Publications by authors named "Muhammad Ghous"
Importance: Critically ill patients with acute respiratory failure may benefit from transfer to higher-volume centers with specialized care. However, health insurance is often considered prior to interhospital transfer and may represent a factor other than severity of illness that influences transfer processes and outcomes for patients with respiratory failure.
Objective: To examine the association between patient health insurance, interhospital transfer, and mortality for critically ill patients with acute respiratory failure.
Characteristics of Patients Hospitalized in Rural and Urban ICUs From 2010 to 2019.
Crit Care Med
October 2024
Objectives: Rural hospitals are threatened by workforce shortages and financial strain. To optimize regional critical care delivery, it is essential to understand what types of patients receive intensive care in rural and urban hospitals.
Design: A retrospective cohort study.
Patients identified as Hispanic, the largest minority group in the United States, are more likely to die from acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) than non-Hispanic patients. Mechanisms to explain this disparity remain unidentified. However, Hispanic patients may be at risk of overexposure to deep sedation because of language differences between patients and clinicians, and deep sedation is associated with higher ARDS mortality.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImportance: The Epic Sepsis Model (ESM), a proprietary sepsis prediction model, is implemented at hundreds of US hospitals. The ESM's ability to identify patients with sepsis has not been adequately evaluated despite widespread use.
Objective: To externally validate the ESM in the prediction of sepsis and evaluate its potential clinical value compared with usual care.