The Complete Inpatient Record Using Comprehensive Electronic Data (CIRCE) project: A team‐based approach to clinically validated, research‐ready electronic health record data by Andrea L. C. Schneider, Jennifer C. Ginestra, Meeta Prasad Kerlin, Michael G. S. Shashaty, Todd A. Miano, Daniel S. Herman, Oscar J. L. Mitchell, Rachel Bennett, Alexander T. Moffett, John Chandler, Atul Kalanuria, Zahra Faraji, Nicholas S. Bishop, Benjamin Schmid, Angela T. Chen, Kathryn H. Bowles, Thomas Joseph, Rachel Kohn, Rachel R. Kelz, George L. Anesi, Monisha Kumar, Ari B. Friedman, Emily Vail, Nuala J. Meyer, Blanca E. Himes, Gary E. Weissman

“…Most encounters were emergency department only visits (n = 965 834, 59.3%), followed by inpatient admissions without an intensive care unit admission (n = 518 367, 23.7%). The median age was 46.9 years (25th–75th percentiles = 31.1–64.7) at the time of the first encounter. …”
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PROcalcitonin and NEWS2 evaluation for Timely identification of sepsis and Optimal use of antibiotics in the emergency department (PRONTO): protocol for a multicentre, open-label,... by David Taylor-Robinson, Steve Goodacre, Neil French, Richard Body, Kerenza Hood, Emma Thomas-Jones, Jane Daniels, Sarah Walker, Ingeborg Welters, Mike Bradburn, Paul Schmidt, Enitan Carrol, Lucy Brookes-Howell, Sarah Milosevic, Andrew Tabner, Philip Pallmann, Stephen Aston, Gavin Barlow, Emma Richards, Emmanuel Nsutebu, Philip Howard, Matthew Inada-Kim, Stacy Todd, Fiona McGill, Martin Llewelyn, Louis Wihelmus Niessen, Joanne Euden, Julie Carman, Stephanie Gilbert, Sam Clarkstone, Jacqui Hughes, Lena Meister, Angela Brain, Matthew Scarborough, Sian O'Shea, Claire James

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Correlations between primary tumour location, biomarkers of inflammation and lung injury, and postoperative pulmonary complications in patients underwent laparoscopic colorectomy:... by Hui-xian Li, Li Che, Yuan Li, Tai-hang Wang, Fang-di Min, Lei Xu, Meng Wang, Zhao-xu Zheng, Shi-ning Qu, Fei Wang, Wei Tang, Shi-jing Wei, Yu-lin Sun, Hui Zheng, Tao Yan

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Unraveling the immunological landscape and gut microbiome in sepsis: a comprehensive approach to diagnosis and prognosisResearch in context by Yali Luo, Jian Gao, Xinliang Su, Helian Li, Yingcen Li, Wenhao Qi, Xuling Han, Jingxuan Han, Yiran Zhao, Alin Zhang, Yan Zheng, Feng Qian, Hongyu He

“…Methods: Blood samples from 31 septic patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 25 non-septic ICU patients, and 18 healthy controls were analyzed using flow cytometry for deep immunophenotyping. …”
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Outcomes and risk factors of transported patients with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: An ECMO center experience by Lingjuan Liu, Dingji Hu, Tong Hao, Shanshan Chen, Lei Chen, Yike Zhu, Chenhui Jin, Jing Wu, Haoya Fu, Haibo Qiu, Yi Yang, Songqiao Liu

“…Method: To assess the safety of ECMO patient transport, this study conducted a retrospective analysis on critically ill adults who required ECMO support and transport at the intensive care unit (ICU) center between 2017 and 2023. …”
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Rapid molecular assays versus blood culture for bloodstream infections: a systematic review and meta-analysisResearch in context by Gabriella Anna Rapszky, Uyen Nguyen Do To, Veronika Eszter Kiss, Tamás Kói, Anna Walter, Dorottya Gergő, Fanni Adél Meznerics, Márton Rakovics, Szilárd Váncsa, Lajos Vince Kemény, Dezső Csupor, Péter Hegyi, Michael R. Filbin, Csaba Varga, Bánk G. Fenyves

“…Specificities varied more by patient population, ranging from 0.811 (95% CI 0.716–0.879) in the intensive care population to 0.892 (95% CI 0.838–0.930) in the emergency department population, by patient. …”
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Comments on: “Early High-Titer Convalescent Plasma Therapy in Patients with Moderate and Severe COVID-19” [Transfusion and Apheresis Science 61 (2022) 103321] by Seyed Reza Hosseiniara

