Christine Cassel, MD
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Grants and Projects

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• Oregon BIRCWH: Scholars in Women's Health Research Across the Lifespan, NIH, 2002-2022
• Geriatric Academic Program Award, NIH, 1991-2004
• Geriatric Leadership Academic Award, NIH, 1989-1996
• Forecasting Life Expectancy and Active Life Expectancy, NIH, 1987-1991

Publications (78)

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DiagnosisHumanismPhysician's RoleHealth Insurance Portability and Accountability ActComputer SecurityUnnecessary ProceduresPhysiciansHealth PolicyQuality of Health CareEthics, MedicalCertificationPatient CareHealth Care RationingDelivery of Health CarePatient Rights

• Addressing Well-being Throughout the Health Care Workforce: The Next Imperative.
  JAMA 2022 Rotenstein LS, Berwick DM, Cassel CK
• Achieving Diagnostic Excellence for Older Patients.
  JAMA 2022 Cassel C, Fulmer T
• How to Measure Progress in Addressing Physician Well-being: Beyond Burnout.
  JAMA 2021 Rotenstein LS, Sinsky C, Cassel CK
• HIPAA and the Leak of "Deidentified" EHR Data.
  The New England journal of medicine 2021 Sim I, Cassel C
• Humanism Before Heroism in Medicine.
  JAMA 2021 Sarkar U, Cassel C

