Writing

Below, you’ll find publications. Write with any questions! 

Some Featured Peer-Reviewed Publications

1 Saunders CH, Durand M-A, Scalia P, Kirkland KB, MacMartin MA, Barnato AE, et al. ‘It helps us say what’s important...’ Developing Serious Illness Topics: A clinical visit agenda-setting tool. Patient Educ Couns 2023;113:107764. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2023.107764


2 Saunders CH, Sierpe A, von Plessen C, Kennedy AM, Leviton LC, Bernstein SL, et al. Practical thematic analysis: a guide for multidisciplinary health services research teams engaging in qualitative analysis. BMJ 2023;381:e074256. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2022-074256


3 Stevens G, Johnson LC, Saunders CH, Schmidt P, Sierpe A, Thomeer RP, et al. The CONFIDENT study protocol: a randomized controlled trial comparing two methods to increase long-term care worker confidence in the COVID-19 vaccines. BMC Public Health 2023;23:384. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15266-x


4 Goldwag JL, Saunders CH, Read JT, Durand M-A, Elwyn G, Ivatury SJ. A Rectal Cancer Surgical Decision Aid Is Not Enough: A Qualitative Study. Dis Colon Rectum 2022;65:1483–93. https://doi.org/10.1097/DCR.0000000000002444


5 Saunders CH, Sierpe A, Stevens G, Elwyn G, Cantrell M, Engel J, et al. Co-Development of a Web Application (COVID-19 Social Site) for Long-Term Care Workers (‘Something for Us’): User-Centered Design and Participatory Research Study. J Med Internet Res 2022;24:e38359. https://doi.org/10.2196/38359


6 Saunders CH, Durand M-A, Kirkland KB, MacMartin MA, Barnato AE, Elwyn G. Psychometric assessment of the consideRATE questions, a new measure of serious illness experience, with an online simulation study. Patient Educ Couns 2022;105:2581–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2022.01.002


7 Politi MC, Saunders CH, Grabinski VF, Yen RW, Cyr AE, Durand M-A, et al. An absence of equipoise: Examining surgeons’ decision talk during encounters with women considering breast cancer surgery. PLoS One 2021;16:e0260704. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260704


8 Kang R, Saunders CH, Carpenter-Song EA, Moore KO, Trooboff SW, Columbo JA, et al. A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of Patient Education Materials for Colorectal Cancer. Dis Colon Rectum 2021;64:1249–58. https://doi.org/10.1097/DCR.0000000000001917


9 Saunders CH, Goldwag JL, Read JT, Durand M-A, Elwyn G, Ivatury SJ. ‘Because Everybody is so Different’: a qualitative analysis of the lived experiences and information needs of rectal cancer survivors. BMJ Open 2021;11:e043245. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-043245


10 Scalia P, Saunders CH, Dannenberg M, Mc Giguere A, Alper BS, Hoffmann T, et al. Processes for evidence summarization for patient decision aids: A Delphi consensus study. Health Expect 2021. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13244


11 Saunders CH, Durand M-A, Scalia P, Kirkland KB, MacMartin MA, Barnato AE, et al. User-Centered Design of the consideRATE Questions, a Measure of People’s Experiences When They Are Seriously Ill. J Pain Symptom Manage 2021;61:555–65.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.08.002


12 Saunders CH, Durand M-A, Scalia P, Kirkland KB, MacMartin MA, Barnato AE, et al. User-Centered Design of the consideRATE Questions, a Measure of People’s Experiences When They Are Seriously Ill. J Pain Symptom Manage 2021;61:555–65.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.08.002


13 Durand M-A, Yen RW, O’Malley AJ, Schubbe D, Politi MC, Saunders CH, et al. What matters most: Randomized controlled trial of breast cancer surgery conversation aids across socioeconomic strata. Cancer 2021;127:422–36. https://doi.org/10.1002/cncr.33248


14 Goldwag J, Saunders C, Read J, Durand M-A, Elwyn G, Ivatury SJ. Would patients benefit from a decision aid for surgical decision making for rectal cancer? A qualitative analysis. J Clin Orthod 2020;38:e19139–e19139. https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.2020.38.15_suppl.e19139


15 Saunders CH, Patel K, Kang H, Elwyn G, Kirkland K, Durand M-A. Serious Choices: A Systematic Environmental Scan of Decision Aids and Their Use for Seriously Ill People Near Death. J Hosp Med 2019;14:294–302. https://doi.org/10.12788/jhm.3110


16 Saunders CH, Petersen CL, Durand M-A, Bagley PJ, Elwyn G. Bring on the Machines: Could Machine Learning Improve the Quality of Patient Education Materials? A Systematic Search and Rapid Review. JCO Clin Cancer Inform 2018;2:1–16. https://doi.org/10.1200/CCI.18.00010


17 Saunders CH, Elwyn G, Kirkland K, Durand M-A. Serious Choices: A Protocol for an Environmental Scan of Patient Decision Aids for Seriously Ill People at Risk of Death Facing Choices about Life-Sustaining Treatments. Patient 2018;11:97–106. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40271-017-0268-2