Publications by authors named "J Lawrence Katz"

Importance: Few person-centered, scalable models of collaborative intensive care unit (ICU) clinician-palliative care specialist care exist.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of a collaborative palliative care intervention compared to usual care among family members of patients in the ICU.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This parallel-group randomized clinical trial with patient-level randomization was conducted between April 2021 and September 2023.

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Background: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a debilitating condition, and synovitis is a structural marker of disease progression that can be identified on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Nonsurgical therapies have been developed with the goal of targeting this inflammation to reduce pain and slow disease progression.

Purpose: To review current randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that measured changes in pain outcomes and synovitis on MRI scans after nonsurgical treatment for persons with knee OA.

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This multi-institutional, descriptive study of 19 children with neurofibromatosis 1 examines the link between optic pathway gliomas (OPGs) and central precocious puberty (CPP). We report that CPP can arise without OPG chiasmal involvement and that prior OPG chemotherapy does not prevent the development of CPP.

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