Publications

1. Martin CM, Doig GS, Heyland DK, Morrison T, Sibbald WJ. A Multicenter, Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial of Algorithms for Critical Care Enteral and Parenteral Therapy (ACCEPT). CMAJ;170:197-204, 2004. (online)

2. Ng SW, Esmail R, Sibbald WJ, Doig GS. Potential Savings Involved in the Purchase of Low Cost, High Volume Medical Commodities as Established From a Community Hospital Survey. Health Care Management Forum (In Press).

3. Chen LM, Martin CM, Morrison TL, Sibbald WJ. Interobserver variability in data collection of the APACHE II score in teaching and community hospitals. Crit Care Med; 27(9):1999-2004, 1999 Sep. (abstract)

4. Keenan SP, Martin CM, Kossuth JD, Eberhard J, Sibbald WJ. The Critical Care Research Network: a partnership in community-based research and research transfer. J Eval Clin Practice;5(4):1-8, 1999.

5. Inman KJ, Dymock K, Fysh N, Robbins B, Rutledge FS, Sibbald WJ. Pressure Ulcer Prevention: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Two Risk-Directed Strategies for Patient Surface Assignment. Advances in Wound Care March;12(2):72-80,1999.

6. Kojlak J, Keenan SP, Plotkin D, Giles-Fysh N, Sibbald WJ. Determining the Potential Need for a Bereavement Follow-up Program: How Well are Family and Health Care Workers' Needs Currently Being Met? Official Journal of the Canadian Association of Critical Care Nurses Spring; 9(1): 12-16, 1998.

7. Chen L, Martin CM, Keenan SP, Sibbald WJ. Patients readmitted to the intensive care unit during the same hospitalization: clinical features and outcomes. Crit Care Med;26(11):1834-41, 1998 Nov. (abstract)

8. Keenan SP, Montgomery T, Chen LM, Esmail R, Inman KJ, Sibbald WJ. Ventilatory Care in a Selection of Ontario Hospitals: Bigger is Not Necessarily Better! Intensive Care Medicine 24(9): 946-952, 1998.

9. Keenan SP, Martin CM. Creation of a Critical Care Research Network. Current Opinion in Critical Care 4:470-475, 1998.

10. Keenan SP, Busche KD, Chen LM, Esmail R, Sibbald WJ, Inman KJ. The Withdrawal and Withholding of Life Support in the Intensive Care Unit: A Comparison Between Teaching and Community Hospitals. Critical Care Medicine 26(2): 245-251, 1998. (abstract)

11. Sibbald WJ, Kossuth, JD. The Ontario Healthcare Evaluation Network and the Critical Care Research Network as Vehicles for Research Transfer. Journal of Medical Decision Making Jan.-Mar.; 18(l): 918, 1998.

12. Keenan SP, Doig GD, Martin CM, Inman KJ, Sibbald WJ. Assessing the Efficacy of the Admission Process to a Critical Care Unit: Does the Literature Allow the Use of Bench Marking? Intensive Care Medicine 23(5): 574-580, 1997.

13. Keenan SP, Busche KD, Chen LM, McCarthy L, Inman KJ, Sibbald WJ. A Retrospective Review of a Large Cohort of Patients Undergoing the Process of Withholding or Withdrawal of Life Support. Critical Care Medicine 25(8): 1324-1331, 1997. (abstract)

14. Cook D, Sibbald WJ, Vincent JL, Cerra F, for the Evidence-Based Medicine in Critical Care Group. Evidence-Based Critical Care Medicine: What Is It and What Can It Do For Us? Critical Care Medicine 24(2): 334-337, 1996. (abstract)

15. Martin CM, Chen L, Eberhard J, Johnston S, Sibbald WJ. The Southwestern Ontario Critical Care Research (SOCCR) Minimal data set: Implementation and Initial Results. COACH Conference 21 Scientific Program Proceedings; 1996; 1996 p. 19-26.

16. Keenan S, Doig GS, Martin CM, Inman K, Sibbald WJ. The appropriateness of patient admission to and early discharge from a Canadian ICU. Am J Respir Crit Care Med;151:A493, 1995.

17. Inman KJ, Sibbald WJ, Rutledge FS, Speechley M, Martin CM, Clark BJ. Does implementing pulse oximetry in a critical care unit result in substantial arterial blood gas savings? Chest;104(2):542-6, 1993 Aug. (abstract)

18. Inman K, Martin CM, Sibbald WJ. Design and conduct of clinical trials in critical care. J Crit Care;7:118-28, 1992.

19.Martin CM, Hill AD, Burns K, Chen LM. Characteristics and outcomes for critically ill patients with prolonged intensive care unit stays.Crit Care Med. 2005 Sep;33(9):1922-7; quiz 1936.

