By Emeritus Fellow Kenneth Mark Hillman

Journal articles

Alexandrou E; Frost S; Spencer T; Davidson P; Parr MJ; Hillman KM, 2009, 'Nurse led central venous catheter insertion: An integrative review', AUSTRALIAN CRITICAL CARE, 22, pp. 61 - 61, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aucc.2008.12.053

Chen J; Hillman K; Bellomo R; Flabouris A; Finfer S; Cretikos M, 2009, 'The impact of introducing medical emergency team system on the documentations of vital signs', Resuscitation, 80, pp. 35 - 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2008.10.009

Chen J; Bellomo R; Flabouris A; Hillman K; Finfer S, 2009, 'The relationship between early emergency team calls and serious adverse events', Critical Care Medicine, 37, pp. 148 - 153, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181928ce3

Santiano N; Young L; Hillman K; Parr M; Jayasinghe S; Baramy L-S; Stevenson J; Heath T; Chan C; Claire M; Hanger G, 2009, 'Analysis of medical emergency team calls comparing subjective to "objective" call criteria.', Resuscitation, 80, pp. 44 - 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2008.08.010

Chen J; Flabouris A; Bellomo R; Hillman KM; Finfer SR; Doig G; Parr M, 2009, 'Baseline hospital perforamnce and the impact of medical emergency teams: Modeling vs conventional subgroup analysis', Trials, 10, pp. 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-10-117

Hillman KM; Chen J; May EL, 2009, 'Complex intensive care unit interventions', Critical Care Medicine, 37, pp. S102 - S105, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181920f18

Ou L; Young L; Chen J; Santiano N; Baramy L; Hillman KM, 2009, 'Discharge delay in acute care: reasons and determinants of delay in general ward patients', Australian Health Review, 33, pp. 513 - 521

Frost SA; Alexandrou E; Bogdanovski T; Salamonson Y; Parr MJ; Hillman KM, 2009, 'Readmission to intensive care: A meta-analysis of severity of illness on admission and risk of readmission', Australian Critical Care, 22, pp. 63, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aucc.2008.12.056

Frost SA; Alexandrou E; Bogdanovski T; Salamonson Y; Davidson PM; Parr MJ; Hillman KM, 2009, 'Severity of illness and risk of readmission to intensive care: a meta-analysis.', Resuscitation, 80, pp. 505 - 510, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.02.015

Hillman KM, 2009, 'The conveyor belt of acute care - what should happen?', EOL. Towards Quality Care at the End of Life, 1, pp. 6 - 7

Frost SA; Alexandrou E; Bogdanovski T; Salamonson Y; Parr MJ; Hillman KM, 2009, 'Unplanned admission to intensive care after emergency hospitalisation: risk factors and development of a nomogram for individualising risk.', Resuscitation, 80, pp. 224 - 230, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2008.10.030

Chen J; Flabouris A; Bellomo R; Hillman K; Finfer S, 2008, 'The Medical Emergency Team System and Not-for-Resuscitation Orders: Results from the MERIT Study', Resuscitation, 79, pp. 391 - 397, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2008.07.021

Cretikos MA; Bellomo R; Hillman K; Chen J; Finfer S; Flabouris A, 2008, 'Respiratory rate: The neglected vital sign', Medical Journal of Australia, 188, pp. 657 - 659, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01825.x

Forero R; Mohsin M; McCarthy S; Young L; Ieraci S; Hillman K; Santiano N; Bauman A; Phung H, 2008, 'Prevalence of morphine use and time to initial analgesia in an Australian emergency department', EMA Emergency Medicine Australasia, 20, pp. 136 - 143, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1742-6723.2008.01068.x

Hillman K, 2008, 'Rapid response systems', Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 12, pp. 77 - 81, http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.42561

Hillman KM, 2008, 'Overview of Outreach', ICU Management, 8, pp. 6 - 6

Forero R; Mohsin M; McCarthy S; Young L; Ieraci S; Hillman K; Santiano N; Bauman A; Phung H, 2008, 'Prevalence of morphine use and time to initial analgesia in an Australian emergency department', Acute Pain, 10, pp. 103, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acpain.2008.05.031

Young L; Donald M; Parr M; Hillman K, 2008, 'The Medical Emergency Team system: a two hospital comparison.', Resuscitation, 77, pp. 180 - 188, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2007.11.016

