George E. Thibault

Recommendations of the Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine

Long-term Cognitive Impairment and Functional Disability Among Survivors of Severe Sepsis

Surviving Intensive Care: a report from the 2002 Brussels Roundtable

How Well Can Physicians Estimate Mortality in a Medical Intensive Care Unit?

Postinfarction Use of β-Blockers in Elderly Patients

Causes and consequences of comorbidity

Effect of Smoking Cessation on Mortality After Myocardial Infarction

Scoping studies: advancing the methodology

The Quality of Health Care Delivered to Adults in the United States

Childhood obesity: public-health crisis, common sense cure

Effects of Computerized Clinical Decision Support Systems on Practitioner Performance and Patient Outcomes

Pulmonary Complications After Tricyclic Antidepressant Overdose

A Randomized, Controlled Trial of the Use of Pulmonary-Artery Catheters in High-Risk Surgical Patients

Classification of Surgical Complications

Aspirin plus Clopidogrel as Secondary Prevention after Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

2009 Focused Update Incorporated Into the ACC/AHA 2005 Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Heart Failure in Adults

Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock

Outcome, functional autonomy, and quality of life of elderly patients with a long-term intensive care unit stay

The development of a method for comparative costing of individual intensive care units

Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Benefit Analyses in the Medical Literature

Effects of candesartan in patients with chronic heart failure and reduced left-ventricular systolic function taking angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors: the CHARM-Added trial

Epidemiology of multimorbidity and implications for health care, research, and medical education: a cross-sectional study

Are Elderly People Less Responsive to Intensive Care?

Is cardiac test availability a significant factor in weekend delays in discharge for chest pain patients?

Primary Care Physicians Who Treat Blacks and Whites

INDIVIDUAL OUTCOME PREDICTION MODELS FOR INTENSIVE CARE UNITS

A Computer-Derived Protocol to Aid in the Diagnosis of Emergency Room Patients with Acute Chest Pain

Forecasting coronary heart disease incidence, mortality, and cost: the Coronary Heart Disease Policy Model.

Myocarditis

The Pathogenesis of Coronary Artery Disease and the Acute Coronary Syndromes

Aspiration Pneumonitis and Aspiration Pneumonia

Deficits in Communication and Information Transfer Between Hospital-Based and Primary Care Physicians

Definitions for Sepsis and Organ Failure and Guidelines for the Use of Innovative Therapies in Sepsis

Prevention of coronary and stroke events with atorvastatin in hypertensive patients who have average or lower-than-average cholesterol concentrations, in the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial—Lipid Lowering Arm (ASCOT-LLA): a multicentre randomised controlled trial

Quality of life following intensive care

Functional Disability 5 Years after Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

How Good Is the Quality of Health Care in the United States?

Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in U.S. Soldiers Returning from Iraq

Impact of Race on Cardiac Care and Outcomes in Veterans With Acute Myocardial Infarction

Cardiorespiratory Fitness as a Quantitative Predictor of All-Cause Mortality and Cardiovascular Events in Healthy Men and Women

Efficacy and economic assessment of conventional ventilatory support versus extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for severe adult respiratory failure (CESAR): a multicentre randomised controlled trial

Use of hospitals, physician visits, and hospice care during last six months of life among cohorts loyal to highly respected hospitals in the United States

Projections of Global Mortality and Burden of Disease from 2002 to 2030

A new Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS II) based on a European/North American multicenter study

The APACHE III Prognostic System

The Pathogenesis of Coronary Artery Disease and the Acute Coronary Syndromes

Uncertainty in clinical practice: implications for quality and costs of health care

The TIMI Risk Score for Unstable Angina/Non–ST Elevation MI

Incidence and Prognosis of Syncope

Computer-based Guideline Implementation Systems: A Systematic Review of Functionality and Effectiveness

Exposure to Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation from Medical Imaging Procedures

The Prognostic Value of C-Reactive Protein and Serum Amyloid A Protein in Severe Unstable Angina

A case-control analysis of readmissions to the cardiac surgical intensive care unit

Avoiding the Unintended Consequences of Growth in Medical Care

Trial of a Disease Management Program to Reduce Hospital Readmissions of the Chronically Critically Ill

From best evidence to best practice: effective implementation of change in patients' care

Association between Multiple Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Atherosclerosis in Children and Young Adults

Clinical Practice Guidelines and Quality of Care for Older Patients With Multiple Comorbid Diseases

To operate or not on elderly patients with aortic stenosis: the decision and its consequences

Delirium in Mechanically Ventilated Patients

Myocarditis

A Computer-Assisted Management Program for Antibiotics and Other Antiinfective Agents

Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Practical recommendations for the use of ACE inhibitors, beta‐blockers and spironolactone in heart failure: putting guidelines into practice

Patients' and Families' Preferences for Medical Intensive Care

Clinical Prediction Rules

Cardioselective beta-blockers for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

A controlled trial to improve care for seriously ill hospitalized patients. The study to understand prognoses and preferences for outcomes and risks of treatments (SUPPORT). The SUPPORT Principal Investigators

Effect of discharge summary availability during post-discharge visits on hospital readmission

Systematic Review on the Risk and Benefit of Different Cholesterol-Lowering Interventions

Medical Care Costs: How Much Welfare Loss?

