Content Posted in 2013

11-year-old girl with fevers, headaches and new onset altered mental status, Jonathan Cogley MD

12-lead ECG findings of pulmonary hypertension occur more frequently in emergency department patients with pulmonary embolism than in patients without pulmonary embolism, Howard Smithline MD

12-lead electrocardiogram findings of pulmonary hypertension occur more frequently in emergency department patients with pulmonary embolism than in patients without pulmonary embolism, Howard Smithline MD

12x/month hemoglobin monitoring with a computer algorithm reduces hemoglobin variability (Hv), Warren Ho MD, Michael Germain MD, and Jane Garb

2009 pandemic H1N1-associated myocarditis in a previously healthy adult, Sarah Haessler MD, Armando Paez MD, Michael Rothberg MD, and Thomas Higgins MD

2011 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards. Mentored implementation: building leaders and achieving results through a collaborative improvement model. Innovation in patient safety and quality at the national level, Winthrop Whitcomb MD

28-day mortality in high-risk with severe sepsis receiving eritoran with or without drotrecogin alfa: Analysis of data from a phase II trial, Mark Tidswell MD

2-week-old boy with vomiting, Jonathan Cogley MD

30-day outcomes and predictors of mortality in dialysis patients undergoing abdominal surgery, Arley Diaz MD and Mihaela Stefan M.D.

46-year-old female with history of Marfan's presenting with back pain x 40 minutes, Jonathan Cogley MD

50 Gastrointestinal Cases and Associated Imaging, Abdullah Shaikh MD, Syed Hussain MD, David Desilets MD, and Tara Catanzano MD

57 y.o. with DKA, Roozbeh Houshyar MD

A 57-year-old HIV-positive man with persistent fever, weight loss, and pancytopenia, Liron Pantanowitz MD

A 58-year-old woman with an unusual cause of respiratory failure, Patrick Mailloux MD and Mark Jankowske MD

AABB/CAP Viral Markers - participants Summary., Richard Friedberg MD

AABB/CAP Viral markers - Participant Summary, CAP Survey VM-A., Richard Friedberg MD

å-Aminocaproic acid and clinical value in cardiac anesthesia, Neil Connelly MD, Karthik Raghunathan MD, and Gary Kanter MD

Abbreviated MRI for patients presenting to the emergency department with hip pain, Khaldoon Al Dulaimy MD and Khaldoon Al Dulaimy MD

Abdominal 64-MDCT for suspected appendicitis: the use of oral and IV contrast material versus IV contrast material only, Niels Rathlev MD

Abdominal anaphylaxis presenting as trauma: a recipe for delayed diagnosis, J. Hector Pope MD, Eleanor Winston MD, and Khaldoon Al Dulaimy MD

Abdominal Pain, Gavin Budhram MD

Abdominal wall, omentum, mesentery, and retroperitoneum, Neal Seymour MD

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A blinded evaluation of combination drug therapy for prolonged ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest, Timothy Mader M.D., Ryan Coute, Scot Millay M.D., and Adam Kellogg M.D.

A blinded, randomized controlled evaluation of an impedance threshold device during cardiopulmonary resuscitation in swine, Timothy Mader MD, Adam Kellogg MD, Jeremy Smith MD, Brett Murphy MD, and Claudia Gaudet

Abnormalities of the breast in pregnancy and lactation, Holly Mason MD and Richard Wait MD

Abnormalities of the deep pelvis: A review of deep pelvic anatomy with illustration of spread of disease across fascial planes, Qiqing Ge, Tara Catanzano MD, and Dmitry Rakita MD

A brief intervention using a computerized patient self management assessment tool improves blood glucose control (HbA1c), Garry Welch, Sofija Zagarins MD, and Jane Garb

A brief review of the addition of gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists (GnRH-Ag) to growth hormone (GH) treatment of children with idiopathic growth hormone deficiency: Previously published studies from America., Edward Reiter MD

Absence of an effect of injectable and implantable progestin-only contraceptives on subsequent risk of breast cancer., Ronald Burkman MD

Absence of human herpes virus-8 (HHV8) in nephrogenic systemic, Wayne Duke MD, Liron Pantanowitz MD, and Patrick O'Donnell MD

Absorbable fistula plug as an effective treatment for gastric fistula after sleeve gastrectomy, Shiv Khosla MD

Abusive head trauma Part I: Clinical aspects, Stephen Boos MD

Abusive head trauma Part II: Radiological aspects, Stephen Boos MD

Academic career development for clinical directors, Niels Rathlev MD

Academy of nutrition and dietetics: standards of professional performance for registered dietitians (competent, proficient, expert) in clinical nutrition management., Mary Jane Rogalski

A calcified lesion on abdominal X-ray., K Francis Lee MD

A case-control study of body mass index and breast cancer risk in white and African-American women, Ronald Burkman MD

A case of brachial plexypathy in a diabetic patient following axillary approach brachial plexus blockade, Stanlies D'Souza MD, Srinivasa Gutta MD, and Lakshmi Madabhushi MD

A case of carcinoid tumor, Stanlies D'Souza MD and Toni Chahla MD

A case of Costello Syndrome, Stanlies D'Souza MD

A case of delayed hepatotoxicity following N-acetylcysteine therapy, Mayu Sekiguchi MD, Alvaro Rosales MD, and Michael Rosenblum MD

A case of Flecainide overdose, Abistanand Ankam MD, Stanlies D'Souza MD, Shanthan Sunku MD, and Natalie Maida MD

A case of long-standing painful skin rash and depression, Sabyasachi Sen MD, David Gang MD, and Yousef Altowaireb MD

A case of lumbar subarachnoid hemorrhage in pregnancy revealed yet unrelated to spinal anesthesia, Adam Adler M.D. and Poornachandran Manikantan MD

A case of paroxysmal obstruction of right coronary ostium, Adam Adler M.D., Toni Chahla MD, Srinivasa Gutta MD, and Stanlies D'Souza MD

A case of post-operative delirium and short term memory loss in a morbidly obese parturient, Stanlies D'Souza MD, Karin Zuegge MD, and Ammar Yamani MD

A case of septic shock in a parturient, Lakshmi Madabhushi MD and Stanlies D'Souza MD

A case of spontaneous subdural hematomas caused by VP shunt drainage for normal pressure hvdrocephalus, Carmel Celestin MD and Maura Brennan MD

A case report of plasmacytoma presenting as a mass in the distal pancreas, Jonathan Freeman MD

A case report of plasmacytoma presenting in a mass in the distal pancreas, Jonathan Freeman MD

Accelerated aortic valve restenosis in a patient with ESRD, Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD and Jorge Velez MD

Acceleration of Integra incorporation in complex tissue defects with subatmospheric pressure., Anoush Hadaegh MD

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Access to subspecialty care for patients with mobility impairment: a survey, Tara Lagu M.D., Nicholas Hannon, Michael Rothberg M.D., Penny Pekow, Jill Avrunin, and Peter Lindenauer M.D.

Accountable care organizations, Richard Friedberg MD

Accuracy of caudal needle placement in children: Comparison of the Swoosh Test and ultrasonography, Karthik Raghunathan MD, Donald Schwartz MD, and Neil Connelly MD

Accuracy of emergency medicine residents during completion of the American College of Physicians Minimum Ultrasonography Training Benchmarks, Gavin Budhram MD

Accuracy of fetal fibronectin to predict preterm birth in twin gestations with symptoms of labor., Sylvia Pilpel MD, Fadi Bsat MD, Michael Plevyak MD, Andrew Healy MD, Glenn Markenson MD, and Emily Singer MD

Accuracy of ICD-9_CM coding for identifying obstetric complications in administrative data, Sarah Goff MD, Glenn Markenson MD, Alex Knee, and Peter Lindenauer MD

Accuracy of laceration length estimation, Michael Lemanski MD, Fidela Blank, Howard Smithline MD, and Philip Henneman MD

Accuracy of resident obstetrical procedure numbers in the case log system, Heather Sankey MD

Accuracy of ultrasound-guided percutaneous biopsy of complex cystic breast masses., Devang Doshi MD, Bret Coughlin MD, David March MD, and Giovanna Crisi MD

Accuracy of very low pretest probability estimates for pulmonary embolism using the method of attribute matching compared with the wells score, Howard Smithline MD

Accusations of murder and euthanasia in end-of-life care., Lewis Cohen MD

ACEP Facility Billing Guideline, Michael Lemanski MD

ACEP Facility Billing Guidelines, Michael Lemanski MD

ACEP reimbursement frequently asked questions, Michael Lemanski MD

Acheron, a Lupus antigen family member, regulates integrin expression, adhesion, and motility in differentiating myoblasts, Larry Schwartz

Acheron, a novel member of the lupus antigen family, is induced during the programmed cell death of skeletal muscles in the moth Manduca sexta, Larry Schwartz

A chewable pediatric fixed-dose combination tablet of stavudine, lamivudine, and nevirapine: pharmacokinetics and safety compared with the individual liquid formulations in human immunodeficiency virus-infected children in Thailand, Maripat Toye RN MS

Achieving secondary prevention low-density lipoprotein particle concentration goals using lipoprotein cholesterol-based data, Jaya Mallidi MD

Achieving universal HIV screening: Predictors of what influences screening, Mihaela Stefan MD

A combined medical and surgical simulation based training curriculum for 3rd year medical students: Student's perspective, Mihaela Stefan MD, Gladys Fernandez MD, Joel Abraham MD, Gerard Langlois, Rukshana Cader MD, and Elizabeth D'Amour

A combined pediatric/adult thrombosis hemostasis clinic: A pilot program, Vandita Johari MD and Matthew Richardson MD

A common problem in designating studies: Case control or cohort, Oz Harmanli MD

A comparison of cryopreserved vein allografts and prosthetic grafts for hemodialysis access., Robert Madden MD, George Lipkowitz MD, and Alexander Kurbanov MD

A comparison of exercise capacity in men and boys in cold and hot environments, Sean Hagenbuch MD and Thomas Rowland MD

A comparison of exercise capacity in men and boys in cold and hot environments, Thomas Rowland MD and Sean Hagenbuch MD

A comparison of Nanosphere's Verigene(R) respiratory virus plus nucleic acis test (RV+) to a traditional testing algorithm for influenza A/B and RSV, Franklin Moore MD

A Comparison of Obstetric Maneuvers for the Acute Management of Shoulder Dystocia, Ronald Burkman MD

A comparison of short-term outcomes between laparoscopic supracervical and total hysterectomies, Oz Harmanli MD, Alex Knee, and Elena Tunitsky-Bitten MD

A comparison of short-term outcomes between laparoscopic supracervical and total hysterectomy, Oz Harmanli MD and Alex Knee

A complete large bowel obstruction after laparascopic cholecystectomy: A rare complication, John Romanelli MD

A concept analysis of self-monitoring., Suzanne Garvin

A consensus document on robotic surgery, David Earle MD

A conserved and species-specific functional interaction between the Werner syndrome-like exonuclease atWEX and the Ku heterodimer in Arabidopsis, Nathan Conway MD

Acquired hemophagocytic lymphohistocystosis (AHLH) - Atypical presentation as progressive skin necrosis, T. Vijay Gadiraju MD and Randa Jaber MD

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome related Kaposi's sarcoma eroding the maxillary bone, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Acquired microRNA changes may trigger sporadic ALS initiation and spread, Carmel Armon MD

Acquired nucleic acid changes may trigger sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Carmel Armon MD

Acquired nucleic acid changes may trigger sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis., Carmel Armon MD

Acquired perforating dermatosis (APD): Our quest to cure the itch, T. Vijay Gadiraju MD, Behdad Besharatian MD, Eimear Kitt MD, and Maura Brennan MD

ACR Appropriateness Criteria on Hodgkin's lymphoma: Favorable prognosis stage I and II, Michael Yunes MD

ACR Appropriateness Criteria® on Hodgkin's Lymphoma-Unfavorable Clinical Stage I and II, Michael Yunes MD

Activated protein C and hospital mortality in septic shock: a propensity-matched analysis, Peter Lindenauer MD, Michael Rothberg MD, Penny Pekow, and Jay Steingrub MD

Activation of host wound responses in breast cancer microenvironment, Sallie Schneider, Melissa Troester, and D Joseph Jerry

Activation of p53, inhibition of telomerase activity and induction of estrogen receptor beta are associated with the anti-growth effects of combination of ovarian hormones and retinoids in immortalized human mammary epithelial cells, Sallie Schneider

Activation of the tumor suppressor gene p53 is higher in normal parous human breast tissue than the nulliparous counterpart, D Joseph Jerry, Sallie Schneider, and Giovanna Crisi MD

Activin subunit and receptor expression in normal and cleft human fetal palate tissues, Alan Schneyer

Acupuncture stimulation and obstetrics: "To stick or not to stick?--That Is the question", Halina Wiczyk MD

A Curriculum to Develop Chief Resident Leadership Skills, Kevin Hinchey MD and Gina Luciano MD

Acute aortic syndrome in a pregnant patient: Expecting the unexpected, Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD and Gregory Giugliano MD

Acute brachial diplegia due to lyme disease, George Baquis MD

Acute coronary syndromes in the emergency department: Diagnostic characteristics, tests, and challenges., J. Hector Pope M.D.

Acute cytomegalovirus colitis mimicking exacerbation of ulcerative colitis: Precipitating or coincidental?, Owolabi Ogunneye MD and Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD

Acute decompensated heart failure, Howard Smithline MD

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Acute decompensated heart failure is routinely treated as a cardiopulmonary syndrome, Tara Lagu M.D. and Peter Lindenauer M.D.

Acute detection of reperfused and non-reperfused acute myocardial infarction with Tc-99m glucaric acid, William Hiser MD

Acute effects of firefighting on arterial stiffness and blood flow, Thomas Rowland MD

Acute effects of firefighting on cardiac performance, Thomas Rowland MD

Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis in an elderly female, Remya Tharackal Ravindran MD and Rebecca Starr MD

Acute glaucoma after dilated eye exam in a patient with hyphema, retinal detachment, and vitreous hemorrhage, Gavin Budhram MD

Acute hemodynamic changes during Drotrecogin Alfa (activated) (DTAA) infusion in septic shock, Jay Steingrub MD, Mark Tidswell MD, and Thomas Higgins MD

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Acute kidney injury due to intravenous bleach injection., Ashish Verma MD

Acute kidney injury in patients with acute lung injury: Impact of fluid accumulation on classification of acute kidney injury and associated outcomes, Jay Steingrub MD

Acute kidney injury-Key issues in diagnosis and management, Benjamin Freda MD

Acute kidney injury secondary to type I cryogloblobulinemia associated with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: Rare presentation with unique renal pathology, Ranjit Dhelaria MD, Jonathan Freeman MD, and Barbara Greco MD

Acute kidney injury-Withdrawal and witholding of dialysis, Benjamin Freda MD

Acute mandibular lesion in a 12-year-old girl with McCune Albright Syndrome and fibrous dysplasia, Nancy Dunbar MD and Ksenia Tonyushkina MD

Acute motor axonal neuropathy: A curious variant of Guillain-Barre Syndrome(GBS), Carmel Armon MD

Acute onset of hemiparesis in the full-term parturient, Natalie Maida MD

Acute pancreatitis from gastrostomy tube migration in a nursing home resident, Raquel Belforti MD and Amit Bhargava MD

Acute paroxysmal airway obstruction in third trimester of pregnancy, Toni Chahla MD and Stanlies D'Souza MD

Acute renal artery occlusion: making the case for renal artery revascularization, Gregory Giugliano MD, Leehapong Navaravong MD, and Ronana Ali MD

Acute renal failure and hyperkalaemia associated with cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors., Michael Germain MD, Gregory Braden MD, Michael H. O'Shea MD, and Jeffrey Mulhern MD

Acute resting myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with diabetes mellitus: results from the Emergency Room Assessment of Sestamibi for Evaluation of Chest Pain (ERASE Chest Pain) trial., J. Hector Pope M.D.

Acute right heart failure precipitated by thyroid storm: An unusual manifestation, William McGee MD, Bogdan Tiru MD, Meera Sareen MD, and Sonali Arora MD

Acute rise in LV dp/dt with cardiac resynchronization therapy is related to acute reduction of mitral regurgitation, James Cook MD, Leng Jiang MD, Hany Aziz MD, Lisa Massie MD, and Barry Karas MD

Acute transverse myelitis (ATM) in an elderly woman, Maura Brennan MD and Rosette Odulio MD

ADAMTS13 activity and inhibitor, Vandita Johari MD, Jonathan Freeman MD, Claudine Habib MD, and Adriana Doldan-Silvero MD

Adaptation of a handheld glucose analyzer for use in cold weather point-of-care environment, James Nichols

Adaptive biatrial pacing reduces atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass grafting., James Cook MD, David Deaton MD, John Rousou MD, and Joseph Flack MD

Addendum to assessment: Prevention of post-lumbar puncture headaches: Report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology., Carmel Armon MD

Adding up the zeros, Jay Steingrub MD

Addition of a tissue-factor/factor VIIa inhibitor to standard treatments in NSTE-ACS managed with an early invasive strategy: Results of the phase 2 ANTHEM-TIMI 32 double-blind randomized clinical trial, Marc Schweiger MD

Addition of epinephrine to epidural bupivacaine infusions following initiation of labor analgesia with epidural fentanyl, Neil Connelly MD, Jorge P. Freiman MD, Tanya Lucas MD, Robert Parker MD, Karthik Raghunathan MD, Charles Gibson, Brennan Katz MD, and Chad Iwashita MD

Addressing gaps in abortion education: A sexual health elective created by medical students, Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD

A declining workforce for the future: Can this challenge be met by collaborative practice?, Ronald Burkman MD

Adenolipoma of the external female genitalia, Liron Pantanowitz MD, Jean Henneberry MD, Christopher Otis MD, and Mary Zakhary MD

Adenomyosis interferes with accurate ultrasonographic detection of uterine leiomyomas., Oz Harmanli MD

Adequacy of lymph node retrieval in colonic adenocarcinoma depends on surgical and anatomic factors, Christopher Chapman MD and Wayne Duke MD

Adequacy of surgical pathology cancer reporting (QP062) Data analysis and critique, Richard Friedberg MD

A descriptive study of heavy emergency department users at an academic emergency department reveals heavy ED users have better access to care than average users., Howard Smithline MD, Philip Henneman MD, Fidela Blank, John Santoro MD, Ann Maynard, and Haiping Li

Adherence to HIV treatment and care among previously homeless jail detainees, Thomas Lincoln MD

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Adherence to HIV Treatment and Care Among Previously Homeless Jail Detainees, Thomas Lincoln MD

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Adherence to practice guidelines for atypical glandular cells on cervical cytology, Kathryn Sharpless M.D.

Adherence to Practice Guidelines for Women with Atypical Glandular Cells on Cervical Cytology: A Follow-up Analysis, Kathryn Sharpless MD

Adipose tissue: A normal constituent of the uterine cervical stroma, Christopher Otis MD, Liron Pantanowitz MD, and Adriana Doldan Silvero MD

Administration of intact APC gene causes polyp regression in a mouse model of familial adenomatous polyposis, Richard Arenas MD, Gregory Banever MD, Michael Tirabassi MD, and Kevin Moriarty MD

Adnexal masses in pregnancy, Margaret Yacobozzi MD, Dustin Nguyen MD, and Dmitry Rakita MD

Adolescent asthma: A developmental approach, Matthew Sadof MD and Robert Kaslovsky MD

Adolescents knowledge of medical abortion and emergency contraception, Laura Koenigs MD and Mandy Coles MD

Adoption of reminder and recall messages for immunizations by pediatricians and public health clinics., Cheryl Tierney

A double "HIT", Sandra Bellantonio MD

A "double overlap" suture technique for the proximal attachment of a composite graft to the aortic annulus., John Rousou MD and Ak Alameddine MD

Adrenal insufficiency following spontaneous bilateral adrenal hemorrhage during pregnancy with spontaneous recovery, Yousef Altowaireb MD, Kamal Shoukri MD, and J Enrique Silva MD

Advanced Illness and Elders at the End of Life, Maura Brennan MD

Advanced Illness Care and Elders at the End of Life, Maura Brennan MD

Advancements in Neurotrauma Care, Marianne Langlois

Advances in neuromuscular disease. Highlights of the American Academy of Neurology 57th Annual Meeting, Carmel Armon MD

Advances in sports medicine and exercise sciences, Julio Martinez-Silvestrini MD

Adverse events reporting in the apheresis setting: regulatory resources, Chester Andrzejewski MD and Theresa Stec

Adverse outcomes of geriatric patients undergoing abdominal surgery who are at high risk for delirium, Sabha Ganai MD, Sandra Bellantonio MD, K Francis Lee MD, Maura Brennan MD, and Peter Lindenauer MD

Adverse reactions to antibiotics in critical care, Richard Brown MD and Eric Granowitz MD

Advocacy and critical issues, Richard Friedberg MD

A face of malignancy revealed, Monique Carreno MD

A fatal rash: It's lupus, Auras Atreya MD and Sonali Arora MD

A formal transition program for young adults with reproductive endocrine disorders, Kelly Lynch MD and Ingrid Dunn MD

A four-part model of informal learning: Implications for Pathology, Elisabeth Bennett and Jean Henneberry MD

A Fragile X screening program utilizing the Amplidex FMR1 and mPCRCE assays by Asuragen, Franklin Moore MD and Solveig Pflueger MD

After the funding is gone: An analysis of predictors of sustainability efforts at the inner city asthma intervention sites, Matthew Sadof MD

A fulminant complication of advanced lymphoma, Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD and Chirag Vaidya MD

Age at growth hormone therapy start and first-year responsiveness to growth hormone are major determinants of height outcome in idiopathic short stature., Edward Reiter MD

A generalized 96-Well ELISA-based assay for quantitative and qualitative monitoring of cellular events, Larry Schwartz

Age of onset of selected pubertal characteristics: Cross-sectional data from non-hispanic white boys, Edward Reiter MD

Aggressive ED management of atrial fibrillation, Susan Torrey MD

AGS resident chapters: First year's progress, Tara DuVal MD, Gina Luciano MD, Sandra Bellantonio MD, and Maura Brennan MD

A guest editorial: 7 tips for critical care nurses to take back nursing, Mark Stambovsky

A guide to building collaborative mental health care partnerships in pediatric primary care, Barry Sarvet MD

A hospitalist-led multidisciplinary team rounding model to improve quality of care, Surinder Yadav MD, Jan Fitzgerald, David Ling MD, Evan Benjamin MD, and Donna Borah

A humane ED seclusion/restraint: legal requirements, a new policy, procedure, "psychiatric advocate" role., John Santoro MD, Fidela Blank, and Ann Maynard

A human patient simulation program training residents in critical care medicine-quantitative analysis, William McGee MD, Gladys Fernandez MD, Patrick Mailloux MD, and Gerard Langlois

AIDS-associated cutaneous cryptococcosis, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Jean Henneberry MD

AIRP best cases in radiologic-pathologic correlation: Localized amyloidosis of the renal pelvis, Tara Catanzano MD, Srinivas Paidy MD, and David Unold MD

Airway management in blunt neck trauma, Adam Kellogg MD

A jail-community program for HIV inmates in need of mental health services, Thomas Lincoln MD

A James Joyce-like journey: Depression, technology, and health care costs, Ronald Burkman MD

A judgment call, Deepak Asudani MD and Sharon Wretzel MD

A large tumor on the right forearm, Namrata Setia MD, David Refermat MD, Jean Henneberry MD, and Carlos Prieto-Granada MD

Alcohol abuse and treatment in the elderly, Benjamin Liptzin MD

Alcohol exposure and breast cancer: results of the women's contraceptive and reproductive experiences study., Ronald Burkman MD

Alcoholic emergencies, Adam Kellogg MD

Alcoholic emergenices, Adam Kellogg MD

Alcohol withdrawal syndromes, Adam Kellogg MD

Aldosterone deficiency as the cause of intradialytic hypotension and its successful management with fludricortisone, Daniel Landry MD, Arley Diaz MD, Benjamin Freda MD, and Gregory Braden M.D.

