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Karin T. Kirchhoff
Researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Publications - 103
Citations - 4185
Karin T. Kirchhoff is an academic researcher from University of Wisconsin-Madison. The author has contributed to research in topics: Intensive care & Critical care nursing. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 103 publications receiving 4012 citations. Previous affiliations of Karin T. Kirchhoff include University of Illinois at Chicago & Brigham Young University.
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Intensive care unit quality improvement: a "how-to" guide for the interdisciplinary team.
J. Randall Curtis,Deborah J. Cook,Richard J. Wall,Derek C. Angus,Julian Bion,Robert M. Kacmarek,Sandra L. Kane-Gill,Karin T. Kirchhoff,Mitchell M. Levy,Pamela H. Mitchell,Rui Moreno,Peter J. Pronovost,Kathleen Puntillo +12 more
TL;DR: This Society of Critical Care Medicine Task Force report provides an overview for clinicians interested in developing or improving a quality improvement program using a step-wise approach and identifies four steps for evaluating and maintaining this program.
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Providing a “Good Death”: Critical Care Nurses’ Suggestions for Improving End-of-Life Care
TL;DR: Implementation of specific suggestions provided by experienced critical care nurses might increase the quality of end-of-life care, facilitating a good death for intensive care patients.
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Patient-centered interventions.
Diane Lauver,Sandra E. Ward,Susan M. Heidrich,Mary L. Keller,Barbara J. Bowers,Patricia Flatley Brennan,Karin T. Kirchhoff,Thelma J. Wells +7 more
TL;DR: The concept patient centered is described, the development of research on PCIs is summarized, kinds of PCIs are discussed, examples ofPCIs and how they have been derived and implemented are provided, and issues for theory and future research are raised.
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Providing End-of-Life Care to Patients: Critical Care Nurses’ Perceived Obstacles and Supportive Behaviors
TL;DR: The biggest obstacles to appropriate end-of-life care in the intensive care unit are behaviors of patients' families that remove nurses from caring for patients, behaviors that prolong patients' suffering or cause patients pain, and physicians' disagreement about the plan of care.
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Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation in critical and palliative care settings: understanding the goals of therapy.
J. Randall Curtis,Deborah J. Cook,Tasnim Sinuff,Douglas B. White,Nicholas S. Hill,Sean P. Keenan,Joshua O. Benditt,Robert M. Kacmarek,Karin T. Kirchhoff,Mitchell M. Levy +9 more
TL;DR: This Task Force suggests an approach to use of NPPV for patients and families who choose to forego endotracheal intubation that should be applied after careful discussion of the goals of care, with explicit parameters for success and failure, by experienced personnel, and in appropriate healthcare settings.