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| Hannah WunschSummaryAffiliation: Columbia University Country: USA Publications
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Methods to adjust for bias and confounding in critical care health services research involving observational dataHannah Wunsch
Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Crit Care 21:1-7. 2006..Finally, issues that need to be addressed when interpreting the results of observational studies, such as residual confounding, causality, and missing data, are discussed...- Hospital mortality associated with day and time of admission to intensive care unitsHannah Wunsch
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Intensive Care Med 30:895-901. 2004..02, 95% CI 0.96-1.09). CONCLUSIONS: After appropriate adjustment for case mix, day of the week and time of day of admission of patients to ICU were not associated with significant differences in hospital mortality... 
Clinical review: International comparisons in critical care - lessons learnedSrinivas Murthy
Department of Pediatric Critical Care, Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, M5G 1X8, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Crit Care 16:218. 2012....- Is there a Starling curve for intensive care?Hannah Wunsch
Department of Anesthesiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 622 W 168th St, PH5 527D, New York, NY 10032, USA
Chest 141:1393-9. 2012.... 
Polymyxin use associated with respiratory arrestHannah Wunsch
Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Chest 141:515-7. 2012..We report two cases of respiratory arrest likely due to polymyxin B infusions in the context of a 10-fold increase in the use of polymyxin B in our institution over the past 10 years...- Dexmedetomidine in the care of critically ill patients from 2001 to 2007: an observational cohort studyHannah Wunsch
Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Anesthesiology 113:386-94. 2010..We sought to examine patient and hospital variation in dexmedetomidine use and adoption patterns of dexmedetomidine over time... - The effect of window rooms on critically ill patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage admitted to intensive careHannah Wunsch
Division of Critical Care, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, 622 West 168th Street, PH5 527D, New York, NY 10032, USA
Crit Care 15:R81. 2011..We hypothesized that receiving care in an intensive care unit (ICU) room with a window might improve outcomes for critically ill patients with acute brain injury... - The epidemiology of mechanical ventilation use in the United StatesHannah Wunsch
Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Crit Care Med 38:1947-53. 2010..We sought to describe the epidemiology of mechanical ventilation use in the United States... - Three-year outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries who survive intensive careHannah Wunsch
Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University, 622 W 168th St, PH 527D, New York, NY 10032, USA
JAMA 303:849-56. 2010..Although hospital mortality has decreased over time in the United States for patients who receive intensive care, little is known about subsequent outcomes for those discharged alive... - Use of intensive care services during terminal hospitalizations in England and the United StatesHannah Wunsch
Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University, 622 West 168th St, PH5 527D, New York, NY 10032, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 180:875-80. 2009..Despite broad concern regarding the provision and cost of health care at the end of life, country-specific patterns of care have rarely been compared... - Use of intravenous infusion sedation among mechanically ventilated patients in the United StatesHannah Wunsch
Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Crit Care Med 37:3031-9. 2009..We sought to describe current use of intravenous infusion sedation in mechanically ventilated patients in U.S. intensive care units... - Variation in critical care services across North America and Western EuropeHannah Wunsch
Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Crit Care Med 36:2787-93, e1-9. 2008..Yet, little is known regarding international variation in critical care services. We sought to understand differences in critical care delivery by comparing data on the distribution of services in eight countries... - Economics of ICU organization and managementHannah Wunsch
Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University, 622 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA
Crit Care Clin 28:25-37, v. 2012..These studies should not focus solely on reductions in ICU length of stay but should strive to measure the true costs of care within a given healthcare system... - International comparisons in critical care: a necessity and challengeHannah Wunsch
Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
Curr Opin Crit Care 13:725-31. 2007..This review describes the available data for international comparisons and the many factors that need to be addressed for an appropriate interpretation of results... - Comparison of medical admissions to intensive care units in the United States and United KingdomHannah Wunsch
Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 183:1666-73. 2011..The United States has seven times as many intensive care unit (ICU) beds per capita as the United Kingdom; the effect on care of critically ill patients is unknown... - Variation in use of intensive care for adults with diabetic ketoacidosis*Hayley B Gershengorn
Division of Pulmonary Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Crit Care Med 40:2009-15. 2012..Our objective was to assess variation in the use of intensive care for patients with diabetic ketoacidosis, a common condition with a low risk of mortality... - Survival and functional outcomes after cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the intensive care unitHayley B Gershengorn
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY 10003, USA
J Crit Care 27:421.e9-17. 2012..In this study, we evaluated survival rates, functional status, and predictors of good outcomes after in-ICU CPR... - Impact of exclusion criteria on case mix, outcome, and length of stay for the severity of disease scoring methods in common use in critical careHannah Wunsch
Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA
J Crit Care 19:67-74. 2004..We hope this study will raise the need for both better reporting of exclusion criteria applied in studies and promote the need for a common set of explicit exclusion criteria for these methods... - Impact of nonphysician staffing on outcomes in a medical ICUHayley B Gershengorn
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY 10003, USA
Chest 139:1347-53. 2011..In our study, we compare outcomes of nonphysician provider-based teams to those of medical house staff-based teams in the MICU... - The Surgical Procedure Assessment (SPA) score predicts intensive care unit length of stay after cardiac surgeryGebhard Wagener
Department of Anesthesiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032 3784, USA
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 142:443-50. 2011.... - End-of-life decisions: a cohort study of the withdrawal of all active treatment in intensive care units in the United KingdomHannah Wunsch
Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY 10025, USA
Intensive Care Med 31:823-31. 2005..However, there was considerable variation by unit, even after accounting for patient factors and differences in size and type of ICU, suggesting improved guidelines may be useful to facilitate uniform decision making... - International comparisons of intensive care: informing outcomes and improving standardsMeghan Prin
Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
Curr Opin Crit Care 18:700-6. 2012..This review examines the challenges of international comparisons and highlights areas in which international data provide information relevant to clinical practice and resource allocation... - Health services research in critical care using administrative dataHannah Wunsch
Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Crit Care 20:264-9. 2005..The article concludes with a step-wise approach to conducting studies of critical care based on administrative data... - The puzzle of long-term morbidity after critical illnessHannah Wunsch
Division of Critical Care, Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University, 622 West 168th St, New York, NY 10032, USA
Crit Care 14:121. 2010..Such studies will likely need to incorporate extensive planning for data collection, as well as coordinated linkage with other available datasets that include substantial amounts of patient information from outside of the ICU... - High-frequency ventilation versus conventional ventilation for the treatment of acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome: a systematic review and cochrane analysisHannah Wunsch
Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 630 W 168th St, New York, NY 10032, USA
Anesth Analg 100:1765-72. 2005..Cochrane Reviews are regularly updated as new evidence emerges and in response to comments and criticisms, and The Cochrane Library should be consulted for the most recent version of the Review.)... - Potential value of regionalized intensive care for mechanically ventilated medical patientsJeremy M Kahn
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 723 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 177:285-91. 2008..Regionalization has been proposed as a method to improve outcomes for medical patients receiving mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit...