ChristopherCoxMD

Pulmonology • Durham, NC

Critical Care Medicine

Associate Professor, Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine

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Office
2301 Erwin Rd
Durham, NC 27705
Phone+1 919-681-7232
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Education & Training

University of North CarolinaMHA, 2007 - 2010
Duke University HospitalFellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 2002 - 2005
University of North Carolina HospitalsPost-Doctoral Fellowship, MPH, 2000 - 2002
NYU Grossman School of MedicineResidency, Internal Medicine, 1998 - 2000
NYU Grossman School of MedicineInternship, Internal Medicine, 1997 - 1998
Medical University of South CarolinaClass of 1997

Certifications & Licensure

NC State Medical License 2000 - 2024
American Board of Internal Medicine Critical Care Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine Hospice and Palliative Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine Pulmonary Disease

Clinical Trials

Informing Decisions in Chronic Critical Illness: A Randomized Control Trial (RCT) Start of enrollment: 2010 Oct 01
Completed
Not Applicable
Improving Decision Making for Patients With Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation Start of enrollment: 2013 Jan 01
Completed
Not Applicable
Improving Psychological Distress Among Critical Illness Survivors and Their Caregivers Start of enrollment: 2013 Oct 01
Completed
Not Applicable
Mobile Mindfulness to Improve Psychological Distress After Critical Illness Start of enrollment: 2016 Mar 01
Completed
Not Applicable
Prediction of Functional Outcomes From Chronic Critical Illness Start of enrollment: 2017 Apr 17
Completed
Optimizing a Mobile Mindfulness Intervention for ICU Survivors Start of enrollment: 2019 Aug 15
Completed
Not Applicable
Mobile Coping Skills Training to Improve Cardiorespiratory Failure Survivors' Psychological Distress Start of enrollment: 2020 Dec 03
Completed
Not Applicable
Lift Mobile Mindfulness for COVID-19 Distress Symptoms Start of enrollment: 2021 Jan 25
Completed
Not Applicable
Ganciclovir to Prevent Reactivation of Cytomegalovirus in Patients With Acute Respiratory Failure and Sepsis Start of enrollment: 2021 Jun 29
Recruiting
Phase 3
Roles: Contact
A Self-directed Mobile Mindfulness Intervention to Address Distress and Burnout in Frontline Healthcare Workers Start of enrollment: 2021 May 19
Completed
Not Applicable
Multi-component Family Support Tool Intervention (FST) Start of enrollment: 2021 Nov 11
Recruiting
Not Applicable
A Needs-focused Palliative Care Intervention for Older Adults in ICUs Start of enrollment: 2021 Feb 22
Completed
Not Applicable
Roles: Principal Investigator, Contact
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Systematic Literature Review of Health-Related Quality-of-Life Measures for Caregivers of Older Adult Trauma Patients.
Krista Haines, Stephanie T Lumpkin, Braylee Grisel, Kavneet Kaur, Sarah Cantrell, Jennifer Freeman, Todd Tripoli, Scott Gallagher, Suresh Agarwal, Christopher E Cox, K...> ;The Journal of Surgical Research. 2024 May 1
Utility of skin tone on pulse oximetry in critically ill patients: a prospective cohort study.
Sicheng Hao, Katelyn Dempsey, João Matos, Warren Kibbe, Chuan Hong, Ian Wong, Christopher E Cox, Veronica Rotemberg, Judy W Gichoya> ;Medrxiv. 2024 Feb 27
Mobile Application-Based Communication Facilitation Platform for Family Members of Critically Ill Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
Cox, C., Ashana, D., Riley, I., Olsen, M., Casarett, D., Haines, K., O'Keefe, Y., Al-Hegelan, M., Harrison, R., Naglee, C., Katz, J., Yang, H., Pratt, E., Gu, J., Demp...> ;JAMA Network Open. 2024 Jan 2
2 citations
Going beyond the means: Exploring the role of bias from digital determinants of health in technologies.
Marie-Laure Charpignon, Adrien Carrel, Yihang Jiang, Teddy Kwaga, Beatriz Cantada, Terry Hyslop, Christopher E Cox, Krista Haines, Valencia Koomson, Guillaume Dumas, M...> ;PLOS Digital Health. 2023 Oct 1
2 citations
Racial Disparities in Lung Cancer Screening Among Veterans, 2013 to 2021.
Neelima Navuluri, Samantha Morrison, Cynthia L Green, Sandra L Woolson, Isaretta L Riley, Christopher E Cox, Leah L Zullig, Scott Shofer> ;JAMA Network Open. 2023 Jun 1
Factors Associated With Triage Decisions in Older Adult Trauma Patients: Impact on Mortality and Morbidity.
Krista L Haines, Tracy Truong, Charles N Trujillo, Jennifer J Freeman, Christopher E Cox, Joseph Fernandez-More, Rachel Morris, Ioana Antonescu, Braylee Grisel, Suresh...> ;The Journal of Surgical Research. 2023 Aug 1
3 citations
Feasibility of Mobile App-based Coping Skills Training for Cardiorespiratory Failure Survivors: The Blueprint Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.
Christopher E Cox, Sarah A Kelleher, Alice Parish, Maren K Olsen, Santos Bermejo, Katelyn Dempsey, Jennie Jaggers, Catherine L Hough, Marc Moss, Laura S Porter> ;Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2023 Jun 1
2 citations
Trajectories of Palliative Care Needs in the ICU and Long-Term Psychological Distress Symptoms.
Christopher E Cox, Jessie Gu, Deepshikha Charan Ashana, Elias H Pratt, Krista Haines, Jessica Ma, Maren K Olsen, Alice Parish, David Casarett, Mashael S Al-Hegelan, Co...> ;Critical Care Medicine. 2023 Jan 1
2 citations
Interpersonal Perception: Family- and Physician-reported Conflict in the Intensive Care Unit.
Deepshikha Charan Ashana, Adina Jan, Alice Parish, Kimberly S Johnson, Karen E Steinhauser, Maren K Olsen, Christopher E Cox> ;Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2022 Nov 1
3 citations
Palliative care phenotypes among critically ill patients and family members: intensive care unit prospective cohort study.
Christopher E Cox, Maren K Olsen, Alice Parish, Jessie Gu, Deepshikha Charan Ashana, Elias H Pratt, Krista Haines, Jessica Ma, David J Casarett, Mashael S Al-Hegelan, ...> ;BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care. 2022 Sep 27
4 citations
Surrogates of Patients With Severe Acute Brain Injury Experience Persistent Anxiety and Depression Over the 6 Months After ICU Admission.
Blair Wendlandt, Casey Olm-Shipman, Agathe Ceppe, Catherine L Hough, Douglas B White, Christopher E Cox, Shannon S Carson> ;Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2022 Jun 1
Improving Outcomes Measurement in Palliative Care: The Lasting Impact of Randy Curtis and his Collaborators.
Christopher E Cox, Deepshikha Charan Ashana, Nita Khandelwal, Arif H Kamal, Ruth A Engelberg> ;Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2022 Jun 1
1 citations
Trends in Location of Death Among Older Adult Americans After Falls.
Sarah H Cross, David M Anderson, Christopher E Cox, Suresh Agarwal, Krista L Haines> ;Gerontology & Geriatric Medicine. 2022 Apr 27
3 citations
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Clusters in Surrogate Decision Makers of Patients Experiencing Chronic Critical Illness.
Blair Wendlandt, Agathe Ceppe, Bradley N Gaynes, Christopher E Cox, Laura C Hanson, Judith E Nelson, Shannon S Carson> ;Critical Care Explorations. 2022 Mar 1
14 citations