A lively centenarian with giant peptic ulcer disease, Maura Brennan MD and Jodie Hermann MD

Alkalotic diabetes ketoacidosis, Gina Luciano MD, David Rose MD, and Michael Germain MD

All dysuria is local. A cost-effectiveness model for designing, Michael Rothberg MD

Allergen immunotherapy in a 45-year-old Caucasian male with a 20-year history of HIV with severe allergic rhinitis: Monitoring of HIV viral load and T cells during immunotherapy, John Wheeler MD and Jonathan Bayuk MD

Allometric model improves scaling of left atrial size in obese population: The use of body weight containing variables is challenged, Jiang Cui MD, Gui Hua Yao MD, Neelima Vallurupalli MD, William Hiser MD, James Cook MD, and Leng Jiang MD

Allometric model using body weight containing variables improves scaling of left atrial size in obesity but remains challenging in severely obese subjects, Gui Hua Yao MD, Neelima Vallurupalli MD, Jiang Cui MD, William Hiser MD, and Leng Jiang MD

All that itches is scabies, Mohamed Elarabi MD and Sandra Bellantonio MD

All wheezes are not created equal: A multimodality pictorial review of the uncommon asthma mimics in infants and children with pathologic and bronchoscopic correlation, Cheri Nguyen MD

A longitudinal simulation based medical education curriculum in an internal medicine residency program, Raquel Belforti MD, Ngina Muigai MD, and Mihaela Stefan MD

A longitudinal simulation-based training curriculum for third-year medical students: A combined effort between medical and surgical departments, Mihaela Stefan MD, Gladys Fernandez MD, David Page MD, Michael Picchioni MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, and Kevin Hinchey MD

A longitudinal study of uremic pruritus in hemodialysis patients, Michael Germain MD

A low-field intraoperative MRI system for glioma surgery: is it worthwhile?, Dennis Oh MD

ALS 1996 and beyond: New hopes and challenges, Carmel Armon MD

ALSUntangled 13: Bee venom, Carmel Armon MD

ALSUntangled 15: Coconut Oil, Carmel Armon MD

ALSUntangled No. 11: Nu Tech Mediworld, Carmel Armon MD

ALSUntangled No. 14: Mototab, Carmel Armon MD

Alterations in mRNA expression and protein products following spinal cord injury in humans., K Francis Lee MD and Patrick Lee MD

Altered basal inferior/posterior geometry directly contributes to leaflet tethering in functional ischemic mitral regurgitation., Leng Jiang MD and William Hiser MD

Altered inflammatory gene levels after acute or repetitive morphine withdrawal in rat spinal cord, Stuart Dunbar MD and J Zhang

Altered mental status and low anion gap in a patient with sickle cell anemia: a case report, Siddharth Wartak MD, Benjamin Freda MD, Ashish Verma MD, and David Rose MD

Alternative perceptions of the educational value of attending rounds, Kevin Hinchey MD

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Alternative perfusion technique without axillary artery cannulation during combined aortic root and total arch replacement, Ak Alameddine MD, Victor Alimov MD, and Joseph Flack MD

Alzheimer's disease with psychosis proved to be dementia with Lewy bodies, Maura Brennan MD and Sik Ang MD

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AMA Guides™ to the Evaluation of Work Ability and Return to Work (2nd ed.), edited by James B. Talmage, J. Mark Melhorn, and Mark H. Hyman chicago: American Medical Association, 2011. 510p. ISBN: 978-1-60359-530-8. $119.12, Ellen Brassil

A MATLAB-based image registration graphical user interface system for 31P NMR and 1H MR images of the lower leg, Howard Smithline MD

Ambulatory geriatric clinic: A novel and efficient teaching modality in residency education, Maura Brennan MD and Rosette Odulio MD

A medical center is not a hospital: Reflections of a department chair still in the game, David Longworth MD

American Academy of Emergency Medicine, Young Physicians Section President's Message, Marc Haber MD

American society for apheresis white paper: Considerations for medical staff apheresis medicine physician credentialing and privileging, Chester Andrzejewski MD

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American Society for Apheresis white paper: considerations for medical staff apheresis medicine physician credentialing and privileging., Chester Andrzejewski MD

American Surgical Association Blue Ribbon Committee Report on Surgical Education: 2004., Maura Brennan MD

A metabolic hurricane in a patient with non-specific mid-epigastric pain, Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD, Mihaela Stefan MD, and Melody Brewer MD

Amiodarone for atrial fibrillation, Carmel Armon MD

Am I still dead: A 95-year-old woman survives cardiac arrest secondary to Azithromycin, Maura Brennan MD

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A mixed-methods analysis of patient reviews of hospital care in England: Implications for public reporting of health care quality data in the United States, Tara Lagu M.D., Nicholas Hannon, Amy Shatz, and Peter Lindenauer M.D.

AM last page: Applying Knowles' Andragogy to resident teaching, Kevin Hinchey MD, Elisabeth Bennett, and Rebecca Blanchard PhD

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AM last page: A snapshot of three common program evaluation approaches for medical education, Rebecca Blanchard PhD

A mother and son with an isolated 6q subtelomere deletion and comparison to other reported cases, Mary-Alice Abbott MD

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Carmel Armon MD

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and soccer: a different epidemiological approach strengthen the previous findings, Carmel Armon MD

An acute myocardial infarction presenting as a hip fracture, Donna Mercado MD and Sivakumar Natanasabapathy MD

Analgesia for paediatric tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy with intramuscular clonidine., Katharine Freeman MD and Neil Connelly MD

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An algorithm for transition of care in the emergency department, Benjamin Osborne MD

An alternative approach for quantifying hospital resource utilization: Implications of "standard costs" for hospital performance measurement and comparative effectiveness research, Tara Lagu MD and Peter Lindenauer MD

Analysis of angiogenesis induced by local IGF-1 expression after myocardial infarction using microSPECT-CT imaging, Sabyasachi Sen MD

Analysis of errors in laparoscopic surgical procedures., Neal Seymour MD

Analysis of on-line clinical laboratory manuals and practical recommendations., Liron Pantanowitz MD

Analysis of the downstream costs of direct-to-consumer, Matthew Fickie MD

Analysis: The evolution of glucose meters., James Nichols

Analytical performance of the EPOC Point of Care blood analysis system, James Nichols, Aparna Rajadhyaksha MD, and Mirian Rodriguez

Analyzing medical processes, Philip Henneman MD and Elizabeth Henneman

Anaplastic large cell lymphoma arising in a saline breast implant capsule after tissue expander breast reconstruction., Brian Olack MD, Raavi Gupta MD, and Glen Brooks MD

Anatomy of a lawsuit, Part 1: The Preliminaries, Ronald Burkman MD

Anatomy of a lawsuit, Part II: The discovery phase, Ronald Burkman MD

An atypical cause of delirium, Maura Brennan MD and Sik Ang MD

An atypical presentation of lymphoma: The failure of Ocam's Razor, Maura Brennan MD, Rukshana Cader MD, Reham Shaaban MD, and Warren Ho MD

An avoidable rehospitalization due to poor documentation and communication of cognitive status, Maura Brennan MD, Shin Yin Lee MD, and Yee Chuan Ang MD

An education intervention for pediatricians during a novel H1N1 influenza pandemic at a childrens hospital, Donna Fisher MD, Alicia Johnston MD, and Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

An education program to increase knowledge of and immunization with adult pertussis vaccination among parents of newborns, Pui-Ying Iroh Tam MD, Brian W. Smith MD, and Donna Fisher MD

A need for better predictors of death, Lewis Cohen MD

A need for population health data in clinical practice, Jane Garb

A need to shift the focus of international geriatrics to emphasize care for the robust as well as the frail?, Sora Al Rowas MD, Thomas Higgins M.D., and Maura Brennan MD

An electronic health record for corrections for the public domain, Thomas Lincoln MD

Anemia as a risk factor for necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants, Bhavesh Shah MD, Rachana Singh MD, Paul Visintainer, and Kathleen Meyer MD

An ergonomic analysis of the effects of camera rotation on laparoscopic performance, Neal Seymour MD

An especially sweet elder, Gina Luciano MD, Douglas Porter MD, Maura Brennan MD, and Sandra Bellantonio MD

Anesthesia and mitochondrial disorders, Donald Schwartz MD and Karthik Raghunathan MD

Anesthetic management of aortic valve fibroelastoma causing intermittent left main artery occlusion, Ryan Joyce MD and Mamatha Kadiyala MD

Aneurysm inflow-angle as a discriminant for rupture in sidewall cerebral aneurysms: morphometric and computational fluid dynamic analysis, Clemens Schirmer MD

An evidence-based medicine approach to the evaluation of the Role of exogenous risk factors in Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Carmel Armon MD

A new web-based operative skills assessment tool effectively tracks progression in surgical resident performance, Eyad Wohaibi MD, David Earle MD, Francis Ansanitis, Richard Wait MD, and Neal Seymour MD

An exploratory study using data envelopment analysis to assess neurotrauma patients in the intensive care unit., Jay Steingrub MD, Imtiaz Munshi MD, and Thomas Higgins MD

Angina Pectoris, Marc Haber MD

Angina Pectoris in Emergency Medicine, Marc Haber MD

An historical account and new advances in the cytologic diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma, Christopher Otis MD

An HIV-positive elderly woman with a malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor, Rosette Odulio MD and Maura Brennan MD

An integrative approach to advanced kidney disease in the elderly, Michael Germain MD and Lewis Cohen MD

An introduction to statistical methods used in binary outcome modeling, Thomas Higgins MD

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Annual meeting didactic summary - Unconscious bias, Jeannette Wolfe MD

An observational study to assess changes in arterial blood gas values during untreated porcine ventricular fibrillation, Timothy Mader MD, Adam Kellogg MD, Joshua Walterscheid MD, and Richard Misiaszek MD

An oldster teaches youngsters new tricks-the role of W. Edwards Deming in health care improvement, Ronald Burkman MD

A NOTES drainage of two infected pseudocysts: Endoscopic stapled cystgastrostomy., John Romanelli MD, David Desilets MD, and David Earle MD

A NOTES survival study of a novel gastric closure device: Loop-anchor purse-string, David Desilets MD, John Romanelli MD, Carolanne Lovewell, Christopher Chapman MD, and David Earle MD

A NOTES survival study of a novel gastric closure device: Looped T-anchors, John Romanelli MD, David Desilets MD, Carolanne Lovewell, and Christopher Chapman MD

A novel anemia management protocol (AMP), Michael Germain MD

A novel cancer program-sponsored spiritual event; analysis of attendee responses, Wilson Mertens MD and Donald Higby MD

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A novel CaSR mutation presenting as a severe case of neonatal familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia, Ksenia Tonyushkina MD, Stephen O'Connor MD, and Nancy Dunbar MD

A novel computer program for assessment of graduated diagnostic competency of cytopathology fellows, Liron Pantanowitz MD, Maryanne Hornish, Robert Goulart MD, and Brooke Henninger MD

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A novel craniotomy simulator provides a validated method to enhance education in the management of traumatic brain injury, Clemens Schirmer M.D.

A novel method, using detailed administrative data, for severity of illness adjustment in observational studies of treatment effectiveness, Tara Lagu MD

A novel technique designed to minimize the morbidity of failure of arteriovenous access in hemodialysis patients., Alexander Kurbanov MD, Robert Madden MD, and George Lipkowitz MD

Antenatal necrotic injury in severe twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. A case and review., Michael Plevyak MD

Anthracotic pigment in pleural fluid: A case report, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Robert Goulart MD

Antiarrhythmic therapy, James Cook MD

Antibiotic adverse reactions and drug interactions, Eric Granowitz MD and Richard Brown MD

Antibiotic-resistance and carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae (CRE): Assessment of clinical knowledge and practices in non-infectious disease trained clinicians in the hospital., Jennifer Schimmel MD

Antibiotic side effects, Eric Granowitz MD

Antibiotics, QT prolongation and torsade…oh my!, Susan Torrey MD

Antibiotic therapy and treatment failure in patients hospitalized for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Michael Rothberg MD, Penny Pekow, Daniel Skiest MD, and Peter Lindenauer MD

Antibiotic use in older adults with severe functional impairment, Sandra Bellantonio MD and Sivakumar Natanasabapathy MD

Anticoagulant management in interventional radiology, Sara Smolinski MD

Anticoagulation can reduce nonfatal myocardial infarction, Michael Rothberg MD

Anticonvulsant hypersensitivity syndrome treated with intravenous immunoglobulin, David Dredge MD

Antidepressant management in the context of suicidal ideation, Bruce Waslick MD

Antiemetic use for gastroenteritis in children., Blake Spirko MD

Anti-HIV-1 (Waived) - participant Summary., Richard Friedberg MD

Antioxidants Manganese Superoxide Dismutase (MnSOD), Catalase (CAT), and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-A (VEGF-A) Ameliorate High Glucose (HG) Concentration-Induced Adipogenesis in Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Derived Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells, Sabyasachi Sen MD and J Enrique Silva MD

Antipyretic effectiveness of intravenous ketorolac tromethamine., Robert Baevsky MD and Howard Smithline MD

Antral follicle count in clinical practice: analyzing clinical relevance, Daniel Grow MD, Albert Hsu MD, Margaret Arny, Carrie Bell MD, Amy Novak, and Alex Knee

Antral follicle count is the best predictor of oocytes retrieved in IVF-ET cycles and is emerging as a clinically helpful tool to choose stimulation protocol, Daniel Grow MD, Carrie Bell MD, and Margaret Arny

An uncommon twist on Twiddler's syndrome, Jiang Cui MD, Ronana Ali MD, Leehapong Navaravong MD, and Mathias Stoenescu MD

An unusual cardiac cause of delirium, Senthil Sivalingam MD and Arnulfo Deray MD

An updated method to assess ICU clinical performance and resource utilization, Thomas Higgins MD

An update on prevention and treatment of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women., Sandra Bellantonio MD

A nutritional supplement formula for influenza A (H5N1) infection in humans., Harvey Lederman MD

Anxiety disorders in pediatric primary care, Barry Sarvet MD and Sara Brewer MD

Aortic dissection after blunt trauma., Imtiaz Munshi MD

Aortic fenestration: A why, when, and how-to guide., George Hartnell MD

Aortic tear presenting as acute myocardial infarction, Stanlies D'Souza MD

Aortic valve endocarditis due to lactobacillus casei complicated by stroke and vertebral osteomyelitis: A case report, Durane Walker MD and Armando Paez MD

Aortic valve fibroelastoma presenting with myocardial infarction, Mara Slawsky MD and Ashequl Islam MD

Aorto-Esophageal Fistula, Peter Ghobrial MD, Khaldoon Al Dulaimy MD, and Khaldoon Al Dulaimy MD

Aorto-pulmonary artery disruption following acute type-A aortic dissection repair with the use of BioGlue®., Ak Alameddine MD, Victor Alimov MD, John Rousou MD, and Jonathan Freeman MD

A patient satisfaction survey to measure the effect of hospitalist practice, Greta H. Boynton MD, David Ling MD, Donna Borah, and Richard Brzostek

A PCR-based technology for rapid screening of genomic DNA library, J Zhang

A personal reflection: A final embrace, Mark Stambovsky

A personal reflection: Evanescence, Mark Stambovsky

A personal reflection: the slippery slope of hope, Mark Stambovsky

A phase I study evaluating the pharmacokinetics, safety and tolerability of an antibody-based tissue factor antagonist in subjects with acute lung injury or acute respiratory distress syndrome, Jay Steingrub MD

A physician's support for incorporating spirituality into the healing process, Wilson Mertens MD

A pictoral review of silicosis, Abdullah Shaikh MD

A pictorial essay of non-neoplastic orbital lesions, Jane An MD and Shan Li MD

A pilot simulation program training residents in critical care medicine qualitative analysis, William McGee MD and Patrick Mailloux MD

A pilot study to measure and improve collaboration in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Paul Jodka MD, Nancy Doubleday, Paula Lusardi, Elaine Blonaisz, and Elizabeth Henneman

Apologies all around, Ronald Burkman MD

A population-based statewide registry of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in Massachusetts, Carmel Armon MD

A population-based statewide registry of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis(ALS) in Massachusetts, Carmel Armon MD

Appendiceal granulation polyp, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Appendicitis, Philip Henneman MD and Jeannette Wolfe MD

Application of frozen section to intraoperative consultation of metastatic malignancies involving lymph nodes, John Hunt MD

Application of the resource-based relative value scale system to pediatrics, Robert Gerstle MD

Application of World Health Organization (WHO) Criteria to the Classification of eloprolifertive and Myelodyplastic/Myeloproliferative Diseases., Jonathan Freeman MD

Applied physiology and the hemodynamic management of septic shock utilizing the Physiologic Optimization Program, William McGee MD and Patrick Mailloux MD

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Applying dynamic parameters to predict hemodynamic response to volume expansion in spontaneously breathing patients with septic shock: The eye cannot see what the mind does not know, William McGee M.D.

Applying for emergency medicine residency, Adam Kellogg MD

Applying milestones in training: Lessons form a multi-center educational study, Lauren Meade MD

Approach to health care for lesbian and bisexual women, Halina Wiczyk MD and Carolyn Delk MD

Approach to Patients with Chest Pain, Philip Henneman MD

Approach to Patients with Seizure, Philip Henneman MD

Approach to the imaging of genitourinary infections: A review Lakeside Learning Center, Tara Catanzano MD and Roozbeh Houshyar MD

Appropriateness of C-spine mobilization techniques by EMTs, Benjamin Osborne MD, Fidela Blank, Richard Barus, and Thomas Fitzgerald

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A Predictive Model for SIVH risk in Preterm Infants and Targeted Indomethacin Therapy for Prevention., Rachana Singh MD and Paul Visintainer

A preliminary study of a new stroke volume variation algorithm for predicting fluid responsiveness in patients with severe arrhythmias, William McGee MD

A preliminary study of the application of speckle tracking imaging for assessing myocardial function during exercise stress echocardiography, Gui Hua Yao MD, Hany Aziz MD, John Abboud MD, William Hiser MD, and Leng Jiang MD

A prospective, case-controlled study of the effect of continuous hemoglobin (Hgb) monitoring (Critline) on hemoglobin variability (Hv) and erythropoietin (Epo) dosing, Michael Germain MD, Warren Ho MD, and Jane Garb

A prospective cohort of pregnant Hispanic women and risk of gestational diabetes: Design and baseline characteristics, Glenn Markenson MD and Penny Pekow

A prospective cohort study of modifiable risk factors for gestational diabetes among Hispanic women: Design and baseline characteristics, Glenn Markenson MD

A prospective multicenter registry of laser therapy for degenerated saphenous vein graft stenosis: the COronary graft Results following Atherectomy with Laser (CORAL) trial, Gregory Giugliano MD

A prospective observational study of rapid sequence intubation in a medical/surgical ICU, Patrick Mailloux MD

A prospective, observational study of Xigris Use in the United States (XEUS), Jay Steingrub MD

A psychiatric perspective of dialysis discontinuation, Lewis Cohen MD, Adam Mirot MD, Jane Garb, Gregory Braden MD, and Michael Germain MD

A qualitative investigation of the decision to initiate Do Not Hospitaliz orders amongst health care proxies of nursing home residents with dementia, Sandra Bellantonio MD, Sarah Goff MD, and Michael Rothberg MD

A Quality Improvement(QI) curriculum in action: Diabetes management, Michael Rosenblum MD and Kevin Hinchey MD

A question of heterogenous VISA in a patient with persistent respiratory alkalosis, Gina Luciano MD, Simon Li MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, and Michael Chin

A radiologic review of common breast disorders in pregnancy and the perinatal period, Vivian Miller MD, James Canoy MD, Grace Mitchell MD, and David Unold MD

A randomized clinical trial comparing cycle control in a 21-day vs. a 24-day oral contraceptive (OC), Ronald Burkman MD

A randomized comparison of cardiocerebral and cardiopulmonary resuscitation using a swine model of prolonged ventricular fibrillation, Timothy Mader MD, Adam Kellogg MD, and Joshua Walterscheid MD

A randomized controlled trial of intravenous aminophylline for atropine-resistant out-of-hospital asystolic cardiac arrest., Timothy Mader MD and Howard Smithline MD

A randomized controlled trial of intravenous montelukast in acute asthma., Howard Smithline MD

A randomized controlled trial of prenatal physical activity to prevent gestational diabetes: Design and methods, Glenn Markenson MD

A randomized controlled trial of resistance exercise in individuals with ALS, Carmel Armon MD

A randomized pilot study of acupuncture for control of treatment-induced menopausal symptoms in breast cancer patients, Lindsay Rockwell MD, Grace Makari-Judson MD, Ruth Barham, and Wilson Mertens MD

A randomized placebo-controlled study of intravenous montelukast for the treatment of acute asthma, Howard Smithline MD

A rapidly re-accumulating pleural effusion, Theodore Hartenstein MD, John Tsongalis MD, and Michael Rosenblum MD

A rare case of a hemorrhagic spinal cord cavernoma, Alina Livshits MD

A rare case of cerebellar abscess secondary to ppeptostreptococcus, Owolabi Ogunneye MD and Eric Churchill MD

A rare case of octogenarian pseudosyncope, Emily Baiyee MD and Maura Brennan MD

A rare case of Raynaud's Vasculitis secondary to Hepatitis B vaccine, Vijairam Selvaraj M.D.

A rare cause of abdominal pain, Anju Bhagavan MD

A rare cause of cardiac amyloidosis in an elder, Randa Jaber MD and Maura Brennan MD

A rare cause of coagulopathy Acquired factor V inihibitor, Jaya Mallidi MD and Winthrop Whitcomb MD

A rare complication of COPD: Infected emphysematous bullae, Shiv Khosla MD and Maura Brennan MD

A rare diagnosis of acute renal infarction revealing Burkitt's Lymphoma, Payal Jhawar M.D.

A rare etiology for pancreatitis in an adult nursing home patient, Amit Bhargava MD, Curtis Andrews MD, and Raquel Belforti MD

A rare etiology of acute cardiomyopathy and respiratory failure, Sandra Bellantonio MD and Shin Yin Lee MD

A rare etiology of pancreatitis in a nursing home patient, Amit Bhargava MD, Curtis Andrews MD, Raquel Belforti MD, and Maura Brennan MD

A rare presentation of a common disease: The PPP Syndrome of pancreatitis, panniculitis and polyarthritis, Mompoloki Nkhumane MD

Arcs and rings: A pictoral review of trauma patterns in skeletal system, Chiedozie Mkpolulu MD and James Polga MD

ARDS: Beyond ventilatory strategies, Jay Steingrub MD

Are employees ready for simulation? The development of a readiness for simulation scale, Rebecca Blanchard PhD

Are general surgeons behind the curve when it comes to disaster preparedness training? A survey of general surgery and emergency medicine trainees in the United States by the Eastern Association for the Surgery for Trauma Committee on Disaster Preparednes, Ronald Gross MD

Are inpatients more satisfied with hospitalist physicians or primary care physicians?, Adrienne Seiler MD

A relaxation response randomized trial on patients with chronic heart failure., Mara Slawsky MD

Are oncologists effective in modifying patient-perceived breast cancer risk and associated anxiety?, Wilson Mertens MD, Deborah Katz MD, Marlene Quinlan, and Grace Makari-Judson MD

A replicable method for blood glucose control in critically Ill patients, Jay Steingrub MD and Mark Tidswell MD

Are surgeons capable of introspection?, David Page MD

Are the vasoconstrictive properties of ropivacaine potentially pathophysiologic in the epidural space?, Neil Connelly MD and Gregory Seaman MD

A retrospective observational comparison study Poractant alpha and Beractant in preterm infants with very low birth weight with respiratory distress syndrome, Bhavesh Shah MD, Penny Pekow, and Evan Horton

A retrospective observational study of drotrecogin alfa (activated) in adults with severe sepsis: Comparison with a controlled clinical trial, Jay Steingrub MD

A review of exenatide in the treatment of Type 2 Diabetes, Aashish Samat MD, Amit Bhargava MD, and Vasantha Reddy MD

A review of normal coronary anatomy and common congenital variants using multimodality imaging., Hetal Patel MD

A review of perineal cutaneous herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection in hospitalized patients admitted in a tertiary care hospital, Armando Paez MD, Mayu Sekiguchi MD, and Kathy Gibson-Tierney

A review of: "The Accidental Health Sciences Librarian. Ennis, Lisa A. and Mitchell Nicole, Loretta Grikis

A review of the airway literature over the past year, Lucienne Lutfy-Clayton MD

A revised method to assess intensive care unit clinical performance and resource utilization, Thomas Higgins MD

A revolution in death-hastening decisions., Lewis Cohen MD

Are we human or are we surgeon?: comment on "join the club", Nicholas Coe MD

Are you ready? Assessing weight management preparedness in families presenting to pediatric weight management programs, Chrystal Wittcopp MD, Sarah Goff MD, and Kathleen Szegda

Arterial compression of a vein: May Therner Syndrome, Ashita Talsania MD and Aashish Samat MD

Ascending aortic pseudoaneurysm, a ticking bomb after cardiac surgery, Joseph Flack MD, Fadi Saab MD, James Cook MD, and Leehapong Navaravong MD

A serious complication following a caudal block in an ex-premature infant, Donald Schwartz MD

A simple physiologic algorithm for managing hemodynamics in the intensive care unit utilizing stroke volume and stroke volume variation/Manejo hemodinamico del paciente critico utilizando el volumen latido (VS), William McGee MD

A simple physiologic algorithm for managing hemodynamics using stroke volume and stroke volume variation: Physiologic optimization program, William McGee MD

A simplified physiologic algorithm to optimize fluid management using arterial pressure-based stroke volume variations, William McGee MD and Lori-Ann Kozikowski

A simulation-based program to train medical residents to lead and perform advanced cardiovascular life support, Mihaela Stefan MD, Raquel Belforti MD, Gerard Langlois, and Michael Rothberg MD

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A single center's experience with the bedside subdural evacuating port system: A useful alternative to traditional methods for chronic subdural hematoma evacuation, Clemens Schirmer M.D.

A slice of Pisa anyone?, Vijairam Selvaraj M.D. and Anju Bhagavan MD

Aspiration in a patient with bowel obstruction status postgastric bypass surgery, Stanlies D'Souza MD

Aspirin desensitization prior to percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, Mario Rodenas MD and Jonathan Bayuk MD

Assessing cognitive ability in research: Use of MMSE with minority populations and elderly adults with low education levels., Candace Bignell

Assessing glucose meter accuracy., James Nichols

Assessing validity by comparing transition and static measures of dyspnea in patients with acute decompensated heart failure, Howard Smithline MD, Selin Caglar MD, and Fidela Blank

Assessment of age-related isoniazid hepatotoxicity during treatment of latent tuberculosis infection., Hany Aziz MD

Assessment of depth of anesthesia using the BIS monitor in IVF procedures under Propofol TIVA, Margaret Kacprzak MD, Lori Circeo MD, Ananth Kashikar MD, Nadia Ahmed MD, and Charles Gibson

Assessment of diabetes knowledge, skills and behaviors, Garry Welch and Sofija Zagarins MD

Assessment of echocardiography image acquisition and image interpretation skills in emergency medicine residents, Gavin Budhram MD

Assessment of Provider knowledge, practice and perceived barriers to colorectal cancer screening in urban health centers., Kevin Hinchey MD, Evan Benjamin MD, and Andrew Balder MD

Assessment of surgical skills and operative performance, Neal Seymour MD

Assessment of the inner-city asthma intervention program in Springfield, Massachusetts, Matthew Sadof MD

Assessment: Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography: Report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology., Carmel Armon MD

Assessment: use of epidural steroid injections to treat radicular lumbosacral pain: report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology, Carmel Armon MD

Assessment: Use of epidural steroid injections to treat radicular lumbosacral pain: Report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology., Carmel Armon MD

Association between â-blocker therapy and outcomes in patients hospitalised with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive lung disease with underlying ischaemic heart disease, heart failure or hypertension, Mihaela Stefan MD, Michael Rothberg MD, Penny Pekow, and Peter Lindenauer MD

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Association between antibiotic treatment and outcomes in patients hospitalized with acute exacerbation of COPD treated with systemic steroids, Mihaela Stefan M.D., Michael Rothberg M.D., Meng-Shiou Shieh, Penny Pekow, and Peter Lindenauer M.D.

