Positions

Selected Publications

Academic Article

Year Title Altmetric
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
2021 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.  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