Ronald M Epstein MD

PubMed

• Protocol of a decisional intervention for older adults with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia and their caregivers: UR-GOAL 3.
  Kah Poh Loh, Qiao Ming Rachel Ng, Supriya G Mohile, Sally Norton, Ronald M Epstein
  Journal of Geriatric Oncology. 2025-03-01
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  Feasibility and Acceptability of a Palliative Care Intervention among Older Adults with Advanced CKD and Their Caregivers.
  Fahad Saeed, Robert K Horowitz, Rebecca J Allen, Peggy Auinger, Ronald M Epstein
  Kidney360. 2025-02-01
• Feasibility and Acceptability of a Palliative Care Intervention Among Older or Adults with Advanced CKD and their Caregivers.
  Fahad Saeed, Robert K Horowitz, Rebecca J Allen, Peggy Auinger, Ronald M Epstein
  Kidney360. 2024-10-24

Journal Articles

• Effectiveness of a mindfulness education program in primary health care professionals: a pragmatic controlled tria  
  Asuero AM; Queraltó JM; Pujol-Ribera E; Berenguera A; Rodriguez-Blanco T; Epstein RM, The Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 1/1/2014
• Shared decision making and motivational interviewing: achieving patient-centered care across the spectrum of health care problems  
  Elwyn G; Dehlendorf C; Epstein RM; Marrin K; White J; Frosch DL, Annals of Family Medicine, 1/1/2014
• ’Speaking for’ and ‘speaking as’: pseudo-surrogacy in physician-patient-companion medical encounters about advanced cancer  
  Mazer BL; Cameron RA; DeLuca JM; Mohile SG; Epstein RM, Patient Education and Counseling, 1/1/2014
• Discussing prognosis and end-of-life care in the final year of life: a randomised controlled trial of a nurse-led communication support programme for patients and care...  
  Walczak A; Butow PN; Clayton JM; Tattersall MH; Davidson PM; Young J; Epstein RM, BMJ, 1/1/2014
• Advanced cancer patients’ and caregivers’ use of a question prompt list  
  Brandes K; Butow PN; Tattersall MH: Clayton JM; Davidson PM; Young J; Epstein RM; Walczak A, Patient Education and Counseling, 1/1/2014
• A qualitative analysis of responses to a question prompt list and prognosis and end-of-life care discussion prompts delivered in a communication support program  
  Walczak A; Henselmans I; Tattersall MH; Clayton JM; Davidson PM; Young J; Bellemore FA; Epstein RM; Butow PN , Psycho-oncology, 1/1/2014
• Realizing Engel's biopsychosocial vision: resilience, compassion, and quality of care  
  Epstein RM , International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 1/1/2014
• Collaborative deliberation: a model for patient care  
  Elwyn G; Lloyd A; May C; van der Weijden T; Stiggelbout A; Edwards A; Frosch DL; Rapley T; Barr P; Walsh T; Grande SW; Montori V; Epstein R, Patient Education and Counseling, 1/1/2014
• A question prompt list for patients with advanced cancer in the final year of life: development and cross-cultural evaluation  
  Walczak A; Mazer B; Butow P; Tattersall M; Clayton J; Davidson P; Young J; Ladwig S; Epstein R, Palliative Medicine, 1/1/2013
• Direct observation of prognosis communication in palliative care: a descriptive study  
  Gramling R; Norton SA; Ladwig S; Metzger M; Deluca J; Gramling D; Schatz D; Epstein R; Quill T; Alexander S, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 1/1/2013
• Pain assessment: the roles of physician certainty and curiosity  
  Shields CG; Finley MA; Elias CM; Coker CJ; Casey J; Griggs J; Fiscella K; Epstein RM, Health Communication, 1/1/2013
• Whole mind and shared mind in clinical decision-making  
  Epstein RM, Patient Education and Counseling, 1/1/2013
• What is shared in shared decision-making? complex decisions when the evidence is unclear  
  Epstein RM; Gramling RE, Medical Care Research and Review, 1/1/2013
• Patient perspectives regarding communication about prognosis and end-of-life issues: how can it be optimized?  
  Walczak A; Butlow PN; Davidson PM; Bellemore FA; Tattersall MH; Clayton JM; Young J; Mazer B; Ladwig S; Epstein RM, Patient Education and Counseling, 1/1/2013
• Physician resilience: what it means, why it matters, and how to promote it  
  Epstein RM; Krasner MS, Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 1/1/2013
• Physical activity counseling intervention at a federally qualified health center: Improves autonomy-supportiveness, but not patients’ perceived competence  
  Carroll JK; Fiscella K; Epstein RM; Sanders MR; Winters PC; Moorhead SA; van Osch L; Williams GC, Patient Education and Counseling, 1/1/2013
• A multicenter study of physician mindfulness and health care quality  
  Beach MC; Roter D; Korthuis PT; Epstein RM; Sharp V; Ratanawongsa N; Cohn J; Eggly S; Sankar A; Moore RD; Saha S, Annals of Family Medicine, 1/1/2013
• In search of compassion: a new taxonomy of compassionate physician behaviours  
  Cameron RA; Mazer BL; Deluca JM; Mohile SG; Epstein RM, Health Expectations : An International Journal of Public Participation in Health Care and Health Policy, 1/1/2013
• The ambiguity of personhood  
  Epstein RM, The American Journal of BioEthics, 1/1/2013
• In reply  
  Epstein RM; Krasner MS, Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 1/1/2013
• Feeling labeled, judged, lectured, and rejected by family and friends over depression cautionary results for primary care clinicians from a multi-centered, qualitative...  
  Fernandez Y Garcia E; Duberstein P; Paterniti DA; Cipri CS; Kravitz RL; Epstein RM, BMC Family Practice, 1/1/2012
• A 5A’s communication intervention to promote physical activity in underserved populations  
  Carroll JK; Fiscella K; Epstein RM; Sanders MR; Williams GC, BMC Health Services Research, 1/1/2012
• Turning toward dissonance: lessons from art, music, and literature  
  Makowski SK; Epstein RM, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 1/1/2012
• Patient preferences and healthcare outcomes: An ecological perspective  
  Street RL; Elwyn G; Epstein RM, Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research, 1/1/2012
• The impact of a program in mindful communication on primary care physicians  
  Beckman HB; Wendland M; Mooney C; Krasner MS; Quill TE; Suchman AL; Epstein RM, Academic Medicine, 1/1/2012
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Books/Book Chapters

