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Bernard Lo
Researcher at University of California, San Francisco
Publications - 295
Citations - 20764
Bernard Lo is an academic researcher from University of California, San Francisco. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Intensive care. The author has an hindex of 71, co-authored 291 publications receiving 19428 citations. Previous affiliations of Bernard Lo include San Francisco VA Medical Center & University of Toronto.
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Do Patients Want to Participate in Medical Decision Making
TL;DR: Patients who preferred not to make initial therapeutic decisions did want to participate in ongoing evaluation of therapy, and clinicians underestimate patients' desire for information and discussion but overestimate Patients' desire to make decisions.
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Conflict of Interest in Medical Research, Education, and Practice
Bernard Lo,Marilyn J. Field +1 more
TL;DR: Conflict of Interest in Medical Research, Education, and Practice makes several recommendations for strengthening conflict of interest policies and curbing relationships that create risks with little benefit.
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A Framework for Rationing Ventilators and Critical Care Beds During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Douglas B. White,Bernard Lo +1 more
TL;DR: As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic intensifies, shortages of ventilators have occurred in Italy and are likely imminent in parts of the US, raising a critical question: when demand for ventilator support far outstrips the supply, what criteria should guide these rationing decisions?
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Do house officers learn from their mistakes
TL;DR: House officers who accepted responsibility for the mistake and discussed it were more likely to report constructive changes in practice and residents were less likely to make constructive changes if they attributed the mistake to job overload.
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Withholding and Withdrawal of Life Support from the Critically Ill
Nicholas G. Smedira,B. H. Evans,L. S. Grais,Neal H. Cohen,Bernard Lo,Molly Cooke,William P. Schecter,C. Fink,E. Epstein-Jaffe,C. May +9 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that although life-sustaining care is withheld or withdrawn relatively infrequently from patients in the intensive care unit, such decisions precipitate about half of all deaths in theintensive care units of the hospitals the authors studied.