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#TitleJournalYearCitations
1APACHE IICritical Care Medicine198515,512
2Epidemiology of severe sepsis in the United States: Analysis of incidence, outcome, and associated costs of careCritical Care Medicine20018,511
3Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock: 2008Critical Care Medicine20087,331
4Duration of hypotension before initiation of effective antimicrobial therapy is the critical determinant of survival in human septic shock*Critical Care Medicine20067,176
5Surviving Sepsis CampaignCritical Care Medicine20136,362
6American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care Medicine Consensus ConferenceCritical Care Medicine19925,695
72001 SCCM/ESICM/ACCP/ATS/SIS International Sepsis Definitions ConferenceCritical Care Medicine20035,266
8APACHE II: a severity of disease classification systemCritical Care Medicine19854,965
9Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shockCritical Care Medicine20044,598
10Use of the SOFA score to assess the incidence of organ dysfunction/failure in intensive care unitsCritical Care Medicine19983,667
11Multiple Organ Dysfunction ScoreCritical Care Medicine19953,338
12Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Pain, Agitation, and Delirium in Adult Patients in the Intensive Care UnitCritical Care Medicine20133,066
13Evaluation of delirium in critically ill patients: Validation of the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU)Critical Care Medicine20012,549
14APACHE II-A Severity of Disease Classification SystemCritical Care Medicine19862,456
15Sepsis in European intensive care units: Results of the SOAP study*Critical Care Medicine20062,375
16APACHE—acute physiology and chronic health evaluation: a physiologically based classification systemCritical Care Medicine19812,364
17Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2016Critical Care Medicine20172,336
18Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Pain, Agitation/Sedation, Delirium, Immobility, and Sleep Disruption in Adult Patients in the ICUCritical Care Medicine20182,074
19Effect of acute renal failure requiring renal replacement therapy on outcome in critically ill patients*Critical Care Medicine20022,067
20Assessment of cardiac output from systemic arterial pressure in humansCritical Care Medicine20022,062
21Outcome benefit of intensive insulin therapy in the critically ill: Insulin dose versus glycemic control*Critical Care Medicine20031,965
22Clinical practice guidelines for the sustained use of sedatives and analgesics in the critically ill adultCritical Care Medicine20021,945
23Efficacy of red blood cell transfusion in the critically ill: A systematic review of the literature*Critical Care Medicine20081,906
24Incidence and prognosis of intraabdominal hypertension in a mixed population of critically ill patients: A multiple-center epidemiological study*Critical Care Medicine20051,885
25The CRIT Study: Anemia and blood transfusion in the critically ill—Current clinical practice in the United States*Critical Care Medicine20041,835
26Improving long-term outcomes after discharge from intensive care unitCritical Care Medicine20121,806
27Use of intensive care at the end of life in the United States: An epidemiologic study*Critical Care Medicine20041,732
28Glycemic variability: A strong independent predictor of mortality in critically ill patients*Critical Care Medicine20081,718
29Dynamic changes in arterial waveform derived variables and fluid responsiveness in mechanically ventilated patients: A systematic review of the literature*Critical Care Medicine20091,690
30Early lactate clearance is associated with improved outcome in severe sepsis and septic shock*Critical Care Medicine20041,605
31Clinical practice guideline: Red blood cell transfusion in adult trauma and critical care*Critical Care Medicine20091,597
32PRISM IIICritical Care Medicine19961,518
33American 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 sepsisCritical Care Medicine19921,513
34Delirium as a predictor of long-term cognitive impairment in survivors of critical illnessCritical Care Medicine20101,501
35Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) IV: Hospital mortality assessment for today’s critically ill patients*Critical Care Medicine20061,463
36Nosocomial infections in medical intensive care units in the United StatesCritical Care Medicine19991,459
37The effect of age on the development and outcome of adult sepsis*Critical Care Medicine20061,438
38Simplified Therapeutic Intervention Scoring SystemCritical Care Medicine19961,425
39Recommendations 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 MedicineCritical Care Medicine20081,405
40Multiparameter Intelligent Monitoring in Intensive Care II: A public-access intensive care unit database*Critical Care Medicine20111,404
41The Critical Care Safety Study: The incidence and nature of adverse events and serious medical errors in intensive care*Critical Care Medicine20051,388
42Effect of enteral feeding with eicosapentaenoic acid, gamma-linolenic acid, and antioxidants in patients with acute respiratory distress syndromeCritical Care Medicine19991,304
43Refinement, scoring, and validation of the Family Satisfaction in the Intensive Care Unit (FS-ICU) survey*Critical Care Medicine20071,287
44Guidelines for intensive care unit admission, discharge, and triageCritical Care Medicine19991,287
45A prospective, randomized, study comparing early percutaneous dilational tracheotomy to prolonged translaryngeal intubation (delayed tracheotomy) in critically ill medical patients*Critical Care Medicine20041,267
46Memory, delusions, and the development of acute posttraumatic stress disorder-related symptoms after intensive careCritical Care Medicine20011,265
47Fluid resuscitation in septic shock: A positive fluid balance and elevated central venous pressure are associated with increased mortality*Critical Care Medicine20111,257
48Forgoing life support in western European intensive care unitsCritical Care Medicine19991,254
49Findings of the First Consensus Conference on Medical Emergency Teams*Critical Care Medicine20061,252
50Pediatric risk of mortality (PRISM) scoreCritical Care Medicine19881,249