• The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Mindfulness 
  Chapter: What will it take for physicians to practice mindfully? Promoting quality of care, quality of caring, resilience, and well-being 
  Epstein RMEditors: Ie, A, Ngnoumen CT, Langer EJ.The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Mindfulness, Hoboken, NJEdition 1st,2014
• Palliative Care and Ethics: Common Ground and Cutting Edges 
  Chapter: Capacity and shared decision-making in serious illness 
  Epstein RM; Entwistle VAEditors: Quill TE & Miller FG.Oxford University Press2013
• Collaborative decision making, shared mind 
  Epstein RMEncyclopedia of Health Communication2013
• Reconsidering Medical Education in the Twenty-First Century: The Question of Competence 
  Chapter: The competent mind: beyond cognition 
  Leung ASO; Epstein RM; Moulton CAEEditors: Hodges BD; Lingard L.ILR Press2012
• Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine 
  Chapter: What are strategies for eliminating survival prognoses in advanced non-cancer illness? 
  Carroll T; Epstein R; Gramling REditors: Goldstein N; Morrison S.Elsevier Press2012
• Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine 
  Chapter: What are strategies for estimating survival prognoses in advanced cancer? 
  Carroll T; Epstein R; Gramling REditors: Goldstein N, Morrison S.Elsevier Press2012
• Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine 
  Chapter: What is known about prognostication in advanced illness? 
  Gramling R; Carroll T; Epstein REditors: Goldstein N; Morrison S.Elsevier Press2012
• Surgical Education: Theorising an emerging domain 
  Chapter: Self-monitoring in surgical practice: slowing down when you should 
  Page 169 - 182Moulton CA; Epstein RMEditors: Fry H; Kneebone R.Springer2011
• Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making 
  Chapter: Teaching diagnostic clinical reasoning 
  Page 1116 - 1121Quill TE; Clark NS; Markakis K; Epstein R; Bordley D; Panzer REditors: Kattan MW.Sage Publications Inc2009
• Behavioral Medicine: A Guide for Clinical Practice 
  Chapter: Mindful practice 
  Page 49 - 54Epstein RMEditors: Christensen J; Feldman M.McGraw-Hill Medical2008
• Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research and Practice 
  Chapter: Key interpersonal functions and health outcomes: lessons from theory and research on clinician-patient communication 
  Page 237 - 263Street RL; Epstein RMEditors: Glanz, K; Rimer BK; Viswanath K. Jossey-Bass.2008
• National Cancer Institute 
  Chapter: Patient-centered communication in cancer care: promoting healing and reducing suffering 
  Epstein RM; Street RLNIH Publication2007
• Lost Virtue: Professional Character Development and Medical Education 
  Chapter: Mindful practice and the tacit ethics of the moment 
  Epstein RMEditors: Kenny N; Shelton W.Elsevier2006
• Complications in Pediatric Otolaryngology 
  Chapter: Managing the stress of surgical complications 
  Page 23 - 28Asher BF; Epstein RMEditors: Josephson GD; Whol DL.CRC Press2005
• The Biopsychosocial Approach: Past, Present, Future 
  Chapter: Clinical practice and the biopsychosocial approach 
  Page 33 - 66Epstein RM; Morse DS; Williams GC; Leroux P; Suchman AL; Quill TE; Frankel RM; McDaniel SH2003
• Fundamentals of Clinical Practice 
  Chapter: The patient-physician relationship 
  Page 403 - 430Epstein RMEditors: Mengel MB; Holleman WL; Fields SA.Plenum2002
• Improving Family Health 
  Chapter: A day in the life: philosophy and action in family medicine 
  Epstein RMEditors: Cogil V; Garcia-Shelton L; Mariotti M.2002
• Casebook for Integrating Family Therapy: An Ecosystemic Approach 
  Chapter: Differentiation before death: medical family therapy for a woman with end-stage Crohn's disease and her son 
  Page 323 - 336McDaniel SH; Harkness JL; Epstein RMAPA Publishers2001
• Handbook of Interviewing 
  Chapter: Interviewing in medical settings 
  Page 355 - 383Zoppi K; Epstein RMEditors: Gubrium J; Holstein J.Sage Publications2001
• Medicina de Familia y Universidad 
  Chapter: Family medicine and the medical school: the situation in the USA and implications for Spain 
  Page 35 - 45Epstein RMEditors: Pablo Bonal Pitz.Secretariado de Publicaciones1999
• The New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry 
  Chapter: Communication and mental health in primary care 
  Page 87 - 93Epstein RM; Borrell i Carrio F; Caterina MEditors: Gelder MG; Lopez-Ibor JJ; Andreasen NC.Oxford Press1999
• Partnerships in Health Care: Transforming Relational Process 
  Chapter: Communication between primary care physicians and consultants 
  Page 171 - 184Epstein, RMEditors: Suchman AL; Botelho RJ; Hinton-Walker P.University of Rochester Press1998
• Advances in Medical Education 
  Chapter: How students learn from ambulatory preceptors: critical incidents 
  Epstein RM; Cole DR; Gawinski BA; Ruddy NB; Lee SPEditors: Scherpbier AJJA; van der Vleuten CPM; Rethans JJ.Kluwer Academic Publishers1997
• Textbook of Psychosomatic Medicine 
  Chapter: A biopsychosocial approach to AIDS 
  Page 623 - 639Epstein RMEditors: Vonuexkul T; Adler R.Munchen-Wien-Baltimore1997
• Fundamentals of Clinical Practice: A Textbook on the Patient, Doctor and Society 
  Chapter: The patient-physician relationship 
  Epstein RMEditors: Mengel MB; Holleman WL.Plenum1996
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Abstracts/Posters

