Douglas B. White

17.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
207 papers, 9.5k citations indexed

About

Douglas B. White is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Douglas B. White has authored 207 papers receiving a total of 9.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 153 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 90 papers in Radiological and Ultrasound Technology and 65 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Douglas B. White's work include Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (150 papers), Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units (90 papers) and Patient Dignity and Privacy (31 papers). Douglas B. White is often cited by papers focused on Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (150 papers), Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units (90 papers) and Patient Dignity and Privacy (31 papers). Douglas B. White collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Douglas B. White's co-authors include Bernard Lo, Robert M. Arnold, J. Randall Curtis, John M. Luce, Leslie P. Scheunemann, Yael Schenker, Praewpannarai Buddadhumaruk, Catherine L. Hough, Christopher E. Cox and Jeremy M. Kahn and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Douglas B. White

193 papers receiving 9.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A Framework for Rationing Ventilators and Critical Care Beds During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 508 citations Douglas B. White, Bernard Lo profile →
An Official ATS/AACN/ACCP/ESICM/SCCM Policy Statement: Responding to Requests for Potentially Inappropriate Treatments in Intensive Care Units

2015 321 citations Thaddeus Mason Pope, Bernard Lo et al. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine profile →
Shared Decision Making in ICUs

2015 314 citations Douglas B. White et al. Critical Care Medicine profile →
A Randomized Trial of a Family-Support Intervention in Intensive Care Units

