Home > Medical
Articles >
The Adobe Acrobat Reader is required for viewing these articles. Click here to download the free software.
Survival Rates / Life Expectancy Articles
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.
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.
