Scholar Profile

Lauren Turner’s dissertation explores associations among palliative care consultations for end-of-life discussions, acute care costs, healthcare utilization, and race among persons with serious illness; and risk factors associated with the timing of end-of-life discussions before death. She is an Associate Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute is Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, a Jonas Scholar, a Luce Scholar, a member of Sigma Theta Tau, and a predoctoral fellow in the NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health under the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award training program in Individualized Care for At Risk Older Adults, National Institute of Nursing Research (T32NR009356).

Select publications:

Starr LT, Ulrich CM, Corey KL, Meghani SH. Associations Among End-of-Life Discussions, Health-Care Utilization, and Costs in Persons With Advanced Cancer: A Systematic Review. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2019 Oct;36(10):913-926. doi: 10.1177/1049909119848148. Epub 2019 May 9. PMID: 31072109; PMCID: PMC6711813.

Starr LT, Magan KC. Model of Empathic Pain Assessment and Treatment in Persons With Dementia. Res Gerontol Nurs. 2020 Sep 1;13(5):264-276. doi: 10.3928/19404921-20200402-01. Epub 2020 Apr 14. PMID: 32286670.

Starr LT, Ulrich CM, Junker P, Appel SM, O’Connor NR, Meghani SH. Goals-of-Care Consultation Associated With Increased Hospice Enrollment Among Propensity-Matched Cohorts of Seriously Ill African American and White Patients. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2020 Oct;60(4):801-810. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.05.020. Epub 2020 May 23. PMID: 32454185; PMCID: PMC7508853.

Meghani SH, Levoy K, Magan KC, Starr LT, Yocavitch L, Barg FK. “I’m Dealing With That”: Illness Concerns of African American and White Cancer Patients While Undergoing Active Cancer Treatments. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2020 Oct 27:1049909120969121. doi: 10.1177/1049909120969121. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33107324.

Starr LT, Ulrich CM, Junker P, Huang L, O’Connor NR, Meghani SH. Patient Risk Factor Profiles Associated With the Timing of Goals-of-Care Consultation Before Death: A Classification and Regression Tree Analysis. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2020 Oct;37(10):767-778. doi: 10.1177/1049909120934292. Epub 2020 Jun 30. PMID: 32602349.

Starr LT, Ulrich CM, Appel SM, Junker P, O’Connor NR, Meghani SH. Goals-of-Care Consultations Are Associated with Lower Costs and Less Acute Care Use among Propensity-Matched Cohorts of African Americans and Whites with Serious Illness. J Palliat Med. 2020 Sep;23(9):1204-1213. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2019.0522. Epub 2020 Apr 27. PMID: 32345109; PMCID: PMC7469692.

Starr LT, O’Connor NR, Meghani SH. Improved Serious Illness Communication May Help Mitigate Racial Disparities in Care Among Black Americans with COVID-19. J Gen Intern Med. 2021 Jan 19:1–6. doi: 10.1007/s11606-020-06557-9. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33464466; PMCID: PMC7814859.