Content Posted in 2013

Laboratory specimen acceptability (QT3) Annual summary report, Richard Friedberg MD

Labor patterns in women with a successful vaginal birth after Cesarean (VBAC) in the US: The consortium on safe labor, Ronald Burkman MD and J Zhang

Lack of circulating bioactive and immunoreactive IGF-I changes despite improved fitness in chronic kidney disease patients following 48 weeks of physical training, Sheila Sullivan and Michael Germain MD

Lack of Time-of-Day Differences Is Not Necessarily Indicative of Lack of Circadian Influences: Letter to the Editor, Thomas Rowland MD

Lactic acidosis and delta anion gap: Do serial lactate measurements add value?, William McGee MD, Ashish Arora MD, and Geetika Sachdeva MD

Laparascopic discectomy and fusion (L5-S1), John Romanelli MD

Laparascopic repair of a paraesophageal hernia and concurrent hernia of Morgagni, John Romanelli MD

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy for duplicated gallbladder, John Romanelli MD

Laparoscopic Colostomy, Ileostomy, and Feeding Tubes, John Romanelli MD and Kelly Tyler MD

Laparoscopic Duplicate Verniform Appendectomy: Rare finding averts poor outcome, John Romanelli MD

Laparoscopic hysterectomy for benign conditions, Oz Harmanli MD

Laparoscopic management of complex Crohn's disease., Neal Seymour MD

Laparoscopic plication pf a gastrojejunostomy with endoscopic guidance in the porcine model, Connie Rossini MD, Viriato Fiallo MD, and Burritt Haag MD

Laparoscopic repair of blunt traumatic anterior abdominal wall hernia., Imtiaz Munshi MD

Laparoscopic resection of an obturator nerve schwannoma, Philip Omotosho MD, David Tashjian MD, and Kevin Moriarty MD

Laparoscopic revision of TAPP hernia repair for early genitofemoral neuralgia, John Romanelli MD

Laparoscopic treatment of intestinal malrotation in adults., Neal Seymour MD

Laparoscopic Vecchietti procedure: Improving on an indispensable method: Novel variations on an essential technique may benefit surgeons and their patients, Oz Harmanli MD

Laparoscopic vecchietti procedure made easy: Innovative ideas to improve the technique and patient discomfort, Oz Harmanli MD

Laparoscopic vs open incisional hernia repair: A single institution analysis of hospital resource utilization for 844 consecutive cases, David Earle MD and Neal Seymour MD

LARC methods-It makes sense or increase use!, Ronald Burkman MD

Large mucosal lip defects: Management by second intention healing, Aimee Leonard MD

Large vesicovaginal fistula in women with pelvic organ prolapse: The role of colpocleisis revisited, Oz Harmanli MD

Late post-partum eclampsia and posterior reversible Leukoencephalopathy Syndrome, Ashish Verma MD, Basil Lau MD, Shaji Daniel MD, and Paul Jodka MD

Laughter, humor and fun: Promoting team wellness, Alice Leveston MSW

Leaking anastomosis after gastric bypass, John Romanelli MD

Learning and attention problems among children with pediatric primary hypertension, Laura Gebhardt

Learning to care for the dying, Monique Carreno MD, Maura Brennan MD, Diane Dietzen MD, and Gina Luciano MD

Left bundle branch block partial reversal with L-thyroxine administration in a hypothyroid patient, Maura Brennan MD, David Ling MD, and Duha Shaheen MD

Left-sided appendicitis in a patient with congenital gastrointestinal malrotation: a case report, Frank Welte MD

Left upper quadrant abdominal pain: Imaging considerations and a pictorial differential diagnosis, Peter Ghobrial MD

Left upper quadrant pain: From common causes to less common surprises, Peter Ghobrial MD

Left ventricular noncompaction and aneurysm revealed by left ventriculography, Costin Ionescu MD

Left ventricular volume estimation from three-dimensional echocardiography, K Francis Lee MD

Legal considerations for palliative care in surgical practice., K Francis Lee MD

LegalEASE-Breast complaints: How to reduce the risk of medical liabilty, Ronald Burkman MD

LegalEase-Clinical decision making and diagnostic errors, Ronald Burkman MD

LegalEASE-Dispute resolution: Alternatives to the current tort system, Ronald Burkman MD

LegalEASE-Fetal heart tracing-Why communication and documentation are essential, Ronald Burkman MD

LegalEASE-Handoffs: A continuing challenge, Ronald Burkman MD

LegalEase-Informed consent-sometimes its not all that easy, Ronald Burkman MD

LegalEASE-Medical liability insurance rates: How are they determined?, Ronald Burkman MD

LegalEase-Reentry into practice: no easy path, Ronald Burkman MD

LegalEASE-Sleep deprivation: It's not just an issue with residents, Ronald Burkman MD

LegalEASE-Urinary tract injury: Early recognition may save the day, Ronald Burkman MD

Legionella pneumonia: the spectrum continues to expand., Richard Brown MD

Leg pain from a pericardial effusion, Maura Brennan MD, Ashita Talsania MD, and Manmeet Singh MD

Leiomyosarcoma, Hal Jenson MD

Length of stay and mortality in pulmonary embolism: high time for evidence-based discharge criteria, Peter Lindenauer MD

Less is more: Management of pediatric spleen injury, Kevin Moriarty MD and George Wadie MD

Less is more: management of pediatric splenic injury, Kevin Moriarty MD and David Tashjian MD

Lessons from geese: Teaching teamwork in a patient centered medical home, Lauren Meade MD

Lessons from the trenches: Improving practice in an academic health center, Elizabeth Boyle MD and Gregory Delozier

Lessons learned on pain, Jeannette Wolfe MD

Let's all learn from California's failed mandatory nurse staffing ratio law: Defeat mandatory staffing ratio bill (HB4783), Deborah Morsi

Letter: Kaposi sarcoma versus Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Letter to the editor, Jeannette Wolfe MD

Leukemic ascites., Liron Pantanowitz MD and Richard Steingart MD

Liability tort reform - not a done deal, Ronald Burkman MD

Libraries in New England working to develop healthy communities and increase health literacy, Margot Malachowski MLS

Lidocaine jelly and plain aqueous gel for urethral straight catheterization and the Q-tip test: A randomized controlled trial, Oz Harmanli MD, Obi Okafor MD, and Alex Knee MD

Lidocaine jelly and plain aqueous gel for urethral straight catheterization and the Q-tip test: A randomized controlled trial, Oz Harmanli M.D., Obi Okafor MD, and Alex Knee

Lifetime recreational exercise activity and breast cancer risk among black women and white women., Ronald Burkman MD

Light-regulated release of DNA and its delivery to nuclei by means of photolabile gold nanoparticles, Neil Forbes

Ligneous inflammation of the female genital tract, Gabriel Caponetti MD, Christopher Otis MD, Sharon Marconi, and Liron Pantanowitz MD

Ligneous (pseudomembranous) inflammation involving the female genital tract associated with type-1 plasminogen deficiency., Liron Pantanowitz MD

Limited prognostic value of a staging system for twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome., Michael Plevyak MD

Linezolid in Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus nosocomial pneumonia: A randomized, controlled study, William McGee MD

Linezolid vs. Vancomycin in the treatment of nosocomial pneumonia proven due to methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, William McGee MD

Lipid-lowering therapy and in-hospital mortality following major noncardiac surgery., Evan Benjamin MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, and Penny Pekow

Lipomatous disorder of the peri-trochanteric soft tissue: Case report and review., Glen Brooks MD

Lipoprotein(a) predicts mortality in hemodialysis patients, Barbara Greco MD

Listeria monocytogenes infection in a HIV-infected patient manifesting as cardiac interventricular abscess, Khaled Dahche MD, Dmitri Iarikov MD, Daniel Skiest MD, and Linda Bobo MD

Literacy training in community pediatrics, Elizabeth Boyle MD

Literature review of residents as teachers from an adult learning perspective, Rebecca Blanchard PhD, Kevin Hinchey MD, and Elisabeth Bennett

Little evidence of correlation between growth in health care spending and reduced mortality, Michael Rothberg MD, Jaime Cohen MD, and Peter Lindenauer MD

Local recurrence after transanal endoscopic microsurgery for rectal polyps and early cancers., Albert Alexander MD, Sabha Ganai MD, Prathima Kanumuri MD, and R Rao MD

Local recurrence following transanal endoscopic microsurgery for rectal polyps and early cancers, Sabha Ganai MD, Prathima Kanumuri MD, R Rao MD, and Albert Alexander MD

Longitudinal data analysis with latent growth modeling: An introduction and illustration for higher education researchers, Rebecca Blanchard PhD

Longitudinal patterns of weight gain after breast cancer diagnosis: Observations beyond the first year., Grace Makari-Judson MD and Wilson Mertens MD

Longitudinal patterns of weight gain after breast cancer diagnosis: Observations beyond the first year., Wilson Mertens MD, Grace Makari-Judson MD, and Ruth Barham

Longitudinal study of depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (Depo-Provera(R)) effects on bone health in adolescents: study design, population characteristics and baseline bone mineral density, Ronald Burkman MD

Long term disability evaluations for private insurers, Stuart Anfang M.D.

Long term effects of renal artery stenting with carbon dioxide angiography on renal function and blood pressure control, Leelakrishna Nallamshetty MD, Hetal Patel MD, George Hartnell MD, and Barbara Greco MD

Long-term gentamicin lock catheter prophylaxis is associated with gentamicin-resistant gram-positive bacteremias in chronic hemodialysis patients, Gregory Braden MD, Daniel Landry MD, Stephen Sweet MD, Sarah Haessler MD, and Chirag Vaidya MD

Looking back at Lyme carditis, Jose Martagon-Villamil MD and Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD

Loop-anchor purse-string closure of gastrotomy in NOTES(R) Procedures: Survival studies in a porcine model, John Romanelli MD, David Desilets MD, Christopher Chapman MD, Carolanne Lovewell, and David Earle MD

Loop-anchor purse-string versus endoscopic clips for gastric closure: A natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery comparison study using burst pressures, David Earle MD, David Desilets MD, and John Romanelli MD

Loss of heterozygosity occurs via mitotic recombination in Trp53+/- mice and associates with mammary tumor susceptibility of the BALB/c strain., Christopher Otis MD and D Joseph Jerry

Loss of heterozygosity of p53, BRCA1, VHL, and estrogen receptor genes in breast carcinoma: correlation with related protein products and morphologic features., Christopher Otis MD and Patricia Krebs MD

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Loss of SFRP1 promotes ductal branching in the murine mammary gland, Kelly Gauger, Giovanna Crisi MD, and Sallie Schneider PhD

Lost in translation, William Ortiz MD, Kevin Hinchey MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, and Sandra Bellantonio MD

Lost or Found in Transition: Educational Innovation for Transitions of Care, Lauren Meade MD

Low mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC) predicts death in chronic hemodialysis patients, Gregory Braden MD and Jeffrey Mulhern MD

Low Prevalence of Primary HIV Resistance in Western Massachusetts, Dmitri Iarikov MD, Daniel Skiest MD, Claudia Martorell MD, and Robert Hoffman MD

Low sensitivity of the Leukocyte Esterase Test (LET) in detecting Chlamydia trachomatis infections in asymptomatic men entering a county jail., Thomas Lincoln MD

Lumbar exam in chronic pain, Julio Martinez-Silvestrini MD

Lumbar subarachnoid hemorrhage in a parturient with HELLP Syndrome revealed by but unrelated to spinal anesthesia; A review of differential diagnosis of spinal subarachnoid hemorrhage in pregnancy, Adam Adler M.D. and Poornachandran Manikantan MD

LY315920NA/S-5920, a selective inhibitor of group IIA secretory phospholipase A2, fails to improve clinical outcome for patients with severe sepsis., Jay Steingrub MD

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Lymph node extramedullary hematopoiesis in breast cancer patients receiving neoadjuvant therapy: A potential diagnostic pitfall, Carlos Prieto-Granada MD, Namrata Setia MD, and Christopher Otis MD

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Lymph node micrometastases of adenocarcinoma located in gastroesophagal junction, James Mueller MD

Lymphocytic choriomeningitis, Hal Jenson MD

Lymphoedematous variants of Kaposi's sarcoma, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Wayne Duke MD

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Macrolides for the long-term management of asthma - a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials., Annabelle Quizon MD

Macrolides in community-acquired pneumonia: Does the bell toll for thee, Eric Granowitz MD and Richard Brown MD

Mad as a hatter, stiff as a board, Maura Brennan MD, Amit Bhargava MD, Tara Lagu MD, and Miguel Mujica-Baella MD

Magnetic resonance imaging of the fetal central nervous system, head, neck, and chest, Stephen O'Connor

Magnetic retraction of the gallbladder during NOTES transvaginal cholecystectomy, John Romanelli MD, David Desilets MD, and David Earle MD

Maintaining perianesthesia competencies on a tight budget, Cidalia Vital RN, Cinnamon Desgres RN, Alison Colburn RN, Esther Brown RN, Maryann Tourtellotte RN, Maureen Maynard RN, Ann Marie Culver RN, Deb Pond RN, and Barbara Zahm RN

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Major depression and PTSD in pregnant smokers enrolled in Nicotine Gum Treatment Trial., Heather Sankey M.D.

Major determinants of height development in Turner syndrome (TS) patients treated with GH: Analysis of 987 patients from KIGS., Edward Reiter MD

Making it count twice: turning quality improvement into research., Peter Lindenauer MD

Making it work: Successful collaborative practice, Susan DeJoy, Ronald Burkman MD, Barbara Graves, Daniel Grow MD, Heather Sankey MD, Julie Feinland, Carolyn Delk MD, Janet Kaplan, and Anastasia Hallisey

Making the case for case management: Obtaining outside support for HIV-infected jail detainees, Thomas Lincoln MD

Making the Diagnosis: A Practical Guide to Breast Imaging, David March MD

Male Breast Disease: A multimodality pictorial review with pathologic correlation, Cheri Nguyen MD

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Male Breast Disease: Pictorial Review with Radiologic-Pathologic Correlation, Cheri Nguyen MD, Michael Swirsky MD, Vivian Miller MD, Caleb Scott MD, Rhett Krause MD, and Jennifer Hadro MD

Malignant glioneuronal tumors in adults: A report of two cases with diverse morphology, Luis Moral MD and Sandra Camelo-Piragua MD

Malignant mesothelioma, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Christopher Otis MD

Malignant mesothelioma: A personal perspective and a chronologic review of three decades, Christopher Otis MD

Malignant neurocardiogenic vasovagal syncope - An uncommon cardiovascular complication of Roux-En-Y gastric bypass surgery: The fainting syndrome, Kah Poh Loh MD

Malignant pericardial effusions., Kenneth Frankel MD

Malocclusions, Lindsey Grossman MD

"Malpositioned" Central Venous Catheter, Karin Zuegge MD, Karthik Raghunathan MD, and Charles Gibson

Mammalian bites and associated infections, Stephen Playe MD

Mammary tumor modifiers in BALB/cJ mice heterozygous for p53., D Joseph Jerry

Mammographic asymmetries: Review of terminology and strategies for increasing cancer detection, David March MD, Paryssa Khadem MD, Giovanna Crisi MD, Vivian Miller MD, and Dmitry Rakita MD

Mammotome footprints: Histologic artefacts in the era of stereotactic vacuum mammotome biopsy., Liron Pantanowitz MD, Giovanna Crisi MD, and Christopher Otis MD

Management dilemma: Progressive thrombosis in a patient with sarcoidosis, cirrhosis and a history of bleeding esophageal varices, Lu Pan MD, Iheanyichukwu Ogu MD, Kah Poh Loh MD, Joseph Rozell MD, David Desilets MD, and Linda Canty MD

Management of abnormal cervical cancer screening tests - New ASCCP consensus guidelines, Roxanne Florence MD

Management of acute cutaneous wounds, Jeffrey Kaufman MD

Management of AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma., Liron Pantanowitz MD

Management of anxiety disorders in the pediatric primary care setting, Barry Sarvet MD and Sara Brewer MD

Management of delirium in the elderly patient, Anju Bhagavan MD, Maura Brennan MD, and Sandra Bellantonio MD

Management of distraction injury of the lumbosacral junction with unilateral perched facet, Clemens Schirmer MD

Management of hyponatremia: Providing treatment and avoiding harm, Benjamin Freda MD, Chirag Vaidya MD, and Warren Ho MD

Management of infective endocarditis: Clinical experience with outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy, Julius Larioza MD, Richard Brown MD, Amy Girard, and Lena Heung MD

Management of infective endocarditis in outpatients: Clinical experience with outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy, Richard Brown MD, Julius Larioza MD, Amy Girard, and Lena Heung MD

Management of influenza in adults older than 65 years of age, Sandra Bellantonio MD, David Rose MD, and Michael Rothberg MD

Management of influenza symptoms in healthy adults., David Rose MD and Michael Rothberg MD

Management of influenza symptoms in healthy children: Cost-effectiveness of rapid testing and antiviral therapy., Michael Rothberg MD, Donna Fisher MD, Brendan Kelly MD, and David Rose MD

Management of migraine headaches., Barbara Graves

Management of the most severely injured spleen: a multicenter study of the Research Consortium of New England Centers for Trauma (ReCONECT), Reginald Alouidor MD and Ronald Gross MD

Management of unexpected difficult airway at a teaching institution over a 7-year period., Neil Connelly MD, Kamel Ghandour MD, Larry Robbins MD, Charles Gibson, and Steven Dunn MD

Managing community-acquired pneumonia during flu season, Sarah Haessler MD and Jennifer Schimmel MD

Managing hospitalized patients with heart failure, Cindy Cunningham

Managing quality point of care testing, James Nichols

Managing STDs in correctional settings: Behind the walls, Thomas Lincoln MD

Managing STDs in the correctional setting: The new guidelines and a handbook for clinicians, Thomas Lincoln MD

Manejo de Embarazo de Alto Riesgo (Management of High Risk Pregnancy), Glenn Markenson MD

Manganese super-oxide dismutase (MnSOD) and catalase (CAT) enhance survival and influence differentiation of human bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), Sabyasachi Sen MD

Manifestations of hamate injuries on plain radiographs, Chiedozie Mkpolulu MD, Marc Haber MD, Khaldoon Al Dulaimy MD, and Khaldoon Al Dulaimy MD

Many emergency care workers do not verify patient identity prior to performing common tasks, Philip Henneman MD, Elizabeth Henneman, and Donna Fisher MD

Many emergency health care workers do not verify patient identity prior to performing common tasks, Philip Henneman MD and Elizabeth Henneman

Mapping the rectum: Spatial analysis of microsurgical outcomes using GIS, Jane Garb, Christopher Boyd MD, Richard Wait MD, Ric Skinner, Sabha Ganai MD, Albert Alexander MD, R Rao MD, and Prathima Kanumuri MD

Mapping the rectum: Spatial analysis of transanal endoscopic microsurgical outcomes using GIS technology., Jane Garb, Richard Wait MD, Albert Alexander MD, Sabha Ganai MD, Prathima Kanumuri MD, and R Rao MD

Marfan syndrome, dural ectasia and polyradiculopathy, George Baquis MD and Paul Markarian

Masked hypercalcemia in a patient with chronic pain, Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD, Ashita Talsania MD, Ilse Levin MD, and Stephen Ryzewicz MD

Mass casualty terrorist bombings: a comparison of outcomes by bombing type., Howard Smithline MD and Jeffrey Arnold MD

Mass-casualty, terrorist bombings: epidemiological outcomes, resource utilization, and time course of emergency needs (Part I)., Jeffrey Arnold MD and Howard Smithline MD

Mass-casualty, terrorist bombings: implications for emergency department and hospital emergency response (Part II)., Jeffrey Arnold MD

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Massive hemothorax from a type-B aortic dissection, Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD

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Massive subcutaneous emphysema in robotic sacrocolpopexy, Keisha Jones MD and Oz Harmanli M.D.

Mastitis and breast abscess, Liron Pantanowitz MD, Holly Mason MD, and Daniel Skiest MD

Mastitis and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): the calm before the storm?, Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD

Mastocytosis of the female breast, Giovanna Crisi MD, Liron Pantanowitz MD, and Namrata Setia MD

Maternal and neonatal outcomes by labor onset type and gestational age, Ronald Burkman MD

Maternal body mass index, delivery route, and induction of labor in a midwifery caseload., Penny Pekow, Barbara Graves, and Susan DeJoy

Maternal hemodynamic monitoring and the Vigileo monitor, Neil Connelly MD, Karthik Raghunathan MD, Tanya Lucas MD, and Karin Zuegge MD

Maternal outcomes by labor onset type, Ronald Burkman MD and J Zhang

Maternal side-effects after multiple courses of antenatal corticosteroids (MACS): The three-month follow-up of women in the randomized controlled trial of MACS for preterm birth study, Fadi Bsat MD

Maternal vascular underperfusion: nosology and reproducibility of placental reaction patterns., Theonia Boyd MD

Mathematical model of tumor metabolism and therapeutic efficacy based on mass balance, transport phenomena and reaction kinetics, Neil Forbes

Matrix metalloproteinases in the progression and regression of Kaposi's sarcoma., Liron Pantanowitz MD

Max Schur, M.D., 1897-1969., Stephen Wittenberg MD and Lewis Cohen MD

May we live in interesting times--Society of General Internal Medicine clinician-educators respond to new challenges in graduate medical education., Stewart Babbott MD

MD Communication: A LEAN performance improvement project at Baystate Medical Center, Adrienne Seiler MD, Jasmine Paadam MD, Christine Bryson MD, and Roy Sittig MD

Measurement of phosphocreatine recovery kinetics in muscle using phosphorous magnetic resonance imaging, Howard Smithline MD

Measurement of phosphocreatine recovery kinetics in muscle using phosphorus magnetic resonance imaging, Howard Smithline MD

Measurement of the quality of care of patients admitted with decompensated cirrhosis, Rony Ghaoui MD, Jennifer Friderici, Peter Lindenauer MD, Tara Lagu MD, and David Desilets MD

Measurements of contrast intensity in systole are more accurate predictors of myocardial blood flow, validated by microspheres., Leng Jiang MD

Measures of crowding in the emergency department: A Systematic review, Niels Rathlev MD

Measuring diabetes self-care: A psychometric analysis of the Self-Care Inventory-Revised with adults, Garry Welch

Measuring quality of dying in end-stage renal disease., Lewis Cohen MD and Michael Germain MD

Measuring quality of inpatient care, Adrienne Seiler MD and Evan Benjamin MD

Measuring quality of life in low-income, Spanish-speaking Puerto Ricans with type 2 diabetes residing in the mainland U.S., Garry Welch

Mechanism of trauma, Aaron Hexdall MD

Mechanisms of occlusion of uncoated self-expanding metal biliary stents(SEMS): Final results of a multi-center comparative study, David Desilets MD

Meconium Stained Amniotic Fluid (MSAF) increases C-Reactive Protein (CRP) and duration of Antibiotic (ABX) administration in neonates with Respiratory Distress (RD)., Robert Rothstein MD

Media role in violence and the dynamics of bullying, Patrick Brown MD and Cheryl Tierney

Mediastinal drain entrapment detected on computed tomography in 2 obese patients after median sternotomy, Ak Alameddine MD, John Rousou MD, and Victor Alimov MD

Mediators of the inflammatory response to joint replacement devices, Giovanna Crisi MD

Medical consultation and best practices for preoperative evaluation of elderly patients, Mihaela Stefan MD, Gladys Fernandez MD, and Laura Iglesias Lino MD

Medical Ethics, Lewis Cohen MD

Medical ethics, end of life care and clinical research, Jay Steingrub MD, Mark Tidswell MD, and Paul Jodka MD

Medical ethics in dialysis decision making, Lewis Cohen MD

Medical residents' attitude toward elderly drivers and elderly driving policies, Maura Brennan MD, M Javed Ashraf MD, Sandra Bellantonio MD, and Syed Hussain MD

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Medical student boot camp: A two-week elective for the advancement of cognitive and technical skills in preparation for internship, Raquel Belforti M.D., Adam Kellogg M.D., Lucienne Lutfy-Clayton M.D., and Gladys Fernandez M.D.

Medical student performance in surgical patient simulation correlates with end-of-clerkship oral examination performance, Gladys Fernandez MD, David Page MD, and Neal Seymour MD

Medical students in transitions in care, Jasmine Paadam MD, Lauren Meade MD, Michael Picchioni MD, and Reva Kleppel

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Medical Writing: A Guide for Clinicians, Educators, and Researchers, by Robert B. Taylor 2nd ed. New York: Springer, 2012. 372p. ISBN: 978-1-4419-8233-9. $34.95, Ellen Brassil

Medicine: The Art Behind the Science, Amit Bhargava MD

Medium conditioned by human endothelial progenitor cells (hEPCs) increases survival and insulin expression during differentiation of human islet-derived precursor cells (hIPCs), Sabyasachi Sen MD

Meeting the obstetric needs of incarcerated women - Care in a regional women's jail, Donna Jackson-Kohlin MD

Meet Mobile Audience Response, Ellen Brassil

Melamed-Wolinska Intracytoplasmic, Christopher Otis MD, Brooke Henninger MD, Robert Goulart MD, and Liron Pantanowitz MD

Melanoma presenting as atypical glandular cells on cervical cytology, Kathryn Sharpless MD

Meningeal enhancement: What every radiologist should know, Ajay Puri MD

Mental health problems in assisted living residents:The physician's role in treatment and staff education, Benjamin Liptzin MD

Mesenteric ischemia presenting as preterm labor, Stanlies D'Souza MD

Meta-analysis of catheter ablation as an adjunct to medical therapy for treatment of ventricular tachycardia in patients with structural heart disease, Jaya Mallidi MD and Winthrop Whitcomb MD

Meta-analysis of warfarin plus aspirin after myocardial infarction., Michael Rothberg MD, Carmel Celestin MD, and James Cook MD

Metabolic abnormalities in human immunodeficiency virus-infected children: Two-year follow-up, Maripat Toye RN MS, Jens Krause MD, Donna Fisher MD, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD, Edward Reiter MD, and Holley Allen MD

Metabolic and neuroendocrine responses to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. I: Energy balance, metabolic changes, and fat loss, Gregory Braden MD, Xiao Liu MD, John Romanelli MD, and J Enrique Silva MD

Metabolic effects of soy supplementation in postmenopausal Caucasian and African American women: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial, Cynthia Sites MD

Metabolic effects of thyroid hormones, J Enrique Silva MD

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Metabolic syndrome in obese adolescents is associated with risk for nephrolithiasis., Rishita Tiwari MD, Thomas Campfield MD, Chrystal Wittcopp MD, Gregory Braden M.D., Paul Visintainer, Edward Reiter MD, and Holley Allen MD

Metabolism of endogenous and exogenous reproductive hormones., Michael Plevyak MD and Daniel Grow MD

Metastatic goblet cell carcinoid tumor to the ovary, Christopher Otis MD

Metastatic versus primary oncocytic papillary adenocarcinoma of the endometrium: A report of a case and review of the literature, James Gebhardt MD

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: From the Hospital to the Community, Armando Paez MD and Daniel Skiest MD

Method of biopsy and sample quality for genetic mutation testing in advanced non-small cell lung cancer in a community hospital, Subramony Iyer MD

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Methods of luminal distention for colonoscopy, David Desilets MD

Methotrexate monotherapy in autoimmune hepatitis, Syed Hussain MD, Jeanne McCarthy, Siddharth Wartak MD, and David Desilets MD

Metrics that matter: Can transparency fix the health care system, Thomas Higgins MD

MHANCE (Mental Health as New Community Enhancement): Improving engagement into HIV+ care by engaging families of newly released inmates into the substance abuse recovery process, Thomas Lincoln MD

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Mice deficient in sfrp1 exhibit increased adiposity, dysregulated glucose metabolism, and enhanced macrophage infiltration, Kelly Gauger, Brooke Bentley, and Sallie Schneider PhD

Mice lacking the thyroid hormone receptor-á gene are protected against fat-induced insulin resistance, J Enrique Silva MD

Mice lacking the thyroid hormone receptor-á gene have increased insulin sensitivity when fed a high-fat diet, J Enrique Silva MD

Mice lacking the thyroid hormone receptor-alpha gene spend more energy in thermogenesis, burn more fat, and are less sensitive to high-fat diet-induced obesity, J Enrique Silva MD

Mice with a targeted deletion of the type 2 deiodinase are insulin resistant and susceptible to diet induced obesity, J Enrique Silva MD and Waile Ramadan MD

Microcytic anemia., Matthew Richardson MD

Microdroplet Sandwich Real-Time RT-PCR for Detection of Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza Subtypes, Andrew Artenstein MD

Microfluidic devices for the assembly and culture of three-dimensional multi-cellular constructs with diffusion-limited microenvironments, Neil Forbes

Microtumor embolization leading to cor pulmonale: an extremely rare complication of ovarian cancer, Giovanna Crisi MD and Ranjit Dhelaria MD

Midwives on the inside: Educational experiences with incarcerated women, Donna Jackson-Kohlin MD

Midwives training Ob/Gyn residents: Impact on maternal and fetal outcomes at one institution, Heather Sankey MD

Mild cognitive impairment: Not to be forgotten, Manmeet Singh MD, Maura Brennan MD, and Geetika Sachdeva MD

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Milestones: Do learners and teachers agree?, Lauren Meade M.D.

