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Theodore J Iwashyna

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1 Long-term acute care hospital utilization after critical illness. JAMA 2010 3.99
2 Regional variation in the association between advance directives and end-of-life Medicare expenditures. JAMA 2011 3.06
3 Hospital factors associated with discharge bias in ICU performance measurement. Crit Care Med 2014 2.74
4 Association of RBC transfusion with mortality in patients with acute lung injury. Chest 2007 2.55
5 The health impact of health care on families: a matched cohort study of hospice use by decedents and mortality outcomes in surviving, widowed spouses. Soc Sci Med 2003 2.44
6 Variation in use of intensive care for adults with diabetic ketoacidosis*. Crit Care Med 2012 2.24
7 Hospital deaths in patients with sepsis from 2 independent cohorts. JAMA 2014 2.23
8 Obesity and 1-year outcomes in older Americans with severe sepsis. Crit Care Med 2014 2.10
9 The effect of insurance status on mortality and procedural use in critically ill patients. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2011 2.03
10 Increased 1-year healthcare use in survivors of severe sepsis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2014 1.95
11 Examining the contextual effects of neighborhood on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and the provision of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Resuscitation 2011 1.94
12 Survivorship will be the defining challenge of critical care in the 21st century. Ann Intern Med 2010 1.84
13 Physician attitudes toward regionalization of adult critical care: a national survey. Crit Care Med 2009 1.79
14 Hospital-level variation in the use of intensive care. Health Serv Res 2012 1.79
15 Depressive symptoms in spouses of older patients with severe sepsis. Crit Care Med 2012 1.78
16 Wide variation and rising utilization of stroke magnetic resonance imaging: data from 11 states. Ann Neurol 2012 1.76
17 Critical illness outcomes in specialty versus general intensive care units. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2009 1.73
18 Effect of work-hours regulations on intensive care unit mortality in United States teaching hospitals. Crit Care Med 2009 1.72
19 Despite variation in volume, Veterans Affairs hospitals show consistent outcomes among patients with non-postoperative mechanical ventilation. Crit Care Med 2012 1.65
20 Insurance and racial differences in long-term acute care utilization after critical illness. Crit Care Med 2012 1.63
21 The relationship between hospital volume and mortality in mechanical ventilation: an instrumental variable analysis. Health Serv Res 2009 1.63
22 Expansion of invasive cardiac services in the United States. Circulation 2013 1.54
23 Hospitals with the highest intensive care utilization provide lower quality pneumonia care to the elderly. Crit Care Med 2015 1.53
24 Diverse attitudes to and understandings of spontaneous awakening trials: results from a statewide quality improvement collaborative*. Crit Care Med 2013 1.48
25 Potential value of regionalized intensive care for mechanically ventilated medical patients. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2007 1.47
26 Using existing data to address important clinical questions in critical care. Crit Care Med 2013 1.47
27 Temporal Changes in the Influence of Hospitals and Regional Healthcare Networks on Severe Sepsis Mortality. Crit Care Med 2015 1.45
28 Burden of cirrhosis on older Americans and their families: analysis of the health and retirement study. Hepatology 2012 1.44
29 Small area variations in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: does the neighborhood matter? Ann Intern Med 2010 1.40
30 Variation in long-term acute care hospital use after intensive care. Med Care Res Rev 2012 1.34
31 Differences in hospice use between black and white patients during the period 1992 through 2000. Med Care 2006 1.32
32 An official American Thoracic Society policy statement: pay-for-performance in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2010 1.20
33 Functional disability, cognitive impairment, and depression after hospitalization for pneumonia. Am J Med 2013 1.17
34 Gaming hospital-level pneumonia 30-day mortality and readmission measures by legitimate changes to diagnostic coding. Crit Care Med 2015 1.15
35 Exploring the scope of post-intensive care syndrome therapy and care: engagement of non-critical care providers and survivors in a second stakeholders meeting. Crit Care Med 2014 1.14
36 A polyurethane cuffed endotracheal tube is associated with decreased rates of ventilator-associated pneumonia. J Crit Care 2010 1.13
37 Which patients and where: a qualitative study of patient transfers from community hospitals. Med Care 2011 1.11
38 Marital status and the epidemiology and outcomes of sepsis. Chest 2010 1.09
39 Trajectories of recovery and dysfunction after acute illness, with implications for clinical trial design. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2012 1.09
40 Symptoms of depression in survivors of severe sepsis: a prospective cohort study of older Americans. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2013 1.09
41 Neuropsychiatric disorders and potentially preventable hospitalizations in a prospective cohort study of older Americans. J Gen Intern Med 2014 1.07
42 The epidemiology of acute organ system dysfunction from severe sepsis outside of the intensive care unit. J Hosp Med 2013 1.06
43 Hospital readmission and healthcare utilization following sepsis in community settings. J Hosp Med 2014 1.06
44 Limiting the spread of highly resistant hospital-acquired microorganisms via critical care transfers: a simulation study. Intensive Care Med 2011 0.98
45 Accuracy of the discharge destination field in administrative data for identifying transfer to a long-term acute care hospital. BMC Res Notes 2010 0.95
