Research Faculty

Jeffrey Burns

Jeffrey Burns, MD, MPH

Dr. Burns is the author of nearly 50 manuscripts and book chapters. His research has focused on bringing empirical study to decision-making controversies at the end-of-life in the intensive care unit. He has received three grants to study these issues, and designed, implemented, and analyzed three multicenter studies of decision-making controversies in the intensive care unit. The first, a multicenter study of end-of-life-care in pediatrics, is the largest study in the literature on this topic and has led to four publications and numerous editorials. The second, a study to improve decision-making in the intensive care unit at four Harvard teaching hospitals, is acknowledged by the Society of Critical Care Medicine to be one of the most in-depth investigations of its kind in adult critical care with four publications to date. More recently, he has mentored three junior faculty in research projects that have all been published in the medical literature. The first was an outcome study of children with congenital neurodevelopmental disabilities who are admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit that was selected as the feature article in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. The second was a study of neonatologists' decision-making practices in the delivery room for infants on the borderline of viability with the first part published in the Journal of Pediatrics and the second part in the journal Pediatrics. The last was a description of the development of a Simulator Suite at an academic teaching hospital.

  • Burns JP, Mello MM, Studdert DM, Puopolo AL, Truog RD, Brennan TA. Results of a controlled clinical trial on care improvement for the critically ill. Critical Care Medicine 2003;31:2107-2117.
     
  • Studdert DM, Burns JP, Mello MM, Puopolo AL, Truog RD, Brennan TA. Nature of conflict in the care of pediatric intensive care patients with prolonged stay. Pediatrics 2003;112:553-558.
     
  • Mello MM, Burns JP, Studdert DM, Puopolo AL, Truog RD, Brennan TA. Decision Making and Satisfaction With Care in the Pediatric ICU: Findings From a Controlled Clinical Trial. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2004 Jan;5(1):40-47.
     
  • Graham RJ, Dumas HM, O'Brien JE, Burns JP. Congenital Neurodevelopmental Diagnoses in an Intensive Care Unit: Defining a Population. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2004 Jul;5(4):321-8.
     
  • Peerzada JM, Richardson DK, Burns JP. Delivery Room Decision-Making at the Threshold of Viability, Journal of Pediatrics. 2004 Oct;145(4):492-8.
     
  • Bastek TK, Richardson DK, Zupancic JA, Burns JP. Prenatal Consultation Practices at the Border of Viability: A Regional Survey. Pediatrics. 2005 Aug;116 (2):407-13.
     
  • Weinstock, P, Stanley L, Kleinman ME, Hickey P, Greneir B, Burns JP. Towards a New Paradigm in Hospital-based Pediatric Education: The Development of an On-Site Simulator Program. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2005 Nov;6(6):635-641.