Publications

Barlow Respiratory Hospital leads LTCHs in outcomes reporting with over 100 publications – including 19 peer-reviewed journal articles, 74 abstracts, 4 book chapters, editorials and letters – and numerous national and international conference presentations.

Barlow Respiratory Hospital maintains the largest longitudinal dataset in the nation with reported outcomes of chronically critically ill patients admitted to a Long-term Acute-Care Hospital (LTCH) for weaning from prolonged mechanical ventilation. The Ventilation Outcomes Dataset (VOD) includes data on more than 7,500 patients over 34 consecutive years.

Highlights and Influential Papers

Recent Journal Articles

• Mechanical ventilator liberation of patients with COVID-19 in long-term acute care hospital.
  Dolinay T, Jun D, Chen L, Gornbein J. Chest 2022 Jun; 161(6): 1517-1525

• Quantitative image analysis in COVID-19 acute respiratory distress syndrome: a cohort observational study.
  Dolinay T, Jun D, Maller A, et al. [version 2; peer review: 1 approved] F1000 Research 2022, 10:1266 (first published 09 December 2021)

• Post-COVID recovery: characteristics of chronically critically ill patients admitted to a long-term acute care hospital
  Hassenpflug MS, Jun D, Nelson DR and Dolinay T. l [version 2; peer review 2: 2 approved] F1000 Research 2021, 9:1241 (first published 15 October 2020)

Recent Abstracts

• Chronic critical illness: continuous improvement at a regional weaning center.
  Hassenpflug MS, Nelson DR, Steckart J. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2022;205:A4303

• Post-COVID recovery: outcomes of chronically critically ill patients admitted to a regional weaning center.
  Hassenpflug MS, Nelson DR, Steckart J. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2022;205:A2935

• Post-COVID recovery: chronically critically ill patients admitted to a long-term acute care hospital.
  Hassenpflug MS, Jun D, Dolinay T, Nelson DR. Crit Care Med 2021;49(1):A277

• Chronic critical illness: improving efficiency of care using time-driven activity-based costing methodology.
  Shah M, Mohan A, Nelson DR, Hassenpflug MS. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2018;197:A684

• Sepsis screening in a long-term care hospital: improving timely identification and effective treatment.
  Brock J, D’Souza G, Nelson DR, Hassenpflug MS. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2018;197:A3627

• Outcomes in chronic critical illness: continuous improvement at a regional weaning center.
  Hassenpflug MS, Nelson DR, Steckart J. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2018;197:A5154

• Post-ICU mechanical ventilation: weaning outcomes of selected subpopulations at a regional weaning center.
  Hassenpflug M, Steckart J, Nelson DR. Chest 2016;150(4_S):319A

• Chronic critical illness: influence of etiology of ventilator dependency on weaning outcomes at a regional weaning center.
  Hassenpflug M, Steckart J, Nelson DR. Chest 2016;150(4_S):323A

• Chronic critical illness: emerging post-acute care nutrition practice population for CNSCs.
  Diot S, Hassenpflug M, Steckart MJ. JPEN 40; 2016:S49

• Chronic critical illness: association between vitamin D status and weaning from prolonged mechanical ventilation.
  Diot S, Hassenpflug M, Steckart MJ. JPEN 40; 2016:S50

Influential Papers

• Ventilator-dependent survivors of catastrophic illness transferred to 23 long term care hospitals for weaning from prolonged mechanical ventilation.
  Scheinhorn DJ, Hassenpflug MS, Votto JJ, et al. Chest 2007; 131:76-84

• Post-ICU mechanical ventilation at 23 long term care hospitals: a multicenter outcomes study.
  Scheinhorn DJ, Hassenpflug MS, Votto JJ, et al. Chest 2007; 131:85-93

• Evidence-based guidelines for weaning and discontinuing ventilatory support: a collective task force facilitated by the American College of Chest Physicians; the American Association of Respiratory Care; and the American College of Critical Care Medicine.
  MacIntyre NR, Cook DJ, Ely EW, Epstein SK, Fink JB, Heffner JE, Hess D, Hubmayr RD, Scheinhorn DJ. Chest 2001; 120:375S-395S

• Outcomes in post-ICU mechanical ventilation: a therapist-implemented weaning protocol.
  Scheinhorn DJ, Chao DC, Stearn-Hassenpflug M, Wallace WA. Chest 2001; 119:236-242

Book Chapters

• Weaning from mechanical ventilation.
  Chao DC, Scheinhorn DJ. In Tharratt S, (ed): Mechanical Ventilation (Critical Care Clinics, vol 14). Philadelphia, W.B Saunders, 1998; 799-817

• Provision of long term mechanical ventilation.
  Scheinhorn DJ, Stearn-Hassenpflug MA. In Tharratt S, (ed): Mechanical Ventilation (Critical Care Clinics, vol 14), Philadelphia, W.B Saunders, 1998; 819-832

• Approach to the patient with long term failure.
  Scheinhorn DJ, Chao DC, Stearn-Hassenpflug M. In Manthous C, (ed): Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation, Part II (Respiratory Care Clinics of North America, vol 6), Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 2000; 437-461.

• Liberation from Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation.
  Scheinhorn DJ, Chao DC, Stearn-Hassenpflug M. In Nierman N, Nelson J, (eds): The Chronically Critically Ill. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, Crit Care Clin 2002 Jul;18(3):569-95