Acute Chest Pain in the Emergency Room

What is subjective global assessment of nutritional status?

Determinants in Canadian Health Care Workers of the Decision to Withdraw Life Support From the Critically Ill

ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 Guidelines for Management of Patients With Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death

Prognosis in Nontraumatic Coma

Clinical Policy: Critical Issues in the Evaluation and Management of Adult Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department with Acute Heart Failure Syndromes

A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation

Higher versus Lower Positive End-Expiratory Pressures in Patients with the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Association of Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors With Microscopic Qualities of Coronary Atherosclerosis in Youth

Assessing illness severity: Does clinical judgment work?

The Use and Implications of Do Not Resuscitate Orders in Intensive Care Units

Primary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease: Guidance From Framingham

Are Two (Inexperienced) Heads Better Than One (Experienced) Head?

ACC/AHA 2006 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease

Utilization Strategies for Intensive Care Units

Comparison of Clinical Assessment With APACHE II for Predicting Mortality Risk in Patients Admitted to a Medical Intensive Care Unit

A Critical Appraisal of the Quality of Quality-of-Life Measurements

The Covariance Decomposition of the Probability Score and Its Use in Evaluating Prognostic Estimates

Effects of Serum Lipoproteins and Smoking on Atherosclerosis in Young Men and Women

Ventilation with Lower Tidal Volumes as Compared with Traditional Tidal Volumes for Acute Lung Injury and the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Natural history and prognosis of unstable angina

Nurse-Staffing Levels and the Quality of Care in Hospitals

How Good Is the Quality of Health Care in the United States?

Unstable angina: Natural history and determinants of prognosis

MRC/BHF Heart Protection Study of cholesterol-lowering with simvastatin in 5963 people with diabetes: a randomised placebo-controlled trial

Impact of Critical Care Physician Staffing on Patients With Septic Shock in a University Hospital Medical Intensive Care Unit

The APACHE III Prognostic System

Patients With Syncope Admitted to Medical Intensive Care Units

ACC/AHA/ACP-ASIM guidelines for the management of patients with chronic stable angina11This document was approved by the American College of Cardiology Board of Trustees in March 1999, the American Heart Association Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee in March 1999, and the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine Board of Regents in February 1999.When citing this document, please use the following citation format: Gibbons RJ, Chatterjee K, Daley J, Douglas JS, Fihn SD, Gardin JM, Grunwald MA, Levy D, Lytle BW, O’Rourke RA, Schafer WP, Williams SV. ACC/AHA/ACP-ASIM guidelines for the management of patients with chronic stable angina: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee on the Management of Patients With Chronic Stable Angina). J Am Coll Cardiol 1999;33:2092–197.This document is available on the World Wide Web sites of the American College of Cardiology (www.acc.org) and the American Heart Association (www.americanheart.org). Reprints of this document are available by calling 1-800-253-4636 or writing the American College of Cardiology, Educational Services, at 9111 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, MD 20814-1699. Ask for reprint number 71-0166. To obtain a reprint of the Executive Summary and Recommendations published in the June 1, 1999 issue of Circulation, ask for reprint number 71-0167. To purchase bulk reprints (specify version and reprint number): Up to 999 copies call 1-800-611-6083 (US only) or fax 413-665-2671; 1000 or more copies call 214-706-1466, fax 214-691-6342, or e-mail pubauth@heart.org

Long-term Outcome of Critically III Elderly Patients Requiring Intensive Care

Weekend versus Weekday Admission and Mortality from Myocardial Infarction

Unstable angina with fatal outcome: dynamic coronary thrombosis leading to infarction and/or sudden death. Autopsy evidence of recurrent mural thrombosis with peripheral embolization culminating in total vascular occlusion.

An Evaluation of Outcome from Intensive Care in Major Medical Centers

Guidelines for using serum cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and triglyceride levels as screening tests for preventing coronary heart disease in adults

The triage decision in pulmonary edema

Angina Patients' Ratings of Current Health and Health without Angina

Outcomes of Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Department of Veterans Affairs

Smoking cessation following admission to a coronary care unit

Discharge Destination and Repeat Hospitalizations

The Appropriate Degree of Diagnostic Certainty

Too Old for What?

Adverse outcomes of underuse of beta-blockers in elderly survivors of acute myocardial infarction.

Nursing Home Patients Admitted to a Medical Intensive Care Unit

Functional outcomes following medical intensive care

The Course of Patients with Suspected Myocardial Infarction

Medical Intensive Care: Indications, Interventions, and Outcomes

Complications after overdose with tricyclic antidepressants

Prognosis, Survival, and the Expenditure of Hospital Resources for Patients in an Intensive-Care Unit

Making the coronary care unit cost-effective

Rationing Intensive Care — Physician Responses to a Resource Shortage

Acute coronary insufficiency. Review of 46 patients.