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CHEST Critical Care Journal

CHEST® Critical Care

As part of the CHEST® journal portfolio, CHEST Critical Care advances the care of patients served by multidisciplinary clinicians across critical care medicine. As an open access publication, CHEST Critical Care features content that is permanently and freely available online for all.

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ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Epidemiologic Characteristics and Management of Sepsis Among Previously Healthy Patients
What are the baseline characteristics, management, and outcomes associated with previously healthy patients with sepsis?

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Associations Among Skeletal Muscle Health, Disability, and Self-Reported Physical Function in Survivors of Critical Illness
The authors sought to understand the relationship between muscle mass and muscle density before critical illness and disability and self-reported physical function after surviving a critical illness.

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

A Systematic Review of the Development and Implementability of Complex Interventions After Hospitalization for Survivors of Intensive Care
What methods have informed the development and evaluation of complex interventions after hospitalization for survivors of the ICU?

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Association of Central Nervous System-Related Biomarkers With Hospital Delirium in Patients With Respiratory Failure in the ICU
In critically ill patients with respiratory failure, are central nervous system-related biomarkers measured at admission associated with delirium diagnosis?

Submit your research to CHEST Critical Care

CHEST Critical Care accepts submissions of original research, which includes early-phase clinical trials, implementation science, health service delivery, medical decision-making, cost-effectiveness analyses, quality improvement, database analyses, artificial intelligence applications, clinical education research, methodology/study design descriptions, region-specific reports, and secondary analysis of published data or data subsets.

Note about article publishing charges: After acceptance, authors of CHEST Critical Care will be asked to pay an article publishing charge. CHEST strives to make open-access publishing accessible for all. Learn about opportunities for discounted or waived article publication charges, including a 20% discount for CHEST members.

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The impact of CHEST Critical Care

CHEST Critical Care expands the focus of the CHEST journal portfolio to more comprehensively cover the unique challenges faced every day by clinicians treating patients with critical illness.

A new home for critical care

Going well beyond pulmonary medicine, CHEST Critical Care offers clinicians working in every area of critical care a new home within the CHEST community for leading-edge research and insights relevant to their practice.

New publishing opportunities

As more institutions mandate publication in open-access journals, and the number of submissions to the flagship journal continues to increase, CHEST Critical Care offers more opportunities for clinicians to publish their research and impact the way we deliver patient care.

Greater access to research

With an open-access model, any reader anywhere can access the findings published in CHEST Critical Care, helping more clinicians across the world deliver more informed patient care.

Hayley Gershengorn, MD
MEET THE EDITOR

Hayley Gershengorn, MD

Dr. Gershengorn, the Editor in Chief of CHEST Critical Care, is a Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, where she works as a medical intensivist. She serves as Medical Director of Data Quality Analytics and Critical Care Quality for the University of Miami Hospital and Clinics. Dr. Gershengorn’s research program focuses on the allocation of ICU resources and the impact such allocation has on the outcomes of critically ill patients.

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