Tam V; Frost SA; Hillman KM; Salamonson Y, 2008, 'Using administrative data to develop a nomogram for individualising risk of unplanned admission to intensive care.', Resuscitation, 79, pp. 241 - 248, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2008.06.023

Hillman K; Chen J, 2007, 'Health services research and critical care', , pp. 773 - 777, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-35096-9_73

Hillman K; Chen J, 2007, 'Managing conflict at the end-of-life', , pp. 969 - 978, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-92278-2_86

MacPartlin M; Hillman KM, 2007, 'Medical emergency team calls: The need to communicate a resuscitation plan', Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 33, pp. 54 - 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1553-7250(07)33007-9

DeVita MA; Bellomo R; Hillman K; Kellum J; Harvey M, 2007, 'Requirements of the afferent arm of rapid response systems [21]', Critical Care Medicine, 35, pp. 993 - 994, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.CCM.0000257250.35337.66

Cretikos MA; Chen J; Hillman KM; Bellomo R; Finfer SR; Flabouris A, 2007, 'The effectiveness of implementation of the medical emergency team (MET) system and factors associated with use during the MERIT study.', Critical Care and Resuscitation Journal of the Australasian Academy of Critical Care Medicine, 9, pp. 206 - 212, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1441-2772(23)01127-4

Chase-Topping ME; Gunn G; Strachan WD; Edwards SA; Smith WJ; Hillman K; Stefopoulou SN; Thomson JR, 2007, 'Epidemiology of porcine non-specific colitis on Scottish farms', The Veterinary Journal, 173, pp. 353 - 360, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tvjl.2005.12.002

Cheatham ML; Malbrain MLNG; Kirkpatrick A; Sugrue M; Parr M; De Waele J; Balogh Z; Leppäniemi A; Olvera C; Ivatury R; D'Amours S; Wendon J; Hillman K; Wilmer A, 2007, 'Results from the International Conference of Experts on Intra-abdominal Hypertension and Abdominal Compartment Syndrome. II. Recommendations.', Intensive Care Med, 33, pp. 951 - 962, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00134-007-0592-4

Cretikos MA; Chen J; Hillman KM; Bellomo R; Finfer SR; Flabouris A, 2007, 'The objective medical emergency team activation criteria: A case-control study', Resuscitation, 73, pp. 62 - 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2006.08.020

DeVita MA; Bellomo R; Hillman K; Kellum J; Rotondi A; Teres D; Auerbach A; Chen WJ; Duncan K; Kenward G; Bell M; Buist M; Chen J; Bion J; Kirby A; Lighthall G; Ovreveit J; Braithwaite RS; Gosbee J; Milbrandt E; Peberdy M; Savitz L; Young L; Harvey M; Galhotra S, 2006, 'Erratum: Findings of the first consensus conference on medical emergency teams (Critical Care Medicine (2006) 34, (2463-2478))', Critical Care Medicine, 34, pp. 3070

Hillman K, 2006, 'What is vital to measure?', Anaesthesia, 61, pp. 1027 - 1028, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.2006.04827.x

Forero R; Young L; Hillman KM; Bauman AE; Ieraci S, 2006, 'Prevalence of psychological distress assessed in emergency departments [6]', Emergency Medicine Journal, 23, pp. 489, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emj.2005.029090

DeVita MA; Bellomo R; Hillman K, 2006, 'Introduction to the rapid response systems series', Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 32, pp. 359 - 360, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1553-7250(06)32046-6

Silove DM; Brooks RT; Steel ZP; Blaszczynski A; Hillman KM; Tyndall K; Blaszczynski , 2006, 'Can structured interviews for posttraumatic stress disorder assist clinical decision-making after motor vehicle accidents? An exploratory analysis', Comprehensive Psychiatry, 47, pp. 194 - 200, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2005.08.004

Iribhogbe P; Verbeek D; Sugrue ME; Hemathulintra D; Parr MJ; Hillman KM, 2006, 'Continuous abdominal perfusion pressure in intensive care - a novel technique', Inernational Journal of Disaster Medicine, 4, pp. 22 - 22

Hillman KM, 2006, 'Dying in Intensive Care', Care of the Critically Ill, 22, pp. 56 - 56

