Higgins, P. (2022). Guess who’s coming to dinner? The emerging identity of palliative social workers, in Altilio, T., Otis-Green, S., Cagle, J. C. (eds.), The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work, 2nd Edition. New York: Oxford University Press.

Braun LT, Grady KL, Kutner JS, [et al., including Higgins, P.] (2016). Palliative Care and Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke: A Policy Statement From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. Circulation 134(11):198-225.

Higgins, P.C., Garrido, M.M., & Prigerson, H.G. (2015). Factors predicting cancer caregiver perception of care in the final week of life: Implications for healthcare providers. Journal of Palliative Medicine 18(10):849-57.

Higgins, P.C. (2013). Is the waiting the hardest part? How cancer family caregivers experience quality of care at the end of life (Doctoral dissertation, BOSTON COLLEGE).

Higgins, P.C. and Prigerson, H.G. (2013). Caregiver Evaluation of the Quality of End-of-Life Care (CEQUEL) Scale: The caregiver’s perception of patient care near death. PLoS ONE 8(6): e66066. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066066.

Kayser, K., Demarco, R.F., Stokes, C., Desanto-Madeya, S., & Higgins, P.C. (2013). Delivering palliative care to patients and caregivers in inner-city communities: Challenges and opportunities. Palliat Support Care 24: 1-10.

Bernacki, R.E., Ko, D., Higgins, P., Nasrallah, S., Cullinan, A., Wilson, R., Jackson, V., Abrahm, J., Mort, E., Scheer, K., Block, S., & Billings, J.A. (2012). Improving access to palliative care through an innovative quality improvement initiative: An opportunity for pay-for-performance. Journal of Palliative Medicine 15(2):192-199.

Higgins, P. (2011). Guess who’s coming to dinner? The emerging identity of palliative social workers, in Altilio, T. and Otis-Green, S. (eds.), The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work. New York: Oxford University Press.

Bookbinder, M., Glajchen, M., McHugh, M., Higgins, P., Budis, J., Solomon, N., Homel, P., Cassin, C., Portenoy, R. (2010). Nurse practitioner-based models of specialist palliative care at home: Sustainability and evaluation of feasibility. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 41(1): 25-34.

Higgins, P. (2009).  Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy: A Handbook for the Mental Health Practitioner, Fourth Edition (review). Journal of Palliative Medicine 12(7): 653-654.

O’Mahony, S., Blank, A., Simpson, J., Persaud, J., Huvane, B., McAllen, S., Davitt, M., McHugh, M., Hutcheson, A., Karakas, S., Higgins, P., and Selwyn, P. (2008). Preliminary report of a palliative care and case management project in an emergency department for chronically ill elderly patients. Journal of Urban Health 85(3): 443-451.

Higgins, P. (2008). Ethics in End-of-Life Decisions in Social Work Practice (review). Journal of Palliative Medicine 11(1): 119-121.

Higgins, P. and Altilio, T. (2007). Palliative Sedation: An essential place for clinical excellence. Journal of Social Work in End-of-life and Palliative Care, 3(4):3-30.