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  1. Hooker ER, Chapa J, Vranas KC, Niederhausen M, Goodlin SJ, Slatore CG, Sullivan DR. Intersection of Palliative Care and Hospice Use Among Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer. Journal of palliative medicine. 2023 Nov 1; 26(11):1474-1481.
  2. Vranas KC, Hooker ER, Golden SE, Nugent S, Slatore CG. Association of Communication Quality With Patient-Centered Outcomes Among Patients With Incidental Pulmonary Nodules. Chest. 2023 Aug 1; 164(2):556-559.
  3. Admon AJ, Iwashyna TJ, Kamphuis LA, Gundel SJ, Sahetya SK, Peltan ID, Chang SY, Han JH, Vranas KC, Mayer KP, Hope AA, Jolley SE, Caldwell E, Monahan ML, Hauschildt K, Brown SM, Aggarwal NR, Thompson BT, Hough CL, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute PETAL Network. Assessment of Symptom, Disability, and Financial Trajectories in Patients Hospitalized for COVID-19 at 6 Months. JAMA Network Open. 2023 Feb 1; 6(2):e2255795.
  4. Gershengorn HB, Vranas KC, Ouyang D, Cheng S, Rogers AJ, Schweiger L, Cooke CR, Slatore CG. Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Author Sex and Manuscript Acceptance Rates among Pulmonary and Critical Care Journals. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2023 Feb 1; 20(2):215-225.
  5. Nugent SM, Golden SE, Chapa J, Tuepker A, Slatore CG, Vranas KC. "You're Socially Distant and Trying Not to Be Emotionally Distant." Physicians' Perspectives of Communication and Therapeutic Relationships in the ICU During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study. Critical care explorations. 2023 Feb 1; 5(2):e0854.
  6. Lyons PG, Chen V, Sekhar TC, McEvoy CA, Kollef MH, Govindan R, Westervelt P, Vranas KC, Maddox TM, Geng EH, Payne PRO, Politi MC. Clinician Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to Implementing an Inpatient Oncology Early Warning System: A Mixed-Methods Study. JCO clinical cancer informatics. 2023 Jan 1; 7:e2200104.
  7. Sullivan DR, Vranas KC, Delorit M, Golden SE, Slatore CG, Ganzini L, Hansen L. Relationships among clinicians are crucial to successful palliative care integration: a qualitative study in lung cancer. Future oncology (London, England). 2023 Jan 1; 19(3):245-257.
  8. O'Hare AM, Vig EK, Iwashyna TJ, Fox A, Taylor JS, Viglianti EM, Butler CR, Vranas KC, Helfand M, Tuepker A, Nugent SM, Winchell KA, Laundry RJ, Bowling CB, Hynes DM, Maciejewski ML, Bohnert ASB, Locke ER, Boyko EJ, Ioannou GN, VA COVID Observational Research Collaboratory (CORC). Complexity and Challenges of the Clinical Diagnosis and Management of Long COVID. JAMA Network Open. 2022 Nov 1; 5(11):e2240332.
  9. Burns KEA, Moss M, Lorens E, Jose EKA, Martin CM, Viglianti EM, Fox-Robichaud A, Mathews KS, Akgun K, Jain S, Gershengorn H, Mehta S, Han JE, Martin GS, Liebler JM, Stapleton RD, Trachuk P, Vranas KC, Chua A, Herridge MS, Tsang JLY, Biehl M, Burnham EL, Chen JT, Attia EF, Mohamed A, Harkins MS, Soriano SM, Maddux A, West JC, Badke AR, Bagshaw SM, Binnie A, Carlos WG, Çoruh B, Çoruh B, Crothers K, D'Aragon F, Denson JL, Drover JW, Eschun G, Geagea A, Griesdale D, Hadler R, Hancock J, Hasmatali J, Kaul B, Kerlin MP, Kohn R, Kutsogiannis DJ, Matson SM, Morris PE, Paunovic B, Peltan ID, Piquette D, Pirzadeh M, Pulchan K, Schnapp LM, Sessler CN, Smith H, Sy E, Thirugnanam S, McDonald RK, McPherson KA, Kraft M, Spiegel M, Dodek PM, Diversity-Related Research Committee of the Women in Critical Care (WICC) Interest Group of the American Thoracic Society. Wellness and Coping of Physicians Who Worked in ICUs During the Pandemic: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional North American Survey. Critical care medicine. 2022 Dec 1; 50(12):1689-1700.
  10. Golden SE, Disher N, Dieckmann NF, Eden KB, Matlock D, Vranas KC, Slatore CG, Sullivan DR. Show me the roads and give me a road map: Development of a patient conversation tool to improve lung cancer treatment decision-making. PEC innovation. 2022 Dec 1; 1:100094.
