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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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Circulating Fibrocytes Are an Indicator of Poor Prognosis in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
A Moeller,Sarah E. Gilpin,Kjetil Ask,Gerard Cox,Deborah J. Cook,Jack Gauldie,Peter J. Margetts,Laszlo Farkas,Julian Dobranowski,Colm Boylan,Paul M. O'Byrne,Robert M. Strieter,Martin Kolb +12 more
TL;DR: Fibrocytes are an indicator for disease activity of IPF and might be useful as a clinical marker for disease progression and suggest prediction of early mortality in patients with IPF.
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Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: V. How to Use an Article About Prognosis
Andreas Laupacis,George Wells,W. Scott Richardson,Peter Tugwell,Gordon H. Guyatt,George P. Browman,Deborah J. Cook,Hertzel C. Gerstein,Brian Haynes,Robert Hayward,Mitchell Levine,Jim Nishikawa,David L. Sackett,Patrick Brill-Edwards,Michael E. Farkouh,Anne Holbrook,Roman Jaeschke,Hui Lee,Stephane Sauve,Virginia Moyer,David Naylor,Andrew D Oxman,John Philbrick,Jack Sinclair,Brian L. Strom,Sean Tunis,John W Williams,Mark C. Wilson +27 more
TL;DR: A 76-year-old retired schoolteacher who has lived with her son since her husband died 6 years ago has become increasingly agitated and paranoid during the last year and you feel she has probable Alzheimer's disease.
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Evidence-based clinical practice guideline for the prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Peter Dodek,Sean P. Keenan,Deborah J. Cook,Daren K. Heyland,Michael J. Jacka,Lori Hand,John Muscedere,Debra Foster,Nav Mehta,Richard I. Hall,Christian Brun-Buisson +10 more
TL;DR: The methods used to create the VAP Prevention Guideline Panel, an evidence-based clinical practice guideline for the prevention of VAP, and the recommendations generated are described.
How to Use an Article About Therapy or Prevention
TL;DR: A 19 year-old woman who has had systemic lupus erythematosus diagnosed on the basis of a characteristic skin rash, arthritis, and renal disease is seeing an internal medicine resident in a rheumatology rotation.
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Users' Guides to the Medical Literature XXIII. Qualitative Research in Health Care B. What Are the Results and How Do They Help Me Care for My Patients?
Mauro Giacomini,Deborah J. Cook +1 more
TL;DR: The second part of this 2-part series on how to interpret qualitative research addresses, "what are the results," and, "how do they help me care for my patients?"