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Yoanna Skrobik

Professor

Département de médecine

Université de Montréal

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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15 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 3 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 1 research grant (1 CIHR), most recently in 2016.

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195

Publications

23,905

Citations

177

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Grants

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Research

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En recherche clinique les intérêts du Dr Skrobik portent principalement sur l’analgésie la sédation et le delirium dans le domaine des soins intensifs

Latest papers

Memory, sedation, and recovery in the ICU: what should we do better?
Intensive care medicine · 2026 · senior author
Proportional-Assist Ventilation for Minimizing the Duration of Mechanical Ventilation
New England Journal of Medicine · 2025
Sleeping through recovery: sedatives at hospital discharge harm ICU survivors
Intensive Care Medicine · 2025 · first author

All 195 publications

Latest funding

Virtual Family Participation in Adult ICU Rounds: A Pilot Randomized Trial (The V-FAMILY Trial)
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$76,500
RECOVER Program: A Care Continuum after Critical Illness
CIHR · 2019 · Co-investigator
$932,280
Proportional Assist Ventilation for Minimizing the Duration of Mechanical Ventilation: The PROMIZING Study
CIHR · 2018 · Co-investigator
$501,076

All 8 grants and awards

From the 150 most recent of 195 publications.

Memory, sedation, and recovery in the ICU: what should we do better?

Paton M, Bienvenu OJ, Skrobik Y

Intensive care medicine2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s00134-025-08282-5 PMID: 41586887

Proportional-Assist Ventilation for Minimizing the Duration of Mechanical Ventilation

Bosma KJ, Burns KEA, Martin CM, Skrobik Y, Mancebo Cortés J, Mulligan S, Lafreniere-Roula M, Thorpe KE, Suárez Montero JC, Morán Chorro I

New England Journal of Medicine202529 citations

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa2505708

Sleeping through recovery: sedatives at hospital discharge harm ICU survivors

Yoanna Skrobik, Douglas B. Coursin

Intensive Care Medicine20251 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1007/s00134-025-07789-1 PMID: 39849157

Proceed with caution: assessing the impact of restricting intensive care unit visitation

Yoanna Skrobik, May S. Hua

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine2025First authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1164/rccm.202507-1769ed PMID: 41135028

Proportional Assist Ventilation for Minimizing the Duration of Mechanical Ventilation (the PROMIZING study): update to the statistical analysis plan for a randomized controlled trial

Bosma KJ, Lafreniere-Roula M, Jiang A, Heath A, Ouyang Y, Wade K, Hu P, Burns KEA, Martin CM, Skrobik Y

Trials20241 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1186/s13063-024-08669-7

A randomised controlled trial of a nutrition and a decision support intervention to enable partnerships with families of critically ill patients

Andrea P. Marshall, Lauren J. Van Scoy, Wendy Pearl Chaboyer, Mary Chew, Judy Elisa Davidson, Andrew G. Day, Angelly Martinez, Jayshil J. Patel, Shelley Roberts, Yoanna Skrobik, Beth E. Taylor, Georgia Tobiano, Daren Keith Heyland

Journal of Clinical Nursing202310 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1111/jocn.16752 PMID: 37161555

Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of Proportional Assist Ventilation for Minimizing the Duration of Mechanical Ventilation: the PROMIZING study

Bosma KJ, Martin CM, Burns KEA, Mancebo Cortes J, Suárez Montero JC, Skrobik Y, Thorpe KE, Amaral ACK-B, Arabi Y, Basmaji J

Trials20238 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1186/s13063-023-07163-w

Scheduled intravenous opioids

Cathrine McKenzie, Yoanna Skrobik, John W. Devlin

Intensive Care Medicine20236 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1007/s00134-023-07254-x PMID: 37922011

Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of Proportional Assist Ventilation for Minimizing the Duration of Mechanical Ventilation: The PROMIZING Study

Karen J. Bosma, Claudio M. Martin, Karen E. A Burns, Jordi Mancebo, J.C. Suarez Montero, Yoanna Skrobik, Kevin E. Thorpe, Laurent Brochard, André Carlos Kajdacsy-Balla Amaral, Yaseen M. Arabi, John Basmaji, Gaëtan Beduneau, François Beloncle, Guillaume Carteaux, Emmanuel Charbonney, Alexandre Demoule, Martin Dres, Vito Fanelli, Anna Geagea, Ewan C. Goligher, François Lellouche, Tommaso Maraffi, Alain Mercat, Pablo Rodríguez, Jason Shahin, Stephanie R. Sibley, Savino Spadaro, Katerina Vaporidi, Elizabeth M Wilcox

Research Square20232 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2348065/v1