“…Furthermore, a recent systematic review and meta-analysis encompassing 39 studies reported an overall pooled case fatality rate of 10% among COVID-19 patients.3 Other studies have indicated in-hospital mortality rates ranging from 4.5% to 8.8% among Iranian patients,4,5 while the mortality rate in intensive care units was found to be as high as 67.6%.6 Investigations conducted in other Asian populations have demonstrated mortality rates of 5-7.2% for patients with mild to moderate COVID-19.7,8 These findings are particularly relevant, as they suggest lower fatality rates than those observed in the study by Fazeli et al.,1 among Iranian patients treated with convalescent plasma therapy.Fazeli et al. conducted a multivariate logistic regression analysis to assess the effectiveness of high-titer convalescent plasma therapy in patients with moderate COVID-19. …”
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Inter-rater reliability and prognostic value of baseline Radiographic Assessment of Lung Edema (RALE) scores in observational cohort studies of inpatients with COVID-19 by Andrew I Kim, William Bain, Alison Morris, Barbara Methe, Bryan J McVerry, Georgios D Kitsios, Daniel Kotok, Janet S Lee, Nameer Al-Yousif, Christine E Girard, Jana J Jacobs, Konstantin Golubykh, Hafiz Qurashi, Michael Lu, Saketram Komanduri, Anatoliy Korzhuk, Halimat O Lawal, Nicholas Abourizk, Caitlin Schaefer, Kevin J Mitchell, Catherine M Dietz, Ellen K Hughes, Clara S Brandt, Georgia M Fitzgerald, Robin Joyce, Asmaa S Chaudhry, Jose D Rivera, Shruti Shettigar, Allen Lavina, Samantha R Gillenwater, Anas Hadeh, Faraaz A Shah, Matthew Bittner, Niall Prendergast, John Evankovich, Navitha Ramesh, Cathy Kessinger

“…Objectives To reliably quantify the radiographic severity of COVID-19 pneumonia with the Radiographic Assessment of Lung Edema (RALE) score on clinical chest X-rays among inpatients and examine the prognostic value of baseline RALE scores on COVID-19 clinical outcomes.Setting Hospitalised patients with COVID-19 in dedicated wards and intensive care units from two different hospital systems.Participants 425 patients with COVID-19 in a discovery data set and 415 patients in a validation data set.Primary and secondary outcomes We measured inter-rater reliability for RALE score annotations by different reviewers and examined for associations of consensus RALE scores with the level of respiratory support, demographics, physiologic variables, applied therapies, plasma host–response biomarkers, SARS-CoV-2 RNA load and clinical outcomes.Results Inter-rater agreement for RALE scores improved from fair to excellent following reviewer training and feedback (intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.85 vs 0.93, respectively). …”
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Association of exposure to second-hand smoke during childhood with blood DNA methylation by Marta Cosin-Tomas, Thanh Hoang, Cancan Qi, Giulietta S. Monasso, Ryan Langdon, Simon Kebede Merid, Lucinda Calas, Paula de Prado-Bert, Rebecca Richmond, Vincent VW Jaddoe, Liesbeth Duijts, John Wright, Isabella Annesi-Maesano, Regina Grazuleviciene, Marianna Karachaliou, Gerard H. Koppelman, Erik Melén, Olena Gruzieva, Martine Vrijheid, Paul Yousefi, Janine F. Felix, Stephanie J. London, Mariona Bustamante

