Published in CMAJ on November 21, 2006
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A consensus-based educational framework and competency set for the discipline of disaster medicine and public health preparedness. Disaster Med Public Health Prep (2008) 1.64
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Potential roles of military-specific response to natural disasters -- analysis of the rapid deployment of a mobile surgical team to the 2007 Peruvian earthquake. Prehosp Disaster Med (2009) 1.54
Using standardized family members to teach communication skills and ethical principles to critical care trainees. Crit Care Med (2012) 1.52
Improving use of targeted temperature management after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a stepped wedge cluster randomized controlled trial. Crit Care Med (2015) 1.52
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The rules of the game: interprofessional collaboration on the intensive care unit team. Crit Care (2004) 1.48
Perceptions of "futile care" among caregivers in intensive care units. CMAJ (2007) 1.48
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On pandemics and the duty to care: whose duty? who cares? BMC Med Ethics (2006) 1.43
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Revisiting blood transfusion preparedness: experience from the Bam earthquake response. Prehosp Disaster Med (2009) 1.39
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Clinical trials and novel pathogens: lessons learned from SARS. Emerg Infect Dis (2004) 1.14
Consensus statements regarding the multidisciplinary care of limb amputation patients in disasters or humanitarian emergencies: report of the 2011 Humanitarian Action Summit Surgical Working Group on amputations following disasters or conflict. Prehosp Disaster Med (2011) 1.12
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Early intensive care unit mobility: future directions. Crit Care Clin (2007) 1.08
Why do patients agree to a "Do not resuscitate" or "Full code" order? Perspectives of medical inpatients. J Gen Intern Med (2011) 1.07
Review of retention strategies in longitudinal studies and application to follow-up of ICU survivors. Intensive Care Med (2007) 1.06
Acute lung injury--affecting many lives. N Engl J Med (2005) 1.03
Three decades of disasters: a review of disaster-specific literature from 1977-2009. Prehosp Disaster Med (2009) 1.02
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Studying outcomes of intensive care unit survivors: measuring exposures and outcomes. Intensive Care Med (2005) 1.00
An antimicrobial stewardship program improves antimicrobial treatment by culture site and the quality of antimicrobial prescribing in critically ill patients. Crit Care (2012) 0.99
Quality of life, emotional abnormalities, and cognitive dysfunction in survivors of acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome. Clin Chest Med (2006) 0.98
Challenges and opportunities for humanitarian relief in Afghanistan. Clin Infect Dis (2002) 0.97
Evolving need for alternative triage management in public health emergencies: a Hurricane Katrina case study. Disaster Med Public Health Prep (2008) 0.97
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Epidemiological characteristics of human stampedes. Disaster Med Public Health Prep (2009) 0.95
Future humanitarian crises: challenges for practice, policy, and public health. Prehosp Disaster Med (2010) 0.95
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Chronic sleep disorders in survivors of the acute respiratory distress syndrome. Intensive Care Med (2008) 0.94
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A framework for research ethics review during public emergencies. CMAJ (2010) 0.91
Post-conflict health system recovery: the case of Kosovo. Prehosp Disaster Med (2010) 0.91
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Nuclear war in the Middle East: where is the voice of medicine and public health. Prehosp Disaster Med (2011) 0.91
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Competency-based standardized training for humanitarian providers: making humanitarian assistance a professional discipline. Disaster Med Public Health Prep (2013) 0.89
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