Milestones for Apheresis education, Chester Andrzejewski MD

Milestones: Theory to practice, Lauren Meade MD

Miller Cischer Syndrome, William House MD

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Minimally Invasive Diagnosis and Treatment of Endometrial Cancer After LeFort Colpocleisis, Oz Harmanli M.D., Keisha Jones MD, Jagendra Yadava, Parul Yadav MD, and Tashanna Myers MD

Minimally invasive treatment for brain tumors, Dennis Oh MD

Minimizing microstomia while maximizing esthetics in the reconstruction of acquired lip defects: The evolution of the bilateral paramedian cross-lip flap, Michael Spink MD

Minor blunt head injury in the intoxicated patient, Eleanor Winston MD and Lisa Patterson MD

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Misleading indexed hemodynamic parameters: the clinical importance of discordant BMI and BSA at extremes of weight, Adam Adler M.D., Karthik Raghunathan MD, and William McGee M.D.

Missed opportunities for osteoporosis treatment in patients hospitalized for hip fracture, Peter Lindenauer MD and Penny Pekow

Missed opportunities in the treatment of pediatric appendicitis, David Tashjian MD and Kevin Moriarty MD

Mitochondrial antioxidant manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) up-regulated human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) reduce inflammation in high glucose exposed adipocytes, Nagendra Yadava PhD and Sabyasachi Sen MD

Mitochondrial dysfunction impairs tumor suppressor p53 expression/function, Shannon Compton, Sabyasachi Sen MD, D Joseph Jerry, Sallie Schneider, and Chul Kim

Mixed hepatocellular-cholangiocarcinoma may derive from 'hepatogones', John Hunt MD

MMSE limitations in diagnosing vascular dementia, Mayu Sekiguchi MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, and Maura Brennan MD

Modafinil for treatment of cognitive side effects of antiepileptic drugs in a patient with seizures and stroke., Brian W. Smith MD

Modern lessons from Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Illyich"., David Page MD

Molecular pathology of solid tumors, Franklin Moore MD

Mom, what's my itis? A clinical and radiologic review on pediatric vasculitides, Grace Mitchell MD

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Monitoring equipment for endoscopy, David Desilets MD

Moral dilemma: Full code or futile code?, Mayu Sekiguchi MD and Maura Brennan MD

Moraxella catarrhalis, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

Morbidity of vaginal hysterectomy in women with prior pelvic surgery, Oz Harmanli MD

More educated emergency department patients are less likely to receive opioids for acute pain, Niels Rathlev MD

Morning rounds inpatient test availability (QT9) Annual summary report, Richard Friedberg MD

Morphology and location of restenosis following bare metal coronary stenting., Ehsan Ansari MD, James Cook MD, Ashequl Islam MD, Marc Schweiger MD, and Gregory Giugliano MD

Mortality in Friedreich's Ataxia, Gregory Giugliano MD and Prabhdeep Sethi MD

Mortality Probability Models(MPMO-III) for specialized patient populations, Thomas Higgins MD

Motivational interviewing and diabetes: What is it, how is it used, and does it work?, Garry Welch

Motivational interviewing and health behavior change counseling, Garry Welch

Motivational interviewing delivered by diabetes educators: Does it improve blood glucose control among poorly controlled type 2 diabetes patients?, Garry Welch, Sofija Zagarins MD, and Jane Garb

Mouse skeletal muscle microsomes have type-2 iodothyronine deiodinase (D2) mRNA and activity. Possible role in hypermetabolism of TRa deficient mice, J Enrique Silva MD and Waile Ramadan MD

MR and CT imaging of orbital tumors: A pictorial essay, Cheri Nguyen MD, Jane An MD, and Shan Li MD

MRI of the bowel: Review of indications, techniques and representative cases, Roozbeh Houshyar MD, Tara Catanzano MD, Dmitry Rakita MD, and Jonathan Cogley MD

Mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the breast shares cytogenetic abnormality with mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the salivary gland: A case report with molecular analysis and review of the literature, Christopher Otis MD, Sandra Camelo-Piragua MD, Claudine Habib MD, Prathima Kanumuri MD, and Holly Mason MD

Multicenter evaluation of the new Roche CRP high-sensitive assay on COBAS INTEGRA (R) systems, James Nichols

Multicenter implementation of a consensus-developed, evidence-based, spontaneous breathing trial protocol, Jay Steingrub MD, Thomas Higgins MD, and Patrick Mailloux MD

Multicenter randomized comparative effectiveness trial of cardiac CT vs alternative triage strategies in acute chest pain patients in the emergency department: Results from the ROMICAT II trial, J. Hector Pope M.D.

Multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled study of the nitric oxide scavenger pyridoxalated hemoglobin polyoxyethylene in distributive shock, Jay Steingrub MD

Multicenter randomized trial of the spiral Z-stent compared with the Wallstent for malignant biliary obstruction., David Desilets MD

Multicenter validation of a computer-based clinical decision support tool for glucose control in adult and pediatric intensive care units, Jay Steingrub MD

Multifetal pregnancy reduction, Andrew Healy MD

Multimodal analgesia for open liver resection in an anti-coagulated patient, Ammar Yamani MD and Stanlies D'Souza MD

Multiple-center randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study of the nitric oxide synthase inhibitor 546C88: effect on survival in patients with septic shock., Jay Steingrub MD

Multiple courses of antenatal corticosteroids for preterm birth (MACS): A randomised controlled trial, Fadi Bsat MD

Multiple courses of antenatal corticosteroids for preterm birth study: 2-year outcomes, Fadi Bsat MD

Multiple System Atrophy (MSA)-A rare cause of falls and syncope in an elder, Maura Brennan MD and Geetika Sachdeva MD

Multislice computed tomography demonstrating anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery, Halil Mutlu MD

Multi-society Consensus Quality Improvement Guidelines for the Treatment of Lower-extremity Superficial Venous Insufficiency with Endovenous Thermal Ablation from the Society of Interventional Radiology, Cardiovascular Interventional Radiological Society, John Cardella MD

Munchausen's malingering microbes, Ashish Verma MD, Mohamed Elarabi MD, and Michael Rosenblum MD

Munchausen syndrome by proxy, Patrick Brown MD and Cheryl Tierney

Murder and euthanasia accusations against physicians, Lewis Cohen MD

Muscarinic receptor agonists stimulate human colon cancer cell migration and invasion, Angelica Belo MD

Musculoskeletal disorders in systemic disease, Blake Spirko MD and Allison Brewer MD

Myasthenia flare with pleural metastasis of thymoma developing 6 years after the resection of invasive thymoma, Imran Dosani MD, Armen Asik MD, and Rose Ganim MD

Myasthenia gravis and levitiracetam: Case report, Philip Hsu MD

Myasthenia gravis in the setting of polypharmacy in an 86 year old, Rebeca Bell MD and Sandra Bellantonio MD

Mycobacterium leprae, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

Myelodysplastic syndrome with concurrent Sweet's syndrome and leukemia cutis, Vandita Johari MD and Wayne Duke MD

Myelodysplastic syndrome with isolated del(20q): A distinct clinicopathologic entity, Raavi Gupta MD and Vandita Johari MD

Myelodysplastic syndrome with isolated deletion of chromosome 20q: an indolent disease with minimal morphological dysplasia and frequent thrombocytopenic presentation, Vandita Johari MD

Myelofibrosis associated with romiplostim treatment in a patient with immune thrombocytopenia, Jonathan Freeman MD and Maria Gonzalez MD

Myeloid sarcoma., Liron Pantanowitz MD

Myocardial abscess 14 years after coronary bypass grafting, David Deaton MD, Ak Alameddine MD, Victor Alimov MD, and Laurie Gianturco MD

Myocardial abscess (MA) associated with remote coronary artery bypass grafting, Geetika Sachdeva MD

Myocardial function and aerobic fitness in adolescent females, Thomas Rowland MD

Myocardial function in rowers, Thomas Rowland MD

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Myocardial inotropic response to progressive exercise in healthy subjects: A review, Thomas Rowland M.D.

Myocardial performance during maximal exercise in adolescents with anorexia nervosa., Thomas Rowland MD, Laura Koenigs MD, and Nancy Miller MD

Myocardial performance during progressive exercise in athletic adolescent males, Thomas Rowland MD

Myofascial examination leads to diagnosis and successful treatment of migraine headache, Michael Sorrell MD

Myositis ossificans presenting as anterior thigh pain in a high school student: A case report, Julio Martinez-Silvestrini MD

Mystery diarrhea leads to a QI initiative on drug-related diarrhea in long-term care, Sandra Bellantonio MD

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Mythmaking in medical education and medical practice., Tara Lagu M.D., Nicholas Hannon, and Michael Rothberg M.D.

Myxoid liposarcoma., Liron Pantanowitz MD and Christopher Otis MD

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine-funde randomised controlled trials of acupunture: A systemic review, John Snyder MD

Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery gastrotomy closure in porcine explants with the Padlock-G clip using the Lock-It system, John Romanelli MD, David Desilets MD, and David Earle MD

Near fatal Foley, Senthil Sivalingam MD and Maura Brennan MD

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Near-infrared Spectroscopy Assessment of Tissue Saturation of Oxygen in Torsed and Healthy Testes, Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD, Fidela Blank, Ryan Coute, and Paul Visintainer

Near-infrared spectroscopy in healthy and torsed testes, Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD

Nearly fatal constipation in a frail elder, Shin Yin Lee MD, Yee Chuan Ang MD, and Maura Brennan MD

Nebulised sodium bicarbonate for acute chloramine toxicity due to household bleach inhalation, Geetika Sachdeva MD

Neck and chest trauma, Adam Kellogg MD

Neck and spinal cord injuries in child abuse, Stephen Boos MD

Neck Trauma, Niels Rathlev MD

Necrotizing enterocolitis and the role of anemia of prematurity, Bhavesh Shah MD and Rachana Singh MD

Necrotizing fasciitis in a chronic left lower extremity wound, Ilse Levin MD and Roy Sittig MD

Needs based, 'intelligent' surgical skills training system, David Earle MD and Neal Seymour MD

Nelson Essentials of Pediatrics, Hal Jenson MD

Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, Hal Jenson MD

Neonatal cranial ultrasound lesions and developmental delays at 2 years of age among extremely low gestational age children, Susan McQuiston MD

Neonatal Informatics: Optimizing Clinical Data Entry and Display, Patrick Brown MD

Neonatal Meningitis, David Dredge MD

Neonatal outcomes by labor onset type and gestational age, Ronald Burkman MD and J Zhang

Nephrolithiasis and nephrocalcinosis in children taking Topiramate for seizures, Sarah Barnett MD, Herbert Gilmore MD, Beth Rosen MD, Anthony Jackson MD, Dina Kornblau MD, and Jane Garb

Nephrology, Lewis Cohen MD and Michael Germain MD

Neurocognitive effects of treatment interruption in stable HIV-positive patients in an observational cohort, Daniel Skiest MD

Neurogenic stress cardiomyopathy in a patient with adult chiari type 1 malformation, Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD, Aashish Samat MD, Ashish Arora MD, and Patrick Mailloux MD

Neurological complications of pregnancy, Glenn Markenson MD and Carmel Armon MD

Neurologic Disease and Pregnancy, Glenn Markenson MD, Carmel Armon MD, George Baquis MD, George Howard MD, Philip Hsu MD, and Karin Johnson MD

Neuromuscular disorders. Highlights of the American Academy of Neurology 56th Annual meeting, Carmel Armon MD

Neuromuscular disorders. Highlights of the American Academy of Neurology 59th Annual Meeting, Carmel Armon MD

Neuropsychiatric complications and psychopharmacology of end-stage renal disease, Adam Mirot MD, Michael Germain MD, Lewis Cohen MD, and Ed Tessier

Neurosyphilis: An unusual case of dementia, Ashita Talsania MD, Richard Brown MD, and Maura Brennan MD

New classifications of appendiceal tumors and understanding the connection between the appendix and the ovary, Christopher Otis MD

New continous cardiac output measuring using arterial pressure waveforms, William McGee MD

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New devices and techniques for management of pancreatic fluid collections, David Desilets MD

New Directions in Point of Care and Critical Care Testing: Innovation, Controversies, and Partnerships, James Nichols

New-generation pulse oximetry in the care of critically ill patients., Thomas Higgins MD

New guidelines for GH treatment, Edward Reiter MD

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New intitiatives arise out of NECC compounding tragedy, Gary Kerr PharmD

New OB-GYN residents: An innovative approach to teaching the basics, Michael Plevyak MD and Heather Sankey MD

New-onset pelvic organ prolapse after Novasure endometrial ablation, Oz Harmanli MD and Kristin Dardano MD

New technology for the early detection of breast cancer, Holly Mason MD

New trends in less invasive cardiac output monitoring; solutions applied: a case study, William McGee MD

Nezhat's Operative Gynecologic Laparoscopy and Hysteroscopy, Ronald Burkman MD and Daniel Grow MD

Nicotine gum for pregnant smokers: A randomized controlled trial, Heather Sankey MD

Nissen fundoplication in the pediatric patient: Clinical and imaging evaluation, Grace Mitchell MD, Stanley Polansky MD, Stephen O'Connor MD, David Tashjian MD, Anastasios Angelides MD, and Qiqing Ge MD

No change of spontaneous physical activites after RYGB, Xiao Liu MD

Nodal staging of NSCLC: A pictorial atlas of thoracic lymph node stations utilizing FDG PET/CT, Erez Vidan MD, Laurie Gianturco MD, Boyd Hehn MD, and Gary Hochheiser MD

No Diversion in Western Massachusetts, Adam Kellogg MD

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No diversion in Western Massachusetts, Niels Rathlev MD, Fidela Blank, Benjamin Osborne MD, Adam Kellogg M.D., Haiping Li, John Santoro MD, and Paul Visintainer

Nodular rash many months after successful treatment of leprosy: A delayed presentation of erythema nodosum leprosum, Srikanth Penumetsa MD, Ilse Levin MD, Ranjit Dhelaria MD, Orlando Torres MD, and Alejandra Marin Ruiz MD

No Good Deed: A Story of Medicine, Murder Accusations, and the Debate over How We Die, Lewis Cohen MD

Nomenclature and definitions for emergency department human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing: Report from the 2007 conference of the National Emergency Department HIV Testing Consortium, Michael Lemanski MD

Non-adherence: Hypertensive emergency in a nongenarian, Sandra Bellantonio MD and Curtis Andrews MD

Non-neoplastic disorders of white blood cells, Rebecca Levy MD, Vandita Johari MD, and Liron Pantanowitz MD

Nonoperative correction of pectus carinatum with orthotic bracing., Gregory Banever MD, Stanley Konefal MD, and Kevin Moriarty MD

Nonresolving rhabdomyolysis revealing an occult culprit: A case report of paraspinal compartment syndrome, T. Vijay Gadiraju MD, Dhivya Sundaramurthy MD, and Christopher LaChance MD

Nontraumatic abdominal pain in pregnancy: imaging considerations for a multiorgan system problem, Peter Ghobrial MD, Tara Catanzano MD, and Chiedozie Mkpolulu MD

Nonventilatory interventions in the acute respiratory distress syndrome, Reginald Alouidor MD

No pain, no gain: A multimodality pictorial review of sports-related injuries in pre-adolescent and adolescent athletes, Cheri Nguyen MD, Qiqing Ge, Jane An MD, Michael Habeeb MD, Jehangir Patel MD, and Stanley Polansky MD

Normal and aberrant growth, Edward Reiter MD

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Norovirus gastroenteritis in immunocompromised patients, Sarah Haessler M.D. and Eric Granowitz M.D.

Not all dementias are alike: FTD with a family history of "Alzheimer's Disease", Karen Singh MD, T. Vijay Gadiraju MD, and Maura Brennan MD

Not another one! Making sense of CT and MR imaging features of focal splenic masses and recommendations for incidental findings, Sara Smolinski MD, Dmitry Rakita MD, and Michael Morrow MD

Notch1 expression in benign and malignant mammary epithelium, Sallie Schneider and Giovanna Crisi MD

NOTES and single port surgery: Evolution or revolution?, John Romanelli MD

NOTES pancreatic pseudocystgastrostomy: A human NOTES anastomosis., John Romanelli MD, David Desilets MD, David Earle MD, and Loki Skylizard MD

(NOTES) stapled cystgastrostomy - A novel approach for surgical management of pancreatic pseudocysts, John Romanelli MD, David Desilets MD, and David Earle MD

NOTES(®) stapled cystgastrostomy: a novel approach for surgical management of pancreatic pseudocysts, David Earle MD, David Desilets MD, and John Romanelli MD

NOTES transgastric abdominal wall hernia repair in a porcine model, John Romanelli MD, David Earle MD, and David Desilets MD

NOTES transgastric ventral hernia repair, David Desilets MD, John Romanelli MD, and David Earle MD

Not every atrial fib needs to be admitted, Susan Torrey MD

Notice of duplicate publication., Paul Salva MD and Chester Andrzejewski MD

Not just a sore throat: Lemierre"s syndrome a rare disease of infection induced internal jugular vein thrombosis and its differential diagnosis, Qiqing Ge, Jane An MD, and Shan Li MD

Not useful in modern healthcare, Ramakant Sharma MD

Novel NaPi-IIc mutations causing HHRH and idiopathic hypercalciuria in several unrelated families: Long-term follow-up in one kindred, Nancy Dunbar MD

Novel tissue factor/factor VIIa inhibitor reduces ischemia in patients with nSTE-ACS: Results of the dose-ranging and heparin de-escalation phases of the ANTHEM-TIMI 32 Trial, Marc Schweiger MD

Novices outperformed experienced laparoscopists in virtual reality laparoscopy simulator, Andrew Moore MD, Daniel Grow MD, Ron Bush, and Neal Seymour MD

Novices outperform experienced laparoscopists on virtual reality laparoscopy simulator, Daniel Grow MD, Andrew Moore MD, Ron Bush, and Neal Seymour MD

Now and future agenda: Key policy issues, Richard Friedberg MD

Now that's some bad gas: Case-based review of ectopic gas in the abdomen/pelvis, Jonathan Cogley MD

nPEP & PrEP, Thomas Lincoln MD

NT-proBNP levels in the ICU do not predict the etiology of respiratory distress., Thomas Higgins MD, Patrick Mailloux MD, and James Cook MD

Nucleic Acid Testing - Participant Summary. CAP Survey NAT-A; NAT-B; NAT-C., Richard Friedberg MD

Nurse diabetes case management interventions and blood glucose control: Results of a meta-analysis, Jane Garb, Garry Welch, and Sofija Zagarins MD

Nurses' behaviors and visual scanning patterns may reduce patient identification errors, Philip Henneman MD and Elizabeth Henneman

Nurses' visual scanning patterns during the medication administration process, Philip Henneman MD

Nursing hemotherapy bedside biovigilance in the recognition and management of suspected transfusion reactions, Chester Andrzejewski MD and Joan McGirr

Nursing home care quality and 30-day readmission rates for patients with heart failure, Owolabi Ogunneye MD, Michael Rothberg MD, Jennifer Friderici, Mara Slawsky MD, Reva Kleppel, Stephanie Calcasola, Mihaela Stefan MD, and T. Vijay Gadiraju MD

Nutritional and metabolic abnormalities in a patient with chronic pain, Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD, Ashita Talsania MD, Ilse Levin MD, and Stephen Ryzewicz MD

Obese BMI and pregnancy outcome, Susan DeJoy

Obesity and survival among black women and white women 35 to 64 years of age at diagnosis with invasive breast cancer, Ronald Burkman MD

Obesity and women's health, Ronald Burkman MD

Obesity does not alter the pharmacokinetics of drotrecogin alfa (activated) in severe sepsis., Jay Steingrub MD

Obesity in pregnancy: Should we be concerned, Michael Plevyak MD

Obesity, oxygen desaturation, and the need for a phenotypic classification of sleep disordered breathing, Michael Coppola MD

Objectively quantified level of dyspnea is not associated with large clot burden in patients with acute PE, Howard Smithline MD

Observational study of functional hemodynamics during one lung ventilation, William McGee MD, Karthik Raghunathan MD, Charles Gibson, Gary Hochheiser MD, and Rose Ganim MD

Obstetric triage: Models and trends in resident education by midwives, Elizabeth Stevens

Obstructive sleep apnea and prolonged mechanical ventilation, Karin Johnson MD and Douglas Johnson MD

Obstructive sleep apnea is a risk factor for stroke and atrial fibrillation, Karin Johnson MD and Douglas Johnson MD

Occult etiology of emesis in an adolescent, Claire Poche M.D.

Occurrence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis among Gulf War veterans, Carmel Armon MD

Occurrence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis among Gulf War veterans., Carmel Armon MD

Occurrence of Chlamydia trachomatis and Chlamydia pneumoniae in paediatric respiratory infections, Chester Andrzejewski MD and Paul Salva MD

Oculo-ectodermal syndrome: report of a case with mosaicism for a deletion on Xq12, Matthew Fickie MD

Odontogenic fibroma, Liron Pantanowitz MD, David Gang MD, and Monica Hollowell MD

Oil red O staining in cytopathology, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Robert Goulart MD

One can't judge a stent by its cover, Gregory Giugliano MD and Marc Schweiger MD

One lung ventilation in a patient with Seckel Syndrome, Aimen Houni MD and Stanlies D'Souza MD

One system's journey in creating a disclosure and apology program, Evan Benjamin MD, Deborah Morsi, Lynn Tenerowicz, Randolph Peto MD, and Pamela Burger

On the CNS exercise governor, or i thought so, Thomas Rowland MD

Oocyte maturation arrest more common in younger patients undergoing IVF/ICSI, Daniel Grow MD, Andrew Moore MD, Margaret Arny, and Kelly Lynch MD

Oops rounds and other innovative ways to teach patient safety and team communication, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD and Jackson Williams MD

Open component separation for abdominal wall reconstruction, David Earle MD

Open fractures, Matt Razon

Open-label, sequential comparison of eptifibatide with abciximab for patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention., Marc Schweiger MD and James Cook MD

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Operational methods of HIV testing in emergency departments: a systematic review, Daniel Skiest M.D.

Opioid withdrawal is associated with spinal PGE2 release in the rat, Stuart Dunbar MD, J Zhang, and I Karamian

Opportunities and challenges for diabetes prevention at two community health centers, Evan Benjamin MD, Dorothea von Goeler MD, and Penny Pekow

Optic neuritis associated with CSF Herpes Simplex Virus-Type 1 DNA, Beth Carter MD, Linda Bobo MD, and Brendan Kelly MD

Optic neuropathy cause by dronedarone, Karin Johnson MD

Optimal administration of perioperative antibiotics using system redesign, Gary Kanter MD

Optimal hyperlipidemia monitoring in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus, Holley Allen MD, Dennis Brenner MD, and Edward Reiter MD

Optimal steroid therapy may improve outcome in septic shock, William McGee MD, Thomas Higgins MD, Paul Jodka MD, Patrick Mailloux MD, and Elizabeth Lederman

Optimizing strategies in apheresis platelet collections., Chester Andrzejewski MD

Oral contraceptive formulation and risk of breast cancer, Ronald Burkman MD

Oral contraceptives maintain a very thin endometrium before operative hysteroscopy., Daniel Grow MD

Organ of Chievitz., Liron Pantanowitz MD

Orthostatic effects on echocardiographic measures of ventricular function, Thomas Rowland MD

Outbreak of Mycobacterium abscessus wound infections among 'lipotourists' from the United States who underwent abdominoplasty in the Dominican Republic, Armando Paez MD and Eric Granowitz MD

Outcome and complications of intraoperative hemodialysis during cardiopulmonary bypass with potassium-rich cardioplegia., Gregory Braden MD, David Deaton MD, Michael Germain MD, Michael H. O'Shea MD, Jeffrey Mulhern MD, John Rousou MD, and Joseph Flack MD

Outcome measures for acute decompensated heart failure, Howard Smithline MD, Fidela Blank, Richard Barus, and Thomas Fitzgerald

Outcome of clinically based large-scale screening for Chlamydia trachomatis infection using the ThinPrep Pap Test collection vial, Liron Pantanowitz MD, Maryanne Hornish, and Robert Goulart MD

Outcome prediction in critical care: The Mortality Probability Models, Thomas Higgins MD

Outcomes of care by hospitalists, general internists, and family physicians, Peter Lindenauer MD and Michael Rothberg MD

Outcomes of cranial repair after craniectomy, Marianne Langlois

Outcomes of critically ill patients who received cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Timothy Mader MD

Outcomes of patients admitted for observation of chest pain, Jaya Mallidi MD, Srikanth Penumetsa MD, Jennifer Friderici, William Hiser MD, and Michael Rothberg MD

Outcomes of the first residency program Geriatric Medicine Track., Maura Brennan MD and Sandra Bellantonio MD

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest outcomes stratified by rhythm analysis, Timothy Mader MD and Ryan Coute

Outpatient transfusion practice and factors leading to inpatient transfusion in a pediatric hematology/oncology program., Matthew Richardson MD, Lisa Martel, and Lisa Martensson

Outpatient versus inpatient diabetes education for children diagnosed with new onset type 1 diabetes mellitus, Holley Allen MD, Ksenia Tonyushkina MD, Dennis Brenner MD, Edward Reiter MD, and Nancy Dunbar MD

Ovarian cysts and breast cancer: Results from the Women's Contraceptive and Reproductive Experiences Study, Ronald Burkman MD

Ovarian tumors: A multimodality pictorial review with correlation to clinicopathologic finding, Chiedozie Mkpolulu MD and Tara Catanzano MD

Overcoming the obstacles to research during residency: What does it take?, Michael Rothberg MD

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Overtreatment and undertreatment of hyperlipidemia in the outpatient setting, Ashish Verma MD, Paul Visintainer, Mohamed Elarabi MD, Siddharth Wartak MD, and Michael Rothberg M.D.

Overview of laboratory data tools available in a single electronic medical record, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Neil Kudler MD

Overview of robotics in ObGyn surgery, Daniel Grow MD

Oxcarbazepinetherapy for central DI, Daniel Landry MD, Basmah Abdalla MD, and Gregory Braden M.D.

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Oxygen Uptake and Endurance Fitness in Children, Revisited, Thomas Rowland M.D.

P53 silenced, apoptosis resistant, endothelial progenitor stem cells (EPC) improve collateral circulation post femoral artery occlusion in diabetic mice, Sabyasachi Sen MD

P53 silenced endothelial progenitor stem cells (EPC) improve collateral circulation post femoral artery occlusion in diabetic mice, Sabyasachi Sen MD

Pacing strategies of inexperienced children during repeated 800 m individual time-trials and simulated competition, Thomas Rowland M.D.

