Isabel Torres‐Vigil

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center — United States

Medicine · Health Sciences

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Research Topics

Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues(16), Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life(5), Global Cancer Incidence and Screening(4), Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare(4), Pain Management and Opioid Use(4)

Publications31 total

The role of empathic nursing telephone interventions with advanced cancer patients: A qualitative study
European Journal of Oncology Nursing·2020· 17 citedOpen Access
Pain Assessment Tool in Cognitively Impaired Elders
PsycTESTS Dataset·2020
Development and Testing of the Pain Assessment Tool in Cognitively Impaired Elders (PATCIE): Nonverbal Pain Behaviors in African American and Caucasian Nursing Home Residents with Dementia
Pain Management Nursing·2019· 8 cited
Patient navigation to increase colorectal cancer screening among Latino Medicare enrollees: a randomized controlled trial
Cancer Causes & Control·2015· 51 citedOpen Access
Palliative care development in Latin America: An analysis using macro indicators
Palliative Medicine·2014· 86 citedOpen Access
Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Latinos in Three Communities on the Texas–Mexico Border
Health Education & Behavior·2014· 25 citedOpen Access
From “<i>Kickeando las malias</i>” (Kicking the Withdrawals) to “Staying clean”: The Impact of Cultural Values on Cessation of Injection Drug Use in Aging Mexican-American Men
Substance Use & Misuse·2014· 14 citedOpen Access
Treatment decisions for localized prostate cancer: a concept mapping approach
Health Expectations·2014· 18 citedOpen Access
Decisional Control Preferences, Disclosure of Information Preferences, and Satisfaction Among Hispanic Patients With Advanced Cancer
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management·2013· 43 citedOpen Access
A multicenter survey of Hispanic caregiver preferences for patient decision control in the United States and Latin America
Palliative Medicine·2013· 26 citedOpen Access
Planning cancer control in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Lancet Oncology·2013· 496 citedOpen Access
<i>“El Lado Oscuro”</i>: “The Dark Side” of Social Capital in Mexican American Heroin Using Men
Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse·2013· 18 citedOpen Access
Modified Social Capital Scale
PsycTESTS Dataset·2013
Parenteral Hydration in Patients With Advanced Cancer: A Multicenter, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Randomized Trial
Journal of Clinical Oncology·2012· 241 citedOpen Access
Concepts and definitions for “supportive care,” “best supportive care,” “palliative care,” and “hospice care” in the published literature, dictionaries, and textbooks
Supportive Care in Cancer·2012· 326 citedOpen Access
Food or medicine: ethnic variations in perceptions of advanced cancer patients and their caregivers regarding artificial hydration during the last weeks of life: Table 1
BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care·2012· 21 cited
Parenteral hydration (PH) in advanced cancer patients: A multi-center, double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized trial.
Journal of Clinical Oncology·2012· 6 cited
The Meaning of Parenteral Hydration to Family Caregivers and Patients With Advanced Cancer Receiving Hospice Care
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management·2012· 83 citedOpen Access
Practice Patterns and Perceptions About Parenteral Hydration in the Last Weeks of Life: A Survey of Palliative Care Physicians in Latin America
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management·2011· 26 citedOpen Access
Can This Patient Be Discharged Home? Factors Associated With At-Home Death Among Patients With Cancer
Journal of Clinical Oncology·2011· 122 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Éduardo Bruera(11), Angelica P. Herrera(5), Liliana De Lima(4), Denae W. King(3), David Hui(3), Henrique A. Parsons(3), J. Lynn Palmer(3), Kenneth Tarleton(3), Alberto Alonso‐Babarro(3), Theresa Byrd(3), Marlene Z. Cohen(3), Allison De La Rosa(3), Richard A. Hajek(3), Lovell A. Jones(3), Marylou Cárdenas-Turanzas(3), David V. Flores(3), Luis R. Torres(3), Patrick S. Bordnick(3), Shedra Amy Snipes(2), Shalini Dalal(2)