Publications

Early Lactate-Guided Therapy in Intensive Care Unit Patients

In patients with hyperlactatemia on ICU admission, lactate-guided therapy significantly reduced hospital mortality when adjusting for predefined risk factors. As this was consis...

Survey Questions: Handcrafting the Standardized Questionnaire

This book reviews the experimental literature on how survey questions behave as well as the lore of professional experience and culls from them those guiding principles and spec...

The Influence of Hospital Volume on Survival after Resection for Lung Cancer

Patients who undergo resection for lung cancer at hospitals that perform large numbers of such procedures are likely to survive longer than patients who have such surgery at hos...

Prediction of Mortality and Morbidity With a 6-Minute Walk Test in Patients With Left Ventricular Dysfunction

<h3>Objective.</h3> —To study the potential usefulness of the 6-minute walk test, a self-paced submaximal exercise test, as a prognostic indicator in patients with left ventricu...

Sonic hedgehog induces the proliferation of primitive human hematopoietic cells via BMP regulation

CHRONIC COUGH: EOSINOPHILIC BRONCHITIS WITHOUT ASTHMA

Simplified Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System

Objectives To validate a simplified version of the Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System, the TISS-28, and to determine the association of TISS-28 with the time spent on score...

Maternal Attachment

Abstract To determine whether present hospital practices may affect later maternal behavior, we placed 28 primiparous women in two study groups shortly after delivery of normal ...

Prevalence and Associations of 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Deficiency in US Children: NHANES 2001–2004

OBJECTIVES: To determine the prevalence of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) deficiency and associations between 25(OH)D deficiency and cardiovascular risk factors in children and a...

Wheezing, asthma, and pulmonary dysfunction 10 years after infection with respiratory syncytial virus in infancy.

Of the 180 children admitted to hospitals in Tyneside in the first year of life with proved respiratory syncytial virus lower respiratory tract infection, 130 were seen for revi...

<scp>I</scp>nternational <scp>S</scp>ociety of <scp>N</scp>europathology‐<scp>H</scp>aarlem <scp>C</scp>onsensus <scp>G</scp>uidelines for <scp>N</scp>ervous <scp>S</scp>ystem <scp>T</scp>umor <scp>C</scp>lassification and <scp>G</scp>rading

Abstract Major discoveries in the biology of nervous system tumors have raised the question of how non‐histological data such as molecular information can be incorporated into t...

Implementation of a bundle of quality indicators for the early management of severe sepsis and septic shock is associated with decreased mortality*

Implementation of a severe sepsis bundle using a quality improvement feedback to modify physician behavior in the emergency department setting was feasible and was associated wi...