Painful shoulder and altered mental status in an elderly, Khalid Zarug MD

Palliative care., Michael Germain MD and Lewis Cohen MD

Palliative care: Good legal defense, K Francis Lee MD

Palliative care: Help me die with dignity, Lewis Cohen MD

Palliative care in CKD: The earlier the better, Michael Germain MD

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Pancreatic and biliary stents, David Desilets MD

Pancreatic cystic lesions: Review of benign and malignant indicators on CT and MRI, Dmitry Rakita MD and Arel Golombeck MD

Pancreatic diseases in the AIDS patient, Dmitry Rakita MD, Abdullah Shaikh MD, and David Desilets MD

Pancreatic pseudocystgastrostomy with a peroral, flexible stapler: Human natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery anastomoses in 2 patients (with videos), John Romanelli MD, David Desilets MD, and David Earle MD

Pancreatitis and duodenitis from sarcoidosis: successful therapy with mycophenolate mofetil., Farhad Navab MD, Michael Germain MD, Michael H. O'Shea MD, Gregory Braden MD, Jonathan Freeman MD, Jeffrey Mulhern MD, George Lipkowitz MD, and Robert Madden MD

Panel discussion: Update on trauma care, Niels Rathlev MD

Papillary carcinoma mimicking subacute thyroiditis in a postpartum female, Peter Butler MD, Kamal Shoukri MD, and Ibitoro Osakwe MD

Paradox and promise in the knowledge society, Elisabeth Bennett

Paradoxical embolism induced stroke in elderly women., Maura Brennan MD and Jay Steingrub MD

Parainfluenza virus infection associated with posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome: A case report, . ., Owolabi Ogunneye MD, Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD, Daniel Landry MD, and Iheanyichukwu Ogu MD

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Paralemmin-1 is over-expressed in estrogen-receptor positive breast cancers, Sallie Smith-Schneider PhD, Sharon Marconi, Christopher Otis MD, and Giovanna Crisi MD

Paramedic compliance with ACLS epinephrine guidelines in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest., Timothy Mader MD

Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration an extremely rare complication in a case of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Ranjit Dhelaria MD

Parathyroid adenoma localization by superselective venous sampling - time for revision of diagnostic criteria?, George Hartnell MD and Nicholas Coe MD

Parents' perception of medical errors, Sarah Goff MD

Parity negatively impacts vaginal mechanical properties and collagen structure in rhesus macaques, Keisha Jones MD

Parkinsonism proteolysis and proteasomes, Larry Schwartz

Part 8: Advanced life support: 2010 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science With Treatment Recommendations, Timothy Mader MD

Participation in community gardens as an adjunct treatment to a weight management program, Chrystal Wittcopp MD and Sarah Goff MD

Partnering on state advocacy, Richard Friedberg MD

Part time pariahs, Jeannette Wolfe MD

Pasteurella multocida, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

Pastoral interventions and the influence of self-reporting: A preliminary analysis, Steve Calderone

Patent foramen ovale and embolic stroke "en flagrant délit", Ak Alameddine MD, Victor Alimov MD, and Daniel Engelman MD

Pathogenetic and predictive value of biomarkers in patients with ALI and lower severity of illness: Results from two clinical trials, Jay Steingrub MD

Pathologists are coagulation consultants: New challenges and updates, Vandita Johari MD

Pathology of Kaposi's sarcoma, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Pathology of rituximab-induced Kaposi sarcoma flare, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Sharon Marconi

Pathways contributing to development of spontaneous mammary tumors in BALB/c-Trp53+/- mice, Richard Arenas MD, Christopher Otis MD, Q Jackie Cao MD, and D Joseph Jerry

Patient activation - Public libraries and health literacy, Margot Malachowski MLS

Patient attitudes toward emergency physician attire., Marc Haber MD and Simon Li MD

Patient based computational fluid dynamic characterization of carotid bifurcation stenosis before and after endovascular revascularization, Clemens Schirmer MD

Patient-centered care-a new and challenging paradigm in health care, Ronald Burkman MD

Patient-doctor communication and the importance of clarifying end-of-life decisions., Maura Brennan MD

Patient encounter time intervals in the evaluation of emergency department patients requiring abdominopelvic CT: oral contrast versus no contrast, Jeannette Wolfe MD, Howard Smithline MD, Fidela Blank, Bret Coughlin MD, and Steve Lee MD

Patient identification accuracy (QT1) Annual summary report, Richard Friedberg MD

Patient identification errors are common in a simulated setting, Philip Henneman MD, Donna Fisher MD, and Elizabeth Henneman

Patient knowledge and attitudes about antiviral medication and vaccination for influenza in an internal medicine clinic, Michael Rothberg MD

Patient knowledge and attitudes about avian influenza in an internal medicine clinic, Michael Rothberg MD

Patient opinion of hospital care in England: Analysis of reviews from the NHS Choices website, Tara Lagu MD, Nicholas Hannon, Sarah Goff MD, and Peter Lindenauer MD

Patient preference and outcomes-based surgical care among octogenarians and nonagenarians., K Francis Lee MD

Patient recruitment to a randomized clinical trial of behavioral therapy for chronic heart failure., Mara Slawsky MD

Patient safety and administration of therapeutic medications: how the laboratory and pharmacy can work together to improve patient outcomes., Richard Friedberg MD

Patient satisfaction-a health care metric that is moving front and center, Ronald Burkman MD

Patients' attitudes toward and factors predictive of human immunodeficiency virus testing of academic medical clinics, Mihaela Stefan MD

Patients' beliefs and preferences regarding doctors' medication recommendations, Sarah Goff MD

Patients' evaluations of health care providers in the era of social networking: an analysis of physician-rating websites, Tara Lagu MD, Michael Rothberg MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, and Nicholas Hannon

Patients' knowledge about coronary heart disease: A cross sectional study, Siddharth Wartak MD, Amir Lotfi MD, and Michael Rothberg MD

Patients' knowledge of risk and protective factors for cardiovascular disease, Siddharth Wartak MD, Jennifer Friderici, Amir Lotfi MD, Ashish Verma MD, Reva Kleppel, Deborah Naglieri-Prescod, and Michael Rothberg MD

Patients' perceived breast cancer risk and psychological distress: Can oncologist-based counseling achieve durable improvements., Wilson Mertens MD, Grace Makari-Judson MD, Ruth Barham, Deborah Katz MD, and Marlene Quinlan

Patients reported symptoms improve following prolonged treatment interruption: ACTG 5170 quality of life results, Daniel Skiest MD

Patterns of molecular genetic variation among cat breeds, Solveig Pflueger MD

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Patterns of obstetric infection rates in a large sample of US hospitals, Sarah Goff MD, Penny Pekow, Jill Avrunin, Tara Lagu M.D., Glenn Markenson MD, and Peter Lindenauer M.D.

Pearls of left upper quadrant pain, Peter Ghobrial MD

Pediatric cardiac problems, Thomas Rowland MD

Pediatric Feeding Problems, Richard Gabor MD

Pediatrician characteristics associated with child abuse identification and reporting: Results from a national survey of pediatricians., David Norton MD

Pediatricians and physical activity counseling: How does residency prepare them for this task?, Sarah Goff MD

Pediatric pancreatitis in the era of obesity, Kevin Moriarty MD and David Tashjian MD

Pediatric resuscitation: Big heads, small tubes, Adam Kellogg MD

Pediatric ureteropelvic junction obstruction, Kevin Moriarty MD and David Tashjian MD

Pediatric urinary tract infection, Donna Fisher MD

Peer pressure, role modeling, and the social dynamics of medical training: What unconscious factors influence the hand hygiene behavior of medicine teams?, Sarah Haessler MD, Anju Bhagavan MD, Kevin Hinchey MD, Reva Kleppel, and Paul Visintainer

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Peer recommendations on how to improve clinical research, and Conference wrap-up., Carmel Armon MD

Pelvic Pain, Joseph Schmidt MD

Penetrating neck trauma, Niels Rathlev MD

Peptic ulcer disease, David Page MD

Percentage hematogones by flow cytometric analysis is lower in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome than in cytopenic patients without myelodysplastic syndrome, Raavi Gupta MD and John Hunt MD

Percussion with a reflex hammer, Michael Lemanski MD

Percutaneous coronary interventions for stable angina: Why patients think it will save their lives, Sarah Goff MD and Michael Rothberg M.D.

Percutaneous revascularization of occluded renal arteries in the setting of acute renal failure, Ashequl Islam MD

Perforated Peptic Ulcer, Benjamin Osborne MD

Performance and ergonomic characteristics of expert surgeons using a face-mounted display during virtual reality-simulated laparoscopic surgery: An electromyographically based study., David Earle MD, Neal Seymour MD, David Lin MD, and Ron Bush

Performance of intraoperative axillary sentinel lymph node touch prep evaluation: Effect of surgical submission of "Suspicious" sentinel lymph nodes, Juliana Meyer MD, Holly Mason MD, Sabha Ganai MD, Maryanne Hornish, Giovanna Crisi MD, and Robert Goulart MD

Performance of two highly sensitive troponin I assays for the evaluation of suspected acute coronary syndrome: Results from the multi-center Rule Out Myocardial Infarction Using Computer Assisted Tomography (ROMICAT) II biomarker sub-study, J. Hector Pope M.D.

Performance ramifications of single port laparoscopic surgery: Measuring differences in task performance using simulation, John Romanelli MD and Nathan Conway MD

Periantal clinical decision support system: A documentation tool for patient safety, Molly Gray and Carla Provost

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Peri-implant primary squamous cell carcinoma: a case report with 5 years' follow-up, Michael Spink MD

Perinatal detection of gallstones in siblings, Anastasios Angelides MD

Perineal cutaneous herpes simplex infections in a hospitalized patient: A differential diagnoses to pressure ulcer, Armando Paez MD, Mayu Sekiguchi MD, and Kathy Gibson-Tierney

Perineal cutaneous herpes simplex infections in a hospitalized patient: A differential diagnosis to pressure ulcer, Armando Paez MD, Mayu Sekiguchi MD, and Kathy Gibson-Tierney

Perineal reconstruction with an extrapelvic vertical rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap, Peter Wu MD and John Nigriny MD

Perioperative beta-blocker therapy and mortality after major noncardiac surgery., Evan Benjamin MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, and Penny Pekow

Perioperative cardiac evaluation: Novel interventions and clinical challenges, Donna Mercado MD and David Ling MD

Perioperative medication management, Donna Mercado MD

Perioperative symptoms following gastric bypass surgery, Garry Welch, Cheryl Wesolowski, Bernadette Piepul, Jay Kuhn MD, John Romanelli MD, and Jane Garb

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Perioperative use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and risks for adverse outcomes of surgery, Penny Pekow and Peter Lindenauer M.D.

Peripartum cardiomyopathy., Mark Tidswell MD

Persistent next-day effects of excessive alcohol consumption on laparoscopic surgical performance, Neal Seymour MD

Perspectives of Latina and non-Latina white women on barriers and facilitators to exercise in pregnancy, Glenn Markenson MD

Perturbation analysis of heterochromatin-mediated gene silencing and somatic inheritance, Sara Goldstein

Pertussis in childhood, John Snyder MD and Donna Fisher MD

Pessary use in pelvic organ prolapse and urinary incontinence, Oz Harmanli MD and Keisha Jones MD

Phaeohyphomycoses, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

Pharmacoeconomic comparison of treating penicillin-allergic patients with pneumonia, Jennifer Schimmel MD, Kirthana Raman, Adam Pesaturo, Jason Cross, and Jennifer Friderici

Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic characteristics of a long-acting growth hormone (GH) preparation (nutropin depot) in GH-deficient children., Edward Reiter MD

Pharmacokinetics and safety of a new paediatric fixed-dose combination of zidovudine/lamivudine/nevirapine in HIV-infected children, Maripat Toye RN MS

Pharmacokinetics of high-dose oral thiamine, Howard Smithline MD

Pharmacokinetics of high-dose oral thiamine hydrochloride in healthy subjects, Howard Smithline MD

Pharmacological opening of mitoKATP channels with diazoxide ameliorates ischemia/reperfusion cell death through the modulation of mitochondrial volume and calcium accumulation., Richard Engelman MD

Pharmacologic approaches to sedation, pain relief and neuromuscular blockade in the intensive care unit. Part III: Neuromuscular blockade, Thomas Higgins MD and Paul Jodka MD

Pharmacologic approaches to sedation, pain relief and neuromuscular blockade in the intensive care unit. Part II. Pain Relief., Thomas Higgins MD, Paul Jodka MD, and A Farid MD

Pharmacologic approaches to sedation, pain relief and neuromuscular blockade in the intensive care unit. Part I. Sedation., Thomas Higgins MD, Paul Jodka MD, and A Farid MD

Pharmacologic management of post-acute coronary syndrome, Jason Cross

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Pharmacology of anticoagulants, Chandravathi Loke MD, Syed Ali MD, and Vandita Johari MD

Pharmacology of procedural sedation, Danyel Adams

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Pharmacology of procedural sedation, Danyel Adams

Pharmacotherapy for children and adolescents with anxiety disorders, Bruce Waslick MD

Pharmacy and Emergency Department collaboration: A novel approach, Shawn Roggie, John Santoro MD, Ann Maynard, Aaron Michelucci, and Sean Illig

Pharmacy-nursing intervention to improve accuracy and completeness of medication histories, Ed Tessier, Elizabeth Henneman, and Mark Heelon

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Pharmacy student impact on inappropriate prescribing of acid suppressive therapy, Jason Cross, Mihaela Stefan M.D., and Michael Rothberg M.D.

Phase 2 trial of eritoran tetrasodium (E5564), a toll-like receptor 4 antagonist, in patients with severe sepsis, Mark Tidswell MD

Phase II clinical trial of moderate hypothermia after severe traumatic brain injury in children., Paul Kanev MD

Phase II trial of BB-10901 (huN901-DM1) given weekly for four consecutive weeks every 6 weeks in patients with relapsed SCLC and CD56-positive small cell carcinoma, John McCann MD

Phase II trial of CoQ10 for ALS finds insufficient evidence to justify phase III, Carmel Armon MD

Physical activity and gestational diabetes mellitus among Hispanic women, Penny Pekow and Glenn Markenson MD

Physical activity and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy among Hispanic women, Penny Pekow and Glenn Markenson MD

Physical activity and pregnancy outcome among Latina women, Glenn Markenson MD and Penny Pekow

Physical activity and risk of small-for-gestational-age birth among predominantly Puerto Rican women, Glenn Markenson MD and Penny Pekow

Physical activity before and during pregnancy and duration of second stage of labor among Hispanic women, Glenn Markenson MD, Penny Pekow, and Michael Plevyak MD

Physical activity of pregnant Hispanic women, Penny Pekow, Kelly Lynch MD, and Glenn Markenson MD

Physical activity patterns during pregnancy in a diverse population of women., Glenn Markenson MD and Penny Pekow

Physical activity predicts weight loss following gastric bypass surgery: Findings from a support group survey, Garry Welch, Jay Kuhn MD, John Romanelli MD, Jane Garb, Bernadette Piepul, and Cheryl Wesolowski

Physical medicine and rehabilitation rotations in an Internal Medicine residency program, Nicholas Spellman MD

Physical therapist examination, evaluation, and intervention for a patient with West Nile virus paralysis., Nancy Miller MD

Physician beliefs and practices regarding influenza diagnosis and treatment, Michael Rothberg MD, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD, and David Rose MD

Physician characteristics, attitudes and use of computerized order entry, Peter Lindenauer MD, David Ling MD, Nancy Hoople, Evan Benjamin MD, and Deborah Naglieri-Prescod

Physician characteristics, attitudes, and use of computerized order entry., Jan Fitzgerald, Peter Lindenauer MD, David Ling MD, Penny Pekow, Evan Benjamin MD, Nancy Hoople, and Deborah Naglieri-Prescod

Physician knowledge of the revised HIV screening guidelines, Mihaela Stefan MD

Physician leadership: enhancing the career development of academic physician administrators and leaders., Evan Benjamin MD

Physician, monitor thyself: A physician's guide to the opportunities and challenges of social media, Tara Lagu MD

Physician, monitor thyself: professionalism and accountability in the use of social media, Tara Lagu MD

Physician Satisfaction with Clinical Laboratory Services (QP071) Data Analysis and Critique, Richard Friedberg MD

Physicians should desist from aiding in executions, Carmel Armon MD

Physician vs patient assessment of dyspnea during acute decompensated heart failure, Howard Smithline MD, Selin Caglar MD, and Fidela Blank

Physician vs self-reported measures of dyspnea in patients with acute decompensated heart failure, Howard Smithline MD, Fidela Blank, Sondra Jasienowski, Selin Caglar MD, and Thomas Fitzgerald

Physician vs self-reported measures of dyspnea in patients with acute decompensated heart failure., Selin Caglar MD, Howard Smithline MD, Sondra Jasienowski, Fidela Blank, and Thomas Fitzgerald

Physiological importance and control of non-shivering facultative thermogenesis, J Enrique Silva MD

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Physiologic goal-directed therapy in the perioperative period: the volume prescription for high-risk patients, William McGee M.D. and Karthik Raghunathan MD

Physiologic management of hemodynamics in the operating room using arterial pressure-based stroke volume and stroke volume variation, William McGee MD and Lori-Ann Kozikowski

Physiologic optimization and goal directed therapy for operative patients, William McGee MD

Pictoral review of idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis: A simplified approach, Khaldoon Al Dulaimy MD, Abdullah Shaikh MD, and Khaldoon Al Dulaimy MD

Pictorial review of idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis: A simplified approach, Abdullah Shaikh MD and Khaldoon Al Dulaimy MD

Pilot study of a comprehensive, culturally sensitive diabetes case management intervention for poorly controlled Hispanic Type 2 patients, Garry Welch and Jane Garb

Piriformis Syndrome, Julio Martinez-Silvestrini MD

PISA Syndrome - A side effect of Donepezil therapy, M Javed Ashraf MD and Victoria Peters MD

Pisa syndrome with altered mental status secondary to risperidone and donepezil: A case report, Vijairam Selvaraj M.D.

Pitfalls of frozen section to intraoperative consultations of evaluating lymph nodes for involvement by metastatic malignancies, John Hunt MD

Pituitary adenoma and GnRH agonist therapy for precocious puberty, Holley Allen MD, Rishita Tiwari MD, and Edward Reiter MD

Planning a renal palliative care program and its components, Lewis Cohen MD

Planning of a renal palliative care programme and its components, Lewis Cohen MD

Plasma cell problems: Disseminated cutaneous plasmacytomas treated with total skin electron radiotherapy., Liron Pantanowitz MD

Platlet Serology - Participant Summary., Richard Friedberg MD

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Playing With Curricular Milestones in the Educational Sandbox: Q-sort Results From an Internal Medicine Educational Collaborative., Lauren Meade M.D.

Pneumocephalus: Case illustrations and review, Clemens Schirmer MD

Pneumonia caused by Staphylococcus aureus, Sarah Haessler MD and Richard Brown MD

POCT challenges for the EMR, James Nichols

Point-of-care connectivity: Ten years after the connectivity industry consortium, James Nichols

Point of Care Testing, James Nichols

Point-of-care testing, James Nichols

Point-of-care testing, a critical component of laboratory medicine, James Nichols

Point-of-care testing: Examples and case studies, James Nichols

Point-of-care testing for hemoglobin., James Nichols and Monica Hollowell MD

Point-of-care testing in diabetes, James Nichols

Point of care testing in the Middle East, James Nichols

Point-of-Care Testing: Needs, Opportunity, and Innovation, 3rd Edition, by Christopher P. Price, Andrew St John, and Larry J. Kricka, eds, James Nichols and David Unold MD

POLST Implementaion in a Community Hospital, Diane Dietzen MD

Polyomaviruses, Hal Jenson MD

Poor iron status is associated with inflammation in obese children, Leybie Ang MD, Matthew Richardson MD, and Chrystal Wittcopp MD

Popliteal artery embolization with the Mynx closure device, Ashequl Islam MD and Marc Norris MD

Population: A case of a delirious elder, Eimear Kitt MD

Population-based newborn screening for genetic disorders when multiple mutation DNA testing is incorporated: a cystic fibrosis newborn screening model demonstrating increased sensitivity but more carrier detections., Robert Gerstle MD

Porto-gastric fistula from penetration of coil from gastric varix after TIPS procedure for bleeding gastric varices, Syed Hussain MD and Rony Ghaoui MD

Posaconazole for the treatment of azole-refractory oropharyngeal and esophageal candidiasis in subjects with HIV infection., Daniel Skiest MD

Position statement: The role of physician assistants in interventional radiology, John Cardella MD

Post-dural puncture headache in a 4-year old child, Ammar Yamani MD and Stanlies D'Souza MD

Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome associated with para-influenza virus infection. Under so much pressure!, Owolabi Ogunneye MD, . ., James Canoy MD, Daniel Landry MD, and Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD

Postgraduate surgeon in the digital age: Video editing course, John Romanelli MD

Post-liver transplant cholestatic disorder with biliary strictures: de novo versus recurrent primary sclerosing cholangitis, Kenneth McPartland MD

Postoperative atrial fibrillation is not associated with an increase risk of stroke or the type and number of grafts: A single-center retrospective analysis, Siddharth Wartak MD, Amir Lotfi MD, Prabhdeep Sethi MD, Jane Garb, and Gregory Giugliano MD

Postoperative coma, Karin Zuegge MD, Karthik Raghunathan MD, and Charles Gibson

Postoperative complications associated with upper gastrointestinal (GI) surgery: A pictorial review with emphasis on CT and fluoroscopy, Cheri Nguyen MD

Postoperative futile care: Stopping the train when the family says keep going., K Francis Lee MD

Postoperative hypertension, Gladys Fernandez MD and Neal Seymour MD

Post-operative outcomes in dialysis patients undergoing elective or emergent non-cardiac surgery, Arley Diaz MD and Mihaela Stefan M.D.

Post-operative outcomes in dialysis patients undergoing elective or emergent non-cardiac surgery, Gurmukteshwar Singh M.D., Arley Diaz MD, Paul Visintainer, Penny Pekow, Peter Lindenauer M.D., and Michael Rothberg M.D.

Postoperative pulmonary embolus, Neal Seymour MD and Gladys Fernandez MD

Postoperative Respiratory Care, Thomas Higgins MD

Post operative urinary retention (POUR): Phase 1, Cidalia Vital RN and Ann Ward RN

Postpartum diabetes screening in women with a history of gestational diabetes., Glenn Markenson MD

Postpartum granulomatous hypophysitis with sphenoid sinus involvement: A case study, J Enrique Silva MD, Kamal Shoukri MD, Sherry Taylor MD, and Charalambos Demetri MD

Postprandial hypotension, Gina Luciano MD, Maura Brennan MD, and Michael Rothberg MD

Poststreptococcal immunologic complications, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

Post-traumatic stress disorder and panic disorder are independent risk factors for preterm birth, but not low birth weight or small for gestational age: The Yale "Pink & Blue" Prospective Cohort Study, Ronald Burkman MD

Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in elderly immigrants, Maura Brennan MD, M Javed Ashraf MD, and Duha Shaheen MD

Potential impact of adjusting the threshold of the quantitative D-dimer based on pretest probability of acute pulmonary embolism, Howard Smithline MD

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Potential influence of total parenteral nutrition on body composition at discharge in preterm infants, Jeffrey Shenberger MD

Potentially inappropriate medication use in hospitalized elders, Michael Rothberg MD, Penny Pekow, Maura Brennan MD, Sandra Bellantonio MD, Mark Heelon, and Peter Lindenauer MD

Practical approach to the diagnosis and management of hyponatremia, Benjamin Freda MD

Practical considerations in dialysis withdrawal: "to have that option is a blessing"., Lewis Cohen MD, Michael Germain MD, and David M. Poppel MD

Practical transfusion service management, CAP '03, Richard Friedberg MD

Practice evolution: Decentralized computer-assisted immunohistochemical image analysis, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Richard Friedberg MD

Practice management guidelines for identification of cervical spine injuries following trauma: update from the eastern association for the surgery of trauma practice management guidelines committee, Eleanor Winston MD

Pre-analytical variables, James Nichols

Preanalytical Variation, James Nichols

Preanalytical variation in clinical laboratory testing, James Nichols and Namrata Setia MD

Preanesthetic assessment of the patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; A CME review lesson, Adam Adler M.D.

Preclinical safety evaluation of a novel helical rotational thrombectomy device in porcine coronary arteries, Adrian Fluture MD and Gregory Giugliano MD

Preconception uterine cavity length and the risk of preterm birth in multifetal pregnancy, Glenn Markenson MD, Fadi Bsat MD, and Daniel Grow MD

Predicting annual in-service scores using audience response system, Lucienne Lutfy-Clayton M.D.

Predicting six-month mortality for patients who are on maintenance hemodialysis, Lewis Cohen MD and Michael Germain MD

Predicting the restenosis benefit of drug-eluting versus bare metal stents in percutaneous coronary intervention, Aaron Kugelmass MD

Prediction of shoulder dystocia with and without neonatal injury using multivariate modeling, Ronald Burkman MD

Predictive value and cost-effectiveness analysis of a rapid polymerase chain reaction for preoperative detection of nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus., David Longworth MD

Predictive value of CT scanning for common bile duct stones, David Desilets MD and Abdullah Shaikh MD

Predictors and clinical impact of atrial fibrillation after pacemaker implantation in elderly patients treated with dual chamber versus ventricular pacing., James Kirchhoffer MD

Predictors for getting a stress test in patients hospitalized for chest pains, Michael Rothberg MD, Srikanth Penumetsa MD, and Manmeet Singh MD

Predictors of excessive and inadequate gestational weight gain in Hispanic women, Glenn Markenson MD and Penny Pekow

Predictors of HIV disease progression in patients who stop ART with CD4 cell counts >350 cells/mm, Daniel Skiest MD

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Predictors of liver donation without kidney recovery in a cohort of expanded criteria donors: Identifying opportunities to improve expanded criteria donor kidney utilization., George Lipkowitz MD

Predictors of PCI in patients undergoing elective cardiac catherization for chronic ischemic heart disease, Auras Atreya MD, Senthil Sivalingam MD, Paul Visintainer, and Michael Rothberg M.D.

