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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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Nonbeneficial treatment Canada: definitions, causes, and potential solutions from the perspective of healthcare practitioners*.
James Downar,John J. You,Sean M. Bagshaw,Eyal Golan,Francois Lamontagne,Karen E. A. Burns,S Kavita Sridhar,Andrew J.E. Seely,Maureen O. Meade,Alison Fox-Robichaud,Deborah J. Cook,Alexis F. Turgeon,Peter Dodek,Wei Xiong,Rob Fowler +14 more
TL;DR: The perceptions of acute care practitioners in Canada were explored to determine whether they perceived nonbeneficial treatment to be a problem, to generate an acceptable definition of non Beneficial treatment, and to learn about their perceptions of the impact and causes of nonBeneficial treatment.
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Outcome assessment for clinical trials: How many adjudicators do we need?
TL;DR: It is suggested that when high observer agreement is demonstrated or anticipated, adjudication committees should consist of no more than three members, and a large randomized trial of two diagnostic approaches to potentially operable lung cancer is a case study.
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Quality of professional society guidelines and consensus conference statements in critical care.
Tasnim Sinuff,Rakesh V. Patel,Neill K. J. Adhikari,Maureen O. Meade,Holger J. Schünemann,Deborah J. Cook +5 more
TL;DR: The overall quality of critical care professional society guidelines and consensus statements, as assessed by three published quality instruments, is low and there is room for improvement, which could help facilitate knowledge translation and improve patient care in the intensive care unit.
Randomized Trials Stopped Early for Benefit
Victor M. Montori,Philip J. Devereaux,Neill K. J. Adhikari,Karen E. A. Burns,Christoph H. Eggert,Matthias Briel,Christina Lacchetti,Teresa W. Leung,Elizabeth K. Darling,Dianne Bryant,Heiner C. Bucher,Holger J. Schünemann,Maureen O. Meade,Deborah J. Cook,Patricia J. Erwin,Richa Sood,Carly A. Thompson,Qi Zhou,Edward J Mills,Gordon H. Guyatt +19 more
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Screening and prevention of venous thromboembolism in critically ill patients: a decision analysis and economic evaluation.
Sachin Sud,Nicole Mittmann,Deborah J. Cook,William Geerts,Brian Chan,Peter Dodek,Michael K. Gould,Gordon H. Guyatt,Yaseen M. Arabi,Robert A. Fowler +9 more
TL;DR: appropriate prophylaxis provides better value in terms of costs and health gains than routine screening for DVT and programs achieving increased adherence to best-practice venous thromboembolism prevention were cost-effective over a wide range of program costs and were robust in probabilistic sensitivity analyses.