Sense and sensibility

Nicole Hunfeld, Yoanna Skrobik

Intensive Care Medicine20231 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1007/s00134-023-07134-4 PMID: 37418041

Virtual Family Participation in Adult ICU Rounds: A Pilot Randomized Trial (The V-FAMILY Trial)

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Project Grant

Principal investigators: Goldfarb, Michael

Keywords: Family Engagement; Icu Rounds; Patient-Oriented Research; Virtual Care Participation

$76,500

RECOVER Program: A Care Continuum after Critical Illness

Co-investigatorCIHR2019Team Grant: TiC - Stream 1 - PHSI solutions for transitions in care gaps

Principal investigators: Herridge, Margaret S; Lawless, Bernard; Bayley, Mark T; Flannery, John F; Flockhart, Linda; Misak, Cheryl; Rush, Raphael; Tran, Jake

Keywords: Caregivers Outcomes,; Feasibility And Implementation; Health Care System; Knowledge Translation And Exchange; Patient And Family Engagement; Patient-Centred Outcomes; Post-Icu Care Continuum; Transitions In Care

$932,280

Proportional Assist Ventilation for Minimizing the Duration of Mechanical Ventilation: The PROMIZING Study

Co-investigatorCIHR2018Project Grant

Principal investigators: Bosma, Karen J; Brochard, Laurent J

Keywords: Patient-Ventilator Interaction; Patient-Ventilator Synchrony/ Dyssynchrony; Proportional Assist Ventilation; Randomized Controlled Trial; Recovery From Critical Illness; Respiratory Muscle; Weaning From Mechanical Ventilation

$501,076

Relaxation for critically ill Patient Outcomes and Stress-coping Enhancement (REPOSE): Clinical Trial of an Integrative Intervention to improve critically ill patients' delirium and related outcomes.

Co-investigatorCIHR2016Project Grant

Principal investigators: Papathanasoglou, Elisavet

Keywords: Clinical Trial; Critical Care Nursing; Guided Imagery; Integrative Therapy Intervention; Relaxation

$187,302

Delirium Assessment in the Critically Ill: A Patient and Family-Centered Approach

Co-investigatorCIHR2016Patient-Oriented Research Collaboration Grants

Principal investigators: Fiest, Kirsten M; Oxland, Peter R; Stelfox, Henry T

Keywords: Assessment; Critical Care; Delirium; Family-Centered; Focus Group; Intensive Care Unit; Validation

$24,913

Improving the caregiver's experience of critical illness with sense-making

Nominated PICIHR2016Patient-Oriented Research Collaboration Grants

Principal investigators: Skrobik, Yoanna

Keywords: Caregiver; Critical Illness; Depression; Mental Health Burden; Post-Traumatic Stress

$9,300

Development and Evaluation of a Family-Partnered Care Pathway for Critically Ill Older Patients

Co-investigatorCIHR2015Team Grant: Late Life Issues

Principal investigators: Stelfox, Henry T; Heyland, Daren K

Keywords: Clinical Trial; Cohort Study; Critical Illness; Family Engagement; Focus Groups; Intensive Care Unit; Older Patients; Patient Centred Care; Survey

$1,388,754

Realities, Expectations and Attitudes to Life Support Technologies in Intensive Care for Octogenarians: The REALISTIC 80

Co-investigatorCIHR2008Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Heyland, Daren K

Keywords: Aging; Clinical Decision Making; Outcomes Research; Quality Of Care; Quality Of Life; Satisfaction

$800,444

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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Yoanna Skrobik

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Memory, sedation, and recovery in the ICU: what should we do better?

Proportional-Assist Ventilation for Minimizing the Duration of Mechanical Ventilation

Sleeping through recovery: sedatives at hospital discharge harm ICU survivors

Proceed with caution: assessing the impact of restricting intensive care unit visitation

Proportional Assist Ventilation for Minimizing the Duration of Mechanical Ventilation (the PROMIZING study): update to the statistical analysis plan for a randomized controlled trial

A randomised controlled trial of a nutrition and a decision support intervention to enable partnerships with families of critically ill patients

Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of Proportional Assist Ventilation for Minimizing the Duration of Mechanical Ventilation: the PROMIZING study

Scheduled intravenous opioids

Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of Proportional Assist Ventilation for Minimizing the Duration of Mechanical Ventilation: The PROMIZING Study

Sense and sensibility

Frequent collaborators

Deborah Cook

Maureen Meade

Peter Dodek

Sangeeta Mehta

Diane Heels-Ansdell

Karen Burns

Niall Ferguson

Lisa Burry

Margaret Herridge

John Granton

Mark Crowther

Céline Gélinas

François Lamontagne

Paul Hebert

Laurent Brochard

Michael Jacka

John Muscedere

Karen Bosma

Brian Kavanagh

Bram Rochwerg