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• The NAM and the Quality of Health Care - Inflecting a Field.
  The New England journal of medicine 2020 Berwick DM, Cassel CK
• Can the Safety Net be Age-Friendly? How to Address Its Important Role in Caring for Older Adults with Geriatric Conditions.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2020 Chodos AH, Cassel CK, Ritchie CS
• Clinician Burnout and Professional Well-being-Reply.
  JAMA 2020 Carayon P, Cassel C, Dzau VJ
• Sharing Health Care Data With Digital Giants: Overcoming Obstacles and Reaping Benefits While Protecting Patients.
  JAMA 2020 Wachter RM, Cassel CK
• Improving the System to Support Clinician Well-being and Provide Better Patient Care.
  JAMA 2019 Carayon P, Cassel C, Dzau VJ
• Risk, Benefit, and Fairness in a Big Data World.
  JAMA 2019 Cassel C, Bindman A
• Can Retail Clinics Transform Health Care?
  JAMA 2018 Cassel CK
• Location, Location, Location: Where We Teach Primary Care Makes All the Difference.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2017 Cassel C, Wilkes M
• Policy Solutions for Better Hearing.
  JAMA 2016 Cassel C, Penhoet E, Saunders R
• Measurement Is Essential for Improving Diagnosis and Reducing Diagnostic Error: A Report From the Institute of Medicine.
  JAMA 2015 McGlynn EA, McDonald KM, Cassel CK
• Learning From the Past to Measure the Future.
  JAMA 2015 Cassel CK, Kronick R
• Getting more performance from performance measurement.
  The New England journal of medicine 2014 Cassel CK, Conway PH, Delbanco SF, Jha AK, Saunders RS, Lee TH
• Ending the cycle of blame in US health care.
  JAMA 2014 Powers BW, Cassel CK, Jain SH
• Engineering a better health care system: a report from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
  JAMA 2014 Cassel CK, Saunders RS
• The power of embedded critics.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2014 Powers BW, Cassel CK, Jain SH
• Ethics of parsimonious medicine--reply.
  JAMA 2013 Tilburt J, Cassel C
• Educating physicians about responsible management of finite resources.
  JAMA 2013 Agrawal S, Taitsman J, Cassel C
• Why the ethics of parsimonious medicine is not the ethics of rationing.
  JAMA 2013 Tilburt JC, Cassel CK
• Service: an essential component of graduate medical education.
  The New England journal of medicine 2013 Kesselheim JC, Cassel CK
• Bringing diagnosis into the quality and safety equations.
  JAMA 2012 Graber ML, Wachter RM, Cassel CK
• Engaging physicians and leveraging professionalism: a key to success for quality measurement and improvement.
  JAMA 2012 Conway PH, Cassel CK
• A physician charter: the 10th anniversary.
  Annals of internal medicine 2012 Cassel CK, Hood V, Bauer W
• Assessing individual physician performance: does measurement suppress motivation?
  JAMA 2012 Cassel CK, Jain SH
• Retail clinics and drugstore medicine.
  JAMA 2012 Cassel CK
• Patient requests for nonbeneficial care.
  JAMA 2012 Cassel CK
• Choosing wisely: helping physicians and patients make smart decisions about their care.
  JAMA 2012 Cassel CK, Guest JA
• Physician stewardship of health care in an era of finite resources.
  JAMA 2011 Reuben DB, Cassel CK
• Specialization, subspecialization, and subsubspecialization in internal medicine.
  The New England journal of medicine 2011 Cassel CK, Reuben DB
• Societal perceptions of physicians: knights, knaves, or pawns?
  JAMA 2010 Jain SH, Cassel CK
• Policy for an aging society: a review of systems.
  JAMA 2009 Cassel CK
• Shared medical regulation in a time of increasing calls for accountability and transparency: comparison of recertification in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
  JAMA 2009 Shaw K, Cassel CK, Black C, Levinson W
• Consumer-driven health care may not be what patients need--caveat emptor.
  JAMA 2009 Berenson RA, Cassel CK
• 21st-century primary care: new physician roles need new payment models.
  JAMA 2008 Baron RJ, Cassel CK
• Managing medical resources: return to the commons?
  JAMA 2007 Cassel CK, Brennan TE
• Assessment in medical education.
  The New England journal of medicine 2007 Cassel CK
• What does 'respect' mean? Exploring the moral obligation of health professionals to respect patients.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2007 Beach MC, Duggan PS, Cassel CK, Geller G
• Credentialing and public accountability: a central role for board certification.
  JAMA 2006 Cassel CK, Holmboe ES
• Geriatric interdisciplinary team training program: evaluation results.
  Journal of aging and health 2005 Fulmer T, Hyer K, Flaherty E, Mezey M, Whitelaw N, Jacobs MO, Luchi R, Hansen JC, Evans DA, Cassel C, Kotthoff-Burrell E, Kane R, Pfeiffer E
• The role of physician specialty board certification status in the quality movement.
  JAMA 2004 Brennan TA, Horwitz RI, Duffy FD, Cassel CK, Goode LD, Lipner RS
• Establishing national goals for quality improvement.
  Medical care 2003 McGlynn EA, Cassel CK, Leatherman ST, DeCristofaro A, Smits HL
• The Institute of Medicine Report on Medical Errors: misunderstanding can do harm. Quality of Health Care in America Committee.
  MedGenMed : Medscape general medicine 2000 Richardson WC, Berwick DM, Bisgard JC, Bristow LR, Buck CR, Cassel CK, Coye MJ, Detmer DE, Grossman JH, James B, Lawrence DM, Leape L, Levin A, Robinson-Beale R, Scherger JE, Southam AM, Wakefield M, …
• Accidental nuclear war--a post-cold war assessment.
  The New England journal of medicine 1998 Forrow L, Blair BG, Helfand I, Lewis G, Postol T, Sidel V, Levy BS, Abrams H, Cassel C
• A national survey of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia in the United States.
  The New England journal of medicine 1998 Meier DE, Emmons CA, Wallenstein S, Quill T, Morrison RS, Cassel CK
• Differences in generalist and specialist physicians' knowledge and use of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors for congestive heart failure.
  Journal of general internal medicine 1997 Chin MH, Friedmann PD, Cassel CK, Lang RM
• Clinical problem-solving. When too much is too little.
  The New England journal of medicine 1996 Morrison RS, Meier DE, Cassel CK
• Hospital care for dying patients.
  The New England journal of medicine 1996 Cassel CK
• ICD-9 code for palliative or terminal care.
  The New England journal of medicine 1996 Cassel CK, Vladeck BC
• Patient-physician covenant.
  JAMA 1995 Crawshaw R, Rogers DE, Pellegrino ED, Bulger RJ, Lundberg GD, Bristow LR, Cassel CK, Barondess JA
• U.S. government-sponsored radiation research on humans 1945-1975.
  Medicine and global survival : M & GS 1994 McCally M, Cassel C, Kimball DG
• From the Institute of Medicine.
  JAMA 1993 Lohr KN, Grossman JH, Cassel CK
• Pharmaceutical promotions.
  The New England journal of medicine 1992 Cassel CK
• Care of the hopelessly ill. Proposed clinical criteria for physician-assisted suicide.
  The New England journal of medicine 1992 Quill TE, Cassel CK, Meier DE
• Predictors of achievement in academic medicine.
  JAMA 1992 McCally M, Cassel C
• Issues of age and chronic care: another argument for health care reform.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1992 Cassel CK
• Mortality, disability, and falls in older persons: the role of underlying disease and disability.
  American journal of public health 1992 Dunn JE, Rudberg MA, Furner SE, Cassel CK
• A national long-term care program for the United States. A caring vision. The Working Group on Long-term Care Program Design, Physicians for a National Health Program.
  JAMA 1991 Harrington C, Cassel C, Estes CL, Woolhandler S, Himmelstein DU
• Research ethics: depression and mortality in nursing homes.
  JAMA 1991 Sachs GA, Rhymes J, Cassel CK
• Morals and moralism in the debate over euthanasia and assisted suicide.
  The New England journal of medicine 1990 Cassel CK, Meier DE
• Ethical aspects of research involving elderly subjects: are we doing more than we say?
  The Journal of clinical ethics 1990 Lane LW, Cassel CK, Bennett W
• Chernobyl: learning from experience.
  The New England journal of medicine 1989 Cassel CK, Leaning J
• The physician's responsibility toward hopelessly ill patients. A second look.
  The New England journal of medicine 1989 Wanzer SH, Federman DD, Adelstein SJ, Cassel CK, Cassem EH, Cranford RE, Hook EW, Lo B, Moertel CG, Safar P
• Post-nuclear war.
  JAMA 1989 Cassel CK
• Decisions to forgo life-sustaining therapy: the limits of ethics.
  The Social service review 1987 Cassel CK
• Certification: another step for geriatric medicine.
  JAMA 1987 Cassel CK
• Informed consent for research in geriatrics: history and concepts.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1987 Cassel CK
• Political and medical lessons of Chernobyl.
  JAMA 1986 Cassel CK
• The physician's oath and the prevention of nuclear war.
  JAMA 1985 Cassel CK, Jameton AL, Sidel VW, Storey PB
• Euthanasia in old age: a case study and ethical analysis.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1983 Meier DE, Cassel CK
• Physicians and nuclear war.
  The New England journal of medicine 1982 Cassel C, Garland M, McCally M, Morton W
• The ethics of medicine: an annotated bibliography of recent literature.
  Annals of internal medicine 1980 Jonsen AR, Cassel C, Lo B, Perkins HS
• Plasmapheresis and immunosuppressive drug therapy in myasthenia gravis.
  The New England journal of medicine 1977 Dau PC, Lindstrom JM, Cassel CK, Denys EH, Shev EE, Spitler LE
• A diagnostic index of clinical practice.
  JAMA 1977 Cassel C
• Letter: Fatal infectious mononucleosis in familial lymphohistiocytosis.
  The New England journal of medicine 1974 Purtilo DT, Cassel C, Yang JP