Predictors of percutaneous coronary intervention in patients undergoing elective cardiac catherization for chronic ischemic heart disease, Auras Atreya MD

Predictors of percutaneous coronary intervention in patients undergoing elective cardiac catherization in chronic ischemic heart disease, Auras Atreya MD

Predictors of smoking cessation at the onset of pregnancy in Hispanic women, Glenn Markenson MD and Penny Pekow

Preface, Neal Seymour MD and Barry Sarvet MD

Pregnancy disorders that lead to delivery before the 28th week of gestation: An epidemiologic approach to classification, Glenn Markenson MD

Pregnancy-induced acute neurologic emergencies and neurologic conditions encountered in pregnancy, Jeffrey Alvis MD and Richard Hicks MD

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Pregnancy offers new insights into mechanisms of breast cancer risk and resistance, D. Joseph Jerry, Grace Makari-Judson MD, Giovanna Crisi MD, and Karen Dunphy

Pregnancy, Vaginal Bleeding, Sudeep Kaur Aulakh MD and Michael Plevyak MD

Prehospital hypotension is a predictor of the need for an emergent, therapeutic operation in trauma patients with normal systolic blood pressure in the emergency department., Philip Henneman MD

Preliminary observations of urinary calcium and osteopontin excretion in premature infants, term infants and adults, Gary Rockwell MD, Gregory Braden MD, and Thomas Campfield MD

Preliminary update of Mortality Probability Model (MPM0), Thomas Higgins MD

Premature closure may be detrimental in the elderly, Reham Shaaban MD, Rukshana Cader MD, and Sandra Bellantonio MD

Prenatal stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms as predictors of intention to breastfeed among Hispanic women, Glenn Markenson MD and Penny Pekow

Prenylated Rab acceptor domain family member 1 is involved in stimulated ACTH secretion and inhibition, Shannon Compton

Preoperative and postoperative management of urogynecological surgery, Kavitha Parithivel MD, Daniel Case MD, and Steve Lee MD

Preparing for practice: Addressing special health care needs in pediatric residency programs., Matthew Sadof MD

Pre-pregnancy body mass index, gestational weight gain and risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy among Latina women, Glenn Markenson MD and Penny Pekow

Prepregnancy body mass index, gestational weight gain, and risk of hypertensive pregnancy among Latina women, Glenn Markenson MD and Penny Pekow

Pre-resuscitation factors associated with mortality in 49,130 cases of in-hospital cardiac arrest: A report from the National Registry for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Timothy Mader MD

Preschool parent-pediatrician consultations and predictive referral patterns for problematic behaviors, Jack Fanton MD

Prescribing exercise for obese youth in the primary care setting, Thomas Rowland MD

Presentation and progression of a disc cyst in a pediatric patient, Clemens Schirmer MD

Preterm Birth and 17 Alpha-Hydroxyprogesterone Caproate, Andrew Healy MD

Pretty safe or safe enough and late preterm birth, Ronald Burkman MD

Prevalence and indicators of Chlamydia trachomatis among men entering Massachusetts Correctional Facilities: Policy Implications., Thomas Lincoln MD

Prevalence and risk factors for renal artery stenosis in patients undergoing routine coronary angiography, Gregory Braden MD, Ehsan Ansari MD, Barbara Greco MD, James Arcoleo MD, James Cook MD, and Mark Porway MD

Prevalence and trends of dysphagia following radiation therapy in patients with head and neck cancer, Leena Rahmat MD

Prevalence of and risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal colonization in HIV-infected ambulatory patients, Daniel Skiest MD

Prevalence of formal accusations of murder and euthanasia against physicians, Lewis Cohen MD

Prevalence of Mycoplasma bacteria in amniotic fluid at the time of genetic amniocentesis using the polymerase chain reaction., Glenn Markenson MD

Preventing serious sequelae after an acute coronary syndrome: the consequences of thrombosis versus bleeding with antiplatelet therapy, Ashequl Islam MD and Pikeshkumar Patel MD

Prevention of contrast induced nephropathy: Recommendations for the high risk patient undergoing cardiovascular procedures, Marc Schweiger MD

Prevention of sudden cardiac death in young athletes: Controversies and conundrums, Thomas Rowland MD

Preventive care in older adults: What and when, Maura Brennan MD, Tara DuVal MD, and Sandra Bellantonio MD

Primary care physician attitudes regarding communication with hospitalists., Peter Lindenauer MD

Primary care physicians' use of publicly reported quality data in hospital referral decisions, Peter Lindenauer MD and Michael Rothberg MD

Primary central nervous system posttransplantation lymphoproliferative disorder in an elderly liver transplant recipient, Wei Ooi MD, Saurabh Dahiya MD, and Armen Asik MD

Primary hyperparathyroidism in the underinsured: a study of 493 patients, Jane Garb and Azad Jabiev MD

Primary Kaposi sarcoma of the subcutaneous tissue, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Primary lateral sclerosis, Carmel Armon MD

Primary repair of facial dog bite injuries in children, Kevin Moriarty MD, Peter Wu MD, Alana Beres MD, and David Tashjian MD

Primary testicular lymphoma with cardiac involvement in an immunocompetent male, Saurabh Dahiya MD, Wei Ooi MD, Jaya Mallidi MD, and Richard Steingart MD

Primary testicular lymphoma with cardiac involvement in an immunocompetent patient: case report and a concise review of literature, Saurabh Dahiya MD, Wei Ooi MD, Jaya Mallidi MD, Senthil Sivalingam MD, and Richard Steingart MD

Primary total hip arthroplasty using a dual-geometry cup to treat protrusio acetabuli, Robert Krushell MD and Richard Fingeroth MD

Primer to the Internal medicine clerkship: A guide produced by the clerkship directors in Internal medicine, Michael Picchioni MD

Primum non nocere (first, do no harm): A prescription error resulting in a near-fatal fall, Ranjit Dhelaria MD and Maura Brennan MD

Principles of effective consultation: An update for the 21st-century consultant., Donna Mercado MD

Prioritizing influenza vaccination, Michael Rothberg MD

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Probiotic Administration in Early Life, Atopy, and Asthma: A Meta-analysis of Clinical Trials., Annabelle Quizon MD

Problematic central venous access (Do's and Don'ts) a 'How-to-workshop'., George Hartnell MD

Procedural sedation in pediatric patients: A randomized controlled trial of Etomidate vs. Propofol vs. Ketamine, Stephen Lieberman MD, Christine McKiernan MD, Ian Goodman MD, and Sarah Abbruzzese MD

Procedure intensity and the cost of care, Peter Lindenauer MD and Tara Lagu MD

Professionalism and team care in the clinical setting., David Page MD

Proficiency-based virtual reality laparoscopic skills training: A 7-year experience, Ron Bush, Peter Wu MD, and Neal Seymour MD

Profile of a bacterial tumor killer, Neil Forbes

Profile of chest trauma in a level I trauma center, Imtiaz Munshi MD and Richard Wait MD

Profile of chest trauma in a level I trauma center., Richard Wait MD and Imtiaz Munshi MD

Profiling of ABC transporters ABCB5, ABCF2 and nestin-positive stem cells in nevi, in situ and invasive melanoma, Namrata Setia MD and Jane Garb

Profitability of patients discharged from an emergency department, Philip Henneman MD

Profound hypothermia mimicking a Brugada type ECG., James Cook MD and Ehsan Ansari MD

Prognostic evaluation and review of immunohistochemically detected disseminated tumor cells in peritumoral lymph nodes of patients with pN0 colorectal cancer., James Mueller MD

Prognostic factors in patients with HIV-associated peripheral T-cell lymphoma: A multicenter study, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Prognostic implications of elevated troponin in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome but no critical epicardial coronary disease: a TACTICS-TIMI-18 substudy., Marc Schweiger MD and Amir Lotfi MD

Prognostic significance of vascular endothelial growth factor and cyclooxygenase 2 expression in patients receiving preoperative chemoradiation for esophageal cancer., James Mueller MD

Programmed cell death in insect neuromuscular systems during metamorphosis, Larry Schwartz

PROLOG: Gynecology and surgery, Heather Sankey MD

PROLOG: Patient Management in the Office, Ronald Burkman MD

Prolonged acute mechanical ventilation: Implications for hospital benchmarking, Thomas Higgins MD

Prolonged cardiac arrest: A revised model of porcine ventricular fibrillation, Timothy Mader MD

Prolonged neuromuscular block in two patients undergoing abdominal surgery, Neil Connelly MD, Kevin Morneault MD, Timothy Lacy MD, and Frank Dupont MD

Promoting Antifungal Stewardship as a Means of Optimizing the Management of Invasive Fungal Infections, Patrick Lee MD

Promoting physical activity for children's health: rationale and strategies, Thomas Rowland MD

Prompt administration of drotrecogin alfa (activated) is associated with improved survival., Jay Steingrub MD

Prophylaxis rates for venous thromboembolism and gastrointestinal bleeding in general medical patients: too low or too high?, Michael Rothberg MD

Prospective detection of hyperglycemia in critically ill children using continuous glucose monitoring, Holley Allen MD, Dennis Brenner MD, and Christine McKiernan MD

Prospective multi-center assessment of interobserver agreement for radiologist interpretation of 64-channel CT angiography for pulmonary embolism, Howard Smithline MD

Prospective multicenter assessment of interobserver agreement for radiologist interpretation of multidetector computerized tomographic angiography for pulmonary embolism, Howard Smithline MD

Prospective, multicenter validation of the pulmonary embolism rule-out criteria, Howard Smithline MD

Prospective, observational study of the depth of anesthesia during oocyte retrieval using a total intravenous anesthetic technique and the Bispectral index monitor, Lori Circeo MD, Daniel Grow MD, Ananth Kashikar MD, and Charles Gibson

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Prospective, randomized assessment of transfer of training (ToT) and transfer effectiveness ratio (TER) of virtual reality simulation training for laparoscopic skill acquisition, Neal Seymour MD

Prospective validation of the intensive care unit admission Mortality Probability Model (MPM0-III)., Thomas Higgins MD

Prospective validation of the mortality probability model, Version III, Thomas Higgins MD

Prostaglandin inhibitors in the treatment of single-system Langerhans cell histiocytosis: Pharmacologic rationale and report of two cases, Philippa Sprinz MD and Stephen O'Connor

Prosthetic material in inguinal hernia repair: How do I choose?, David Earle MD and Lisa Mark MD

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Prosthetic mesh contamination during NOTES(®) transgastric hernia repair: A randomized controlled trial with swine explants, David Earle MD, John Romanelli MD, Philip Omotosho MD, Peter Wu MD, Connie Rossini MD, Hannah Swayze-Quinn MD, and David Desilets MD

Protease inhibitor use in 233 pregnancies., Jane Garb and Anne Morris

Protein electrophoresis and immunoglobulin analysis in HIV-infected patients, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Protein-passivated Fe3O4 nanoparticles: Low toxicity and rapid heating for thermal therapy, D Joseph Jerry

Prototype device for non-invasive measurements of cervical collagen, Roman Starikov MD, Fadi Bsat MD, Michael Plevyak MD, and Glenn Markenson MD

Prove patients critical status before coding 99291, Michael Lemanski MD

Providers do not verify patient identity during computer order entry, Philip Henneman MD, Elizabeth Henneman, Rakesh Talati MD, and Joan Roche

Providing care to incarcerated women in a community based model, Donna Jackson-Kohlin MD

Provisional glycoprotein IIb/IIIa blockade in a randomized investigation of bivalirudin versus heparin plus planned glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibition during percutaneous coronary intervention: Predictors and outcome in the randomized evaluation in Percutan, Marc Schweiger MD

Pseudomembranous appendicitis: Involvement of the appendix in pseudomembranous colitis, Christopher Otis MD, David Gang MD, and Liron Pantanowitz MD

Pseudosubarachnoid hemorrhage in a 42-year-old, Patrick Mailloux MD and Melody Brewer MD

Psychiatric issues for patients with renal disease, Jack Fanton MD and Lewis Cohen MD

Psychological and psychiatric considerations for patients with advanced renal disease. IN, Lewis Cohen MD

Psychomotor skills assessment in practicing surgeons experienced in performing advanced laparoscopic procedures., Neal Seymour MD

Psychopharmacology and preschoolers: A critical review of current conditions, Jack Fanton MD

Psychopharmacology interventions for pediatric anxiety disorders: A research update., Bruce Waslick MD

Psychosocial aaspects of type 2 diabetes, Garry Welch

Psychosocial and psychiatric issues in diabetes mellitus, Garry Welch

Psychotherapy for late-life mood disorders, Benjamin Liptzin MD

Public-academic partnerships: Public-academic partnerships to address the need for child and adolescent psychiatric services, Barry Sarvet MD

Public and community health collaborations with corrections, Thomas Lincoln MD

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Public health and clinical impact of increasing emergency department-based HIV testing: perspectives from the 2007 conference of the National Emergency Department HIV Testing Consortium, Daniel Skiest M.D.

Public health implications of altered puberty timing, Edward Reiter MD

Public reporting and pay for performance in hospital quality improvement, Peter Lindenauer MD, Michael Rothberg MD, and Evan Benjamin MD

Public reporting and pay for performance in hospital quality improvement., Peter Lindenauer MD, Evan Benjamin MD, and Michael Rothberg MD

Public reporting and pay-for-performance programs in perioperative medicine: Are they meeting their goals, Peter Lindenauer MD

Public reporting of hospital quality: Recommendations to benefit patients and hospitals, Michael Rothberg MD, Evan Benjamin MD, and Peter Lindenauer MD

Pulling the plug., Lewis Cohen MD

Pulmonary arterial hypertension, idiopathic, William McGee MD and Jason Cross

Pulmonary-artery versus central venous catheter to guide treatment of acute lung injury., Jay Steingrub MD and Mark Tidswell MD

Pulmonary Aspergillus-associated calcium oxalate crystals., Rukmini Modem MD, Roxanne Florence MD, Robert Goulart MD, and Liron Pantanowitz MD

Pulmonary cryptococcosis: An unlikely pathogen, Behdad Besharatian MD, Eimear Kitt MD, Armando Paez MD, Zenaib Sawan MD, and Raquel Belforti M.D.

Pulmonary embolism evaluation in the pregnant patient: a review of current imaging approaches, Peter Ghobrial MD, Jonathan Cogley MD, Bharanidhar Chandrasekaran MD, and Steve Allen MD

Pulmonary Fibrosis after chemotherapy with Oxaliplatin and Capecitabine for colorectal carcinoma, Geetika Sachdeva MD, Ashish Arora MD, and Mark Tidswell MD

Pulmonary hypertension, Robert Rothstein MD, Yvonne Paris MD, and Annabelle Quizon MD

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Pulmonary hypertension and other potentially fatal pulmonary complications in systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis, Peter Blier MD

Pulmonary infections, David Longworth MD

Pulmonary infiltrates revealed on CT in patients with negative evaluation for pulmonary embolism, Howard Smithline MD

Pulmonary-renal syndrome from Sjogren's syndrome (SS) & Type III cryoglobinemia, Maura Brennan MD, Reham Shaaban MD, Gregory Braden MD, and Michael Rosenblum MD

Pulmonary resection after successful downstaging with photodynamic therapy., Keith Mortman MD and Kenneth Frankel MD

Pulsatile hemodynamics in normotensive children compared to children with essential hypertension, Robert Rothstein MD and Yvonne Paris MD

Pulseless Electrical Activity, Sudeep Kaur Aulakh MD

Pulse oximetry using a disposable finger sensor placed on the forehead in hypoxic patients, Howard Smithline MD, Ned Rudnitzky MD, Sandra Macomber, and Fidela Blank

Purple urinary catheter and bag syndrome in a nonagenarian, Venkta Kodali MD

Purpura fulminans and the paradox of an unfortunate outcome, Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD, Manmeet Singh MD, and Sarah Haessler MD

Pursuing permanent hemodialysis vascular access in patients with a poor prognosis: juxtaposing potential benefit and harm, Michael Germain MD

Put critical care clock on pause until physician returns, Michael Lemanski MD

Putting milestones into practice: Case studies, Michael Picchioni MD, Lauren Meade M.D., Kevin Hinchey MD, Samuel Borden MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, and Gina Luciano MD

Putting the public back in public reporting of health care quality, Tara Lagu MD and Peter Lindenauer MD

Put your money where your temporal lobe is: The unique imaging characteristics of CADASIL, Jeffrey Morris MD, Shan Li MD, and Joel Fritz MD

Pyloric stenosis, hyperkalemia and anesthesia practice, Donald Schwartz MD and Neil Connelly MD

Pyoderma gangrenosum in an uncommon location: A therapeutic challenge, Jimmy Fune MD and Katherine Gerstle MD

Pyridoxalated hemoglobin polyoxyethylene (PHP) therapy in distributive shock, Jay Steingrub MD

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Q: Should N-acetylcysteine be used routinely to prevent contrast-induced acute kidney injury?, Senthil Sivalingam MD, Gregory Braden M.D., and Benjamin Freda MD

Quality assurance for design control and implementation of immunohistochemistry assays; Approved guidelinesecond edition, Christopher Otis MD

Quality Control, James Nichols

Quality control of laboratory testing, James Nichols

Quality improvement guidelines for preventing wrong site, wrong procedure, and wrong person errors: Application of the joint commission 'Universal Protocol for Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, Wrong Person Surgery' to the practice of interventional, John Cardella MD

Quality improvement, pay for performance, and outcomes measurement: What makes sense, Benjamin Liptzin MD

Quality in GME, Kevin Hinchey MD

Quality of care for hospitalized elders at high risk of delirium., Peter Lindenauer MD, Maura Brennan MD, Sandra Bellantonio MD, and Sik Ang MD

Quality of care for patients hospitalized for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease., Peter Lindenauer MD, Penny Pekow, and Evan Benjamin MD

Quality of care for patients hospitalized with heart failure: assessing the impact of hospitalists., Evan Benjamin MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, Penny Pekow, and Jan Fitzgerald

Quantifying risk and benchmarking performance in the Adult Intensive Care Unit, Thomas Higgins MD

Quantifying the metabolism of cancerous and non-cancerous breast cancer cells: Implications for drug target identification, Neil Forbes

Quantitation of lung sealing in the survival swine model., Kevin Moriarty MD, Gregory Banever MD, Michael Tirabassi MD, and David Tashjian MD

Quantitative BCR-ABL1 RQ-PCR Fusion Transcript Monitoring, Franklin Moore MD

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Quantitative BCR-ABL1 RQ-PCR Fusion Transcript Monitoring in Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, Franklin Moore MD

Quantitative waveform measures of ventricular fibrillation predict return of spontaneous circulation and short-term survival, Timothy Mader MD, Adam Kellogg MD, and Joshua Walterscheid MD

Questionable benefit of perioperative beta-blockade, Neil Connelly MD and Maureen McNeely MD

Quick-and-Dirty CAM Searching for Chronic Pain Sufferers, Margot Malachowski MLS

Quinolone induced hypoglycemia in an elder with acute kidney injury, Amit Bhargava MD and Maura Brennan MD

Quiz page september 2011 a patient with postpartum hypertension and seizure, Paul Jodka MD, Ashish Verma MD, and Shaji Daniel MD

Rabies, Donna Fisher MD

Racial and ethnic disparities in mortality from acute lung injury, Jay Steingrub MD and Mark Tidswell MD

Racial and socioeconomic disparities in reduction mammoplasty: an analysis of nationwide inpatient sample database, Joseph Shin MD and Marisa Amaral MD

Racial differences in survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest, Timothy Mader MD

Racial differences in the familial aggregation of breast cancer and other female cancers., Ronald Burkman MD

Radiation free alternative method for measuring severity of pectus excavatum deformaties using three dimensional body scanning, Kaitlyn Wong MD, David Tashjian MD, Michael Tirabassi MD, and Kevin Moriarty MD

Randomized clinical trial of activated protein C for the treatment of acute lung injury, Jay Steingrub MD and Mark Tidswell MD

Randomized comparison of DRV/r vs ATV/r on serum lipids in HIV+ persons on fully suppressive LPV/r or FPV/r with high serum triglycerides, Daniel Skiest MD and Jane Garb

Randomized controlled trial comparing metformin with OCP vs. OCP alone in the treatment of adolescents with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), Holley Allen MD

Randomized controlled trial evaluating response to metformin versus standard therapy in the treatment of adolescents with polycystic ovary syndrome., Holley Allen MD, Laura Koenigs MD, Nancy Miller MD, and Edward Reiter MD

Randomized phase 2, first line, of 5-FU, folinic acid, gemcitabine (FFG) versus FOLFOX-4 in patients (pts) with metastatic colorectal carcinoma (mCRC). Work in progress, Donald Higby MD

Randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial of an aerosolized ¥â©ü-agonist for treatment of acute lung injury, Jay Steingrub MD

Randomized, placebo-controlled trial of activated Protein C for the treatment of acute lung injury, Jay Steingrub MD

Randomized trial of a literacy-sensitive, culturally tailored diabetes self-management intervention for low-income latinos: latinos en control, Jeffrey Scavron MD and Garry Welch

Randomized trial of initial trophic vs. early advancements to full enteral feeding in patients with acute lung injury (ALI) (EDEN), Jay Steingrub MD

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Rapid Intrahost Evolution of Human Cytomegalovirus Is Shaped by Demography and Positive Selection, Donna Fisher MD

Rapid loss of daptomycin susceptibility in methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus blood culture isolates from an infective endocarditis patient, Armando Paez MD, P Wilk, Robert Bourgeault, Carol Ann Rauch MD, and Richard Brown MD

Rapid preparation of high-quality frozen sections using the Cryo-Hist embedding machine, Aimee Leonard MD

Rapid resident cycling: The 14 day mini-block, Michael Rosenblum MD

Rapid resident cycling: The 14-day mini-block, Michael Rosenblum MD and Kevin Hinchey MD

Rare cause of infective endocarditis presenting as delirium in NH resident, Amit Bhargava MD, Imran Dosani MD, Ashish Verma MD, Siddharth Wartak MD, Sarah Haessler MD, Maura Brennan MD, and Sandra Bellantonio MD

RARE imaging of post-exercise phosphocreatine recovery - validation and reproducibility, Howard Smithline MD

Rate of microscopic examination of urine sediments (QP061) Data analysis and critique, Richard Friedberg MD

Rates and outcomes of clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD) among patients on prolonged acute mechanical ventilation (PAMV), Thomas Higgins MD

Reach out & read and the development of language and literacy, Elizabeth Boyle MD

Read cases with the experts: Cardiac CT and MR and MRI, George Hartnell MD

Read cases with the experts. Cardiac imaging. Body MRI categorical course., George Hartnell MD

Real-time inter-rater reliability of the council of emergency medicine residency directors standardized direct observation assessment tool, Joseph Schmidt MD

Recalling breast cancer presentation and therapy: Associations between patient inaccuracies and demographic characteristics, Wilson Mertens MD, Chandravathi Loke MD, Deborah Katz MD, Ruth Barham, and Grace Makari-Judson MD

Receive HCAP care in accordance with ATS guidelines: Surprising findings from a large national database, Sarah Haessler M.D.

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Recent insights into life expectancy with and without dialysis, Michael Germain M.D.

Recognition and management of adrenal emergencies., Susan Torrey MD

Recognition and management of chronic kidney disease in an elderly ambulatory population, Michael Rothberg MD, Eileen Kehoe MD, Abbie Courtemanche MD, Thabo Kenosi MD, Penny Pekow, Maura Brennan MD, Jeffrey Mulhern MD, and Gregory Braden MD

Recognizing and managing delirium in the hospitalized older adult, Saeid Behroozi MD, Maura Brennan MD, and Sandra Bellantonio MD

Recognizing common problems in hospitalized older adults, Saeid Behroozi MD, Maura Brennan MD, and Sandra Bellantonio MD

Recombinant human platelet-activating factor acetylhydrolase for treatment of severe sepsis: results of a phase III, multicenter, randomized,double-blind, placebo-controlled, clinical trial., William McGee MD

Recombinant nematode anticoagulant protein c2 in non-ST segment elevation acute coronary syndrome and beyond, Adrian Fluture MD and Gregory Giugliano MD

Recombinant nematode anticoagulant protein c2 in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome: The ANTHEM-TIMI-32 trial, Marc Schweiger MD

Recommendations for the implementation of Joint Commission guidelines for labeling medications, John Cardella MD

Recommendations for the reporting of prostate carcinoma, Christopher Otis MD

Recovery of bone mineral density in adolescents following the use of depot medroxyprogesterone acetate contraceptive injections, Ronald Burkman MD

Rectal biopsies obtained with jumbo biopsy forceps in the evaluation of Hirschsprung disease, Barry Hirsch MD, Anastasios Angelides MD, Susan Goode MD, and Jane Garb

Recurrent diabetic ketoacidosis in a patient with abnormal uterine bleeding, Raquel Belforti MD and Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD

Recurrent digtoxicity: Digibind dosing challenges for older hemodialysis patients, Ashita Talsania MD, Manmeet Singh MD, and Maura Brennan MD

Recurrent idiopathic eosinophillic myocarditis, Wei Ooi MD, Saurabh Dahiya MD, and Amir Lotfi MD

Recurrent low oocyte maturity (RLOM), a new category of oocyte factor infertility, Halina Wiczyk MD, Andrew Moore MD, Daniel Grow MD, Margaret Arny, Kelly Lynch MD, and M Yusoff Dawood MD

Recurrent SSRI-induced myoclonus in a frail octogenarian, Maura Brennan MD, Shin Yin Lee MD, and Yee Chuan Ang MD

Recurrent stupor associated with chronic valporic acid therapy and hyperammonemia, Mihaela Stefan MD

Recurrent thromboembolic phenomena on therapeutic warfarin: A question of VKORC1 polymorphism, Rukshana Cader MD, Archan Shah MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, and Linda Canty MD

Red blood cell transfusion practices within the institutions of the New England Pediatrics Sickle Cell Consortium, Allison Paroskie MD, Philippa Sprinz MD, and Joanna Luty MD

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Red cell exchange transfusion for severe carbon monoxide poisoning merits further study, Aaron Hexdall MD and William McGee M.D.

Redefined genomic architecture in 15q24 directed by patient deletion/duplication breakpoint mapping, Mary-Alice Abbott MD

Reducing frustrations with chronic pain in a resident clinic through education and policy: a case of practice-based learning and improvement meets systems-based practice, Michael Picchioni MD

Reducing medical errors and improving patient safety at the point of care, James Nichols

Reducing medical errors through barcoding at the point of care., James Nichols, Deborah Morsi, Mary Brunton, and Joan McGirr

Reducing patient identification errors related to glucose point-of-care testing, James Nichols, Guarav Alreja MD, Namrata Setia MD, and Liron Pantanowitz MD

Reducing surgical complications, Jan Fitzgerald, Gary Kanter MD, Evan Benjamin MD, and Regina Trelease

Reduction of intestinal neoplasia with adenomatous polyposis coli gene replacement and COX-2 inhibition is additive, Richard Arenas MD

Reference ranges and critical values comparisons (QP054) Data analysis and critique, Richard Friedberg MD

Refining happiness: From residency to troubleshooting your practice, Samuel Borden MD and Emily Singer MD

Reflecting on our history: Digitizing materials for hospital archives, Margot Malachowski MLS

Reflection, learning, technology, and the socio-cultural context of virtual HRD: An emerging theory of network culture dynamics, Elisabeth Bennett

Reflections: neurology and the humanities. Three drawers, Carmel Armon MD

Reflections of a PCP on prescribing buprenorphine in the primary care setting, Thomas Lincoln MD

Reflections on shunt infection, Paul Kanev MD

Reflective writing and facilitated discussion enhance teaching of clinical ethics, Maura Brennan MD, Thomas Campfield MD, Elisabeth Bennett, and John O'Reilly MD

Regenerative potential of P53 silenced human endothelial progenitor stem cells (hEPCs) in diabetes, Sabyasachi Sen MD

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Regional Implementation of a Pediatric Cardiology Chest Pain Guideline Using SCAMPs Methodology, Yvonne Paris MD

Rekindling student interest in generalist careers., Michael R. Grey MD

Relapse pattern and prognosis of primary CNS lymphoma, Wei Ooi MD and Saurabh Dahiya MD

Relationship between established breast cancer risk factors and risk of seven different histologic types of invasive breast cancer., Ronald Burkman MD

Relationship between migraine history and breast cancer risk among premenopausal and postmenopausal women, Ronald Burkman MD

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Relaxin for treatment of acute heart failure: making the case for treating targeted patient profiles, Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD, Sonali Arora MD, and Mara Slawsky MD

Renal., David M. Poppel MD and Lewis Cohen MD

Renal artery stenosis: Prevalence of, risk factors for, and management of in-stent stenosis, Barbara Greco MD

Renal effects of topiramate in children with seizures., Anthony Jackson MD, Herbert Gilmore MD, Beth Rosen MD, Sarah Barnett MD, Gregory Braden MD, Dina Kornblau MD, and Jane Garb

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Renal Lymphoma: MR Appearance With Diffusion-Weighted Imaging, Dustin Nguyen MD and Dmitry Rakita MD

Renal Palliative Care, Michael Germain MD and Lewis Cohen MD

Renal palliative care., Lewis Cohen MD and Michael Germain MD

Renal sarcoidosis presenting as acute kidney injury with granulomatous interstitial nephritis and vasculitis, Varun Agrawal MD, Giovanna Crisi MD, and Benjamin Freda MD

Renal transplantation from HBs antigen positive donor to antigen negative recipient immunized with intradermal hepatitis B vaccine: First American experience, Michael Germain MD, Daniel Skiest MD, and Gregory Braden MD

Repair of intervalvular fibrous body rupture during aortic valve replacement, Victor Alimov MD, Ak Alameddine MD, and Joseph Flack MD

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Repair of umbilical and epigastric hernias, David Earle MD

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of Broca's area affects verbal responses to gesture observation., Giovanna Crisi MD

Reply, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Reply to Cooper et al, Daniel Skiest MD

Reply to 'Successful resuscitation of bupivacaine-induced cardiotoxicity in a neonate', Donald Schwartz MD, Karthik Raghunathan MD, and Neil Connelly MD

Reproducibility of Doppler measures of ventricular function during maximal upright cycling, Thomas Rowland MD and Michael Willers MD

Reproductive factors and risk of breast carcinoma in a study of white and African-American women., Ronald Burkman MD

Repulsive guidance molecule RGMa alters utilization of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) Type II receptors by BMP2 and BMP4, Alan Schneyer

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Rescue shock timing and outcomes during the metabolic phase of ventricular fibrillation, Ryan Coute, Timothy Mader M.D., Scot Millay M.D., and Adam Kellogg M.D.

