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Thomas J Prendergast

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Ahluwalia S, Schreibeis-Baum H, Prendergast T, Reinke L, Lorenz K
Am J Crit Care . 2016 Jan; 25(1):33-8. PMID: 26724291
Background: Nurses' involvement in family meetings in the intensive care unit is central to supporting consistent communication and shared understanding within the care team and with patients and patients' family...
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Arnold R, Back A, Barnato A, Prendergast T, Emlet L, Karpov I, et al.
J Crit Care . 2014 Dec; 30(2):250-4. PMID: 25535029
Purpose: The aim of this study was to develop an evidence-based communication skills training workshop to improve the communication skills of critical care fellows. Materials And Methods: Pulmonary and critical...
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Ahluwalia S, Bekelman D, Huynh A, Prendergast T, Shreve S, Lorenz K
Am J Hosp Palliat Care . 2014 Jul; 32(8):817-23. PMID: 24988894
Background: Early and repeated patient-provider conversations about advance care planning (ACP) are now widely recommended. We sought to characterize barriers and strategies for realizing an iterative model of ACP patient-provider...
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Baggs J, Schmitt M, Prendergast T, Norton S, Sellers C, Quinn J, et al.
J Palliat Med . 2012 Jan; 15(1):56-62. PMID: 22233466
Purpose: Traditional expectations of the single attending physician who manages a patient's care do not apply in today's intensive care units (ICUs). Although many physicians and other professionals have adapted...
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Lanken P, Terry P, DeLisser H, Fahy B, Hansen-Flaschen J, Heffner J, et al.
Am J Respir Crit Care Med . 2008 Apr; 177(8):912-27. PMID: 18390964
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White D, Curtis J, Wolf L, Prendergast T, Taichman D, Kuniyoshi G, et al.
Ann Intern Med . 2007 Jul; 147(1):34-40. PMID: 17606959
Background: Physicians in intensive care units have withdrawn life support in incapacitated patients who lack surrogate decision makers and advance directives, yet little is known about how often this occurs...
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Prendergast T, Puntillo K
JAMA . 2002 Dec; 288(21):2732-40. PMID: 12460097
The technology and expertise of critical care practice support patients through life-threatening illnesses. Most recover; some die quickly; others, however, linger--neither improving nor acutely dying, alive but with a dwindling...