2018 304 citations Douglas B. White, Derek C. Angus et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Surrogate Perspectives on the Communication and Support Processes That Enable Them as Active Decision-Makers Across Chronic Critical Illness 2025 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), Douglas B. White, Bryan J. McVerry, Rebecca A. Grier, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Robert M. Arnold, Maya I. Ragavan, Renee D. Boss, Judy C. Chang	0
2	Shared Decision-Making Communication and Prognostic Misunderstanding in the ICU 2024 ·JAMA Network Open ·Judith B. Vick, (unknown), Peter A. Ubel, Christopher E. Cox, (unknown), Jessica Ma, Marie C. Haverfield, Bradley G. Hammill, Shannon S. Carson, Catherine L. Hough, Douglas B. White, Deepshikha Charan Ashana	1
3	Associations of Health Care Utilization and Therapeutic Alliance in Patients with Advanced Cancer 2024 ·Journal of Palliative Medicine ·Sarah Bell, Andrew D. Althouse, (unknown), Robert M. Arnold, Kenneth J. Smith, Douglas B. White, Edward Chu, Yael Schenker, Teresa Hagan Thomas	0
4	Prevalence of long-term decision regret and associated risk factors in a large cohort of ICU surrogate decision makers 2023 ·Critical Care ·Sarah K. Andersen, (unknown), Chung‐Chou H. Chang, Robert M. Arnold, Derek C. Angus, Douglas B. White	17
5	Prevalence and predictors of shared decision-making in goals-of-care clinician-family meetings for critically ill neurologic patients: a multi-center mixed-methods study 2023 ·Critical Care ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Sybil L. Crawford, (unknown), Catherine L. Hough, Bernard Lo, Shannon S. Carson, Jay S. Steingrub, Douglas B. White, Susanne Muehlschlegel	11
6	Evidence Guiding Withdrawal of Mechanical Ventilation at the End of Life: A Review 2023 ·Journal of Pain and Symptom Management ·(unknown), Margaret Campbell, Richard M. Schwartzstein, Douglas B. White, Susan L. Mitchell, Corey R. Fehnel	7
7	Variability of Prognostic Communication in Critically Ill Neurologic Patients: A Pilot Multicenter Mixed-Methods Study 2022 ·The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network (American Medical Association) ·(unknown), Adeline Goss, Sybil L. Crawford, (unknown), Praewpannarai Buddadhumaruk, Anne‐Marie Shields, Catherine L. Hough, Bernard Lo, Shannon S. Carson, Jay S. Steingrub, Douglas B. White, Susanne Muehlschlegel	14
8	Surrogates of Patients With Severe Acute Brain Injury Experience Persistent Anxiety and Depression Over the 6 Months After ICU Admission 2022 ·Journal of Pain and Symptom Management ·Blair Wendlandt, Casey Olm-Shipman, Agathe Ceppe, Catherine L. Hough, Douglas B. White, Christopher E. Cox, Shannon S. Carson	12
9	A Randomized Comparative Trial to Evaluate a PICU Navigator-Based Parent Support Intervention 2020 ·Pediatric Critical Care Medicine ·Kelly N. Michelson, Joel Frader, (unknown), Karen Rychlik, (unknown), Jody D. Ciolino, Lauren R. Sorce, Marla L. Clayman, Melanie Brown, (unknown), (unknown), Sabrina Derrington, Douglas B. White, (unknown)	15
10	Respecting Disability Rights — Toward Improved Crisis Standards of Care 2020 ·New England Journal of Medicine ·Michelle M. Mello, Govind Persad, Douglas B. White	40
11	Mitigating Inequities and Saving Lives with ICU Triage during the COVID-19 Pandemic 2020 ·American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·Douglas B. White, Bernard Lo	68
12	A cluster randomized trial of a primary palliative care intervention (CONNECT) for patients with advanced cancer: Protocol and key design considerations 2017 ·Contemporary Clinical Trials ·(unknown), Robert M. Arnold, Seo Young Park, Margaret Rosenzweig, Thomas J. Smith, Douglas B. White, Kenneth J. Smith, Yael Schenker	34
13	Default options in advance directives: study protocol for a randomised clinical trial 2016 ·BMJ Open ·Nicole B. Gabler, Elizabeth Cooney, Dylan S. Small, Andrea B. Troxel, Robert M. Arnold, Douglas B. White, Derek C. Angus, George Loewenstein, Kevin G. Volpp, Cindy L. Bryce, Scott D. Halpern	7
14	An Official American Thoracic Society Policy Statement: Managing Conscientious Objections in Intensive Care Medicine 2015 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Mithya Lewis‐Newby, Mark R. Wicclair, Thaddeus Mason Pope, Cynda Hylton Rushton, Farr A. Curlin, Douglas S. Diekema, (unknown), William J. Ehlenbach, Wanda Gibson-Scipio, Bradford J. Glavan, (unknown), Constantine A. Manthous, Cecile S. Rose, Anthony Scardella, Hasan Shanawani, Mark D. Siegel, Scott D. Halpern, Robert D. Truog, Douglas B. White	5
15	Care Management by Oncology Nurses To Address Palliative Care Needs: A Pilot Trial To Assess Feasibility, Acceptability, and Perceived Effectiveness of the CONNECT Intervention 2014 ·Journal of Palliative Medicine ·Yael Schenker, Douglas B. White, Margaret Rosenzweig, Edward Chu, Charity G. Moore, Peter Ellis, (unknown), (unknown), Greer A. Tiver, (unknown), Robert M. Arnold	47
16	Development and pilot testing of a decision aid for surrogates of patients with prolonged mechanical ventilation* 2012 ·Critical Care Medicine ·Christopher E. Cox, Carmen L. Lewis, Laura C. Hanson, Catherine L. Hough, Jeremy M. Kahn, Douglas B. White, Mi‐Kyung Song, James A. Tulsky, Shannon S. Carson	75
17	The circulatory–respiratory determination of death in organ donation* 2010 ·Critical Care Medicine ·James L. Bernat, Alexander Morgan Capron, Thomas P. Bleck, Sandralee Blosser, Susan L. Bratton, James F. Childress, Michael A. DeVita, Gerard J. Fulda, Cynthia Gries, Mudit Mathur, Thomas A. Nakagawa, Cynda Hylton Rushton, Sam D. Shemie, Douglas B. White	138
18	Surviving critical illness: Acute respiratory distress syndrome as experienced by patients and their caregivers 2009 ·Critical Care Medicine ·Christopher E. Cox, Sharron L. Docherty, Debra Brandon, (unknown), Deborah K. Attix, Alison S. Clay, (unknown), Catherine L. Hough, Douglas B. White, James A. Tulsky	11
19	Surviving critical illness: Acute respiratory distress syndrome as experienced by patients and their caregivers 2009 ·Critical Care Medicine ·Christopher E. Cox, Sharron L. Docherty, Debra Brandon, (unknown), Deborah K. Attix, Alison S. Clay, (unknown), Catherine L. Hough, Douglas B. White, James A. Tulsky	89
20	Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation in critical and palliative care settings: Understanding the goals of therapy* 2007 ·Critical Care Medicine ·J. Randall Curtis, (unknown), Tasnim Sinuff, Douglas B. White, Nicholas S. Hill, Sean Keenan, Joshua O. Benditt, Robert M. Kacmarek, Karin T. Kirchhoff, Mitchell M. Levy	129

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