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W A Knaus

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1 APACHE II: a severity of disease classification system. Crit Care Med 1985 69.83
2 Definitions for sepsis and organ failure and guidelines for the use of innovative therapies in sepsis. The ACCP/SCCM Consensus Conference Committee. American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care Medicine. Chest 1992 47.46
3 The effectiveness of right heart catheterization in the initial care of critically ill patients. SUPPORT Investigators. JAMA 1996 17.62
4 APACHE-acute physiology and chronic health evaluation: a physiologically based classification system. Crit Care Med 1981 9.14
5 Outcomes following acute exacerbation of severe chronic obstructive lung disease. The SUPPORT investigators (Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments) Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1996 5.82
6 An evaluation of outcome from intensive care in major medical centers. Ann Intern Med 1986 5.41
7 Influence of patient preferences and local health system characteristics on the place of death. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Risks and Outcomes of Treatment. J Am Geriatr Soc 1998 4.45
8 The performance of intensive care units: does good management make a difference? Med Care 1994 4.41
9 Do formal advance directives affect resuscitation decisions and the use of resources for seriously ill patients? SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. J Clin Ethics 1994 4.23
10 Hospital and 1-year survival of patients admitted to intensive care units with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. JAMA 1995 3.45
11 Do advance directives provide instructions that direct care? SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment. J Am Geriatr Soc 1997 3.37
12 Prognosis in acute organ-system failure. Ann Surg 1985 3.26
13 Advance directives for seriously ill hospitalized patients: effectiveness with the patient self-determination act and the SUPPORT intervention. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment. J Am Geriatr Soc 1997 2.84
14 Evaluation of acute physiology and chronic health evaluation III predictions of hospital mortality in an independent database. Crit Care Med 1998 2.44
15 Older age, aggressiveness of care, and survival for seriously ill, hospitalized adults. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. Ann Intern Med 1999 2.34
16 The use of intensive care: a comparison of a university and community hospital. Health Care Financ Rev 1981 2.33
17 Initial development of a system-wide maternal-fetal outcomes assessment program. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2000 2.24
18 Physician fee patterns under medicare: a descriptive analysis. N Engl J Med 1976 2.15
19 Improving intensive care: observations based on organizational case studies in nine intensive care units: a prospective, multicenter study. Crit Care Med 1993 1.97
20 An initial comparison of intensive care in Japan and the United States. Crit Care Med 1992 1.79
21 Variations in the use of do-not-resuscitate orders in ICUS. Findings from a national study. Chest 1996 1.77
22 Predicting outcome in critical care: the current status of the APACHE prognostic scoring system. Can J Anaesth 1991 1.77
23 Factors associated with do-not-resuscitate orders: patients' preferences, prognoses, and physicians' judgments. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment. Ann Intern Med 1996 1.69
24 Value and cost of teaching hospitals: a prospective, multicenter, inception cohort study. Crit Care Med 1993 1.64
25 Changing the cause of death. JAMA 1983 1.61
26 A predictive risk model for outcomes of ischemic stroke. Stroke 2000 1.59
27 Interhospital comparisons of patient outcome from intensive care: importance of lead-time bias. Crit Care Med 1989 1.53
28 The range of intensive care services today. JAMA 1981 1.49
29 Identification of low-risk monitor patients within a medical-surgical intensive care unit. Med Care 1983 1.48
30 The use of risk predictions to identify candidates for intermediate care units. Implications for intensive care utilization and cost. Chest 1995 1.44
31 Statistical validation of a severity of illness measure. Am J Public Health 1983 1.44
32 The illusion of end-of-life resource savings with advance directives. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment. J Am Geriatr Soc 1997 1.42
33 The use and implications of do not resuscitate orders in intensive care units. JAMA 1986 1.39
34 The importance of technology for achieving superior outcomes from intensive care. Brazil APACHE III Study Group. Intensive Care Med 1996 1.38
35 Patient selection for intensive care: a comparison of New Zealand and United States hospitals. Crit Care Med 1988 1.34
