- Telemedicine Critical Care Billing For Hospitalized Medicare Fee-For-Service Beneficiaries, 2018-2024. [Journal Article]Crit Care Med. 2026 Aug 07. [Online ahead of print]CC
- CONCLUSIONS: Billing for TCC among hospitalized critically ill Medicare beneficiaries increased during the pandemic but remained low as a proportion of all critical care bills. There was variability in utilization across subspecialties and lesser utilization at rural and critical access hospitals. Further studies are needed to characterize the clinical and economic consequences of this shift.
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- CONCLUSIONS: Muscle wasting during critical illness reflects multifaceted biological disturbances. While myofiber size is significantly lower in patients with critical illness, pooled analyses show no significant differences in muscle protein synthesis compared with non-ICU controls, whereas protein degradation markers are consistently higher.
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- CONCLUSIONS: Longer hospital arrival times are significantly associated with increased in-hospital and long-term mortality in patients with CS. These findings underscore the need for system-level interventions, such as regionally coordinated shock networks and early prehospital triage, to ensure timely access to definitive care.
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- A Cause for Change: Improving the Supplementary Education Program in Surgery for Emergency Physicians. [Journal Article]Crit Care Med. 2026 Aug 01; 54(8):2172-2173.CC
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- Uncertainty Regarding How Statistical Models Can and Would Be Used by Clinicians When Patient Prognosis Is Uncertain. [Journal Article]Crit Care Med. 2026 Aug 01; 54(8):2168-2169.CC
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- Further Considerations for Evaluating Conservative Oxygen Targets During Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. [Journal Article]Crit Care Med. 2026 Aug 01; 54(8):2164-2165.CC
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- The authors reply. [Journal Article]Crit Care Med. 2026 Aug 01; 54(8):2162-2163.CC
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