Gordon Rubenfeld

Summary

Affiliation: University of Washington
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Can health care costs be reduced by limiting intensive care at the end of life?
    John M Luce
    Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med 165:750-4. 2002
  2. ncbi Incidence and outcomes of acute lung injury
    Gordon D Rubenfeld
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98104-2499, USA
    N Engl J Med 353:1685-93. 2005
  3. ncbi Hospital volume and the outcomes of mechanical ventilation
    Jeremy M Kahn
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle 98104, USA
    N Engl J Med 355:41-50. 2006
  4. ncbi Prediction of death and prolonged mechanical ventilation in acute lung injury
    Ognjen Gajic
    Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA
    Crit Care 11:R53. 2007
  5. ncbi Attending to the lightness of numbers: toward the understanding of critical care epidemiology
    Valdelis N Okamoto
    Respiratory Intensive Care Unit, Pulmonary Division, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
    Crit Care 8:422-4. 2004
  6. ncbi Interobserver variability in applying a radiographic definition for ARDS
    G D Rubenfeld
    Harborview Medical Center and the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98104, USA
    Chest 116:1347-53. 1999
  7. ncbi Implementing effective ventilator practice at the bedside
    Gordon D Rubenfeld
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Curr Opin Crit Care 10:33-9. 2004
  8. ncbi Interventions to improve long-term outcomes after critical illness
    Gordon D Rubenfeld
    Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Curr Opin Crit Care 13:476-81. 2007
  9. ncbi Improving care for patients dying in the intensive care unit
    Gordon D Rubenfeld
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, 325 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104 2499, USA
    Clin Chest Med 24:763-73. 2003
  10. ncbi Translating clinical research into clinical practice in the intensive care unit: the central role of respiratory care
    Gordon D Rubenfeld
    Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle WA 98104 2499, USA
    Respir Care 49:837-43. 2004

Detail Information

Publications84

  1. ncbi Can health care costs be reduced by limiting intensive care at the end of life?
    John M Luce
    Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med 165:750-4. 2002
  2. ncbi Incidence and outcomes of acute lung injury
    Gordon D Rubenfeld
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98104-2499, USA
    N Engl J Med 353:1685-93. 2005
    ..6 million hospital days. CONCLUSIONS: Acute lung injury has a substantial impact on public health, with an incidence in the United States that is considerably higher than previous reports have suggested...
  3. ncbi Hospital volume and the outcomes of mechanical ventilation
    Jeremy M Kahn
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle 98104, USA
    N Engl J Med 355:41-50. 2006
    ..Further research is needed to determine the mechanism of the relationship between volume and outcome among patients with a critical illness. Copyright 2006 Massachusetts Medical Society...
  4. ncbi Prediction of death and prolonged mechanical ventilation in acute lung injury
    Ognjen Gajic
    Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA
    Crit Care 11:R53. 2007
    ..We aimed to identify risk factors for a combined end-point of death and/or prolonged ventilator dependence and developed an ALI-specific prediction model...
  5. ncbi Attending to the lightness of numbers: toward the understanding of critical care epidemiology
    Valdelis N Okamoto
    Respiratory Intensive Care Unit, Pulmonary Division, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
    Crit Care 8:422-4. 2004
    ....
  6. ncbi Interobserver variability in applying a radiographic definition for ARDS
    G D Rubenfeld
    Harborview Medical Center and the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98104, USA
    Chest 116:1347-53. 1999
    ..The accuracy or reliability of this consensus radiographic definition has not been evaluated, and no radiographic definition of ALI-ARDS has been evaluated by a large international group of experts...
  7. ncbi Implementing effective ventilator practice at the bedside
    Gordon D Rubenfeld
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Curr Opin Crit Care 10:33-9. 2004
    ..As the evidence base grows for effective critical care practice, so does the responsibility to translate practices that improve outcome from research journals to patients' bedsides. Strategies for doing this are presented in the review...
