# Susan D. Block

**Type:** Researchers  
**Canonical URL:** https://scholariq.org/researchers/susan-d-block/

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Citations | 26,480 |
| Field | Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues |
| h-index | 83 |
| i10-index | 183 |
| Last Known Institution | Boston University |
| OpenAlex ID | https://openalex.org/A5007482727 |
| ORCID iD | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1146-4831 |
| Works | 288 |

## Researcher papers

- [Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life](https://scholariq.org/papers/health-care-costs-in-the-last-week-of-life/)
- [End-of-Life Discussions, Goal Attainment, and Distress at the End of Life: Predictors and Outcomes of Receipt of Care Consistent With Preferences](https://scholariq.org/papers/end-of-life-discussions-goal-attainment-and-distress-at-the-end-of-life/)
- [Place of Death: Correlations With Quality of Life of Patients With Cancer and Predictors of Bereaved Caregivers' Mental Health](https://scholariq.org/papers/place-of-death-correlations-with-quality-of-life-of-patients-with-cancer-and/)
- [Provision of Spiritual Care to Patients With Advanced Cancer: Associations With Medical Care and Quality of Life Near Death](https://scholariq.org/papers/provision-of-spiritual-care-to-patients-with-advanced-cancer-associations-with/)
- [Tracheostomy in the COVID-19 era: global and multidisciplinary guidance](https://scholariq.org/papers/tracheostomy-in-the-covid-19-era-global-and-multidisciplinary-guidance/)

## Researcher topics

- [Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues](https://scholariq.org/topics/palliative-care-and-end-of-life-issues/)
- [Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life](https://scholariq.org/topics/childhood-cancer-survivors-quality-of-life/)
- [Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health](https://scholariq.org/topics/grief-bereavement-and-mental-health/)
- [Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare](https://scholariq.org/topics/patient-provider-communication-in-healthcare/)
- [Cancer survivorship and care](https://scholariq.org/topics/cancer-survivorship-and-care/)

## Researcher university

- [Boston University](https://scholariq.org/institutions/boston-university/)

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Source: ScholarIQ — public research metadata, principally OpenAlex. See https://scholariq.org/sources/ for provenance and https://scholariq.org/methodology/ for what these figures mean.