DeVita M; Bellomo R; Hillman KM; Kellum J; Rotondi A; Teres D; Auerbach A; Chen W; Duncan K; Kenward G; Bell M; Buist MD; Chen X; Bion J; Kirby A; Lighthall G; Ovreveit J; Braithwaite S; Gosbee J; Milbrandt E; Peberdy M; Savitz L; Young L; Galhotra S, 2006, 'Findings of the First Consensus Conference on Medical Emergency Teams', Critical Care Medicine, 34, pp. 2463 - 2478, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.CCM.0000235743.38172.6E

DeVita MA; Bellomo R; Hillman K; Kellum J; Rotondi A; Teres D; Auerbach A; Chen W-J; Duncan K; Kenward G; Bell M; Buist M; Chen J; Bion J; Kirby A; Lighthall G; Ovreveit J; Braithwaite RS; Gosbee J; Milbrandt E; Peberdy M; Savitz L; Young L; Harvey M; Galhotra S, 2006, 'Findings of the First Consensus Conference on Medical Emergency Teams (vol 34, pg 2463, 2006)', CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE, 34, pp. 3070 - 3070

Cretikos M; Parr M; Hillman K; Bishop G; Brown D; Daffurn K; Dinh H; Francis N; Heath T; Hill G; Murphy J; Sanchez D; Santiano N; Young L, 2006, 'Guidelines for the uniform reporting of data for Medical Emergency Teams.', Resuscitation, 68, pp. 11 - 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2005.06.009

DeVita M; Bellomo R; Hillman KM, 2006, 'Rapid response systems: The stories: Introduction to the rapid resposne systems series', Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 32, pp. 359 - 360

Malbrain MLNG; Cheatham ML; Kirkpatrick A; Sugrue M; Parr M; De Waele J; Balogh Z; Leppäniemi A; Olvera C; Ivatury R; D'Amours S; Wendon J; Hillman K; Johansson K; Kolkman K; Wilmer A, 2006, 'Results from the International Conference of Experts on Intra-abdominal Hypertension and Abdominal Compartment Syndrome. I. Definitions.', Intensive Care Med, 32, pp. 1722 - 1732, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00134-006-0349-5

Buttfield MA; Amos JD; Hillman KM, 2006, 'The Medical Emergency Team as a Safety Net', Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 32, pp. 641 - 645

Phung HN; Bauman A; Tran M; Young L; Mcdonald JL; Michell L; Hillman KM, 2005, 'Factors that influence special care nursery admissions to a district hospital in South-Western Sydney.', Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health (Vol. 48, Suppl. 2, 2012, 1–13), 41, pp. 119 - 124

Hillman KM, 2005, 'History of Outreach', ICU Management, 5, pp. 8 - 10

Hillman KM; Chen J; Cretikos MA; Bellomo R; Brown DP; Doig G; Finfer SR; Flabouris A, 2005, 'Introduction of the medical emergency team (MET) system: a cluster-randomised controlled trial', Lancet, 365, pp. 2091 - 2097, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673605667335

Santiano N; Murphy J; Cretikos MA; Hillman KM, 2005, 'Managing implementation of Medical Emergency Teams in Australia', ICU Management, Issue 2, pp. 14 - 15

Hillman KM, 2005, 'Medical emergency teams (METS): preventive practice', ICU Management, 5, pp. 54 - 54

Suri S; Hillman KM, 2005, 'Neostigmine for treatment of acute colonic pseudo-obstruction.', Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 9, pp. 86 - 87

Kause J; Smith G; Prytherch D; Parr M; Flabouris A; Hillman K; Intensive Care Society (UK) ; Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group , 2004, 'A comparison of antecedents to cardiac arrests, deaths and emergency intensive care admissions in Australia and New Zealand, and the United Kingdom--the ACADEMIA study.', Resuscitation, 62, pp. 275 - 282, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2004.05.016

Forero R; Mohsin M; Bauman A; Ieraci S; Young L; Phung HN; Hillman KM; Mccarthy SM; Hugelmeyer D, 2004, 'Access block in NSW hospitals, 1999-2001 does the definition matter?', Medical Journal of Australia, 180, pp. 67 - 70

Hillman KM, 2004, 'Colloid versus crystalloids in shock', Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 8, pp. 14 - 21

Win KT; Phung HN; Young L; Tran M; Alcock C; Hillman KM, 2004, 'Electronic health record system risk assessment: a case study from the MINET', Health Information Management Journal, 33, pp. 43 - 48

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