Rescue shock timing and outcomes following 12 minutes of untreated ventricular fibrillation, Ryan Coute, Timothy Mader MD, and Adam Kellogg MD

Research knowledge among the participants in the Treatment for Adolescents With Depression Study (TADS), Bruce Waslick MD

Research opportunities in the management of acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease., Howard Smithline MD

Residency training in anatomic pathology: looking forward in the 21st century., Christopher Otis MD

Resident and attending attitudes toward the eighty-hour workweek, Sabha Ganai MD, Richard Wait MD, and Nicholas Coe MD

Resident competency in obstetric anal sphincter laceration repair, Oz Harmanli MD

Resident curricula: A needs assessment, Michael Plevyak MD

Resident education regarding technical aspects of cesarean section., Oz Harmanli MD

Resident experience of abuse and harassment in emergency medicine: Ten years later, Marc Haber MD

Resident experience on reproductive endocrinology and infertility rotations and perceived knowledge, Cynthia Sites MD

Resident obstetric ultrasound performance. Can we improve the quality?, Michael Plevyak MD and Heather Sankey MD

Resident preparation for practice: A white paper from the College of American Pathologists and Association of Pathology Chairs, Christopher Otis MD

Residents-as-Teachers: Implementing a Toolkit in Morning Report to Redefine Resident Roles, Jane Garb, Beth Carter MD, Michael Rothberg MD, and Gina Luciano MD

Residents as volunteer readers, Elizabeth Boyle MD

Residents experience on reproductive endocrinology and infertility rotations affects knowledge, Cynthia Sites MD

Residents' knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding emergency contraception, Laura Koenigs MD and Satoko Igarashi MD

Resistance training improves strength and functional measures in patients with end-stage renal disease., Michael Germain MD, Patrick Mailloux MD, and Jeffrey Mulhern MD

Resource management and process change in a simplified model of the emergency department, Philip Henneman MD

Respecting sexuality in older adults, Reham Shaaban MD, Rosette Odulio MD, and Sandra Bellantonio MD

Respiratory Conditions, Barbara Graves

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Respiratory distress, Liza Smith MD

Respiratory mechanics during high-frequency oscillatory ventilation: a physical model and preterm infant study, Rachana Singh MD

Respiratory morbidity in late preterm births, Ronald Burkman MD

Response to Belli and Vanacore, Carmel Armon MD

Response to epidural anesthesia in neonates for pyloromyotomy and accompanying editorial, Donald Schwartz MD and Maureen McNeely MD

Response to letter to the editor by Susan Richman regarding Burkman RT, et al, Ronald Burkman MD

Response to Ridder et al., Liron Pantanowitz MD, Roxanne Florence MD, Robert Goulart MD, and Christopher Otis MD

Responsiveness of a giant prolactinoma to medical management, Peter Butler MD, Pragathi Saligram MD, and Yousef Altowaireb MD

Resting energy expenditure and body composition: racial differences in postmenopausal women, Cynthia Sites MD and Alex Knee

Restoring coronary perfusion pressure before defibrillation after chest compression interruptions, Ryan Coute, Timothy Mader MD, and Adam Kellogg MD

Results of a second year of therapy with the 12-month Histrelin implant for the treatment of central precocious puberty, Edward Reiter MD

Results of phase 2 trial of eritoram, a synthetic TLR-4 antagonist, in patients with severe sepsis, Mark Tidswell MD

Resumption of smoking after release from a tobacco-free correctional facility, Thomas Lincoln MD and Thomas Conklin MD

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Resuscitation status may predict mortality in patients admitted to the ICU., Thomas Higgins M.D.

Resuscitation via femoral vein is inadequate in abdominal compartment syndrome, William McGee MD, Ashish Arora MD, Bogdan Tiru MD, and Meera Sareen MD

Retropubic and transobturator midurethral slings: a decision analysis to compare outcomes including efficacy and complications, Keisha Jones MD

Reversible motor impairment in a 65 year old patient with posterior fossa dermoid cyst, Maura Brennan MD and David Robertson MD

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Reversible myocardial dysfunction following intraocular bevacizumab administration, Srikanth Penumetsa MD and Gregory Giugliano MD

Review of clinical anesthesia, Neil Connelly MD

Review of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and squamous lesions of the uterine cervix, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Review of: Strategies for multivessal revascularization in patients with diabetes, Stanlies D'Souza MD

Revisiting case-control confusion, Oz Harmanli MD and Keisha Jones MD

Rhabdomyolysis caused by an unusual interaction between azithromycin and simvastatin, Gregory Braden MD, Guarav Alreja MD, and Saqib Inayatullah MD

Rhodiola crenulata induces death and inhibits growth of breast cancer cell lines, Sallie Schneider

Rhythms and outcomes of adult in-hospital cardiac arrest, Timothy Mader MD

Right anterolateral hip pain with physical activity and sports, Julio Martinez-Silvestrini MD

Right atrial thrombus leading to altered mental status., Thomas Higgins MD, Theonia Boyd MD, and Leng Jiang MD

Right ventricular global longitudinal strain is not uniformly impaired in patients with pulmonary hypertension, Gui Hua Yao MD, Jiang Cui MD, William Hiser MD, and Leng Jiang MD

Risk factor model to predict a missed clinic appointment in an urban, academic and underserved setting, Owolabi Ogunneye MD, Orlando Torres MD, Jane Garb, Reva Kleppel, Thomas Higgins MD, and Michael Rothberg MD

Risk factor model to predict venous thromboembolism in hospitalized medical patients, Michael Rothberg MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, and Penny Pekow

Risk factors for calcific uremic arteriolopathy (CUA): A case control study in chronic hemodialysis patients, Gregory Braden MD, Jeffrey Mulhern MD, Penny Pekow, Michael Germain MD, George Lipkowitz MD, Arley Diaz MD, and Robert Madden MD

Risk factors for prenatal depressive symptoms among Hispanic women, Penny Pekow and Glenn Markenson MD

Risk factors leading to post sling voiding dysfunction and sling revision-A multicenter case-control study, Oz Harmanli MD

Risk management for POCT, James Nichols

Risk management techniques to identify and control laboratory error sources-Approved guideline, James Nichols

Risk of breast cancer associated with short-term use of oral contraceptives., Ronald Burkman MD

Risk of cardiopulmonary arrest after acute respiratory compromise in hospitalized patients, Timothy Mader MD

Risk stratification and bedside prognostication in infective endocarditis., David Longworth MD and Eric Granowitz MD

RMSF in an elderly woman, Maura Brennan MD and Emily Baiyee MD

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Office of Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care: executive summary of the report from the field., K Francis Lee MD

Robotic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: early experience, John Romanelli MD, Lisa Mark MD, and Jay Kuhn MD

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF) in an elderly woman, Emily Baiyee MD

Role-modeling compassionate care: An innovative resident-as-teacher initiative funded by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, Thomas Campfield MD

Role of antioxidants manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) and Catalase (CAT) in preventing adipogenic and promoting osteogenic differentiation of human bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells (hMSC) in hyperglycemia, Sabyasachi Sen MD and J Enrique Silva MD

Role of preoperative gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist in post-operative adhesion formation after myomectomy, Daniel Grow MD

Role of YKL-40 in the angiogenesis, radioresistance, and progression of glioblastoma, Dennis Oh MD, Sherry Taylor MD, Luis Moral MD, Wei Yan, Brooke Bentley, Rong Shao, and Stephan Scully

Roles for estrogen and progesterone in breast cancer prevention, D Joseph Jerry

Rolofylline: A selective adenosine 1 receptor antagonist for the treatment of heart failure, Mara Slawsky MD

Romance in exam room one, Jeannette Wolfe MD

Rosai-dorfman disease: A rare pulmonary presentation, Patrick O'Donnell MD, Jonathan Freeman MD, and Vandita Johari MD

Routes to better healthcare, Jane Garb, Christopher Boyd MD, Richard Wait MD, and Ric Skinner

Routine ultrasound use for caudal block placement reveals a significant abnormal finding in a child with a chromosomal abnormality, Donald Schwartz MD

Russell body gastritis, David Gang MD, Claudine Habib MD, Rony Ghaoui MD, and Liron Pantanowitz MD

Safe placement of central venous catheters: a measured approach, William McGee MD and Patrick Mailloux MD

Safety and efficacy of anastrozole for the treatment of pubertal gynecomastia: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial., Edward Reiter MD

Safety and efficacy of femoral-based hemodialysis access grafts., David Tashjian MD, Sang Won Rhee MD, Jeffrey Kaufman MD, Marc Norris MD, Robert Madden MD, George Lipkowitz MD, and Jane L. McCall

Safety and efficacy of fosamprenavir in human immunodeficiency virus-infected pregnant women, Claudia Martorell MD and Jane Garb

Safety and efficacy of heparin or enoxaparin prophylaxis in blunt trauma patients with a head abbreviated injury severity score >2, Andrew Doben MD

Safety and efficacy of posaconazole in the long-term treatment of azole-refractory oropharyngeal and esophageal candidiasis in patients with HIV infection., Daniel Skiest MD

Safety and tolerability of a novel tissue factor/factor VIIa inhibitor rNAPc2 in patients with non-ST elevation acute coronary syndrome managed invasively: Results from the ANTHEM-TIMI 32 Trial, Marc Schweiger MD

Safety concerns and health benefits associated with oral contraception., Ronald Burkman MD

Safety effects of simulation: The surgeon's view, Neal Seymour MD

Safety First - Parents need to know how to handle children's medications, Mark Heelon and Kathleen Kopcza

Safety in the ICU: Achieving compliance with head of bed elevation using computerized physician order entry., William McGee MD, Thomas Higgins MD, A Farid MD, Jan Fitzgerald, and Mary Brunton

Safety in the ICU: Computerized physician order entry aids compliance with an ICU safety protocol for glycemic control., William McGee MD, A Farid MD, Thomas Higgins MD, and Mary Brunton

Safety of drotrecogin alfa (activated): Results of Mercury, a retrospective multicenter observational study., Jay Steingrub MD

Safety of drotrecogin alfa (activated): Results of Xeus, a prospective multicenter observational study In Chest 2004;126(4)Suppl:724S, Jay Steingrub MD

Safety starts at the office, Ronald Burkman MD

Safety through teamwork: Surgical team training, Neal Seymour MD

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SAGES clinical spotlight review: endoluminal treatments for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), David Earle MD

Salivary gland lymphoepithelial cysts, Heike Varnholt MD and Liron Pantanowitz MD

Salmonella typhimurium lacking ribose chemoreceptors localize in tumor quiescence and induce apoptosis, Neil Forbes

Salmonella typhimurium specifically chemotax and proliferate in heterogeneous tumor tissue in vitro, Neil Forbes

SAPS 3--From evaluation of the patient to evaluation of the intensive care unit. Part 1: Objectives, methods and cohort description., Thomas Higgins MD

SAPS 3--From evaluation of the patient to evaluation of the intensive care unit. Part 2: Development of a prognostic model for hospital mortality at ICU admission., Thomas Higgins MD

SARS: here to stay? Monkeypox: beware of exotic pets., David Longworth MD

Satisfaction with outpatient specimen collection (QT7) Annual summary report, Richard Friedberg MD

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Saving Sight: An Eye Surgeon's Look at Life Behind the Mask and the Heroes Who Changed the Way We See, Andrew Lam MD

Scaling or normalising maximum oxygen uptake to predict 1-mile run time in boys., Thomas Rowland MD

Scholarly journals: Institutional perspectives, Ellen Brassil

School liaison: A critical program for children attending a community based pediatric Hematology/Oncology Program, Philippa Sprinz MD, Lisa Martensson, and Michele O'Neill

Scopolamine treatment and muscarinic receptor subtype-3 gene ablation augment azoxymethane-induced murine liver injury, Angelica Belo MD

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Screening for Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Short-Term Correctional Institutions: Summary of Evidence Reviewed for the 2010 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines, Thomas Lincoln MD

Screening recommendations: The benefit and harms are in the eye of the beholder, Ronald Burkman MD

Scurvy from "too much Coca-cola" in a malnouridhed and bipolar woman, Payal Jhawar M.D.

Scurvy from "Too much Coca-Cola" in a malnourished and bipolar woman, Payal Jhawar MD

Scurvy from too much Coca-Cola in a malnourished and bipolar woman, Payal Jhawar MD

Secondary triage of the injured pediatric patient within the trauma center: Support for a selective resource-sparing two-stage system., Richard Gabor MD

Second intention healing for intermediate and large postsurgical defects of the lip, Aimee Leonard MD

Sedation of elderly patients undergoing coronary arteriography does not result in adverse outcomes and improves postprocedural care, M Javed Ashraf MD, James Cook MD, Marc Schweiger MD, Sandra Bellantonio MD, and Neelima Vallurupalli MD

Sedentarization and seasonality : Maternal dietary and health consequences in Ariaal and Rendille communities in Northern Kenya, Martha Nathan MD

Sedentary behaviors and abnormal glucose tolerance among pregnant Latina women, Penny Pekow and Glenn Markenson MD

See one, do one, teach one: Introducing the manager model into the PGY-2 year, Kevin Hinchey MD and Michael Picchioni MD

Selected principles of perinatal-neonatal glucose metabolism., Hussein Farrag MD

Selecting a Research Design: Quantitative versus Qualitative, Paula Lusardi

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in pediatric depression: Is the balance between benefits and risks favorable?, Bruce Waslick MD

Self-destruction, abscesses and more: Necrotizing pancreatitis, Paula Lusardi

Self-induced medical abortion in an adolescent., Laura Koenigs MD and Mandy Coles MD

Self-management of type 2 diabetes: a survey of low-income urban Puerto Ricans., Dorthea Vongoeler MD and Jeffrey Scavron MD

Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring: Comparative Effectiveness [Internet], Mihaela Stefan MD

Sensitivity of the Patient-rated Forearm Evaluation Questionnaire in lateral epicondylitis., Julio Martinez-Silvestrini MD

Sensitivity to DNA damage is a common component of hormone based strategies for protection of the mammary gland, Sallie Schneider

Sensitivity to DNA damage is a common component of hormone-based strategies for protection of the mammary gland., Sallie Schneider and D Joseph Jerry

Sensory impairment, Alvaro Rosales MD, Ashish Verma MD, and Sandra Bellantonio MD

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Sepsis and scientific revolutions, Andrew Artenstein MD and Thomas Higgins M.D.

Sepsis-induced right ventricular dysfunction in refractory septic shock, Geetika Sachdeva MD, . ., Ashish Arora MD, and Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD

Septicimia and the Coastal Region, Anju Bhagavan MD, Sarah Haessler MD, and Ashita Talsania MD

Sesamoid bones and accessory ossicles: A pictorial review with pathology and treatment, Daniel Case MD, Justin Polga MD, and James Polga MD

Severe hyponatremia after initiation of hydrochlorothiazide Therapy for Hypertension., Maura Brennan MD and Kurt Diebold MD

Severe hypothyroidism in a preoperative patient, Donna Mercado MD and Sik Ang MD

Severe left ventricular dysfunction mimicking acute myocardial infarction, Maura Brennan MD, Kevin Hinchey MD, and Duha Shaheen MD

Severe shoulder dystocia: Five minutes of sheer terror, Ronald Burkman MD

Severe triple vessel coronary artery disease and aneurysms in a young white man: Disease progression of childhood Kawasaki disease, Senthil Sivalingam MD

Severity-adjusted outcome after CPOE implementation, Thomas Higgins MD, William McGee MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, and Mark Tidswell MD

Severity of illness and outcome prediction: Development and evaluation, Thomas Higgins MD

Sex and age correlates of Chlamydia prevalence in adolescents and adults entering correctional facilities, 2005: implications for screening policy, Thomas Lincoln MD

Sex differences exist in porcine ventricular fibrillation morphology, Timothy Mader MD

Sex differences exist in porcine ventricular morphology, Timothy Mader MD

Sex influence on myocardial function with exercise in adolescents, Thomas Rowland MD

Sexism in the ED: How prevalent is gender bias?, Jeannette Wolfe MD

SFRP1 reduction results in an increased sensitivity to TGF-â signaling, Sallie Schneider and Kelly Gauger

SGIM Taking the Lead on Promoting, Amit Bhargava MD

Shades of gray: Social media in medical education, Tara Lagu MD

Shattering the consensus on end-of-life care: Was the Schiavo case palliative medicine's Humpty Dumpty, Lewis Cohen MD

She sails in medicine, Lucienne Lutfy-Clayton MD

Shigella species, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

Shop for quality or volume? Volume, quality, and outcomes of coronary artery bypass surgery, Penny Pekow, Michael Rothberg MD, and Peter Lindenauer MD

Shorter break-in period is a viable option with tighter PD catheter securing during the insertion, Shaji Daniel MD

Short-term postoperative amiodarone use decreases the incidence of atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing cardiac surgery, James Cook MD, John Rousou MD, David Deaton MD, Mathias Stoenescu MD, and Joseph Flack MD

"Shotgun" versus sequential testing. Cost-effectiveness of diagnostic strategies for vaginitis., Michael Rothberg MD

Should 12 months of training be required before diagnostic radiology residents take independent call? A Survey of the Association of Program Directors in Radiology, Steve Lee MD

Shoulder dystocia training workshop, Susan DeJoy

Should there be an expanded role for palliative care in end-stage renal disease, Lewis Cohen MD

Should we change antibiotic prophylaxis for lung surgery, Richard Engelman MD and Richard Brown MD

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Should we do more to improve oral contraceptive continuation?, Jacqueline White MD

Show me the money: Primer of key sequences for junior residents reading emergent body and musculoskeletal MRI cases on call, Ajay Puri MD

Show me the money: Primer of key sequences for junior residents reading emergent body and musculoskeletal MRI cases on call, Ajay Puri MD, Tara Catanzano MD, Dmitry Rakita MD, Kah Poh Loh MD, and Chiedozie Mkpolulu MD

SIADH with profound hyponatremia in a patient with long-term use of valproate, aripiprazole and mirtazapine, Jacqueline White MD, Senthil Sivalingam MD, Srikanth Penumetsa MD, Amit Bhargava MD, and Lauren Meade MD

Sickle cell anemia masking malignancy, Siddharth Wartak MD and David Rose MD

Sickle Cell Disease - A pictoral review of the progression of disease, Abdullah Shaikh MD, Vivian Miller MD, and Margaret Yacobozzi MD

Sick sinus syndrome secondary to facial injury, Siddharth Wartak MD, Prabhdeep Sethi MD, James Cook MD, and Syed Hussain MD

Side docking the daVinci S Robot made simple, Oz Harmanli MD

Significance of common bile duct dilation in post cholecystectomy patients, Abdullah Shaikh MD, Tara Catanzano MD, and David Desilets MD

Significantly misclassified left atrial size by left atrial dimension or area: Comparison with left atrial volume by two- or three-dimensional echocardiography, Neelima Vallurupalli MD, William Hiser MD, Leng Jiang MD, and Gui Hua Yao MD

Silent heartburn and a phenomenon of lack of recall of heartburn in patients with Barrett's esophagus, David Desilets MD and Farhad Navab MD

Simpler is often better, and patience can be a virtue, Ronald Burkman MD

Simulating patient flow through an Emergency Department using process-driven discrete event simulation, Philip Henneman MD

Simulation as an educational modality for multidisciplinary training experience in Critical Care Medicine, Patrick Mailloux MD and Gladys Fernandez MD

Simulation based training for third year medical students: A combined medical and surgical effort to link theory with practice, Elizabeth D'Amour, Mihaela Stefan MD, Gladys Fernandez MD, Michael Picchioni MD, David Page MD, Joel Abraham MD, Rukshana Cader MD, Neal Seymour MD, and Richard Wait MD

Simulation for medical students, Gladys Fernandez M.D.

Simulation for training internal medicine residents in ACLS: What did we learn, Mihaela Stefan MD, Gerard Langlois, and Elizabeth D'Amour

Simulation in critical care medicine - Helping students "Get It", Thomas Higgins MD, Gladys Fernandez MD, William McGee MD, Patrick Mailloux MD, David Page MD, Elizabeth D'Amour, Richard Wait MD, and Neal Seymour MD

Simulation in critical care medicine: Helping students "Get it", Gladys Fernandez MD, Elizabeth D'Amour, William McGee MD, Patrick Mailloux MD, Neal Seymour MD, Richard Wait MD, and Gerard Langlois

Simultaneous acquisition of phosphocreatine and inorganic phosphate images for Pi:PCr ratio mapping using a RARE sequence with chemically selective interleaving, Howard Smithline MD

Single dilated lactiferous duct due to papilloma: ultrasonographically guided percutaneous biopsy with a vacuum-assisted device., Bret Coughlin MD, David March MD, Robert Goulart MD, and Grace Makari-Judson MD

Single incision for midurethral sling procedure and pelvic reconstructive surgery, Monideepa Baruah MD and Oz Harmanli MD

Single incision laparoscopic partial hepatectomy, John Romanelli MD, Juliana Meyer MD, Richard Arenas MD, and Francis Cannizzo MD

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Single-operator ultrasound-guided intravenous line placement by Emergency Nurses reduces the need for physician intervention in patients with difficult-to-establish intravenous access, Gavin Budhram MD, Richard Barus, and Ryan Coute

Single-port laparoscopic cholecystectomy: initial experience, John Romanelli MD and David Earle MD

Single port laparoscopic cholecystectomy with the TriPort: Initial experience, John Romanelli MD, Philip Omotosho MD, and David Earle MD

Single port laparoscopic cholecystectomy with the TriPort system: A case report, John Romanelli MD, Lisa Mark MD, and Philip Omotosho MD

Single-port laparoscopic surgery: An overview, John Romanelli MD and David Earle MD

Sirolimus-induced lung injury, Mohamed Elarabi MD, Ashita Talsania MD, Ashish Verma MD, Sandra Bellantonio MD, and Maura Brennan MD

Sirolimus-induced lung injury: An unusual cause of ARDS, Mohamed Elarabi MD and Ashish Verma MD

SIR/RSNA/CIRSE Joint Medical Simulation Task Force Strategic Plan Executive Summary, John Cardella MD

SIR/RSNA/CIRSE Joint Medical Simulation Task Force Strategic Plan: Executive Summary, John Cardella MD

Site -2548 of the leptin gene is associated with gender-specific trends in newborn size and cord leptin levels, Theonia Boyd MD

Sixth cranial nerve palsy as an unusual presenting symptom of ipilimumab-induced hypophysitis, David Burgess M.D.

Sixth cranial nerve palsy as an unusual presenting symptom of Ipilimumab-induced hypophysitis, David Burgess M.D., Kah Poh Loh MD, and Shin Yin Lee MD

Skin microvascular reactivity in trained adolescents, Thomas Rowland MD

Sleep and pain management are key components of patient care in ESRD, Lewis Cohen MD

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Sleep disturbances in cancer patients: Underrecognized and undertreated, Saurabh Dahiya MD

Small Bowel Volvulus, Dustin Nguyen MD, Cheri Nguyen MD, and Richard Hicks MD

Small for gestational age: Short stature and beyond, Edward Reiter MD

Smoking and risk of preterm birth among predominantly Puerto Rican women, Penny Pekow and Glenn Markenson MD

Smoking is a probable risk factor for ALS: An evidenced-based update(2003-2008), Carmel Armon MD

Smoking may be considered an established risk factor for sporadic ALS, Carmel Armon MD

Social networking! A modern pandemic, T. Vijay Gadiraju MD

Society of Interventional Radiology clinical practice guidelines, John Cardella MD

SOD1 A4V familial ALS in North America: Can understanding the past lead to a better future, Carmel Armon MD

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Soft tissue chordomas: a clinicopathologic analysis of 11 cases, Anita Sebastian

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Soft tissue chordomas: A clinicopathologic analysis of 11 cases, Anita Sebastian

Solutions to emergency department 'boarding' and crowding are underused and may need to be legislated, Niels Rathlev MD

Somalian guy with FTD, Yee Chuan Ang MD

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Some feelings are more important: cognitive attitudes, affective attitudes, anticipated affect, and blood donation., Michael Germain M.D.

Sonographic measurement of optic nerve sheath diameter and correlation with intracranial pressure, Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD

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Sorafenib or placebo with either gemcitabine or capecitabine in patients with HER-2-negative advanced breast cancer that progressed during or after bevacizumab, Grace Makari-Judson MD

Sorafinib plus chemotherapy for patients with advanced breast cancer previously treated with bevacizumab, Grace Makari-Judson MD

Sorting the milestones: Can residents and attendings agree?, Lauren Meade MD

Sources of satisfaction: A second administration of the program director satisfaction survey, Kevin Hinchey MD

So your patient's last wish is to go home to die: "The going home initiative", Paula Lusardi and Danielle Plouffe

So you want to change practice: Recognizing practice issues and channeling those ideas, Paula Lusardi

Sparse initial entrapment of systemically injected salmonella typhimurium leads to heterogeneous accumulation within tumors, Neil Forbes

Spatial attraction: Visualization and analysis of flow data, Jane Garb, Philip Henneman MD, and Richard Wait MD

Speaking in plain language, Robert Baevsky MD

Specimen identification errors (QP051) Data analysis and critique, Richard Friedberg MD

Spectrum of breast disease encountered in HIV-positive patients at a community teaching hospital, Liron Pantanowitz MD, Sabyasachi Sen MD, Giovanna Crisi MD, Grace Makari-Judson MD, Jane Garb, and Daniel Skiest MD

Speech and language development: monitoring process and problems, Susan McQuiston MD and Nancy Kloczko MD

Spending in the U.S. on advertising for fast foods, sodas, and automobiles: food for thought regarding the type 2 diabetes epidemic, Garry Welch

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Spending more, doing more, or both? An alternative method for quantifying utilization during hospitalizations, Tara Lagu M.D. and Peter Lindenauer M.D.

