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Santos WC, Lopes MCBT, Vancini-Campanharo CR, Boschetti D, Dias SODS, Castro MCNE, Piacezzi LHV, Batista REA. Nursing workload and severity of COVID-19 patients in the Intensive Care Unit. Rev Esc Enferm USP 2024; 58:e20240107. [PMID: 39190876 PMCID: PMC11349331 DOI: 10.1590/1980-220x-reeusp-2024-0107en] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2024] [Accepted: 07/04/2024] [Indexed: 08/29/2024] Open
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the workload and severity of patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with COVID-19. METHOD Cross-sectional, analytical study carried out in the ICU of a private hospital. All patients over the age of 18 with a diagnosis of COVID-19 admitted from September 2020 to June 2021 were included. Workload assessed by the Nursing Activities Score (NAS), and severity by the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment. Descriptive and inferential analyses were performed. RESULTS 217 patients were included, mostly men, mean age 62.41 years, white, obese, non-smokers and sedentary. The average NAS was 84.79. Staffing was in line with legislation and NAS. NAS was not associated with severity. Severity was associated with higher age, gender, comorbidities, sedentary lifestyle, time on mechanical ventilation, hospitalization and death. CONCLUSION Workload was high and not associated with severity or outcomes. Severity was associated with demographic and clinical conditions. This study shows the importance of staff sizing, with a view to promoting safety and quality of care.
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- Wesley Cajaiba Santos
- Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Escola Paulista de Enfermagem,
São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Hospital e Maternidade do SEPACO, Serviço Social da Indústria do
Papel, Papelão e Cortiça do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Hospital e Maternidade do SEPACO, Serviço Social da Indústria do
Papel, Papelão e Cortiça do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de
Mesquita Filho, Departamento de Enfermagem, Botucatu, SP, Brazil
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Duah HO, Boch S, Arter S, Nidey N, Lambert J. A guide to understanding big data for the nurse scientist: A discursive paper. Nurs Inq 2024; 31:e12648. [PMID: 38865286 DOI: 10.1111/nin.12648] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2023] [Revised: 05/10/2024] [Accepted: 05/17/2024] [Indexed: 06/14/2024]
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Big data refers to extremely large data generated at high volume, velocity, variety, and veracity. The nurse scientist is uniquely positioned to leverage big data to suggest novel hypotheses on patient care and the healthcare system. The purpose of this paper is to provide an introductory guide to understanding the use and capability of big data for nurse scientists. Herein, we discuss the practical, ethical, social, and educational implications of using big data in nursing research. Some practical challenges with the use of big data include data accessibility, data quality, missing data, variable data standards, fragmentation of health data, and software considerations. Opposing ethical positions arise with the use of big data, and arguments for and against the use of big data are underpinned by concerns about confidentiality, anonymity, and autonomy. The use of big data has health equity dimensions and addressing equity in data is an ethical imperative. There is a need to incorporate competencies needed to leverage big data for nursing research into advanced nursing educational curricula. Nursing science has a great opportunity to evolve and embrace the potential of big data. Nurse scientists should not be spectators but collaborators and drivers of policy change to better leverage and harness the potential of big data.
