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1 | APACHE II | Critical Care Medicine | 1985 | 15,512 |
2 | Epidemiology of severe sepsis in the United States: Analysis of incidence, outcome, and associated costs of care | Critical Care Medicine | 2001 | 8,511 |
3 | Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock: 2008 | Critical Care Medicine | 2008 | 7,331 |
4 | Duration of hypotension before initiation of effective antimicrobial therapy is the critical determinant of survival in human septic shock* | Critical Care Medicine | 2006 | 7,176 |
5 | Surviving Sepsis Campaign | Critical Care Medicine | 2013 | 6,362 |
6 | American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care Medicine Consensus Conference | Critical Care Medicine | 1992 | 5,695 |
7 | 2001 SCCM/ESICM/ACCP/ATS/SIS International Sepsis Definitions Conference | Critical Care Medicine | 2003 | 5,266 |
8 | APACHE II: a severity of disease classification system | Critical Care Medicine | 1985 | 4,965 |
9 | Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock | Critical Care Medicine | 2004 | 4,598 |
10 | Use of the SOFA score to assess the incidence of organ dysfunction/failure in intensive care units | Critical Care Medicine | 1998 | 3,667 |
11 | Multiple Organ Dysfunction Score | Critical Care Medicine | 1995 | 3,338 |
12 | Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Pain, Agitation, and Delirium in Adult Patients in the Intensive Care Unit | Critical Care Medicine | 2013 | 3,066 |
13 | Evaluation of delirium in critically ill patients: Validation of the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU) | Critical Care Medicine | 2001 | 2,549 |
14 | APACHE II-A Severity of Disease Classification System | Critical Care Medicine | 1986 | 2,456 |
15 | Sepsis in European intensive care units: Results of the SOAP study* | Critical Care Medicine | 2006 | 2,375 |
16 | APACHE—acute physiology and chronic health evaluation: a physiologically based classification system | Critical Care Medicine | 1981 | 2,364 |
17 | Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2016 | Critical Care Medicine | 2017 | 2,336 |
18 | Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Pain, Agitation/Sedation, Delirium, Immobility, and Sleep Disruption in Adult Patients in the ICU | Critical Care Medicine | 2018 | 2,074 |
19 | Effect of acute renal failure requiring renal replacement therapy on outcome in critically ill patients* | Critical Care Medicine | 2002 | 2,067 |
20 | Assessment of cardiac output from systemic arterial pressure in humans | Critical Care Medicine | 2002 | 2,062 |
21 | Outcome benefit of intensive insulin therapy in the critically ill: Insulin dose versus glycemic control* | Critical Care Medicine | 2003 | 1,965 |
22 | Clinical practice guidelines for the sustained use of sedatives and analgesics in the critically ill adult | Critical Care Medicine | 2002 | 1,945 |
23 | Efficacy of red blood cell transfusion in the critically ill: A systematic review of the literature* | Critical Care Medicine | 2008 | 1,906 |
24 | Incidence and prognosis of intraabdominal hypertension in a mixed population of critically ill patients: A multiple-center epidemiological study* | Critical Care Medicine | 2005 | 1,885 |
25 | The CRIT Study: Anemia and blood transfusion in the critically ill—Current clinical practice in the United States* | Critical Care Medicine | 2004 | 1,835 |
26 | Improving long-term outcomes after discharge from intensive care unit | Critical Care Medicine | 2012 | 1,806 |
27 | Use of intensive care at the end of life in the United States: An epidemiologic study* | Critical Care Medicine | 2004 | 1,732 |
28 | Glycemic variability: A strong independent predictor of mortality in critically ill patients* | Critical Care Medicine | 2008 | 1,718 |
29 | Dynamic changes in arterial waveform derived variables and fluid responsiveness in mechanically ventilated patients: A systematic review of the literature* | Critical Care Medicine | 2009 | 1,690 |
30 | Early lactate clearance is associated with improved outcome in severe sepsis and septic shock* | Critical Care Medicine | 2004 | 1,605 |
31 | Clinical practice guideline: Red blood cell transfusion in adult trauma and critical care* | Critical Care Medicine | 2009 | 1,597 |
32 | PRISM III | Critical Care Medicine | 1996 | 1,518 |
33 | American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care Medicine Consensus Conference: definitions for sepsis and organ failure and guidelines for the use of innovative therapies in sepsis | Critical Care Medicine | 1992 | 1,513 |
34 | Delirium as a predictor of long-term cognitive impairment in survivors of critical illness | Critical Care Medicine | 2010 | 1,501 |
35 | Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) IV: Hospital mortality assessment for today’s critically ill patients* | Critical Care Medicine | 2006 | 1,463 |
36 | Nosocomial infections in medical intensive care units in the United States | Critical Care Medicine | 1999 | 1,459 |
37 | The effect of age on the development and outcome of adult sepsis* | Critical Care Medicine | 2006 | 1,438 |
38 | Simplified Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System | Critical Care Medicine | 1996 | 1,425 |
39 | Recommendations for the diagnosis and management of corticosteroid insufficiency in critically ill adult patients: Consensus statements from an international task force by the American College of Critical Care Medicine | Critical Care Medicine | 2008 | 1,405 |
40 | Multiparameter Intelligent Monitoring in Intensive Care II: A public-access intensive care unit database* | Critical Care Medicine | 2011 | 1,404 |
41 | The Critical Care Safety Study: The incidence and nature of adverse events and serious medical errors in intensive care* | Critical Care Medicine | 2005 | 1,388 |
42 | Effect of enteral feeding with eicosapentaenoic acid, gamma-linolenic acid, and antioxidants in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome | Critical Care Medicine | 1999 | 1,304 |
43 | Refinement, scoring, and validation of the Family Satisfaction in the Intensive Care Unit (FS-ICU) survey* | Critical Care Medicine | 2007 | 1,287 |
44 | Guidelines for intensive care unit admission, discharge, and triage | Critical Care Medicine | 1999 | 1,287 |
45 | A prospective, randomized, study comparing early percutaneous dilational tracheotomy to prolonged translaryngeal intubation (delayed tracheotomy) in critically ill medical patients* | Critical Care Medicine | 2004 | 1,267 |
46 | Memory, delusions, and the development of acute posttraumatic stress disorder-related symptoms after intensive care | Critical Care Medicine | 2001 | 1,265 |
47 | Fluid resuscitation in septic shock: A positive fluid balance and elevated central venous pressure are associated with increased mortality* | Critical Care Medicine | 2011 | 1,257 |
48 | Forgoing life support in western European intensive care units | Critical Care Medicine | 1999 | 1,254 |
49 | Findings of the First Consensus Conference on Medical Emergency Teams* | Critical Care Medicine | 2006 | 1,252 |
50 | Pediatric risk of mortality (PRISM) score | Critical Care Medicine | 1988 | 1,249 |