Rachel K. Hechtman

ORCID: 0000-0002-9479-1653
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Research Areas
  • Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
  • Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy
  • Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
  • Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
  • Nosocomial Infections in ICU
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Healthcare cost, quality, practices
  • Hospital Admissions and Outcomes
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Acute Kidney Injury Research
  • Patient Safety and Medication Errors
  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies
  • Patient Dignity and Privacy
  • Antibiotic Use and Resistance
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Central Venous Catheters and Hemodialysis

University of Michigan
2019-2024

Shorter time-to-antibiotics improves survival from sepsis, particularly among patients in shock. There may be other subgroups for whom faster antibiotics are beneficial.

10.1164/rccm.202310-1800oc article EN American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2024-01-23

OBJECTIVES: Primary care providers (PCPs) receive limited information about their patients’ ICU stays; we sought to understand what additional PCPs desire support recovery following critical illness. DESIGN: Semistructured interviews with conducted between September 2020 and April 2021. SETTING: Academic health system central quaternary-care hospital associated Veterans Affairs medical center. SUBJECTS: Fourteen attending internal medicine or family physicians working in seven clinics across...

10.1097/cce.0000000000000715 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Critical Care Explorations 2022-06-01

Abstract Aim We sought to explore unmet needs in transitions of care for critical illness survivors that concern primary physicians. Findings Semi-structured interviews with physicians identified three categories concerns about transition after patients’ ICU stays: understanding their stay and potential complications, treatments or support not covered by insurance, starting maintaining needed rehabilitation assistance across care. Conclusion Given current constraints access coordinated...

10.1186/s13054-022-04125-7 article EN cc-by Critical Care 2022-08-15

OBJECTIVES: Sepsis survivors are at increased risk for morbidity and functional impairment. There recommended practices to support recovery after sepsis, but it is unclear how often they implemented. We sought assess the current use of recovery-based across hospitals. DESIGN: Electronic survey assessing best from COVID-related non-COVID-related sepsis. Questions included four-point Likert responses “never” “always/nearly always.” SETTING: Twenty-six veterans affairs hospitals with highest (...

10.1097/cce.0000000000000926 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Critical Care Explorations 2023-06-01
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