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Mechanical ventilation in a cohort of elderly patients admitted to an intensive care unit.

Ely EW, Evans GW, Haponik EF.

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Recovery rate and prognosis in older persons who develop acute lung injury and the acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Ely EW, Wheeler AP, Thompson BT, Ancukiewicz M, Steinberg KP, Bernard GR.

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Clinical predictors and outcomes for patients requiring tracheostomy in the intensive care unit.

Kollef MH, Ahrens TS, Shannon W.

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Effect of acute kidney injury on weaning from mechanical ventilation in critically ill patients.

Vieira JM Jr, Castro I, Curvello-Neto A, Demarzo S, Caruso P, Pastore L Jr, Imanishe MH, Abdulkader RC, Deheinzelin D.

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Delirium as a predictor of mortality in mechanically ventilated patients in the intensive care unit.

Ely EW, Shintani A, Truman B, Speroff T, Gordon SM, Harrell FE Jr, Inouye SK, Bernard GR, Dittus RS.

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The outcome of extubation failure in a community hospital intensive care unit: a cohort study.

Seymour CW, Martinez A, Christie JD, Fuchs BD.

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Sex-and age-based differences in the delivery and outcomes of critical care.

Fowler RA, Sabur N, Li P, Juurlink DN, Pinto R, Hladunewich MA, Adhikari NK, Sibbald WJ, Martin CM.

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Mechanical ventilation in elderly patients.

Benhamou D, Muir JF, Melen B.

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The ethical challenge and the futile treatment in the older population admitted to the intensive care unit.

Frezza EE, Squillario DM, Smith TJ.

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Hospital costs in patients receiving prolonged mechanical ventilation: does age have an impact?

Chelluri L, Mendelsohn AB, Belle SH, Rotondi AJ, Angus DC, Donahoe MP, Sirio CA, Schulz R, Pinsky MR.

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Respiratory failure in the elderly. Analysis of outcome after treatment with mechanical ventilation.

Swinburne AJ, Fedullo AJ, Bixby K, Lee DK, Wahl GW.

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Outcome and attributable cost of ventilator-associated pneumonia among intensive care unit patients in a suburban medical center.

Warren DK, Shukla SJ, Olsen MA, Kollef MH, Hollenbeak CS, Cox MJ, Cohen MM, Fraser VJ.

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Friedrich JO, Wilson G, Chant C.

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Morbidity, mortality, and quality-of-life outcomes of patients requiring >or=14 days of mechanical ventilation.

Combes A, Costa MA, Trouillet JL, Baudot J, Mokhtari M, Gibert C, Chastre J.

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The impact of a multidisciplinary approach on caring for ventilator-dependent patients.

Young MP, Gooder VJ, Oltermann MH, Bohman CB, French TK, James BC.

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The attributable mortality and length of intensive care unit stay of clinically important gastrointestinal bleeding in critically ill patients.

Cook DJ, Griffith LE, Walter SD, Guyatt GH, Meade MO, Heyland DK, Kirby A, Tryba M; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group.

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The distribution of costs of care in mechanically ventilated patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Ely EW, Baker AM, Evans GW, Haponik EF.

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Effects of a multifaceted, multidisciplinary, hospital-wide quality improvement program on weaning from mechanical ventilation.

Smyrnios NA, Connolly A, Wilson MM, Curley FJ, French CT, Heard SO, Irwin RS.

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Intensive care unit delirium is an independent predictor of longer hospital stay: a prospective analysis of 261 non-ventilated patients.

Thomason JW, Shintani A, Peterson JF, Pun BT, Jackson JC, Ely EW.

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Outcome of children requiring admission to an intensive care unit after bone marrow transplantation.

Jacobe SJ, Hassan A, Veys P, Mok Q.

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