20.Priestap FA, Martin CM. Impact of intensive care unit discharge time on patient outcome.Crit Care Med. 2006 Dec;34(12):2946-51.

Presentations

As a research Network dedicated to facilitating the application of research results to the decision-making process, the CCR-Net realizes the necessity of actively disseminating our research outputs. Presentations to researchers and decision-makers (hospitals, government, medical industry) about our Network projects and research opportunities, enable us to share valuable information as well as the benefits of researcher and decision-maker collaborations. The following are some examples of our team's presentations over the last few years:

1. Evidence 2000 Conference, Institute for International Research. Tools to promote and teach evidencebased medicine - a case study. Vancouver, B.C. February 7-9, 2000.

2. Ontario Hospital Association Convention and Exhibition. Translating evidence: Getting it out to the point of care. Toronto, Ontario. November 22-23, 1999.

3. Closing the Loop: Evidence into health practice, organization and policy. The 3rd International Conference on the Scientific Basis of Health Services. The Critical Care Research Network (CCR-Net): A model for research transfer. Toronto, Ontario, October 1-3, 1999.

4. 12th Annual Symposium on Advanced Wound Care. Cost-Effective Pressure Ulcer Prevention in Hospitalized patients: Bridging the Gap Between Evidence and Practice. Anaheim, California. April 1999.

5. Workshop - Clinical Trials Design and Implementation, 1999.

6. Awareness '98. Overview of CCR-Net Etobicoke, Mississauga (Trillium), Woodstock, St. Joseph's Healthcare (Toronto), Listowel/Wingham (Huron Perth Health Records Group). 1998-1999.

7. Awareness '98. A Working Session on Evidence-Based Decision-Making in the Critical Care Context. Newmarket, Ontario. December 1998.

8. Information/Education Session - Huron Perth Health Information Management. Overview of the Critical Care Research Network. Listowel Memorial Hospital. November 1998.

9. Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy. San Diego, California. March 1998.

10. 10th ESICM Annual Congress. Nature of Collected Data. Paris, France. September 1997.

11. Evidence-Based Decision Making. Hill-Rom Inc., Batesville, Indiana. March 5-6,1997.

12. 28th annual meeting of the Society of Medical Decision Making. The Impact of ICU Discharge on Patient Outcome.Boston MA. Oct. 18, 2006.

13. 28th annual meeting of the Society of Medical Decision Making. Development of a Service Blueprint to Study the Reasons for Variation in Mortality of Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction (KIDMI).Boston MA. Oct. 18, 2006.

14. 28th annual meeting of the Society of Medical Decision Making.A Survey of Canadian Physicians to Understand Determinants that Affect Patient Admissions from the Emergency Room to the Intensive Care Unit.Boston MA. Oct. 18, 2006.

Abstracts

1. Priestap F, Martin CM, Hartford K. A Comparison of patient Outcomes for ICU Admissions During Weekdays vs. Weekends. Crit Care Med; 32(12) Supplement:A75. 2004

2. Hill A, Martin CM, Vingilis E, Hartford K, Speechley, KN. Comparison of Mortality in ICU Transfer and non-Transfer Patients. Crit Care Med; 32(12) Supplement: A79. 2004

3. Martin CM, Priestap F, Morrison T, Bentley D, Heyland DK, Antman N, Fisher H, Long C, Keenan S. The Canadian Sepsis Treatment and Response (STAR) Registry: Prevalence, Incidence and Outcomes for Patients with Severe Sepsis. Crit Care Med; 32(12) Supplement: A143. 2004

4. Martin CM, Bentley D, Morrison T, Priestap F, Heyland DK, Antman N, Fisher H, Longo C, Keenan SP. The Canadian Sepsis Treatment and Response (STAR) Registry: Illness Severity and Process of Care for Patients with Severe Sepsis. Crit Care Med; 32(12) Supplement: A149. 2004

5. Martin CM, Benko R, Doig GS. Influence of missing data on mortality prediction using the APACHE II model in teaching and community hospitals. Am J Resp Crit Care Med 161, A237. 15-3-2000.

6. Martin CM, Chen L, Priestap F, Sibbald WJ. ICU Bed Utilization - relation to patient acuity and outcomes. Am J Resp & Crit Care Med 161 (3), A237. 15-3-2000.

