Published in J Am Coll Surg on February 01, 2005
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Delirium as a predictor of mortality in mechanically ventilated patients in the intensive care unit. JAMA (2004) 11.27
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Automated identification of postoperative complications within an electronic medical record using natural language processing. JAMA (2011) 5.40
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Delirium as a predictor of long-term cognitive impairment in survivors of critical illness. Crit Care Med (2010) 4.69
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Improving blood pressure control through provider education, provider alerts, and patient education: a cluster randomized trial. Ann Intern Med (2006) 3.72
Diabetes patient education: a meta-analysis and meta-regression. Patient Educ Couns (2004) 3.69
A randomized, controlled trial of furosemide with or without albumin in hypoproteinemic patients with acute lung injury. Crit Care Med (2005) 3.44
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Increased risk of adrenal insufficiency following etomidate exposure in critically injured patients. Arch Surg (2008) 2.38
A randomized trial of a primary care-based disease management program to improve cardiovascular risk factors and glycated hemoglobin levels in patients with diabetes. Am J Med (2005) 2.36
Decompensated heart failure: symptoms, patterns of onset, and contributing factors. Am J Med (2003) 2.29
Large-scale cellular-resolution gene profiling in human neocortex reveals species-specific molecular signatures. Cell (2012) 2.29
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Predicting lung cancer prior to surgical resection in patients with lung nodules. J Thorac Oncol (2014) 2.17
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The cellular, metabolic, and systemic consequences of aggressive fluid resuscitation strategies. Shock (2006) 2.04
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Trends in antibiotic prescribing for adults in the United States--1995 to 2002. J Gen Intern Med (2005) 1.75
Colorectal cancer screening among men and women in the United States. J Womens Health (Larchmt) (2007) 1.71
Long-term cognitive and psychological outcomes in the awakening and breathing controlled trial. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2010) 1.70
Effect of short call admission on length of stay and quality of care for acute decompensated heart failure. Circulation (2008) 1.62
Quality improvement initiatives improve hypertension care among veterans. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes (2009) 1.62
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Variation in practices and attitudes of clinicians assessing PTSD-related disability among veterans. J Trauma Stress (2011) 1.58
Differences in antibiotic prescribing among physicians, residents, and nonphysician clinicians. Am J Med (2005) 1.58
Complications after 344 damage-control open celiotomies. J Trauma (2005) 1.56
The impact of aviation-based teamwork training on the attitudes of health-care professionals. J Am Coll Surg (2004) 1.55
Perioperative blood transfusion is predictive of poststernotomy surgical site infection: marker for morbidity or true immunosuppressant? Clin Infect Dis (2004) 1.54
EUS in localizing safe alternate access sites for natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery: initial experience in a porcine model. Gastrointest Endosc (2008) 1.54
Risk factors for post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms following critical illness requiring mechanical ventilation: a prospective cohort study. Crit Care (2007) 1.53
Delirium in the emergency department: an independent predictor of death within 6 months. Ann Emerg Med (2010) 1.51
Pre-transplant overweight and obesity do not affect physical quality of life after kidney transplantation. J Am Coll Surg (2010) 1.51
A three-part intervention to change the use of hormone replacement therapy in response to new evidence. Ann Intern Med (2004) 1.47
Diagnosing delirium in older emergency department patients: validity and reliability of the delirium triage screen and the brief confusion assessment method. Ann Emerg Med (2013) 1.46
Provision of balanced nutrition protects against hypoglycemia in the critically ill surgical patient. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr (2011) 1.43
Integrating "best of care" protocols into clinicians' workflow via care provider order entry: impact on quality-of-care indicators for acute myocardial infarction. J Am Med Inform Assoc (2005) 1.40
Predicting complicated choledocholithiasis. J Surg Res (2012) 1.40
Acute management of stoma-related colocutaneous fistula by temporary placement of a self-expanding plastic stent. Surg Innov (2009) 1.39
Post hoc mortality analysis of the efficacy trial of diaspirin cross-linked hemoglobin in the treatment of severe traumatic hemorrhagic shock. J Trauma (2002) 1.39
Can donors with high donor risk indices be used cost-effectively in liver transplantation in US Transplant Centers? Transpl Int (2013) 1.37
Bedside diagnosis of influenzavirus infections in hospitalized children. Pediatrics (2002) 1.32
Rib fracture repair: indications, technical issues, and future directions. World J Surg (2009) 1.31
The long-term effect of bile duct injuries on health-related quality of life: a meta-analysis. HPB (Oxford) (2012) 1.30
Validation of the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit in older emergency department patients. Acad Emerg Med (2014) 1.29
Global Assessment of Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Skills (GAGES): a valid measurement tool for technical skills in flexible endoscopy. Surg Endosc (2010) 1.29
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Obesity and pulmonary complications in critically injured adults. Chest (2008) 1.24
How should we establish the clinical case numbers required to achieve proficiency in flexible endoscopy? Am J Surg (2010) 1.23
Existing general population models inaccurately predict lung cancer risk in patients referred for surgical evaluation. Ann Thorac Surg (2011) 1.23
Costs and net health effects of contraceptive methods. Contraception (2004) 1.23
Creating an emergency general surgery service enhances the productivity of trauma surgeons, general surgeons and the hospital. J Trauma (2005) 1.23
Prominent medical journals often provide insufficient information to assess the validity of studies with negative results. J Negat Results Biomed (2002) 1.20
Accuracy of FDG-PET to diagnose lung cancer in a region of endemic granulomatous disease. Ann Thorac Surg (2011) 1.18
Glucose metabolism, not obesity, predicts mortality in critically ill surgical patients. Am Surg (2010) 1.16
eQuality: electronic quality assessment from narrative clinical reports. Mayo Clin Proc (2006) 1.16
Reading and reviewing the orthopaedic literature: a systematic, evidence-based medicine approach. J Am Acad Orthop Surg (2005) 1.14
Colonoscopy screening in African Americans and Whites with affected first-degree relatives. Arch Intern Med (2008) 1.13
Improved compliance with quality measures at hospital discharge with a computerized physician order entry system. Am Heart J (2006) 1.12
Early loss of heart rate complexity predicts mortality regardless of mechanism, anatomic location, or severity of injury in 2178 trauma patients. J Surg Res (2009) 1.12
Model for end-stage liver disease: did the new liver allocation policy affect waiting list mortality? Arch Surg (2007) 1.12
Safety of bedside percutaneous tracheostomy in the critically ill: evaluation of more than 3,000 procedures. J Am Coll Surg (2013) 1.11
Detection, validation, and downstream analysis of allelic variation in gene expression. Genetics (2009) 1.10
Clinical inertia: a common barrier to changing provider prescribing behavior. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf (2007) 1.09
Viewpoint: Moving beyond evidence-based medicine. Acad Med (2007) 1.09
Development of inpatient risk stratification models of acute kidney injury for use in electronic health records. Med Decis Making (2010) 1.09
Glucose control and the inflammatory response. Nutr Clin Pract (2008) 1.08