Publications on CCM Organization:
Halpern NA, Tan KS, Bothwell LA, Boyce L, Dulu AO. Defining Intensivists: A Retrospective Analysis of the Published Studies in the United States 2010-2020. Crit Care Med. 2024 52:2: 224-236
Pastores SP, Kostelecky N, Halpern NA. Graduates of a Multidisciplinary Critical Care Training Program from 2000-2020: Looking at their First Job. ATS Scholar. 2022 Nov 17;4(1)39-47
Buchholz, Tara; Barzola, Melissa; Tayban, Yekaterina; Halpern, Neil A. A Rapid Response Team (RRT) System at a Cancer Center: Innovative Approaches to System Organization and Clinical RRT Pathways. Critical Care Nursing Quarterly, Volume 46, Number 2, Apr/Jun 2023:116-125(10)
Rausen M, Nahass T, Halpern NA. Novel Technology Deployed for Remote Ventilator Management by Respiratory Therapists During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned. Online. J Intensive Care Med. 2022 Dec;37(12)1662-1666
Halpern NA, Tan KS. United States Resource Availability for COVID-19. Society of Critical Care Medicine, published online, revised May 12, 2020
Goldberg R, Mays M, Halpern NA. Mitigating Post-Intensive Care Syndrome-Family (PICS-F): A New Possibility. Editorial. Crit Care Med 2020 Feb;48(2):260-261
Halpern NA, Sicoutris C and Constantine RH, Eds. Integrating Advanced Practice Providers into the ICU. Society of Critical Care Medicine, 2nd Edition 2019
Halpern NA, Tan KS, DeWitt M, Pastores S. Intensivists in United States acute care hospital. Crit Care Med 2019 Apr;47(4):517-525
Halpern NA. Early Warning Systems for Hospitalized Pediatric Patients. (Editorial) JAMA. Published online February 27, 2018. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.1524
Halpern NA. In between the intensive care unit and the ward. Invited Commentary. JAMA Internal Medicine 2016; 176(10): 1499-1500
Halpern NA, Goldman DA, Tan KS, Pastores SM. Trends in Critical Care Beds and Use Among Population Groups and Medicare and Medicaid Beneficiaries in the United States: 2000-2010. Crit Care Med 2016;44(8):1490-1499
Mead E, Halpern NA. Interventions to decrease albumin utilization: Identifying what works. Editorial. Crit Care Med 2016;44(7):1428-1429
Pastores S, Oropello J, Halpern NA, Kvetan V. Association Between Daytime Intensivist Physician Staffing and Mortality. Letter to the Editor. Crit Care Med 2016;44:e316-e317
Halpern NA, Pastores S. Critical care medicine beds, use, occupancy and costs in the United States: a methodological review. Crit Care Med 2015; 43:2452-2459
Pastores SM, Halpern NA, Oropello JM, Kostelecky N, Kvetan V. Critical Care Organizations in Academic Medical Centers in North America: A Descriptive Report. Crit Care Med 2015 Oct;43(10):2239-2244
Halpern NA, Pastores S. Understanding the Russell equation and projection estimates to describe critical care costs in the USA. Intensive Care Med 2015 Oct;41(10):1828-30
Pastores S, Halpern NA. Insights into ICU Bed Expansion in the United States: National and Regional Analyses. Editorial. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2015;191(4):365-366
Pastores S, Halpern NA, Oropello J, Kvetan V. Intensivist Workforce in the US: The Crisis is Real, Not Imagined. Letter to the Editor. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2015;91(6):718-9
Kamat S, Chawla S, Rajendram P, Pastores S, Kostelecky N, Halpern NA. An Analysis of Patients Transferred to a Tertiary Oncologic ICU for Defined Procedures. Am J Crit Care 2015, 24(3):241-247
Halpern NA, Shaz D, Return on investment: Just knowing the price is not enough! Editorial. Crit Care Med 2014;42(8):1952-53, PubMed
Voigt L, Rajendram P, Shuman A, McCabe M, Kostelecky N, Kamat S, Pastores S, Halpern NA. Characteristics and Outcomes of Ethics Consultations in an Oncologic Intensive Care Unit. J Intensive Care Med 2015 Oct;30(7):436-42
Paton A, Stein DE, D’Agostino R, Pastores S, Halpern NA. Critical Care Medicine Advanced Practice Provider Model at a Comprehensive Cancer Center: Successes and Challenges. American Journal of Critical Care 2013;22(5)439-443
Halpern NA, Pastores S, Oropello J, Kvetan V. Critical Care Medicine in the US: Addressing the intensivist shortage and image of the specialty. Crit Care Med 2013;41(12):2754-61
Halpern NA. Critical Care in the Emergency Department: It’s critical to know what’s going on! Editorial. Crit Care Med 2013;41:1367-1368
Ward NS, Afessa B, Kleinpell R, Tisherman S, Ries M, Howell M, Halpern N, Kahn J. et al. Intensivist/Patient Ratios in Closed Intensive Care Units: A Statement From the Society of Critical Care Medicine Taskforce on ICU Staffing. Crit Care Med 2013;41:638-645
Chawla S, D’Agostino R, Pastores SM, Thirumala R, Kostelecky N, Chou JF, Thaler HT, Halpern NA. Homeward Bound: An Analysis of Patients Discharged Home from an Oncologic ICU. J Crit Care 2012;27:681-687