S-phase kinase-associated protein 2 (SKP2) in estrogen receptor-negative and triple-negative breast cancer, Christopher Otis MD and Sharon Marconi

Sphincter of Oddi manometry, David Desilets MD

Splenic arterial embolization: A treatment option for hypersplenism, Basil Lau MD, Mihaela Stefan MD, and Armen Asik MD

Split decision, Michael Coppola MD

Spontaneous atraumatic splenic hemorrhage, Shin Yin Lee MD

Spontaneous bilateral adrenal hemorrhage, Saurabh Dahiya MD, Anju Bhagavan MD, Monique Carreno MD, and Wei Ooi MD

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection - a mimic, Wei Ooi MD, Saurabh Dahiya MD, and Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD

Spontaneous left anterior descending coronary artery dissection in a patient with neurofibromatosis, Gregory Giugliano MD and Prabhdeep Sethi MD

Spontaneous resolution of a Chiari malformation Type I and syrinx after supratentorial craniotomy for excision of a cavernous malformation, Clemens Schirmer MD

Spontaneous tumor lysis causing acute renal failure in a patient with myelofibrous, Sandhya Kommana MD, Timothy Mulligan MD, Venkta Kodali MD, Lindsay Rockwell MD, and Richard Steingart MD

Spontaneous tumor lysis syndrome in the setting of a solid tumor, Cyrus Khan MD, Chunbai Zhang MD, and Stephen Ryzewicz MD

Spoon full of barium: A pictoral review of modified barium swallow aka Cine Esophagram with speech therapist, Roozbeh Houshyar MD

Sports and trauma in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis revisited, Carmel Armon MD

Spotlight talk: Cardiac life support update, Kim Krach MD

Spotlight talk: Cardiac Resuscitation, Kim Krach MD

Spotlight talk: EKG presentations, Kim Krach MD

Spotlight talk: Electrocardiography, Kim Krach MD

Spotting a zebra by its stripes, Deepak Asudani MD, Martin Broder MD, and Sivakumar Natanasabapathy MD

Standardized physician discharge encounter for congestive heart failure to increase patients readiness for discharge and decrease readmission rate, Wei Ooi MD, Adrienne Seiler MD, Amit Bhargava MD, . ., Jackcy Jacob MD, Mark Jankowske MD, Anju Bhagavan MD, Jaya Mallidi MD, Jan Fitzgerald, Reva Kleppel, Kevin Hinchey MD, Paul Visintainer, Mihaela Stefan MD, Ashley Nelson MD, and Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD

Standardizing the conversation and calibrating the education: tools for a successful evaluation of the Core Competencies, Kevin Hinchey MD and Stewart Babbott MD

Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome, Timothy Mader MD

Starting a peroral endoscopic myotomy program at your institution, David Desilets MD, John Romanelli MD, and David Earle MD

Statistical analysis of vital sign value changes in patients undergoing uncomplicated transfusions, Jay Steingrub MD and Chester Andrzejewski MD

Statistical methodology for analysis of endoscopic versus open saphenous vein harvest techniques, Ak Alameddine MD, Victor Alimov MD, and Daniel Engelman MD

Stat test turnaround time outliers (QT8) Annual summary report, Richard Friedberg MD

STDs in corrections, Thomas Lincoln MD

STDs in Corrections: A Guide for Clinicians, Thomas Lincoln MD

STDs in the correctional setting: New guidelines and a handbook, Thomas Lincoln MD

ST elevation - MI and its mimics, Susan Torrey MD

Stem cell research and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Carmel Armon MD

STEMI Regionalization, Benjamin Osborne MD

Stepwise approach to establishing multiple outreach laboratory information system-electronic medical record interfaces, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Stercoral colitis: More common than you think!, Ajay Puri MD, Qiqing Ge MD, and Carlos Valdes MD

Stereotactic core needle biopsy specimen radiography of malignant breast lesions containing calcifications: Is the presence of carcinoma in specimens without calcifications predictive of more extensive disease, Robert Goulart MD, David March MD, Bret Coughlin MD, Holly Mason MD, and Jane Garb

Stones, bones, and abdominal moans: Multimodality imaging review of hyperparathyroidism, Kavitha Parithivel MD, Justin Polga MD, and Daniel Case MD

Strategies and new developments in the management of bacterial meningitis, Justine Miranda MD

Strategies for recruiting Hispanic women into a prospective cohort study of modifiable risk factors for gestational diabetes mellitus, Glenn Markenson MD

Strategies of correctional health care services organization medical director boot camp, Thomas Lincoln MD

Strategies to enhance linkages between care for HIV/AIDS in jail and community settings, Thomas Lincoln MD

Strategies used by critical care nurses to identify, interrupt, and correct medical errors, Elizabeth Henneman, Fidela Blank, and Philip Henneman MD

Strategies used by nurses to recover medical errors in an academic emergency department setting., Fidela Blank, Elizabeth Henneman, and Philip Henneman MD

Streptococcus pyogenes, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

Stress urinary incontinence and laparoscopy, Oz Harmanli MD

Stroke, Philip Henneman MD

Stroke in 28-year-old female: Migraine induced or triptan use?, Carmel Armon MD, Sean Stanhope MD, Naweed Alzaman MD, and Reham Shaaban MD

Stroke prevention in older adults, Sandra Bellantonio MD and Arnulfo Deray MD

Strokes in Young People: A Differential Diagnosis, Tala Elia MD and Susan Torrey MD

Stroke volume dynamics during progressive exercise in healthy adolescents, Thomas Rowland M.D.

Stroke volume variability, SVO2 and intravascular volume during CVVHD, Patrick Mailloux MD and William McGee MD

Stroke volume variation to stroke volume relationship using a less invasive arterial pressure-based technology, William McGee MD

ST segment depression during vasodilator stress testing predicts long term mortality in women, Neelima Vallurupalli MD, M Javed Ashraf MD, James Cook MD, and William Hiser MD

ST segment elevation myocardial infarction as a presenting feature of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, Gregory Giugliano MD, Auras Atreya MD, Sonali Arora MD, and Senthil Sivalingam MD

Studying rigorously defined health care processes using a formal process modeling language, clinical simulation, observation, and eye tracking, Philip Henneman MD and Elizabeth Henneman

Studying the use of oral contraception: a review of measurement approaches, Katharine White MD

Study shows gender gap in starting EM salaries, Jeannette Wolfe MD

Subacute compartment syndrome in a soccer player, Julio Martinez-Silvestrini MD

Subacute onset of paralysis in a person with AIDS, Saarah Arshad MD, Daniel Skiest MD, and Eric Granowitz MD

Subcutaneous IGF-1 is not beneficial in 2-year ALS trial, Carmel Armon MD

Subgroup mortality probability models: are they necessary for specialized intensive care units, Thomas Higgins MD

Subtle EKG signs of ischemia and infarction, Susan Torrey MD

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Subtyping clinical specimens of influenza a virus by use of a simple method to amplify RNA targets, Andrew Artenstein MD

Successful bilateral deep brain stimulation of the globus pallidus internus for persistent status dystonicus and generalized chorea, Clemens Schirmer MD

Successful engraftment of donor marrow after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation in autosomal-recessive hyper-IgE syndrome caused by dedicator of cytokinesis 8 deficiency, Alicia Johnston MD

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Successful kidney transplantation from a hepatitis B surface antigen-positive donor to an antigen-negative recipient using a novel vaccination regimen, Gurmukteshwar Singh M.D., Daniel Skiest M.D., Michael Germain M.D., Michael O'Shea M.D., and Gregory Braden M.D.

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Successful management of a possible antibiotic-related acquired factor V inhibitor: A case report and review of the literature, Syed Ali MD

Successful models of collaborative practice: The Baystate story, Susan DeJoy

Successful nonoperative management of the most severe blunt liver injuries: a multicenter study of the research consortium of new England centers for trauma, Ronald Gross MD

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Successful nonoperative management of the most severe blunt renal injuries: a multicenter study of the research consortium of new England centers for trauma, Ronald Gross MD

Successful pelvic floor rehabilitation practice for the obstetrician gynecologist, Oz Harmanli MD and Keisha Jones MD

Successful reduction of unnecessary manual leukocyte differential counts using computerized provider order entry and autoverification, Vandita Johari MD, Richard Friedberg MD, Liron Pantanowitz MD, Susan Scott, and Bill Lareau

Successful treatment of Candida Krusei infection with caspofungin acetate: a new antifungal agent, Gary Tereso and William McGee MD

Successful treatment of lymphoma induced lactic acidosis in an older patient, Gregory Braden MD, Maura Brennan MD, and Sik Ang MD

Successful use of succinylcholine for cesarean delivery in a patient with postpolio syndrome, Neil Connelly MD and Timothy Abbott MD

Succinylcholine or rocuronium? A meta-analysis of the effects on intubation conditions., Jeffrey Arnold MD

Sudden unexpected death in young athletes: Reconsidering "hypertrophic cardiomyopathy"., Thomas Rowland MD

Sulodexide fails to demonstrate renoprotection in overt type 2 diabetic nephropathy, Gregory Braden MD

Superficially invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix (SISCCA) immunohistochemistry of difficult differential diagnoses, Christopher Otis MD

Superficially invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix: The assessment of key parameters, Christopher Otis MD

Superficial temporal artery dissection a technical note, Clemens Schirmer MD

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Superficial temporal artery dissection: A technical note, Clemens Schirmer M.D.

Superiority of biplane Simpson's rule over biplane area-length method in left atrial volume quanitification: Comparison with real-time three-dimensional echocardiography, Gui Hua Yao MD, Neelima Vallurupalli MD, William Hiser MD, Mara Slawsky MD, James Cook MD, Leng Jiang MD, and Gustavo Camarano MD

Supine vs. semi-recumbent and upright twelve-lead ECG: Does change in body position alter ECG interpretation for ischemia, Robert Baevsky MD, Marc Haber MD, Fidela Blank, and Howard Smithline MD

Supplemental thiamine for the treatment of acute heart failure, Howard Smithline MD, Fidela Blank, Richard Barus, Ryan Coute, Alex Knee, and Paul Visintainer

Supression of HIV achievable with prompt medical follow up: A longitudinal observation study of outcomes 6 months following release from jail: Data from the EnhanceLink Study, Thomas Lincoln MD

Surgery for peptic ulcer disease and postgastrectomy syndromes, Neal Seymour MD

Surgical competence today: What have we gained? What have we lost?, David Page MD

Surgical considerations in early pregnancy: Ectopic pregnancy and ovarian torsion., Elizabeth Stevens

Surgical management of pediatric adhesive bowel obstruction, Kevin Moriarty MD and David Tashjian MD

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Surgical management of pediatric adhesive bowel obstruction, David Tashjian MD and Kevin Moriarty MD

Surgical management of pediatric emphysema, Kevin Moriarty MD and David Tashjian MD

Surgical pain management and patient satisfaction, Christine Gryglik, Michael Davis, and Cheryl Reilly

Surgical Pearl: The use of a laboratory vortex for poly-L-lactic acid injection., Aimee Leonard MD

Surgical pitfalls of excising an intramyocardial lipoma, Ak Alameddine MD, Victor Alimov MD, David Deaton MD, and George Turner

Surgical resident performance on a virtual reality simulator correlates with operating room performance, Eyad Wohaibi MD, David Earle MD, Ron Bush, and Neal Seymour MD

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Surgical rib fixation for flail chest deformity improves liberation from mechanical ventilation, Andrew Doben MD

Surgical site infections in cardiac surgery: an 11-year perspective., Richard Brown MD and Richard Engelman MD

Surgical training and simulation laboratory at Baystate Medical Center., David Earle MD

Survey of peak flow rates in mechanical ventilation, William McGee MD

Survey of physician knowledge regarding antiretroviral medications in hospitalized HIV-infected patients, Michael Rothberg MD, Saarah Arshad MD, and Daniel Skiest MD

Survival guide for the on call radiologist: Neuroradiologic emergencies, Daniel Case MD, Richard Hicks MD, and Kavitha Parithivel MD

Suture survival in an acidic environment: Implications for Natural Orifice Transgastric Endolumenal Surgery (NOTES), Eyad Wohaibi MD, Sabha Ganai MD, Richard Wait MD, and John Romanelli MD

Sweet's syndrome on the hands, Sandhya Kommana MD, Archan Shah MD, Carol Richardson MD, and Brendan Kelly MD

Synergies in quality improvement projects decrease the incidence of ventilator associated pneumonia., William McGee MD, Karin Johnson MD, and Mary Ellen Scales

Systematic review highlights difficulty interpreting diverse clinical outcomes in abnormal uterine bleeding trials, Oz Harmanli MD

Systemic capillary leak syndrome: Clarkson's Disease, Archan Shah MD, William McGee MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, and Linda Canty MD

Systemic inflammation associated with mechanical ventilation among extremely preterm infants, Bhavesh Shah MD

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Systemic inflammation, intraventricular hemorrhage, and white matter injury, Bhavesh Shah M.D.

Systemic thrombosis after cardiopulmonary bypass in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus, Ghassan Aljafar MD and Stanlies D'Souza MD

Tackling TACO: Naming it, claiming it, and taming it?, Chester Andrzejewski MD

Takayasu arteritis in a young woman: A 4-year case history, Gregory Giugliano MD and Fadi Saab MD

Taking a 'leap of faith': acceptance and value of a cancer program-sponsored spiritual event., Wilson Mertens MD

Taking the first breath: Transition from the fetus to the neonate, Barbara Graves

Taking the trauma out of security, Thomas Lynch, Robert Horton, and Monica Wynne

Talar trauma: A multimodality review of talar fractures and associated injuries, Chiedozie Mkpolulu MD

Tales of Pacific Tangles: Cycad exposure and Guamanian neurodegenerative diseases, Carmel Armon MD

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Talking with patients about dying., Gurmukteshwar Singh M.D.

Tall stature, Edward Reiter MD

Tamsulosin ("Flomax") use for women with bladder outlet obstruction and urinary incontinence in the nursing home: A demonstrative case and critical discussion of its use, Sandra Bellantonio MD, Sandeep Sharma MD, and Liesbeth Tryzelaar MD

Targeted therapies to treat non-AIDS-defining cancers in patients with HIV on HAART therapy: Treatment considerations and research outlook, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Targeted therapy for Kaposi sarcoma, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Targeting bacteriolytic therapy of solid tumors using salmonella typhimurium, Neil Forbes, Richard Arenas MD, Sabha Ganai MD, and Brooke Bentley

Targeting bacteriolytic therapy of solid tumors using salmonella typhimurium, Neil Forbes, Richard Arenas MD, and Sabha Ganai MD

Targeting hyponatremia and hemodynamics in acute decompensated heart failure: Is there a role for vasopressin antagonists?, Gregory Valania MD and Mara Slawsky MD

Task-specific mini-CEXs: A way of documenting competence and enhancing feedback, Michael Picchioni MD, Michael Rothberg MD, Lauren Meade MD, David Ling MD, and Kevin Hinchey MD

Teaching chronic pain management, Michael Picchioni MD

Teaching pediatric code leadership skills: Integrated vs. stand alone curriculum, Howard Smithline MD, Ian Goodman MD, Gerard Langlois, Blake Spirko MD, Fidela Blank, and Gladys Fernandez MD

Team-based care and practice partnerships: making continuity clinic work, Michael Rosenblum MD and Gina Luciano MD

Team building: A climb to perianesthesia excellence, Alison Colburn RN and Nancy Falvey RN

Teams and Professionalism, David Page MD

Team training evolution at Baystate Health, Ronald Burkman MD, Randolph Peto MD, Molly Gray, Deborah Fuller, Michael Albert MD, and James Khoury MD

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Technical communication: decision support using anesthesia information management system records and accreditation council for graduate medical education case logs for resident operating room assignments, Michael Bailin MD

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Technical communication: Inhaled anesthetic agent-vaporizer mismatch: Management in settings with limited resources: Don't try this at home, Adam Adler M.D., Neil Connelly MD, Abistanand Ankam MD, and Karthik Raghunathan MD

Technical factors in renal artery stenting: Effects on contrast volume, fluoroscopy time and post procedure creatinine., Leelakrishna Nallamshetty MD, Hetal Patel MD, George Hartnell MD, and Barbara Greco MD

Techniques of freehand invasive sonography, Stephen O'Connor

Telavancin versus vancomycin for hospital-acquired pneumonia due to gram-positive pathogens, Patrick Lee MD

Telehealth Innovations in Diabetes, Garry Welch

Telehealth program for Medicaid patients with type 2 diabetes lowers hemoglobin A1C, Garry Welch and Sofija Zagarins MD

Temporal subtraction of lateral chest radiographs., Devang Doshi MD

Temporal subtraction registration accuracy in chest radiography: Comparison of forward and reverse temporal subtraction images and quantification of the impact of patient positioning differences on registration accuracy., Devang Doshi MD

Temporomandibular Joint Injury, Timothy Mader MD

Tenofovir-associated acute and chronic kidney disease: A case of multiple drug interactions., John Bedford MD, Gregory Braden MD, and Anne Morris

Terminal suffering: The complex interplay of pain and delirium at end of life, Maura Brennan MD and Geetika Sachdeva MD

Termination., Michael R. Grey MD

Testamentary capacity and delirium, Benjamin Liptzin MD

Testicular cooling associated with testicular torsion and its detection by infrared thermography: An experimental study in sheep, Howard Smithline MD, Geoffrey A. Capraro MD, Timothy Mader MD, and Bret Coughlin MD

Testing a classification model for emergency department errors., Elizabeth Henneman, Fidela Blank, Katherine Williamson, and Philip Henneman MD

Testing a work environment: Work relationship model to explain expertise in experienced acute care nurses, Deborah Morsi and Joan Roche

Testosterone may increase selective attention to threat in young male macaques, Daniel Grow MD

Testotoxicosis: Current viewpoint., Edward Reiter MD

Test ulitization review: Do delays in laboratory results contribute to delays in discharge? A retrospective analysis of 102 discharges from non-acute medical floors at an academic hospital, Evrim Erdogan PhD and Vandita Johari MD

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The 2010 Haiti earthquake response, Jennifer Severe MD

The 2011 EPM Conflict Study. Interpersonal conflict is a major paro of every ED shift. How we handle it could define our careers, Jeannette Wolfe MD

The -258A/G (SNP rs12885300) polymorphism of the human type 2 deiodinase gene is associated with a shift in the pattern of secretion of thyroid hormones following a TRH-induced acute rise in TSH, Peter Butler MD

The ACS-APDS phase III curriculum, Neal Seymour MD

The acute effect of aerobic exercise on brachial artery endothelial function in renal transplant recipients., Michael Germain MD

The addition of geriatric consultation to a multidisciplinary trauma team improves care for elderly trauma patients, Barbara Ostiguy GNP, MSN; Maura Brennan MD; Patricia Letourneau; and Lisa Patterson MD

The adenomatous polyposis coli gene: a key player in the intestinal cell growth and polyp formation in familial adenomatous polyposis syndrome, Richard Arenas MD, Michael Tirabassi MD, Gregory Banever MD, and Kevin Moriarty MD

The adenomatous polyposis coli gene: A key player in the intestinal cell growth and polyp formation in familial adenomatous polyposis syndrome, Richard Arenas MD, Michael Tirabassi MD, Gregory Banever MD, and Kevin Moriarty MD

The adolescent with a chronic illness., James Burns MD and Matthew Sadof MD

The ambulatory learner milestones checklist: A tool to quantify resident competency, Kevin Hinchey MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, Sudeep Kaur Aulakh MD, and Lauren Meade MD

The anesthesiologist and pulmonary arterial hypertension, Mark Tidswell MD and Thomas Higgins MD

The anesthetic management for laparoscopic surgery in a patient with stiff person syndrome, Natalie Maida MD and Steven Dunn MD

The approach to the patient with acute kidney injury, Benjamin Freda MD

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The association between ICU readmission rate and patient outcomes, Thomas Higgins M.D.

The association of lean mass and fat mass with peak bone mass in young premenopausal women, Sofija Zagarins MD

The author replies, Thomas Higgins MD

The Baystate manager model, Samuel Borden MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, Lauren Meade MD, Michael Picchioni MD, Mihaela Stefan MD, and Kevin Hinchey MD

The Baystate manager model: Competency based progression in ambulatroy training, Eric Churchill MD, Sudeep Kaur Aulakh MD, and Michael Rosenblum MD

The beginning of the modern era of assisted reproduction, Ronald Burkman MD

The belongings, Deepak Asudani MD

The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry, Ronald Burkman MD

The biology of activin: recent advances in structure, regulation and function, Alan Schneyer

The bronchial lavage of pediatric patients with asthma contains infectious chlamydia., Chester Andrzejewski MD

The changing nature of care: A healthcare team at the bedside, Michael Rosenblum MD and Michael Rothberg MD

The children with special health care needs medical education project, Matthew Sadof MD

The clinically inapparent adrenal mass: update in diagnosis and management., Michael Rothberg MD

The combined mammographic and sonographic evaluation of palpable breast lesions: Negative predictive value with at least 3-year follow-up, Erica Tyler MD and David March MD

The coming paradigm shift: Synthesis and future directions in virtual HRD, Elisabeth Bennett

The costs of delayed diagnosis: Pain, isolation, functional decline, Theodore Hartenstein MD and Maura Brennan MD

The DAVID (Dual Chamber and VVI Implantable Defibrillator) II trial, James Cook MD

The deflux procedure reduces the incidence of urinary tract infections in patients with vesicoureteral reflux., George Wadie MD, Michael Tirabassi MD, Richard Courtney MD, and Kevin Moriarty MD

The design and evaluation of a graphical display for laboratory data, Patrick Brown MD

The 'Doppler-Swoosh' Test: A further modification to the swoosh test, Donald Schwartz MD and Karthik Raghunathan MD

The ecology of virtual HRD, Elisabeth Bennett

The economic impact of providing rapid influenza test results to physicians caring for ambulatory adults with influenza-like-illness(ILI), Michael Rothberg MD

The effectiveness and safety of beta-blocker therapy for patients hospitalized for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive lung disease with underlying comorbid ischemic heart disease or heart failure, Mihaela Stefan MD, Michael Rothberg MD, Penny Pekow, and Peter Lindenauer MD

The effectiveness of wireless telephone communication technology on ambient noise level reduction within the ED., Howard Smithline MD and Robert Baevsky MD

The effect of adenosine A1 receptor antagonism on return of spontaneous circulation and short-term survival in prolonged ventricular fibrillation, Timothy Mader MD

The effect of advanced age on length of stay and contribution margin in an emergency department outpatient population, Philip Henneman MD

The effect of ambient temperature on cold saline during simulated infusion to induce therapeutic hypothermia, Timothy Mader MD

The effect of ambient temperature on iced saline during simulated infusion to induce therapeutic hypothermia, Timothy Mader MD

The effect of a patient's risk taking attitude on the cost effectiveness of testing strategies, Deepa Chandrasekaran MD, Samuel Borden MD, and Rukmini Modem MD

The effect of concommitant oophorectomy on the perioperative outcomes of hysterectomy, Oz Harmanli MD and Keisha Jones MD

The effect of controlled aerobic exercise on endothelial dysfunction in patients with pre-diabetes: A crossover pilot study, Sabyasachi Sen MD, Pragathi Saligram MD, and Ashequl Islam MD

The effect of duration of second stage labor and mode of delivery on neonatal complications among preterms, Glenn Markenson MD, Fadi Bsat MD, Michael Plevyak MD, and Penny Pekow

The effect of emergency department crowding on clinically oriented outcomes, Niels Rathlev MD and Timothy Mader MD

The effect of hospital volume on outcomes for patients with prolonged acute mechanical ventilation(PAMV), Thomas Higgins MD

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The effect of inpatient stress testing on subsequent emergency department visits, readmissions, and costs, Jaya Mallidi MD, Srikanth Penumetsa MD, Jennifer Friderici, Fadi Saab MD, and Michael Rothberg M.D.

The effect of Insulin-like Growth Factor-I on parity induced protection against breast cancer, Sallie Schneider, D Joseph Jerry, and Brooke Pazik

The effect of lifestyle on fertility, Halina Wiczyk MD

The effect of loading dose timing of eritoran on 28-day mortality in patients with severe sepsis and higher risk of mortality: Analysis of data from a phase II trial, Mark Tidswell MD

The effect of night time admission to a medical-surgical ICU, Mark Tidswell MD and Jay Steingrub MD

The effect of obesity on total abdominal hysterectomy, Oz Harmanli MD

The effect of open access on infant well child care in a resident continuity clinic, Astrid Chabert MD, James Burns MD, Kathleen Szegda, and Cheryl Tierney

The effect of pack supply on oral contraceptive pill continuation: A randomized controlled trial, Katharine White MD

The effect of patient education in decision making regarding elective percutaneous coronary intervention, Mohammad Amin Kashef MD

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The effect of patient education in decision making regarding elective percutaneous coronary intervention, Rushika Conroy MD

The effect of pregnancy weight gain on labor induction failure, Michael Plevyak MD, Glenn Markenson MD, Fadi Bsat MD, Andrew Healy MD, and Alex Knee

The effect of the preshock pause on coronary perfusion pressure decay and rescue shock outcome in porcine ventricular fibrillation, Timothy Mader MD

The effects of lowering LDL cholesterol with simvastatin plus ezetimibe in patients with chronic kidney disease (Study of Heart and Renal Protection): a randomised placebo-controlled trial, Gregory Braden MD

The effects of previous pelvic surgery on total abdominal hysterectomy, Oz Harmanli MD

The efficacy of intravenous immunoglobin in the treatment of refractory Clostridium difficile diarrhea, Melina Irizarry MD, Michael Wall MD, and Sarah Haessler MD

The electronic perinatal charting system: Technolost or improvement in perinatal safety, Glenn Markenson MD

The environment, global warming, and the ObGyn: Revisited, Ronald Burkman MD

The era of big performance measurement: here at last, Peter Lindenauer MD

The evolution of combined oral contraception: improving the risk-to-benefit ratio, Ronald Burkman MD and Carrie Bell MD

The family perspective of ESRD deaths., Lewis Cohen MD, Michael Germain MD, and Adam Mirot MD

The feasibility of a longitudinal integrated clinical experience within a traditional third year curriculum, Elisabeth Bennett, Thomas Campfield MD, and Michael Picchioni MD

The feasibility of inducing mild therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac resuscitation using iced saline infusion via an intraosseous needle, Timothy Mader MD, Adam Kellogg MD, and Joshua Walterscheid MD

The feasibility of measuring phosphocreatine recovery kinetics in muscle using a single-shot (31)P RARE MRI sequence, Howard Smithline MD

The fetal magnetic resonance imaging experience in a large community medical center, Peter Ghobrial MD, Rebecca Levy MD, and Stephen O'Connor

The flu and you, Ronald Burkman MD

The follistatin-288 isoform alone is sufficient for survival but not for normal fertility in mice, Alan Schneyer

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The "forgotten zone": Acquired disorders of the trachea in adults, Andrew Artenstein MD

The FOTO study: 24-week results support, Daniel Skiest MD and Jane Garb

The function and evaluation of lines, tubing and support devices, Dustin Nguyen MD, Tara Catanzano MD, and Michael Swirsky MD

The future is now: Continuity as a team-based concept in radical office redesign, Michael Rosenblum MD, Sudeep Kaur Aulakh MD, and Lauren Meade MD

The future of POCT, James Nichols

The future of point-of-care testing, James Nichols

The future of psychiatric services in general hospitals, Benjamin Liptzin MD

The future of sleep medicine, Michael Coppola MD

The future of surgical simulation, Neal Seymour MD

The "Going Home Initiative": Direct transfer of terminally-ill intensive care unit patients to home hospice, Paul Jodka MD, Paula Lusardi, Nancy Doubleday, Danielle Plouffe, Betty Babb, and Thomas Higgins MD

The going home initiative: Getting critical care patients home with hospice, Paula Lusardi, Paul Jodka MD, Mark Stambovsky, Beth Stadnicki, Betty Babb, Danielle Plouffe, and Nancy Doubleday

The going home initiative: Getting trauma ICU patients home with hospice, Paul Jodka MD, Betty Babb, and Beth Stadnicki

The growth arrest-specific gene CCN5 is deficient in human leiomyomas and inhibits the proliferation and motility of cultured human uterine smooth muscle cells., Holly Mason MD

The HELPS approach to shoulder dystocia management, Susan DeJoy

The history of thyroid hormone control of metabolic rate, J Enrique Silva MD

The Human Patient Simulator(HPS): Is it essential to be in the 'Hot Seat' for better learning, Rukshana Cader MD, Joel Abraham MD, Mihaela Stefan MD, and Gladys Fernandez MD

The identification of ganglion cells in Hirschsprung disease by the immunohistochemical detection of ret oncoprotein., Christopher Otis MD, David Gang MD, and Sadiqa Karim MD

The impact of a palliative care team on residnets' experieinces and comfort levels with pediatric palliative care, Kelly Wu MD, Jennifer Friderici, and Sarah Goff MD

The impact of a simulation training program on the confidence of internal medicine residents to lead and perform adult resuscitation, Raquel Belforti MD, Mihaela Stefan MD, Gerard Langlois, Gladys Fernandez MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, and Elizabeth D'Amour

The impact of body mass index on concordance in the interpretation of matched noncontrast and contrast abdominal pelvic computed tomographic scans in ED patients with nontraumatic abdominal pain., Jeannette Wolfe MD, Howard Smithline MD, Fidela Blank, Bret Coughlin MD, and Steve Lee MD

The impact of case management interventions on blood glucose control (HbA1c) in diabetes: Results of a meta-analysis of clinical trials, Garry Welch, Sofija Zagarins MD, and Jane Garb

The impact of concordant and discordant conditions on the quality of care for hyperlipidemia, Tara Lagu MD

The impact of COPD on management and outcomes of patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction: A 10-year retrospective observational study, Mihaela Stefan MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, and Robert Goldberg MD

The impact of COPD on management and outcomes of patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction - A ten-year retrospective observational study, Mihaela Stefan MD and Peter Lindenauer MD

The impact of depot medroxyprogesterone acetate on adolescents' bone mineral density: Adolescents who lose 5% or more from baseline versus those who lose less than 5%, Ronald Burkman MD

The impact of diabetes on hospital admission, length of stay and mortality of emergenacy department patients with asthma and COPD, Benjamin Osborne MD, Howard Smithline MD, and Jill Griffin MD

The impact of diabetes on hospital admission, length of stay and mortality of emergenacy department patients with CHF, Benjamin Osborne MD, Howard Smithline MD, and Jill Griffin MD

The impact of digital imaging in the field of cytopathology, Liron Pantanowitz MD, Maryanne Hornish, and Robert Goulart MD

The impact of electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy and bundle branch block on the triage and outcome of ED patients with a suspected acute coronary syndrome: a multicenter study., J. Hector Pope M.D.

