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Karen J Brasel

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1 Patient safety efforts should focus on medical injuries. JAMA 2002 4.66
2 The prospective, observational, multicenter, major trauma transfusion (PROMMTT) study: comparative effectiveness of a time-varying treatment with competing risks. JAMA Surg 2013 3.25
3 Out-of-hospital hypertonic resuscitation after traumatic hypovolemic shock: a randomized, placebo controlled trial. Ann Surg 2011 2.85
4 Surgical "buy-in": the contractual relationship between surgeons and patients that influences decisions regarding life-supporting therapy. Crit Care Med 2010 2.51
5 Models for structuring a clinical initiative to enhance palliative care in the intensive care unit: a report from the IPAL-ICU Project (Improving Palliative Care in the ICU). Crit Care Med 2010 2.49
6 Out-of-hospital hypertonic resuscitation following severe traumatic brain injury: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA 2010 2.00
7 The role of surgeon error in withdrawal of postoperative life support. Ann Surg 2012 1.97
8 Choosing and using screening criteria for palliative care consultation in the ICU: a report from the Improving Palliative Care in the ICU (IPAL-ICU) Advisory Board. Crit Care Med 2013 1.97
9 Use of advance directives for high-risk operations: a national survey of surgeons. Ann Surg 2012 1.96
10 The random dialing survey as a tool for community consultation for research involving the emergency medicine exception from informed consent. Ann Emerg Med 2008 1.88
11 Developing guidelines that identify patients who would benefit from palliative care services in the surgical intensive care unit. Crit Care Med 2009 1.71
12 Integrating palliative care in the surgical and trauma intensive care unit: a report from the Improving Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit (IPAL-ICU) Project Advisory Board and the Center to Advance Palliative Care. Crit Care Med 2012 1.58
13 Management of patients with anterior abdominal stab wounds: a Western Trauma Association multicenter trial. J Trauma 2009 1.57
14 Surgeons expect patients to buy-in to postoperative life support preoperatively: results of a national survey. Crit Care Med 2013 1.53
15 Integrating Palliative Care Into the Care of Neurocritically Ill Patients: A Report From the Improving Palliative Care in the ICU Project Advisory Board and the Center to Advance Palliative Care. Crit Care Med 2015 1.50
16 Surgeon-reported conflict with intensivists about postoperative goals of care. JAMA Surg 2013 1.49
17 Food dye use in enteral feedings: a review and a call for a moratorium. Nutr Clin Pract 2002 1.45
18 Incidence of asymptomatic pulmonary embolism in moderately to severely injured trauma patients. J Trauma 2004 1.19
19 The 360-degree evaluation: increased work with little return? Curr Surg 2004 1.16
20 Integrating Palliative Care in the ICU: The Nurse in a Leading Role. J Hosp Palliat Nurs 2011 1.15
21 Resuscitate early with plasma and platelets or balance blood products gradually: findings from the PROMMTT study. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2013 1.13
22 Clinical and mechanistic drivers of acute traumatic coagulopathy. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2013 1.13
23 The Surgical Learning and Instructional Portfolio (SLIP) as a self-assessment educational tool demonstrating practice-based learning. Curr Surg 2006 1.08
24 Cost-effective treatment of patients with symptomatic cholelithiasis and possible common bile duct stones. J Am Coll Surg 2011 1.07
25 Early resuscitation intensity as a surrogate for bleeding severity and early mortality in the PROMMTT study. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2013 1.05
26 It's big surgery: preoperative expressions of risk, responsibility, and commitment to treatment after high-risk operations. Ann Surg 2014 1.04
27 Prehospital intravenous fluid is associated with increased survival in trauma patients. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2013 1.04
28 Detailed description of all deaths in both the shock and traumatic brain injury hypertonic saline trials of the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium. Ann Surg 2015 1.03
29 Perceived gender-based barriers to careers in academic surgery. Am J Surg 2013 1.02
30 Physician attitudes regarding advance directives for high-risk surgical patients: a qualitative analysis. Surgery 2010 1.02
31 Predicting quality of life six months after traumatic injury. J Trauma 2006 0.99
32 Surgical education in the internet era. J Surg Res 2009 0.99