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- Henry Ofori Duah
- College of Nursing, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- College of Nursing, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Nursing, Miami University, Hamilton, Ohio, USA
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- College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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- College of Nursing, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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Sherak RAG, Sajjadi H, Khimani N, Tolchin B, Jubanyik K, Taylor RA, Schulz W, Mortazavi BJ, Haimovich AD. SOFA score performs worse than age for predicting mortality in patients with COVID-19. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0301013. [PMID: 38758942 PMCID: PMC11101117 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0301013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2022] [Accepted: 03/09/2024] [Indexed: 05/19/2024] Open
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The use of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score, originally developed to describe disease morbidity, is commonly used to predict in-hospital mortality. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many protocols for crisis standards of care used the SOFA score to select patients to be deprioritized due to a low likelihood of survival. A prior study found that age outperformed the SOFA score for mortality prediction in patients with COVID-19, but was limited to a small cohort of intensive care unit (ICU) patients and did not address whether their findings were unique to patients with COVID-19. Moreover, it is not known how well these measures perform across races. In this retrospective study, we compare the performance of age and SOFA score in predicting in-hospital mortality across two cohorts: a cohort of 2,648 consecutive adult patients diagnosed with COVID-19 who were admitted to a large academic health system in the northeastern United States over a 4-month period in 2020 and a cohort of 75,601 patients admitted to one of 335 ICUs in the eICU database between 2014 and 2015. We used age and the maximum SOFA score as predictor variables in separate univariate logistic regression models for in-hospital mortality and calculated area under the receiver operator characteristic curves (AU-ROCs) and area under precision-recall curves (AU-PRCs) for each predictor in both cohorts. Among the COVID-19 cohort, age (AU-ROC 0.795, 95% CI 0.762, 0.828) had a significantly better discrimination than SOFA score (AU-ROC 0.679, 95% CI 0.638, 0.721) for mortality prediction. Conversely, age (AU-ROC 0.628 95% CI 0.608, 0.628) underperformed compared to SOFA score (AU-ROC 0.735, 95% CI 0.726, 0.745) in non-COVID-19 ICU patients in the eICU database. There was no difference between Black and White COVID-19 patients in performance of either age or SOFA Score. Our findings bring into question the utility of SOFA score-based resource allocation in COVID-19 crisis standards of care.
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- Raphael A. G. Sherak
- Yale Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX, United States of America
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX, United States of America
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- Department of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America
- Yale New Haven Health Center for Clinical Ethics, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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- Yale Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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- Yale Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America
- Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX, United States of America
- Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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- Yale Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States of America
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DeMartino ES, Ennis JS, Wolf SM, Sulmasy DP. Learning from COVID-19 triage schemes to face the next public health emergency. J Am Geriatr Soc 2024; 72:1298-1301. [PMID: 38284315 DOI: 10.1111/jgs.18765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2023] [Revised: 12/15/2023] [Accepted: 12/23/2023] [Indexed: 01/30/2024]
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- Erin S DeMartino
- Biomedical Ethics Research Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Biomedical Ethics Research Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Law School and Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Departments of Medicine and Philosophy, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
- Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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Mettler SK, Charoenngam N, Jaroenlapnopparat A, Tern C, Xanthavanij N, Economidou S, Strand MJ, Hobbs BD, Moll M, Cho MH. Clinical factors associated with racial differences in the prevalence of occult hypoxemia: a retrospective case-control study. MEDRXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR HEALTH SCIENCES 2024:2024.03.28.24305036. [PMID: 38585762 PMCID: PMC10996744 DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.28.24305036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/09/2024]
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Background Recent studies showed that Black patients more often have falsely normal oxygen saturation on pulse oximetry compared to White patients. However, whether the racial differences in occult hypoxemia are mediated by other clinical differences is unknown. Methods We conducted a retrospective case-control study utilizing two large ICU databases (eICU and MIMIC-IV). We defined occult hypoxemia as oxygen saturation on pulse oximetry within 92-98% despite oxygen saturation on arterial blood gas below 90%. We assessed associations of commonly measured clinical factors with occult hypoxemia using multivariable logistic regression and conducted mediation analysis of the racial effect. Results Among 24,641 patients, there were 1,855 occult hypoxemia cases and 23,786 controls. In both datasets, Black patients were more likely to have occult hypoxemia (unadjusted odds ratio 1.66 [95%-CI: 1.41-1.95] in eICU and 2.00 [95%-CI: 1.22-3.14] in MIMIC-IV). In multivariable models, higher respiratory rate, PaCO2 and creatinine as well as lower hemoglobin were associated with increased odds of occult hypoxemia. Differences in the commonly measured clinical markers accounted for 9.2% and 44.4% of the racial effect on occult hypoxemia in eICU and MIMIC-IV, respectively. Conclusion Clinical differences, in addition to skin tone, might mediate some of the racial differences in occult hypoxemia.
