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Peter S. Kussin
Researcher at Duke University
Publications - 47
Citations - 4090
Peter S. Kussin is an academic researcher from Duke University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Palliative care. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 39 publications receiving 3877 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter S. Kussin include Durham University & Marshfield Clinic.
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Outcomes following acute exacerbation of severe chronic obstructive lung disease. The SUPPORT investigators (Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments)
Alfred F. Connors,Neal V. Dawson,Charles Thomas,Frank E. Harrell,Norman A. Desbiens,William J. Fulkerson,Peter S. Kussin,Paul E. Bellamy,Lee Goldman,William A. Knaus +9 more
TL;DR: Patients and caregivers should be aware of the likelihood of poor outcomes following hospitalization for exacerbation of COPD associated with hypercarbia, and are advised to report a good, very good, or excellent quality of life.
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Relationship Between Cancer Patients' Predictions of Prognosis and Their Treatment Preferences
Jane C. Weeks,E. Francis Cook,Steven J. O'Day,Lynn M. Peterson,Neil S. Wenger,Douglas J. Reding,Frank E. Harrell,Peter S. Kussin,Neal V. Dawson,Alfred F. Connors,Joanne Lynn,Russell S. Phillips +11 more
TL;DR: Patients with metastatic colon and lung cancer overestimate their survival probabilities and these estimates may influence their preferences about medical therapies, according to patient and physician estimates of the probability of 6-month survival.
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The Impact of Serious Illness on Patients' Families
Kenneth E. Covinsky,Kenneth E. Covinsky,Lee Goldman,E. Francis Cook,Robert Oye,Norman A. Desbiens,Douglas I. Reding,William Fulkerson,Alfred F. Connors,Joanne Lynn,Russell S. Phillips,Rose Baker,Rosemarie Hakim,William A. Knaus,Barbara Kreling,Detra K. Robinson,Douglas P. Wagner,Jennie D. Dulac,Joan M. Teno,Beth A Virnig,Marilyn Bergner,Albert W. Wu,Yutaka Yasui,Roger B. Davis,Lachlan Forrow,Mary Beth Hamel,Linda Lesky,Lynn L. Peterson,Joel Tsevat,Claudia J. Coulton,Neal V. Dawson,Mary J. Kennard,C. Seth Landefeld,Mary Joan Roach,Theodore Speroff,Stuart J. Youngner,Carlos Alzola,Robert M. Califf,William J. Fulkerson,Frank E. Harrell,Peter S. Kussin,Lawrence H. Muhlbaier,Maria Winchell,Steven K. Broste,Norman A. Desbiens,Marilyn A. Follen,Michael J. Kryda,Douglas J. Reding,Humberto Vidaillet,Paul E. Bellamy,H. Gill Cryer,James W. Davis,Jonathan R. Hiatt,Honghu Liu,Robert K. Oye,Neil S. Wenger,Peter M. Layde,Hal R. Arkes,Donald J. Murphy +58 more
TL;DR: Many families of seriously ill patients experience severe caregiving and financial burdens, and families of younger, poorer, and more functionally dependent patients are most likely to report loss of most or all of the family's savings.
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Relationship of body mass index to subsequent mortality among seriously ill hospitalized patients
Anthony N. Galanos,Carl F. Pieper,Peter S. Kussin,Maria T. Winchell,William J. Fulkerson,Frank E. Harrell,Joan M. Teno,Peter M. Layde,Alfred F. Connors,Russell S. Phillips,Neil S. Wenger +10 more
TL;DR: Body mass index, a simple anthropometric measure of nutrition employed in community epidemiologic studies, has now been demonstrated to be a predictor of mortality in an acutely ill population of adults at five different tertiary centers.
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Virtual bronchoscopy for directing transbronchial needle aspiration of hilar and mediastinal lymph nodes: a pilot study.
TL;DR: Virtual bronchoscopic images derived from routine helical CT scans were useful for directing transbronchial needle aspiration in a clinical setting and may have been responsible for improving the yield of transBronchia needle aspirations done by bronchoscopists when 22-gauge needles were used.