Assessment of Clinical Palliative Care Trigger Status vs Actual Needs Among Critically Ill Patients and Their Family Members.
Cox, C., Ashana, D., Haines, K., Casarett, D., Olsen, M., Parish, A., O'Keefe, Y., Al-Hegelan, M., Harrison, R., Naglee, C., Katz, J., Frear, A., Pratt, E., Gu, J., Ri...> ;JAMA Network Open. 2022 Jan 4
7 citations
Palliative and End-of-Life Care: Prioritizing Compassion Within the ICU and Beyond.
Rebecca A. Aslakson, Christopher E. Cox, Judith Gedney Baggs, J. Randall Curtis> ;Critical Care Medicine. 2021 Oct 1
4 citations
Development and preliminary evaluation of EMPOWER for surrogate decision-makers of critically ill patients.
Wendy G. Lichtenthal, Martin Viola, Madeline Rogers, Kailey E. Roberts, Lindsay Lief, Christopher E. Cox, Chris R. Brewin, Jiehui Cici Xu, Paul K. Maciejewski, Cynthia...> ;Palliative & Supportive Care. 2021 Jul 8
1 citations
Impact of a Real-Time, Pharmacist-Led, Intensive Care Unit-Based Feedback Intervention on Analgesia and Sedation Quality Among Mechanically Ventilated Patients.
Benjamin Mancheril, Bridgette Kram, Jennifer Schultheis, Shawn Kram, Morgan Trammel, Beiyu Liu, Weston Jordan, Christopher E. Cox> ;Journal of Nursing Care Quality. 2021 Jul 1
3 citations
SICQ coping and the health-related quality of life and recovery of critically ill ICU patients: A prospective cohort study
Edwin J. Boezeman, José G.M. Hofhuis, Christopher E. Cox, Reinout E. de Vries, Peter E. Spronk> ;Chest. 2021 Jun 25
12 citations
Providing Family-Centered Intensive Care Unit Care Without Family Presence-Human Connection in the Time of COVID-19.
Deepshikha Charan Ashana, Christopher E. Cox> ;JAMA Network Open. 2021 Jun 1
4 citations
Underutilization of Acetaminophen in Older Adult Trauma Patients
Krista Haines, Matthew Fuller, Ioana Antonescu, Justin G. Vaughan, Karthik Raghunathan, Christopher E. Cox, Raquel R. Bartz, Tetsu Ohnuma, Suresh Agarwal, Vijay Krishn...> ;The American Surgeon. 2021 May 28
3 citations
Insurance Status and Ethnicity Impact Health Disparities in Rates of Advance Directives in Trauma.
Krista Haines, Benjamin P. Nguyen, Ioana Antonescu, Jennifer J. Freeman, Christopher E. Cox, Vijay Krishnamoorthy, Brad Kawano, Suresh Agarwal> ;The American Surgeon. 2021 Apr 20
7 citations
The Association Between Patient Health Status and Surrogate Decision Maker PTSD Symptoms in Chronic Critical Illness.
Blair Wendlandt, Agathe Ceppe, Christopher E. Cox, Laura C. Hanson, Judith E Nelson, Shannon S. Carson> ;Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2021 Apr 1
2 citations
Two Questions About the Design of Cluster Randomized Trials: A Tutorial
Gregory P. Samsa, Joseph G. Winger, Christopher E. Cox, Maren K. Olsen> ;Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2021 Apr 1
8 citations
Improving racial disparities in unmet palliative care needs among intensive care unit family members with a needs-targeted app intervention: The ICUconnect randomized ...
Christopher E. Cox, Isaretta L. Riley, Deepshikha Charan Ashana, Krista Haines, Maren K. Olsen, Jessie P. Gu, Elias H. Pratt, Mashael Al-Hegelan, Robert W. Harrison, C...> ;Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2021 Feb 13
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Press Mentions

ICUconnect App Helped Clinicians Address Unmet Palliative Care Needs Across Course of ICU CareMay 23rd, 2023
Covid-19: For Families of Patients Who Died in ICUs, the Experience Was TraumaticJune 22nd, 2021
'Stolen Moments': Families Anguish over Separation from Dying COVID PatientsJune 22nd, 2021
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