Halpern NA, Hale KE, Sepkowitz, KA and Pastores SM. A world without Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: Time to abandon surveillance and deconstruct the bundle. Crit Care Med 2012;40:267-270
Halpern NA. From telemedicine to a critical care database. A new resource for national benchmarking. Editorial, Chest 2011;140:1111-1113
Halpern, NA, Pastores SM, Chou JF, Chawla S, Thaler HT. Advance directives in an oncologic intensive care unit: a contemporary analysis of their frequency, type and impact. J of Palliative Medicine 2011;14(4):483-9
D’Agostino R, Halpern NA. Acute care nurse practitioners in oncologic critical care: the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center experience. Crit Care Clin 2010 January; 26(1):207-17
Halpern NA, Pastores SM. Critical care medicine in the United States 2000-2005: An updated analysis of bed numbers, occupancy rates, payer mix, and costs. Crit Care Med 2010;38:65-71
Halpern NA. Can the costs of critical care be contained? Current Opinion in Critical Care 2009;15(6):591-596
Chawla S, Pastores SM, Halpern NA. ICU Admissions After Actual or Planned Hospital Discharge: Incidence, Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes in Cancer Patients. CHEST 2009;136:1257-1262
Raoof N, Halpern NA. Pay for performance in critical care: Like it or not, here it comes! Editorial. Crit Care Med 2009;37:1132-3
Voigt L, Pastores SM, Raoof N, Halpern NA: Intrahospital Transport of Critically Ill Patients: Outcomes, Timing and Patterns. Journal of Intensive Care Medicine Spring 2009
Challenging Family Dialogues within the Intensive Care Unit: An Intensivist’s Perspective. Halpern NA, Raoof ND, Voigt LP and Pastores SM. Journal of Hospital Medicine 2008;3:354-356
Raoof N, Halpern NA. Between Critical Illness and Hospital Discharge: Prolonged Acute Mechanical Ventilation. Editorial. Crit Care Med 2008;36:1651-2
Halpern NA, Pastores SM, Thaler HT, Greenstein RJ. Critical Care Medicine Use and Cost Among Medicare Beneficiaries 1995-2000: Major Discrepancies Between Two US Federal Medicare Databases. Crit Care Med 2007;35:692-699
Halpern NA, Thaler H, Pastores SP, Greenstein R. Changes in critical care beds and occupancy in the US 1985-2000. Differences attributable to hospital size. Crit Care Med 2006;34:2105-12
Halpern NA, Pastores SP, Greenstein R. Critical Care Medicine in the USA 1985-2000: An Analysis of Bed Numbers, Use and Costs. Crit Care Med 2004;32:1254-1259
Pastores S, Halpern NA. Acquisition strategies for critical care technology. Critical Care Clinics 2000:16;545-557
Halpern NA. Point of care diagnostics and networks, Critical Care Clinics 2000:16;623-640
Halpern, NA. Pastores SM. Technology introduction in critical care: Just knowing the price is not enough. Chest 1999;116:1092-1099
Halpern, NA, Brentjens T. Point of care testing informatics: The critical care-hospital interface. Critical Care Clinics 1999;15:577-591
Pastores SM, Halpern NA. Autopsies in the ICU: We still need them! Editorial. Crit Care Med 1999;27: 235-236
Halpern NA, Brentjens T. A point-of-care laboratory testing program in the ICU: Thoughts for hospital laboratorians. Medical Laboratory Observer (MLO)(Supp) 1998:9;12-17
Castro HJ, Oropello JM, Halpern NA. Point of care testing in the intensive care unit: The intensive care physician’s perspective. Pathology Patterns: Am J Clin Pathol 1995;104 (Suppl) S95-S99
Halpern NA, Colucci RD, Thompson R, Alicea M, London E, Greenstein RG. Computerized ICU orders versus handwritten orders: A prospective, pharmacy based analysis. American J Therapeutics 1995;2:279-282
Halpern NA, Wang JK, Alicea M, Greenstein R. Critical care medicine: Observations from the Department of Veterans Affairs intensive care units. Crit Care Med 1994;22:2008-2012
Halpern NA, Bettes L, Greenstein R. Federal and nationwide ICU health care costs: 1986-1992. Crit Care Med 1994;22:2001-2007
Groeger JS, Guntupalli KK, Strossberg M, Halpern NA, Raphaelly RC, Cerra F. Descriptive analysis of critical care units in the United States: Patient characteristics and intensive care units utilization. Crit Care Med 1993;21:279-291
Groeger JS, Strossberg M, Halpern NA, et al. Descriptive analysis of critical care units in the United States. Crit Care Med 1992;20:846-863
Halpern NA, Thompson RE, Greenstein R. A computerized intensive care unit order writing protocol. The Annals of Pharmacotherapy 1992;26:251-254
Halpern NA, Colucci RD, Alicea M, Greenstein R. Intensive care order writing practices in the USA: Results of a nationwide study 1987-1988. Crit Care Med 1991;19:433-435
Halpern NA, Alecia M, Barchue S. Permanent visual display exhibits: A supplementary instructional technique in critical care education. Progress in Cardiovascular Nursing 1989;4:28-32