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Clinical management of community-acquired meningitis in adults in the UK and Ireland in 2017: a retrospective cohort study on behalf of the National Infection Trainees Collaborativ... by Amy Robinson, Kamaljit Khalsa, Arjun Chandna, John Bowen, Viva Levee, Jan Coebergh, Tom Solomon, Clive Graham, David Turner, Robert Tilley, Tim Jones, Susan Hopkins, Matthew Stevens, Daniel White, Celestine Eshiwe, Anna Goodman, Ramandeep Singh, Robert S Heyderman, Nicholas Davies, Joseph Thompson, Ed Moran, Martin Williams, Rhea O’Regan, Simon Tiberi, Jonathan Lambourne, Naomi Bulteel, Susan Larkin, Ruth McEwen, Hassan Paraiso, Aarti Shah, Martin Wiselka, Sylviane Defres, Ernest Mutengesa, Maria Krutikov, Ruth Owen, David Griffith, David Harvey, Trupti Patel, Brendan Davies, Emma Mclean, Joanna Allen, Ali Khan, Alastair Miller, Ashutosh Deshpande, Christopher Green, Lewis Jones, Mark Melzer, Fiona McGill, Amanda Fife, Nimal Wickramasinghe, Stephanie Harris, Ewan Hunter, Jayne Ellis, Benedict Rogers, Imogen Fordham, Elen Vink, Victoria Ward, Anna Smith, Andrew Rosser, Alison Muir, Ken Woodhouse, John Shone, Iain Crossingham, Ryan Jayesinghe, Eavan Muldoon, Avneet Shahi, Terry John Evans, Jeremy Wong, Eloisa MacLachlan, Amy Chue, Karishma Gokani, Katherine Ajdukiewicz, Lucinda Barrett, Frances Edwards, Adam Usher, Mairi McLeod, Su su Htwe, Grace Duane, Nicholas Wong, Jennifer Poyner, Jenni Crane, Ollie Lloyd, Emma Chisholm, Ildiko Kustos, Sam Sutton, M. Estee Torok, Isobel Ramsay, Monica Ivan, Joshua York, Jennifer Ansett, Maithili Varadarajan, Priya Sekhon, James Cruise, Shivani Kanabar, Mirella Ling, Charlotte Milne, Jayanta Sarma, Aline Wilson, Lynn Urquhart, Sahar Eldirdiri, Leila White, Jody Aberdein, Phillip Simpson, Hnin Hay Mar, Keying Tan, Eint Shwe Zin thein, Mahmoud Aziz, Anthony Cadwgan, Natasha Weston, Salman Zeb, Angela Houston, Louise Wootton, Iona Willingham, Aimee Johnson, Ashley Horsley, Eamonn Trainor, Olivier Gaillemin, Nicholas J Norton, Katie Cheung, Megan Duxbury, Emilie Bellhouse, Helena Brezovjakova, Kanitkar Tanmay, Alexsander Dawidziuk, Razan Saman, Hugh Adler, Elshadai Ejere, Yiwen Soo, Wendy Beadles, Heather Sturgeon, Brodie Cameron, David Chadwick Ben Tomlinson, Claire McGoldrick, Katie McDowell, Mpho Molosiwa, Katherine FlackAdrian Kennedy, Phoebe Cross, Fay Perry, Vithusha Inpadhas, Sarathy Selvam, Vhairi Bateman, Henry Wu, Monika Pasztor, Ajanthiha Karunakaran, Basma Soliman, Andrew Blanshard, Harish Reddy, Helen Chesterfield, Ben Schroeder, Tee Keat Teoh, Sathyavani Subbarao, Caryn RosmarinLucy Bell, Emma McGuire, Robert Serafino, Ishaan Bhide, Karanjeet Sagoo, Indran Balakrishnan, Kajal Patel, Barzo Faris, Graeme Calver, Ricky Singh, Hazel Sanghvi, Mohamed Eltayeb, Rathur Haris

“…Among those with bacterial meningitis, pneumococcal aetiology, admission to intensive care and initial Glasgow Coma Scale Score less than 14 were associated with in-hospital mortality (adjusted OR (aOR) 2.08, 95% CI 0.96 to 4.48; aOR 4.28, 95% CI 1.81 to 10.1; aOR 2.90, 95% CI 1.26 to 6.71, respectively). …”
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Identifying biomarker-driven subphenotypes of cardiogenic shock: analysis of prospective cohorts and randomized controlled trialsResearch in context by Sabri Soussi, Tuukka Tarvasmäki, Antoine Kimmoun, Mojtaba Ahmadiankalati, Feriel Azibani, Claudia C. dos Santos, Kevin Duarte, Etienne Gayat, Jacob C. Jentzer, Veli-Pekka Harjola, Benjamin Hibbert, Christian Jung, Lassus Johan, Bruno Levy, Zihang Lu, Patrick R. Lawler, John C. Marshall, Janine Pöss, Malha Sadoune, Alexis Nguyen, Alexandre Raynor, Katell Peoc'h, Holger Thiele, Rebecca Mathew, Alexandre Mebazaa

