Publications and Presentations

Chalfin DB, Fein AM: The economic impact and cost-effectiveness of monoclonal antibody therapy for sepsis. Clinical Infectious Diseases: 17(Suppl. 2); S520-524: 1993.

Chalfin DB: Outcome assessment in elderly patients with critical illness and respiratory failure. Clin Chest Medicine: 14; 583-589: 1993.

Chalfin DB, Cohen IL, Lambrinos J: The economics and cost-effectiveness of critical care medicine. Intensive Care Medicine: 21; 952-961: 1995.

Chalfin DB: Analysis of cost-effectiveness in intensive care: an overview of methods and review of applications to problems in critical care medicine. Current Opinions in Anesthesiology: 9; 1996.

Kurek CJ, Cohen IL, Lambrinos J, Minatoya K, Booth FVMcL, Chalfin DB: Clinical and economic outcome of patients undergoing tracheostomy for prolonged mechanical ventilation in New York state during 1993: Analysis of 6,353 cases under diagnosis-related group 483. Crit Care Med: 25; 983-988: 1997.

Multz AS, Chalfin DB, et. al.: Open versus closed ICU's: a prospective study. American Review of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine: 157:1468-1473;1998.

Chalfin DB: Decision analysis and capital budgeting: Application to the delivery of critical care services. Hospital Cost Management & Accounting: 7; 198: 1990.

Chalfin DB: Neural network analysis: a new tool for predictive models for clinical medicine and critical care. Yearbook on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine: 816-829: 1996.

Chalfin DB, Fein AM: Analyzing the costs of treating sepsis. Contemporary Internal Medicine:4; 33-45: 1992.

Chalfin DB, Niederman MS, Fein AM: The application of decision analysis to critical care medicine. Intensive Care World: 9; 120-124: 1992

Chalfin DB: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care. Hospital Cost Management and Accounting. 7; 1-8: 1995.

Chalfin DB, Carlon GC: Age and utilization of ICU resources of critically ill cancer patients. Presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society/10th Annual Meeting of the American Federation of Aging Research, Boston, MA, May 11-14, 1989. Also presented at the 18th Annual Educational and Scientific Symposium of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 5-9, 1989 and the 5th World Congress on Intensive and Critical Care Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, September 3-8, 1989. Critical Care Medicine 1989; 16: S85.

Chalfin DB, Carlon GC, Munoz E: Hospital costs of intensive care survivors and non-survivors under diagnostic related groups (DRGs). Presented at the 18th Annual Educational and Scientific Symposium of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 5-9, 1989, and the 5th World Congress on Intensive and Critical Care Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, September 3-8, 1989.

Chalfin DB, Groeger JS, Carlon GC: Decision analysis and ICU admission. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, New Orleans, Louisiana, October, 1989.

Chalfin DB, Carlon GC: Cost-effectiveness (CE) issues in the treatment of ICU patients with gram-negative sepsis (GNS). Presented at the 19th Annual Educational and Scientific Symposium of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, San Francisco, California, May, 1990 and the 5th European Congress on Intensive Care Medicine, 1990, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June, 1990. Crit Care Med 1990; 18: S213.

Chalfin DB, Groeger JS, Carlon GC: Prognosis of critically ill patients with respiratory failure: A Markov model of prediction. Presented at the 5th European Congress on Intensive Care Medicine 1990, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 1990. Intensive Care Medicine 1990; 16: 89.

Chalfin DB, Feinsilver SH, Fein AM: Neural network analysis for the diagnosis of sleep disordered breathing. Presented at the American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting, Miami Beach, Florida, May 17-20, 1992. Amer Rev Resp Dis 1992; 145: A172.

Chalfin DB, Niederman MS, Fein AM: Protected specimen brush (PSB) or empiric therapy (ET) for the treatment of nosocomial pneumonia (NP)? A decision analysis: Presented at the American College of Chest Physicians Annual Assembly, Chicago, Illinois, October 25-29, 1992.

Cohen IL, Lambrinos J, Chalfin DB, Booth FVMcL: Mechanical ventilation: outcome as a function of age in New York State during 1992. Presented at the 1994 Society of Critical Care Medicine Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida.

Cohen IL, Lambrinos J, Chalfin DB, Booth FVMcL: Mechanical ventilation in New York State during 1992: charges and outcomes. Presented at the American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, May 1994.

Cohen IL, Lambrinos J, Chalfin DB, Booth FVMcL: Outcome from mechanical ventilation: The relevance of age, duration of ventilation and tracheostomy. Presented at the 1994 American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.

Chalfin DB, Flaster E, Fein AM: The use of neural networks (NN's) to predict outcome for critically ill patients with gram-negative sepsis (GNS): Presented at the 1995 Society of Critical Care Medicine Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, February 1-4, 1995. Crit Care Medicine 1995; 23:A51

Chalfin DB, Hoffstein V, Feinsilver SH, Fein AM: Neural network analysis to predict sleep disordered breathing. Presented at Chest, New York, October 1995. Chest 1995; 108: A163.

Cohen IL, Lambrinos J, Chalfin DB, et. al.: The determination of survival for patients in DRG 483 (Mechanical ventilation and tracheostomy) in New York State: the identification of hospital outliers:
Presented at the Society of Critical Care Medicine Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, February, 1996.

Lambrinos J. Cohen IL, Malick R, Chalfin DB: Development and validation of survival and length of stay models for DRG 483 using the New York statewide planning and research cooperative system (SPARCS). Presented at the Society of Critical Care Medicine Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 1996

Chalfin DB, Saldivar-Salazar S, Arnold RJG, Pettit K, Kaniecki DJ: Invasive methods for diagnosing ventilator acquired pneumonia (VAP): A time dependent decision analysis. Presented at the 7th World Congress of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine, June 29-July 3, 1997, Ottawa, Canada