Physician

Internal Medicine

Theodore Iwashyna works in the field of Internal Medicine. He studied medicine at University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine has a rank of 10 in research and a 19 in primary care Theodore Iwashyna has written publications. He has 100 publications published with PubMed. The lastest paper is: 'A methodology for identifying married couples in Medicare data: mortality, morbidity, and health care use among the married elderly.' He accepts Medicare payments and is listed with Medicare.gov.

Publications

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• Longitudinal Changes in ICU Admissions Among Elderly Patients in the United States.
• Assessment of Clinical Criteria for Sepsis: For the Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3).
• Variation in the Contents of Sepsis Bundles and Quality Measures. A Systematic Review.
• Temporal Changes in the Influence of Hospitals and Regional Healthcare Networks on Severe Sepsis Mortality.
• Readmission diagnoses after hospitalization for severe sepsis and other acute medical conditions.
• Hospitals With the Highest Intensive Care Utilization Provide Lower Quality Pneumonia Care to the Elderly.
• Gaming Hospital-Level Pneumonia 30-Day Mortality and Readmission Measures by Legitimate Changes to Diagnostic Coding.
• Functional disability and cognitive impairment after hospitalization for myocardial infarction and stroke.
• Mobilization in severe sepsis: An integrative review.
• Sepsis mandates: improving inpatient care while advancing quality improvement.
• Diagnoses of early and late readmissions after hospitalization for pneumonia. A Systematic review.
• What's So Different about Big Data?. A Primer for Clinicians Trained to Think Epidemiologically.
• The influence of race and ethnicity on complications and mortality after orthopedic surgery: a Systematic review of the literature.
• Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Potentially Preventable Hospitalizations in a Prospective Cohort Study of Older Americans.
• Identifying patients with severe sepsis using administrative claims: patient-level validation of the angus implementation of the international consensus conference def...
• Did they just prove that a diagnosis of "septic shock" is meaningless?
• Hospital Deaths in Patients With Sepsis From 2 Independent Cohorts.
• Somatic symptoms in survivors of critical illness.
• Increased one-year health care utilization in survivors of severe sepsis.
• Obesity and 1-Year Outcomes in Older Americans With Severe Sepsis.
• Interplay between sepsis and Chronic health.
• Issues of Survivorship Are Rarely Addressed During Intensive Care Unit Stays: Baseline Results from a Statewide Quality Improvement Collaborative.
• Declining Case Fatality Rates for Severe Sepsis: Good Data Bring Good News With Ambiguous Implications.
• Expansion of invasive cardiac services in the United States.
• Diverse Attitudes to and Understandings of Spontaneous Awakening Trials: Results From a Statewide Quality Improvement Collaborative*
• Sepsis after Scotland: enough with the averages, show us the effect modifiers.
• Instrumental variable analyses. Exploiting natural randomness to understand causal mechanisms.
• Managing uncertainty in claims-based sepsis research*.
• Reasons underlying interhospital transfers to an academic medical intensive care unit.
• Functional Disability, Cognitive Impairment, and Depression After Hospitalization for Pneumonia.
• Impact of the Fall 2009 Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 Pandemic on US Hospitals.
• Using existing data to address important clinical questions in critical care.
• Symptoms of Depression in Survivors of Severe Sepsis: A Prospective Cohort Study of Older Americans.
• The epidemiology of acute organ System dysfunction from severe sepsis outside of the intensive care unit.
• The incomplete infrastructure for interhospital patient transfer.
• The Burdens of Survivorship: An Approach to Thinking about Long-Term Outcomes after Critical Illness.
• Revenue, relationships and routines: The social organization of acute myocardial infarction patient transfers in the United States.
• Variation in use of intensive care for adults with diabetic ketoAcidosis*
• Population burden of long-term survivorship after severe sepsis in older americans.
• Implementation challenges in the intensive care unit: The why, who, and how of daily interruption of sedation.
• Becoming a high reliability organization.
• Insurance and racial differences in long-term acute care utilization after critical illness.
• Regional variation in the association between advance directives and end-of-life Medicare expenditures.
• Organisational characteristics associated with the use of daily interruption of sedation in US hospitals: a national study.
• Guided transfer of critically ill patients: where patients are transferred can be an informed choice.
• Burden of cirrhosis on older americans and their families: Analysis of the health and retirement study.
• Limiting the spread of highly resistant hospital-acquired microorganisms via critical care transfers: a simulation study.
• Race and Timeliness of Transfer for Revascularization in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction.
• Acute care and long-term mortality among elderly patients with intracerebral hemorrhage who undergo Chronic life-sustaining procedures.
• The Effect of Insurance Status on Mortality and Procedural Utilization in Critically Ill Patients.
• Which patients and where: a qualitative study of patient transfers from community hospitals.