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- Sofia K. Mettler
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA, United States
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA, United States
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
- Faculty of Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
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- Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA, United States
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA, United States
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, United States
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
- Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep and Critical Care Medicine Section, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury, MA, United States
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
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Hick JL, Toner ES, Hanfling D, Biddinger PD, Lawler JV. Data and Disasters: Essential Information Needed for All Healthcare Threats. Health Secur 2024; 22:3-10. [PMID: 37729074 DOI: 10.1089/hs.2023.0067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/22/2023] Open
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- John L Hick
- John L. Hick, MD, is a Faculty Emergency Physician, Hennepin Healthcare, and a Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Minnesota; both in Minneapolis, MN
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- Eric S. Toner, MD, is a Senior Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Baltimore, MD
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- Dan Hanfling, MD, is a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University, Washington, DC, and Vice President on the Technical Staff at In-Q-Tel, Arlington, VA
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- Paul D. Biddinger, MD, FACEP, is Chief Preparedness and Continuity Officer, Mass General Brigham; Director, Center for Disaster Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School; and Senior Fellow in Emergency Preparedness, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; all in Boston, MA
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- James V. Lawler, MD, MPH, FIDSA, is Associate Director for International Programs and Innovation, Global Center for Health Security, and a Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases; both at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
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Walsh BC, Zhu J, Feng Y, Berkowitz KA, Betensky RA, Nunnally ME, Pradhan DR. Simulation of New York City's Ventilator Allocation Guideline During the Spring 2020 COVID-19 Surge. JAMA Netw Open 2023; 6:e2336736. [PMID: 37796499 PMCID: PMC10556967 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.36736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2023] [Accepted: 08/25/2023] [Indexed: 10/06/2023] Open
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Importance The spring 2020 surge of COVID-19 unprecedentedly strained ventilator supply in New York City, with many hospitals nearly exhausting available ventilators and subsequently seriously considering enacting crisis standards of care and implementing New York State Ventilator Allocation Guidelines (NYVAG). However, there is little evidence as to how NYVAG would perform if implemented. Objectives To evaluate the performance and potential improvement of NYVAG during a surge of patients with respect to the length of rationing, overall mortality, and worsening health disparities. Design, Setting, and Participants This cohort study included intubated patients in a single health system in New York City from March through July 2020. A total of 20 000 simulations were conducted of ventilator triage (10 000 following NYVAG and 10 000 following a proposed improved NYVAG) during a crisis period, defined as the point at which the prepandemic ventilator supply was 95% utilized. Exposures The NYVAG protocol for triage ventilators. Main Outcomes and Measures Comparison of observed survival rates with simulations of scenarios requiring NYVAG ventilator rationing. Results The total cohort included 1671 patients; of these, 674 intubated patients (mean [SD] age, 63.7 [13.8] years; 465 male [69.9%]) were included in the crisis period, with 571 (84.7%) testing positive for COVID-19. Simulated ventilator rationing occurred for 163.9 patients over 15.0 days, 44.4% (95% CI, 38.3%-50.0%) of whom would have survived if provided a ventilator while only 34.8% (95% CI, 28.5%-40.0%) of those newly intubated patients receiving a reallocated ventilator survived. While triage categorization at the time of intubation exhibited partial prognostic differentiation, 94.8% of all ventilator rationing occurred after a time trial. Within this subset, 43.1% were intubated for 7 or more days with a favorable SOFA score that had not improved. An estimated 60.6% of these patients would have survived if sustained on a ventilator. Revising triage subcategorization, proposed improved NYVAG, would have improved this alarming ventilator allocation inefficiency (25.3% [95% CI, 22.1%-28.4%] of those selected for ventilator rationing would have survived if provided a ventilator). NYVAG ventilator rationing did not exacerbate existing health disparities. Conclusions and Relevance In this cohort study of intubated patients experiencing simulated ventilator rationing during the apex of the New York City COVID-19 2020 surge, NYVAG diverted ventilators from patients with a higher chance of survival to those with a lower chance of survival. Future efforts should be focused on triage subcategorization, which improved this triage inefficiency, and ventilator rationing after a time trial, when most ventilator rationing occurred.
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- B. Corbett Walsh
- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York
- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles
- Section of Palliative Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles
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- Department of Biostatistics, New York University School of Global Public Health, New York
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- Department of Biostatistics, New York University School of Global Public Health, New York
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- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York
- National Center for Ethics in Health Care, Veterans Health Administration
- Division of Medical Ethics, Department of Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York
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- Department of Biostatistics, New York University School of Global Public Health, New York
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- New York University Langone Health, New York
- Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care, and Pain Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York
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- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York
- New York University Langone Health, New York
- Bellevue Hospital Center, NYC Health & Hospitals, New York, New York
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Ennis JS, Riggan KA, Nguyen NV, Kramer DB, Smith AK, Sulmasy DP, Tilburt JC, Wolf SM, DeMartino ES. Triage Procedures for Critical Care Resource Allocation During Scarcity. JAMA Netw Open 2023; 6:e2329688. [PMID: 37642967 PMCID: PMC10466166 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.29688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2023] [Accepted: 07/10/2023] [Indexed: 08/31/2023] Open
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Importance During the COVID-19 pandemic, many US states issued or revised pandemic preparedness plans guiding allocation of critical care resources during crises. State plans vary in the factors used to triage patients and have faced criticism from advocacy groups due to the potential for discrimination. Objective To analyze the role of comorbidities and long-term prognosis in state triage procedures. Design, Setting, and Participants This cross-sectional study used data gathered from parallel internet searches for state-endorsed pandemic preparedness plans for the 50 US states, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico (hereafter referred to as states), which were conducted between November 25, 2021, and June 16, 2023. Plans available on June 16, 2023, that provided step-by-step instructions for triaging critically ill patients were categorized for use of comorbidities and prognostication. Main Outcomes and Measures Prevalence and contents of lists of comorbidities and their stated function in triage and instructions to predict duration of postdischarge survival. Results Overall, 32 state-promulgated pandemic preparedness plans included triage procedures specific enough to guide triage in clinical practice. Twenty of these (63%) included lists of comorbidities that excluded (11 of 20 [55%]) or deprioritized (8 of 20 [40%]) patients during triage; one state's list was formulated to resolve ties between patients with equal triage scores. Most states with triage procedures (21 of 32 [66%]) considered predicted survival beyond hospital discharge. These states proposed different prognostic time horizons; 15 of 21 (71%) were numeric (ranging from 6 months to 5 years after hospital discharge), with the remaining 6 (29%) using descriptive terms, such as long-term. Conclusions and Relevance In this cross-sectional study of state-promulgated critical care triage policies, most plans restricted access to scarce critical care resources for patients with listed comorbidities and/or for patients with less-than-average expected postdischarge survival. This analysis raises concerns about access to care during a public health crisis for populations with high burdens of chronic illness, such as individuals with disabilities and minoritized racial and ethnic groups.
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- Jackson S. Ennis
- Biomedical Ethics Research Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Biomedical Ethics Research Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, University of California, San Francisco
- San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California
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- Departments of Medicine and Philosophy, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
- Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
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- Biomedical Ethics Research Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
- Division of General Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona
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- University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis
- University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis
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- Biomedical Ethics Research Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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Ramgopal S, Sanchez-Pinto LN, Horvat CM, Carroll MS, Luo Y, Florin TA. Artificial intelligence-based clinical decision support in pediatrics. Pediatr Res 2023; 93:334-341. [PMID: 35906317 PMCID: PMC9668209 DOI: 10.1038/s41390-022-02226-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2022] [Revised: 06/29/2022] [Accepted: 07/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Machine learning models may be integrated into clinical decision support (CDS) systems to identify children at risk of specific diagnoses or clinical deterioration to provide evidence-based recommendations. This use of artificial intelligence models in clinical decision support (AI-CDS) may have several advantages over traditional "rule-based" CDS models in pediatric care through increased model accuracy, with fewer false alerts and missed patients. AI-CDS tools must be appropriately developed, provide insight into the rationale behind decisions, be seamlessly integrated into care pathways, be intuitive to use, answer clinically relevant questions, respect the content expertise of the healthcare provider, and be scientifically sound. While numerous machine learning models have been reported in pediatric care, their integration into AI-CDS remains incompletely realized to date. Important challenges in the application of AI models in pediatric care include the relatively lower rates of clinically significant outcomes compared to adults, and the lack of sufficiently large datasets available necessary for the development of machine learning models. In this review article, we summarize key concepts related to AI-CDS, its current application to pediatric care, and its potential benefits and risks. IMPACT: The performance of clinical decision support may be enhanced by the utilization of machine learning-based algorithms to improve the predictive performance of underlying models. Artificial intelligence-based clinical decision support (AI-CDS) uses models that are experientially improved through training and are particularly well suited toward high-dimensional data. The application of AI-CDS toward pediatric care remains limited currently but represents an important area of future research.
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- Sriram Ramgopal
- Division of Emergency Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
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- grid.16753.360000 0001 2299 3507Division of Critical Care Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL USA ,grid.16753.360000 0001 2299 3507Department of Preventive Medicine (Health and Biomedical Informatics), Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL USA
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- grid.21925.3d0000 0004 1936 9000Department of Critical Care Medicine, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA USA
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- grid.16753.360000 0001 2299 3507Data Analytics and Reporting, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL USA
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- grid.16753.360000 0001 2299 3507Department of Preventive Medicine (Health and Biomedical Informatics), Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL USA
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- grid.16753.360000 0001 2299 3507Division of Emergency Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL USA
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Porter A, Brown CC, Rodriguez A, Zohoori N, Wells S, Crump A, Romero J, Tilford JM. Variation in Time Between Testing Positive for COVID-19 and Hospital Admission by Race/Ethnicity and Insurance Status. J Health Care Poor Underserved 2023; 34:1290-1304. [PMID: 38661756 PMCID: PMC11101062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2024]
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Understanding the extent to which demographic and socioeconomic factors play a role in the disparities associated with duration between testing positive for COVID-19 and hospital admission will help in achieving equitable health outcomes. This project linked the statewide COVID-19 registry to administrative datasets to examine the variation in times between testing positive for COVID-19 and hospital admission by race/ethnicity and insurance. In 2020, there were 11,314 patients admitted for COVID-19 in Arkansas. Approximately 42.2% tested positive for COVID-19 on the same day as hospital admission. Black patients had 38% higher odds of hospitalization on the day of testing compared with White patients (p<.001). Medicaid and uninsured patients had 51% and 50% higher odds of admission on the day of testing compared with privately insured patients (both p<.001), respectively. This study highlights the implications of reduced access to testing with respect to equitable health outcomes.
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- Austin Porter
- Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205
- Arkansas Department of Health, Little Rock, AR 72205
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- Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR
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- Arkansas Department of Health, Little Rock, AR 72205
- Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205
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- Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205
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- Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205
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- Arkansas Department of Health, Little Rock, AR 72205
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- Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205
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Preparing for the Worst-Case Scenario in a Pandemic: Intensivists Simulate Prioritization and Triage of Scarce ICU Resources. Crit Care Med 2022; 50:1714-1724. [PMID: 36222541 PMCID: PMC9668365 DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000005684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Simulation and evaluation of a prioritization protocol at a German university hospital using a convergent parallel mixed methods design. DESIGN Prospective single-center cohort study with a quantitative analysis of ICU patients and qualitative content analysis of two focus groups with intensivists. SETTING Five ICUs of internal medicine and anesthesiology at a German university hospital. PATIENTS Adult critically ill ICU patients ( n = 53). INTERVENTIONS After training the attending senior ICU physicians ( n = 13) in rationing, an impending ICU congestion was simulated. All ICU patients were rated according to their likelihood to survive their acute illness (good-moderate-unfavorable). From each ICU, the two patients with the most unfavorable prognosis ( n = 10) were evaluated by five prioritization teams for triage. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Patients nominated for prioritization visit ( n = 10) had higher Sequential Organ Failure Assessment scores and already a longer stay at the hospital and on the ICU compared with the other patients. The order within this worst prognosis group was not congruent between the five teams. However, an in-hospital mortality of 80% confirmed the reasonable match with the lowest predicted probability of survival. Qualitative data highlighted the tremendous burden of triage and the need for a team-based consensus-oriented decision-making approach to ensure best possible care and to support professionals. Transparent communication within the teams, the hospital, and to the public was seen as essential for prioritization implementation. CONCLUSIONS To mitigate potential bias and to reduce the emotional burden of triage, a consensus-oriented, interdisciplinary, and collaborative approach should be implemented. Prognostic comparative assessment by intensivists is feasible. The combination of long-term ICU stay and consistently high Sequential Organ Failure Assessment scores resulted in a greater risk for triage in patients. It remains challenging to reliably differentiate between patients with very low chances to survive and requires further conceptual and empirical research.
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Oh AR, Park J, Lee JH, Choi DC, Yang K, Choi JH, Ahn J, Sung JD, Lee S. Association between Mortality and Sequential Organ Failure Assessment Score during a Short Stay in the Intensive Care Unit after Non-Cardiac Surgery. J Clin Med 2022; 11:jcm11195865. [PMID: 36233732 PMCID: PMC9573186 DOI: 10.3390/jcm11195865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2022] [Revised: 09/28/2022] [Accepted: 09/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Background: The sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score has been validated in various clinical situations. However, it has not been investigated during a short stay in the intensive care unit (ICU). This study aimed to evaluate the association between the SOFA score and outcomes in patients who were monitored for less than one day after non-cardiac surgery. Methods: From a total of 203,787 consecutive adult patients who underwent non-cardiac surgery between January 2011 and June 2019, we selected 17,714 who were transferred to the ICU immediately after surgery and stayed for less than 24 h. Patients were divided according to quartile value and change between the initial and follow-up levels of SOFA score. Results: Three-year mortality tended to increase with a higher initial SOFA score (11.7%, 11.8%, 15.1%, and 17.8%, respectively). The patients were divided according to changes in the SOFA score at the midnight postoperative follow-up check: 16,176 (91.3%) in the stable group and 1538 (8.7%) in the worsened group. The worsened group showed significantly higher three-year mortality and complications (13.2% vs. 18.6%; HR [hazard ratio]: 1.236; 95% CI [confidence interval]: 1.108−1.402; p ≤ 0.0021 for three-year mortality and 3.8% vs. 9.1%; HR: 2.13; 95% CI: 1.73−2.60; p < 0.001 for acute kidney injury). Conclusions: The SOFA score during a short stay in the ICU after non-cardiac surgery showed an association with mortality. The change in SOFA score may need to be considered at discharge from the ICU.
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- Ah Ran Oh
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 06351, Korea
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 06351, Korea
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ajou University Graduate School of Medicine, Suwon 16499, Korea
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 06351, Korea
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 06351, Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ajou University Graduate School of Medicine, Suwon 16499, Korea
- Center for Health Promotion, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 06351, Korea
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 06351, Korea
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- Statistics and Data Center, Research Institute for Future Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul 06351, Korea
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- Rehabilitation and Prevention Center, Heart Vascular Stroke Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 06351, Korea
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- Rehabilitation and Prevention Center, Heart Vascular Stroke Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 06351, Korea
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 07061, Korea
- Correspondence:
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Brinkworth JF, Shaw JG. On race, human variation, and who gets and dies of sepsis. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2022. [PMCID: PMC9544695 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Jessica F. Brinkworth
- Department of Anthropology University of Illinois Urbana‐Champaign Urbana Illinois USA
- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign Urbana Illinois USA
- Department of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior University of Illinois Urbana‐Champaign Urbana Illinois USA
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- Department of Anthropology University of Illinois Urbana‐Champaign Urbana Illinois USA
- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign Urbana Illinois USA
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Moisa E, Corneci D, Negutu MI, Filimon CR, Serbu A, Popescu M, Negoita S, Grintescu IM. Development and Internal Validation of a New Prognostic Model Powered to Predict 28-Day All-Cause Mortality in ICU COVID-19 Patients-The COVID-SOFA Score. J Clin Med 2022; 11:jcm11144160. [PMID: 35887924 PMCID: PMC9323813 DOI: 10.3390/jcm11144160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2022] [Revised: 07/12/2022] [Accepted: 07/15/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Background: The sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score has poor discriminative ability for death in severely or critically ill patients with Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission. Our aim was to create a new score powered to predict 28-day mortality. Methods: Retrospective, observational, bicentric cohort study including 425 patients with COVID-19 pneumonia, acute respiratory failure and SOFA score ≥ 2 requiring ICU admission for ≥72 h. Factors with independent predictive value for 28-day mortality were identified after stepwise Cox proportional hazards (PH) regression. Based on the regression coefficients, an equation was computed representing the COVID-SOFA score. Discriminative ability was tested using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis, concordance statistics and precision-recall curves. This score was internally validated. Results: Median (Q1−Q3) age for the whole sample was 64 [55−72], with 290 (68.2%) of patients being male. The 28-day mortality was 54.58%. After stepwise Cox PH regression, age, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and SOFA score remained in the final model. The following equation was computed: COVID-SOFA score = 10 × [0.037 × Age + 0.347 × ln(NLR) + 0.16 × SOFA]. Harrell’s C-index for the COVID-SOFA score was higher than the SOFA score alone for 28-day mortality (0.697 [95% CI; 0.662−0.731] versus 0.639 [95% CI: 0.605−0.672]). Subsequently, the prediction error rate was improved up to 16.06%. Area under the ROC (AUROC) was significantly higher for the COVID-SOFA score compared with the SOFA score for 28-day mortality: 0.796 [95% CI: 0.755−0.833] versus 0.699 [95% CI: 0.653−0.742, p < 0.001]. Better predictive value was observed with repeated measurement at 48 h after ICU admission. Conclusions: The COVID-SOFA score is better than the SOFA score alone for 28-day mortality prediction. Improvement in predictive value seen with measurements at 48 h after ICU admission suggests that the COVID-SOFA score can be used in a repetitive manner. External validation is required to support these results.
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- Emanuel Moisa
- Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, ‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 020021 Bucharest, Romania; (D.C.); (M.P.); (S.N.); (I.M.G.)
- Clinic of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Elias Emergency University Hospital, 011461 Bucharest, Romania;
- Correspondence: or ; Tel.: +40-753021128
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- Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, ‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 020021 Bucharest, Romania; (D.C.); (M.P.); (S.N.); (I.M.G.)
- Clinic of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Dr. Carol Davila Central Military Emergency University Hospital, 010825 Bucharest, Romania; (C.R.F.); (A.S.)
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- Clinic of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Elias Emergency University Hospital, 011461 Bucharest, Romania;
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- Clinic of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Dr. Carol Davila Central Military Emergency University Hospital, 010825 Bucharest, Romania; (C.R.F.); (A.S.)
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- Clinic of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Dr. Carol Davila Central Military Emergency University Hospital, 010825 Bucharest, Romania; (C.R.F.); (A.S.)
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- Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, ‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 020021 Bucharest, Romania; (D.C.); (M.P.); (S.N.); (I.M.G.)
- Clinic of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Fundeni Clinical Institute, 022328 Bucharest, Romania
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- Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, ‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 020021 Bucharest, Romania; (D.C.); (M.P.); (S.N.); (I.M.G.)
- Clinic of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Elias Emergency University Hospital, 011461 Bucharest, Romania;
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- Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, ‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 020021 Bucharest, Romania; (D.C.); (M.P.); (S.N.); (I.M.G.)
- Clinic of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Clinical Emergency Hospital of Bucharest, 014461 Bucharest, Romania
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White DB, Lo B, Peek ME. POINT: Is Considering Social Determinants of Health Ethically Permissible for Fair Allocation of Critical Care Resources During the COVID-19 Pandemic? Yes. Chest 2022; 162:37-40. [PMID: 35809936 PMCID: PMC9257161 DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2022.03.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2022] [Accepted: 03/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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- Douglas B White
- Program on Ethics and Decision Making in Critical Illness, Pittsburgh, PA; Department of Critical Care Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA.
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- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA; Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA; The Greenwall Foundation, New York, NY
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- Section of General Internal Medicine, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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Tolchin B, Bruce L, Mercurio M, Latham SR. A Hub and Spoke Model for Improving Access and Standardizing Ethics Consultations Across a Large Healthcare System. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS : AJOB 2022; 22:42-45. [PMID: 35420520 DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2022.2044551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Tolchin B, Latham SR, Bruce L, Ferrante LE, Kraschel K, Jubanyik K, Hull SC, Herbst JL, Kapo J, Moritz ED, Hughes J, Siegel MD, Mercurio MR. Reflections on New Evidence on Crisis Standards of Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic. THE JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ETHICS 2021. [DOI: 10.1086/jce2021324358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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