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Sarah Friebert
Researcher at Boston Children's Hospital
Publications - 79
Citations - 2134
Sarah Friebert is an academic researcher from Boston Children's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Palliative care & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 54 publications receiving 1653 citations. Previous affiliations of Sarah Friebert include Northeast Ohio Medical University & University of California, Los Angeles.
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Pediatric Palliative Care Patients: A Prospective Multicenter Cohort Study
Chris Feudtner,Tammy I. Kang,Kari R. Hexem,Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf,Kaci Osenga,Harold Siden,Sarah Friebert,Ross M. Hays,Veronica Dussel,Joanne Wolfe +9 more
TL;DR: PPC teams currently serve a diverse cohort of children and young adults with life-threatening conditions, and in contrast to the reported experience of adult-oriented palliative care teams, most PPC patients are alive for more than a year after initiating PPC.
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Pediatric Palliative Care and Hospice Care Commitments, Guidelines, and Recommendations
Chris Feudtner,Sarah Friebert,Jennifer A. Jewell,Brian S. Carter,Margaret Hood,Sonia Imaizumi,Kelly Komatz +6 more
TL;DR: Pediatric palliative care and pediatric hospice care (PPC-PHC) aims to relieve suffering, improve quality of life, facilitate informed decision-making, and assist in care coordination between clinicians and across sites of care.
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Pediatric Palliative Care Programs in Children’s Hospitals: A Cross-Sectional National Survey
Chris Feudtner,James W. Womer,James W. Womer,Rachel Augustin,Stacy S. Remke,Joanne Wolfe,Sarah Friebert,David Weissman +7 more
TL;DR: Pediatric palliative care programs are becoming common in children’s hospitals throughout the United States yet with marked variation in how these programs are staffed, the level of funding for staff effort to provide PPC, and the number of consultations performed annually.
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Single Parents of Children with Chronic Illness: An Understudied Phenomenon
Ronald T. Brown,Lori Wiener,Mary Jo Kupst,Tara Brennan,Richard E. Behrman,Bruce E. Compas,T. David Elkin,Diane L. Fairclough,Sarah Friebert,Ernest R. Katz,Anne E. Kazak,Avi Madan-Swain,Nancy Mansfield,Larry L. Mullins,Robert B. Noll,Andrea Farkas Patenaude,Sean Phipps,Olle Jane Z. Sahler,Barbara Sourkes,Lonnie K. Zeltzer +19 more
TL;DR: There is a dearth of studies examining the association between lone parenting and psychosocial functioning among children and adolescents with chronic illnesses.
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Availability and Use of Palliative Care and End-of-Life Services for Pediatric Oncology Patients
TL;DR: Despite the well-established benefit of pediatric palliative care, it is only offered in 58% of COG institutions caring for children with cancer, and in an era where the benefit has been clearly established, this number should approach 100%.