Buddy Marterre
Wake Forest University
12 Papers
3 Citations
Buddy Marterre is an academic researcher from Wake Forest University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Palliative care. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications. Previous affiliations of Buddy Marterre include Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
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Papers
Where's the Value in Preoperative Covenants Between Surgeons and Patients?
Robert Ledbetter,Buddy Marterre +1 more
- 01 Oct 2021
TL;DR: This article considers how continuing to see patient-surgeon communication as a covenant requires deeper ethical investigation into both surgeons’ and patients’ assumptions and into sources of dissonance between surgeons' and patients' values and goals.
The Value of Compassion: Healthcare Savings of Palliative Care Consults in Trauma
Audrey Spencer,Andrew Nunn,Preston R. Miller,Gregory B. Russell,Samuel P. Carmichael,Kris Neri,Buddy Marterre +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the effects of palliative care (PC) consultation on patient costs and hospitalization metrics in the adult trauma population are unclear, however, the authors investigated the effect of PC consultations on patient care and found that patients were more likely to discharge to hospice if they received a PC consult (33.6 vs 2.1%, p<0.
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Concordant palliative care delivery in advanced head and neck cancer.
Sydney T. Cannon,Jennifer Gabbard,Rebecca C. Walsh,Tiffany M Statler,J.D. Browne,Buddy Marterre +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the palliative care consults of patients suffering from advanced stage head and neck cancer were reviewed over a 21-month period, with a median post-consultation survival of 35 days.
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Timing is everything: Early versus late palliative care consults in trauma
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors compared the benefits of early and late palliative care consults in critically injured patients and found that patients with early consults had shorter LOS, reduced ventilator days, reduced rates of invasive procedures and lower costs even after correcting for delay to consult in the late group.
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Time is Short: Tools to Integrate Palliative Care and Communication Skills Education into Your Surgical Residency.
TL;DR: In this article , the authors describe a set of educational strategies, with a range of requisite resources, time, and prior expertise, to provide options that surgical educators can tailor for different programs.
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