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How qualitative research can contribute to research in the intensive care unitTasnim Sinuff
Department of Critical Care, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, and Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Crit Care 22:104-11. 2007..To illustrate how our understanding of social phenomena such as patient safety and behavior change has been enhanced we use recent qualitative studies in acute care medicine...- Facilitating clinician adherence to guidelines in the intensive care unit: A multicenter, qualitative studyTasnim Sinuff
Department of Critical Care and Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Crit Care Med 35:2083-9. 2007..To determine perceived facilitators and barriers to guideline implementation and clinician adherence to guidelines in the intensive care unit (ICU)... - Clinical practice guidelines in the intensive care unit: a survey of Canadian clinicians' attitudesTasnim Sinuff
Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, and University of Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5, Canada
Can J Anaesth 54:728-36. 2007..To understand clinicians' perceptions regarding practice guidelines in Canadian intensive care units (ICUs) to inform guideline development and implementation strategies... - Noninvasive ventilation for acute respiratory failure near the end of lifeTasnim Sinuff
Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Crit Care Med 36:789-94. 2008.... - Ventilator-associated pneumonia: Improving outcomes through guideline implementationTasnim Sinuff
Department of Critical Care, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center and Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4N 3M5
J Crit Care 23:118-25. 2008..Unfortunately, there remain large gaps in our understanding of guideline implementation in the intensive care unit, specifically as it applies to guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of VAP... - Quality of professional society guidelines and consensus conference statements in critical careTasnim Sinuff
Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, and Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Crit Care Med 36:1049-58. 2008..To examine the quality of professional society critical care guidelines and consensus statements... - Practice guidelines as multipurpose tools: a qualitative study of noninvasive ventilationTasnim Sinuff
Department of Critical Care, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Crit Care Med 35:776-82. 2007..The objective was to understand the knowledge about and attitudes toward an NIV guideline for patients with ARF and potential barriers to its use... - Understanding and changing attitudes toward withdrawal and withholding of life support in the intensive care unitDeborah Cook
Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Crit Care Med 34:S317-23. 2006..Understanding these attitudes may offer valuable insights about strategies that should help improve the care for dying patients and their families... - Bilevel noninvasive positive pressure ventilation for acute respiratory failure: survey of Ontario practiceKaren E A Burns
Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Crit Care Med 33:1477-83. 2005..Some factors associated with variation in NIV use may be suitable targets for utilization improvement interventions... - Abstract reporting in randomized clinical trials of acute lung injury: an audit and assessment of a quality of reporting scoreKaren E A Burns
Graduate Program in Health Research Methodology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Crit Care Med 33:1937-45. 2005..Checklists may aid authors and editors in prioritizing important criteria for inclusion in RCT abstracts... - A guide for the design and conduct of self-administered surveys of cliniciansKaren E A Burns
Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care, University of Toronto, and Keenan Research Centre and the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ont
CMAJ 179:245-52. 2008 - Mortality predictions in the intensive care unit: comparing physicians with scoring systemsTasnim Sinuff
Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Crit Care Med 34:878-85. 2006..The overall accuracy of both predictions of patient mortality was moderate, implying limited usefulness of outcome prediction in the first 24 hrs for clinical decision making... - "Living with dying": the evolution of family members' experience of mechanical ventilationTasnim Sinuff
Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Crit Care Med 37:154-8. 2009.... - The value of audit and feedback reports in improving nutrition therapy in the intensive care unit: a multicenter observational studyTasnim Sinuff
Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr 34:660-8. 2010..The objective of this study was to determine whether auditing practice and providing feedback in the form of benchmarked site reports is an effective strategy to improve adherence to nutrition guidelines... - Health technology assessment in the ICU: noninvasive positive pressure ventilation for acute respiratory failureTasnim Sinuff
Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
J Crit Care 18:59-67. 2003..Careful evaluation of health technologies in the ICU should be an ongoing priority... - Event adjudication and data monitoring in an intensive care unit observational study of thromboprophylaxisD Cook
Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
J Crit Care 24:168-75. 2009.... - Prophylaxis against deep vein thrombosis in critically ill patients with severe renal insufficiency with the low-molecular-weight heparin dalteparin: an assessment of safety and pharmacodynamics: the DIRECT studyJames Douketis
Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Arch Intern Med 168:1805-12. 2008..To challenge this premise, we evaluated if deep vein thrombosis (DVT) prophylaxis with dalteparin sodium confers an excessive anticoagulant effect in critically ill patients with severe renal insufficiency... - Influencing advance directive completion rates in non-terminally ill patients: a systematic reviewRakesh V Patel
Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
J Crit Care 19:1-9. 2004..06] for less rigorous and poorly reported trials (P =.013). CONCLUSIONS: Advance directive completion rates documenting patient preferences for end-of-life care may be increased by simple patient-directed educational interventions... - Guidelines in the intensive care unitTasnim Sinuff
Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Room 3W10, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L9H 6Z6, Canada
Clin Chest Med 24:739-49, viii. 2003..The quality of the growing number of practice guidelines in critical care is important to assess and several useful instruments are available for this purpose... - DNR directives are established early in mechanically ventilated intensive care unit patientsTasnim Sinuff
Department of Medicine, McMaster University Health Sciences Center, Room 2C11, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3Z5, Canada
Can J Anaesth 51:1034-41. 2004..The strongest predictors of DNR directives were physician prediction of low probability of survival, physician perception of patient preference to limit life support, organ dysfunction, medical diagnosis and age... - Rationing critical care beds: a systematic reviewTasnim Sinuff
Crit Care Med 32:1588-97. 2004..Critical care bed rationing requires further investigation... - Evaluation of a practice guideline for noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation for acute respiratory failureTasnim Sinuff
Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Chest 123:2062-73. 2003.... - Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation in critical and palliative care settings: understanding the goals of therapyJ Randall Curtis
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Crit Care Med 35:932-9. 2007..Therefore, the Society of Critical Care Medicine charged this Task Force with developing an approach for considering use of NPPV for patients who choose to forego endotracheal intubation... - Advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: innovative approaches to palliationGraeme M Rocker
Division of Respirology, QEII Health Sciences Centre and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
J Palliat Med 10:783-97. 2007..By combining the clinical and research skills of pulmonologists and palliative medicine specialists we can advance the care of patients with this progressive and incurable disease...