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The impact of increasing the upper age limit of donation on the eligible blood donor population in Canada., Michael Germain M.D.

The impact of natural disasters: Case of a "delirious" elder, Maura Brennan MD and Eimear Kitt MD

The impact of oral contrast administration for abdominal CT imaging on ED length of stay, patient symptoms and satisfaction: A prospective randomized clinical trial, Niels Rathlev MD

The impact of pack supply on oral contrceptive continuation: A randomized controlled trial, Katharine White MD

The importance and accuracy of documentation in structured fields, Andrew Healy MD, Glenn Markenson MD, Fadi Bsat MD, and Michael Plevyak MD

The importance of goals of care in elders with mild dementia, Sonali Arora MD, Maura Brennan MD, and Shiv Khosla MD

The importance of testing for pre-diabetes - Using the right tool, James Nichols

The inflammatory component of Kaposi sarcoma, Liron Pantanowitz MD

The influence of H. pylori infection on postoperative marginal ulcer and stricture formation in bariatric surgery patients, John Romanelli MD

The influence of procedure volumes and standardization of care on quality and efficiency in total joint replacement surgery, Penny Pekow and Peter Lindenauer MD

The influence of triage systems and triage scores on timeliness of ED analgesic administration, Timothy Mader MD

The ins and outs of AIDS cholangiopathy, David Desilets MD, Abdullah Shaikh MD, and Tara Catanzano MD

The KIGS experience with the addition of gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists to growth hormone (GH) treatment of children with idiopathic GH deficiency., Edward Reiter MD

The likelihood of acute pulmonary embolism in ED patients is not lower among patients taking warfarin, Howard Smithline MD

The long-term impact of dialysis discontinuation on families., Lewis Cohen MD and Maura Brennan MD

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The Lower Anogenital Squamous Terminology Standardization Project for HPV-Associated Lesions: background and consensus recommendations from the College of American Pathologists and the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology, Christopher Otis MD

The management of the open abdomen in trauma and emergency general surgery: Part 1-damage control, Eleanor Winston MD

The mask of sickle cell anemia, Siddharth Wartak MD

The maternal Body Mass Index (BMI): A strong predictor of the success of a vaginal delivery, Ronald Burkman MD and J Zhang

The mathematical model for total pubertal growth in idiopathic growth hormone (GH) deficiency suggests a moderate role of GH dose., Edward Reiter MD

The national academy of clinical biochemistry laboratory medicine practice guidelines for point of care pH testing, James Nichols

The need for end-of-life care training in nephrology: national survey results of nephrology fellows., Lewis Cohen MD

The need for medical liability reform is real, Ronald Burkman MD

The new heart failure diet: Less salt restriction, more micronutrients, Michael Rothberg MD and Senthil Sivalingam MD

The "no dialysis" option, Lewis Cohen MD and Michael Germain MD

The novel factor VIIa/tissue factor inhibitor, recombinant nematode anticoagulant protein C2, alters PT/INR in dose-dependent manner proportionate with plasma concentration in patients with nSTE-ACS: Data from the ANTHEM-TIMI 32 trial, Marc Schweiger MD

The novel lupus antigen related protein acheron enhances the development of human breast cancer, Rong Shao, Stephan Scully, Wei Yan, Brooke Bentley, James Mueller MD, Lauren Schwartz MD, and Larry Schwartz

The NRMP's perspective on positions offered outside the match: Commentary on: Outside-the-match residency offers: The possible extent and implications of "prematching" in postgraduate medical education, Hal Jenson MD

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The Obese Patient and Bariatric Surgery, Donna Mercado MD

The obesity epidemic: scope of the problem and management strategies, Barbara Graves

The obstetrics team: Midwives teaching residents and medical students on the labor and delivery unit, Heather Sankey MD and Julie Feinland

The one-year experience of using simulation to train internal medicine residents in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Mihaela Stefan MD, Kevin Hinchey MD, Samuel Borden MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, Lauren Meade MD, Michael Picchioni MD, and David Longworth MD

The origin of reference intervals: A college of American pathologists Q-probes study of normal ranges used in 163 clinical laboratories, Richard Friedberg MD

The Paediatric Hymen, Stephen Boos MD

The Parkin-like human homolog of Drosophila ariadne-1 (HHARI) can induce aggresome formation in mammalian cells and is immunologically detectable in Lewy bodies, Brooke Bentley, Chul Kim, Luis Moral MD, and Larry Schwartz

The patient-centered medical home: Can ObGyns participate?, Ronald Burkman MD

The patient centered medical home journey, Michael Rosenblum MD

The patient handoff: A comprehensive curricular blueprint for resident education to improve continuity of care, Sean Mahar

The performance of US hospitals as reflected in risk-standardized 30-day mortality and readmission rates for medicare beneficiaries with pneumonia, Peter Lindenauer MD

The pharmacokinetics of drotrecogin alfa (activated) in severe sepsis patients weighing greater than 135 kg in Chest 2004;126(4)Suppl:863S, Jay Steingrub MD

The pharyngeal-cervical-brachial variant of Guillain Barre syndrome: An atypical presentation, Alireza Vaziri MD, Mark Tidswell MD, and Maura Brennan MD

The potential impact on clinical laboratories of the SCOTUS decision and the upcoming presidential elections, Richard Friedberg MD

The potential preventability of postoperative myocardial infarction: underuse of perioperative beta-adrenergic blockade., Evan Benjamin MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, and Nancy Hoople

The power of engagement: implementation of a career ladder program, Robert Bourgeault and Jason Newmark

The practice of medicine-waste reduction, medical liability, and the R word, Ronald Burkman MD

The predictive validity of the internal medicine in-training examination, Kevin Hinchey MD

The process of peer review in U.S. hospitals, Evan Benjamin MD

The psychiatric landscape of withdrawal., Lewis Cohen MD and Michael Germain MD

The pulmonary artery catheter in critical care., William McGee MD, Patrick Mailloux MD, and Paul Jodka MD

The PULSE Trial: Improving ECG monitoring in hospitals, Stephanie Calcasola

The quest for a 'better mousetrap', Aaron Kugelmass MD

Therapeutic apheresis in pregnant women- a review, Chester Andrzejewski MD, Aparna Rajadhyaksha MD, and Theresa Stec

Therapeutic Drugs III: Neuroleptics (Antipsychotics), James Nichols and Monica Hollowell MD

Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest: A cost-effectiveness analysis, Timothy Mader MD

Therapeutic hypothermia after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest due to initial non-shockable rhythms, Timothy Mader MD, Richard Misiaszek MD, and Ryan Coute

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Therapeutic targeting of NOTCH signaling ameliorates immune-mediated bone marrow failure of aplastic anemia, Chester Andrzejewski MD

Therapy with hydrochlorothiazide and spironlactone decreases the risk of calcium oxalate precipitation in premature infants, Thomas Campfield MD, Gary Rockwell MD, and Gregory Braden MD

The rationale and design of the minocycline plus amiodarone versus amiodarone alone (MINAA) trial for the prevention of atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery, Ak Alameddine MD, Paul Visintainer, Victor Alimov MD, Jennifer Germain, Daniel Engelman MD, and John Rousou MD

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There is no "i" in teamwork in the patient-centered medical home: defining teamwork competencies for academic practice, Lauren Meade M.D.

The relationship between changes in specific serum isoflavone concentrations and changes in body fat distribution with soy isoflavone supplementation, Cynthia Sites MD

The relationship between healthy land use in the built environment and Body Mass Index (BMI) percentiles among inner city school children, James Burns MD and Jane Garb

The relationship between hospital spending and mortality in patients with sepsis, Tara Lagu MD, Michael Rothberg MD, Penny Pekow, Jay Steingrub MD, and Peter Lindenauer MD

The relationship between local food sources and open space to body mass index in urban children, Jane Garb, James Burns MD, Sarah Goff MD, and Lela Hobby

The relationship between obesity with hiatal hernia and Barrett's esophagus, David Desilets MD and Farhad Navab MD

The relationship between the density of food sources in the built environment and obesity among inner city school children, James Burns MD and Jane Garb

The relationship between time spent communicating and communication outcomes on a hospital medicine service, Michael Rothberg MD, John Wheeler MD, Ashish Arora MD, and Peter Lindenauer MD

The relative impact of diabetes distress vs depression on glycemic control in hispanic patients following a diabetes self-management education intervention, Garry Welch, Sofija Zagarins MD, and Nancy Allen

The reliability of repeated measures of the time constant for post-exercise phosphocreatine recovery using a weighted intraclass correlation coefficient, Howard Smithline MD

The Renal Palliative Care Initiative., Lewis Cohen MD, Michael Germain MD, and David M. Poppel MD

The retrospective review on clinical efficacy of contrast enhanced echocardiography in morbid obese patients prior to bariatric surgeries, Xiao Liu MD

The return of cardiac imaging: Training and new capabilities for a new era., George Hartnell MD

There will be blood: Imaging appearance of blood and blood products - A multimodality review, Peter Ghobrial MD

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The RhoA pathway mediates MMP-2 and MMP-9-independent invasive behavior in a triple-negative breast cancer cell line, Sallie Schneider PhD, Brooke Bentley, and Christopher Otis MD

The risks of lunch--postprandial hypotension, Gina Luciano MD and Maura Brennan MD

Thermogenic mechanisms and their hormonal regulation., J Enrique Silva MD

Thermoregulation during exercise in the heat in children: Old concepts revisited, Thomas Rowland MD

The role of cognitive functioning in medication adherence of children and adolescents with HIV infection, Susan McQuiston MD

The role of family experiences and ADHD in the early development of oppositional defiant disorder, Jack Fanton MD

The role of secreted frizzled-related protein in parityinduced protection against breast cancer, Sallie Schneider

The role of simulation in critical care education, Susan Scott

The role of staging laparoscopy for intraabdominal cancers: An evidence-based review, David Earle MD

The role of surgical intervention in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the colon and rectum., Francis Cannizzo MD

The role of the institutional review board in quality improvement: a survey of quality officers, institutional review board chairs, and journal editors., Evan Benjamin MD, Deborah Naglieri-Prescod, Peter Lindenauer MD, Jan Fitzgerald, and Penny Pekow

The role of the medical laboratory director, Richard Friedberg MD and Carol Ann Rauch MD

The Roles of the Chief Resident, Kevin Hinchey MD and Gina Luciano MD

The scratch test., Liron Pantanowitz MD

The significance of common bile duct dilatation in older adults, Abdullah Shaikh MD, Sandra Bellantonio MD, and David Desilets MD

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons practice guideline series: Antibiotic prophylaxis in cardiac surgery, part I-duration., Richard Engelman MD

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons practice guideline series: Antibiotic prophylaxis in cardiac surgery, part II-Antibiotic choice., Richard Engelman MD

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons practice guideline series: Blood glucose management during adult cardiac surgery, Richard Engelman MD and Stuart Chipkin MD

The state of transitions of care in emergency medicine, Benjamin Osborne MD

The Strongest Families intervention is more effective than usual care in children with mild or moderate oppositional, attention or anxiety disorders, Barry Sarvet MD

The structure of FSTL3.activin A complex: Differential binding of N-terminal domains influences follistatin-type antagonist specificity, Alan Schneyer

The SVV-SV relationship during one lung ventilation, Charles Gibson RN, Adam Adler M.D., William McGee M.D., Gary Hochheiser M.D., and Rose Ganim M.D.

The Thr92Ala 5' type 2 deiodinase gene polymorphism is associated with a delayed triiodothyronine secretion in response to the thyrotropin-releasing hormone-stimulation test: a pharmacogenomic study, Peter Butler MD

The ties that bind: Durable, transmural, purse-string-like gastronomy closure using a novel device, David Desilets MD, John Romanelli MD, David Earle MD, Joseph Cody MD, and Ricardo Romero MD

The Transdermal Contraceptive Patch: An Updated Review of the Literature, Ronald Burkman MD

The Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study (TADS): Outcomes over 1 year of naturalistic follow-up, Bruce Waslick MD

The tumor lysis syndrome in a child with multicentric Castleman disease, Holley Allen MD, Saniana Mehrotra MD, and Matthew Richardson MD

The unlucky 7: The anatomy, physiology and radiographic appearance of children with the 7 most common forms of congenital heart disease, Michael George MD, Stanley Polansky MD, Tara Catanzano MD, and Yvonne Paris MD

The unlucky 7: The surgeries, post-operative appearance, and potential complications of children with the 7 most common forms of congenital heart disease, Michael George MD, Stanley Polansky MD, Tara Catanzano MD, and Yvonne Paris MD

The use of a virtual reality trainer to increase surgical resident skill on complex laparoscopic tasks, Neal Seymour MD, David Earle MD, John Romanelli MD, Jay Kuhn MD, and Ron Bush

The use of dexmedetomidine for awake intubation in an achondroplastic obstetric patient, Sallie Smith-Schneider PhD, Lakshmi Madabhushi MD, and Ashish Malik MD

The use of etanercept as a non-surgical treatment for temporomandibular joint psoriatric arthritis: A case report, Michael Spink MD

The use of high-frequency oscillatory ventilation in a patient with H1N1 pneumonia, Fadi Bsat MD, Andrew Healy MD, Glenn Markenson MD, Michael Plevyak MD, and Lori Circeo MD

The use of Rituximab to treat life-threatening bleeding disorders in pediatric rheumatic diseases, Philippa Sprinz MD and Peter Blier MD

The Use of Scan Statistics and Control Charts in Assessing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Quality Control Programs, Thomas Higgins MD

The utility of human papillomavirus testing in the management of atypical glandular cells on cytology, Kathryn Sharpless MD

The value of the P-value, Neil Connelly MD and Karthik Raghunathan MD

The value of vitamin D therapy in neonatal hypocalciuric hypercalcemia, Holley Allen MD, Ksenia Tonyushkina MD, Edward Reiter MD, Mary-Alice Abbott MD, and Nancy Dunbar MD

The way to a man's heart is through his liver, Siddharth Wartak MD, Amir Lotfi MD, and Gregory Giugliano MD

The wedding, Lewis Cohen MD

The Werner syndrome helicase is a cofactor for HIV-1 long terminal repeat transactivation and retroviral replication, Daniel Skiest MD

The worst headache of my life - Parasitemic in New England, Francisco Hernandez-Munoz MD

The XNP remodeler targets dynamic chromatin in Drosophila, Sara Goldstein

Thiamine for the treatment of acute decompensated heart failure, Howard Smithline MD

Thinking globally: Adrenal tuberculosis in an Indian male on vacation in the United States, Abayomi Agbebi MD and David Ling MD

This is your brain off drugs: Neurocognitive function before and after ART discontinuation in patients with high CD4 Nadir(ACTG A5170), Daniel Skiest MD

Thoracic disk herniation resulting in acutely progressing paraplegia in a pediatric patient, Erica Giblin MD and Gary Hochheiser MD

Thoracic massage permits use of echocardiography in unanesthetized rats., Mara Slawsky MD

Three brothers, one genotype, evolving sweat chlorides - Is this really CF?, Robert Kaslovsky MD

Three unusual vascular lesions of the skin, Carlos Prieto-Granada MD, Jean Henneberry MD, and Wayne Duke MD

Three wishes for the future of point-of-care tesring, James Nichols

Threshold levels of extreme body surface area that may cause a misrepresentation of cardiac performance, William McGee MD

Thrombocytopenia and centripetal rash in an elderly woman, Emily Baiyee MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, Maura Brennan MD, and Loren Inigo-Santiago MD

Thyroid-adrenergic interactions: physiological and clinical implications, J Enrique Silva MD

Thyroid and parathyroid disease, Nicholas Coe MD

Thyroid hormone receptor-Î± gene knockout mice are protected from diet-induced hepatic insulin resistance, J Enrique Silva MD

Thyroid nodule: A multimodality review - Making sense of it all, Jonathan Cogley MD and Tara Catanzano MD

Thyrotoxicosis, Burritt Haag MD

Ticagrelor versus clopidogrel in acute coronary syndromes, Siddharth Wartak MD, Amir Lotfi MD, and Michael Rothberg MD

Tight glycemic control in diabetic coronary artery bypass graft patients improves perioperative outcomes and decreases recurrent ischemic events., Stuart Chipkin MD

Time for a reality check: Technologies designing the future of anatomic pathology, Richard Friedberg MD

Time for a reality check: The hospital-based laboratory's perspective, Richard Friedberg MD

Time for oncologists to opt in for routine opt-out HIV testing?, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Time-of-day effect on cardiac responses to progressive exercise, Thomas Rowland MD

Time series analysis of emergency department length of stay per 8-hour shift, Niels Rathlev MD

Time to end systolic velocity, a novel tissue Doppler measurement, correlates best with maximal longitudinal contraction, James Cook MD, Leng Jiang MD, Hany Aziz MD, Lisa Massie MD, Adrian Fluture MD, and Prabhdeep Sethi MD

Time to invasive airway and outcomes after in-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest, Timothy Mader MD

Time to invasive airway placement and resuscitation outcomes after inhospital cardiopulmonary arrest, Timothy Mader MD

Time to peak displacement on speckle tracking imaging: A better parameter for left ventricular synchrony, Adrian Fluture MD, Lisa Massie MD, William Hiser MD, Hany Aziz MD, James Cook MD, and Leng Jiang MD

Timing is everything., Thomas Higgins MD

Timing of menarche and first full-term birth in relation to breast cancer risk, Ronald Burkman MD

Tips for managing your POCT program., James Nichols

Tissue Doppler imaging for left ventriclar dyssynchrony: Radial versus longitudinal assessment, Hany Aziz MD, Leng Jiang MD, Lisa Massie MD, and Kenneth Santiago MD

Tissue-factor/factor VIIa inhibition with higher-dose rNAPc2 reduces ischemia in patients with NSTE-ACS managed with an early invasive strategy in ANTHEM-TIMI 32, Marc Schweiger MD

Tissue oxygenation in soft tissue infections, Geoffrey A. Capraro MD, Sondra Jasienowski, and Fidela Blank

TMJ Syndrome, Benjamin Osborne MD

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Tobacco, Big Pharma, and ATS, Douglas Johnson MD

Tocilizumab for the treatment of juvenile idiopathic arthritis, Evan Horton

Today's approaches to treating the menopause: Risks and benefits of various therapies, Cynthia Sites MD

Toilet trouble: Defecation syncope in the elderly, Eimear Kitt MD, Michael Voisine MD, Behdad Besharatian MD, and Maura Brennan MD

Toll-like receptor-4 antagonist eritoran tetrasodium for severe sepsis, Mark Tidswell MD

Tolosa-Hunt syndrome: A rare entity, Cyrus Khan MD, Raul Octaviani MD, and Stephen Ryzewicz MD

Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy, James Burns MD and Ian Goodman MD

Too many nodules: A pictorial review of the pattern recognition approach to diagnosis of multinodular lung disease, Daniel Case MD

Too old for an allo?, Maura Brennan MD

To the editor, Carmel Armon MD

Toxic Shock Syndrome, Julius Larioza MD and Richard Brown MD

Toxoplasma encephalitis in HIV: Is a CD4+ count greater than 200/ìL reassuring?, Ashish Arora MD, Jose Martagon-Villamil MD, T. Vijay Gadiraju MD, Auras Atreya MD, and Sonali Arora MD

Toxoplasmosis of the central nervous system: Pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment, Daniel Skiest MD

TRACER: Early transitions of care, Lauren Meade MD

Tracheal injury following blunt trauma, Toni Chahla MD and Stanlies D'Souza MD

Tracheoesophageal fistula masquerading as intestinal obstruction, Srikanth Penumetsa MD, Amit Bhargava MD, and Boyd Hehn MD

Tracheostomy scar revision using acellular dermal matrix allograft., Melissa Johnson MD

Training in patient monitoring and sedation and analgesia, David Desilets MD

Training residents as community educators, Elizabeth Boyle MD

Tramadol/acetaminophen or hydrocodone/acetaminophen for the treatment of ankle sprain: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial, Timothy Mader MD

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation: comparing apples to apples, Amir Lotfi MD and Gregory Giugliano MD

Transcriptional responses to estrogen and progesterone in mammary gland identify a role for extracellular matrix in modulating p53, Sallie Schneider and D Joseph Jerry

Transcriptional responses to estrogen and progesterone in mammary gland identify networks regulating p53 activity, Sallie Schneider and D Joseph Jerry

Transdermal ethinyl estradiol and norelgestromin for conception, Ronald Burkman MD and Carrie Bell MD

Transdermal ethinyl estradiol and norelgestromin for contraception, Ronald Burkman MD and Carrie Bell MD

Transdermal hormonal contraception: Benefits and risks, Ronald Burkman MD

Transdifferentiation of glioblastoma stem-like cells into mural cells drives vasculogenic mimicry in glioblastomas, Stephan Scully, Brooke Bentley, Sherry Taylor MD, Dennis Oh MD, Robert Schapiro MD, Luis Moral MD, Wei Yan, and Rong Shao

Transduction of a mesenchyme-specific gene periostin into 293T cells induces cell invasive activity through epithelial-mesenchymal transformation, Rong Shao and Wei Yan

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Transforming primary care training-patient-centered medical home entrustable professional activities for internal medicine residents, Michael Rosenblum MD

Transfusion-associated adverse pulmonary sequelae: Widening our perspective, Chester Andrzejewski MD

Transfusion Medicine Automated Survey, CAP Survey JAT-A, Richard Friedberg MD

Transfusion Medicine Automated Testing. CAP Survey JAT-A; JAT-B; JAT-C., Richard Friedberg MD

Transfusion medicine Competency Assessment - Intended Response, CAP Survey TMCA-A., Richard Friedberg MD

Transfusion Medicine(Comprehensive) and Educational Challenge - Final Critique. CAP Survey J-A; J-B; J-C., Richard Friedberg MD

Transfusion medicine Continuing Medical Education - Prevention of Acute Fatal Transfusion Reactions., Richard Friedberg MD

Transfusion medicine(Limited). CAP Survey J1-A; J1-B; J1-C., Richard Friedberg MD

Transfusion Therapy in Hematopoetic Progenitor and Stem cell Transplantation, Richard Friedberg MD and Chester Andrzejewski MD

Transfusion therapy in hematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation, Richard Friedberg MD and Chester Andrzejewski MD

Transgastric Endoscopic Guided Excision of a large gastric trichobezoar, Connie Rossini MD, Gregory Banever MD, and Kevin Moriarty MD

Transgastric laparoscopic band erosion, Jane An MD and Eckart Sachsse MD

Transient acute kidney injury and acute kidney injury on decompensated heart failure, Benjamin Freda MD, Paul Visintainer, and Gregory Braden M.D.

Transition and static measures of dyspnea using ordinal and visual analog scales in patients with acute decompensated heart failure, Howard Smithline MD, Selin Caglar MD, Sondra Jasienowski, Fidela Blank, and Thomas Fitzgerald

Transitioning into the weekend, staffing constraints and delayed care, Wanda Colon-Cartagena MD and Randa Jaber MD

Translating chw asthma interventions from research to sustainability, Matthew Sadof MD

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Translating knowledge into practice in critical care settings, Tara Lagu M.D.