  8. ncbi Interventions to improve long-term outcomes after critical illness
    Gordon D Rubenfeld
    Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Curr Opin Crit Care 13:476-81. 2007
    ..The topic is complex because critical illness spans a number of diseases including spinal cord injury and myocardial infarction that have an extensive rehabilitation literature...
  9. ncbi Improving care for patients dying in the intensive care unit
    Gordon D Rubenfeld
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, 325 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104 2499, USA
    Clin Chest Med 24:763-73. 2003
    ..Practical approaches to improving the quality of end-of-life care exist and should be implemented...
  10. ncbi Translating clinical research into clinical practice in the intensive care unit: the central role of respiratory care
    Gordon D Rubenfeld
    Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle WA 98104 2499, USA
    Respir Care 49:837-43. 2004
    ..Until recently the principal question facing intensivists was "Does this treatment work?" Though that question is still important, we now must address the same challenges other fields, notably cardiology, face in...
  11. ncbi Epidemiology and outcomes of acute lung injury
    Gordon D Rubenfeld
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, 325 Ninth Ave, Seattle WA 98104, USA
    Chest 131:554-62. 2007
    ....
  12. ncbi Surveys: an introduction
    Gordon D Rubenfeld
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Box 359762, Harborview Medical Center, 325 9th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104 2499, USA
    Respir Care 49:1181-5. 2004
    ..In developing a valid survey instrument, it can be useful to adapt survey instruments that were developed by other researchers and to conduct extensive pilot-testing of your survey instrument...
  13. ncbi Principles and practice of withdrawing life-sustaining treatments
    Gordon D Rubenfeld
    Harborview Medical Center, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington, 325 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104 2499, USA
    Crit Care Clin 20:435-51, ix. 2004
    ..Our hope is that adopting a more formal approach to this common procedure will improve the care of patients dying in intensive care units...
  14. ncbi Looking beyond 28-day all-cause mortality
    Gordon Rubenfeld
    Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Crit Care 6:293-4. 2002
  15. ncbi Understanding why we agree on the evidence but disagree on the medicine
    G D Rubenfeld
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
    Respir Care 46:1442-9. 2001
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  16. ncbi Beyond ethical dilemmas: improving the quality of end-of-life care in the intensive care unit
    Gordon D Rubenfeld
    Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Crit Care 7:11-2. 2003
  17. ncbi End-of-life care in the intensive care unit: a research agenda
    G D Rubenfeld
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104 2499, USA
    Crit Care Med 29:2001-6. 2001
    ..Although there have been consensus statements and review articles on end-of-life care in the ICU, there is limited evidence on which to base an assessment of best practices for providing high-quality end-of-life care in this setting...
  18. ncbi Using computerized medical databases to measure and to improve the quality of intensive care
    Gordon D Rubenfeld
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Haborview Medical Center, Box 359762, 325 9th Ave, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
    J Crit Care 19:248-56. 2004
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  19. ncbi Evaluation of a standardized order form for the withdrawal of life support in the intensive care unit
    Patsy D Treece
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
    Crit Care Med 32:1141-8. 2004
    ..Although the order form was helpful to clinicians and changed medication delivery, demonstrating clear improvements in quality of dying may require larger sample sizes, more sensitive measures, or more effective interventions...
  20. ncbi Design and preliminary results of a pilot randomized controlled trial on a 1:1:1 transfusion strategy: the trauma formula-driven versus laboratory-guided study
    Bartolomeu Nascimento
    From the Departments of Surgery, Critical Care, and Clinical Pathology, Tory Regional Trauma Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Canadian Forces Health Services
    J Trauma 71:S418-26. 2011
    ..However, a randomized controlled trial on the topic is lacking. We report on the design and preliminary results of our ongoing randomized control pilot trial (ClinicalTrial.gov NCT00945542)...
  21. ncbi Integrating palliative and critical care: description of an intervention
    Patsy D Treece
    Harborview Medical Center, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Crit Care Med 34:S380-7. 2006
    ..Future reports will need to examine the ability of the interventions to improve outcomes of palliative care in the ICU...