“…Methods: We used unsupervised clustering to integrate plasma biomarker data from two prospective cohorts of CS patients: CardShock (N = 205 [2010–2012, NCT01374867]) and the French and European Outcome reGistry in Intensive Care Units (FROG-ICU) (N = 228 [2011–2013, NCT01367093]) to determine the optimal number of classes. …”
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Protocol and statistical analysis plan for the PREventing cardiovascular collaPse with Administration of fluid REsuscitation during Induction and Intubation (PREPARE II) randomised... by Li Wang, Tamer Hudali, Shekhar Ghamande, Megan Moore, Bruno Pereira, Christopher J Lindsell, Wesley H Self, Todd W Rice, Matthew W Semler, Kate O’Connor, David B Page, Victor E Ortega, Aaron M Joffe, Swati Gulati, G Patel, Heath D White, Muhammad Ali, Jonathan D Casey, David R Janz, Derek W Russell, Derek J Vonderhaar, Kevin M Dischert, William S Stigler, Emily Adams, Kevin W Gibbs, James M Dargin, A M Joffe, Akram Khan, Simanta Dutta, Janna S Landsperger, Sarah W Robison, Itay Bentov, Joanne M Wozniak, Susan Stempek, Olivia F Krol, Matthew E Prekker, Brian E Driver, Joseph M Brewer, Christopher John Lindsell, David Janz, Stephen P Peters, Rita N Bakhru, Scott Bauer, Christina R Bellinger, Amanda M Brown, Blair Brown, Jerri Brown, Caitlin Bumgarner, Wendy Butcher, Megan Caudle, Arjun B Chatterjee, David J Chodos, Gerardo Corcino, Nathan S Cutler, Travis L Dotson, Daniel C Files, Jonathan L Forbes, John P Gaillard, Katherine A Gershner, Shannon Ginty, Kiadrick R Hood, April Hazelwood, Katherine Hendricks, Kelly Jacobus, Jonathan T Jaffe, Stacy Kay, Chad A Kloefkorn, Jennifer Krall, Margo T Lannan, Cornelia Lane, Cynthia Lanning, Jessica Lyons, William I Mariencheck, Chad R Marion, Matthew A Maslonka, Sara McClintock, Nathaniel M Meier, Matthew C Miles, Peter J Miller, Sophia Mitchell, Wendy C Moore, Katherine Moss, Andrew M Namen, Dustin L Norton, Stella B Ogake, Jill A Ohar, Jessica A Palakshappa, Rodolfo M Pascual, Sandi Pascual, Aaron Pickens, Adam R Schertz, Matt Strong, Alexander O Sy, Braghadheeswar Thyagarajan, Amy Townsend, Russell Worthen, Michael Wlodarski, Charles Yarbrough, Caroline York, Bradley Lloyd, James Dargin, Joanne Wozniak, Christopher Adler, Ahmed Agameya, Michael Colancecco, Daniel Fitelson, Joshua Giaccotto, Gena Han, Louise Kane, Ezra Miller, Timothy Noland, Jaqueline Price, Joseph Plourde, Fraser Mackay, Laura Mahoney, Avignat Patel, Michael Plourde, Zena Saadeh, Sara Shadchehr, Sandeep Somalaraju, Eleanor Summerhill, Ryan Webster, Jordan Winnicki, Ekaterina Yavarovich, Sheetal Gandotra, Anna Altz-Stamm, Cristina Bardita, Mary Clay Boone, Joe W Chiles, Kristina Collins, Abby Drescher, Kevin G Dsouza, Janna Dunn, Stacy Ejem, Josh Gautney, Nicole Harris, Savannah Herder, R Chad Wade, Rutwij Joshi, Daniel Kelmenson, Anne Merrill Mason, Scott R Merriman, Takudzwa Mkorombindo, Jada Nowak, D Sheylan, Lisa Sarratt, Tabitha Stewart, Kadambari Vijaykumar, Gina White, Micah R Whitson, Christopher Barnes, Andrew M Walters, Alejandro C Arroliga, Tasnim Lat, Stephanie Nonas, Milad K Jouzestani, Raya Adi, Chandani Anandkat, Hanae Benchbani, Matthew G Drake, Makrina N Kamel, Ramanpreet Randhawa, Jessica L Tsui