Translational highway: It helps to have a map., Thomas Higgins MD

Transvenous balloon-protected embolization of a scalp arteriovenous fistula using Onyx liquid embolic, Clemens Schirmer MD

Treating common gynecologic conditions with acupuncture, Halina Wiczyk MD

Treating hypertension in patients with diabetes., Evan Benjamin MD

Treatment failure resulting from resistance of staphylococcus aureus to daptomycin., Daniel Skiest MD

Treatment of depression in adolescents: TADS results and future directions, Bruce Waslick MD

Treatment of giant keratoacanthoma with intralesional 5-fluorouracil., Aimee Leonard MD

Trends in the rate of shoulder dystocia over two decades., Oz Harmanli MD

Trends in work-related musculoskeletal disorder reports by year, type and industrial sector: A capture-recapture analysis, Michael R. Grey MD

Trends over time with commonly performed obstetric and gynecologic inpatient procedures, Keisha Jones MD

Trichomonas vaginalis p16 immunoreactivity in cervicovaginal Pap tests: a diagnostic pitfall, Robert Goulart MD, Christopher Otis MD, Liron Pantanowitz MD, and Roxanne Florence MD

Trichomonas vaginalis P16 immunoreactivity in cervicovaginal Pap tests: A diagnostic pitfall., Liron Pantanowitz MD, Christopher Otis MD, Robert Goulart MD, and Roxanne Florence MD

True incidence of CBD stones at ERCP after referral for 'CBD stone on ultrasound'., David Desilets MD, Aixa Caraballo MD, and Abdullah Shaikh MD

Tubulointerstitial diseases., Gregory Braden MD, Michael H. O'Shea MD, and Jeffrey Mulhern MD

Tumor-targeted delivery of TRIAL using Salmonella typhimurium enhances breast cancer survival, Sabha Ganai MD, Richard Arenas MD, and Neil Forbes

Tumour-targeted delivery of TRAIL using Salmonella typhimurium enhances breast cancer survival in mice, Sabha Ganai MD, Richard Arenas MD, and Neil Forbes

Turnaround time of Troponin (QT15) Annual summary report, Richard Friedberg MD

Turner mosaicism (45,X/46,XX) diagnosed in a young woman subsequent to low oocyte maturity and failed ICSI, Daniel Grow MD, Andrew Moore MD, Kelly Lynch MD, and Margaret Arny

T-wave inversion and diastolic dysfunction in patients with electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy, James Cook MD, Peter Ofman MD, Leehapong Navaravong MD, Leng Jiang MD, and Mathias Stoenescu MD

Twiddlers Syndrome An uncommon twist, Ranjit Dhelaria MD and Geetika Sachdeva MD

Type-2 Iodothyronine 5'Deiodinase (D2) in Skeletal Muscle of C57Bl/6 Mice. II. Evidence for a Role of D2 in the Hypermetabolism of Thyroid Hormone Receptor {alpha}-Deficient Mice, J Enrique Silva MD and Waile Ramadan MD

Type-2 iodothyronine 5'deiodinase in skeletal muscle of C57BL/6 mice. I. Identity, subcellular localization, and characterization, J Enrique Silva MD and Waile Ramadan MD

Type-2 iodothyronine Deiodinase (D2) in skeletal muscle of C57Bl Mice: Authenticity and responses to adrenergic stimulation in thyroid hormone receptor-Ñ null mice (Thra-0/0), J Enrique Silva MD and Waile Ramadan MD

Type-2 iodothyronine deiodinase in mouse skeletal muscles, J Enrique Silva MD and Waile Ramadan MD

Type 2 iodothyronine deiodinase levels are higher in slow-twitch than fast-twitch mouse skeletal muscle and are increased in hypothyroidism, Waile Ramadan MD and J Enrique Silva MD

Type and screen completion for scheduled surgical procedures. A College of American Pathologists Q-Probes study of 8941 type and screen tests in 108 institutions., Richard Friedberg MD

Ultrahigh-resolution and 3-dimensional optical coherence tomography ex vivo imaging of the large and small intestines., Liron Pantanowitz MD

Ultrasound and caudal blocks in children., Donald Schwartz MD, Steven Dunn MD, and Neil Connelly MD

Ultrasound-guided breast interventions: Accuracy of biopsy techniques and applications in patient management., David March MD and Suzanne G. Shulman MD

Ultrasound-guided hip arthrocentesis in the ED., Katharine Freeman MD

Ultrasound guided interventional breast procedure, Vivian Miller MD

Ultrasound-guided IV placement by nursing staff reduces requirement for emergency physician intervention, Gavin Budhram MD

Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral Intravenous Access in the Emergency Department: Patient-Centered Survey, Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD

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Ultrasound-guided peripheral intravenous access program is associated with a marked reduction in central venous catheter use in noncritically ill emergency department patients, Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD

Uncommon cause for a common serious medical condition, Aashish Samat MD

Underlying mechanisms of pharmacology and toxicity of a novel PPAR agonist revealed using rodent and canine hepatocytes., Simon Li MD

Understanding diabetic ketoacidosis, Chelsea Gordner DO and James Nichols

Understanding patients' perceptions of medical errors, Sarah Goff MD

Understanding the CMS pass-through process for PGY-1 residencies, Aaron Michelucci, Adam Pesaturo, and Evan Horton

Unilateral anteromedial thalamic stroke presenting as anterograde and retrograde amnesia, Tara DuVal MD, Maura Brennan MD, and Sandra Bellantonio MD

Unilateral twitching & confusion due to paraneoplastic encephalitis, Ranjit Dhelaria MD, Anju Bhagavan MD, and Sandra Bellantonio MD

Unintended consequences of technology improvement, William McGee MD and Patrick Mailloux MD

Unintended precipitation of methadone withdrawal by naltrexone, Pragathi Saligram MD, Senthil Sivalingam MD, and Xiao Liu MD

Unique histologic variants of cutaneous Kaposi sarcoma, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Patrick O'Donnell MD

Unique histopathologic variants of cutaneous kaposi sarcoma, Patrick O'Donnell MD and Liron Pantanowitz MD

Unmet dental needs and barriers to care for children with significant special health care needs, Matthew Sadof MD

Unraveling a life-threatening complication due to esomeprazole in an elderly patient, Dhivya Sundaramurthy MD, T. Vijay Gadiraju MD, Gurmukteshwar Singh M.D., and Daniel Landry MD

Unroofed coronary sinus with absent right and persistent left superior vena cava draining to the left atrium detected by transesophageal echocardiography., Leng Jiang MD

Unshackling birth: New models in the criminal justice system, Donna Jackson-Kohlin MD

Unusual course of recurrent myeloid sarcoma in an elderly patient with AML, Mohamed Elarabi MD, Chandravathi Loke MD, and Sandra Bellantonio MD

Unusual emergency imaging studies that are unusually helpful, Marc Haber MD

Unusual initial presentation of Lupus as renal infarcts and pulmonary embolism in setting of nephrosis in young hispanic male, Senthil Sivalingam MD and Barbara Greco MD

Unusual manifestation of disseminated histoplasmosis in AIDS in a Central American immigrant, Imran Dosani MD, Mihaela Stefan MD, Peter Butler MD, and Monica Hollowell MD

Unusual positioning of a central venous catheter., Gary Kanter MD and Neil Connelly MD

Unusual sites of malignancies: AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma of the gastrointestinal tract., Liron Pantanowitz MD

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Unwarranted variability in antibiotic prophylaxis for cesarean section delivery: a national survey of anesthesiologists., Karthik Raghunathan MD, Neil Connelly MD, Jennifer Friderici, Deborah Naglieri-Prescod, Ryan Joyce MD, Praveen Prasanna MD, and Nandakumar Ponnusamy MD

Updated Mortality Probability Model(MPM-III), Thomas Higgins MD

Update from the National Front, Gary Kerr PharmD

Update in anemia in CKD, Michael Germain MD

Update in infectious disease treatment, David Longworth MD

Update in pain medication, Michael Picchioni MD

Update in pain medicine, Michael Picchioni MD

Update in perioperative medicine., Donna Mercado MD

Update on contraception, Katharine White MD

Update on HIV PrEP (Pre-exposure prophylaxis), Thomas Lincoln MD

Update on infectious disease prevention: human papillomavirus, hepatitis A, David Longworth MD

Update on psychotropic medication use in renal disease., Lewis Cohen MD, Michael Germain MD, and Ed Tessier

Update on renal artery stenosis, Barbara Greco MD

Update on STDs in correctional settings, Thomas Lincoln MD

Urinary excretion and renal expression of osteopontin in premature infants at risk for nephrocalcinosis, Gregory Braden MD, Giovanna Crisi MD, and Thomas Campfield MD

Urinary osteopontin concentration in premature infants, Thomas Campfield MD, Gary Rockwell MD, and Gregory Braden MD

Urine culture contamination (QP052) Data analysis and critique, Richard Friedberg MD

Urine sampling in hospitalised patients is erroneous and unreliable for clinical care, Surinder Yadav MD, Mary Ellen Scales, Mary Brunton, Denise Schoen, and Evan Benjamin MD

Urticaria after varicella vaccine: The need for a graded challenge, Mario Rodenas MD, Jonathan Bayuk MD, and Jacqueline Cook

USANS as a probe of large-scale structure in attractive colloidal glasses of block copolymer micelles, Neil Forbes

Use and outcomes of venous thromboembolism prophylaxis after spinal fusion surgery, Peter Lindenauer MD and Penny Pekow

Usefulness of serum creatinine for detecting renal insufficiency in elderly outpatients, Maura Brennan MD, Eileen Kehoe MD, Thabo Kenosi MD, Penny Pekow, Ricky Wong MD, Jeffrey Mulhern MD, and Michael Rothberg MD

Use of 12x/month haemoglobin monitoring with a computer algorithm reduces haemoglobin variability, Jane Garb, Warren Ho MD, and Michael Germain MD

Use of a four-step resident-candidate rank process to equalize preceptor input in a PGY-1 residency program, Aaron Michelucci and Adam Pesaturo

Use of an aggressive MCF-7 cell line variant, TMX2-28, to study cell invasion in breast cancer., Sharon Marconi and Christopher Otis MD

Use of a new performance assessment tool for a complex laparoscopic task, Neal Seymour MD, David Earle MD, John Romanelli MD, and Jay Kuhn MD

Use of antihypertensive agents in the management of patients with acute ischemic stroke., Peter Lindenauer MD, Evan Benjamin MD, and Penny Pekow

Use of Aspirin Associates with Longer Primary Patency of Hemodialysis Grafts, Gregory Braden MD

Use of energy devices in thoracoscopy: Quanitation of lung sealing capacity, Michael Tirabassi MD, David Tashjian MD, Gregory Banever MD, and Kevin Moriarty MD

Use of energy devices in thoracoscopy: Quntitation of lung sealing capacity., Michael Tirabassi MD, David Tashjian MD, Gregory Banever MD, and Kevin Moriarty MD

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Use of fibrin sealants in cardiovascular surgery: a systematic review, John Rousou MD

Use of HIV resistance testing after prolonged treatment interruption, Dmitri Iarikov MD, Carol Ann Rauch MD, Daniel Skiest MD, Claudia Martorell MD, and Robert Hoffman MD

Use of human papillomavirus testing in the management of atypical glandular cells, Kathryn Sharpless MD

Use of magnetic resonance imaging to measure endothelial function, Howard Smithline MD

Use of P53 silenced endothelial progenitor stem cells (hEPC) in diabetic peripheral vascular disease, Sabyasachi Sen MD

Use of spinal immobilization techniques in stable patients: A multicenter evaluation, Benjamin Osborne MD, Fidela Blank, Richard Barus, and Thomas Fitzgerald

Use of stand assist devices in the correctional system: A case report, Thomas Lincoln MD

Use of survivorship care plans to re-engineer breast cancer follow-up, Grace Makari-Judson MD, Sandra Hubbard, and Tamara Wrenn

Use of survivorship care plans to re-engineer brest cancer follow-up, Grace Makari-Judson MD, Sandra Hubbard, and Tamara Wrenn

Use of ultra pure nitric oxide generated by the reduction of nitrogen dioxide to reverse pulmonary hypertension in hypoxemic swine, Charles Plant MD

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Use of ultrasound-guided cryotherapy for the management of chronic pain states., Neil Connelly MD, Ashish Malik MD, Lakshmi Madabhushi MD, and Charles Gibson RN

Using ABIM performance improvement modules to improve care set utilization, quality-care indicators and enhance resident education in quality improvement, Mihaela Stefan MD, Raquel Belforti MD, Sarah Workman MD, Amit Bhargava MD, Mayu Sekiguchi MD, Adrienne Seiler MD, Manmeet Singh MD, Jan Fitzgerald, Surinder Yadav MD, Anju Bhagavan MD, . ., Wei Ooi MD, and Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD

Using acoustic analysis of coughs to identify respiratory infections in the emergency department, Howard Smithline MD, Ryan Coute, and Richard Barus

Using Action Research to Improve Instruction: An Interactive Guide for Teachers, Elisabeth Bennett

Using chemical engineering to develop cancer therapeutics, Neil Forbes

Using computer modeling to study the impact of adding a fast track to a crowded ED, Philip Henneman MD

Using discrete event simulation to study patient length of stay, Philip Henneman MD and Haiping Li

Using discrete event simulation to study potential causes of crowding, Philip Henneman MD

Using emergency department-based inception cohorts to determine genetic characteristics associated with long term patient outcomes after motor vehicle collision: methodology of the CRASH study, Niels Rathlev MD

Using engineering to characterize and overcome multidrug resistance in solid human tumors, Neil Forbes

Using hospital standardized mortality ratios for public reporting: A comment by the consortium of chief quality officers, Evan Benjamin MD

Using interphase fluorescence in situ hybridization (I-FISH) to detect the transfer of infant cells during breastfeeding, Solveig Pflueger MD and Lezlie Densmore

Using lubricant for speculum insertion, Oz Harmanli MD and Keisha Jones MD

Using QOPI metrics for physician incentive compensation, Grace Makari-Judson MD, Tamara Wrenn, Wilson Mertens MD, Gordon Josephson MD, and James Stewart MD

Using scan statistics for quality control and program evaluation, Thomas Higgins MD

Using spatial analysis to improve health care services and delivery at Baystate Health, Jane Garb and Richard Wait MD

Using the AAMC compact between resident physicians and their teachers as a vehicle for program evaluation and improvement, Samuel Borden MD, Lauren Meade MD, Michael Picchioni MD, Mihaela Stefan MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, and Kevin Hinchey MD

Using the American Heart Association's National Registry of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation for performance improvement, Timothy Mader MD

Using the Brief Symptom Inventory-18 to screen patients referred to high-breast cancer risk assessment clinic: Patient factors associated with caseness before and after counseling, Wilson Mertens MD, David Katz MD, Grace Makari-Judson MD, Marlene Quinlan, Ruth Barham, and Deborah Katz MD

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Uterine incision-to-delivery interval and perinatal outcomes in transverse versus vertical incisions in preterm cesarean deliveries, Gauri Luthra MD, Roman Starikov MD, and Glenn Markenson MD

Utility of fasting plasma glucose in predicting impaired glucose tolerance in obese children and adolescents, Chrystal Wittcopp MD

Utility of fetal echocardiography after normal cardiac imaging findings on detailed fetal anatomic ultrasonography, Fadi Bsat MD, Anna Tsirka MD, Yvonne Paris MD, Glenn Markenson MD, Roman Starikov MD, and Alex Knee

Utility of fetal echocardiography after normal fetal cardiac evaluation by detailed fetal anatomy ultrasound, Fadi Bsat MD, Roman Starikov MD, Glenn Markenson MD, and Alex Knee

Utility of fine needle aspiration biopsy in the diagnosis of thyroid lymphoma, Rukmini Modem MD, Robert Goulart MD, and Liron Pantanowitz MD

Utility of JT index when prescribing antipsychotics in the context of prolonged QTc and QRS, Remya Tharackal Ravindran MD and Rebecca Starr MD

Utility of serum creatinine for detecting chronic kidney disease in elderly outpatients, Eileen Kehoe MD, Michael Rothberg MD, Thabo Kenosi MD, Penny Pekow, Maura Brennan MD, Jeffrey Mulhern MD, Gregory Braden MD, and Abbie Courtemanche MD

Utilization of formal echocardiography for shock: The emperor has no clothes, William McGee MD

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Utilization Patterns and Outcomes Associated With Central Venous Catheter in Septic Shock: A Population-Based Study*, Peter Lindenauer M.D.

Utilizing a PGY-1 resident-run pharmacotherapy clinic to achieve a longitudinal ambulatory experience, Aaron Michelucci, Jason Cross, and Evan Horton

Utilizing a test lab for wireless medical devices, Allie Paquette

Vaccination for boys: The paediatrician's perspective, Hal Jenson MD

Vaccination versus treatment of influenza in working adults: A cost-effectiveness analysis, Michael Rothberg MD and David Rose MD

Vaccine counseling: A content analysis of patient-physician discussions regarding human papilloma virus vaccine, Sarah Goff MD

Vaginal evisceration during pessary fitting and treatment with immediate colpocleisis, Oz Harmanli MD and Keisha Jones MD

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Vaginal myofibroblastoma with prostatic glands: is there an association with tamoxifen use? A case report, Oz Harmanli M.D., Q Jackie Cao MD, and Keisha Jones MD

Vaginal Pap tests status-post hysterectomy., Liron Pantanowitz MD, Robert Goulart MD, Maryanne Hornish, and Roxanne Florence MD

Validation of a continuous, arterial pressure-based cardiac output measurement: a multicenter, prospective clinical trial, William McGee MD and Lori-Ann Kozikowski

Validation of a continuous cardiac output measurement using arterial pressure waveforms, William McGee MD

Validation of a model that uses enhanced administrative data to predict mortality in critically ill patients with sepsis, Tara Lagu MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, Penny Pekow, Michael Rothberg MD, Jay Steingrub MD, and Thomas Higgins MD

Validation of an operating room performance tool for surgical residents, Neal Seymour MD, David Earle MD, and Alexander Perez MD

Validation of a statistical model to predict vancomyacin-induced nephrotoxicity in adult non-intensive care unit patients, Seth Housman, Safia Kuriakose, Erica Tenholder, Evan Horton, Jane Garb, and Daniel Skiest MD

Validity of dyspnea measures in patients with acute decompensated heart failure, Howard Smithline MD, Fidela Blank, Thomas Fitzgerald, and Sondra Jasienowski

Validity of the reduced-sample insulin modified frequently-sampled intravenous glucose tolerance test using the nonlinear regression approach, Sabyasachi Sen MD

Validity of using ICD-9-CM codes to identify selected categories of obstetric complications, procedures and co-morbidities, Sarah Goff MD, Penny Pekow, Glenn Markenson MD, Alex Knee, and Peter Lindenauer MD

Validity of using ICD-9CM codes to identify selected obstetric complications, procedures and comorbidities, Glenn Markenson MD, Sarah Goff MD, Alex Knee, and Peter Lindenauer MD

Value of public-private partnerships: Highlighting open platforms, James Nichols

Vancomycin and Daptomycin induced acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis in a woman with family history of psoriasis, Daniel Soule MD, Payal Jhawar M.D., and Stephen Ryzewicz MD

Variability by institution in emergency medicine inservice reviews with audience response units, Lucienne Lutfy-Clayton M.D.

Variabilty in antibiotic prophylaxis for cesarean section: A national anesthesiologist practice survey, Karthik Raghunathan MD, Charles Plant MD, Jennifer Friderici, Neil Connelly MD, Ryan Joyce MD, Praveen Prasanna MD, and Nandakumar Ponnusamy MD

Variable Troponin T and CK MB Leak and ECG changes in Rhabdomyolysis without chest trauma, Venkta Kodali MD and Hany Aziz MD

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Variation exists in rates of admission to intensive care units for heart failure patients across hospitals in the United States, Tara Lagu M.D.

Variation in local institutional review board evaluations of a multicenter patient safety study, Charles Gibson

Variation in the care of septic shock: The impact of patient and hospital characteristics, Tara Lagu MD, Michael Rothberg MD, Penny Pekow, Jay Steingrub MD, and Peter Lindenauer MD

Variation in the number of hospital acquired conditions at heart hospitals among medicare beneficiaries in fiscal year 2007, Aaron Kugelmass MD and Patrick Brown MD

Variation in the treatment of patients with septic shock, Tara Lagu MD, Jay Steingrub MD, Michael Rothberg MD, Penny Pekow, and Peter Lindenauer MD

Variations in faculty assessment of NICU flowsheet data: Implications for electronic data display, Patrick Brown MD

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Variations in institutional review board reviews of a multi-center, Emergency Department (ED)-based genetic research protocol, Niels Rathlev MD

Variations of vertebral artery origin, duplications of the vertebrobasilar system and carotid-basilar anastomoses, Jane An MD, Cheri Nguyen MD, Richard Hicks MD, and Shan Li MD

Varicella zoster encephalitis in the elderly: The deadly imitator, Eimear Kitt MD, Behdad Besharatian MD, Jessie Leyse MD, and Maura Brennan MD

Vascular pedicle width in acute lung injury: correlation with intravascular pressures and ability to discriminate fluid status, Jay Steingrub MD

Vascular reactivity improves in pre-diabetic patients, post aerobic exercise, Sabyasachi Sen MD and Ashequl Islam MD

Vasopressor Use in the Emergency Department, Susan Torrey MD

Venous thromboembolism: Have we made headway?, Jan Fitzgerald

Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis among medical patients at US hospitals, Peter Lindenauer MD, Michael Rothberg MD, and Penny Pekow

Ventilator-associated pneumonia rates at major trauma centers compared with a national benchmark: A multi-institutional study of the AAST, Ronald Gross MD

Ventilator autocycling and delayed recognition of brain death, William McGee MD and Patrick Mailloux MD

Ventral Hernia, David Earle MD

Verification of method performance for clinical laboratories, James Nichols

Verification of the COBAS® AmpliPrep/COBAS® TaqMan HIV test ver.2.0, Franklin Moore MD

Vernixuria: another sign of uterine rupture, Michel Prefontaine MD

Vertebral reconstruction using the telescopic plate spacer-thoracolumbar (TPS-TL) device, Clemens Schirmer MD

Vesicocentesis may be therapeutic in pathologic fetal bladder distension, Glenn Markenson MD, Andrew Healy MD, Fadi Bsat MD, and Michael Plevyak MD

Video and CD-ROM as a training tool for performing neurologic examinations, Herbert Gilmore MD

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for intrathoracic extramedullary hematopoiesis, Erica Giblin MD, Kenneth Frankel MD, and Keith Mortman MD

Vimentin and leukocyte common antigen-negative molding cells in pleural effusions of patients with small cell lung carcinoma, Robert Goulart MD and Q Jackie Cao MD

Vimentin and leukocyte common antigen-negative molding cells in pleural effusions of patients with small cell lung carcinoma., Q Jackie Cao MD, Patricia Krebs MD, Roxanne Florence MD, and Robert Goulart MD

Viral hepatitis, risk behaviors, aminotransferase levels, and screening options at a county correctional center, Thomas Lincoln MD

Virtual coil embolization in a model side-wall aneurysm: influence of the hematocrit, Clemens Schirmer MD

Virtual diabetes education and care? Pushing for a better clinical paradigm, Garry Welch

Virtual HRD and international medical education: A conceptual analysis, Elisabeth Bennett and Jennifer Hurst

Virtual HRD: A paradigm shift?, Elisabeth Bennett

Virtual HRD: The intersection of knowledge management, culture, and intranets, Elisabeth Bennett

Virtual reality and computer-enhanced skills training devices are equally effective in building complex surgical skill in novices, Daniel Grow MD, Prathima Kanumuri MD, Sabha Ganai MD, Eyad Wohaibi MD, Ron Bush, and Neal Seymour MD

Virtual reality and computer-enhanced training devices equally improve laparoscopic surgical skill in novices, Sabha Ganai MD, Prathima Kanumuri MD, Eyad Wohaibi MD, Ron Bush, Daniel Grow MD, and Neal Seymour MD

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Virtual reality-based simulation training for ventriculostomy: an evidence-based approach, Clemens Schirmer M.D.

Virtual reality in general surgical training, Neal Seymour MD

Virtual-reality training improves angled telescope skills in novice laparoscopists., Sabha Ganai MD and Neal Seymour MD

Virtual reflections: Ethical dilemmas of third-year medical students in an academic medical center, Elisabeth Bennett, John O'Reilly MD, and Thomas Campfield MD

Vital sign changes in patients undergoing platelet transfusion therapy., Chester Andrzejewski MD, Theresa Stec, Timothy Lacy MD, Jay Steingrub MD, and Mark Collins MD

Vitamin B1 deficiency after laparascopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, John Romanelli MD

Vitamin D deficiency is associated with cardiovascular disease risk factors but not obesity in pediatric type 1 diabetes, Holley Allen MD, Chrystal Wittcopp MD, Nancy Dunbar MD, Paul Visintainer, and Edward Reiter MD

Vitamin D deficiency testing, James Nichols

Volume, quality of care, and outcome in pneumonia., Peter Lindenauer MD

Volume resposiveness in critically ill patients, William McGee MD and Bogdan Tiru MD

VR to OR: A review of the evidence that virtual reality simulation improves operating room performance, Neal Seymour MD

VR to OR for camera navigation, Neal Seymour MD

VTE and OCs with dospirenone-Proceed with caution, Ronald Burkman MD

Wanted: Effective patient education. (Editorial), Ronald Burkman MD

Warfarin-associated intracranial hemorrhage: At the crossroads of prevention, Michael Picchioni MD and Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD

Warfarin plus aspirin after myocardial infarction or the acute coronary syndrome: Meta-analysis with estimates of risk and benefit., Michael Rothberg MD, James Cook MD, and Carmel Celestin MD

Web Logs: Blogging as a means of informatics education and information sharing, Thomas Higgins MD, Neil Kudler MD, and Patrick Brown MD

Weekend emergency department visits in Nebraska: higher utilization, lower acuity, Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD

Weight gain in children and adolescents taking carbamazepine, David Dredge MD, Herbert Gilmore MD, Beth Rosen MD, and Anthony Jackson MD

Wellens Syndrome, Benjamin Mattingly MD

Wellen's syndrome: Mark of the widow, Ashish Verma MD, Neelima Vallurupalli MD, Timothy Mulligan MD, and Siddharth Wartak MD

We need an interpreter, Yee Chuan Ang MD, Shin Yin Lee MD, and Maura Brennan MD

What conclusions should be drawn between critical care physician management and patient mortality in the intensive care unit, William McGee MD

What criteria should be used for the diagnosis of delirium?, Benjamin Liptzin MD

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What determines whether a patient initiates chronic renal replacement therapy?, Michael Germain M.D. and Lewis Cohen MD

What displaces the spinal cord? What you see is not what you think: Differentiation of the idiopathic transdural spinal cord herniation (ISCH) and space-occupying cyctic lesions within the spinal canal - A pictorial essay, Shan Li MD

What displaces the spinal cord? What you see is not what you think: Differentiation of the idiopathic transdural spinal cord herniation (ISCH) and space-occupying cystic lesions within the spinal canal - A pictoral essay, Marc Haber MD

What is accuracy and how close must the agreement be?, James Nichols

What is best evidence in pathology?, Christopher Otis MD

What is the best method for estimating the burden of severe sepsis in the United States?, Tara Lagu MD, Michael Rothberg MD, Meng-Shoiu Shieh, Penny Pekow, Jay Steingrub MD, and Peter Lindenauer MD

What lies beneath: A multimodality approach to imaging congenital spine pathology underlying lumbosacral cutaneous lesions, Lindsay Fox MD and Shan Li MD

What should we do now? Making sense of preventing contrasted-induced nephropathy., George Hartnell MD

When cellulitis is more than a simple infection, Ashita Talsania MD, Aashish Samat MD, and Stephen Ryzewicz MD

When CHF anatomy meets physiology: Correlating chest plain film and CT findings with pulmonary capillary wedge pressure, Grace Mitchell MD

When Enough Is Enough: The Nephrologist's Responsibility in Ordering Dialysis Treatments, Michael Germain MD

When fat planes take off: A pattern approach to the abdominal radiograph, Lindsay Fox MD and Tara Catanzano MD

When hallucinations are not due to delirium or psychiatric disease: Charles Bonnet Syndrome, Maura Brennan MD, T. Vijay Gadiraju MD, Sonali Arora MD, and Auras Atreya MD

When Italians cannot eat: An exploration of the cultural context of food at end-of-life, Diane Dietzen MD

When leaving your seat can ruin a call shift: Indications, technique considerations, and common imaging findings for ED fluoroscopic exams, Peter Ghobrial MD

When tube feeds result in weight loss, Mohammed Albugeaey MD, Shin Yin Lee MD, and Iheanyichukwu Ogu MD

When will I go through menopause?, Cynthia Sites MD

Where in the abdomen is the appendix? A review of normal vermiform appendix anatomy and correlation to observed clinical and radiologic presentations in acute appendicitis, Chiedozie Mkpolulu MD and Tara Catanzano MD

Who do you want taking care of your parent, Peter Lindenauer MD

Whole body oxygen consumption and critical oxygen delivery in response to prolonged and severe carbon monoxide poisoning., Howard Smithline MD

Why am I taking this so hard, Jeannette Wolfe MD

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Why gender-specific medicine matters in the emergency department, Jeannette Wolfe MD

Why the gray zone may shift within the fog, William McGee MD and Karthik Raghunathan MD

Why weaning from mechanical ventilation doesnt occur, Mark Tidswell MD, Thomas Higgins MD, and Boyd Hehn MD

Why women lose at the negotiating table, Jeannette Wolfe MD

Widespread retinal degenerative disease mutation (rdAc) discovered among a large number of popular cat breeds, Solveig Pflueger MD

Will I Pass the Boards?, Stewart Babbott MD and Kevin Hinchey MD

Will you be my doctor? Primary care physicians' willingness to accept transition of young adults with chronic conditions, Matthew Sadof MD

Withdrawal and witholding support for AKI: Ethical issues in the ICU, Benjamin Freda MD

Withdrawal from dialysis: A palliative care perspective., Michael Germain MD and Lewis Cohen MD

Withholding and withdrawal from dialysis: What we know about how our patients die, Michael Germain MD and Lewis Cohen MD

Workflow interruptions in the hospitalist model of care, Surinder Yadav MD and Evan Benjamin MD

Working towards a culture of safety at Baystate Medical Center., Peter Lindenauer MD and Evan Benjamin MD

Working with advanced practice nurses to increase access to treatment, Barry Sarvet MD

Would a nursing home physician specialty resolve the workforce crisis in long-term care, William Freedberg MD

Would you place a caudal block in this child?, Donald Schwartz MD and Nandakumar Ponnusamy MD

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X-rayted and Overexposed: Comment on "Comparison of Radiation Exposure and Cost Between Dynamic Computed Tomography and Sestamibi Scintigraphy for Preoperative Localization of Parathyroid Lesions"., Nicholas Coe MD

XX, XY and the art of asking - What, when and how to negotiate, Jeannette Wolfe MD

YfiO stabilizes the YaeT complex and is essential for outer membrane protein assembly in Escherichia coli., Joseph Sklar MD

YKL-40, a potential biomarker for colorectal cancer, Richard Arenas MD, Christopher Chapman MD, Q Jackie Cao MD, Rong Shao, and Brooke Bentley

YKL-40, a secreted glycoprotein, promotes tumor angiogenesis, Rong Shao, Q Jackie Cao MD, Richard Arenas MD, Brooke Bentley, and Wei Yan

Young female with facial eschar: Suspected cervicofacial actinomycosis, Reham Shaaban MD, Aalya Ramadhan MD, and Michael R. Grey MD

Youth football: Heat stress and injury risk., Thomas Rowland MD

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