36 Health Heritage© a web-based tool for the collection and assessment of family health history: initial user experience and analytic validity. Public Health Genomics 2010 1.31
37 Reliability of a measure of severity of illness: acute physiology of chronic health evaluation--II. J Clin Epidemiol 1992 1.29
38 Study population in SUPPORT: patients (as defined by disease categories and mortality projections), surrogates, and physicians. J Clin Epidemiol 1990 1.27
39 Outcomes of acute exacerbation of severe congestive heart failure: quality of life, resource use, and survival. SUPPORT Investigators. The Study to Understand Prognosis and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. Arch Intern Med 1998 1.27
40 Proposed definitions for diagnosis, severity scoring, stratification, and outcome for trials on intraabdominal infection. Joint Working Party of SIS North America and Europe. World J Surg 1990 1.26
41 Preferences for cardiopulmonary resuscitation: physician-patient agreement and hospital resource use. The SUPPORT Investigators. J Gen Intern Med 1995 1.26
42 Daily prognostic estimates for critically ill adults in intensive care units: results from a prospective, multicenter, inception cohort analysis. Crit Care Med 1994 1.25
43 African-American and white patients admitted to the intensive care unit: is there a difference in therapy and outcome? Crit Care Med 1995 1.24
44 Prognosis for recovery from multiple organ system failure: the accuracy of objective estimates of chances for survival. The French Multicentric Group of ICU Research. Med Decis Making 1990 1.16
45 Identification of low-risk monitor admissions to medical-surgical ICUs. Chest 1987 1.14
46 Predicting the duration of mechanical ventilation. The importance of disease and patient characteristics. Chest 1996 1.13
47 A comparison of intensive care in the U.S.A. and France. Lancet 1982 1.13
48 Evaluating outcome from intensive care: a preliminary multihospital comparison. Crit Care Med 1982 1.13
49 Severity stratification and outcome prediction for multisystem organ failure and dysfunction. World J Surg 1996 1.12
50 Do-not-resuscitate orders in intensive care units. Current practices and recent changes. JAMA 1993 1.11
51 Severity of illness and the relationship between intensive care and survival. Am J Public Health 1982 1.09
52 ICU admission score for predicting morbidity and mortality risk after coronary artery bypass grafting. Ann Thorac Surg 1997 1.09
53 Treatment of severe systemic inflammatory response syndrome and sepsis with a novel bradykinin antagonist, deltibant (CP-0127). Results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. CP-0127 SIRS and Sepsis Study Group. JAMA 1997 1.07
54 Evaluating laboratory usage in the intensive care unit: patient and institutional characteristics that influence frequency of blood sampling. Crit Care Med 1997 1.05
55 Neurosurgical admissions to the intensive care unit: intensive monitoring versus intensive therapy. Neurosurgery 1981 1.02
56 Predicting future functional status for seriously ill hospitalized adults. The SUPPORT prognostic model. Ann Intern Med 1995 1.01
57 Physiologic abnormalities and outcome from acute disease. Evidence for a predictable relationship. Arch Intern Med 1986 0.98
58 Relationship between acute physiologic derangement and risk of death. J Chronic Dis 1985 0.98
59 Neurological intensive care admissions: identifying candidates for intermediate care and the services they receive. Neurosurgery 1998 0.98
60 A comparison of risks and outcomes for patients with organ system failure: 1982-1990. Crit Care Med 1996 0.97
61 The case for using objective scoring systems to predict intensive care unit outcome. Crit Care Clin 1994 0.97
62 Glasgow Coma Scale score in the evaluation of outcome in the intensive care unit: findings from the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation III study. Crit Care Med 1993 0.96
63 Application of the APACHE III prognostic system in Brazilian intensive care units: a prospective multicenter study. Intensive Care Med 1996 0.95
64 Outcome of mechanical ventilation for adults with hematologic malignancy. J Investig Med 1996 0.95
65 The use of APACHE III to evaluate ICU length of stay, resource use, and mortality after coronary artery by-pass surgery. J Cardiovasc Surg (Torino) 1995 0.90
66 Intensive care unit admissions with cirrhosis: risk-stratifying patient groups and predicting individual survival. Hepatology 1996 0.89
67 Selection bias and the relationship between APACHE II and mortality. Crit Care Med 1990 0.88
68 Utilization and cost-effectiveness of cranial computed tomography at a university hospital. J Comput Assist Tomogr 1978 0.86
69 The hidden costs of treating severely ill patients: charges and resource consumption in an intensive care unit. Health Care Financ Rev 1983 0.85
