Positions

Selected Publications

Academic Article

Year Title Altmetric
2022 An Early Palliative Care Telehealth Coaching Intervention to Enhance Advanced Cancer Family Caregivers’ Decision Support Skills: The CASCADE Pilot Factorial Trial.  Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.  63:11-22. 2022
2021 Exploring Culturally Responsive Religious and Spirituality Health Care Communications among African Americans with Advanced Heart Failure, Their Family Caregivers, and Clinicians.  Journal of Palliative Medicine.  24:1798-1806. 2021
2021 Resilience, preparedness, and distress among family caregivers of patients with advanced cancer.  Supportive Care in Cancer.  29:6913-6920. 2021
2021 Examining Adherence and Dose Effect of an Early Palliative Care Intervention for Advanced Heart Failure Patients.  Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.  62:471-481. 2021
2021 Applying the Multiphase Optimization Strategy for the Development of Optimized Interventions in Palliative Care.  Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.  62:174-182. 2021
2020 Effect of an Early Palliative Care Telehealth Intervention vs Usual Care on Patients with Heart Failure: The ENABLE CHF-PC Randomized Clinical Trial.  JAMA Internal Medicine.  180:1203-1213. 2020
2020 Effects of a Telehealth Early Palliative Care Intervention for Family Caregivers of Persons With Advanced Heart Failure: The ENABLE CHF-PC Randomized Clinical Trial.  JAMA Network Open.  3:e202583. 2020
2020 African American Recruitment in Early Heart Failure Palliative Care Trials: Outcomes and Comparison With the ENABLE CHF-PC Randomized Trial.  Journal of Palliative Care.  2020
2019 How family caregivers of persons with advanced cancer assist with upstream healthcare decision-making: A qualitative study.  PLoS ONE.  14. 2019
2019 Exploring the Role of Religion and Spirituality in Provider-Patient Communication Among African-Americans with Advanced Heart Failure and Their Family Caregivers (FR421B).  Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.  57:411-412. 2019
2018 Protocol driven palliative care consultation: Outcomes of the ENABLE CHF-PC pilot study 2018
2018 Educate, Nurture, Advise, Before Life Ends Comprehensive Heartcare for Patients and Caregivers (ENABLE CHF-PC): Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.  Trials.  19. 2018
2017 Looking to the future: Introducing palliative care in the cardiorespiratory population 2017
2017 Family caregiving for persons with heart failure at the intersection of heart failure and palliative care: a state-of-the-science review.  Heart Failure Reviews.  22:543-557. 2017
2017 Engaging patients and families to create a feasible clinical trial integrating palliative and heart failure care: Results of the ENABLE CHF-PC pilot clinical trial.  BMC Palliative Care.  16. 2017

Chapter

Year Title Altmetric
2019 Palliative Care in Heart Failure.  559-570. 2019

Education And Training

  • University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing, Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Doctor of Philosophy in Registered Nursing / Registered Nurse, University of Alabama at Birmingham 2019
  • Master of Nursing in Registered Nursing / Registered Nurse, University of Alabama at Birmingham 2009
  • Bachelor of Science or Mathematics in Biology, University of Alabama 2006

    • Full Name

  • Rachel Wells