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.