Scott D Halpern
Biographic Data
| ID | 5534352 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott D Halpern |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott D |
| FAMILY NAME | Halpern |
| SIGNATURE | HALPERN S D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3603-4769 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Prediction of In-hospital Mortality Among Intensive Care Unit Patients Using Modified Daily Laboratory-based Acute Physiology Score, Version 2
BACKGROUND: Mortality prediction for intensive care unit (ICU) patients frequently relies on single ICU admission acuity measures without accounting for subsequent clinical changes. OBJECTIVE: Evaluate novel models incorporating modified admission and daily, time-updating Laboratory-based Acute Physiology Score, version 2 (LAPS2) to predict in-hospital mortality among ICU patients. RESEARCH DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. PATIENTS: ICU patien…
Multimorbidity Confers Greater Risk for Older Patients in Emergency General Surgery Than the Presence of Multiple Comorbidities
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the impact of multimorbidity on outcomes for older emergency general surgery patients. OBJECTIVE: The aim was to understand whether having multiple comorbidities confers the same amount of risk as specific combinations of comorbidities (multimorbidity) for a patient undergoing emergency general surgery. RESEARCH DESIGN: Retrospective observational study using state discharge data. SUBJECTS: Medicare beneficiaries…
Cure” Versus “Clinical Remission”
Measuring and Analyzing Length of Stay in Critical Care Trials
BACKGROUND: In randomized clinical trials among critically ill patients, it is uncertain how choices regarding the measurement and analysis of nonmortal outcomes measured in terms of duration, such as intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay (LOS), affect studies' conclusions. OBJECTIVES: Assess the definitions and analytic methods used for ICU LOS analyses in published randomized clinical trials. RESEARCH DESIGN: This is a systematic review and …
Approximately One In Three US Adults Completes Any Type Of Advance Directive For End-Of-Life Care
Efforts to promote the completion of advance directives implicitly assume that completion rates of these documents, which help ensure care consistent with people's preferences in the event of incapacity, are undesirably low. However, data regarding completion of advance directives in the United States are inconsistent and of variable quality. We systematically reviewed studies published in the period 2011-16 to determine the proportion of US adul…
Justifying Clinical Nudges
The shift away from paternalistic decision‐making and toward patient‐centered, shared decision‐making has stemmed from the recognition that in order to practice medicine ethically, health care professionals must take seriously the values and preferences of their patients. At the same time, there is growing recognition that minor and seemingly irrelevant features of how choices are presented can substantially influence the decisions people make. B…
The surprising costs of silence
Across 7 experiments (N = 3883), we demonstrate that communicators and targets make egocentric moral judgments of deception. Specifically, communicators focus more on the costs of deception to them-for example, the guilt they feel when they break a moral rule-whereas targets focus more on whether deception helps or harms them. As a result, communicators and targets make asymmetric judgments of prosocial lies of commission and omission: Communicat…
An Empirical Derivation of the Optimal Time Interval for Defining ICU Readmissions
BACKGROUND: Intensive care unit (ICU) readmission rates are commonly viewed as indicators of ICU quality. However, definitions of ICU readmissions vary, and it is unknown which, if any, readmissions are associated with ICU quality. OBJECTIVE: Empirically derive the optimal interval between ICU discharge and readmission for purposes of considering ICU readmission as an ICU quality indicator. RESEARCH DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SUBJECTS: A…
The surprising costs of silence
Across 7 experiments (N = 3883), we demonstrate that communicators and targets make egocentric moral judgments of deception. Specifically, communicators focus more on the costs of deception to them-for example, the guilt they feel when they break a moral rule-whereas targets focus more on whether deception helps or harms them. As a result, communicators and targets make asymmetric judgments of prosocial lies of commission and omission: Communicat…
An Empirical Derivation of the Optimal Time Interval for Defining ICU Readmissions
BACKGROUND: Intensive care unit (ICU) readmission rates are commonly viewed as indicators of ICU quality. However, definitions of ICU readmissions vary, and it is unknown which, if any, readmissions are associated with ICU quality. OBJECTIVE: Empirically derive the optimal interval between ICU discharge and readmission for purposes of considering ICU readmission as an ICU quality indicator. RESEARCH DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SUBJECTS: A…
Approximately One In Three US Adults Completes Any Type Of Advance Directive For End-Of-Life Care
Efforts to promote the completion of advance directives implicitly assume that completion rates of these documents, which help ensure care consistent with people's preferences in the event of incapacity, are undesirably low. However, data regarding completion of advance directives in the United States are inconsistent and of variable quality. We systematically reviewed studies published in the period 2011-16 to determine the proportion of US adul…
Justifying Clinical Nudges
The shift away from paternalistic decision‐making and toward patient‐centered, shared decision‐making has stemmed from the recognition that in order to practice medicine ethically, health care professionals must take seriously the values and preferences of their patients. At the same time, there is growing recognition that minor and seemingly irrelevant features of how choices are presented can substantially influence the decisions people make. B…
The surprising costs of silence
Across 7 experiments (N = 3883), we demonstrate that communicators and targets make egocentric moral judgments of deception. Specifically, communicators focus more on the costs of deception to them-for example, the guilt they feel when they break a moral rule-whereas targets focus more on whether deception helps or harms them. As a result, communicators and targets make asymmetric judgments of prosocial lies of commission and omission: Communicat…
Measuring and Analyzing Length of Stay in Critical Care Trials
BACKGROUND: In randomized clinical trials among critically ill patients, it is uncertain how choices regarding the measurement and analysis of nonmortal outcomes measured in terms of duration, such as intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay (LOS), affect studies' conclusions. OBJECTIVES: Assess the definitions and analytic methods used for ICU LOS analyses in published randomized clinical trials. RESEARCH DESIGN: This is a systematic review and …
Cure” Versus “Clinical Remission”
Multimorbidity Confers Greater Risk for Older Patients in Emergency General Surgery Than the Presence of Multiple Comorbidities
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the impact of multimorbidity on outcomes for older emergency general surgery patients. OBJECTIVE: The aim was to understand whether having multiple comorbidities confers the same amount of risk as specific combinations of comorbidities (multimorbidity) for a patient undergoing emergency general surgery. RESEARCH DESIGN: Retrospective observational study using state discharge data. SUBJECTS: Medicare beneficiaries…
Prediction of In-hospital Mortality Among Intensive Care Unit Patients Using Modified Daily Laboratory-based Acute Physiology Score, Version 2
BACKGROUND: Mortality prediction for intensive care unit (ICU) patients frequently relies on single ICU admission acuity measures without accounting for subsequent clinical changes. OBJECTIVE: Evaluate novel models incorporating modified admission and daily, time-updating Laboratory-based Acute Physiology Score, version 2 (LAPS2) to predict in-hospital mortality among ICU patients. RESEARCH DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. PATIENTS: ICU patien…
Medicine (6 works) · Intensive care medicine (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment (4 works) · Emergency Medicine (3 works) · Emergency Medicine (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Family medicine (2 works)