Description of Research Expertise

Research Grants

2022–2027: K23HL163402: Developing and Evaluating Quality-Weighted Hospital-Free Days as a Novel, Patient-Centered Outcome for Trials of Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
Awaiting Advisory Council Meeting. Impact Score 11.
Amount: $967, 373
Role: Principal Investigator

2022–2024: Exploring hospital-free days as a trial outcome for patients with dementia
Alzheimer’s Association
Advancing Research on Care and Outcome Measurement Program
Amount: $250,000
Role: Co-Investigator (PI Halpern)

2020–2021: Avoiding states worse than death: a patient-centered outcome for studies of older persons and those with serious illness
University of Pennsylvania Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics
Quartet Pilot Research Program
Amount: $32,400
Role: Principal Investigator

2019–2022: 5T32HL098054-09
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
Critical care health services research training program
Role: Research fellow (PI Halpern)

2013: Public support for advance directive completion programs
University of Pennsylvania Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics Pilot Grant
Amount: $8,138
Role: Principal Investigator

2012: Patient- and surrogate-centered outcomes in the intensive care unit
University of Pennsylvania / Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics
Comparative effectiveness pilot grant
Amount: $44,435
Role: Co-Investigator (PI Lyon)

2012–2013: Decision making in the medical intensive care unit
Doris Duke Foundation
Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship
Role: Research fellow (PI Halpern)

Selected Publications

Auriemma CL, Butt M, Silvestri JA, Halpern SD, Courtright KR: Stakeholder perspectives on the minimum clinically important difference and non-inferiority margin for hospital-free days JAMA Intern Med 183 (7): 739-742,2023.

Chow CP, Chesley CF, Ward M, Neergaard R, Prasad TV, Dress EM, Reagan S, Kalyani P, Smyk N, Turner AP, Agyekum RS, Ittner CAG, Sandsmark DK, Meyer NJ, Harhay MO, Kohn R, Auriemma CL: Patients’ Perspectives on Life and Recovery One Year after Hospitalization for COVID-19 J Gen Intern Med 38 (10): 2374-2382,2023.

Auriemma CL, Minhas J, Blue R, Lapatra T, Kawut SM, Courtright KR: “It’s that invisible illness” - Patient and clinician perspectives on outcomes in pulmonary arterial hypertension treatment Pulm Circ 13 : e12236,2023.

Ginestra JC, Kohn R, Hubbard RA, Auriemma CL, Patel MS, Anesi GL, Halpern SD, Kerlin MP, Weissman GE: Association of time of day with delays in antimicrobial initiation among ward patients with hospital-onset sepsis Ann Am Thorac Soc 20 (9): 1299-1308,2023.

Auriemma CL, O’Donnell H, Jones J, Barbati Z, Akpek E, Klaiman T, Halpern SD: How traditional advance directives undermine advance care planning: If you have it in writing, you do not have to worry about it JAMA Intern Med 182 (6): 682-684,2022.

Auriemma CL, O'Donnell H, Jones J, Barbati Z, Akpek E, Klaiman T, Halpern SD: Patient perspectives on states worse than death: A qualitative study with implications for patient-centered outcomes and values elicitation Palliat Med 36 (2): 348-357,2022.

Auriemma CL, Taylor SP, Harhay MO, Courtright KR, Halpern SD: Hospital-Free Days: A Pragmatic and Patient-centered Outcome for Trials among Critically and Seriously Ill Patients Am J Respir Crit Care Med 204 (8): 902-909,2021.

Auriemma CL, Harhay MO, Haines KJ, Barg FK, Halpern SD, Lyon SM: What Matters to Patients and Their Families During and After Critical Illness: A Qualitative Study Am J Crit Care 30 (1): 11-20,2021.

Auriemma CL, Zhuo H, Delucchi K, Deiss T, Liu T, Jauregui A, Ke S, Vessel K, Lippi M, Seeley E, Kangelaris KN, Gomez A, Hendrickson C, Liu KD, Matthay MA, Ware LB, Calfee CS: Acute respiratory distress syndrome-attributable mortality in critically ill patients with sepsis Intensive Care Med 46 (6): 1222-1231,2020.

Auriemma CL, Nguyen CA, Bronheim R, Kent S, Nadiger S, Pardo D, Halpern SD.: Stability of end-of-life preferences: a systematic review of the evidence JAMA Intern Med 174 (7): 1085-1092,2014.

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Academic Contact Information

Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: 267-595-8742
Patient appointments: 800-789-7366