Association between efficacy and body weight or body mass index for two low-dose oral contraceptives, Ronald Burkman MD

Association between lymphotoxin-alpha (tumor necrosis factor-beta) intron polymorphism and predisposition to severe sepsis is modified by gender and age, Thomas Higgins MD

Association between marital status and survival among patients with sepsis treated in the intensive care unit, Jay Steingrub MD, Tara Lagu MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, and Richard Wells MD

Association between nursing home care quality and 30-day readmission rates for patients hospitalized with heart failure, Owolabi Ogunneye MD, Michael Rothberg M.D., Jennifer Friderici, and Mihaela Stefan M.D.

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Association between sedating medications and delirium in older inpatients, Michael Rothberg M.D., Penny Pekow, Jill Avrunin, Tara Lagu M.D., and Peter Lindenauer M.D.

Association between statins given in hospital and mortality in pneumonia patients, Michael Rothberg MD, Penny Pekow, and Peter Lindenauer MD

Association of admission date with cancer patient survival at a regional hospice: utility of a statistical process control analysis., Wilson Mertens MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, and Evan Benjamin MD

Association of corticosteroid dose and route of administration with risk of treatment failure in acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Peter Lindenauer MD, Michael Rothberg MD, Penny Pekow, and Evan Benjamin MD

Association of diagnostic coding with trends in hospitalizations and mortality of patients with pneumonia, 2003-2009, Tara Lagu MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, Penny Pekow, Michael Rothberg MD, and Meng-Shoiu Shieh

Association of factor V gene polymorphism with arteriovenous graft failure, Gregory Braden MD

Association of gestational weight gain with cesarean delivery rate after labor induction, Glenn Markenson MD, Fadi Bsat MD, Andrew Healy MD, Penny Pekow, and Michael Plevyak MD

Association of patient characteristics and medication errors in the ambulatory setting: use of a classification tool., Michael Rothberg MD, Penny Pekow, Mark Heelon, Lauren Meade MD, and David Rose MD

Association of regimens of hormone replacement therapy to prognostic factors among women diagnosed with breast cancer aged 50-64 years., Ronald Burkman MD

Association of spontaneous bilateral femoral stress fractures with zoledronic acid use in a patient with metastatic breast cancer-a cautionary tale, Wilson Mertens MD, Chandravathi Loke MD, Michael Yunes MD, Rebecca Levy MD, and Grace Makari-Judson MD

Association of the timing of ST-segment resolution with TIMI myocardial perfusion grade in acute myocardial infarction., Marc Schweiger MD

A standardized discharge process to reduce unplanned hospital readmissions, Roy Sittig MD

A step ahead: Strategies for excellence in critical care nursing practice., Amy Albano, Paula Lusardi, and Susan Scott

A stress echocardiography study of cardiac function during progressive exercise in pediatric oncology patients treated with anthracyclines, Thomas Rowland MD

A stroke of death: Artery of Percheron Syndrome, Eimear Kitt MD, Auras Atreya MD, and Behdad Besharatian MD

A Structured spiritual service for cancer patients and families: Analysis of attendee responses., Wilson Mertens MD and Donald Higby MD

A study to assess heart failure readmission of patients discharged to skilled nursing facilities and to determine best practices that determine post discharge outcomes, Owolabi Ogunneye MD

A suffocating bleed, Jorge Velez MD

A surgical site infection cluster: the process and outcome of an investigation--the impact of an alcohol-based surgical antisepsis product and human behavior, Sarah Haessler MD, Neil Connelly MD, Gary Kanter MD, Jan Fitzgerald, Annette Golubchik MD, Michael Albert MD, Charles Gibson, and Mary Ellen Scales

A surprising cause for a wound in a nursing home resident: An occult sweat gland carcinoma, Ashita Talsania MD and Maura Brennan MD

A survey of symptoms and risk factors in patients with Barrett's esophagus, David Desilets MD and Farhad Navab MD

Asymmetry correction in the irradiated breast: Outcomes of reduction mammoplasty and mastopexy after breast conserving therapy, Melissa Johnson MD, Michael Chin, Glen Brooks MD, and Anoush Hadaegh MD

Asymptomatic enterococcus faecalis native aortic valve endocarditis presenting with cold right leg, Mohammad Amin Kashef MD

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Asymptomatic microscopic hematuria in women requires separate guidelines, Oz Harmanli M.D.

A systematic review comparing hysterectomy with less-invasive treatments for abnormal uterine bleeding, Oz Harmanli MD

A tale of Lutes and Ouds: Time to play together in the same key, Thomas Higgins MD

A thermo-modulating container for transport and storage of glucose meters in a cold weather environment, James Nichols

A time to live, a time to die: End-of-life case discussions, Betty Babb, Danielle Plouffe, Paul Jodka MD, Beth Stadnicki, Nancy Doubleday, and Paula Lusardi

A Traumatic Motor Neuronopathy After a Cervical Burst Fracture, Anant Shenoy MD

Atrial stunning following cardioversion resulting in flash pulmonary edema, Michael Wall MD and Sandra Bellantonio MD

A trial to end ambulance dicersion in Boston: Report from the Conference of Boston Teaching Hospitals Consortium, Niels Rathlev MD

A trial to end ambulance diversion in Boston, Niels Rathlev MD

Atrophy and programmed cell death of skeletal muscle, Larry Schwartz

Attempted formulation of a guideline to assess the need for coil extraction during clipping of previously coiled aneurysms, Clemens Schirmer MD

At the top of my head - Multimodality imaging of focal protruding masses of the scalp and skull in adults and children, Michael George MD, Shan Li MD, and Jeffrey Morris MD

A typical case of IgA nephropathy, Kah Poh Loh MD, David Burgess M.D., Owolabi Ogunneye MD, and Ashish Verma MD

Atypical Glandular Cells and Breast Cancer: What is the Association?, Kathryn Sharpless MD

Atypical glandular cells of undetermined significance from extramammary Paget's of the bladder., Christopher Otis MD and Julia Donovan MD

Atypical glandular cells on cervical cytology and breast disease: what is the association?, Kathryn Sharpless MD

Atypical hip pain in a female runner: A case report, Julio Martinez-Silvestrini MD and Katrina Lewis MD

Atypical immunologic response in a patient with CRIM-negative Pompe disease, Mary-Alice Abbott MD

Atypical presentation of enterococcus faecalis aortic valve endocarditis in an elder, Mohammad Amin Kashef MD, Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD, Gregory Giugliano MD, and Maura Brennan MD

Atypical presentation of septic arthritis of the shoulder, Jasmine Paadam MD and Dev Basu MD

Atypical presentation of volvulus in an octogenarian, Deepa Chandrasekaran MD and Sivakumar Natanasabapathy MD

Auditory late effects of childhood cancer therapy: A report from the Children's Oncology Group, Satkiran Grewal MD

A unique case of asystole secondary to facial injury, Siddharth Wartak MD and Amir Lotfi MD

A unique pattern of injury secondary to seatbelt-related blunt abdominal trauma., Imtiaz Munshi MD

Authors' response for "antral follicle count in clinical practice: analyzing clinical relevance"., Daniel Grow MD and Albert Hsu MD

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia, Richard Friedberg MD and Vandita Johari MD

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia - "Where blood transfusion is not always the solution", Dhivya Sundaramurthy MD, T. Vijay Gadiraju MD, and Jingjing Hu MD

Autologous transplantation of endothelial progenitor cells genetically modified by adeno-associated viral vector delivering insulin-like growth factor-1 gene after myocardial infarction, Sabyasachi Sen MD

Automated external defibrillators and survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest, Timothy Mader MD

Automated monitoring of pulse pressure variation during laparoscopy, William McGee MD, Karthik Raghunathan MD, Ryan Joyce MD, and Bader Al-Dossary MD

Automated registration accuracy assessment for temporal subtraction images of the chest., Devang Doshi MD

Automated reporting of safety bundles: Streamlining the performance improvement process, William McGee MD, Thomas Higgins MD, and Mark Tidswell MD

Autonomy and parental support associated with better A1cs for teens, Holley Allen MD, Jane Garb, and Paul Visintainer

Avoiding Hiroshima in your emergency department patients: Reducing radiation in ED imaging, Marc Haber MD

Awareness and use of direct-to-consumer nutrigenomic tests, United States, 2006, Kathleen Szegda

A web-based self-management assessment tool that improves HbA1c, Garry Welch, Rebecca Shayne MD, Sofija Zagarins MD, and Jane Garb

A web-based self management tool that improves A1c, Garry Welch, Rebecca Shayne MD, Sofija Zagarins MD, and Jane Garb

Axillary and Intramammary lymph nodes visualized on mammography: Review of suspicious imaging features and avoidance of pitfalls in characterization, David March MD and Paryssa Khadem MD

Axioms to consider when entering practice: Reprise, Ronald Burkman MD

Baboon corpus luteum: Size and sex steroid secretion throughout the luteal phase, M Yusoff Dawood MD

Baclofen withdrawal resulting in seizures and intubation, Maura Brennan MD, Saeid Behroozi MD, and Sandra Bellantonio MD

Bacterial meningitis, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

Bacterial therapies: completing the cancer treatment toolbox, Neil Forbes

Balance assessment as an objective measure for return to play in adolescents after sports-induced concussion: A case series, Julio Martinez-Silvestrini MD

BALB/c alleles for Prkdc and Cdkn2a interact to modify tumor susceptibility in Trp53+/- mice., Christopher Otis MD and D Joseph Jerry

Bar-Code Scanning May Reduce but Not Eliminate Medication and Patient Identification Errors In Clinical Simulation, Philip Henneman MD and Fidela Blank

Bar-code verification: Reducing but not eliminating medication errors, Philip Henneman MD, Fidela Blank, and Elizabeth Henneman

Bariatric Surgery, Xiao Liu MD

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Bariatric Surgery, Donna Mercado MD, Mihaela Stefan M.D., and Xiao Liu MD

Bariatric surgery for the treatment of morbid obesity: A meta-analysis of weight loss outcomes for laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding and laparoscopic gastric bypass, Jane Garb, Garry Welch, Sofija Zagarins MD, Jay Kuhn MD, and John Romanelli MD

Barrett's esophagus: histopathologic definitions and diagnostic criteria., James Mueller MD

Barriers to effective pediatric obesity prevention, Chrystal Wittcopp MD, Kathleen Szegda, Lela Hobby, and Jennifer Kennedy

Bartholin's Cyst, Sudeep Kaur Aulakh MD and Michael Plevyak MD

Bartonella, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

Bartonellosis, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

Baseline characteristics of participants in a randomized trial to prevent gestational diabetes, Glenn Markenson MD

Baseline Cystatin C measurement is a potent predictor of adverse cardiovascular outcomes following ACS: A PROVE IT-TIMI 22 analysis, Gregory Giugliano MD

Basic communication: A framework for teaching and evaluation across programs and across disciplines, Michael Picchioni MD, Kevin Hinchey MD, Heather Sankey M.D., and Sean Mahar

BAT thermogenic deficiency in thyroid hormone receptor alpha-null (Thra-0/0) mice: Evidence for a cellular defect caused by under-expression of Thra-dependent genes needed for T3 activation of UCP1, J Enrique Silva MD and Waile Ramadan MD

Baystate educational innovation project, Kevin Hinchey MD, Samuel Borden MD, Lauren Meade MD, Michael Picchioni MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, and David Longworth MD

Baystate EIP: Present practice and future direction: Tracer and continuous healing relationships, Kevin Hinchey MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, Samuel Borden MD, Lauren Meade MD, Mihaela Stefan MD, and Reva Kleppel

B-Catenin binding doain of the APC gene is sufficient to inhibit polyp formation in a mouse model of familial adenomatous polyposis, Richard Arenas MD, Michael Tirabassi MD, Gregory Banever MD, George Wadie MD, and K Francis Lee MD

Beckman Access versus the Bayer ACS:180 and the Abbott AxSYM cardiac Troponin-I real-time immunoassays: an observational prospective study., Howard Smithline MD and Robert Baevsky MD

Bedside echocardiography in the management of a thoracic stab wound with early pericardial tamponade, Gavin Budhram MD

Bedside electronic glucose protocol (eProtocol-insulin) performance, Jay Steingrub MD and Mark Tidswell MD

Bedside electronic glucose protocol (eProtocol-insulin) performance., Jay Steingrub MD and Mark Tidswell MD

Being a 'good doctor', Maura Brennan MD

Benefits of physician knowledge of rapid influenza test results in ambulatory adults with influenza-like-illness(ILI), Michael Rothberg MD

Best cases from the AFIP: Atypical presentation of polyostotic fibrous dysplasia with myxoma (Mazabraud syndrome), Daniel Case MD, Christopher Chapman MD, Jonathan Freeman MD, and James Polga MD

Best practices for patient safety in point of care blood glucose monitoring, James Nichols

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Best practices in interprofessional education and training in surgery: Experiences from American College of Surgeons-Accredited Education Institutes, Neal Seymour MD

Best practices to enhance linkages for HIV+ jail inmates for improved health outcomes, Thomas Lincoln MD

Best practice updates for surgical care in weight loss surgery, John Romanelli MD

Beta-galactosidase and alpha-mannosidase inhibit formation of multicellular nodules in breast cancer cell cultures., Christopher Otis MD

Bicalutamide plus anastrozole for the treatment of gonadotropin-independent precocious puberty in boys with testotoxicosis: a phase II, open-label pilot study (BATT), Edward Reiter MD

Bicycle handlebar injury, Imtiaz Munshi MD

Biomarkers in geriatric psychiatry: The promise and the reality, Benjamin Liptzin MD and Jimena Tuis MD

Biomarkers of disease:An evidenced-based approach, Richard Friedberg MD

Biopsychosocial variables associated with substantial bone mineral density loss during the use of depot medroxyprogesterone acetate in adolescents: Adolescents who lost 5% or more from baseline vs. those who lost less than 5%, Ronald Burkman MD

Biopsy-Proven Rasmussen's encephalitis: seizure suppression and partial reversal of deficits with antiepileptic medications and tacrolimus, Carmel Armon MD, Sivakumar Natanasabapathy MD, Dennis Oh MD, Luis Moral MD, Barbara Greco MD, and William House MD

Bipolar II Disorder: Modelling, Measuring and Managing, Benjamin Liptzin MD

Birds don't make the best companions: Hypersensitivity pneumonitis in the elderly, Wei Ooi MD

Birth weight- and fetal weight-growth restriction: Impact on neurodevelopment., Bhavesh Shah MD, Frederick Hampf MD, Herbert Gilmore MD, and Susan McQuiston MD

BIS in children during maintenance anesthesia, Donald Schwartz MD, Anne Wu MD, Neil Connelly MD, and Charles Gibson

Bivalirudin use during PCI for stent thrombosis in a patient with subacute intracranial hemorrhage, Gregory Giugliano MD and Senthil Sivalingam MD

Biventricular pacing after atrioventricular node ablation protects against adverse cardiac remodeling in symptomatic atrial fibrillation patients: Preliminary results of the AVAIL CLS/CRT Trial, Mara Slawsky MD

Black boxes, babies and bathwater, Bruce Waslick MD

Black thyroid, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Bleeding disorders of profuse concern, Richard Steingart MD

Bleeding risk and safety profile related to the use of eptifibatide: a current review, Marc Schweiger MD, Fadi Saab MD, and Costin Ionescu MD

Blood bank safety practices: Mislabeled samples and wrong blood in tube--a Q-Probes analysis of 122 clinical laboratories, Richard Friedberg MD

Blood culture contamination (QT2) Annual summary report, Richard Friedberg MD

Blood glucose control with three different QI strategies, Jay Steingrub MD and Mark Tidswell MD

Blood glucose measurement in patients with suspected diabetic ketoacidosis: A comparison of Abbott MediSense PCx point-of-care meter values to reference laboratory values, James Nichols, Howard Smithline MD, Fidela Blank, and Penny Pekow

Blood glucose testing in the hospital: error sources and risk management, James Nichols

Blood pressure dysregulation secondary to tizanidine: Importance of medication review, Iheanyichukwu Ogu MD

Blood, sweat and tears: Are surgeons prepared for the challenges of self-reflection, David Page MD

Blood volume changes during dialysis and their impact on cardiac performance, Patrick Mailloux MD, William McGee MD, Thomas Higgins MD, and Lori-Ann Kozikowski

Blunt head trauma resulting in a non-displaced TMJ fracture in a varsity lacrosse player, Kenneth Barnes MD

Blunt pancreato-duodenal injury: A multi-center study of the Research Consortium of New England Centers for Trauma (ReCONECT), Lisa Patterson MD and Ronald Gross MD

Blunt pancreatoduodenal injury: A multicenter study of the Research Consortium of New England Centers for Trauma (ReCONECT), Ronald Gross MD, Lisa Patterson MD, and Yorell Manon-Matos MD

BMI and uterine size: is there any relationship?, Oz Harmanli MD

Body mass index and survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest, Timothy Mader MD

Body temperature changes are associated with outcomes following in-hospital cardiac arrest and return of spontaneous circulation, Timothy Mader MD

Body trauma a writer's guide to wounds and injuries, David Page MD

Boerhaave's syndrome as an initial presentation of eosinophilic esophagitis: A case series, Vaibhav Mehendiratta MD

Bone age progression during the first year of growth hormone therapy in pre-pubertal children with idiopathic growth hormone deficiency, Turner syndrome or idiopathic short stature, and in short children born small for gestational age [Truncated Title], Edward Reiter MD

Bone Lesions in Kaposi sarcoma: Commentary, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Book Review, Eric Granowitz MD

Boot cAMP: Educational outcomes after 4 successive years of preparatory simulation-based training at onset of internship, Gladys Fernandez MD, David Page MD, Nicholas Coe MD, Patrick Lee MD, Lisa Patterson MD, Loki Skylizard MD, Marisa Amaral MD, Richard Wait MD, and Neal Seymour MD

BOOT CAMP: Implementation of an intensive simulation-based educational curriculum for new surgical interns, Gladys Fernandez MD, Patrick Lee MD, Ron Bush, David Page MD, and Loki Skylizard MD

Bordetella pertussis, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

Borrelia(Lyme Disease), Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

Bradycardia-induced Torsade de Points, Randa Jaber MD and Mohammed Albugeaey MD

Brainstem Glioma, Clemens Schirmer MD

Breaking bad news., Maura Brennan MD

Breaking bad news: A practical approach for the hospitalist, David Ling MD

Breast Cancer Close to the Nipple: Does This Increase the Risk of Nodal Metastasis at Diagnosis?, Cheri Nguyen MD

Breast cancer expression of YKL-40 correlates with tumour grade, poor differentiation, and other cancer markers, Richard Arenas MD, Rong Shao, Q Jackie Cao MD, Brooke Bentley, and Wei Yan

Breast cancer receptor status: do results from a centralized pathology laboratory agree with SEER registry reports, Ronald Burkman MD

Breast cancer risk and hormone receptor status in older women by parity, age of first birth, and breastfeeding: A case-control study, Ronald Burkman MD

Breast cancer risk and ovariectomy, hysterectomy, and tubal sterilization in the women's contraceptive and reproductive experiences study, Ronald Burkman MD

Breast cancer risk estimates for relatives of white and African American women with breast cancer in the Women's Contraceptive and Reproductive Experiences Study., Ronald Burkman MD

Breast cancer survivors perceptions regarding relapse and related disease risk, Grace Makari-Judson MD, Chandravathi Loke MD, Deborah Katz MD, Ruth Barham, and Wilson Mertens MD

Breast Imaging, Vivian Miller MD

Breast lesions incidentally detected on CT: A pictorial review with emphasis on the need for further diagnostic work-up, Dustin Nguyen MD, Margaret Yacobozzi MD, Sara Smolinski MD, Carlos Valdes MD, Dmitry Rakita MD, and Jennifer Hadro MD

Breast lesions in pregnancy and lactation: A pictoral review with pathologic correlation and emphasis on diagnostic work-up and management, Cheri Nguyen MD, Tara Catanzano MD, Caleb Scott MD, and Jennifer Hadro MD

Breast lesions in women with nipple-areolar complex abnormalities on physical exam: A pictorial review with Pathologic correlation and discussion of diagnostic work-up, Margaret Yacobozzi MD, Dustin Nguyen MD, Jennifer Hadro MD, and Vivian Miller MD

Breast masses: removal of all US evidence during biopsy by using a handheld vacuum-assisted device--initial experience., Grace Makari-Judson MD, Bret Coughlin MD, James Frank, and Robert Goulart MD

Breast pathology in the female pediatric population: A pictorial review of normal anatomy, developmental abnormalities, and masses, Margaret Yacobozzi MD, Dustin Nguyen MD, Stanley Polansky MD, and Dmitry Rakita MD

Breastpumping in the ED? Just do it., Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD

Bridging the divide between child psychiatry and primary care: The use of telephone consultation within a population-based collaborative system, Barry Sarvet MD

Brief overview of the coagulation cascade, Vandita Johari MD and Chandravathi Loke MD

Bring in the negotiator: The basics of the art of negotiations, Grace Mitchell MD

Brucella species, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

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Building chief residents' leadership skills, Gina Luciano MD, Rebecca Blanchard PhD, and Kevin Hinchey MD

Buprenorphine treatment in primary care, Thomas Lincoln MD

Burst pressures in gastric closure: A NOTES comparison study of looped T-anchors vs. endoclips in the explanted porcine stomach, John Romanelli MD, David Desilets MD, and David Earle MD

Burst pressures in gastric closure - A NOTES study of the Lock-It system with the Padlock-G in the explanted porcine stomach, John Romanelli MD, David Earle MD, and David Desilets MD

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Busting the myths of the emergency medicine gender gap, Jeannette Wolfe MD

Cachexia in a 53-year-old end-stage renal disease patient on hemodialysis, Chirag Vaidya MD

Cadasil: Cognitive decline in a 35 Y/O woman, Arnulfo Deray MD, Maura Brennan MD, and Victoria Peters MD

Calcific temdonitis of longus colli - A potential for diagnostic and therapeutic pitfalls, Sonali Arora MD

Caloric requirements of critically ill hemodialysis patients: Is the K/DOQI guideline accurate, William McGee MD and Gregory Braden MD

Campylobacter species, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

Can a cancer program-sponsored spiritual event meet with acceptance from patients and other attendees, Donald Higby MD and Wilson Mertens MD

Canadian Association of PathologistsAssociation canadienne des pathologistes National Standards Committee/Immunohistochemistry best practice recommendations for standardization of immunohistochemistry tests, Christopher Otis MD

Can an elderly woman's heart be too strong? Increased mortality with high versus normal ejection fraction after an acute coronary syndrome. The Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events, Fadi Saab MD

Can a statistical model predict the risk of vancomycin-induced nephrotoxicity (VIN)?, Daniel Skiest MD, Safia Kuriakose, Erica Tenholder, Evan Horton, Seth Housman, and Jane Garb

Can CK-MB and cTn-I be detected in the peripheral circulation within the first 10 min of acute coronary ischemia?, Timothy Mader MD and Howard Smithline MD

Candida species, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

Can I afford to go part time?, Jeannette Wolfe MD

Can residents learn to be good doctors without harming patients?, Kevin Hinchey MD and Michael Rothberg MD

Can the heat of localized soft tissue infections be quantified non-invasively using an infrared thermography camera, Geoffrey A. Capraro MD, Sondra Jasienowski, and Fidela Blank

Can visualizations complement quantitative process analysis measures? A case study of nurses identifying patients before administering medications, Philip Henneman MD

Can we accurately predict high risk endometrial carcinoma preoperatively, Christopher Otis MD

Can we better determine the etiology of community-acquired pneumonia?, Richard Brown MD

Can we eliminate placebo in ALS clinical trials?, Carmel Armon MD

Can we rely on EM resident self-assessment of EM knowledge?, Lucienne Lutfy-Clayton M.D.

