Rachel Kohn
· MD MSCEUniversity of Pennsylvania · Rehabilitation Medicine
Active 1950–2026
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About
Rachel Kohn, MD, MSCE, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in pulmonary, allergy, and critical care medicine, with clinical interests including inpatient pulmonology and critical care. Dr. Kohn serves as an attending physician on the Pulmonology Consultation Services, the Pulmonary Diagnostic Lab, and the Medical Intensive Care Unit at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. Her research focuses on health services, healthcare operations, and healthcare delivery equity, particularly regarding representativeness in clinical trials and prospective research, as well as inpatient care delivery. She completed a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania, emphasizing patient-centered outcomes research. Dr. Kohn's work aims to improve understanding and address disparities in healthcare, contributing to the fields of clinical epidemiology and health services research.
Research topics
- Medicine
- Emergency medicine
- Intensive care medicine
- Internal medicine
- Computer science
Selected publications
Association of a Novel Index of Hospital Capacity Strain with Admission to Intensive Care Units
Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2020-06-10 · 36 citations
articleOpen accessAbstract Rationale Prior approaches to measuring healthcare capacity strain have been constrained by using individual care units, limited metrics of strain, or general, rather than disease-specific, populations. Objectives We sought to develop a novel composite strain index and measure its association with intensive care unit (ICU) admission decisions and hospital outcomes. Methods Using more than 9.2 million acute care encounters from 27 Kaiser Permanente Northern California and Penn Medicine h…
In-hospital cardiac arrest in patients with coronavirus 2019
Resuscitation · 2021-01-27 · 33 citations
articleOpen accessMeasuring Representativeness in Clinical Trials
Circulation · 2025-02-03 · 13 citations
reviewOpen accessRepresentativeness in randomized clinical trials remains a critical concern, affecting the external validity of trial results, equitable access to the risks and benefits of research participation, and public trust in clinical research. Although representative participation by members of groups traditionally underrepresented in clinical trials is just a surrogate for true diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in clinical trials, it can be quantified, allowing stakeholders to add empirical r…
Learning Health Systems · 2024-06-18 · 6 citations
articleOpen accessAbstract Introduction The rapid adoption of electronic health record (EHR) systems has resulted in extensive archives of data relevant to clinical research, hospital operations, and the development of learning health systems. However, EHR data are not frequently available, cleaned, standardized, validated, and ready for use by stakeholders. We describe an in‐progress effort to overcome these challenges with cooperative, systematic data extraction and validation. Methods A multi‐disciplinary team…
Critical Care Medicine · 2025-04-08 · 4 citations
articleOpen accessOBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to develop and externally validate a machine-learning model that retrospectively identifies patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (acute respiratory distress syndrome [ARDS]) using electronic health record (EHR) data. DESIGN: In this retrospective cohort study, ARDS was identified via physician-adjudication in three cohorts of patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure (training, internal validation, and external validation). Machine-learning mod…
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Frequent coauthors
- 66 shared
Scott D. Halpern
University of Pennsylvania
- 39 shared
George L. Anesi
University of Pennsylvania
- 38 shared
Gary E. Weissman
California University of Pennsylvania
- 36 shared
Meeta Prasad Kerlin
University of Pennsylvania
- 14 shared
M. Kit Delgado
University of Pennsylvania
- 14 shared
Brian Bayes
University of Pennsylvania
- 13 shared
Jennifer C. Ginestra
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- 12 shared
Robert Wise
University of Oxford
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