  11. Vranas KC, Golden SE, Nugent S, Valley TS, Schutz A, Duggal A, Seitz KP, Chang SY, Slatore CG, Sullivan DR, Hough CL, Mathews KS. The Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Intensivists' Well-Being: A Qualitative Study. Chest. 2022 Aug 1; 162(2):331-345.
  12. Sullivan DR, Golden SE, Disher N, Eden KB, Dieckmann NF, Vranas KC, Slatore CG. "Give Us More of a Chance to Participate in Decision Making": A Qualitative Study Evaluating a Treatment Decision Support Tool and Patients' Decision Making Experiences. [Abstract]. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine. 2022 May 1;(C!02):A4863.
  13. Butler CR, Webster LB, Diekema DS, Gray MM, Sakata VL, Tonelli MR, Vranas KC. Perspectives of Triage Team Members Participating in Statewide Triage Simulations for Scarce Resource Allocation During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Washington State. JAMA Network Open. 2022 Apr 1; 5(4):e227639.
  14. Peltan ID, Caldwell E, Admon AJ, Attia EF, Gundel SJ, Mathews KS, Nagrebetsky A, Sahetya SK, Ulysse C, Brown SM, Chang SY, Goodwin AJ, Hope AA, Iwashyna TJ, Johnson NJ, Lanspa MJ, Richardson LD, Vranas KC, Angus DC, Baron RM, Haaland BA, Hayden DL, Thompson BT, Rice TW, Hough CL. Characteristics and Outcomes of US Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19. American Journal of Critical Care : An Official Publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. 2022 Mar 1; 31(2):146-157.
  15. Valley TS, Schutz A, Peltan ID, Vranas KC, Mathews KS, Jolley SE, Palakshappa JA, Hough CL, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Clinical Trials Network for the Prevention and Early Treatment of Acute Lung Injury (PETAL). Organization of Outpatient Care After COVID-19 Hospitalization. Chest. 2022 Jun 1; 161(6):1485-1489.
  16. Vranas KC, Scott JY, Kerlin MP, Chesnutt M, Sullivan DR, Slatore CG. Variability in Intensive Care Utilization Among Patients Admitted to VA Medical Centers with Acute Respiratory Failure. [Abstract]. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine. 2021 Nov 1; 201(B21):A2796.
  17. Vranas KC, Plinke W, Bourne D, Kansagara D, Lee RY, Kross EK, Slatore CG, Sullivan DR. The influence of POLST on treatment intensity at the end of life: A systematic review. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2021 Dec 1; 69(12):3661-3674.
  18. Mathews KS, Seitz KP, Vranas KC, Duggal A, Valley TS, Zhao B, Gundel S, Harhay MO, Chang SY, Hough CL, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Prevention and Early Treatment of Acute Lung Injury (PETAL) Clinical Trials Network. Variation in Initial U.S. Hospital Responses to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic. Critical care medicine. 2021 Jul 1; 49(7):1038-1048.
  19. Vranas KC, Golden SE, Mathews KS, Schutz A, Valley TS, Duggal A, Seitz KP, Chang SY, Nugent S, Slatore CG, Sullivan DR, Hough CL. The Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on ICU Organization, Care Processes, and Frontline Clinician Experiences: A Qualitative Study. Chest. 2021 Nov 1; 160(5):1714-1728.
  20. Vranas KC, Scott JY, Kerlin MP, Sullivan DR, Slatore CG. Variability in Intensive Care Utilization among Patients Admitted to VA Medical Centers with Gastrointestinal Bleeding. [Abstract]. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine. 2021 May 1;(203):A1678.
  21. Kerlin MP, Costa DK, Davis BS, Admon AJ, Vranas KC, Kahn JM. Actions Taken by US Hospitals to Prepare for Increased Demand for Intensive Care During the First Wave of COVID-19: A National Survey. Chest. 2021 Aug 1; 160(2):519-528.
  22. Vranas KC, Kerlin MP. Looking to the Past, Learning From the Present, and Preparing for the Future: Toward Understanding Critical Care Strain During a Global Pandemic. [Editorial]. Chest. 2021 Feb 1; 159(2):469-470.
  23. Sullivan DR, Ganzini L, Delorit MA, Slatore CG, Vranas KC, Golden SE, Hansen L. Transcending silos and building relationships: A qualitative study of palliative care use and integration in a national health system. [Abstract]. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine. 2020 Nov 1; 201(B22):A2820.
  24. Vranas KC, Lapidus JA, Ganzini L, Slatore CG, Sullivan DR. Association of Palliative Care Use and Setting With Health-care Utilization and Quality of Care at the End of Life Among Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer. Chest. 2020 Dec 1; 158(6):2667-2674.
  25. Vranas KC, Ouyang D, Lin AL, Slatore CG, Sullivan DR, Kerlin MP, Liu KD, Baron RM, Calfee CS, Ware LB, Halpern SD, Matthay MA, Herridge MS, Mehta S, Rogers AJ. Gender Differences in Authorship of Critical Care Literature. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine. 2020 Apr 1; 201(7):840-847.