Can we use a catheter to do the q-tip test, Oz Harmanli MD

Can we use a catheter to do the Q-Tip test: Preliminary analysis, Emily Weber LeBrun MD and Oz Harmanli MD

Capecitabine-induced palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia in a diabetic patient, Sarah Dews MD, Venkta Kodali MD, and Michael Rosenblum MD

CAPS-tastrophe!, Auras Atreya MD, Eimear Kitt MD, and Behdad Besharatian MD

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Sudeep Kaur Aulakh MD

Carcinoma cuniculatum - A potential diagnostic pitfall on punch biopsy of the penis, Carlos Prieto-Granada MD and Wayne Duke MD

Cardiac arrest in preeclamptic parturient during cesarean section, Natalie Maida MD and Karin Zuegge MD

Cardiac arrest in the Emergency Department: A report from the National Registry of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Timothy Mader MD

Cardiac arrests of hospital staff and visitors: Experience from the national registry of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Timothy Mader MD

Cardiac dynamics during upright cycle exercise in boys., Thomas Rowland MD

Cardiac output measured with both esophageal doppler device and Vigileo-FloTrac Device, William McGee MD and Karthik Raghunathan MD

Cardiac pacemakers, Jill Griffin MD and Susan Torrey MD

Cardiac responses to progressive upright exercise in adult male cyclists., Thomas Rowland MD

Cardiac response to progressive cycle exercise in moderately obese adolescent females., Thomas Rowland MD

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Cardio-embolic stroke following remote blunt chest trauma, Sonali Arora MD, Auras Atreya MD, Srikanth Penumetsa MD, and William Hiser MD

Cardiology for the Radiologist., Hetal Patel MD and George Hartnell MD

Cardiovascular drift in euhydrated prepubertal boys, Thomas Rowland MD

Cardiovascular implications of proteinuria: An indicator of chronic kidney disease, Varun Agrawal MD

Cardiovascular outcomes in the Irbesartan Diabetic Nephropathy Trial of patients with type 2 diabetes and overt nephropathy., Gregory Braden MD

Care coordination for children with special health care needs: Evaluation of a state experiment, Matthew Sadof MD

Caregiver fatigue, Auras Atreya MD and Maura Brennan MD

Caregiver predictors of adolescent inhalant abuse in rural Appalachia., James Burns MD

CARES: Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival, Benjamin Osborne MD

Caring for children who have special health-care needs: A practical guide for the primary care practitioner, Matthew Sadof MD

Caring for the caretaker: A nursing process approach, Elaine Bloniasz

Caring for those left behind., Maura Brennan MD

Carotid artery stenting: Stent or scapel, Satyendra Giri MD and Raul Octaviani MD

Carotid body tumor (paraganglioma)., Liron Pantanowitz MD

Car-surfing in southwest Ohio: Incidence and injuries., Lisa Patterson MD

Cascading drug errors−hyponatremia followed by hypernatremia: Mirtazapine−induced SIADH and volume depletion from Demeclocycline, Alejandra Marin Ruiz MD, Maura Brennan MD, and Fei Gu MD

Case/control study of patients who have high-level oocyte immaturity on multiple cycles during ICSI, Andrew Moore MD, Margaret Arny, Kelly Lynch MD, Diana Atashroo MD, M Yusoff Dawood MD, and Daniel Grow MD

Case for change, Richard Friedberg MD

Case of chronic pancreatic brucellosis presenting as hemosuccus pancreaticus., Angelica Belo MD, David Longworth MD, David Desilets MD, and Chunbai Zhang MD

Case report: penetrating cardiac injury secondary to a terrorism-related nail bomb explosion., Jeffrey Arnold MD

Case studies of ketosis and the clinical utility of β-hydroxybutyrate, Rebecca Levy MD, Chelsea Gordner DO, and James Nichols

Case volume, quality of care, and care efficiency in coronary artery bypass surgery, Michael Rothberg MD, Penny Pekow, and Peter Lindenauer MD

Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome in rheumatoid arthritis, Syed Hussain MD, Khaled Dahche MD, Sandhya Kommana MD, Lauren Meade MD, Siddharth Wartak MD, and Vivianne Bunin MD

Cat-scratch disease lymphadenitis, Gabriel Caponetti MD and Liron Pantanowitz MD

Caudal block in a child with a sacral dimple utilizing ultrasonography, Neil Connelly MD and Donald Schwartz MD

Caudally threaded epidural catheter following a single-shot caudal block in a high-risk neonate: a combined caudal-epidural technique, Neil Connelly MD, Donald Schwartz MD, and Deevia Patel MD

Caudally threaded thoracic epidural catheter as the sole anesthetic in a premature infant and ultrasound confirmation of the catheter tip, Donald Schwartz MD and Andrew King MD

Caudals, dimples, and ultrasound - part 2, Donald Schwartz MD, Kevin Moriarty MD, and Nandakumar Ponnusamy MD

CD4+ T-cell decline after the interruption of antiretroviral therapy in ACTG A5170 is predicted by differential expression of genes in the ras signaling pathway, Daniel Skiest MD

Cecil's textbook of medicine, 22nd edition, Michael R. Grey MD

Cell death in myoblasts and muscles, Larry Schwartz and Honor Glenn

Cellular retinol binding protein-1 (CRBP1) is up-regulated in response to parity-induced changes in the mammary gland, Sallie Schneider and D Joseph Jerry

Census data for health preparedness and response, Richard Wait MD and Jane Garb

Central venous catheterization: Better and worse., William McGee MD

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Cerebellar metastatic papillary thyroid carcinoma in a pediatric patient with complex congenital heart disease., Rushika Conroy MD

Cerebral air embolism from a hemodialysis catheter: a complete recovery after delayed hyperbaric therapy, Michael Picchioni MD

Cerebral metastasis and other central nervous system complications of pleuropulmonary blastoma, Philippa Sprinz MD

Cervical insufficiency, Fadi Bsat MD

Cervical spine injuries and helmet laws: A population-based study, Ronald Gross MD and Andrew Doben MD

Cervical spondylodiscitis from an ingested pin: a case report., Stanley Konefal MD and George Wadie MD

Challenges in diagnosing AIDS in an elder, Basmah Abdalla MD and Maura Brennan MD

Challenges in the treatment of alcohol withdrawal in the general hospital, Steven Fischel MD and Stephen Ryzewicz MD

Challenges to research in urban community health centers., Evan Benjamin MD

Challenging hernia locations: Suprapubic and subxiphoid, John Romanelli MD

Change in modified Bishop Score as a predictor of cesarean delivery rate after cervical ripening, Glenn Markenson MD, Fadi Bsat MD, Andrew Healy MD, Michael Plevyak MD, and Alex Knee

Changes in contractile properties of skeletal muscle during developmentally programmed atrophy and death, Larry Schwartz

Changes in medication use after computerized physician order entry(CPOE)implementation., Thomas Higgins MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, and Mark Tidswell MD

Changes on the horizon: An update on Pathology "Convergence", Richard Friedberg MD

Changing ICU practice: The RN/MD collaboration project, William McGee MD, Paula Lusardi, and Elizabeth Henneman

Chapter 20: Musculoskeletal Ultrasound., Tala Elia MD

Characteristics and outcomes of ventilated patients according to time to liberation from mechanical ventilation, Jay Steingrub MD

Characteristics associated with severe perineal and cervical lacerations during vaginal delivery, Ronald Burkman MD

Characteristics of a residential and working community with diverse exposure to World Trade Center dust, gas, and fumes, Sybille Liautaud MD

Characteristics of second stage labor during preterm labor, Glenn Markenson MD and Alex Knee

Characterization of angular gaze by expert laparoscopic surgeons using a face-mounted display, Neal Seymour MD, David Earle MD, Ron Bush, and David Lin MD

Characterization of rapid performance improvement on a complex laparoscopic task using a virtual-reality trainer in the SAGES learning center., John Romanelli MD, David Lin MD, and Neal Seymour MD

Charcot-Leyden crystals: pathology and diagnostic utility., Liron Pantanowitz MD

Charge-dependent cellular uptake and tissue penetration of gold nanoparticles, Neil Forbes

Chart critical care with this checklist, Michael Lemanski MD

Checklists and guidelines in surgical pathology., Christopher Otis MD

Checklists, safety, my culture and me, Karthik Raghunathan MD

Check on critical care, gain $50 for some caveat patients, Michael Lemanski MD

Chemical profiling to differentiate geographic growing origins of coffee., Brian W. Smith MD

Chemopreventive strategies in a mammary gland explant model, Richard Arenas MD and Sabha Ganai MD

Chemotherapy ordering in a computerized physician order entry (CPOE) environment: A longitudinal analysis of defects from oncologist to patient, Wilson Mertens MD, Deborah Naglieri-Prescod, and Donald Higby MD

Chest Tube Placement (Assist), Paula Lusardi

Chest Tube Placement (Perform), Paula Lusardi

Chiari I malformation decompression surgery leads to postoperative tongue and neck edema, Stanlies D'Souza MD

Child abuse and neglect in the United States, Kevin Moriarty MD and David Tashjian MD

Child/Adolescent Anxiety Multimodal Study (CAMS): Rationale, design, and methods, Bruce Waslick MD, Shannon Compton, and Amy Albano

Children with special health care needs, Lindsey Grossman MD

Chlamydia screening in teenage girls, Nancy Burns and Claudia Gaudet

Chlamydia Trachomatis and Trachoma: Protective and disease-associated Hla Drb1/Dqb1 allotypes of Tanzanian villagers, Linda Bobo MD

Cholelithiasis of the ovary after laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a case report, Liron Pantanowitz MD, Michel Prefontaine MD, and John Hunt MD

Cholesteatoma, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Gabriel Caponetti MD

Choosing the best hospital: The limitations of public quality reporting, Michael Rothberg MD, Evan Benjamin MD, Penny Pekow, and Peter Lindenauer MD

Choriocarcinoma in an AIDS patient: Relapsing but not fatal, Archan Shah MD, Mark Tidswell MD, Michel Prefontaine MD, Daniel Skiest MD, and Liron Pantanowitz MD

Chromosomal instability in flat adenomas and carcinomas of the colon, James Mueller MD

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Chronic cough in children: a primary care and subspecialty collaborative approach, Matthew Sadof MD

Chronic cough in women, Heather Sankey MD

Chronic diarrhea associated with persistent norovirus excretion in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia: Report of two cases, Todd Capizzi MD, Grace Makari-Judson MD, Richard Steingart MD, and Wilson Mertens MD

Chronic fatigue syndrome, Hal Jenson MD

Chronic lateral epicondylitis: Comparative effectiveness of a home exercise program including stretching alone versus stretching supplemented with eccentric or concentric strengthening., Julio Martinez-Silvestrini MD

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia cytoplasmic inclusions, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Namrata Setia MD

Chronic opiate therapy and non-specific abdominal pain, Randa Jaber MD

Chronic pain and mental illness: overcoming barriers to effective management in general medicine settings, Michael Picchioni MD

Circulatory efficacy during progressive aerobic exercise in children: Insights from the Q: VO(2) relationship., Thomas Rowland MD

Circulatory responses to exercise: Are we misreading Fick, Thomas Rowland MD

Circulatory shock in children: An overview., Christine McKiernan MD and Stephen Lieberman MD

Cirrhosis and liver failure, Susan Torrey MD

Civic Engagement and Your Library, Margot Malachowski MLS

C-Kit (CD117) expression in AIDS-related, classic, and African endemic Kaposi sarcoma., Liron Pantanowitz MD

C-Kit protein expression in female lower genital traact melanoma, Carlos Prieto-Granada MD, Namrata Setia MD, Jane Garb, Wayne Duke MD, and Jean Henneberry MD

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Classic Osborn waves and incessant ventricular fibrillation in severe hypothermia, Auras Atreya MD and Sonali Arora MD

Classification and regression tree (CART) analysis: A novel method to derive and validate a pretest probability prediction rule for pulmonary embolism, Howard Smithline MD

Classification of shock based on functional hemodynamic parameters, William McGee MD, Karthik Raghunathan MD, and Adam Adler MD

Class III CHF presenting as a geriatric syndrome, Maura Brennan MD, Rukshana Cader MD, Alireza Vaziri MD, Rosette Odulio MD, and Sandra Bellantonio MD

Clinical assessment of the axillary sentinel lymph node for breast cancer metastasis by the surgeon: A study of one institutions voluntary policy change, Juliana Meyer MD, Sabha Ganai MD, Robert Goulart MD, and Holly Mason MD

Clinical efficacy and differential inhibition of menstrual fluid prostaglandin F2alpha in a randomized, double-blind, crossover treatment with placebo, acetaminophen, and ibuprofen in primary dysmenorrhea, M Yusoff Dawood MD

Clinical endpoints in peripheral endovascular revascularization trials: A case for standardized definitions, John Cardella MD

Clinical experience with daptomycin for outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy, Julius Larioza MD, Amy Girard, and Richard Brown MD

Clinical features from the history and physical examination that predict the presence or absence of pulmonary embolism in symptomatic emergency department patients: Results of a prospective, multicenter study, Howard Smithline MD

Clinical features, triage, and outcome of patients presenting to the ED with suspected acute coronary syndromes but without pain: a multicenter study., J. Hector Pope M.D.

Clinical history of HIV infection may be misleading in cytopathology, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Robert Goulart MD

Clinical laboratory testing has limited value in diagnosing the cause of fatigue in ambulatory cancer patients, Wilson Mertens MD, Lucinda Cassells MD, David Katz MD, Ruth Barham, and Saurabh Dahiya MD

Clinical palliative care for surgeons: part 1., K Francis Lee MD

Clinical palliative care for surgeons: part 2., K Francis Lee MD

Clinical Pathologic Case Competition, Adam Kellogg MD

Clinical practice guideline for abnormal uterine bleeding: hysterectomy versus alternative therapy, Oz Harmanli MD

Clinical research for surgeons in palliative care: Challenges and opportunities., K Francis Lee MD

Clinical use of drotrecogin alfa (activated): Patients treated in mercury differ from those in PROWESS., Jay Steingrub MD

Clinical use of drotrecogin alfa (activated): Patients treated in the XEUS study differ from high risk prowess patients, Jay Steingrub MD

Clinical utility of folic acid testing for anemia and dementia screen., Kevin Hinchey MD and M Javed Ashraf MD

Clinical utility of folic acid testing for patients with anemia or dementia, M Javed Ashraf MD, James Cook MD, and Michael Rothberg MD

Clipping of previously coiled aneurysms - Attempted formulation of a guideline to assess the need for coil extraction, Clemens Schirmer MD

Clonality of borderline and serous carcinoma of the ovary: Molecular studies identify a monoclonal origin for primary tumors and their implants, Reva Ricketts-Loriaux MD and Christopher Otis MD

Clostridium botulinum, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

Clostridium tetani, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

CLSI EP23: Laboratory quality control based on risk management, James Nichols

Cluster randomized trials to study the comparative effectiveness of therapeutics: Stakeholders' concerns and recommendations, Sarah Goff MD

Coarctation of distal thoracic aorta--the middle aortic syndrome in an elderly female with severe coronary artery disease, Siddharth Wartak MD and Sandhya Kommana MD

Coccidioides species, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

Coding case scenarios, Fadi Bsat MD

Co-editor, Elisabeth Bennett

Cognitive behavioral therapy, sertraline, or a combination in childhood anxiety, Bruce Waslick MD

Cognitive impairment in the ICU: Could more have been done for this elder?, Maura Brennan MD

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Collaboration in the commonwealth., Suzanne Hendery MD and Wilson Mertens MD

Collaboration with primary care: Developing clinical skills, overcoming system challenges, Barry Sarvet MD

Colloid carcinoma of the minor duodenal papilla, Heike Varnholt MD, Richard Wait MD, James Mueller MD, and David Desilets MD

Colonic adenoma with squamous metaplasia, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Colonization of paediatric lower respiratory tract with genital Mycoplasma species, Paul Salva MD

Colonization of second-trimester placenta parenchyma, Solveig Pflueger MD

Colpocleisis: A simple, effective and underutilized procedure for pelvic organ prolapse, Oz Harmanli MD

Colpoclesis, Oz Harmanli MD

Combination of enzyme replacement and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation as therapy for Hurler syndrome, Satkiran Grewal MD

Combined effect of oral contraceptive use and hormone replacement therapy on breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women., Ronald Burkman MD

Combining a clinical pharmacy economic intervention tool with an intervention documentation system, Adam Pesaturo, Erin Taylor, Mark Heelon, Caryn Colburn, and Audrey Bernard

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Commentary, Clemens Schirmer M.D.

Commentary: Disability evaluations--Are the evaluators able?, Stuart Anfang MD

Commenting on "Vulvar langerhans cell histocytosis: a case report and review of the literature", Christopher Otis MD

Common Complications and Management, David Earle MD

Common false positive findings on FDG PET/CT: An atlas of artifacts, normal variants, and incidentals, Erez Vidan MD and Laurie Gianturco MD

Common genetic variation in GATA-binding protein 3 and differential susceptibility to breast cancer by estrogen receptor alpha tumor status, Melissa Troester

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine expert panel on immediate implant-based breast reconstruction following mastectomy for cancer: Executive summary, June 2011, Joseph Shin MD

Communication and the dissatisfied patient, Part 2, Ronald Burkman MD

Communication milestone: A model for universal milestones that are adaptable across disciplines and at all levels of training, Michael Picchioni MD, Kevin Hinchey MD, Heather Sankey M.D., and Sean Mahar

Communication tree: Talk to me, Christine Gryglik, Michael Davis, Deborah Kinsey, and Kelly Ann Scott

Community-acquired, health care-associated, and ventilator-associated pneumonia: three variations of a serious disease, Susan Scott

Community-onset methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus in an urban HIV clinic., Daniel Skiest MD

Comorbid factitious and conversion disorders., Lewis Cohen MD

Comparative effectiveness of low-molecular-weight heparin versus unfractionated heparin for thromboembolism prophylaxis for medical patients, Michael Rothberg MD and Peter Lindenauer MD

Comparative effectiveness of macrolides and quinolones for patients hospitalized with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD), Michael Rothberg MD, Penny Pekow, Oren Brody MD, Daniel Skiest MD, and Peter Lindenauer MD

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Comparative effectiveness research in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Peter Lindenauer M.D.

Comparative efficacy of eritoran, a toll-like receptor 4 antagonist, in patients with severe sepsis and higher risk of mortality by type of causative pathogen, Mark Tidswell MD

Comparative performance of uncoated self expanding metal biliary stents (SEMS) of different designs in two diameters: Final patency results of an international multi-center randomized controlled trial (RCT), David Desilets MD

Comparative study of xTag 60 Cystic Fibrosis Test v2 with CF InPlex® panel utilizing archived and freshly extracted DNA, Franklin Moore MD and Sharon Marconi

Comparing drug effectiveness at health plans: The ethics of cluster randomized trials, Sarah Goff MD

Comparing the effect of atrial fibrillation on various cardiac output methods, William McGee MD and Lori-Ann Kozikowski

Comparison between different assays of natriuretic peptides (Pro-BNP and BNP) in patients undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery, M Javed Ashraf MD, James Cook MD, Mara Slawsky MD, and James Nichols

Comparison of Bishop Score with modified Bishop Score to predict cesarean delivery after induction of labor, Fadi Bsat MD, Glenn Markenson MD, Andrew Healy MD, Michael Plevyak MD, and Alex Knee

Comparison of conventional smears versus ThinPrep in thyroid fine needle aspiration biopsy: Diagnostic categories and surgical correlation, Margaret Assaad MD, Maryanne Hornish, Roxanne Florence MD, and Robert Goulart MD

Comparison of efficacy of implanted cardioverter-defibrillator in patients with versus without diabetes mellitus., James Cook MD and Stephen Wittenberg MD

Comparison of family-based vs. individual therapy in adolescents with anorexis nervosa: A retrospective cohort with historic control, Laura Koenigs MD, Claire Norton, Jennifer Friderici, and Nancy Miller MD

Comparison of full chest CTA with limited CTA and triple rule-out CTA for PE detection and effective dose implications., Hetal Patel MD and Bret Coughlin MD

Comparison of three outpatient regimens in the management of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy., Fadi Bsat MD and David Seubert MD

Comparison of two fluid-management strategies in acute lung injury., Jay Steingrub MD and Mark Tidswell MD

Competency based assessment in medical residencies and how it might be applied to medical student education, Lauren Meade MD

Competency-based education: Linking advancement to competency-based assessment, Sudeep Kaur Aulakh MD and Michael Rosenblum MD

Competency based progresion and evaluation: Five year experience with the baystate Learner-Manager-Teacher model, Michael Picchioni MD and Michael Rosenblum MD

Competency based progression: Concept to reality, Sudeep Kaur Aulakh MD and Michael Rosenblum MD

Competency-Based Progression: Concept to Reality, Michael Rosenblum MD, Sudeep Kaur Aulakh MD, and Gina Luciano MD

Competency-based progression: The learner-manager-teacher model, Kevin Hinchey MD and Samuel Borden MD

Competency based training and quality, Kevin Hinchey MD

Complementary and alternative medicine in children: an analysis of the recent literature, John Snyder MD and Patrick Brown MD

Complementary, holistic, and integrative medicine: Recurrent abdominal pain, David Gottsegen MD

Complete endoscopic removal of colloid cyst using a nitinol basket retriever, Clemens Schirmer MD

Complete globozoospermia associated with PLCzeta deficiency treated with calcium ionophore and ICSI results in pregnancy, Teru Jellerette

Completing tuberculosis prophylaxis in jail: targeting treatment and a comparison of rifampin/pyrazinamide with isoniazid regimens, Thomas Lincoln MD and David Rose MD

Completing tuberculosis prophylaxis in jail: targeting treatment and comparison of rifampin/pyrazinamide with isoniazid regimens., Thomas Lincoln MD and David Rose MD

Complex breast masses: Imaging-pathologic correlation and diagnostic approach., Devang Doshi MD, Bret Coughlin MD, David March MD, and Giovanna Crisi MD

Complex cystic breast masses: Diagnostic approach and imaging-pathologic correlation, Devang Doshi MD, David March MD, Giovanna Crisi MD, and Bret Coughlin MD

Complex laparoscopic task performance on two new computer-based skills training devices, Neal Seymour MD, Michael Ganey MD, and Ron Bush

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Julio Martinez-Silvestrini MD

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome in pediatric sports: A case series of three young athletes, Julio Martinez-Silvestrini MD

Complications of seasonal and pandemic influenza, Michael Rothberg MD and Sarah Haessler MD

Complications of skull base trauma: A pictorial review with correlation to clinicopathologic finding, Jane An MD, Shan Li MD, and Cheri Nguyen MD

Complications of tube thoracostomy placement in the emergency department, Niels Rathlev MD

Complications of viral influenza, Michael Rothberg MD, Sarah Haessler MD, and Richard Brown MD

Comprehensive diabetes management program for poorly controlled Hispanic type 2 patients at a community health center, Garry Welch, Nancy Allen, and Sofija Zagarins MD

Computer-based haptic and nonhaptic virtual reality surgical simulators: Performance characteristics and perceptions of new users, John Romanelli MD, David Lin MD, Eyad Wohaibi MD, Jay Kuhn MD, Ron Bush, Neal Seymour MD, and Richard Zlotnik MD

Computer-based laparoscopic and robotic surgical simulators: Performance characteristics and perceptions of new users, David Lin MD, Neal Seymour MD, Jay Kuhn MD, John Romanelli MD, and Ron Bush

Computer-based laparoscopic and robotic surgical simulators: Performance characteristics and perceptions of new users., Neal Seymour MD, David Lin MD, John Romanelli MD, Michael Ganey MD, and Ron Bush

Computer-based simulation training in surgery, Neal Seymour MD

Computerized adaptive testing of diabetes impact: A feasibility study of Hispanics and non-Hispanics in an active clinic population., Garry Welch and Paula Santiago-Kelley

Computerized databases for ALS incidence calculations: Ready, steady, but don't go yet, Carmel Armon MD

Computerized Physician Order Entry(CPOE): Employing pre-built chemotherapy care sets: Antiemetic and supportive care medication omissions., Donald Higby MD, Wilson Mertens MD, Deborah Naglieri-Prescod, and Lucinda Cassells MD

Computer simulations in the design and evaluation of anemia management protocols, Michael Germain MD

Concentrations of serum total activin A and inhibin A in preterm and term labor patients: a cross-sectional study., Michael Plevyak MD

Conceptualizing education faculty development for hospital-based faculty, Elisabeth Bennett

Concomitant thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura and ANCA-associated vasculitis in an adolescent, Christine McKiernan MD, Varun Agrawal MD, Chirag Vaidya MD, Jiuming Ye MD, Jonathan Freeman MD, Peter Blier MD, Chester Andrzejewski MD, Michael Germain MD, and Gregory Braden MD

Conformational variation of surface class II MHC proteins during myeloid dendritic cell differentiation accompanies structural changes in lysosomal MIIC., Giovanna Crisi MD

Confusion in elders caused by non-convulsive status epilepticus., Carmel Armon MD

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Congenital anomalies, prematurity, and low birth weight rates in relation to nuclear power plant proximity1), Paul Visintainer

Congenital CNS malformations and their association with pediatric epilepsy: A pictoral review with emphasis on pathophysiology and epidemiology, Cheri Nguyen MD, Richard Hicks MD, and Stanley Polansky MD

Congenital malformations of the skull and meninges., Paul Kanev MD

Congestive Heart Failure, Mara Slawsky MD, Gregory Valania MD, Sandra Bellantonio MD, and Fadi Saab MD

Congestive heart failure (CHF) exacerbation precipitated by unintended overdose of baking soda, Chunmei Huang MD, Amit Saxena MD, Sandra Bellantonio MD, and Amir Lotfi MD

Consensus statement on the diagnosis and treatment of children with idiopathic short stature: A summary of the Growth Hormone Research Society, the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society, and the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology Workshop, Edward Reiter MD

Consensus treatment plans for induction therapy of newly diagnosed proliferative lupus nephritis in juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus, Peter Blier MD

Contemporary cesarean delivery practice in the United States, Ronald Burkman MD

Contemporary patterns of spontaneous labor with normal neonatal outcomes, Ronald Burkman MD

Continuing medical education activity in echocardiography, Thomas Rowland MD

Continuing medical education program in the journal of hospital medicine, Peter Lindenauer MD

Continuity of mental health care for HIV-positive jail inmates (roundtable discussion), Thomas Lincoln MD

Continuous glucose monitoring improved glucose control in adults but not in young adults or children with type 1 diabetes, Nancy Allen

Continuous glucose monitoring in children with type 1 diabetes: before and after insulin pump therapy., Edward Reiter MD and Holley Allen MD

Continuous glucose monitoring in non-insulin-using individuals with type 2 diabetes: Acceptability, feasibility, and teaching opportunities, Nancy Allen and Stuart Chipkin MD

Continuous performance improvement works for reduction of central line associated blood stream infections, William McGee MD, Sheila Elliott, and Mary Ellen Scales

Contralateral breast cancer: factors associated with stage and size at presentation., Grace Makari-Judson MD and Wilson Mertens MD

Contrast-enhanced cross sectional body imaging protocols: What is seen when?, Dmitry Rakita MD, Margaret Yacobozzi MD, and Tara Catanzano MD

Contrast-induced acute kidney injury in renal transplant recipients after cardiac catheterization, Varun Agrawal MD

Contributing author, Katharine Freeman MD

Contributors to variation in hospital spending for critically ill patients with sepsis, Tara Lagu M.D., Michael Rothberg M.D., Nicholas Hannon, Jay Steingrub MD, and Peter Lindenauer M.D.

