Dr. Kuniavsky Michael
Fields of Research
School of Nursing Science
Quality and safety in healthcare
Quality measurment in healthcare
Hyperbaric Oxygenation treatment
Nursing, Ethics in healthcare
Critical Care
Qualitative research
Surrogate decision making
Medical devices related pressure injuries
Short Bio
I completed my undergraduate degree (cum laude) and graduate studies at the Henrietta Szold Nursing School at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, followed by a PhD from the Hebrew University-Hadassah Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine. With over ten years of experience as a critical care nurse in a large ICU, I have integrated clinical expertise with research focused on ICU nursing, medical ethics, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Additionally, I led clinical training for nurses and nursing students in the ICU and worked to enhance quality of care at the hospital level. I was later promoted to oversee national quality measurement for the Ministry of Health's National Program for Quality Measurement, where I represented the program and the ministry on multiple occasions, including at the OECD. I am open to collaborative research on various healthcare topics.
Selected Publications
1. Ashkenazy, S., Ganz, F. D., Kuniavsky, M., Jakobson, L., Levy, H., Avital, I. L., Kolpak, O., Golan, D., Rebecca, M. L., Itzhakov, S., Suliman, M., Lavy, A., Biton, C., Broyer, C., & Benbenishty, J. (2023). Patient mobilization in the intensive care unit: Assessing practice behavior - A multi-center point prevalence study. Intensive & critical care nursing, 103510. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iccn.2023.103510
2. M. Kuniavsky, E. Lubanetz, D. Chinnitz, (2022). Why do we fail complying with hand hygiene recommendations in COVID-19 wards?, Intensive & Critical Care Nursing, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iccn.2022.103299
3. Kuniavsky*, M., Doenyas-Barak*, K., Goldschmidt, N., Huppert, A., Bronshtein, O., Rosenfelder, C., Freedman, L. S., & Niv, Y. (2022). COVID-19 and Renal Failure - Adding Insult to Injury? Israel's Experience Based on Nationwide Retrospective Cohort Study. Journal of general internal medicine, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-022-07722-y
4. Niv, Y., Eliakim-Raz, N., Bar-Lavi, Y., Green, M., Dreiher, J., Hupert, A., Freedman, L., Weiss, Y., Zetland, R., Luz, S., Menachemi, D., Kuniavsky, M.,Rahav, G., Sagi, R., Goldschmidt, N., & Mahalla, H. (2022). Comparing Covid-19 pandemic waves in hospitalized patients - a retrospective, multicenter, cohort study. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciac119
5. Konson*, A., Kuniavsky*, M., Bronshtein, O., Goldschmidt, N., Hanhart, S., Mahalla, H., Peri, S., Dollberg, S., & Niv, Y. (2022). Quality of care indicator performance was minimally changed in 2020 despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Israel journal of health policy research, 11(1), 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13584-022-00516-x [*equal contribution]
6. Kuniavsky, M., Vilenchik, E., & Lubanetz, A. (2020). Under (less) pressure - Facial pressure ulcer development in ventilated ICU patients: A prospective comparative study comparing two types of endotracheal tube fixations. Intensive & critical care nursing, 58, 102804. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iccn.2020.102804
7. Kuniavsky, M., Bechor, Y., Leitman, M., & Efrati, S. (2018). Carbon monoxide poisoning in a young, healthy patient: A case study of heart failure recovery after Hyperbaric Oxygenation Treatment. Intensive & critical care nursing, 47, 85–88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iccn.2018.04.008
8. Cecconi, M., Hofer, C., Teboul, J. L., Pettila, V., Wilkman, E., Molnar, Z., et. al., FENICE Investigators, & ESICM Trial Group (2015). Fluid challenges in intensive care: the FENICE study: A global inception cohort study. Intensive care medicine, 41(9), 1529–1537. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-015-3850-x
9. Kuniavsky, M., van Heerden, P. V., Kadmon, I., Dekeyser Ganz, F., Linton, D. M., & Sviri, S. (2014). Attitudes of legal guardians in the ICU - a qualitative report. Intensive & critical care nursing, 30(2), 86–92.
10. Kuniavsky, M. & Sviri, S. (2011). Attitudes of Legal Guardians of ventilated ICU patients towards the process of decision making associated with invasive none life-saving procedures. Intensive Care Med 37 (Suppl 1), S75. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-011-2322-1