  22. ncbi Acute lung injury in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage: incidence, risk factors, and outcome
    Jeremy M Kahn
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
    Crit Care Med 34:196-202. 2006
    ..Research is needed to determine the causes of acute lung injury in this population and whether these patients are candidates for evidence-based ventilator strategies to reduce mortality...
  23. ncbi Hypercapnic acidosis and mortality in acute lung injury
    David A Kregenow
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
    Crit Care Med 34:1-7. 2006
    ..These results are consistent with a protective effect of hypercapnic acidosis against ventilator-associated lung injury that was not found when the further ongoing injury was reduced by 6 mL/kg predicted body weight tidal volumes...
  24. ncbi Family satisfaction with family conferences about end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: increased proportion of family speech is associated with increased satisfaction
    Jonathan R McDonagh
    Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
    Crit Care Med 32:1484-8. 2004
    ..Future studies should assess the effect of interventions to increase listening by critical care clinicians on the quality of communication and the family experience...
  25. ncbi Variations in rates of tracheostomy in the critically ill trauma patient
    Avery B Nathens
    Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
    Crit Care Med 34:2919-24. 2006
    ..The variation provides evidence of equipoise and emphasizes the need for a well-conducted randomized controlled trial to evaluate the utility of this procedure...
  26. ncbi Barriers to implementing the Leapfrog Group recommendations for intensivist physician staffing: a survey of intensive care unit directors
    Jeremy M Kahn
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98119, USA
    J Crit Care 22:97-103. 2007
    ..The purpose of this study was to examine the perception of the Leapfrog standards among ICU directors and determine the potential barriers to implementing these standards...
  27. ncbi Improving clinical trials of long-term outcomes
    Gordon D Rubenfeld
    Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
    Crit Care Med 37:S112-6. 2009
    ..Those interested in this area should collaborate to build on the lessons from effective multidisciplinary programs developed to treat other diseases...
  28. ncbi The association between body mass index and clinical outcomes in acute lung injury
    Amy E Morris
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, Mailbox 359762, 325 Ninth Ave, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
    Chest 131:342-8. 2007
    ..The association between body mass index (BMI) and outcomes in critically ill patients is unclear. Our objective was to determine the association between BMI and outcomes in a population-based cohort of patients with acute lung injury (ALI)...
  29. ncbi Clinical trial participants compared with nonparticipants in cystic fibrosis
    Christopher H Goss
    University of Washington Medical Center, Campus Box 356522, 1959 N E Pacific, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med 173:98-104. 2006
    ..The randomized clinical trial has been an important tool for expanding our knowledge of disease. This study is the first to compare trial participants to the entire eligible population...
  30. ncbi Effects of leukoreduced blood on acute lung injury after trauma: a randomized controlled trial
    Timothy R Watkins
    Harborview Medical Center, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
    Crit Care Med 36:1493-9. 2008
    ..Residual leukocytes contaminating red cells are potential mediators of this syndrome. The goal of this trial was to test our hypothesis that prestorage leukoreduction of blood would reduce rates of posttraumatic lung injury...
  31. ncbi Effect of intensive care unit organizational model and structure on outcomes in patients with acute lung injury
    Miriam M Treggiari
    Department of Anesthesiology, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, 325 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med 176:685-90. 2007
    ..Prior studies supported an association between intensive care unit (ICU) organizational model or staffing patterns and outcome in critically ill patients...
  32. ncbi Intensive care unit-acquired neuromyopathy and corticosteroids in survivors of persistent ARDS
    Catherine L Hough
    Department of Medicine and The NHLBI ARDS Network, University of Washington, 325 Ninth Avenue, Mailstop 359762, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
    Intensive Care Med 35:63-8. 2009
    ..To determine the incidence and outcomes of intensive care unit-acquired neuromyopathy and to investigate the role of methylprednisolone in survivors of persistent acute lung injury...