Control charts and control limits, Karthik Raghunathan MD

Controversies in perioperative medication management, Donna Mercado MD and David Ling MD

Controversies in precocious puberty treatment, Edward Reiter MD

Controversies: Therapeutic hypothermia, Jay Steingrub MD

Controversy Session: Imaging of the Acute Abdomen in Pregnancy: Current Roles and Controversies, Tara Catanzano MD

Conversion locked-in syndrome after implantation of a spinal cord stimulator., Neil Connelly MD, Paul Kanev MD, Alan Weintraub MD, and Edward Solis MD

COOMBS negative hemolytic anemia - Where blood transfusion is not always the solution, Dhivya Sundaramurthy MD and T. Vijay Gadiraju MD

Coping with chemotherapy and radiation therapy, Grace Makari-Judson MD

Coronary artery bypass graft surgery depletes plasma thiamine levels, Howard Smithline MD

Coronary CT angiography versus standard evaluation in acute chest pain, J. Hector Pope MD

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Coronary perfusion pressure response to intraosseous administration after prolonged cardiac arrest, Joshua Harris M.D., Ryan Coute, Adam Kellogg M.D., Scot Millay M.D., and Timothy Mader M.D.

Coronary revascularization is associated with an improved outcome in patients undergoing ICD implantation: Data from the dual and VVI ICD (DAVID) Trial., James Cook MD

Correlates of depression during pregnancy in latina women, Glenn Markenson MD and Penny Pekow

Correlates of discontinuing physical activity at the onset of pregnancy among Hispanic women, Glenn Markenson MD and Penny Pekow

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Correlates of high perceived stress among pregnant Hispanic women in Western Massachusetts., Penny Pekow and Glenn Markenson MD

Correlates of physical activity in pregnancy among Latina women, Glenn Markenson MD and Penny Pekow

Correlates of renal artery caliber in patients undergoing simultaneous coronary and renal arteriography, Barbara Greco MD and George Hartnell MD

Correlates of smoking cessation at pregnancy onset among Hispanic women in Massachusetts, Penny Pekow

Correlation between change in dyspnea severity and clinical outcome in patients with acute heart failure, Howard Smithline MD, Richard Barus, Fidela Blank, and Ryan Coute

Correlation between villous mineralization, embryonic demise and aneuploidy, Solveig Pflueger MD and Aparna Rajadhyaksha MD

Correlation of stromal expression of YKL-40 with recurrence of colorectal cancer, Jane Garb, Christopher Chapman MD, Brooke Bentley, Q Jackie Cao MD, Rong Shao, Richard Arenas MD, and Hannah Swayze-Quinn MD

Corrigendum to "Novel NaPi-IIc mutations causing HHRH and idiopathic hypercalciuria in several unrelated families: Long-term follow-up in one kindred" [Bone 50 (2012) 1100-1106], Nancy Dunbar MD

Corticosteroid administration and treatment failure in acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Reply, Penny Pekow, Peter Lindenauer MD, and Michael Rothberg MD

Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

Cost and workforce implications of subjecting all physicians to aviation industry work-hour restrictions, Michael Payette MD

Cost comparison of looped versus stapled laparoscopic appendectomy, David Earle MD and Neal Seymour MD

Cost-effective approaches to influenza prevention and treatment, Michael Rothberg MD

Cost-effectiveness and contraceptive effectiveness of the transdermal contraceptive patch., Ronald Burkman MD

Cost-effectiveness of a vaccine to prevent herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia in older adults, Michael Rothberg MD and Anunta Virapongse MD

Cost-minimization analysis of the direct costs of TPE and IVIg in the treatment of Guillain-Barré syndrome, Chester Andrzejewski MD

Costs and net health effects of contraceptive methods., Ronald Burkman MD

Cough and Fever in a 28 year-old IV Drug User, Monique Carreno MD and Curtis Andrews MD

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Covering all bases: A simulated, longitudinal case-based approach to teaching critical care fellows, Patrick Mailloux M.D.

Covert cryptococcal meningitis in a patient with systemic lupus erythematous, Armando Paez MD, Senthil Sivalingam MD, Pragathi Saligram MD, and Sivakumar Natanasabapathy MD

Cramping with Crohn's: New diagnosis of Crohn's in a 88 year old man, Syed Hussain MD, Siddharth Wartak MD, Alvaro Rosales MD, and Arnulfo Deray MD

Creutzfeldt Jacob disease and myasthenia gravis presenting as delirium in an octgenarian, Venkta Kodali MD, Maura Brennan MD, Todd Capizzi MD, Donna Mercado MD, George Baquis MD, Benjamin Liptzin MD, and David Longworth MD

Critical care of the thoracic surgical patient, Thomas Higgins MD and Patrick Mailloux MD

Critical care ultrasound: Undifferentiated hypotension, Tala Elia MD

Critical influence of framing coil orientation on intra-aneurysmal and neck region hemodynamics in a sidewall aneurysm model, Clemens Schirmer MD

Critical influence of framing coil orientation on the intra-aneurysmal and neck region hemodynamics, Clemens Schirmer MD

Critical values comparison: A College of American Pathologists Q-Probes survey of 163 clinical laboratories, Richard Friedberg MD

Critical values: Lessons learned on handoff communication, Richard Friedberg MD

Critical values reporting (QT10) Annual summary report, Richard Friedberg MD

Crohn's disease of the esophagus., Liron Pantanowitz MD

Crossing the chasm: expanded applications for hemodynamic monitoring, William McGee MD

Cryptic Meningoencephalitis, Anna Stepczynski MD

Cryptococcal lymphadenitis and massive splenomegaly in an immunocompromised patient., Daniel Skiest MD

Cryptococcosis and other fungal infections of the central nervous system in AIDS, Daniel Skiest MD

Cryptococcus neoforms, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

Cryptorchidism, Michael Picchioni MD

CT directed diagnostic and therapeutic pericardiocentesis: 8-year experience at a single institution., Bret Coughlin MD and Stephen Klein MD

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Cuffed endotracheal tubes are okay for neonates, Steven Dunn MD

Cultural differences in the perception of obesity and cardiovascular risk, Senthil Sivalingam MD

Cultural orientation and diabetes self-care in low-income African Americans with type 2 diabetes mellitus., Stuart Chipkin MD and Garry Welch

Culture and complexities of shared medical decision-making: The family-doctor-patient triad, Kah Poh Loh MD, Shin Yin Lee MD, and Maura Brennan MD

Current controversies: hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer., Ronald Burkman MD

Current handoff practices in EM residencies: A targeted needs assessment and opportunities for future education. Is there a need for transition?, Benjamin Osborne MD

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Curriculum for post-graduate education: Comparing hospice and palliative care medicine, Monique Carreno MD, Maura Brennan MD, Diane Dietzen MD, and Gina Luciano MD

Cutaneous malignant melanoma., Aimee Leonard MD

Cutaneous metastases from an aggressive epithelioid vascular neoplasm, Jean Henneberry MD

Cutaneous neoplasms With prominent verocay body-like structures: The so-called "rippled pattern", Namrata Setia MD

Cutia aplasia and transverse limb defects related to first trimester misoprostol exposure, Mary-Alice Abbott MD and Sara Goldstein

Cutting balloon entrapment during treatment of in-stent restenosis: an unusual complication and its management., Gregory Giugliano MD

Cycle control, tolerability, and satisfaction among women switching from 30-35 microg ethinyl estradiol-containing oral contraceptives to the triphasic norgestimate/25 microg ethinyl estradiol-containing oral contraceptive Ortho Tri-Cyclen LO., Ronald Burkman MD and Anthony Poindexter MD

Cycle control with a 21-day compared with a 24-day oral contraceptive pill: a randomized controlled trial, Ronald Burkman MD

Cycle control with a 21-day vs a 24-day oral contraceptive (OC) regimen: Influence of previous exposure, Ronald Burkman MD

Cystic struma ovarii (with macrocystic change), Christopher Otis MD and Liron Pantanowitz MD

Cystitis glandularis, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Christopher Otis MD

Cytologic features of müllerian papilloma of the cervix: mimic of malignancy, Robert Goulart MD, David Gang MD, Barry Sachs MD, Liron Pantanowitz MD, Monica Hollowell MD, and Christopher Otis MD

Cytologic findings of psammocarcinoma in peritoneal washings, Liron Pantanowitz MD, Christopher Otis MD, and Robert Goulart MD

Cytology of pseudoseptic leukemic arthritis., Liron Pantanowitz MD

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) IE1 and pp65 specific CD8+ T cell responses broaden over time after primary CMV infection in infants, Donna Fisher MD

Cytomorphology of cervicovaginal melanoma: ThinPrep versus conventional Papanicolaou tests, Christopher Otis MD, Robert Goulart MD, Rukmini Modem MD, Liron Pantanowitz MD, and Namrata Setia MD

Cytotechnologists today: Much more than 'pap-ologists' with schools in need of our support, Robert Goulart MD

Daily versus admission mortality estimates: Is admission severity yesterday's news?, Thomas Higgins MD

Daptomycin therapy for serious infections due to methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, Armando Paez MD and Daniel Skiest MD

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Data set for reporting of endometrial carcinomas: recommendations from the International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting (ICCR) between United Kingdom, United States, Canada, and Australasia., Christopher Otis MD

D-Dimer and exhaled CO2/O2 to detect segmental pulmonary embolism in moderate-risk patients, Howard Smithline MD

D-Dimer threshold increase with pretest probability unlikely for pulmonary embolism to decrease unnecessary computerized tomographic pulmonary angiography, Howard Smithline MD

Dead but still our patient, Maura Brennan MD and Mohamed Elarabi MD

Decellularized cadaver vein allografts used for hemodialysis access do not cause allosensitization or preclude kidney transplantation., Alexander Kurbanov MD, Robert Madden MD, and George Lipkowitz MD

Decision making and the spine patient for nurses, APRNs and PAs, Marianne Langlois

Decision-making capacity in elders with dementia, Yee Chuan Ang MD, Shin Yin Lee MD, and Maura Brennan MD

Declining prevalence of diabetes mellitus in hereditary haemochromatosis: The result of earlier diagnosis, Sabyasachi Sen MD

Decongestive treatment of acute decompensated heart failure: Cardiorenal implications of ultrafiltration and diuretics, Benjamin Freda MD, Mara Slawsky MD, Jaya Mallidi MD, and Gregory Braden MD

Decongestive treatment of heart failure-Cardiorenal Implications, Benjamin Freda MD

Decongestive treatment of heart failure-Ultrafiltration and diuretics, Benjamin Freda MD

Decreased leptin levels in normal weight women with hypothalamic amenorrhea: The effects of body composition and nutritional intake, Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD

Decubitus ulcers are associated with prolonged length of stay in critically ill patients, William McGee M.D., Elizabeth Lederman, and Thomas Higgins M.D.

Deep venous thrombosis prophylaxis in laparoscopy: An evidence-based review, David Earle MD

Deficiency of decidual IL-10 in first trimester missed abortion: a lack of correlation with the decidual immune cell profile., Michael Plevyak MD

Delayed pediatric appendicitis treatment linked to complications, and even death, David Tashjian MD and Kevin Moriarty MD

Delayed time to defibrillation after intraoperative and periprocedural cardiac arrest, Timothy Mader MD

Delirium, Benjamin Liptzin MD and Steven Fischel MD

Delirium 2005: What do we know and not know., Benjamin Liptzin MD

Delirium or pain or urinary retention, Geetika Sachdeva MD

Delivery of systemic chemotherapeutic agent to tumors by using focused ultrasound: Study in a murine model, Suzanne G. Shulman MD

Delivery room management of preterm infants at risk for respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), Robert Rothstein MD

Dementia and "delirium" due to whole brain radiation in a cancer survivor, Maura Brennan MD and Mohamed Elarabi MD

Demonstration of construct valifity for a new virtual reality laparoscopic skills trainer, Neal Seymour MD, David Earle MD, and Ron Bush

Demonstration of increasing laparoscopic clinical skill over time: Use of a new network-based resident assessment tool, Eyad Wohaibi MD, David Lin MD, David Earle MD, and Neal Seymour MD

Demonstration of type-2 iodothyronine deiodinase (D2) activity in mouse type 1 skeletal muscle, J Enrique Silva MD and Waile Ramadan MD

Demystifying Factor Analysis: How It Works and How To Use It, Garry Welch

Dental care for children with special health care needs in Massachusetts, Matthew Sadof MD

Dental stains, Lindsey Grossman MD

Depot-specific adipose weight and gene expression is modulated by myostatin and activin, Sabyasachi Sen MD and Alan Schneyer

Depressed mood, psychological stress and eating disordered symptoms are associated with perceived oral contraceptive side effects in minority adolescents, Katharine White MD

Depression and gestational weight gain among low-income Hispanic and White non-Hispanic women, Heather Sankey MD

Depression with psychosis masquerading as delirium, Maura Brennan MD, Samuel Borden MD, and Eileen Kehoe MD

Derangements in blood glucose following initial resuscitation from in-hospital cardiac arrest: A report from the national registry of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Timothy Mader MD

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Derivation of a clinical prediction rule for pediatric abusive head trauma., Stephen Boos MD

Design and development of a new diagnostic microbiology and epidemiology track in the general meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Carol Ann Rauch MD

Designated case managers as facilitators of medical and psychosocial service delivery in addiction treatment programs., Paul Friedmann MD

Designing property specifications to improve the safety of the blood transfusion process, Philip Henneman MD and Elizabeth Henneman

Design of an MRI birdcage coil for lower leg imaging, Howard Smithline MD

Design of a torso positioning device for pre-operative planning of breast reconstruction surgery, Peter Wu MD and John Nigriny MD

Detecting cancers in dense tissue on screening mammography, Jane An MD, Jennifer Hadro MD, David March MD, and Giovanna Crisi MD

Detection and differentiation of normal, cancerous, and metastatic cells using nanoparticle-polymer sensor arrays, D Joseph Jerry

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Detection of BCR-ABL1 kinase domain mutations causing Imatinib resistance in chronic myelogenous leukemia, Franklin Moore MD

Detection of BCR-ABL1 Kinase Domain Mutations Causing Imatinib Resistance in Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, Franklin Moore MD

Detection of nonnucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitor-resistant HIV-1 after discontinuation of virologically suppressive antiretroviral therapy, Daniel Skiest MD

Detection of synthetic cannabinoids in herbal incense products, James Nichols and David Unold MD

Determinants of 30-day adverse events following saphenous vein graft intervention with and without a distal occlusion embolic protection device., Gregory Giugliano MD

Determinants of diastolic cardiac filling during exercise, Thomas Rowland MD

Determinants of endurance exercise capacity in the heat in prepubertal boys., Thomas Rowland MD

Determination of singleton versus twin gestations by intial bhCG values in ART cycles, Cynthia Sites MD, Alex Knee, and Margaret Arny

Determining optimum hemoglobin sampling for anemia management from every-treatment data, Michael Germain MD

Determining pretest probability of DVT: clinical intuition vs. validated scoring systems., Timothy Mader MD and Howard Smithline MD

Determining the accuracy of caudal needle placement in children: A comparison of the swoosh test and ultrasonography, Neil Connelly MD, Karthik Raghunathan MD, and Donald Schwartz MD

Developing and implementing a chief resident leadership curriculum, Gina Luciano MD and Kevin Hinchey MD

Developing and Implementing a Milestone-Based Resident Evaluation Program, Michael Rosenblum MD and Kevin Hinchey MD

Developing an in-training examination for fellows: The experience of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, James Stewart MD

Developing a renal supportive care team from the voices of patients, families, and palliative care staff, Lewis Cohen MD

Developing a successful scholarly activities program, Michael Rothberg MD

Developing effective child psychiatry collaboration with primary care: Leadership and management strategies, Barry Sarvet MD

Developing effective collaboration in children's mental health: One question at a time, Barry Sarvet MD

Development and Operation of a Simulation Laboratory at a Major Medical Center, Gladys Fernandez MD and Neal Seymour MD

Development and validation of a model that uses enhanced administrative data to predict mortality in patients with sepsis, Tara Lagu MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, Michael Rothberg MD, Penny Pekow, Jay Steingrub MD, and Thomas Higgins MD

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Development and validation of a mortality risk-adjustment model for patients hospitalized for exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Peter Lindenauer M.D.

Development and validation of a Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire., Glenn Markenson MD

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Development of a checklist for documenting team and collaborative behaviors during multidisciplinary bedside rounds, Elizabeth Henneman, Reva Kleppel, and Kevin Hinchey MD

Development of a defined residency research project timeline, Aaron Michelucci and Evan Horton

Development of a model that uses enhanced administrative data to predict mortality among patients with sepsis, Tara Lagu MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, Michael Rothberg MD, Penny Pekow, Jay Steingrub MD, and Thomas Higgins MD

Development of a postgraduate year 1 pharmacy residency program at a large teaching hospital, Aaron Michelucci and Evan Horton

Development of a simulation program to teach adult resuscitation in an internal medicine residency program, Raquel Belforti MD, Mihaela Stefan MD, and Gerard Langlois

Development of children who have hearing impairment, Cheryl Tierney and Patrick Brown MD

Development of electronic medical record charting for hospital-based transfusion and apheresis medicine services: Early adoption perspectives, Liron Pantanowitz MD, Vandita Johari MD, Chester Andrzejewski MD, Rebecca Levy MD, Darlene Cloutier, Jean Provencher, Joan McGirr, Jennifer Stebbins, Suzanne Cronin, Joshua Wherry, Joseph Fenton, and Eileen Donelan MD

Development of the block nurse role: Challenges and successes, Cidalia Vital RN, Penny Bertolasio RN, and Lee Nutting RN

Development, validation, and results of a measure of 30-day readmission following hospitalization for pneumonia, Peter Lindenauer MD

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Development, validation, and results of a risk-standardized measure of hospital 30-day mortality for patients with exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Peter Lindenauer M.D.

Dexamethasone increases bupivacaine analgesia duration in ultrasound guided interscalene blocks, Peter Vieira MD, Istvan Pulai MD, George Tsao MD, Poornachandran Manikantan MD, and Neil Connelly MD

Dexamethasone with bupivacaine increases duration of analgesia in ultrasound-guided interscalene brachial plexus blockade, Neil Connelly MD, Peter Vieira MD, Istvan Pulai MD, George Tsao MD, Poornachandran Manikantan MD, and Brunella Keller

Diabetes mellitus is associated with an increased mortality in patients with a prior myocardial infarction and reduced left ventricular function, James Cook MD and Stephen Wittenberg MD

Diabetes self-management among low-income Spanish-speaking patients: A pilot study., Jeffrey Scavron MD

Diabetes translation research: where are we and where do we want to be?, Evan Benjamin MD

Diabetes, women, and the ObGyn, Ronald Burkman MD

Diagnoses and presenting symptoms in an infant psychiatry clinic: comparison of two diagnostic systems., Kenneth Frankel MD

Diagnosis and laparoscopic treatment of surgical diseases during pregnancy: An evidence-based review, David Earle MD

Diagnosis and management of hyponatremia, Benjamin Freda MD

Diagnosis of acute cardiac ischemia., J. Hector Pope M.D.

Diagnosis of acute mitral valve insufficiency using emergency bedside echocardiography, Jeremy Sautner MD and Gavin Budhram MD

Diagnosis of ascending aortic dissection using emergency department bedside echocardiogram, Gavin Budhram MD

Diagnosis of pulmonary embolism using emergency department bedside echocardiogram, Gavin Budhram MD and Richard Misiaszek MD

Diagnostic accuracy of image-guided percutaneous fine needle aspiration biopsy of the mediastinum, Margaret Assaad MD, Christopher Otis MD, and Liron Pantanowitz MD

Diagnostic accuracy of image-guided percutaneous fine needle aspiration biopsy of the mediastinum, Margaret Assaad MD, Liron Pantanowitz MD, and Christopher Otis MD

Diagnostic agreement in the evaluation of image-guided breast core needle biopsies: results from a randomized clinical trial., Robert Goulart MD and David Page MD

Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in elderly patients with pulmonary embolism, Maura Brennan MD and Carmel Celestin MD

Diagnostic cytologic features of an epididymal melanotic neuroectodermal tumor of infancy present in scrotal fluid: A case report., Liron Pantanowitz MD, Robert Goulart MD, David Gang MD, Giovanna Crisi MD, and P LaPolice

Diagnostic utility of bile duct curettage specimens in bile duct cytology, Margaret Assaad MD, Maryanne Hornish, Robert Goulart MD, David Desilets MD, and Liron Pantanowitz MD

Diagnostic utility of Lupus Band Test, Jean Henneberry MD

Diagnostic utility of mammaglobin in lesions of the uterine cervix, Margaret Assaad MD, Christopher Otis MD, Sharon Marconi, and Liron Pantanowitz MD

Dialysis discontinuation: Quo vadis, Lewis Cohen MD and Michael Germain MD

Dialysis: Epidemiology, outcomes, and clinical trials: Cardiovascular - II, Arley Diaz MD, Paul Visintainer, Penny Pekow, Peter Lindenauer M.D., and Michael Rothberg M.D.

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Dialysis Initiation: What's the Rush?, Michael Germain M.D.

Dialysis should be discontinued more often, Lewis Cohen MD

Diastolic dysfunction in elderly patients, Sandra Bellantonio MD and M Javed Ashraf MD

"Did you just say . . . the baby's coming!!??": A nurse's guide to prepare for a safe precipitous delivery in the emergency department, Connie Blake

Dietary behaviors, physical activity, and cigarette smoking among pregnant Puerto Rican women, Glenn Markenson MD and Penny Pekow

Dietary vitamin D intake, 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 levels and premenstrual syndrome in a college-aged population, Sofija Zagarins MD

Differences in severity and resource utilization for medical and surgical ICU patients, William McGee M.D., Elizabeth Lederman, and Thomas Higgins M.D.

Differences in triage thresholds for patients presenting with possible acute coronary syndromes: More than meets the eye., J. Hector Pope MD

Differential antagonism of activin, myostatin and GDF11 by wild type and mutant follistatin, Alan Schneyer

Differential roles of HIC-5 isoforms in the regulation of cell death and myotube formation during myogenesis, Larry Schwartz and Honor Glenn

Differential suppression of menstrual fluid prostaglandin F2a, prostaglandin E2, 6-keto prostaglandin F1a and thromboxane B2 by suprofen in women with primary dysmenorrhea, M Yusoff Dawood MD

Differentiating HIV-associated lymphomas that exhibit plasmacellular differentiation, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Differentiating HIV-associated non-Hodgkin's lymphomas with similar plasmacellular differentiation, Liron Pantanowitz MD

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Differentiating suicide from life-ending acts and end-of-life decisions: a model based on chronic kidney disease and dialysis., Lewis Cohen MD

Differentiation Syndrome (DS) a mimicker of ARDS, Ashita Talsania MD, Aashish Samat MD, and Michael Rossen MD

Difficult venous access, Donald Schwartz MD and Karthik Raghunathan MD

Diffusion-weighted MR imaging of benign and malignant genitourinary lesions: Review of current concepts, Jonathan Cogley MD

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Diffusion-weighted MRI of renal cell carcinoma, upper tract urothelial carcinoma, and renal infection: A pictorial review, Dustin Nguyen MD and Dmitry Rakita MD

Digitizing Hospital History: A Pilot Project, Margot Malachowski MLS

Digoxin Overdose, Sudeep Kaur Aulakh MD

Diphtheria, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

Direct Antiglobulin Testing, CAP Survey DAT-A; DAT-B., Richard Friedberg MD

Disaster myths and hurricane Katrina 2005: Can public officals and the media learn to provide reponsible crisis communication during disasters, Jeffrey Arnold MD

Discussing illness at well-child care visits, Matthew Sadof MD

Disorders of the anterior pituitary, Edward Reiter MD

Disorders of the Small Intestine, Philip Henneman MD and Susan Torrey MD

Disparity in outcome prediction between APACHE-II, MPM-II and SAPS II, William McGee MD and Thomas Higgins MD

Disruptions and satisfaction in internal medicine resident continuity clinic differ between inpatient and outpatient rotations., Michael Rosenblum MD and Timothy Mulligan MD

Dissection headache sine stroke., George Baquis MD and Brian W. Smith MD

Distinct Angiogenic Mediators Are Required for Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor- and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-induced Angiogenesis: The Role of Cytoplasmic Tyrosine Kinase c-Abl in Tumor Angiogenesis, Rong Shao, Wei Yan, and Brooke Bentley

Distinctive gene expression profiles by cDNA microarrays in endometrioid and serous carcinomas of the endometrium., Q Jackie Cao MD

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Distinguishing benign from malignant mesothelial cells in effusions by Glut-1, EMA, and Desmin expression: an evidence-based approach, Roxanne Florence MD, Liron Pantanowitz MD, Paul Visintainer, and Christopher Otis MD

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Diuretics or ultrafiltration for acute decompensated heart failure and cardiorenal syndrome?, Benjamin Freda MD, Jaya Mallidi MD, and Gregory Braden M.D.