33 A comparison of prehospital lactate and systolic blood pressure for predicting the need for resuscitative care in trauma transported by ground. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2015 0.98
34 Increased trauma center volume is associated with improved survival after severe injury: results of a Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium study. Ann Surg 2014 0.97
35 Deleterious effect of cirrhosis on outcomes after motor vehicle crashes using the nationwide inpatient sample. Am J Gastroenterol 2008 0.96
36 Splenic trauma as an adverse effect of torso-protecting side airbags: biomechanical and case evidence. Ann Adv Automot Med 2009 0.95
37 Defining when to initiate massive transfusion: a validation study of individual massive transfusion triggers in PROMMTT patients. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2013 0.95
38 National Trauma Institute prospective evaluation of the ventilator bundle in trauma patients: does it really work? J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2013 0.94
39 Application of the Berlin definition in PROMMTT patients: the impact of resuscitation on the incidence of hypoxemia. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2013 0.94
40 Management of the patient with an open abdomen: techniques in temporary and definitive closure. Curr Probl Surg 2004 0.94
41 A moderated journal club is more effective than an Internet journal club in teaching critical appraisal skills: results of a multicenter randomized controlled trial. J Am Coll Surg 2010 0.93
42 Core competencies in palliative care for surgeons: interpersonal and communication skills. Am J Hosp Palliat Care 2008 0.92
43 Evolution in the management of traumatic diaphragmatic injuries: a multicenter review. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2014 0.91
44 Management of maxillofacial injuries with severe oronasal hemorrhage: a multicenter perspective. J Trauma 2008 0.90
45 Excess mortality caused by medical injury. Ann Fam Med 2006 0.89
46 A consensus-based criterion standard for trauma center need. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2014 0.88
47 "And I think that we can fix it": mental models used in high-risk surgical decision making. Ann Surg 2015 0.88
48 Quality of life and functional outcome after pediatric trauma. J Trauma 2005 0.88
49 Cost-effectiveness of prolonged thromboprophylaxis after cancer surgery. Ann Surg Oncol 2009 0.88
50 Preinjury beta blockers are associated with increased mortality in geriatric trauma patients. J Trauma 2008 0.88
51 Protected block curriculum enhances learning during general surgery residency training. Arch Surg 2009 0.87
52 Correlation of SF-12 and SF-36 in a trauma population. J Surg Res 2006 0.87
53 Increasing time to operation is associated with decreased survival in patients with a positive FAST examination requiring emergent laparotomy. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2013 0.85
54 Sarcopenia and frailty in elderly trauma patients. World J Surg 2015 0.85
55 Time-dependent prediction and evaluation of variable importance using superlearning in high-dimensional clinical data. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2013 0.84
56 Injury in the aged: Geriatric trauma care at the crossroads. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2015 0.83
57 Cryoprecipitate use in the PROMMTT study. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2013 0.83
58 A latent class model for defining severe hemorrhage: experience from the PROMMTT study. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2013 0.83
59 The impact of missing trauma data on predicting massive transfusion. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2013 0.83
60 Crohn's disease presenting as necrotizing fasciitis: a case report. Am Surg 2005 0.82
61 Constructing High-stakes Surgical Decisions: It's Better to Die Trying. Ann Surg 2016 0.81
62 Integration of palliative care in the context of rapid response: a report from the Improving Palliative Care in the ICU advisory board. Chest 2015 0.81
63 Physician reimbursement for critical care services integrating palliative care for patients who are critically ill. Chest 2012 0.81
64 Factors identifying risk for psychological distress in the civilian trauma population. Acad Emerg Med 2011 0.81
65 Do-not-resuscitate orders in trauma patients may bias mortality-based effect estimates: an evaluation using the PROMMTT study. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2013 0.81
66 Porcine small intestine submucosa as a treatment for enterocutaneous fistulas. J Am Coll Surg 2002 0.80
67 Screening for blunt cerebrovascular injuries is cost-effective. J Trauma 2011 0.80
68 Posttraumatic stress disorder: a primer for trauma surgeons. J Trauma 2010 0.80
