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Carlos Alzola
Researcher at Duke University
Publications - 8
Citations - 807
Carlos Alzola is an academic researcher from Duke University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cohort study & Randomized controlled trial. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 8 publications receiving 791 citations.
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Evaluation of acute physiology and chronic health evaluation III predictions of hospital mortality in an independent database.
Jack E. Zimmerman,Douglas P. Wagner,Elizabeth A. Draper,Leslie Wright,Carlos Alzola,William A. Knaus +5 more
TL;DR: APACHE III accurately predicted aggregate hospital mortality in an independent sample of U.S. ICU admissions and further improvements in calibration can be achieved by more precise disease labeling, improved acquisition and weighting of neurologic abnormalities, adjustments that reflect changes in treatment outcomes over time, and a larger national database.
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Predicting functional status outcomes in hospitalized patients aged 80 years and older.
Albert W. Wu,Yutaka Yasui,Carlos Alzola,Anthony N. Galanos,Joel Tsevat,Russell S. Phillips,Alfred F. Connors,Joan M. Teno,Neil S. Wenger,Joanne Lynn +9 more
TL;DR: A model estimating the probability of a patient aged 80 years or older having functional limitations 2 months and 12 months after being hospitalized is developed.
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The Illusion of End-of-Life Resource Savings with Advance Directives
Joan M. Teno,Joanne Lynn,Alfred F. Connors,Neil S. Wenger,Russell S. Phillips,Carlos Alzola,Donald P. Murphy,Norman A. Desbiens,William A. Knaus +8 more
TL;DR: Would increasing the documentation of advance directives (ADs) lead to a reduction in resource utilization?
Predicting Future Functional Status for Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults
Albert W. Wu,Ann M. Damiano,Joanne Lynn,Carlos Alzola,Joan M. Teno,C. Seth Landefeld,Norman A. Desbiens,Joel Tsevat,Allison Mayer-Oakes,Frank E. Harrell,William A. Knaus +10 more
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The use of benchmarking to identify top performing critical care units: a preliminary assessment of their policies and practices.
TL;DR: Benchmarking can be used to identify ICUs with good patient survival and highly efficient resource use and the combination of policies and practices used by these units might improve resource use in other ICUs.