DLBD - Diagnosis Lost By Delay, Amit Saxena MD and Jagadeesan Udayarani MD

Do adolescents treated with orlistat maintain weight loss?, Holley Allen MD

Docetaxel and cyclooxygenaze-2 inhibition with celecoxib for advanced non-small cell lung cancer progressing after platinum-based chemotherapy: a multicenter phase II trial, John McCann MD and Wilson Mertens MD

Doctor, who is going to take care of me when you leave?, Ronald Burkman MD

Do depressed mood, psychological stress and eating disordered symptoms increase the risk for oral contraceptive discontinuation in young minority women, Katharine White MD

Do elderly patients fare well in the ICU?, Thomas Higgins MD and Maura Brennan MD

Does a condom availability program in an inner city public school decrease the rates of gonorrhea and chlamydia infection, Laura Koenigs MD

Does a motivational interviewing intervention delivered by diabetes educators improve HbA1c for poorly controlled type 2 diabetes patients?, Garry Welch, Sofija Zagarins MD, and Jane Garb

Does antidepressant use attenuate the risk of a major depressive episode in pregnancy?, Ronald Burkman MD

Does a vanishing twin identified at 6-7 week ultrasound impact perinatal outcome, Daniel Grow MD, Pamela Behrens, Margaret Arny, and Amy Novak

Does catheter type effect pregnancy rate in intrauterine insemination cycles?, Michael Plevyak MD and Daniel Grow MD

Does division of the nerve of Latarjet during Roux-En-Y laparoscopic gastric bypass influence delayed emptying of the gastric pouch in the early postoperative period, John Romanelli MD and Jane Garb

Does dually-based medical and mental health care at a county jail reduce recidivism for HIV+ individuals?, Thomas Lincoln MD

Does first-trimester ultrasound predict obstetrical outcomes in monochorionic diamniotic twin pregnancies?, Glenn Markenson MD

Does gestational diabetes impact maternal or cord blood lipids, Glenn Markenson MD and Alex Knee

Does hormone therapy counter the beneficial effects of physical activity on breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women?, Ronald Burkman MD

Does increased BMI impair predicted adult height in female patients treated with Depot GnRH for precocious puberty, Holley Allen MD, Dennis Brenner MD, and Erin Morneault MD

Does living in a family slow cognitive decline in dementia?, Maura Brennan MD and Dev Basu MD

Does living in a family slow dementia, Dev Basu MD

Does mandatory in-patient alcohol detoxification reduce ED recidivism or hospital admission for patients with chronic, severe alcohol dependence, Niels Rathlev MD

Does morphine change the physical examination in patients with acute appendicitis, Howard Smithline MD, Jeannette Wolfe MD, Jane Garb, and Viriato Fiallo MD

Does obesity affect the vaginal hysterectomy outcomes?, Oz Harmanli MD

Does obesity affect vaginal hysterectomy outcomes, Oz Harmanli MD

Does proteinuria predict severity in eating disorders, Laura Koenigs MD, Nancy Miller MD, Allison Paroskie MD, and Claire Norton

Does requiring shoulder dystocia training for hospital credentialing improve the management and outcomes of this complication?, Ronald Burkman MD, Alex Knee, Susan DeJoy, and Carrie Bell MD

Does standardization of care through clinical guidelines improve outcomes and reduce medical liability, Ronald Burkman MD

Does surgical volume influence short-term outcomes of laparoscopic hysterectomy, Oz Harmanli MD and Alex Knee

Does surgical volume influence short-term outcomes of laparoscopic hysterectomy?, Oz Harmanli MD and Alex Knee

Does suture choice matter for elective cerclage?, Fadi Bsat MD, Glenn Markenson MD, Michael Plevyak MD, Alex Knee, and Andrew Healy MD

Does Suture Choice Matter for Ultrasound-Indicated Cerclage?, Fadi Bsat MD, Glenn Markenson MD, Michael Plevyak MD, Alex Knee, and Andrew Healy MD

Does Switching from Tamoxifen to an Aromatase Inhibitor Result in Weight Change in Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Patients?, Grace Makari-Judson MD, Todd Capizzi MD, and Wilson Mertens MD

Does the presence of asymptomatic cholelithiasis preoperatively predict the development of cholecystitis in the weight loss period following bariatric surgery, John Romanelli MD and Jane Garb

Does therapeutic touch ease the discomfort or distress of patients undergoing stereotactic core breast biopsy? A randomized clinical trial, Wilson Mertens MD, Grace Makari-Judson MD, David March MD, and Lester Frank MD

Donepezil and the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Ashish Arora MD, Ashish Verma MD, Maura Brennan MD, and M Javed Ashraf MD

Donepezil in the prevention and treatment of post-surgical delirium., Jane Garb, Benjamin Liptzin MD, Agnes Laki, Richard Fingeroth MD, and Robert Krushell MD

Donor-derived infections in the transplant recipient, Claire Magauran MD

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Do-not-hospitalize orders for individuals with advanced dementia: healthcare proxies' perspectives., Sarah Goff MD, Wanda Colon-Cartagena MD, Sandra Bellantonio MD, and Michael Rothberg M.D.

Do Not Record (DNR) code status=RESUSCITATE, Anju Bhagavan MD and Sandra Bellantonio MD

Do not withdraw stylets when advancing spinal needles, Steven Dunn MD

Don't forget the Hacek, Peter Butler MD, Lisa Massie MD, and Daniel Skiest MD

Don't forget to tighten your belt, Medicaid growth and payment reform are on the way, Ronald Burkman MD

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater: Time to revisit VBAC, Ronald Burkman MD

Don't use thiopental to decrease propofol injection pain., Timothy Lacy MD, Neil Connelly MD, and Katharine Freeman MD

Door-to-balloon time: Are we evaluating the wrong metric, J. Mark Peterman MD, Gregory Giugliano MD, and Marc Schweiger MD

Door-to-balloon time: are we evaluating the wrong metric?, J. Mark Peterman MD, Gregory Giugliano MD, and Marc Schweiger MD

Door-to-balloon time: Performance improvement in the multidisciplinary treatment of myocardial infarction, J. Mark Peterman MD

Do pediatricians manage influenza differently than internists, Michael Rothberg MD, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD, and David Rose MD

Do physicians under-recognize obesity?, Rachana Thapa MD

Do pregnancies complicated by preterm births with a negative fetal fibronectin screen have different characteristics compared to those that have positive fibronectin results?, Fadi Bsat MD, Alex Knee, Andrew Healy MD, Michael Plevyak MD, and Glenn Markenson MD

Do red blood cell transfusions increase the risk of necrotizingenterocolitis in preterm infants, Rachana Singh MD, Paul Visintainer, Bhavesh Shah MD, and Kathleen Meyer MD

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Dose-response and efficacy of ferric citrate to treat hyperphosphatemia in hemodialysis patients: A short-term randomized trial., Barbara Greco MD

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Dosing of continuous renal replacement therapy in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury: how low should we go?, Benjamin Freda MD

Dosing of nitroglycerin for acute decompensated heart failure, Howard Smithline MD

Double blinded randomized comparison between lidocaine jelly and surgilube for urethral straight catheterization and the q-tip test, Oz Harmanli MD, Alex Knee, and Obi Okafor MD

Double-blinded randomized trial of preoperative antibiotics in midurethral sling procedures and review of the literature, Oz Harmanli MD, Stephen Metz MD, and Keisha Jones MD

Double-blinded randomized trial of preoperative antibiotics in midurethral sling procedures: Preliminary results, Oz Harmanli MD

Double hit: Primary skeletal muscle lymphoma, Steve Lee MD, Syed Ali MD, and Vandita Johari MD

Double trouble: Auto-immune hemolytic anemia and tumor lysis syndrome following fludarabine-based therapy for chronic lympocytic leukemia, Wei Ooi MD and Saurabh Dahiya MD

Double trouble: Heart & lung in distress, Sonali Arora MD, Auras Atreya MD, and Amir Lotfi MD

Double trouble: Heart & lung in distress!, Auras Atreya MD

Double Whammy: Sarcoidosis and rapidly enlarging liver hemangiomas induced by interferon in malignant melanoma treatment, Wei Ooi MD

Down-regulation of sfrp1 in a mammary epithelial cell line promotes the development of a cd44high/cd24low population which is invasive and resistant to anoikis, Kelly Gauger, Sallie Schneider, and Melissa Troester

Doxercalciferol safely suppresses PTH levels in patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism associated with chronic kidney disease stages 3 and 4., Michael Germain MD

Dragon enhances BMP signaling and increases transepithelial resistance in kidney epithelial cells, Alan Schneyer

DRESS syndrome induced by vancomycin, Chunmei Huang MD and Jose Martagon-Villamil MD

Dr. Gates and colleagues respond, George Hartnell MD

Driving and older adults: the physician's role., Maura Brennan MD, Sandra Bellantonio MD, and Syed Hussain MD

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Dronedarone-induced optic neuropathy, Vijairam Selvaraj M.D. and Karin Johnson M.D.

Drosophila Morgue is an F box/ubiquitin conjugase domain protein important for grim-reaper mediated apoptosis, Larry Schwartz

Drosophila sickle is a novel grim-reaper cell death activator, Larry Schwartz

Drotrecogin alfa (activated) for adults with severe sepsis and a low risk of death., Jay Steingrub MD

Drotrecogin alfa (activated) in sepsis: Initial experience with patient selection, cost, and clinical outcomes., Thomas Higgins MD, Jay Steingrub MD, Mark Tidswell MD, William McGee MD, and Gary Tereso

Drotrecogin alfa (activated) treatment in severe sepsis from the global, Jay Steingrub MD

Drowning: A brief primer on submersion injuries, Jeannette Wolfe MD

Drug-eluting stents and acute myocardial infarction: Experience from the TAXUS ARRIVE registry program, Marc Schweiger MD

Drug-induced pulmonary toxicities, Jane Cross MD

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Drug shortages as an impetus to improve parenteral nutrition practices, Alice O'Connor, Sean Illig, and Kathleen Kopcza

Dual-energy subtraction chest radiography combined with temporal subtraction for enhanced diagnostic quality., Devang Doshi MD

Ductal carcinoma in situ in a 16-year-old adolescent boy with gynecomastia: A case report., Kevin Moriarty MD, Richard Courtney MD, George Wadie MD, Theonia Boyd MD, and Gregory Banever MD

Dyskinetic variant of neuroleptic malignant syndrome precipitated by naloxone given to reverse opioid overdose in a 57-year-old woman, a smoker, on bupropion and duloxetine, Carmel Armon MD, Aaron Michelucci, and Erin Taylor

Early antiepileptic drug reduction following anterior temporal lobectomy for medically intractable complex partial epilepsy., Carmel Armon MD

Early cardiac arrest in patients hospitalized with pneumonia: a report from the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines-Resuscitation Program, Timothy Mader MD

Early experience with visceral closure in NOTES procedures in a porcine model, David Earle MD, John Romanelli MD, and David Desilets MD

Early femoral head penetration of a highly cross-linked polyethylene liner vs a conventional polyethylene liner: A case-controlled study, Robert Krushell MD and Richard Fingeroth MD

Early indicators of prolonged intensive care unit stay: impact of illness severity, physician staffing, and pre-intensive care unit length of stay., Thomas Higgins MD, Jay Steingrub MD, and William McGee MD

Early intravenous cannulation in children during sevoflurane induction., Katharine Freeman MD and Neil Connelly MD

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Early nutrition and weight gain in preterm newborns and the risk of retinopathy of prematurity, Bhavesh Shah M.D. and William Seefeld MD

Early predictors of medication use in young children with ADHD, Jack Fanton MD

Early surgical intervention in acute cholecystitis for our elderly, Michael Wall MD, Maura Brennan MD, and Michael Rosenblum MD

Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma: A Review of the Management of the Open Abdomen-Part 2 "Management of the Open Abdomen", Reginald Alouidor MD

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Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma: management of the open abdomen, part III-review of abdominal wall reconstruction, Eleanor Winston MD

ECG image of the month. A childhood illness in an adult. Complete atrioventricular block, Jiang Cui MD, Mathias Stoenescu MD, and Leehapong Navaravong MD

Echocardiography & advanced maternal age, Fadi Bsat MD and Glenn Markenson MD

Echocardiography and circulatory response to progressive endurance exercise, Thomas Rowland MD

Editorial comment: Bone lesions in Kaposi sarcoma, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Editorial comment: hemophagocytic syndrome--an HIV-associated quagmire, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Editorial comment: plasmablastic lymphoma--a diagnostic and therapeutic puzzle, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Editorial comment: Sweet syndrome--a diagnosis seeking a cause, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Wayne Duke MD

Editorial introductions, Hal Jenson MD

ED technicians can successfully place ultrasound-guided intravenous catheters in patients with poor vascular access, Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD

Education is ALL about patient care, Michael Rosenblum MD

Effectiveness of antibiotic class in acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Penny Pekow, Michael Rothberg MD, Oren Brody MD, Daniel Skiest MD, and Peter Lindenauer MD

Effectiveness of Chantix® (Varenicline) for smoking cessation in an inner city medicaid population, Ranjit Dhelaria MD, Ella Gupta MD, Reva Kleppel, Jennifer Friderici, and Michael Rothberg MD

Effectiveness of Letrozole for induction of ovulation in Clomiphene Citrate resistant Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome(PCOS)., Daniel Grow MD

Effectiveness of varenicline for smoking cessation at 2 urban academic health centers, Michael Rothberg MD, Ranjit Dhelaria MD, Jennifer Friderici, Ella Gupta MD, and Cyrus Khan MD

Effect of a clinical pharmacist's interventions on duration of antiretroviral-related errors in hospitalized patients, Daniel Skiest MD, Gary Tereso, Lauren Meade MD, Penny Pekow, Michael Rothberg MD, and Mark Heelon

Effect of adenosine A1 receptor antagonism on return of spontaneous circulation and survival in prolonged porcine ventricular fibrillation, Timothy Mader MD

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Effect of a dietitian-managed bone algorithm on serum phosphorus level in maintenance hemodialysis patients., Stephen Sweet MD

Effect of airway pressure display on interobserver agreement in the assessment of vascular pressures in patients with acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome, Jay Steingrub MD

Effect of an educational pamphlet on colon cancer screening: A randomized, prospective trial, David Desilets MD, Abdullah Shaikh MD, Syed Hussain MD, and Shelley Rahn MD

Effect of antenatal corticosteroids on fetal growth and gestational age at birth, Fadi Bsat MD

Effect of body mass index on time to therapeutic activated partial thromboplastin time in patients on a heparin protoccl, Katherine Carey, Jennifer Lose, and Kimberly Ackerbauer

Effect of clinical-decision support on documentation compliance in an electronic medical record, Glenn Markenson MD

Effect of clopidogrel on early failure of arteriovenous fistulas for hemodialysis: a randomized controlled trial, Gregory Braden MD

Effect of concomitant oophorectomy on the perioperative outcomes of laparoscopic hysterectomy, Keisha Jones MD, Oz Harmanli MD, and Alex Knee

Effect of dipyridamole plus aspirin on hemodialysis graft patency, Gregory Braden MD and Jeffrey Kaufman MD

Effect of duration of second stage of labor and mode of delivery on neonatal complications among preterm, Bhavesh Shah MD, Glenn Markenson MD, Michael Plevyak MD, and Penny Pekow

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Effect of eritoran, an antagonist of MD2-TLR4, on mortality in patients with severe sepsis: The ACCESS randomized trial, Mark Tidswell M.D.

Effect of implementing open access appointment scheduling on reducing inappropriate urgent care visits in an inner city resident teaching clinic, James Burns MD, Cheryl Tierney, and Tracie Ambrose MD

Effect of in utero exposure to diethylstilbestrol on lumbar and femoral bone, articular cartilage, and the intervertebral disc in male and female adult mice progeny with and without swimming exercise, Sora Al Rowas MD

Effect of neuromuscular blockers on mortality in patients with severe sepsis, Jay Steingrub MD, Tara Lagu MD, Michael Rothberg MD, and Peter Lindenauer MD

Effect of oncologist-based counseling on patient-perceived breast cancer risk and psychological distress, Wilson Mertens MD, Deborah Katz MD, Marlene Quinlan, Ruth Barham, Grace Makari-Judson MD, Sandra Hubbard, Pam Hyder, and Mary jean Pineau

Effect of oxygen therapy on hemodynamic stability during hemodialysis with continuous blood volume and O2 saturation monitoring, Paul Visintainer and Michael Germain M.D.

Effect of patient comorbidities on filling of antihypertensive prescriptions, Tara Lagu MD

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Effect of Patients' Awareness of CVD Risk Factors on Health-Related Behaviors, Naweed Alzaman MD, Siddharth Wartak MD, Jennifer Friderici, and Michael Rothberg M.D.

Effect of pectus excavatum deformity on cardiorespiratory fitness in adolescent boys., Kevin Moriarty MD, Thomas Rowland MD, and Gregory Banever MD

Effect of remote ischemic preconditioning on myocardial and renal injury: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials, Guarav Alreja MD and Amir Lotfi MD

Effect of slice thickness on image quality and the accuracy of gated computed tomography scanning for coronary calcium., Ehsan Ansari MD and George Hartnell MD

Effect of soy supplementation on dietary macronutrients and trace elements in postmenopausal women, Cynthia Sites MD and Alex Knee

Effect of soy supplementation on endogenous hormones in postmenopausal women: Racial differences, Cynthia Sites MD and Alex Knee

Effect of soy supplementation on regional lean and fat mass and resting metabolic rate in Caucasian and African American postmenopausal women, Cynthia Sites MD and Alex Knee

Effect of the oxytocin antagonist antocin and agonist decomoton on baboon luteal cell production and release of progesterone, M Yusoff Dawood MD

Effect of tirofiban before primary angioplasty on initial coronary flow and early ST-segment resolution in patients with acute myocardial infarction., Satyendra Giri MD

Effect on protein intake on amelioration of glomerular hyperfiltration in morbidly obese adults after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery, Xiao Liu MD

Effects of a law against early postpartum discharge., Ronald Burkman MD

Effects of an impedance threshold device on hemodynamics and restoration of spontaneous circulation in prolonged porcine ventricular fibrillation, Timothy Mader MD

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Effects of body surface area-indexed calculations in the morbidly obese: a mathematical analysis, Adam Adler M.D., Karthik Raghunathan MD, and William McGee M.D.

Effects of exercise on energy-regulating hormones and appetite in men and women, J Enrique Silva MD

Effects of high frequency oscillatory amplitudes on respiratory mechanics of preterm infants, Rachana Singh MD

Effects of Insulin Resistance on Substrate Utilization During Exercise in Overweight Women., Stuart Chipkin MD

Effects of ischemia on repolarization in patients with single and multivessel coronary disease., Satyendra Giri MD

Effects of limited work hours on surgical training, Alexander Kurbanov MD, Robert Madden MD, and George Lipkowitz MD

Effects of local variation, specialty, and beliefs on antiviral prescribing for influenza., Michael Rothberg MD, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD, and David Rose MD

Effects of low-dose oral contraceptives on body weight: Results of a randomized study of up to 13 cycles of use, Ronald Burkman MD

Effects of oscillatory amplitudes on respiratory mechanics of preterm infants during high frequency oscillatory ventilation, Rachana Singh MD

Effects of patients awareness of CAD risk factors on health related behaviors, Jennifer Friderici, Siddharth Wartak MD, Michael Rothberg MD, and Naweed Alzaman MD

Effects of quality improvement collaboratives, Peter Lindenauer MD

Effects of recurrent withdrawal on spinal GABA release during chronic morphine infusion in the rat., Stuart Dunbar MD, I Karamian, A Yeatman MD, and J Zhang

Effects of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass on blood and renal functions in normal tensive, non-diabetic, morbidly obese patients, Xiao Liu MD

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Effects of scleroderma antibodies and pooled human immunoglobulin on anal sphincter and colonic smooth muscle function, Vaibhav Mehendiratta MD

Effects of Tai Chi training on improving physical function in patients with coronary heart diseases, Reed Shnider MD

Effects of testosterone on behavior, depression, and cognitive function in older men with mild cognitive loss., Sandra Bellantonio MD

Effects of testosterone on cognition in young adult male rhesus monkeys, Daniel Grow MD

Efficacy and safety of histrelin subdermal implant in children with central precocious puberty: A multicenter trial, Edward Reiter MD

Efficacy and safety of switching suppressed patients with elevated triglycerides from lopinavir/ritonavir or fosamprenavir/ritonavir to atazanavir/ritonavir or darunavir/ritonavir based therapy: The LARD study, Daniel Skiest M.D.

Efficacy of online gonadotropin patient education versus in office patient education, Halina Wiczyk MD and Pamela Behrens

Efficacy of rectal misoprostol as second line therapy for treatment of primary postpartum hemorrhage, Monideepa Baruah MD and Gabriel Cohn MD

EGFR associated expression profiles vary with breast tumor subtype, Melissa Troester

Egg activation and ICSI failure in humans: Sperm devoid of PLCZI, Daniel Grow MD and Teru Jellerette

Ehrlichiosis presenting as a fever of unknown origin, Amit Bhargava MD, Imran Dosani MD, Senthil Sivalingam MD, Sarah Haessler MD, and Sufana Al Khunaizi MD

Ejaculation disorders, Michael Picchioni MD

EKG warnings of impending mischief, Susan Torrey MD

Elastofibroma dorsi: Clinicopathologic review of 6 cases., Erica Giblin MD, Keith Mortman MD, Kenneth Frankel MD, Gary Hochheiser MD, and Yorell Manon-Matos MD

Elder abuse screening: Why is it an important tool, Maura Brennan MD, Rukshana Cader MD, and Reham Shaaban MD

Elderly female with hypercalcemia: Hodgkin lymphoma masquerading as relapsed, Shin Yin Lee MD, Yee Chuan Ang MD, and Sandra Bellantonio MD

Elderly patients without MPM-III risk factors fare surprisingly well, Thomas Higgins MD, Maura Brennan MD, and Paul Jodka MD

Electrolyte profile of pediatric patients with hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, Howard Smithline MD, Geoffrey A. Capraro MD, Blake Spirko MD, and Jane Garb

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Electrolyte profile of pediatric patients with hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, Geoffrey A. Capraro MD, Blake Spirko MD, Jane Garb, and Howard Smithline MD

Electromechanical Dissociation, Sudeep Kaur Aulakh MD

Electromyography and nerve conduction studies in a cervical spine surgery patient with elevated hemi-diaphragm: A case report, Julio Martinez-Silvestrini MD

Electronic fetal heart rate monitoring, Ronald Burkman MD, Susan DeJoy, Fadi Bsat MD, and Carla Provost

Electronic health records in ambulatory care, Jeffrey Kaufman MD

Electronic mail in pediatric practice, Robert Gerstle MD

Electronic prescribing systems in pediatrics: The rationale and functionality requirements, Robert Gerstle MD

Electron microscopy in end stage renal disease: a case of Fabry's disease, Giovanna Crisi MD, Adriana Doldan-Silvero MD, and Michael Germain MD

Elephantiasis nostras verrucosa, Gina Luciano MD and Mihaela Stefan MD

E-mail communication between pediatricians and their patients., Robert Gerstle MD

Embedding the concepts of waste and systems failure reduction in an innovative quality curriculum for resident education, Surinder Yadav MD, Reva Kleppel, Jasmine Paadam MD, Reham Shaaban MD, and Lauren Meade MD

Embolic stroke, a delayed sequela of blunt chest trauma, Sonali Arora MD, Auras Atreya MD, T. Vijay Gadiraju MD, Srikanth Penumetsa MD, William Hiser MD, and Ashish Arora MD

Embracing, with strengthened spirits., Deepak Asudani MD

Emergence of daptomycin(D)-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in an infective endocarditis patient: A case report., Armando Paez MD, Richard Brown MD, P Wilk, Robert Bourgeault, and Carol Ann Rauch MD

Emergence of gentamicin-resistant bacteremia in hemodialysis patients receiving gentamicin lock catheter prophylaxis, Gregory Braden MD, Daniel Landry MD, Sarah Haessler MD, Chirag Vaidya MD, and Stephen Sweet MD

Emergency Airway Management; Trauma Resuscitation, Adam Kellogg MD

Emergency department bedside echocardiography in diagnosis of Ebstein's anomaly with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome and atrial fibrillation, Gavin Budhram MD

Emergency department echocardiography demonstrates large pericardial effusion and pendulous cardiac motion in patient with shortness of breath and electrical alternans, Gavin Budhram MD

Emergency department medication lists are not accurate, Howard Smithline MD, Selin Caglar MD, Philip Henneman MD, Fidela Blank, and Elizabeth Henneman

Emergency department patients who stay more than 6 hours contribute to crowding, Philip Henneman MD, Howard Smithline MD, Fidela Blank, John Santoro MD, Ann Maynard, Deborah Provost, Elizabeth Henneman, and Haiping Li

Emergency Department specific exception allows you to sidestep some HPI rules, Michael Lemanski MD

Emergency department utilization after the implementation of Massachusetts health reform, J. Hector Pope M.D.

