Gehlbach TG, Shinkunas LA, Forman-Hoffman VL, Thomas KW, Schmidt GA, Kaldjian LC. Code status orders and goals of care in the medical intensive care unit. CHEST 2011; 139(4):802-809.
Kaldjian LC, Broderick A. Developing a policy for do not resuscitate orders within a framework of goals of care. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety 2011; 37:11-19.
Haberle TH, Shinkunas LA, Erekson ZD, Kaldjian LC. Goals of care among hospitalized patients: a validation study. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine [2010 Nov 21 Epub ahead of print], 2011; 28(5):335-341.
Kaldjian LC. Teaching practical wisdom in medicine through clinical judgment, goals of care, and ethical reasoning. Journal of Medical Ethics 2010; 36:558-562.
Leira EC, Kaldjian LC, Ludwig BR, Torner JC, Olalde HM, Hacke W, Adams HP Jr. Lack of international consensus on ethical aspects of acute stroke trials. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disorders 2010 Aug 17 [Epub ahead of print]
Kaldjian LC, Shinkunas LA, Bern-Klug M, Schultz SK. Dementia, goals of care, and personhood: a study of surrogate decision makers’ beliefs and values. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine 2010;27:387-397.
Sarrazin MV, Cannon KT, Rosenthal GE, Kaldjian LC. Racial Differences in Mortality among Veterans Hospitalized for COPD Exacerbation. Journal of the National Medical Association 2009; 101:656-662.
Kaldjian LC, Erekson ZD, Haberle TH, Curtis AE, Shinkunas LA, Cannon KT, Forman-Hoffman VL. Code status discussions and goals of care among hospitalized adults. Journal of Medical Ethics 2009; 35:338-342.
Kaldjian LC, Curtis AE, Shinkunas L, Cannon KT. Goals of care toward the end of life: a structured literature review. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine 2009; 25:501-511.
Cannon KT, Sarrazin MV, Rosenthal GE, Curtis AE, Thomas KW, Kaldjian LC. Use of mechanical and noninvasive ventilation in black and white chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients within the Veterans Administration Health Care System. Medical Care 2009; 47:129-133.
Kaldjian LC, Forman-Hoffman VF, Jones EW, Wu BJ, Levi BH, Rosenthal GE. Do faculty and resident physicians discuss their medical errors? Journal of Medical Ethics 2008; 34:717-722
Kaldjian LC, Jones EW, Wu BJ, Forman-Hoffman VF, Levi BH, Rosenthal GE. Reporting medical errors to improve patient safety: a survey of physicians in teaching hospitals. Archives of Internal Medicine 2008; 168:40-46.
Kaldjian, LC. Review of: Biotechnology and the Human Good, by C. Ben Mitchell, Edmund D. Pellegrino, Jean Bethke Elshtain, John F. Kilner, and Scott B. Rae. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2007. Am J Bioethics 2008; 8(6):55-56.
Kaldjian LC, Jones EW, Wu BJ, Forman-Hoffman VF, Levi BH, Rosenthal GE. Disclosing medical errors to patients: attitudes and practices of physicians and trainees. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2007; 22:988-996.
Kaldjian LC, Jones EW, Rosenthal GE, Tripp-Reimer T, Hillis S. "An empirically derived taxonomy of factors affecting physicians’ willingness to disclose medical errors." Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2006; 21:942-948.
Jones EW, Kaldjian LC, Forman-Hoffman V. "Factors associated with gastrostomy tube feeding in dementia: a structured literature review." Alzheimer's & Dementia, 2006; 2:234-242.
Kaldjian LC, Jones EW, Rosenthal GE. "Facilitating and impeding factors for physicians' error disclosure: a structured literature review." Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety 32:188-198, 2006.
Kaldjian LC, Weir RF, Duffy TP. "A clinician's approach to clinical ethical reasoning." Journal of General Internal Medicine 20:306-311, 2005.
Kaldjian LC, Jekel JK, Bernene JL, Rosenthal GE, Vaughan-Sarrazin M, Duffy TP. "Internists' attitudes toward terminal sedation in end-of-life care." Journal of Medical Ethics 30:499-503, 2004.
Kaldjian LC, Wu BJ, Kirkpatrick JN, Thomas-Geevarghese A, Vaughan-Sarrazin M. "Medical house officers' attitudes toward vigorous analgesia, terminal sedation, and physician-assisted suicide." American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Medicine 21:381-387, 2004.
Herwaldt LA, Kaldjian LC."Ethical aspects of infection control." In: Lautenbach E, Woeltje K, editors. Practical handbook for healthcare epidemiologists, 2nd ed. Thorofare, NJ: SLACK Inc., pp. 25-33, 2004.
Current Projects
Code Status Discussions and Goals of Care in the Medical Intensive Care Unit
Education in Ethics and Professionalism
Wisdom, Ethics, and the Medical Professional
Current Grant Support
Wisdom, Ethics, and the Medical Professional (University of Chicago and the John Templeton Foundation)
Attending Physician, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Ethics Committee, Society of General Internal Medicine (co-chair)
Committee on Law and Ethics, Iowa Medical Society
Advisory Board, Project on the Good Physician, funded by the Science of Virtues Project, University of Chicago
Editorial Board, Communication & Medicine
Contact
University of Iowa
Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
Program in Bioethics and Humanities
500 Newton Road, 1-106 MEB
Iowa City, IA, 52242
Phone: 319-335-6706
Fax: 319-335-8515
