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Mark Siegler

Researcher at University of Chicago

Publications -  242
Citations -  11782

Mark Siegler is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medical ethics & Health care. The author has an hindex of 54, co-authored 236 publications receiving 11158 citations. Previous affiliations of Mark Siegler include LDS Hospital & MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics.

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Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine

TL;DR: Clinical Ethics introduces the four-topics method of approaching ethical problems (i.e., medical indications, patient preferences, quality of life, and contextual features); each of the four chapters represents one of the topics.
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An alternative strategy for studying adverse events in medical care.

TL;DR: This study shows that there is a wide range of potential causes of adverse events that should be considered, and that careful attention must be paid to errors with interactive or administrative causes.
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Perceptions of cancer patients and their physicians involved in phase I trials.

TL;DR: Cancer patients who participate in phase I trials appear to have an adequate self-perceived knowledge of the risks of investigational agents, however, only a minority of patients appear toHave an adequate understanding of the purpose of phase I Trials as dose-escalation/dose-determination studies.
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Recommendations for management of patients with neuroendocrine liver metastases

TL;DR: The aim of the conference was to review the existing approaches to neuroendocrine liver metastases, assess the evidence on which management decisions were based, develop internationally acceptableRecommendations for clinical practice (when evidence was available), and make recommendations for clinical and research endeavours.
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Effects of Organizational Change in the Medical Intensive Care Unit of a Teaching Hospital: A Comparison of 'Open' and 'Closed' Formats

TL;DR: Changing from an open to a closed intensive care unit (ICU) format improved clinical outcome, and although patients in the closed ICU had greater severity of illness, resource utilization did not increase.