Emergency physicians' fear of malpractice in evaluating patients with possible acute cardiac ischemia., Richard Brown MD

Emergency Thoracic Ultrasound, Gavin Budhram MD

Emergency ultrasound of the shock and hypotensive patient, Marc Haber MD

Emergent pediatric US: What every radiologist should know, Jonathan Cogley MD, Stephen O'Connor, Roozbeh Houshyar MD, Khaldoon Al Dulaimy MD, and Khaldoon Al Dulaimy MD

Emerging roles for the TGFbeta family in pancreatic beta-cell homeostasis, Alan Schneyer

Emerging technologies for endoscopic hemostasis, David Desilets MD

Emerging the concept of Virtual HR, Elisabeth Bennett

Emerging uses of GIS in medicine and hospitals--Baystate Health System's Health Geographics Program, Ric Skinner

Empiric systemic anticoagulation in patients with suspected pulmonary embolism, Howard Smithline MD

Employing statistical process control (SPC) charting to evaluate menopausal symptoms in women enrolled in a clinical trial of a complementary intervention., Lindsay Rockwell MD, Wilson Mertens MD, Grace Makari-Judson MD, and Lucinda Cassells MD

Endocrine abnormalities causing growth impairment, Edward Reiter MD

Endocrine Emergencies, Philip Henneman MD

Endocrinologic treatment of gender identity disorders., Stuart Chipkin MD

End of life decisions., Maura Brennan MD

End-of-life issues in elderly patients., Benjamin Liptzin MD

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Endoluminal bariatric techniques, David Desilets MD

Endometrial biopsy results in patients with endometrial cells on pap test utilizing Bethesda System 2001., Robert Goulart MD, Roxanne Florence MD, and Maryanne Hornish

Endoscopic 6 mm zilver self-expanding metal stents (SEMS) for malignant obstruction of the bifurcation: a pilot study, David Desilets MD

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Endoscopic closure devices, David Desilets MD

Endoscopic Component Separation, David Earle MD and Jessica Evans MD

Endoscopic interventions for weight loss surgery, David Desilets MD

Endoscopic stapled cystgastrostomy, David Desilets MD

Endoscopic surveillance of Barrett's Esophagus in genetically-predisposed mice., Michael Tirabassi MD, Richard Arenas MD, Gregory Banever MD, and D Joseph Jerry

Endoscopic treatment with Deflux for refluxing duplex systems, Kevin Moriarty MD, Richard Courtney MD, David Tashjian MD, and Connie Rossini MD

Endosomal damage and TLR2 mediated inflammasome activation by alkane particles in the generation of aseptic osteolysis, Giovanna Crisi MD

Endothelial dysfunction in healthy young pre-diabetic patients, pre and post aerobic exercise, Sabyasachi Sen MD and Ashequl Islam MD

Endotracheal tube placement varification by ultrasonography: A comparison of three methods using a porcein model, David Murman MD and Gavin Budhram MD

Endovascular recanalization of symptomatic flow-limiting cervical carotid dissection in an isolated hemisphere, Clemens Schirmer MD

Endurance athletes stroke volume response to progressive exercise: A critical review, Thomas Rowland MD

Energy homeostasis following Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB), Gregory Braden MD, Xiao Liu MD, Jay Kuhn MD, J Enrique Silva MD, and John Romanelli MD

Engaged patients say what? Patient feedback on the NHS Choices website, Tara Lagu MD

Engineered strategies to overcome therapeutic resistance in solid tumors., Neil Forbes

Engineering tumor therapies, Neil Forbes

Enhanced visualization of left ventricular endocardial borders with contrast echocardiography in morbid obese patients. ., Xiao Liu MD

Enhancing linkages for HIV+ jail inmates: A descriptive of program outcome data, Thomas Lincoln MD

Enhancing resident training in abortion and contraception through hospital-community partnership., Donna O'Shea MD and Heather Sankey MD

Enhancing the link: HIV, jails, and community care, Thomas Lincoln MD

Enteral omega-3 fatty acid, gamma-linolenic acid, and antioxidant supplementation in acute lung injury, Jay Steingrub MD

Enteral stents, David Desilets MD

Entrapment of an arterial pressure catheter by a previously deployed Starclose device, Ak Alameddine MD and John Rousou MD

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Eosinophilia and rash, Liza Smith MD

Eosinophilic ascites due to severe eosinophilic ileitis, Peter Ghobrial MD, Namrata Setia MD, and Liron Pantanowitz MD

Eosinophilic Meningitis, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

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Epidemiology and outcomes of acute respiratory failure in the United States, 2001 to 2009: a national survey, Mihaela Stefan M.D., Meng-Shiou Shieh, Penny Pekow, Michael Rothberg M.D., Jay Steingrub MD, Tara Lagu M.D., and Peter Lindenauer M.D.

Epidemiology and outcomes of clostridium difficile-associated disease among patients on prolonged acute mechanical ventilation, Thomas Higgins MD

Epidural clonidine added to a bupivacaine infusion increases analgesic duration in labor without adverse maternal or fetal effects., Robert Parker MD, Neil Connelly MD, Tanya Lucas MD, S Serban MD, Charles Gibson, and Evan Berman MD

Epidural infusion volume study and its effect on analgesia in early labor, Albert Cho MD, Kevin Morneault MD, Robert Parker MD, Tanya Lucas MD, and Neil Connelly MD

Epidural volume, Anthony Co MD and Neil Connelly MD

Epilepsia partialis continua in the elderly, Melisha Cumberland MD, Ashish Verma MD, Sandra Bellantonio MD, and Maura Brennan MD

eProtocol-insulin development and refinement in teo research networks, Jay Steingrub MD and Mark Tidswell MD

Epstein-Barr virus, Hal Jenson MD

Epstein‑Barr Virus, Hal Jenson MD

Epstein-BARR virus-associated smooth muscle tumors, Hal Jenson MD

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Equipment for pediatric endoscopy, David Desilets MD

Error identification and recovery by student nurses using human patient simulation: Opportunity to improve patient safety, Philip Henneman MD, Elizabeth Henneman, Cheryl Reilly, and Joan Roche

Errors in a busy emergency department., Philip Henneman MD, Howard Smithline MD, Fidela Blank, Penny Pekow, and Evan Benjamin MD

Erythema Ab Igne, James Burns MD, Matthew Sadof MD, and Nancy Kloczko MD

Esomeprazole induced hypomagnesemia, parathyroid hormone resistance and tetany, Dhivya Sundaramurthy MD

Esomeprazole-induced hypomagnesemia, parathyroid hormone resistance and tetany, Dhivya Sundaramurthy MD

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Esophageal function testing, David Desilets MD

Esophageal varices demonstration, David Gang MD

Esophagus and stomach disorders, Philip Henneman MD and Rakesh Talati MD

Establishing a simulation center for surgical skills: What to do and how to do it., Neal Seymour MD

Establishing goals of volume management in critically ill patients with failure using applied hemodynamic physiology, William McGee MD, Benjamin Freda MD, and Patrick Mailloux MD

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Establishing goals of volume management in critically ill patients with renal failure., Patrick Mailloux M.D., Jennifer Friderici, Benjamin Freda MD, and William McGee M.D.

Estimating prognosis in end-stage renal disease, Stephen Wittenberg MD and Lewis Cohen MD

Estradiol stimulates the biosynthetic pathways of breast cancer cells: Detection by metabolic flux analysis, Neil Forbes

Estrogen and progesterone induce persistent increases in p53-dependent apoptosis and suppress mammary tumors in BALB/c-Trp53+/- mice, D Joseph Jerry

Estrogen induces CCN5 expression in the rat uterus in vivo., Holly Mason MD

Estrogen treatment impairs cognitive performance after psychosocial stress and monoamine depletion in postmenopausal women, Cynthia Sites MD

Ethical dilemmas in the reflective writing of clerkship students[Award Presentation], Elisabeth Bennett, Thomas Campfield MD, and John O'Reilly MD

Ethical integrative pediatric care: A new perspective, David Gottsegen MD

Ethnic differences in the self-recognition of obesity and obesity-related comorbidities: a cross-sectional analysis, Senthil Sivalingam MD, Neelima Vallurupalli MD, Jennifer Friderici, James Cook MD, and Michael Rothberg MD

E-tools of change: An analysis of a corporate Intranet promoting organizational change, Elisabeth Bennett

EuroSCORE predicts long-term mortality after heart valve surgery, Thomas Higgins MD

Eustachian valve endocarditis: Rare case reports and review of literature, Amir Lotfi MD and Guarav Alreja MD

Evaluating cardiac symptoms in the athlete: Is it safe to play, Thomas Rowland MD

Evaluating outcomes: Evidence of success, Sandra Reissour

Evaluation and Management of Abominal Myofascial Pain Syndrome, James Wang MD and James Gebhardt MD

Evaluation and management of a fetal demise, Glenn Markenson MD

Evaluation and management of mild traumatic brain injury: An Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma practice management guideline, Eleanor Winston MD

Evaluation and management of voiding dyssfunction after midurethral sling procedures, Oz Harmanli MD

Evaluation of a combined strategy favoring endovasuclar therapy for aneurysms of the anterior communicating artery, Clemens Schirmer MD

Evaluation of an early childhood caries prevention program at an urban pediatric clinic, Lindsey Grossman MD

Evaluation of an educational video for cardiac patients., Fidela Blank and Howard Smithline MD

Evaluation of cinacalcet HCl treatment after kidney transplantation, Michael Germain MD

Evaluation of clinical outcomes for gastric bypass surgery: results from a comprehensive follow-up study, Garry Welch, Cheryl Wesolowski, Sofija Zagarins MD, Jay Kuhn MD, John Romanelli MD, Jane Garb, and Nancy Allen

Evaluation of clinicopathologic correlation of her2neu and activated AKT in metastatic 3+CB11 breast cancer and patient outcomes, Grace Makari-Judson MD, Raavi Gupta MD, and Christopher Otis MD

Evaluation of dyspnea severity assessment methods, Howard Smithline MD, Fidela Blank, Richard Barus, Ryan Coute, Alex Knee, and Paul Visintainer

Evaluation of dyspnea severity assessment methods, Howard Smithline MD, Fidela Blank, Richard Barus, Ryan Coute, and Alex Knee

Evaluation of glucose on the EPOC Point of Care blood analysis system, James Nichols and Mirian Rodriguez

Evaluation of HemoCue glucose 201 room temperature microcuvettes [Erratum], James Nichols, Aparna Rajadhyaksha MD, and Mirian Rodriguez

Evaluation of immunohistochemistry in identifying Bartonella henselae in cat-scratch disease, Liron Pantanowitz MD, Gabriel Caponetti MD, Sharon Marconi, and Christopher Otis MD

Evaluation of ketosis in diabetes, James Nichols

Evaluation of Phospho-mTOR (Mamalian Target of Rapamycin) expression in benign, proliferative and malignant epithelial lesions of the breast, Christopher Otis MD, Sandra Camelo-Piragua MD, Darius Arabadjief MD, Melissa Arabadjief MD, Raavi Gupta MD, Brooke Pazik, Sharon Marconi, and Reva Ricketts-Loriaux MD

Evaluation of pulmonary embolism in the emergency department and consistency with a national quality measure: quantifying the opportunity for improvement, Howard Smithline MD

Evaluation of QC3: The automatic quality control system on the ABL80 FLEX, James Nichols, Sadiqa Karim MD, and Melissa Arabadjief MD

Evaluation of renal artery stenosis in dialysis patients, Barbara Greco MD

Evaluation of skeletal muscle during calf exercise by 31-phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy in patients on statin medications, Howard Smithline MD

Evaluation of the Afinion AS100 Point-of-Care Analyzer for Hemoglobin A1c, Melissa Arabadjief MD and James Nichols

Evaluation of the B-hydroxybutyrate ketone test on the STAT-site M analyzer, James Nichols and Ronald Moccio

Evaluation of the Enterprise Point-of-Care (EPOC) system for blood gas and electrolyte analysis, Aparna Rajadhyaksha MD, James Nichols, and Mirian Rodriguez

Evaluation of the IRMA TRU point and i-STAT creatinine assays., James Nichols, Cathy Bartholomew, Jane Garb, and L Jin MD

Evaluation of the PI3K/pAkt pathway in breast carcinoma which are negative for ER, PR and HER-2/neu receptor expression, Christopher Otis MD, Raavi Gupta MD, Brooke Pazik, Sharon Marconi, and Reva Ricketts-Loriaux MD

Evaluation of the relationships between pAkt and beta-catenin in invasive breast carcinoma, Christopher Otis MD, Sharon Marconi, Brooke Pazik, Darius Arabadjief MD, Melissa Arabadjief MD, Sandra Camelo-Piragua MD, Raavi Gupta MD, and Reva Ricketts-Loriaux MD

Evaluation of the right lower quadrant, Jeannette Wolfe MD

Evaluation of the topical hemostatic efficacy ansafety of TISSEEL VH S/D fibrin sealant compared with currently licensed TISSEEL VH in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: A phase 3, randomized, double-blind clinical study, John Rousou MD

Evaluation of the treatment of pectus carinatum with compressive orthotic bracing using three dimensional body scans, Kaitlyn Wong MD, David Tashjian MD, Michael Tirabassi MD, and Kevin Moriarty MD

Evidence-Based Guideline Update: Intraoperative Spinal Monitoring with Somatosensory and Transcranial Electrical Motor Evoked Potentials*, Carmel Armon MD

Evidence-based guideline update: Intraoperative spinal monitoring with somatosensory and transcranial electrical motor evoked potentials: Report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the Americ, Carmel Armon MD

Evidence based physical activity for school-age youth, Thomas Rowland MD

Evidence-based practices for the fetal to newborn transition., Barbara Graves

Evidence base for evaluation, management and rehabilitation of ankle injuries, Julio Martinez-Silvestrini MD

Evidence does not support cervical preservation, Oz Harmanli MD and Stephen Metz MD

Evidence for subpopulations of Listeria monocytogenes with enhanced invasion of cardiac cells, Daniel Skiest MD and Linda Bobo MD

Evidence of human immunodeficiency virus-associated lipodystrophy syndrome in children treated with protease inhibitors., Stuart Chipkin MD, Holley Allen MD, and Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

Evolution of a hands-on surgical skills curriculum for obstetrics and gynecology residents: One institution's experience, Anita Sandhu MD, Heather Sankey MD, and Carrie Bell MD

Evolution of mechanical ventilation in response to clinical research, Jay Steingrub MD

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Evolving virtual reality simulation in neurosurgery, Clemens Schirmer M.D.

Examination of ancestral informative markers and self-reported race with tumor characteristics of breast cancer among Black and White women, Ronald Burkman MD

Examining the Hendrich Fall Risk Models and the Morse Fall Scale, Cheryl Reilly, Christine Gryglik, Deborah Morsi, and Mary Brunton

Excess incidence of ALS in young Gulf War veterans, Carmel Armon MD

Executive summary. The National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory Medicine Practice Guideline: Evidence-based practice for point-of-care testing., James Nichols

Exercise intolerance in obese children-Is it asthma?, Robert Kaslovsky MD

Exercise tolerance and thermoregulatory responses during cycling in boys and men, Thomas Rowland MD and Sean Hagenbuch MD

Exercise training improves HR responses and VÿO2peak in predialysis kidney patients, Michael Germain MD and Sheila Sullivan

Exhaust capnometry and oximetry during cardiopulmonary bypass, Karthik Raghunathan MD and Ghassan Aljafar MD

Exogenous lipoid pneumonia in a chronic laxative user, Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD, Jose Martagon-Villamil MD, Ashish Arora MD, and Boyd Hehn MD

Expanded use of the TAXUS Express Stent: Two-year safety insights from the 7,500 patient ARRIVE Registry programme, Marc Schweiger MD

Expectations and outcomes of prolonged mechanical ventilation, William McGee MD

Expeditious management of a rare, slow growing form of subacute bacterial endocarditis, Leng Jiang MD, Lisa Massie MD, Daniel Skiest MD, and David Longworth MD

Experience modeling and analyzing medical processes: UMass/Baystate Medical safety project overview, Philip Henneman MD, Elizabeth Henneman, Lucinda Cassells MD, and Wilson Mertens MD

Experience with clinical cases of Mycobacterium abscessus at a large Midwestern medical center, Armando Paez MD

Experience with cryopreserved cadaveric femoral vein allografts used for hemodialysis access., Robert Madden MD, Alexander Kurbanov MD, and George Lipkowitz MD

Experience with cryopreserved cadaver vein allografts used for hemodialysis access., Gregory Braden MD, Robert Madden MD, Alexander Kurbanov MD, and George Lipkowitz MD

Experiential learning: Facilitating interns' acquisition of core skills with an innovative two-week training program, Mihaela Stefan MD, Kevin Hinchey MD, Raquel Belforti MD, and Reham Shaaban MD

Expert panel on weight loss surgery: Executive report update, John Romanelli MD

Expert performance characteristics of a new virtual reality surgical simulator., Neal Seymour MD, John Romanelli MD, David Earle MD, Ron Bush, Jay Kuhn MD, and Michael Hsu MD

Expression and molecular characterization of estrogen receptor-independent signaling molecules in breast cancer tumorigenesis, Christopher Otis MD and Sharon Marconi

Expression of CD44 in developing human kidney, Giovanna Crisi MD, Thomas Campfield MD, and Gary Rockwell MD

Expression of c-Kit in adenoid cystic carcinoma of the breast, Robert Goulart MD, Giovanna Crisi MD, Sharon Marconi, and Grace Makari-Judson MD

Expression of c-kit in adenoid cystic carcinoma of the breast., Grace Makari-Judson MD, Robert Goulart MD, Giovanna Crisi MD, and Sharon Marconi

Expression of Jagged 1 and Jagged 2 in human kidney development, Gregory Braden MD, Thomas Campfield MD, Gary Rockwell MD, and Giovanna Crisi MD

Expression of Jagged 1 in human renal development, Giovanna Crisi MD, Gregory Braden MD, Gary Rockwell MD, and Thomas Campfield MD

Extended culture of embryos results in detection of bacterial contamination of cultures in IVF cycles but not ICSI cycles, Cynthia Sites MD, Margaret Arny, Daniel Grow MD, and Kelly Lynch MD

Extensive development of flat warts as a cutaneous manifestation of immune reconstitution syndrome, Daniel Skiest MD and Wayne Duke MD

Extra-catheter venous thrombosis associated with intravenous immune globulin therapy in two patients undergoing therapeutic plasma exchange., Chester Andrzejewski MD and Vandita Johari MD

Extracavitary primary effusion lymphoma of the anorectum., Liron Pantanowitz MD

Extreme hypocalcemia associated with Denosumab, Michael Germain M.D. and Gregory Braden M.D.

Extremes of weight may lead to inaccurate reporting of body surface area (BSA) indexed hemodynamic parameters, William McGee MD, Adam Adler MD, and Karthik Raghunathan MD

Facilitating interns acquisition of medical knowledge and core skills through experiential learning, Reham Shaaban MD, Raquel Belforti MD, and Mihaela Stefan MD

Facilitators and barriers to continuing healthcare after jail: A community-integrated program, Thomas Lincoln MD and Thomas Conklin MD

Factors affecting the professional image of physicians., Nicholas Coe MD

Factors associated with emergency department visits for asthma exacerbation, Richard Wells MD

Factors associated with positive D-dimer results in patients evaluated for pulmonary embolism, Howard Smithline MD

Factors associated with positive D-dimer results in patients evaluated for pulmonary embolism: A prospective multivariate analysis, Howard Smithline MD

Factors associated with skilled nursing facility transfers in dementia-specific assisted living, Sandra Bellantonio MD

Factors associated with survival following blunt chest trauma in older patients: results from a large regional trauma cooperative, Eleanor Winston MD and Lisa Patterson MD

Factors surrounding physician-patient discussions about HIV and the impact on testing, Mihaela Stefan MD

Faculty development for the 21st century: Lessons from the Society of General Internal Medicine-Hartford collaborative centers for the care of older adults., Stewart Babbott MD

Faculty development through creation of a PGY1 boot camp curriculum, Heather Sankey MD

Failures of NovaSure, ThermaChoice, and Roller-Ball endometrial ablation, Daniel Grow MD, Ronald Burkman MD, Carrie Bell MD, and Albert Hsu MD

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Failure to deliver ICD shocks after a failed discharge despite redetection of rapid ventricular tachycardia? What is the cause?, John Marenco M.D.

Fallopian tube prolapse mimicking aggressive angiomyxoma., Christopher Otis MD, Vandita Johari MD, and Heike Varnholt MD

False positive lactic acidosis in ethylene glycol toxicity: A confounding variable, Raquel Belforti MD, Giselle Cruz, Barbara Greco MD, and Eliah Munyikwa MD

Faster pulmonary oxygen uptake kinetics in trained versus untrained male adolescents, Thomas Rowland MD

Fast track, Grace Makari-Judson MD, Sandra Hubbard, and Holly Mason MD

Fatal attraction: Do as I say, not as I did., George Hartnell MD

Fatal BK polyoma viral pneumonia associated with immunosuppression., Christopher Otis MD and Carol Ann Rauch MD

Fatal case of bilateral internal jugular vein thrombosis following IVIg infusion in an adolescent girl treated for ITP, Satkiran Grewal MD and Matthew Richardson MD

Fatal pheochromocytoma crisis precipitated by dobutamine stress echocardiography, Prabhdeep Sethi MD, William Hiser MD, Leng Jiang MD, Ashequl Islam MD, Mara Slawsky MD, and Nitin Bhatnagar MD

Fatal pheochromotycoma crisis precipitated bydobutamine stress echocardiography., Mara Slawsky MD, William Hiser MD, Ashequl Islam MD, Prabhdeep Sethi MD, Leng Jiang MD, and M Javed Ashraf MD

Fat and energy economy in hypo- and hyperthyroidism are not the mirror image of one another, J Enrique Silva MD

Fatigued but not intellectually compromised, Adam Kellogg M.D.

Fatigued but not intellectually compromised, Adam Kellogg MD

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"Fat letters" in public schools: public health versus pride, Michael Flaherty DO

Fatty infiltration of the aortic valve, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Leng Jiang MD

Feasibility and acceptability of continuous glucose monitoring and accelerometer technology in exercising individuals with type 2 diabetes, Nancy Allen and Stuart Chipkin MD

Feasibility and efficacy of a physical activity intervention among pregnant women: The Behaviors Affecting Baby and You (B.A.B.Y.) Study, Glenn Markenson MD

Feasibility of a longitudinal integrated clinical (LIC) experience concurrent with traditional block core clerkships, Michael Picchioni MD, Thomas Campfield MD, and Rebecca Blanchard PhD

Feasibility of intraosseous infusion of iced saline to induce therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac resuscitation, Timothy Mader MD, Joshua Walterscheid MD, and Adam Kellogg MD

Feasibility of thoracoscopic U-clip esophageal anastomosis: an alternative for esophageal atresia reconstruction., Gregory Banever MD, Michael Tirabassi MD, Kevin Moriarty MD, Stanley Konefal MD, Edward Reiter MD, and Richard Wait MD

Feasibility of using near-infrared spectroscopy to diagnose testicular torsion: An experimental study in sheep., Howard Smithline MD, George Wadie MD, Michael Tirabassi MD, Carolanne Lovewell, Bret Coughlin MD, Timothy Mader MD, and Geoffrey A. Capraro MD

Female adnexal tumor of probable Wolffian origin, Carlos Prieto-Granada MD

Female sex is associated with improved short-term outcome following prolonged ventricular fibrillation, Timothy Mader MD

Female to male transgender chest surgery: A five-year experience, Brian Olack MD, Kristin Stueber MD, and Melissa Johnson MD

Fertility services for HIV positive and serodiscordant couples: Provider policy, practice and perspectives, John Stanitis MD, Penny Pekow, Halina Wiczyk MD, and Daniel Grow MD

Fertility services for human immunodeficiency virus-positive patients: Provider policy, practice, and perspectives, Julie Stanitis MD, Daniel Grow MD, and Halina Wiczyk MD

Fetal MR Imaging from nothing: One institution's experience in a watershed area between major academic referral centers, Peter Ghobrial MD

Fetal risk in diagnostic radiology, Cheri Nguyen MD and Lawrence Goodman MD

Fifty years of "the Pill": Risk reduction and discovery of benefits beyond contraception, reflections, and forecast, Ronald Burkman MD

FIMR on a shoestring, Andrew Balder MD

Final height in children with medulloblastoma treated with growth hormone., Edward Reiter MD

Final roller coaster ride, Ranjit Dhelaria MD

Financing academic departments of psychiatry, Benjamin Liptzin MD

Financing ambulatory graduate medical education, Kevin Hinchey MD

Financing of care, Benjamin Liptzin MD

Financing of hospital-based psychiatry, Benjamin Liptzin MD

Financing vaccines for adolescents: a position paper of the society for adolescent health and medicine, Laura Koenigs MD

Finding a new home: Using an internet based assessment tool to identify health care resources for young adults with special health care needs, Matthew Sadof MD and Kathleen Szegda

Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the central nervous system performed freehand under computed tomography guidance without stereotactic instrumentation., Margaret Assaad MD, Luis Moral MD, and Christopher Otis MD

Fine needle aspiration of salivary gland masses in HIV-infected patients, Liron Pantanowitz MD

First reported case of splenic infarction in a patient with hyperhomocysteinemia, Melisha Cumberland MD, Ashita Talsania MD, Imran Dosani MD, and Lauren Meade MD

First-trimester follistatin-like-3 levels in pregnancies complicated by subsequent gestational diabetes mellitus, Alan Schneyer

Fish oil supplementation and risk of ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation in patients with implantable defibrillators: a randomized controlled trial., Reed Shnider MD and James Cook MD

Fix your fracture care claims in 3 simple steps to avoid errant code, postop overlap, Michael Lemanski MD

Flawed experimental design reveals the need for guidelines requiring appropriate positive controls in endocrine disruption research, Alan Schneyer

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Flecainide toxicity-treatment with intravenous fat emulsion and extra corporeal life support, Senthil Sivalingam MD, T. Vijay Gadiraju MD, Mini Hariharan MD, Auras Atreya MD, Joseph Flack MD, and Hany Aziz MD

Floodlighting Unconscious Bias, Jeannette Wolfe MD

FloTrac volume responsive algorithm system, William McGee M.D.