70 Continuously improving patient care: practical lessons and an assessment tool from the National ICU Study. QRB Qual Rev Bull 1992 0.84
71 The changing challenges of critical care. Intensive Care Med 1989 0.84
72 Intensive care at two teaching hospitals: an organizational case study. Am J Crit Care 1994 0.83
73 Improving intensive care unit discharge decisions: supplementing physician judgment with predictions of next day risk for life support. Crit Care Med 1994 0.83
74 Background for SUPPORT. J Clin Epidemiol 1990 0.83
75 Planning patient services for intermediate care units: insights based on care for intensive care unit low-risk monitor admissions. Crit Care Med 1996 0.82
76 Intensive care unit length of stay: recent changes and future challenges. Crit Care Med 2000 0.81
77 Analysis of a medical internship. J Med Educ 1975 0.81
78 Predicting outcome from mechanical ventilation. West J Med 1993 0.81
79 Toward quality review in intensive care: the APACHE system. QRB Qual Rev Bull 1983 0.81
80 APACHE: a nonproprietary measure of severity of illness. Ann Intern Med 1989 0.81
81 Does selective decontamination of the digestive tract reduce mortality for severely ill patients? Crit Care Med 1996 0.81
82 Mortality risk prediction in sepsis. Crit Care Med 1995 0.80
83 Rationing, justice, and the American physician. JAMA 1986 0.80
84 Initial international use of APACHE. An acute severity of disease measure. Med Decis Making 1984 0.80
85 The value of measuring severity of disease in clinical research on acutely ill patients. J Chronic Dis 1984 0.80
86 Hypoxemia in acute pulmonary embolism. Chest 1985 0.79
87 APACHE II scores in the prediction of multiple organ failure syndrome. Arch Surg 1991 0.79
88 Symposium: case-mix measurement and assessing quality of hospital care. Health Care Financ Rev 1987 0.79
89 Impact of new technology: the CT scanner. Med Care 1977 0.79
90 The use of intensive care: new research initiatives and their implications for national health policy. Milbank Mem Fund Q Health Soc 1983 0.79
91 When is ICU care appropriate? Bus Health 1987 0.79
92 CT for headache: cost/benefit for subarachnoid hemorrhage. AJR Am J Roentgenol 1981 0.79
93 Acute physiology and chronic health evaluation and Glasgow coma scores. Crit Care Med 1992 0.78
94 The case for adjusting hospital death rates for severity of illness. Health Aff (Millwood) 1986 0.78
95 Definitions for sepsis and organ failure and guidelines for the use of innovative therapies in sepsis. The ACCP/SCCM Consensus Conference Committee. American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care Medicine. 1992. Chest 2009 0.76
96 Patient characteristics in SUPPORT: disease specific clinical data. J Clin Epidemiol 1990 0.76
97 Too sick and old for intensive care. Br J Hosp Med 1987 0.76
98 Gastric intramucosal pH monitoring. Lancet 1992 0.75
99 Interpretation of hospital mortality rates: the current state of the art. Mayo Clin Proc 1990 0.75
100 Defining sepsis. JAMA 1994 0.75
101 The ongoing mystery of ARDS. Intensive Care Med 1996 0.75
102 Organ system dysfunction and risk prediction. Intensive Care Med 1993 0.75
103 Computerized tomography-halfway is no place to stop. Arch Intern Med 1978 0.75
104 Tempest over CT--technology on the hot seat. Am Med News 1978 0.75
105 Disease scoring system in intensive care. Lancet 1983 0.75
106 Behind Soviet medicine's startling decline. Med World News 1981 0.75
107 [Was Claude Bernard the inventor of the severity index?]. Presse Med 1983 0.75
108 Hepatic echinococcus: experiences in Turkey 1971. W V Med J 1972 0.75
109 A race we're winning: the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: infant mortality and age-adjusted death rates. Am Med News 1980 0.75
110 APACHE III study: a summary. Intensive Care World 1991 0.75
111 Predicting and evaluating patient outcomes. Ann Intern Med 1988 0.75
112 When is intensive care inappropriate? New "prognostic" measures provide answers. Health Manage Q 1986 0.75
113 Can intermediate care substitute for intensive care? Crit Care Med 1988 0.75
114 International comparisons of intensive care: meeting the challenges of different worlds of intensive care. Intensive Care Med 1996 0.75
115 The misuse and overuse of intensive-care units. Med World News 1982 0.75
116 Letter: Reassurance about Russian giardiasis. N Engl J Med 1974 0.75
117 Patient characteristics in SUPPORT: sociodemographics, admission diagnosis, co-morbidities and acute physiology score. J Clin Epidemiol 1990 0.75
118 Precedents for meaningful recovery during treatment in a medical intensive care unit. Am J Med 1984 0.75
119 Mortality in nosocomial urinary-tract infection. N Engl J Med 1983 0.75
120 Echinococcus cysts of the liver. Observations and reflections based on a medical student's summer spent in Turkey, 1971. Clin Pediatr (Phila) 1973 0.75