  33. ncbi Cytomegalovirus reactivation in critically ill immunocompetent patients
    Ajit P Limaye
    Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA 98195 7110, USA
    JAMA 300:413-22. 2008
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  34. ncbi The effects of leukoreduced blood transfusion on infection risk following injury: a randomized controlled trial
    Avery B Nathens
    Department of Surgery and the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
    Shock 26:342-7. 2006
    ..There was no effect on the rates of febrile episodes, mortality, length of stay, or severity of organ dysfunction...
  35. ncbi Transferring critically ill patients out of hospital improves the standardized mortality ratio: a simulation study
    Jeremy M Kahn
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle WA, USA
    Chest 131:68-75. 2007
    ..We sought to quantify the effect of out-of-hospital transfers on the standardized mortality ratio (SMR), an outcome-based measure of ICU performance...
  36. ncbi Barriers to implementing protocol-based sepsis resuscitation in the emergency department--results of a national survey
    David J Carlbom
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
    Crit Care Med 35:2525-32. 2007
    ..To identify barriers to implementation of a written protocol for early goal-directed therapy for severe sepsis in the busiest emergency departments in the United States...
  37. ncbi Predictors of hospital mortality in a population-based cohort of patients with acute lung injury
    Colin R Cooke
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
    Crit Care Med 36:1412-20. 2008
    ..We sought to determine the predictors of mortality in a population-based cohort of patients with acute lung injury and to characterize the performance of current severity of illness scores in this population...
  38. ncbi Improving palliative care for patients in the intensive care unit
    J Randall Curtis
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, Box 359761, 325 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104-2499, USA
    J Palliat Med 8:840-54. 2005
  39. ncbi Detecting Stenotrophomonas maltophilia does not reduce survival of patients with cystic fibrosis
    Christopher H Goss
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Campus Box 356522, 1959 N E Pacific, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med 166:356-61. 2002
    ..89 (95% confidence interval, 0.75-1.05). Although patients with CF who acquire S. maltophilia have more advanced disease than those who do not acquire this organism, detection does not independently affect short-term survival (3 years)...
  40. ncbi Studying communication about end-of-life care during the ICU family conference: development of a framework
    J Randall Curtis
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
    J Crit Care 17:147-60. 2002
    ..The purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of the way this communication is currently conducted...
  41. ncbi Long-term survival after hospitalization for community-acquired and healthcare-associated pneumonia
    Laura M Cecere
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
    Respiration 79:128-36. 2010
    ..Elderly patients surviving community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) have subsequent increased mortality. However, little is known regarding long-term survival in younger adults or those with healthcare-associated pneumonia (HCAP)...
  42. ncbi Practice variability in the assessment and treatment of critical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency
    Veena Karir
    Department of Pharmacy, Harborview Medical Center, Box 359885, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
    J Crit Care 25:363.e9-363.e14. 2010
    ..Little is known about how published evidence regarding use of steroids in septic shock has been incorporated into clinical practice...
  43. ncbi The effect of pregnancy on survival in women with cystic fibrosis
    Christopher H Goss
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
    Chest 124:1460-8. 2003
    ..Patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) are currently living to their fourth decade and are making reproductive decisions. Information concerning the reproductive health of women with CF has been limited to small or single-center studies...
  44. ncbi Incidence and outcomes of pediatric acute lung injury
    Jerry J Zimmerman
    Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Seattle Children s Hospital, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105 0371
    Pediatrics 124:87-95. 2009
    ..This population-based, prospective, cohort study was designed to determine the population incidence and outcomes of pediatric acute lung injury...
  45. ncbi Cost and incidence of social comorbidities in low-risk patients with community-acquired pneumonia admitted to a public hospital
    Christopher H Goss
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Medical Center Campus, Box 356522, 1959 N E Pacific, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
    Chest 124:2148-55. 2003
    ..A newly validated CAP outcomes prediction rule developed by Fine and colleagues has been advocated as a guide to hospitalization decisions...
  46. ncbi Practice variation in respiratory therapy documentation during mechanical ventilation
    Saadia R Akhtar
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, 325 Ninth Avenue, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
    Chest 124:2275-82. 2003
    ....
  47. ncbi Cost-effectiveness of implementing low-tidal volume ventilation in patients with acute lung injury
    Colin R Cooke
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
    Chest 136:79-88. 2009
    ..We sought to estimate the incremental clinical and economic outcomes associated with LPV and determined the maximum cost of a hypothetical intervention to improve adherence with LPV that remained cost-effective...
  48. ncbi The effect of an intensive care unit staffing model on tidal volume in patients with acute lung injury
    Colin R Cooke
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, 325 9th Avenue, Box 359762, Seattle, Washington, 98104, USA
    Crit Care 12:R134. 2008
    ..We aimed to assess the effect of closed-model intensive care on evidence-based ventilatory practice in patients with acute lung injury (ALI)...
  49. ncbi Narcotic and benzodiazepine use after withdrawal of life support: association with time to death?
    Jeannie D Chan
    Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
    Chest 126:286-93. 2004
    ..To determine whether the dose of narcotics and benzodiazepines is associated with length of time from mechanical ventilation withdrawal to death in the setting of withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in the ICU...
  50. ncbi Changing pattern of ventilator settings in patients without acute lung injury: changes over 11 years in a single institution
    Phunsup Wongsurakiat
    Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
    Chest 126:1281-91. 2004
    ....
  51. ncbi Causes and timing of death in patients with ARDS
    Renee D Stapleton
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, Box 359762, 325 Ninth Ave, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
    Chest 128:525-32. 2005
    ..Since the early 1980s, case fatality of patients with ARDS has decreased, and explanations are unclear...
  52. ncbi Clinical issues and research in respiratory failure from severe acute respiratory syndrome
    Mitchell M Levy
    Department of Medicine, Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, USA
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med 171:518-26. 2005
    ..The group recommended preparation for studies, including protocols, ethical considerations, Web-based registries, and data entry systems...
  53. ncbi Missed opportunities during family conferences about end-of-life care in the intensive care unit
    J Randall Curtis
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, Box 359762, 325 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104 2499, USA
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med 171:844-9. 2005
    ..Improved communication with family members of critically ill patients can decrease the prolongation of dying in the intensive care unit (ICU), but few data exist to guide the conduct of this communication...
  54. ncbi Implementation and impact of a translational research training program in pulmonary and critical care medicine
    Lynn M Schnapp
    Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, 325 Ninth Ave, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
    Chest 135:688-94. 2009
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  55. ncbi Low tidal volume ventilation does not increase sedation use in patients with acute lung injury
    Jeremy M Kahn
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
    Crit Care Med 33:766-71. 2005
    ..Sedation administration should not be considered a barrier to implementing a lung-protective ventilation strategy...
  56. ncbi Survival of the fittest: the hidden cost of undertriage of major trauma
    Barbara Haas
    Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    J Am Coll Surg 211:804-11. 2010
    ..Previous analyses of undertriage focused only on survivors to trauma center care and were potentially subject to survivor bias. Using a novel population-based design, we evaluated the true mortality cost of undertriage...
  57. ncbi Lung-protective ventilation strategies in acute lung injury
    Roy G Brower
    Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Crit Care Med 31:S312-6. 2003
    ..It is not yet clear whether the open-lung approach will further reduce mortality in patients receiving volume- and pressure-limited ventilation support...
  58. ncbi Intrinsic positive end-expiratory pressure in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Network subjects
    Catherine Lee Hough
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
    Crit Care Med 33:527-32. 2005
    ..It is unlikely that the difference in intrinsic PEEP between the study groups was clinically important in the ARDS Network study of low tidal volume ventilation...
  59. ncbi Effect of age on the development of ARDS in trauma patients
    Craig J Johnston
    Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
    Chest 124:653-9. 2003
    ..We concluded that older patients are at significantly greater risk of developing ARDS when compared to younger patients, while the oldest patients may be at less risk...
  60. ncbi Where do we go from here? One intensivist's perspective
    Gordon D Rubenfeld
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Crit Care Med 34:S412-5. 2006
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  61. ncbi Comparison of scholarly productivity of general and subspecialty clinician-educators in internal medicine
    Robert R Kempainen
    Department of Internal Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Teach Learn Med 16:323-8. 2004
    ..There is concern that these criteria may be disadvantageous to clinician-educators in generalist fields relative to their specialist counterparts...
  62. ncbi Barriers to providing lung-protective ventilation to patients with acute lung injury
    Gordon D Rubenfeld
    Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
    Crit Care Med 32:1289-93. 2004
    ..CONCLUSIONS: Experienced bedside clinicians perceive important barriers to implementing lung-protective ventilation. Successful strategies to increase use of lung-protective ventilation should target these barriers...
  63. ncbi Effect of acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome on outcome in critically ill trauma patients
    Miriam M Treggiari
    Department of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Wshington, Seattle, WA, USA
    Crit Care Med 32:327-31. 2004
    ..Nonetheless, ALI/ARDS was associated with increased intensive care unit stay and hospital cost, independent of trauma severity...
  64. ncbi Perceived barriers to therapeutic hypothermia for patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest: a qualitative study of emergency department and critical care workers
    Alina Toma
    Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
    Crit Care Med 38:504-9. 2010
    ..Despite scientific evidence to support therapeutic hypothermia for resuscitated cardiac arrest patients, it is inconsistently and at times inadequately used...
  65. ncbi Incidence of acute lung injury in the United States
    Christopher H Goss
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA
    Crit Care Med 31:1607-11. 2003
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  66. ncbi Measures, markers, and mediators: toward a staging system for clinical sepsis. A report of the Fifth Toronto Sepsis Roundtable, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 25-26, 2000
    John C Marshall
    Department of Surgery and Interdepartmental, Division of Critical Care, University of Toronto, Canada
    Crit Care Med 31:1560-7. 2003
    ..The evaluation of effective therapies has been hampered by limitations in our ability to characterize the process and to stratify patients into more homogeneous groups with respect to pathogenesis...
  67. ncbi Clinical review: Fresh frozen plasma in massive bleedings - more questions than answers
    Bartolomeu Nascimento
    Transfusion Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, 2075 Bayview Ave, C160, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada
    Crit Care 14:202. 2010
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  68. ncbi Translating evidence into practice in the intensive care unit: the need for a systems-based approach
    Jeremy M Kahn
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
    J Crit Care 20:204-6. 2005
  69. ncbi Age-, sex-, and race-based differences among patients enrolled versus not enrolled in acute lung injury clinical trials
    Colin R Cooke
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
    Crit Care Med 38:1450-7. 2010
    ..We sought to characterize the representation of racial and ethnic minorities, women, and older patients in clinical trials of patients with acute lung injury and to determine the reasons for nonenrollment...
  70. ncbi Critical care and the global burden of critical illness in adults
    Neill K J Adhikari
    Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care, University of Toronto and Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
    Lancet 376:1339-46. 2010
    ....
  71. ncbi Update in critical care 2007
    Robert A Fowler
    Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med 177:808-19. 2008
  72. ncbi Epidemiology of acute lung injury
    Gordon D Rubenfeld
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
    Crit Care Med 31:S276-84. 2003
    ..The mortality and morbidity rates associated with ALI are considerable, with significant impact on public health...
  73. ncbi Is SARS just ARDS?
    Gordon D Rubenfeld
    JAMA 290:397-9. 2003
  74. ncbi Health status after critical illness: beyond descriptive studies
    Gordon D Rubenfeld
    Intensive Care Med 29:1626-7. 2003
  75. ncbi The epidemiologist in the intensive care unit
    Gordon D Rubenfeld
    Intensive Care Med 30:4-6. 2004
  76. ncbi Prioritizing the organization and management of intensive care services in the United States: the PrOMIS Conference
    Amber E Barnato
    Center for Research on Health Care, and the CRISMA Laboratory Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    Crit Care Med 35:1003-11. 2007
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