Fluid management strategy in patients with pulmonary and extra-pulmonary causes of ALI/ARDS, Jay Steingrub MD and Mark Tidswell MD

Fluid replacement requirements for child athletes, Thomas Rowland MD

Flu review: New guidelines and regs from the CDC for the 6/07 flu season, Jeannette Wolfe MD

Flux analysis shows that hypoxia-inducible-factor-1-alpha minimally affects intracellular metabolism in tumor spheroids, Neil Forbes

Focal liver lesions in the pediatric patient: A multimodality pictorial review with pathologic correlation, Lindsay Fox MD, Stanley Polansky MD, Tara Catanzano MD, and Jane An MD

Focus on the aging worker, Karen Siemering

Follicular lymphoma., Liron Pantanowitz MD

Follow-up program: an essential component of ED care., Fidela Blank and Ann Maynard

Follow-up study of high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL) Pap tests with a negative initial biopsy result, stratified by conventional versus ThinPrep Pap Methods, Robert Goulart MD, Q Jackie Cao MD, Maryanne Hornish, and Margaret Assaad MD

Follow-up treatment for osteoporosis after fracture, Evan Benjamin MD and Penny Pekow

Foot and ankle examination, Julio Martinez-Silvestrini MD

Forecasting the impact of a clinical practice guideline for perioperative, Evan Benjamin MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, and Jan Fitzgerald

Forensic Evaluation of the Older Patient, Stuart Anfang MD

Foreword, Ronald Burkman MD

Forty-six month follow-up of a patient with West Nile virus paralysis, Nancy Miller MD

Fospropofol disodium (lusedra) injection for anesthesia-care sedation: A clinical review, Andrew Szkiladz

Four years' experience with a hospitalist-led medical emergency team: An interrupted time series, Michael Rothberg MD, Raquel Belforti MD, Jan Fitzgerald, Jennifer Friderici, and Marjorie Keyes

Fractures of abuse pediatric and elderly, Matt Razon

Frequency of adverse reactions in apheresis patients having same day intravascular access device placement., Chester Andrzejewski MD

Frequency of sleep apnea in stroke and TIA patients: a meta-analysis, Karin Johnson MD and Douglas Johnson MD

Frequent hemoglobin (Hgb) monitoring (12x/month) can inform clinical and organisational decision making, Michael Germain MD, Warren Ho MD, and Jane Garb

Friedreich's ataxia as a cause of premature coronary artery disease., Gregory Giugliano MD and Prabhdeep Sethi MD

From clues to mechanisms: Understanding ALS initiation and spread, Carmel Armon MD

From critical values to critical diagnoses: A review with an emphasis on cytopathology, Christopher Otis MD and Christopher Chapman MD

From the classroom to the clinic: A review of literature investigating the experiences of medical students with learning disabilities in the clinical years, Elisabeth Bennett, Michael Willers MD, and Rebecca Blanchard PhD

From the editor: Beyond estrogen for menopausal symptoms, Cynthia Sites MD

From the editor: Sex hormone metabolism, cancer, and menopause, Cynthia Sites MD

From theory to actual practice: Creation and application of milestones in an internal medicine residency program, 2004-2010, Kevin Hinchey MD, Lauren Meade MD, Samuel Borden MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, and Michael Picchioni MD

From the white elephant to the common canary: Presentation and outcomes of common and not-so-common critical illnesses, Jay Steingrub MD

Frozen blue toes, Anju Bhagavan MD

Frozen with pain, Anju Bhagavan MD, Ashita Talsania MD, and Sandra Bellantonio MD

FSTL3 deletion reveals roles for TGF-beta family ligands in glucose and fat homeostasis in adults, Alan Schneyer

Fulminant clostridium difficile colitis post total hip replacement, Mihaela Stefan MD and Ella Gupta MD

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Fun and fit: Evaluation of a pediatric exercise program, Sofija Zagarins MD

Functional alignment, not structural integration, of medical schools and teaching hospitals is associated with high performance in academic health centers, Mark Keroack MD

Functional hemodynamics in intraabdominal hypertension, William McGee MD, Bogdan Tiru MD, and Meera Sareen MD

Functionality and operation of fluoroscopic automatic brightness control/automatic dose rate control logic in modern cardiovascular and interventional angiography systems, M. Terry LaFrance

Functionality and operation of fluoroscopic automatic brightness control/automatic dose rate control logic in modern cardiovascular and interventional angiography systems: A Report of Task Group 125 Radiography/Fluoroscopy Subcommittee, Imaging Physics Co, M. Terry LaFrance

Fundamental Laparoscopic Skills Assessment(FLS) score correlates with efficient resident training in the operating room, David Earle MD

Fundamental residency redesign: The structure and function of competency-based progressions, Michael Picchioni MD and Samuel Borden MD

Fungal bronchitis: Morbidity, mortality, and treatment, Douglas Johnson MD

Fused or not fused? Confused? A multimodality pictorial review of tarsal coalitions, Devang Doshi MD

Future trends, Richard Friedberg MD

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Gangrene from finger pricking, Saurabh Dahiya MD, Michael Voisine MD, and Aashish Samat MD

Gardner's Syndrome, Sudeep Kaur Aulakh MD

Gastric closure in NOTES using a novel, over-the-scope nitinol clip - A survival study in an animal model, John Romanelli MD, David Desilets MD, David Earle MD, and Christopher Chapman MD

Gastric malignancy in a patient with common variable immunodeficiency, Kah Poh Loh MD, John Hunt MD, and Vaibhav Mehendiratta MD

Gastric transmural pressure measurements in vivo: Implications for natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES), David Desilets MD, Timothy Mader MD, John Romanelli MD, and David Earle MD

Gastric transmural pressure measurements in vivo: Implications for natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES)., Timothy Mader MD, David Desilets MD, John Romanelli MD, and David Earle MD

Gastrointestinal Bleeding, Philip Henneman MD

Gastrointestinal complications after 3 months of dual antiplatelet therapy for drug-eluting stents as assessed by wireless capsule endoscopy, Neelima Vallurupalli MD

Gastrointestinal prophylaxis in neurocritical care, Clemens Schirmer MD

Gastrotomy closure with the lock-it system and the Padlock-G clip: A survival study in a porcine model, David Desilets MD, John Romanelli MD, David Earle MD, and Christopher Chapman MD

GATA3 inhibits breast cancer metastasis through the reversal of epithelial-mesenchymal transition, Rong Shao, Wei Yan, Q Jackie Cao MD, Richard Arenas MD, and Brooke Bentley

Gender Balance in Leadership, Jeannette Wolfe MD

Gender Differences in Communication, Jeannette Wolfe MD

Gender Differences in Negotiation, Jeannette Wolfe MD

Gender differences in new residents' perceptions of their preparation to teach, Elisabeth Bennett and Rebecca Blanchard PhD

General anesthesia is not defined by a BIS level, Neil Connelly MD, Karthik Raghunathan MD, Ashish Malik MD, and Eric Jenkins MD

Genetic analysis of human milk by fluorescence in situ hybridization., Solveig Pflueger MD

Genetic disorders and dysmorphology, Mary-Alice Abbott MD

Genetic predictors of taxane-induced neurotoxicity in a SWOG phase III intergroup adjuvant breast cancer treatment trial (S0221), James Stewart MD

Genetic technologies and incidental findings: Implications for the researcher-participant relationship, Matthew Fickie MD

Genome sequence of Listeria monocytogenes 07PF0776, a Cardiotropic Serovar 4b strain, Daniel Skiest MD and Linda Bobo MD

Geographical location and outcome in a multi-center clinical trial of ALI/ARDS, Jay Steingrub MD and Mark Tidswell MD

Geographic distribution of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus soft tissue infections, Kevin Moriarty MD, Connie Rossini MD, David Tashjian MD, Jane Garb, and Richard Wait MD

Geographic information system localization of community-acquired MRSA soft tissue abscesses., Richard Courtney MD, Stanley Konefal MD, Kevin Moriarty MD, Michael Tirabassi MD, George Wadie MD, Barry Sachs MD, Richard Wait MD, and Jane Garb

Geography and travel distance impact ED visits, Philip Henneman MD, Howard Smithline MD, Jane Garb, Geoffrey A. Capraro MD, Richard Wait MD, Ric Skinner, and Haiping Li

Geography and travel distance impact emergency department visits, Philip Henneman MD, Jane Garb, Geoffrey A. Capraro MD, Haiping Li, Howard Smithline MD, and Richard Wait MD

Geometric determinants of functional tricuspid regurgitation: Insights from 3-dimensional echocardiography, Leng Jiang MD

Geriatric Jeopardy, Maura Brennan MD

Geriatrics: The art and heart behind the science, Maura Brennan MD and Amit Bhargava MD

Geriatric Trauma, Reginald Alouidor MD

Getting doctors to clean their hands: lead the followers, Sarah Haessler MD, Anju Bhagavan MD, Reva Kleppel, Kevin Hinchey MD, and Paul Visintainer

Getting the patient out of the woods - Near death from babesiosis in an elder, Randa Jaber MD and Maura Brennan MD

Giant polypoid gastric heterotopia of the jejunum presenting with intermittent intussusception., Philip Omotosho MD, Heike Varnholt MD, Michael Tirabassi MD, and Kevin Moriarty MD

GI endoscopes, David Desilets MD

GIS localization of community acquired MRSA soft tissue abscesses in children, Michael Tirabassi MD, Kevin Moriarty MD, Jane Garb, Ric Skinner, George Wadie MD, and Christopher Boyd MD

Glioblastoma-derived tumor cells induce vasculogenic mimicry through Flk-1 protein activation, Brooke Bentley, Stephan Scully, Wei Yan, Sherry Taylor MD, Dennis Oh MD, Luis Moral MD, and Rong Shao

Glucose meters: A review of technical challenges to obtaining accurate results, James Nichols and Ksenia Tonyushkina MD

Glutathione-mediated delivery and release using monolayer protected nanoparticle carriers, Neil Forbes

Glypican-3 immunohistochemistry in the ovary, Christopher Otis MD and Liron Pantanowitz MD

Golf ball in the left ventricle! Is there a role for surgery in the management of left ventricular thrombus, Sami Ibrahimi MD

Gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist pretreatment did not decrease postoperative adhesion formation after abdominal myomectomy in a randomized control trial, Daniel Grow MD and Mohammed Ahmed MD

Goodpasture's Syndrome preceded by upper respiratory illness, Syed Hussain MD and Jose Martagon-Villamil MD

Gout, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Monica Hollowell MD

Gout: A missed diagnosis in the elderly, Deepa Chandrasekaran MD and Sivakumar Natanasabapathy MD

Government and professional affairs update, Richard Friedberg MD

Grafts as a predictor of peri-operative atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting: A single center retrospective analysis, Siddharth Wartak MD, Prabhdeep Sethi MD, Jane Garb, and Amir Lotfi MD

Granulomatous stump appendicitis mimicking Crohn's disease, Mazen Al-Mansour MD

Group a beta-hemolytic streptoccal glossal necrotizing myositis--case report and review, Robert Baevsky MD and Stephen Lieberman MD

Growing concerns, larger than fatigue, . . and Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD

Growth and growth impairment, Edward Reiter MD

Growth hormone: Health considerations beyond height gain, Edward Reiter MD

Growth hormone treatment and adverse events in Prader-Willi syndrome: Data from KIGS (the Pfizer International Growth Database)., Edward Reiter MD

Growth hormone treatment to final height in idiopathic growth hormone deficiency: The KIGS experience, Edward Reiter MD

Guidelines in practice: Therapies for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo., Anant Shenoy MD

Guidelines in practice: Treatment of painful diabetic neuropathy, Anant Shenoy MD

Guide to teaching pediatricians, Barry Sarvet MD

Guillain-Barré syndrome, Beth Rosen MD

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Guns and states: Pediatric firearm injury, Kevin Moriarty MD, David Tashjian MD, and Lisa Patterson MD

Gynecologic cytology outcomes: Biopsy correlation performance (QT5) Annual summary report, Richard Friedberg MD

Gynecologists' attitudes toward hysterectomy: Is the sex of the clinician a factor?, Oz Harmanli MD

Gynecomastia, Edward Reiter MD

H1N1 pandemic: Challenges of information dissemination and practice modification, Ronald Burkman MD

Hacker and Moore's Essentials of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ronald Burkman MD

Hampden County public health model for corrections, Thomas Lincoln MD

Handoffs in labor and delivery: Can we do better?, Sarah Goff MD, Alex Knee, Daniel Grow MD, and Fadi Bsat MD

Health behavior interests of adolescents with unhealthy diet and exercise: implications for weight management, Peter Thunfors

Health behaviors among pregnant Latina women at risk for gestational diabetes mellitus, Glenn Markenson MD and Penny Pekow

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Healthcare cost of type 1 diabetes mellitus in new-onset children in a hospital compared to an outpatient setting., Ksenia Tonyushkina MD and Holley Allen MD

Health care for the uninsured: Here we go again., Michael R. Grey MD

Health-care referrals from direct-to-consumer genetic testing, Matthew Fickie MD

Health care reform and costs: Physician compensation and new technology, Ronald Burkman MD

Height is the preferred index for left atrial volume measurement in overweight and obese adults, Jiang Cui MD, William Hiser MD, Mara Slawsky MD, James Cook MD, Leng Jiang MD, Gui Hua Yao MD, and Gustavo Camarano MD

Helpful maneuvers for controlling bleeding from operative or traumatic vascular injuries, Ak Alameddine MD, David Deaton MD, John Rousou MD, and Victor Alimov MD

Helping students "Get it", Gladys Fernandez MD, William McGee MD, Thomas Higgins MD, Patrick Mailloux MD, David Page MD, Elizabeth D'Amour, Richard Wait MD, and Neal Seymour MD

Hemangiopericytomas of the skull base, Clemens Schirmer MD

Hematocrit-dependent response to initial coil embolization in a model side-wall aneurysm, Clemens Schirmer MD

Hematocrit-dependent response to virtual coil embolization in a model side-wall aneurysm, Clemens Schirmer MD

Hemodynamic and Delta Blood Volume Relationships During Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy, Patrick Mailloux MD and William McGee MD

Hemodynamic consequences of heart-lung interactions., Thomas Higgins MD, Jay Steingrub MD, and Mark Tidswell MD

Hemoglobin F (Fetal RBC Count) - Participant Summary. CAP Survey HBF-B., Richard Friedberg MD

Hemosuccus pancreaticus - A commonly forgotten and uncommon cause of upper gastrointestinal bleed, Iheanyichukwu Ogu MD, David Desilets MD, and Rony Ghaoui MD

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Hemotherapy bedside biovigilance involving vital sign values and characteristics of patients with suspected transfusion reactions associated with fluid challenges: can some cases of transfusion-associated circulatory overload have proinflammatory aspects?, Chester Andrzejewski MD, Theresa Stec, Jean Provencher, Lynne O'Hearn, Paul Visintainer, and Jay Steingrub MD

Heparin and hyperkalemia: The unexpected cost of prophylaxis, Ashish Verma MD, Lauren Meade MD, and Ryan Joyce MD

Heparin induced thrombocytopenia, Adam Pesaturo and Patrick Mailloux MD

Hepatic disease and pregnancy: An overview of diagnosis and management., Jay Steingrub MD

Hepatocellular carcinoma with intracardiac metastases, Cyrus Khan MD, Abdullah Shaikh MD, and Michael Rosenblum MD

Hernia in adults and children, Joseph Schmidt MD

Herpes infections, Lindsey Grossman MD

Herpes in Peripartum Period, Oz Harmanli MD

Herpes zoster vaccine and older adults, Michael Rothberg MD

Heuristic map of myotomal innervation in humans using direct intraoperative nerve root stimulation, Clemens Schirmer MD and Sunah Kim MD

High altitude illness, Chrystal Wittcopp MD

High dose atorvastatin does not impact the efficacy of clopiclogrel: A PROVE IT TIMI-22 analysis, Marc Schweiger MD, Gregory Giugliano MD, and Amir Lotfi MD

High-dose atorvastatin does not negatively influence clinical outcomes among clopidogrel treated acute coronary syndrome patients--a Pravastatin or Atorvastatin Evaluation and Infection Therapy-Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction 22 (PROVE IT-TIMI 22) a, Amir Lotfi MD, Marc Schweiger MD, and Gregory Giugliano MD

Higher prevalence of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance in African Americans than whites--the unknown role of underlying HIV infection, Liron Pantanowitz MD

High frequency of repeated negative computerized tomographic pulmonary angiography in emergency department patients, Howard Smithline MD

High glucose induced inflammation and intracellular lipid accumulation in human mesenchymal stem cells is reduced by mitochondrial antioxidant manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) up-regulation, Sabyasachi Sen MD

High humidity, low humidity, and mist therapy for croup, Richard Gabor MD

High pregnancy-related anxiety and prenatal depressive symptoms as predictors of intention to breastfeed and breastfeeding initiation, Tarayn Fairlie MD

High-resolution imaging of the thyroid gland using optical coherence tomography., Liron Pantanowitz MD

High-resolution MR imaging of anorectal disease with emphasis on isotropic post-contrast acquisition: A pictorial essay, Dustin Nguyen MD and Dmitry Rakita MD

Hindrances to bedside barcode scanning, Mark Heelon and Kirthana Raman

Hip fractures in elders nearing end of life: Is there a role for palliative surgery?, Auras Atreya MD, Sonali Arora MD, and Maura Brennan MD

His mother, Maura Brennan MD and Ashish Verma MD

Histological characteristics of singleton placentas delivered before the 28th week of gestation, Solveig Pflueger MD

Histological characterization of regression in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome-related Kaposi's sarcoma., Liron Pantanowitz MD

Histological variants of cutaneous Kaposi sarcoma, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Histology of serosal membranes, Christopher Otis MD

Histomorphology and grading of regression in gastric carcinoma treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy., James Mueller MD

Histoplasma capsulatum, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

History of anxiety significantly decreases the probability of pulmonary embolism in symptomatic emergency department patients, Howard Smithline MD

HIV/AIDS: Epidemiology, pathophysiology, and treatment of kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus disease: Kaposi sarcoma, primary effusion lymphoma, and multicentric castleman disease, Liron Pantanowitz MD

HIV and the breast., Liron Pantanowitz MD

HIV-associated anal squamous cell cancer: An otherwise preventable disease., Liron Pantanowitz MD

HIV associated intramammary lymphadenopathy., Liron Pantanowitz MD and David March MD

HIV-associated lipodystrophy in children, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD, Holley Allen MD, Edward Reiter MD, Maripat Toye RN MS, and Jens Krause MD

HIV-associated lymphadenopathy, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Gabriel Caponetti MD

HIV-associated multicentric Castleman's disease, Liron Pantanowitz MD

HIV-associated plasmablastic lymphoma: Lessons learned from 112 published cases, Liron Pantanowitz MD

HIV induced rhabdomyolysis, Francisco Hernandez-Munoz MD, Sarah Dreilling MD, Daniel Landry MD, and Behdad Besharatian MD

HIV post-exposure prophylaxis in children and adolescents presenting for reported sexual assault, Scott Lemme MD

Homozygous lecithin:cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) deficiency due to a new loss of function mutation and review of the literature, Rose Ganim MD and Sarah Haessler MD

Hopelessly complex., Michael Lemanski MD

Hormonal contraception, Ronald Burkman MD

Hormonal treatment of idiopathic short stature., Edward Reiter MD

Hormone replacement therapy. Current controversies., Ronald Burkman MD

Hormone therapy and fatal breast cancer, Ronald Burkman MD

Horner's Syndrome, Sudeep Kaur Aulakh MD

Hospital care of the renal patient, Benjamin Freda MD

Hospital Collaboration with a Public Library, Margot Malachowski MLS

Hospitalists and infectious disease physicians: Allies in improving patient care, David Ling MD and David Longworth MD

Hospitalist utilization and hospital performance on 6 publicly reported patient outcomes, Peter Lindenauer MD

Hospitalizations, costs, and outcomes of severe sepsis in the United States 2003 to 2007, Tara Lagu MD, Michael Rothberg MD, Penny Pekow, Jay Steingrub MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, and Meng-Shoiu Shieh

Hospitalizations for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: how you count matters, Peter Lindenauer MD

Hospitalized, elderly, and delirious: What should you do for these patients?, Benjamin Liptzin MD and Steven Fischel MD

Hospital patterns of use of positive inotropic agents in patients with heart failure, Tara Lagu MD

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Hospital performance measures and 30-day readmission rates, Mihaela Stefan M.D., Penny Pekow, Aruna Priya, Michael Rothberg M.D., Robert Goldberg MD, and Peter Lindenauer M.D.

Hospital variation in time to defibrillation after in-hospital cardiac arrest, Timothy Mader MD

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Hospital workers' perceptions of waste: a qualitative study involving photo-elicitation, Sarah Goff MD, Reva Kleppel, Peter Lindenauer M.D., and Michael Rothberg M.D.

Household chemical exposures and the risk of canine malignant lymphoma, a model for human non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Sofija Zagarins MD

Houston, we have a problem! Use of advanced hemodynamics to solve clinical challenging situations, William McGee MD

How a comprehensive pain control initiative improved patient satisfaction, Michael Davis, Christine Gryglik, and Cheryl Reilly

How benign is IgA nephropathy with minimal proteinuria?, Gregory Braden MD and Benjamin Freda MD

How does patient safety fit into pathology and the laboratory, Richard Friedberg MD

How do we change roles from being the clinician to family member when we care for our own?, April Mazzarino-Willett MSN and Alice Leveston MSW

How many criteria does it take to remove a single parathyroid gland?, Nicholas Coe MD

How much do women know about hysterectomy? A survey of women in an academic obstetrics and gynecology practice, Oz Harmanli MD, Heather Sankey MD, and Alex Knee

How much teamwork exists between nurses and junior doctors in the intensive care unit?, Paul Jodka MD, Elizabeth Henneman, Elaine Blonaisz, Nancy Doubleday, and Paula Lusardi

How organizational culture shapes intranet content development and enables virtual HR, Elisabeth Bennett

How quickly do clinicians adopt EMR notes?, Thomas Higgins MD, Neil Kudler MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, and Patrick Brown MD

How quickly do clinicians adopt EMR note templates?, Thomas Higgins MD, Neil Kudler MD, and Peter Lindenauer MD

How reliable are pain scores? A pilot study of 20 healthy volunteers., Timothy Mader MD, Howard Smithline MD, Jeannette Wolfe MD, and Fidela Blank

How specific is it: The current tissue Doppler cutoff values for left ventricular dyssynchrony, Kenneth Santiago MD, Leng Jiang MD, Lisa Massie MD, and Hany Aziz MD

How to best deliver care to children with chronic illness: Cystic fibrosis as a model, Matthew Sadof MD and Robert Kaslovsky MD

How to do the linear dimensions contribute to left atrial enlargement: A real-time three dimensional echocadiographic study, Gui Hua Yao MD, John Abboud MD, Neelima Vallurupalli MD, James Cook MD, Jacqueline Cook, and Leng Jiang MD

How to obtain a great SLOR, Adam Kellogg MD

How to organize a fellowship program: Lessons learned and how to include accreditation council for graduate medical education competencies in the curriculum, James Stewart MD

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How to overcome barriers and establish a successful home HD program., Gregory Braden M.D.

How to think like a radiologist, Tara Catanzano MD

How we view and approach transfusion-associated circulatory overload: pathogenesis, diagnosis, management, mitigation, and prevention, Chester Andrzejewski MD

HPV data can be used as a cytopathology laboratory quality indicator, Liron Pantanowitz MD, Maryanne Hornish, Robert Goulart MD, and Q Jackie Cao MD

HPV testing (QP053) Data analysis and critique, Richard Friedberg MD

Human immunodeficiency virus and chronic lymphocytic leukemia, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Human immunodeficiency virus-associated adenocarcinoma of the colon: Clinicopathologic findings and outcome, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Christopher Chapman MD

Human Immunodeficiency Virus-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Human immunodeficiency virus-associated primary lung cancer in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy: a multi-institutional collaboration, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Human immunodeficiency virus-associated prostate cancer: Clinicopathological findings and outcome in a multi-institutional study, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-B, DRB1, and DQB1 allotypes associated with disease and protection of trachoma endemic villagers, Linda Bobo MD

Human macro and micro-vascular endothelial cells differ in gene expression when exposed to high glucose in-vitro, Sabyasachi Sen MD and Saqib Inayatullah MD

Human microvascular endothelial cells immortalized with human telomerase catalytic protein: a model for the study of in vitro angiogenesis, Rong Shao

Human papillomavirus vaccine: A paradigm shift for pediatricians, Hal Jenson MD

Human papillomavirus vaccine: now for boys too?, Hal Jenson MD

Human patient simulation in critical care, Joan Roche

Human sperm devoid of PLC, zeta 1 fail to induce Ca release and are unable to initiate the first step of embryo development, Daniel Grow MD and Teru Jellerette

Human T-cell lymphotropic viruses types I and II, Hal Jenson MD

Hybrid notes: Incisionless intragastric stapled cystgastrostomy of a pancreatic pseudocyst, Kevin Moriarty MD, Connie Rossini MD, and Anastasios Angelides MD

Hyperbaric oxygen inhibits benign and malignant human mammary epithelial cell proliferation., Grace Makari-Judson MD, Eric Granowitz MD, and Deborah Katz MD

Hyperbaric oxygen inhibits stimulus-induced proinflammatory cytokine synthesis by human blood-derived monocyte-macrophages., Eric Granowitz MD

Hypercalcaemia after topical treatment with Calcipotriol, Jimmy Fune MD

Hypercalciuria and its potential effects in children on topiramate for seizure disorders., Sarah Barnett MD, Anthony Jackson MD, Herbert Gilmore MD, Beth Rosen MD, