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1988 • 3,311 citations

Importance of Functional Measures in Predicting Mortality Among Older Hospitalized Patients

1998 • 781 citations

The Problem of Quality of Life in Medicine

1997 • 650 citations

Prognostic Stratification in Critically Ill Patients With Acute Renal Failure Requiring Dialysis

1995 • 423 citations

A study of proactive ethics consultation for critically and terminally ill patients with extended lengths of stay

1998 • 237 citations

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1988 • 218 citations

Five-year survival after intensive care-Comparison of 12,180 patients with the general population

1996 • 184 citations

Gastric Intramural pH as a Predictor of Success or Failure in Weaning Patients from Mechanical Ventilation

1993 • 176 citations

Influence of the quality of nursing on the duration of weaning from mechanical ventilation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

1995 • 166 citations

Outcome and Function Following Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation

1987 • 163 citations

Outcome of intensive care of the “oldest-old” critically ill patients

1992 • 139 citations

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1992 • 132 citations

Mechanical ventilation for the elderly patient in intensive care. Incremental changes and benefits.

1993 • 98 citations

Prognosis with Mechanical Ventilation: The Influence of Disease, Severity of Disease, Age, and Chronic Health Status on Survival from an Acute Illness

1989 • 97 citations

Association of myocardial ischemia with failure to wean from mechanical ventilation

1995 • 91 citations

Influence of age on outcome of mechanically ventilated patients in an intensive care unit

1992 • 82 citations

Clinical and economic outcome of patients undergoing tracheostomy for prolonged mechanical ventilation in New York state during 1993

1997 • 82 citations

Mechanical Ventilation for the Elderly Patient in Intensive Care

1993 • 77 citations

Long-Term Outcomes for Elderly Survivors of Prolonged Ventilator Assistance

1989 • 73 citations

Predicting Eventual Success or Failure to Wean in Patients Receiving Long-term Mechanical Ventilation

1996 • 69 citations

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1997 • 69 citations

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1997 • 66 citations

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1999 • 60 citations

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1997 • 60 citations

Prolonged ventilatory support after open-heart surgery

1992 • 60 citations

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1999 • 59 citations

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1989 • 56 citations

Long-term Outcome When Major Complications Follow Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

1996 • 31 citations

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1988 • 27 citations

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1990 • 24 citations

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