“…A prior randomised trial found fluid bolus administration to be ineffective overall but suggested potential benefit for patients receiving positive pressure ventilation during tracheal intubation.Methods and analysis The PREventing cardiovascular collaPse with Administration of fluid REsuscitation during Induction and Intubation (PREPARE II) trial is a prospective, multi-centre, non-blinded randomised trial being conducted in 13 academic intensive care units in the USA. The trial will randomise 1065 critically ill adults undergoing tracheal intubation with planned use of positive pressure ventilation (non-invasive ventilation or bag-mask ventilation) between induction and laryngoscopy to receive 500 mL of intravenous crystalloid or no intravenous fluid bolus. …”
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Pancreaticoduodenectomy in trauma patients with grade IV–V duodenal or pancreatic injuries: a post hoc analysis of an EAST multicenter trial by Jeffry Nahmias, Daniel N Holena, Bellal Joseph, Martin Schreiber, Lisa M Kodadek, Mayur Narayan, Grace Chang, Joe Patton, Abid Khan, Mark Seamon, Jessica H Beard, Michelle T Bover Manderski, Michael A Vella, Ryan Peter Dumas, Haytham Kaafarani, Alison A Smith, Rachel Leah Choron, Christopher Bargoud, Amanda L Teichman, Francesk Mulita, Christine T Trankiem, Hashim Ahmed, Aaron Anderson, Odessa Pulido, Caleb Mentzer, Jane Keating, Mira Ghneim, Reynold Henry, Dane R Scantling, Andrew Benjamin, Christopher W Foote, Carlos H Palacio, Randi N Smith, Meghan Jonikas, Dias Argandykov, Jason D Sciarretta, Joshua P Hazelton, Pascal Udekwu, Jordan Michael Kirsch, Charoo Piplani, Julia Kuzinar, Dustin Hanos, Iman N Afif, Navpreet Kaur Dhillon, Ashling Zhang, Rebekah Devasahayam, Oliver Gunter, Brandi Sun, Chloe S Cao, Jessica K Reynolds, Lauren A Hilt, Karla Echeverria-Rosario, Nathaniel S Fung, Caitlin A Fitzgerald, Jeremy H Levin, JaeHee Yoon, Jacqueline Blank, Christopher J McLaughlin, Rami Al-Aref, Daniel S Howard, Kate Dellonte, Brent Hopkins, Chloe Shell, Evan G Wong, Howard Lieberman, Walter A Ramsey, Collin H Stewart, Claudia Alvarez, John D Berne, Ivan Puente, Ilya Rakitin, Lindsey Perea, Jason Wade, Laura K Mann, Vasileios Mousafeiris, Shari Reid-Gruner, Erica Sais, Lilamarie Moko

“…PD patients had more gastrointestinal (GI)-related complications, longer intensive care unit length of stay (LOS), and longer hospital LOS compared with non-PD (all p<0.05). …”
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Necrotizing enterocolitis by Guillermo Bauzá López, Rafael Trinchet Soler, Natividad Lahaba Liquí, Leandro Salcedo Frómeta, Norma Carmenate González, Juan Daniel Rodríguez Alarcón

“…It is reported between 15 and 75 cases by each 1000 admissions in a unit of neonatal intensive cares. The mortality varies from 10 to 40%, greater in groups of high risk and is greater than the surgical mortality of all the congenital anomalies of the digestive tract combined. …”
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Cost Analysis of Noninvasive Helmet Ventilation Compared with Use of Noninvasive Face Mask in ARDS by Kwadwo Kyeremanteng, Louis-Philippe Gagnon, Raphaëlle Robidoux, Kednapa Thavorn, Dipayan Chaudhuri, Daniel Kobewka, John P. Kress

“…Intensive care unit (ICU) costs have doubled since 2000, totalling 108 billion dollars per year. …”
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“It’s Traumatic for All of Us”: A Qualitative Analysis of Providers Caring for Seriously Ill Veterans With Surgical Conditions by Adela Wu, MD, Sarah E. Bradley, PhD, MPH, CPH, C. Ann Vitous, MA, MPH, M. Andrew Millis, MD, MPH, Pasithorn A. Suwanabol, MD, MS

“…Using convenience sampling, we conducted 48 semistructured interviews with providers who provide high-intensity care (eg, surgeons, anesthesiologists, intensivists, and midlevel providers) for seriously ill patients with surgical conditions across 14 Veterans Affairs hospitals. …”
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A Novel Cancer Stemness-Related Signature for Predicting Prognosis in Patients with Colon Adenocarcinoma by Wei Wang, Congrong Xu, Yan Ren, Shiwei Wang, Chunli Liao, Xiaoyan Fu, Haixia Hu

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Causal Effects of Air Pollution, Noise, and Shift Work on Unstable Angina and Myocardial Infarction: A Mendelian Randomization Study by Qiye Ma, Lin Chen, Hao Xu, Yiru Weng

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