7. Webster GK, Sibbald WJ. The Critical Care Research Network (CCR-Net): A Model for Translating Research into Practice. (Accepted to the 3rd International Conference on the Scientific Basis of Health Services, October 1-3, 1999. Toronto, Canada).

8. Martin CM, Long J, Burns K. SF-36 Validity in Patients With Prolonged ICU Stay. Am J Resp Crit Care Med 159 (3), A88. 1999.

9. Keenan SP, Mawdsley C, Plotkin D, Long J, Kirby A, Sibbald W. Nurse and Respiratory Therapist Satisfaction With Withdrawal of Life Support Differs Among Hospitals. (Accepted to the 1999 American Thoracic Society's International Conference, April 23-28, 1999. San Diego, California).

10. Martin CM, Chen LM, Long J, Burns K. SF-36 Validity in Patients With Prolonged ICU Stay. (Accepted to the 1999 American Thoracic Society International Conference, April 23-28, 1999. San Diego, California).

11. Keenan SP, Martin CM, Long J, Sibbald WJ. What is the Prognosis of COPD patients Requiring ICU Admission? A Comparison of Teaching and Non-Teaching Ontario Hospitals. (Presented to the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada's Meeting, September 1998. Toronto, Ontario). Clinical Investigative Medicine Supplement S27, 1998.

12. Keenan SP, Mawdsley C, Plotkin D, Kossuth J, Sibbald WJ. The Withdrawal of Life Support - Can We Do Better? A Survey of Nurse and Respiratory Therapist Satisfaction Levels. (Accepted to the 1998 American Thoracic Society International Conference, April 24-29, 1998. Chicago, Illinois).

13. Keenan SP, Martin CM, Chen LM, Sibbald WJ. COPD Patients Requiting ICU Admission: Hospital Outcome in a Group of Canadian Teaching and Non-Teaching Hospitals. (Presented to the 1998 Society of Critical Care Medicine's 27th Educational and Scientific Symposium, February 4-8, 1998. San Antonio, Texas). Critical Care Medicine 26, No 1 (Suppl), A112. 1998.

14. Montgomery J, Keenan SP, Esmail R, Inman KJ, Sibbald WJ. The Process of Ventilatory Care in a Selection of Ontario Hospitals. The 7th World Congress of Intensive & Critical Care Medicine, June-July, 1997. Ottawa, Ontario.

15. Keenan SP, Kossuth J, Doig G, Inman KJ, Sibbald WJ. The Critical Care Research Network (CCR-Net): A Partnership in Community-Based Research and Research Transfer. (1 7th World Congress of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine, June-July, 1997. Ottawa, Ontario).

16. Chen LM, Martin CM, Sibbald WJ. Bed Utilization in Seven Ontario Hospital Intensive Care Units. The 7th World Congress of Intensive & Critical Care Medicine, June 29-July 3 1997. Ottawa, Ontario.

17. Chen LM, Martin CM, Keenan SP, Sibbald WJ. Patients Readmitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) During the Same Hospitalization: A Mufti-Centre Cohort Study. Critical Care Medicine 25 (1): Supplement A83, 1997.

18. Keenan SP, Busche KD, Chen LM, McCarthy L, Inman KJ, Sibbald WJ. A Retrospective Review of a Large Cohort of Patients Undergoing Withholding or Withdrawal of Life Support. (Accepted to the 1997 American Thoracic Society International Conference, May 17-21, 1997. San Francisco, California).

19. Dhawan R, Singh T, Inman KJ, Sibbald WJ. Histological Changes in Intensive Care Unit Resource Utilization. (Accepted to the 1997 American Thoracic Society International Conference, May 17-21, 1997. San Francisco, California).

20. Dhawan R, Inman KJ, Keenan SP, Sibbald WJ. Does Pulse Oximetry Make Economic Sense in the Intensive Care Unit? Society of Critical Care Medicine Meeting, February 1997. San Diego, CA. Critical Care Medicine 25(l): Supplement A97, 1997.

21. Chen LM, Martin CM. Evaluation of intensive care unit (ICU) activities in southwestern Ontario. AHSR FHSR Annu Meet Abstr Book 13, 47-48. 1996.

22. Hill AD, Butler R, Gwadry-Sridhar F, Martin CM.Cluster Randomized Trial to Improve Weaning and Extubation from Mechanical Ventilation. (Abstract) (Weaning guidline)
London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada.