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Critical care use during the course of serious illness.
(American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2004-11)
Despite its expense and importance, it is unknown how common critical care use is. We describe longitudinal patterns of critical care use among a nationally representative cohort of elderly patients monitored from the onset ...
Despite variation in volume, Veterans Affairs hospitals show consistent outcomes among patients with non-postoperative mechanical ventilation
(2012-09)
OBJECTIVE:
To assess the relationship between volume of nonoperative mechanically ventilated patients receiving care in a specific Veterans Health Administration hospital and their mortality.
DESIGN:
Retrospective cohort ...
Seduction and Insight from Cross-National Comparisons
(2009-11-01)
Editorial discussing the stregnths and limitations of crossnational comparisons of critical care, with particular reference to Use of Intensive Care Services during Terminal Hospitalizations in England and the United ...
Team Effect on Variation in Laboratory Utilization on Subspecialty Services
(2009-10)
Background: The objective was to determine whether variation in laboratory utilization exists and whether physicians were responsible for a portion of this variation.
Method: Variation in laboratory test ordering was ...
Racial, ethnic, and affluence differences in elderly patients' use of teaching hospitals.
(Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2002-09)
OBJECTIVE: To understand the role of race, ethnicity, and affluence in elderly patients' use of teaching hospitals when they have that option. METHODS: Using a novel data set of 787,587 Medicare patients newly diagnosed ...
The effect of an intensive care unit staffing model on tidal volume in patients with acute lung injury
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2008-11-03)
Introduction
Little is known about the mechanisms through which intensivist physician staffing influences patient outcomes. We aimed to assess the effect of closed-model intensive care on evidence-based ventilatory practice ...
Limiting the spread of highly resistant hospital-acquired microorganisms via critical care transfers: a simulation study
(Springer, 2011-10)
Purpose
Hospital-acquired infections with highly resistant organisms are an important problem among critically ill patients. Control of these organisms has largely focused within individual hospitals. We examine the ...
The Impact of Residents, Interns, and Attendings on Inpatient Laboratory Ordering Patterns: A Report From One University's Hospitalist Service
(2011-01)
Purpose: To examine the laboratory test ordering patterns of interns to determine the effects of more senior residents' and attendings' supervision on trainees' patterns and residents' perceptions of control in test ...
Survivorship Will Be the Defining Challenge of Critical Care in the 21st Century
(2010-08-03)
In an invited editorial, I argue that critical care is facing a cross-roads. We can now save many patients lives. But we need to broaden our sense of our mission to include understanding, caring for, and improving, the ...
Predictors of hospital mortality in a population-based cohort of patients with acute lung injury
(Society of Critical Care Medicine & Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008-05)
Objective: Studies describing predictors of mortality in patients with acute lung injury were primarily derived from selected academic centers. We sought to determine the predictors of mortality in a population-based cohort ...