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Deborah J. Cook
Researcher at McMaster University
Publications - 942
Citations - 165225
Deborah J. Cook is an academic researcher from McMaster University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Intensive care & Randomized controlled trial. The author has an hindex of 173, co-authored 907 publications receiving 148928 citations. Previous affiliations of Deborah J. Cook include McMaster University Medical Centre & Queen's University.
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Compassionate End-of-Life Care: Mixed-Methods Multisite Evaluation of the 3 Wishes Project.
Meredith Vanstone,Thanh H. Neville,Marilyn Swinton,Marina Sadik,Alyson Takaoka,Orla Smith,Andrew J Baker,Allana LeBlanc,Denise Foster,Vinay Dhingra,Peter Phung,Xueqing Sherry Xu,Yuhan Kao,Diane Heels-Ansdell,Benjamin Tam,Feli Toledo,Anne Boyle,Deborah J. Cook +17 more
TL;DR: The 3 Wishes Project is a transferrable, affordable, and sustainable program that provides value to dying patients, their families, clinicians, and institutions and has generalizability to all jurisdictions.
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Adjudicating Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in a Randomized Trial of Critically Ill Patients
Deborah J. Cook,Deborah J. Cook,Deborah J. Cook,Stephen D. Walter,Stephen D. Walter,Stephen D. Walter,Andreas Freitag,Andreas Freitag,Andreas Freitag,Gordon H. Guyatt,Gordon H. Guyatt,Gordon H. Guyatt,Hugh Devitt,Hugh Devitt,Hugh Devitt,Maureen O. Meade,Maureen O. Meade,Maureen O. Meade,Lauren Griffith,Lauren Griffith,Lauren Griffith,Alicia Sarabia,Alicia Sarabia,Alicia Sarabia,H. D. Fuller,H. D. Fuller,H. D. Fuller,Mark Turner,Mark Turner,Mark Turner,Kevin Gough,Kevin Gough,Kevin Gough +32 more
TL;DR: Though adjudication of outcomes such as VAP is time-consuming, consistent decision-making requires strict criteria, training, and calibration and patients should be assigned to adjudication teams through random allocation.
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Randomized trials in vulnerable populations.
TL;DR: Six specific challenges associated with randomized clinical trials in vulnerable populations are identified and several potential solutions to overcome these challenges are suggested.
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The safety of percutaneous tracheostomy in patients with coagulopathy or thrombocytopenia.
TL;DR: The data suggest the incidence of bleeding is low in patients with coagulopathy and or thrombocytopenia-undergoing PT without bronchoscopic guidance, and in patients receiving systemic heparin.
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An environmental scan of visitation policies in Canadian intensive care units during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kirsten M. Fiest,Kirsten M. Fiest,Karla D. Krewulak,Carmen Hiploylee,Sean M. Bagshaw,Karen E. A. Burns,Karen E. A. Burns,Deborah J. Cook,Robert A. Fowler,Robert A. Fowler,Maia S. Kredentser,Daniel J. Niven,Daniel J. Niven,Kendiss Olafson,Ken Kuljit S. Parhar,Scott B. Patten,Alison Fox-Robichaud,Oleksa G. Rewa,Bram Rochwerg,Krista Spence,Sharon E. Straus,Sean Spence,Andrew B. West,Henry T. Stelfox,Henry T. Stelfox,Jeanna Parsons Leigh,Jeanna Parsons Leigh +26 more
TL;DR: In response to the rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2, hospitals in Canada enacted temporary visitor restrictions to limit the spread of COVID-19 and preserve personal protective equipment supplies as mentioned in this paper.