• Examining the contextual effects of neighborhood on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and the provision of bystander cardioPulmonary resuscitation.
• Longitudinal influences of friends and parents upon unprotected vaginal intercourse in adolescents.
• Do hospitals alter patient care effort allocations under pay-for-performance?
• Decreased mortality resulting from a multicomponent intervention in a tertiary care medical intensive care unit.
• The impact of residents, interns, and attendings on inpatient laboratory ordering patterns: a report from one university's hospitalist service.
• Spatio-temporal Structure of US Critical Care Transfer Network.
• Defining and measuring successful emergency care networks: a research agenda.
• Long-term cognitive impairment and functional disability among survivors of severe sepsis.
• Interhospital transfers among Medicare beneficiaries admitted for acute myocardial infarction at nonrevascularization hospitals.
• Survivorship will be the defining challenge of critical care in the 21st century.
• A polyurethane cuffed endotracheal tube is associated with decreased rates of ventilator-associated Pneumonia.
• Long-term acute care hospital utilization after critical illness.
• Educating Physicians-in-Training About Resource Utilization and Their Own Outcomes of Care in the Inpatient Setting.
• Marital status and the epidemiology and outcomes of sepsis.
• Seduction and insight from cross-national comparisons.
• Team effect on variation in laboratory utilization on subspecialty services.
• Effect of work-hours regulations on intensive care unit mortality in United States teaching hospitals.
• Physician attitudes toward regionalization of adult critical care: a national survey.
• The structure of critical care transfer networks.
• The relationship between hospital volume and mortality in mechanical ventilation: an instrumental variable analysis.
• Intensive care unit occupancy and patient outcomes.
• Critical illness outcomes in specialty versus general intensive care units.
• Uncharted paths: hospital networks in critical care.
• Potential value of regionalized intensive care for mechanically ventilated medical patients.
• Association of RBC transfusion with mortality in patients with acute Lung injury.
• Child injury risks are close to home: parent psychosocial factors associated with child safety.
• Low use of durable medical equipment by Chronically disabled elderly.
• Differences in hospice use between black and white patients during the period 1992 through 2000.
• Critical care use during the course of serious illness.
• The lack of effect of market structure on hospice use.
• Effectiveness of adjuvant fluorouracil in clinical practice: a population-based cohort study of elderly patients with stage III colon Cancer.
• Racial, ethnic, and affluence differences in elderly patients' use of teaching hospitals.
• Disease-specific patterns of hospice and related healthcare use in an incidence cohort of seriously ill elderly patients.
• Care after the onset of serious illness: a novel claims-based dataset exploiting substantial cross-set linkages to study end-of-life care.
• Racial and ethnic differences in place of death: United States, 1993.
• Wide variation and rising utilization of stroke magnetic resonance imaging: Data from 11 States.
• Accuracy of the discharge destination field in administrative data for identifying transfer to a long-term acute care hospital.
• Attitude and self-reported practice regarding hospice referral in a national sample of internists.
• Spousal illness burden is associated with delayed use of hospice care in terminally ill patients.
• Perceived barriers to the regionalization of adult critical care in the United States: a qualitative preliminary study.
• An official American Thoracic Society policy statement: pay-for-performance in Pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine.
• Small area variations in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: does the neighborhood matter?
• The health impact of health care on families: a matched cohort study of hospice use by decedents and mortality outcomes in surviving, widowed spouses.
• Marriage, widowhood, and health-care use.
• Attitude and self-reported practice regarding prognostication in a national sample of internists.
• A methodology for identifying married couples in Medicare data: mortality, morbidity, and health care use among the married elderly.
• Neighborhoods matter: a population-based study of provision of cardioPulmonary resuscitation.
• The performance of different lookback periods and sources of information for Charlson comorbidity adjustment in Medicare claims.

Schools

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• U Of Chgo Div Of Bio Sci Pritzker Sch Of Med

Procedures Preformed

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• Bronchoscopy
• Thoracentesis
• Ventilation Management

Conditions Treated

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• Acidosis
• Alkalosis
• Asthma
• Atelectasis
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Doctors Specialties

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• Critical Care Medicine
• Pulmonology
• Internal Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• University of Pennsylvania Health System
• University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

Hospital

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• University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1609939115
Last Name Of The Provider	IWASHYNA
First Name Of The Provider	THEODORE
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