• A Comparison of Student and Faculty Rating of Teamwork during a Simulation Exercise
  Epstein RM, Lurie S, Meldrum S, Nofziger A, Spencer M, Spillane L, Ward D, Ottawa Conference on Clinical Competence, New York, NY, 1/1/2006
• Generalizability of Peer Assessments among Medical Students: Differences across Years and Classes
  Nofziger AC, Epstein RM, Lurie SJ, Mooney CJ, Meldrum S, Ottawa Conference on Clinical Competence, New York, NY, 1/1/2006
• Comprehensive Assessment URSMD 2001-2006: Outcomes, Lessons, and New Directions
  Epstein RM, Northeast Group on Educational Affairs, Philadelphia, PA, 1/1/2006
• Physician Responses to Ambiguous Patient Symptoms
  Epstein RM, North American Primary Care Research Group, Orlando, FL, 1/1/2004
• Peer Assessment of Medical Students
  Dannefer E, Grady-Weliky T, Nofziger A, Epstein RM, Northeast Group on Educational Affairs, Association of American Medical Colleges, Boston, MA, 1/1/2003
• The Comprehensive Assessment at the University of Rochester
  Epstein RM, Society of General Internal Medicine, San Francisco, CA, 1/1/2002
• Improving physician's HIV risk-assessment skills: A feasibility study using announced and unannounced standardized patients in physicians' offices
  Epstein RM; Levenkron JC; Frarey L; Thompson J; Anderson K; Franks P, Proceedings of the 8th Ottawa International Conference on Medical Education and Assessment, Philadelphia, PA, 1/1/2000
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Lectures

