Dr. Jack E Zimmerman M.D.
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
17612 Coatbridge Pl Olney MD, 20832About
Dr. Jack Zimmerman is a critical care surgeon practicing in Olney, MD. Dr. Zimmerman specializes in the needs of critically ill surgical patients. Critical care surgeons are experts in treating physiologic responses to tissue injury from trauma, burns, infections, acute inflammation, operation and more. They are also trained to know how such injuries interact with other diseases that a patient may have. As a critical care surgeon, Dr. Zimmerman has a broad knowledge base and full understanding of the biology of the critically ill patient and the patients organ system functions.
Education and Training
Mechanical Engineering 1964
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A multicenter description of intermediate-care patients: comparison with ICU low-risk monitor patients.
- Quality indicators: the continuing struggle to improve the quality of critical
- Potentially ineffective care: a useful step forward.
- Measuring intensive care unit performance: a way to move forward.
- The use of benchmarking to identify top performing critical care units: a
- Assessing the calibration of mortality benchmarks in critical care: The Hosmer-Lemeshow test revisited.
- Intensive care unit readmission: the issue is safety not frequency.
- Predicting outcomes for cardiac surgery patients after intensive care unit admission.
- Intensive care unit occupancy: making room for more patients.
- A predictive model for the early identification of patients at risk for a prolonged intensive care unit length of stay.
- Institutional variations in frequency of discharge of elderly intensive care survivors to postacute care facilities.
- The relationship between hospital and intensive care unit length of stay.
- Intensive care unit readmissions in U.S. hospitals: patient characteristics, risk factors, and outcomes.
- The association between ICU readmission rate and patient outcomes.
- Comparison of the Mortality Probability Admission Model III, National Quality Forum, and Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation IV hospital mortality models: implications for national benchmarking*.
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