69 Meta-analysis comparing healing by primary closure and open healing after surgery for pilonidal sinus. J Am Coll Surg 2010 0.80
70 Putting a price on education: hours and dollars for a general surgery curriculum. Am J Surg 2010 0.79
71 Family engagement regarding the critically ill patient. Surg Clin North Am 2012 0.79
72 Experiences of families when present during resuscitation in the emergency department after trauma. J Trauma Nurs 2013 0.79
73 Meaning-making appraisals relevant to adjustment for veterans with spinal cord injury. Psychol Serv 2012 0.79
74 Recursive partitioning identifies greater than 4 U of packed red blood cells per hour as an improved massive transfusion definition. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2015 0.78
75 Multiple subfailures characterize blunt aortic injury. J Trauma 2007 0.78
76 Considering the patient's perspective in the injury severity score. J Surg Res 2011 0.78
77 Patient-reported Limitations to Surgical Buy-in: A Qualitative Study of Patients Facing High-risk Surgery. Ann Surg 2017 0.78
78 Waiver of consent in noninterventional, observational emergency research: the PROMMTT experience. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2013 0.78
79 Addressing the challenges of obtaining functional outcomes in traumatic brain injury research: missing data patterns, timing of follow-up, and three prognostic models. J Neurotrauma 2014 0.78
80 Staged abdominal repairs reduce long-term quality of life. Injury 2011 0.78
81 Palliative care training in surgical oncology and hepatobiliary fellowships: a national survey of the fellows. Ann Surg Oncol 2014 0.77
82 Purposeful variable selection and stratification to impute missing Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma data in trauma research. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2013 0.77
83 A pilot study to explore the safety of perioperative postpyloric enteral nutrition. Nutr Clin Pract 2012 0.77
84 Structured teaching versus experiential learning of palliative care for surgical residents. Am J Surg 2010 0.77
85 Challenges in conducting research after family presence during resuscitation. J Trauma Nurs 2012 0.76
86 Factors correlated with surgery resident choice to practice general surgery in a rural area. J Surg Educ 2010 0.76
87 Family Presence During Resuscitation After Trauma. J Trauma Nurs 2017 0.75
88 Assessing synoptic reports for pancreatic resection. J Am Coll Surg 2012 0.75
89 Canadian Association of General Surgeons, the American College of Surgeons, the Canadian Society of Colorectal Surgeons and the American Society of Colorectal Surgeons evidence based reviews in surgery - colorectal surgery. Dis Colon Rectum 2014 0.75
90 Damage control laparotomy utilization rates are highly variable among Level I trauma centers: Pragmatic, Randomized Optimal Platelet and Plasma Ratios findings. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2017 0.75
91 A Comparison of Invasive Airway Management and Rates of Pneumonia in Prehospital and Hospital Settings. Prehosp Emerg Care 2015 0.75
92 Multicenter external validation of the Geriatric Trauma Outcome Score: A study by the Prognostic Assessment of Life and Limitations After Trauma in the Elderly (PALLIATE) consortium. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2016 0.75
93 Western Trauma Association Critical Decisions in Trauma: Diagnosis and management of duodenal injuries. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2015 0.75
94 Barriers to Goal-concordant Care for Older Patients With Acute Surgical Illness: Communication Patterns Extrinsic to Decision Aids. Ann Surg 2017 0.75
95 Western Trauma Association Critical Decisions in Trauma: Management of pelvic fracture with hemodynamic instability-2016 updates. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2016 0.75
96 Clinical utility of flat inferior vena cava by axial tomography in severely injured elderly patients. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2013 0.75
97 Patient-reported Limitations to Surgical Buy-in: A Qualitative Study of Patients Facing High-risk Surgery. Ann Surg 2016 0.75
98 A PGY1 curriculum--meeting a need for changing times. Curr Surg 2006 0.75
99 Effective retention of primary survey skills by medical students after participation in an expanded Trauma Evaluation and Management course. Am J Surg 2006 0.75
100 Surgical origins: new teaching modalities integrating clinical and basic science years--a role for residents as active teachers. Surgery 2003 0.75
101 Health services research resources for surgeons. J Surg Res 2011 0.75
102 A comparison of prognosis calculators for geriatric trauma: A P.A.L.LI.A.T.E. consortium study. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2017 0.75