• Collaborative Care: Mindful Engagement with Our Work - Skills to Address Burnout, Resilience and Wellbeing (Workshop) 
• Clinician Resilience: Burnout, Well-being and Quality of Care 
  1/1/2014
• Training Health Professionals to Practice Mindfully 
  Zaragoza, Spain - 1/1/2014
• Why is it Necessary to Promote Patient-Centered Care 
  Hospital Parc Sanitari Pere Virgili, Barcelona, Spain - 1/1/2014
• The Benefits of a Patient-Centered Approach-A Health Systems View 
  Manresa, Spain - 1/1/2014
• Noticing Suffering: Cultivating Habits of Mind that Deepen our Understanding of Ourselves and our Patients 
  Providence Health Systems, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - 1/1/2014
• Responding to Suffering: Being Present without Being Overwhelmed or Disengaged 
  Providence Health Systems, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - 1/1/2014
• Case Studies in Patient-Centered Care | Conference on Models, Experiences and Methodologies of Patient-Centered Care 
  Hospital Parc Sanitari Pere Virgili, Barcelona, Spain - 1/1/2014
• Clinician Burnout, Resilience and Quality of Care 
  University of Osaka, Tokyo, Japan - 1/1/2014
• Mindful Practice for Clinicians: What We Notice Affects the Care We Provide 
  University of Osaka, Tokyo, Japan - 1/1/2014
• Cultivating Mindful Practice: Is it Possible? Is it Worth It? 
  University of Osaka, Tokyo, Japan - 1/1/2014
• Clinician Resilience: Preventing Burnout, Promoting Compassion, Improving Quality 
  St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - 1/1/2014
• Clinician Resilience: Why it Matters and How to Foster its Development 
  St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - 1/1/2014
• Resilience, Preventing Burnout, Promoting Compassion, Improving Quality of Care 
  St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - 1/1/2014
• Eight Leaps to Biopsychosocial Care 
  Kansas City, MO - 1/1/2014
• Mindful Practice for Clinicians 
  Kansas City, MO - 1/1/2014
• Preventing Clinical Burnout 
  Kansas City, MO - 1/1/2014
• Practicing Mindfully: Professionalism, Teamwork, Burnout and Resilience 
  Danville, PA - 1/1/2014
• Clinical Resilience: Preventing Burnout, Promoting Compassion and Improving Quality 
  1/1/2014
• Values and Options in Cancer Care: Preliminary Insights 
  1/1/2014
• Mindfulness and Resilience, Both Individual and Collective 
  Danville, PA - 1/1/2014
• Nurturing a Community of Mindful Practice 
  Danville, PA - 1/1/2014
• Compassionate Action 
  Wright State University, Dayton, OH - 1/1/2014
• Promoting Resilience of the Health Care Workforce 
  Wright State University, Dayton, OH - 1/1/2014
• Talk Matters: Approaching Difficult Conversations in Oncology 
  1/1/2013
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Other

• HIV notes for the family physician (a clinical guidebook) 
  Epstein RM
  1/1/1997
• Current therapy of pain 
  Epstein RM
  1/1/1991
• The role of the tutor and models of teaching 
  Loayssa JR; Epstein RM
  Madrid, Spain