  26. Vranas KC, Scott JY, Badawi O, Harhay MO, Slatore CG, Sullivan DR, Kerlin MP. The Association of ICU Acuity With Adherence to ICU Evidence-Based Processes of Care. Chest. 2020 Aug 1; 158(2):579-587.
  27. Lee RY, Brumback LC, Sathitratanacheewin S, Lober WB, Modes ME, Lynch YT, Ambrose CI, Sibley J, Vranas KC, Sullivan DR, Engelberg RA, Curtis JR, Kross EK. Association of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment With ICU Admission Among Patients Hospitalized Near the End of Life. JAMA. 2020 Mar 10; 323(10):950-960.
  28. Sullivan DR, Chan B, Lapidus JA, Ganzini L, Hansen L, Carney PA, Fromme EK, Marino M, Golden SE, Vranas KC, Slatore CG. Association of Early Palliative Care Use With Survival and Place of Death Among Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer Receiving Care in the Veterans Health Administration. JAMA oncology. 2019 Dec 1; 5(12):1702-1709.
  29. Vranas KC, Lin AL, Zive D, Tolle SW, Halpern SD, Slatore CG, Newgard C, Lee RY, Kross EK, Sullivan DR. The Association of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment With Intensity of Treatment Among Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2020 Feb 1; 75(2):171-180.
  30. Vranas KC, Slatore CG, Badawi O, Marhay MO, Sullivan DR, Kerlin MP. The Association of ICU Acuity with Adherence to Evidence-Based Practices is Variable. [Abstract]. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine. 2019 May 23; A7377.
  31. Vranas KC, Myers T, Lin A, Zive D, Tolle S, Slatore CG, Sullivan DR. Association of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment with Inpatient Healthcare Resource Utilization. [Abstract]. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine. 2019 May 22; A4875.
  32. Shenk JL, Vranas KC, Lin AL, Slatore CG, Sullivan DR. POLST-Discordant Care among Patients Presenting to the Hospital: A Qualitative Analysis. [Abstract]. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine. 2019 May 19; A1085.
  33. Vranas KC, Chan B, Slatore CG, Sullivan DR. The Association of Palliative Care with Indicators of Quality Cancer Care Among Patients with Advanced-Stage Lung Cancer. [Abstract]. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine. 2019 May 19; A1072.
  34. Sullivan DR, Eden KB, Dieckmann NF, Golden SE, Vranas KC, Nugent SM, Slatore CG. Understanding patients' values and preferences regarding early stage lung cancer treatment decision making. Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands). 2019 May 1; 131:47-57.
  35. Nugent SM, Slatore CG, Ganzini L, Golden SE, Zive D, Vranas KC, Sullivan DR. POLST Registration and Associated Outcomes Among Veterans With Advanced-Stage Lung Cancer. The American journal of hospice & palliative care. 2019 Jul 1; 36(7):564-570.
  36. Vranas KC, Slatore CG, Kerlin MP. Telemedicine Coverage of Intensive Care Units: A Narrative Review. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2018 Nov 1; 15(11):1256-1264.
  37. Lammers A, Slatore CG, Fromme EK, Vranas KC, Sullivan DR. Association of Early Palliative Care With Chemotherapy Intensity in Patients With Advanced Stage Lung Cancer: A National Cohort Study. Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer. 2019 Feb 1; 14(2):176-183.
  38. Vranas KC, Jopling JK, Scott JY, Badawi O, Harhay MO, Slatore CG, Ramsey MC, Breslow MJ, Milstein AS, Kerlin MP. The Association of ICU Acuity With Outcomes of Patients at Low Risk of Dying. Critical care medicine. 2018 Mar 1; 46(3):347-353.
  39. Vranas KC, Jopling JK, Sweeney TE, Ramsey MC, Milstein AS, Slatore CG, Escobar GJ, Liu VX. Identifying Distinct Subgroups of ICU Patients: A Machine Learning Approach. Critical care medicine. 2017 Oct 1; 45(10):1607-1615.
  40. Chiou H, Jopling JK, Scott JY, Ramsey M, Vranas K, Wagner TH, Milstein A. Detecting organisational innovations leading to improved ICU outcomes: a protocol for a double-blinded national positive deviance study of critical care delivery. BMJ open. 2017 Jun 14; 7(6):e015930.
  41. Halpern SD, Loewenstein G, Volpp KG, Cooney E, Vranas K, Quill CM, McKenzie MS, Harhay MO, Gabler NB, Silva T, Arnold R, Angus DC, Bryce C. Default options in advance directives influence how patients set goals for end-of-life care. Health affairs (Project Hope). 2013 Feb 1; 32(2):408-17.

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