Publications by authors named "M Warnick"
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- Lung transplantation for patients with end-stage lung disease from COVID-19 is increasingly common, though there is a lack of comprehensive international studies on the subject.
- In a multicenter analysis involving 11 major lung transplant centers, 46 out of 1606 lung transplants were performed due to COVID-19-related conditions, showing distinct demographic and clinical characteristics compared to other patients.
- The 30-day survival rates for transplant recipients due to COVID-19 were found to be similar to those without COVID-19, suggesting that lung transplantation is a viable option for select patients suffering from COVID-19-related lung damage.
Objectives: As life expectancies continue to increase, a greater proportion of older patients will require lung transplants (LTs). However, there are no well-defined age cutoffs for which LT can be performed safely. At our high-volume LT centre, we explored outcomes for LT recipients ≥70 vs <70 years old.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Patients with chronic noncancer pain frequently report symptoms of depression and anxiety (negative affect), which are associated with higher ratings of pain intensity and a greater likelihood of being prescribed chronic opioid therapy. The purpose of this secondary analysis was to test the hypothesis that initial levels of negative affect can predict treatment-related outcomes in a double-blind, placebo-controlled study of extended-release (ER) hydromorphone among opioid-tolerant patients with chronic low back pain.
Methods: Four hundred fifty-nine (N = 459) patients participated in the titration/conversion phase of a multicenter study, of which 268 were randomized to receive once-daily hydromorphone or placebo.
Nursing care management has become a popular method to integrate health care systems with goals of decreasing costs and improving quality. As high-risk pregnancies and newborn intensive care unit (NBICU) costs generate some of the highest costs in health care, care management has been a strategy introduced in perinatal medicine to accomplish the same goals. Consistent with other areas of nursing, perinatal care management currently has no agreed upon model of practice or method of evaluating how and whether the goals have been achieved.
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