect of two new chlorhexidine mouthrinses on the development of dental plaque, gingivitis, and discolouration. A randomized, investigator-blind, placebo-controlled, ...
- Color Doppler sonography of the lateral thoracic (breast-feeding) arteries: a new approach to the diagnosis of breast disease?
- High diagnostic accuracy of adrenal core biopsy: results of the German and Austrian adrenal network multicenter trial in 220 consecutive patients.
- Minimally invasive video-assisted parathyroidectomy: multiinstitutional study.
- Ensuring palliative medicine availability: the development of the IAHPC list of essential medicines for palliative care.
- End-of-life care and outcomes.
- MSJAMA. Moral and practical challenges of physician-assisted suicide.
- The sharer.
- Cancer care quality measures: symptoms and end-of-life care.
- Improving generalist end of life care: national consultation with practitioners, commissioners, academics, and service user groups.
- The Medicare hospice payment system: a consideration of potential refinements.
- Progress in measuring and improving palliative and end-of-life quality.
- Religiousness and spirituality among HIV-infected Americans.
- Methods for improving efficiency in quality measurement: the example of pain screening.
- End-of-life care: an agenda for policy improvement.
- Use of role model stories to overcome barriers to hospice among African Americans.
- Measuring families' perceptions of care across a health care system: preliminary experience with the Family Assessment of Treatment at End of Life Short form (FATE-S).
- Associations of symptoms and health-related quality of life: findings from a national study of persons with HIV infection.
Schools
Medical College of Georgia
Doctors Specialties
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
Education
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Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine
Hospital
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Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
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