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Survival Rates / Life Expectancy Articles

Response to Richard Katz MD, March 9, 2011

Factors That Improve the Life Expectancy of Severely Disabled Individuals, October 8, 2007

Response to David Strauss and Dr. Richard Katz, November 14, 2005

Response to David Strauss, May 9, 2004.

1998 Survival Rates are an Underestimate, October, 2004

Comparison Eyman vs Plioplys, October, 2004

Effect of government regulations on death rates of severely disabled, cerebral palsied children. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Child Neurology Society, October 2004, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Annals of Neurology, 56: (suppl. 8): S125, 2004; and presentation at the annual meeting of the American Medical Directors Association, March 2005, New Orleans, Louisiana, Journal of the American Medical Directors Assocation, 6: B15, 2005.

Life Expectancy of Severely Disabled Children: a Brief Review. Pediatric Life Care Planning and Case Management, (ed. Riddick-Grisham, S.) CRC Press, pages 781-795, 2004.

Vaiku su Sunkiu Cerebriniu Paralyziumi Isgyvenamumas: Trumpa Apzvalga. Neurologijos Seminarai (Seminars in Neurology, Vilnius, Lithuania), 2:10-19, 2004 (this is a Lithuanian translation of the above cited publication).

Pediatric Skilled Nursing Facilities: Improved Survival Rates. Vulnerable Populations in the Long Term Care Continuum, (eds. Katz, P.R., Mezey, M.D., Kapp, M.B.) Springer, pages 109-131, 2004.

An Update on Survival Rates of Disabled Children. Summary handout of a workshop at the American Medical Directors Association Annual meeting, March 4, 2004, Phoenix, AZ.

Survival Rates of Children with Severe Neurologic Disabilities: a Review. Seminars in Pediatric Neurology, 10: 120-129, 2003.

Survival Rates of Children with Severe Neurologic Disabilities in Pediatric Skilled Nursing Facilities. Summary handout of presentations at the American Medical Directors Association meeting, San Diego, CA, March 21-24, 2002; Child Neurology Society meeting, Washington, D.C., October 10, 2002, Grand Rounds, LaRabida Children's Hospital (University of Chicago), Chicago, IL, November 8, 2002.

Survival rates of G-tube fed children: relation to fundoplication. Proceedings of the American Medical Directors Association, San Antonio, Texas, March, 1998; International Child Neurology Society meeting, Ljubliana, Slovenia. September 13-17, 1998. Brain and Development. 20:440, 1998.

Life expectancy of children with severe neurologic disabilities. Southern Medical Journal. 91:161-170, 1998.