Carol Spence

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Carol Spence is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Clinical Psychology and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Carol Spence has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 12 papers in Clinical Psychology and 10 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Carol Spence's work include Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (19 papers), Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (12 papers) and Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (9 papers). Carol Spence is often cited by papers focused on Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (19 papers), Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (12 papers) and Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (9 papers). Carol Spence collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Spain. Carol Spence's co-authors include Stephen R. Connor, Joan M. Teno, Stanley P. Azen, Chunmei Lin, Lynn Lee, Donna C. Boone, David Casarett, Kosuke Iwasaki, Bruce Pyenson and Kathryn Fitch and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and Physical Therapy.

In The Last Decade

Carol Spence

24 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Carol Spence United States	15	996	423	401	356	308	25	1.7k
Charlotte Wool United States	13	366 0.4×	119 0.3×	186 0.5×	219 0.6×	420 1.4×	28	1.1k
Mona Newsome Wicks United States	20	268 0.3×	311 0.7×	190 0.5×	246 0.7×	100 0.3×	73	1.3k
Tsae‐Jyy Wang Taiwan	21	188 0.2×	319 0.8×	209 0.5×	167 0.5×	128 0.4×	81	1.7k
Sara Campagna Italy	20	223 0.2×	236 0.6×	178 0.4×	122 0.3×	91 0.3×	81	1.1k
Olga Saynina United States	20	682 0.7×	241 0.6×	130 0.3×	131 0.4×	454 1.5×	56	1.5k
Natasha Saunders Canada	22	225 0.2×	242 0.6×	229 0.6×	492 1.4×	129 0.4×	122	1.6k
Elizabeth Tutton United Kingdom	21	237 0.2×	330 0.8×	599 1.5×	88 0.2×	64 0.2×	80	1.4k
Doreen McClurg United Kingdom	24	355 0.4×	383 0.9×	964 2.4×	342 1.0×	43 0.1×	76	2.6k
Brian Le Australia	19	585 0.6×	176 0.4×	245 0.6×	228 0.6×	257 0.8×	151	1.5k
Eoin Tiernan Ireland	16	549 0.6×	151 0.4×	171 0.4×	144 0.4×	270 0.9×	38	1.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carol Spence

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Carol Spence. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Carol Spence based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Carol Spence. Carol Spence is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Gozalo, Pedro, Joan M. Teno, & Carol Spence. (2017). Hospice Visit Patterns in the Last Seven Days of Life and the Service Intensity Add-On Payment. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 20(12). 1378–1384. 7 indexed citations

Teno, Joan M., et al.. (2016). Development of an Assessment to Examine Training of the Hospice Primary Caregiver. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 19(6). 639–645. 1 indexed citations

Clark, Melissa A., et al.. (2015). Timing of Survey Administration After Hospice Patient Death: Stability of Bereaved Respondents. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 50(1). 17–27. 24 indexed citations

Teno, Joan M., et al.. (2014). Family Perceptions of Quality of Hospice Care in the Nursing Home. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 48(6). 1100–1107. 15 indexed citations

Lee, Deborah, Melissa A. Clark, Renée R. Shield, et al.. (2014). Family Experience of Hospice in the Nursing Home: Creation of a New Module in Family Evaluation of Hospice Care Survey (FR420-B). Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 47(2). 427–428.

Teno, Joan M., David Casarett, Carol Spence, & Stephen R. Connor. (2012). It Is “Too Late” or Is It? Bereaved Family Member Perceptions of Hospice Referral When Their Family Member Was on Hospice for Seven Days or Less. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 43(4). 732–738. 55 indexed citations

Cagle, John G., Franziska S. Rokoske, Danielle D. Durham, et al.. (2012). Use of Electronic Documentation for Quality Improvement in Hospice. American Journal of Medical Quality. 27(4). 282–290. 7 indexed citations

Casarett, David, Carol Spence, Melissa A. Clark, Renée R. Shield, & Joan M. Teno. (2012). Defining Patient Safety in Hospice: Principles To Guide Measurement and Public Reporting. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 15(10). 1120–1123. 12 indexed citations

Casarett, David, et al.. (2011). One Big Happy Family? Interdisciplinary Variation in Job Satisfaction among Hospice Providers. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 14(8). 913–917. 12 indexed citations

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Teno, Joan M., Pedro Gozalo, Sylvia Kuo, et al.. (2011). Does Hospice Improve Quality of Care for Persons Dying from Dementia?. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 59(8). 1531–1536. 87 indexed citations

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Hanson, Laura C., Anna P. Schenck, Franziska S. Rokoske, et al.. (2010). Hospices' Preparation and Practices for Quality Measurement. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 39(1). 1–8. 14 indexed citations

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Casarett, David, et al.. (2010). Got Volunteers? Association of Hospice Use of Volunteers With Bereaved Family Members' Overall Rating of the Quality of End-of-Life Care. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 39(3). 502–506. 40 indexed citations

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Teno, Joan M., et al.. (2007). Timing of Referral to Hospice and Quality of Care: Length of Stay and Bereaved Family Members' Perceptions of the Timing of Hospice Referral. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 34(2). 120–125. 161 indexed citations

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Connor, Stephen R., Bruce Pyenson, Kathryn Fitch, Carol Spence, & Kosuke Iwasaki. (2007). Comparing Hospice and Nonhospice Patient Survival Among Patients Who Die Within a Three-Year Window. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 33(3). 238–246. 288 indexed citations

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Mitchell, Susan L., Dan K. Kiely, Susan C. Miller, et al.. (2007). Hospice Care for Patients with Dementia. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 34(1). 7–16. 64 indexed citations

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Connor, Stephen R., Felix Elwert, Carol Spence, & Nicholas A. Christakis. (2007). Geographic Variation in Hospice Use in the United States in 2002. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 34(3). 277–285. 64 indexed citations

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Portenoy, Russell K., Randall J. Smout, Susan D. Horn, et al.. (2006). Opioid Use and Survival at the End of Life: A Survey of a Hospice Population. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 32(6). 532–540. 86 indexed citations

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Spence, Carol, et al.. (2005). More than a title. Nursing Management. 36(5). 36–46. 34 indexed citations

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Connor, Stephen R., Joan M. Teno, Carol Spence, & Neal Smith. (2005). Family Evaluation of Hospice Care: Results from Voluntary Submission of Data Via Website. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 30(1). 9–17. 113 indexed citations

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Lutz, S, J. Ashworth, Carol Spence, & Stephen R. Connor. (2005). The use of radiotherapy in hospice patients: A population-based study from the National Hospice Outcomes Project. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 23(16_suppl). 8074–8074. 4 indexed citations

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