Dale Needham

A province-wide study of the association between hospital resource allocation and length of stay.

Patient care seeking barriers and tuberculosis programme reform: a qualitative study.

Intensive care unit physician staffing: financial modeling of the Leapfrog standard.

Mechanical ventilation in Ontario, 1992-2000: incidence, survival, and hospital bed utilization of noncardiac surgery adult patients.

West Nile virus infection in the intensive care unit: a case series and literature review.

Troponin I and T levels in renal failure patients without acute coronary syndrome: a systematic review of the literature.

A system factors analysis of airway events from the Intensive Care Unit Safety Reporting System (ICUSRS).

Projected incidence of mechanical ventilation in Ontario to 2026: Preparing for the aging baby boomers.

Quality of life in adult survivors of critical illness: a systematic review of the literature.

Studying outcomes of intensive care unit survivors: the role of the cohort study.

Studying outcomes of intensive care unit survivors: measuring exposures and outcomes.

The efficacy of sirolimus- and paclitaxel-eluting stents: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

The importance of understanding the costs of critical care and mechanical ventilation.

A systematic review of the Charlson comorbidity index using Canadian administrative databases: a perspective on risk adjustment in critical care research.

A system factors analysis of "line, tube, and drain" incidents in the intensive care unit.

Ventilatory management of acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Study protocol: The Improving Care of Acute Lung Injury Patients (ICAP) study.

Intensive care unit physician staffing: financial modeling of the Leapfrog standard.

How will we know patients are safer? An organization-wide approach to measuring and improving safety.

Quality of life after acute respiratory distress syndrome: a meta-analysis.

Hospital volume and mortality for mechanical ventilation of medical and surgical patients: a population-based analysis using administrative data.

Creating high reliability in health care organizations.

Team care: beyond open and closed intensive care units.

An intervention to decrease catheter-related bloodstream infections in the ICU.

An intensivist all day, keeps the bad outcomes away.

Critically appraise before you believe: the quality of meta-analyses in critical care medicine.

Hemodynamic goals in randomized clinical trials in patients with sepsis: a systematic review of the literature.

Systematic review identifies number of strategies important for retaining study participants.

Neuromuscular dysfunction acquired in critical illness: a systematic review.

Review of retention strategies in longitudinal studies and application to follow-up of ICU survivors.

The role of future longitudinal studies in ICU survivors: understanding determinants and pathophysiology of weakness and neuromuscular dysfunction.

Intensive care unit safety incidents for medical versus surgical patients: a prospective multicenter study.

Barriers to low tidal volume ventilation in acute respiratory distress syndrome: survey development, validation, and results.

Deciding who to admit to a critical care unit.

A framework for health care organizations to develop and evaluate a safety scorecard.

Intensive care unit exposures for long-term outcomes research: development and description of exposures for 150 patients with acute lung injury.

Informed consent in the critically ill: a two-step approach incorporating delirium screening.

24-hour intensivist staffing: balancing benefits and costs.

Psychiatric morbidity in survivors of the acute respiratory distress syndrome: a systematic review.

Patient and intensive care unit organizational factors associated with low tidal volume ventilation in acute lung injury.

Improving patient safety in intensive care units in Michigan.

Mechanical ventilation and disuse atrophy of the diaphragm.

Pulmonary vs nonpulmonary sepsis and mortality in acute lung injury.

The science of quality improvement.

Intensive care unit hypoglycemia predicts depression during early recovery from acute lung injury.

Posttraumatic stress disorder in general intensive care unit survivors: a systematic review.

Review of a large clinical series: sedation and analgesia usage with airway pressure release and assist-control ventilation for acute lung injury.

Translating evidence into practice: a model for large scale knowledge translation.

Mobilizing patients in the intensive care unit: improving neuromuscular weakness and physical function.

Depression in general intensive care unit survivors: a systematic review.

ICU staffing and patient outcomes: more work remains.

The impact of obesity on outcomes after critical illness: a meta-analysis.

Improving data quality control in quality improvement projects.

The use of personal protective equipment for control of influenza among critical care clinicians: A survey study.

Are intensive care factors associated with depressive symptoms 6 months after acute lung injury?

Red blood cell transfusion practices in acute lung injury: what do patient factors contribute?

Decontamination of the digestive tract in ICU patients.

Critical illness neuromyopathy and muscle weakness in patients in the intensive care unit.

Bench-to-bedside review: mobilizing patients in the intensive care unit--from pathophysiology to clinical trials.

Interruption of sedation for early rehabilitation improves outcomes in ventilated, critically ill adults.

Mortality in sepsis versus non-sepsis induced acute lung injury.

Rehabilitation therapy and outcomes in acute respiratory failure: an observational pilot project.

A framework for diagnosing and classifying intensive care unit-acquired weakness.

Technology to enhance physical rehabilitation of critically ill patients.

Baseline quality of life before intensive care: a comparison of patient versus proxy responses.

Sustaining reductions in catheter related bloodstream infections in Michigan intensive care units: observational study.

Inter-rater reliability of manual muscle strength testing in ICU survivors and simulated patients.

Beyond mortality: future clinical research in acute lung injury.

Long-term mortality and quality of life in sepsis: a systematic review.

Early physical medicine and rehabilitation for patients with acute respiratory failure: a quality improvement project.

Human immunodeficiency virus infection and hospital mortality in acute lung injury patients.

Monitoring and reducing central line-associated bloodstream infections: a national survey of state hospital associations.

Patient safety, quality of care, and knowledge translation in the intensive care unit.

Rehabilitation quality improvement in an intensive care unit setting: implementation of a quality improvement model.

Long-term complications of critical care.

How to use an article about quality improvement.

Repeated attempts using different strategies are important for timely contact with study participants.

The science of translating research into practice in intensive care.

Towards a better understanding of body mass index and patient outcomes.

Sleep Deprivation in Critical Illness: Its Role in Physical and Psychological Recovery.

A knowledge translation collaborative to improve the use of therapeutic hypothermia in post-cardiac arrest patients: protocol for a stepped wedge randomized trial.

Higher PEEP in patients with acute lung injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Impact of a statewide intensive care unit quality improvement initiative on hospital mortality and length of stay: retrospective comparative analysis.

Short-term mortality prediction for acute lung injury patients: External validation of the ARDSNet prediction model.

Evaluation of two intensive care delirium screening tools for non-critically ill hospitalized patients.

Collaborative cohort study of an intervention to reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia in the intensive care unit.

The functional costs of ICU survivorship. Collaborating to improve post-ICU disability.

Improving the quality of quality improvement projects.

The ability of intensive care units to maintain zero central line-associated bloodstream infections.

Does intensive care unit severity of illness influence recall of baseline physical function?

Short-term mortality prediction for acute lung injury patients: external validation of the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network prediction model.

The business case for quality: economic analysis of the Michigan Keystone Patient Safety Program in ICUs.

Feasibility and observed safety of interactive video games for physical rehabilitation in the intensive care unit: a case series.

Improving long-term outcomes after discharge from intensive care unit: Report from a stakeholders' conference*

Estimating the Causal Effect of Low Tidal Volume Ventilation on Survival in Patients with Acute Lung Injury.

The Johns Hopkins Delirium Consortium: a model for collaborating across disciplines and departments for delirium prevention and treatment.

Psychiatric long-term complications of intensive care unit survivors.

Depressive Symptoms and Impaired Physical Function after Acute Lung Injury: a 2-Year Longitudinal Study.