46 Implementation challenges in the intensive care unit: the why, who, and how of daily interruption of sedation. J Crit Care 2012 0.95
47 Defining and measuring successful emergency care networks: a research agenda. Acad Emerg Med 2010 0.94
48 Do hospitals alter patient care effort allocations under pay-for-performance? Health Serv Res 2010 0.92
49 A Binational Multicenter Pilot Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial of Early Goal-Directed Mobilization in the ICU. Crit Care Med 2016 0.91
50 Race and timeliness of transfer for revascularization in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Med Care 2011 0.90
51 Educating Physicians-in-Training About Resource Utilization and Their Own Outcomes of Care in the Inpatient Setting. J Grad Med Educ 2010 0.90
52 Impact of the fall 2009 influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 pandemic on US hospitals. Med Care 2013 0.90
53 Child injury risks are close to home: parent psychosocial factors associated with child safety. Matern Child Health J 2007 0.89
54 Reasons underlying interhospital transfers to an academic medical intensive care unit. J Crit Care 2012 0.88
55 Adoption of ICU telemedicine in the United States. Crit Care Med 2014 0.88
56 Care after the onset of serious illness: a novel claims-based dataset exploiting substantial cross-set linkages to study end-of-life care. J Palliat Med 2002 0.87
57 Longitudinal Changes in ICU Admissions Among Elderly Patients in the United States. Crit Care Med 2016 0.86
58 Revenue, relationships and routines: the social organization of acute myocardial infarction patient transfers in the United States. Soc Sci Med 2012 0.85
59 Prolonged duration ECMO for ARDS: futility, native lung recovery, or transplantation? ASAIO J 2013 0.84
60 Functional outcomes of general medical patients with severe sepsis. BMC Infect Dis 2013 0.83
61 Presepsis depressive symptoms are associated with incident cognitive impairment in survivors of severe sepsis: a prospective cohort study of older Americans. J Am Geriatr Soc 2012 0.83
62 The influence of race and ethnicity on complications and mortality after orthopedic surgery: a systematic review of the literature. Med Care 2014 0.83
63 Spatio-temporal Structure of US Critical Care Transfer Network. AMIA Jt Summits Transl Sci Proc 2011 0.83
64 Chemotherapy was not associated with cognitive decline in older adults with breast and colorectal cancer: findings from a prospective cohort study. Med Care 2012 0.82
65 Perceived barriers to the regionalization of adult critical care in the United States: a qualitative preliminary study. BMC Health Serv Res 2008 0.81
66 Team effect on variation in laboratory utilization on subspecialty services. Acad Med 2009 0.80
67 Decreased mortality resulting from a multicomponent intervention in a tertiary care medical intensive care unit. Crit Care Med 2011 0.79
68 Organisational characteristics associated with the use of daily interruption of sedation in US hospitals: a national study. BMJ Qual Saf 2011 0.79
69 Quality of care and interhospital collaboration: a study of patient transfers in Italy. Med Care 2014 0.79
70 Becoming a high reliability organization. Crit Care 2011 0.78
71 Acute care and long-term mortality among elderly patients with intracerebral hemorrhage who undergo chronic life-sustaining procedures. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2011 0.78
72 Managing uncertainty in claims-based sepsis research. Crit Care Med 2013 0.78
73 Peer Support as a Novel Strategy to Mitigate Post-Intensive Care Syndrome. AACN Adv Crit Care 2016 0.78
74 Diagnoses of early and late readmissions after hospitalization for pneumonia. A systematic review. Ann Am Thorac Soc 2014 0.77
75 Issues of survivorship are rarely addressed during intensive care unit stays. Baseline results from a statewide quality improvement collaborative. Ann Am Thorac Soc 2014 0.77
76 Advance directives and nursing home stays associated with less aggressive end-of-life care for patients with severe dementia. Health Aff (Millwood) 2014 0.77
77 Longitudinal influences of friends and parents upon unprotected vaginal intercourse in adolescents. Contraception 2010 0.77
78 When is critical illness not like an asteroid strike? Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2013 0.77
79 Sepsis after Scotland: enough with the averages, show us the effect modifiers. Crit Care 2013 0.77
80 Mobilization in severe sepsis: an integrative review. J Hosp Med 2015 0.77
81 Seduction and insight from cross-national comparisons. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2009 0.75
82 The author replies. Crit Care Med 2013 0.75
83 The authors reply. Crit Care Med 2015 0.75
84 Individual and health system variation in rehospitalizations the year after pneumonia. Medicine (Baltimore) 2017 0.75
85 Hospital Contributions to Variability in the Use of ICUs Among Elderly Medicare Recipients. Crit Care Med 2017 0.75
86 Annals for Hospitalists Inpatient Notes - Sepsis-3 for Hospitalists-Sepsis Without SIRS. Ann Intern Med 2016 0.75
87 Physician Networks and Ambulatory Care-sensitive Admissions. Med Care 2015 0.75
88 Core Domains in Evaluating Patient Outcomes After Acute Respiratory Failure: International Multidisciplinary Clinician Consultation. Phys Ther 2017 0.75
89 A novel methodology to characterize interfacility transfer strategies in a trauma transfer network. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2016 0.75
90 Wide Disagreement Between Alternative Assessments of Premorbid Physical Activity: Subjective Patient and Surrogate Reports and Objective Smartphone Data. Crit Care Med 2017 0.75
91 Editors' introduction to ATS seminars: demystifying data. Ann Am Thorac Soc 2013 0.75
92 The Untapped Potential of Patient and Family Engagement in the Organization of Critical Care. Crit Care Med 2017 0.75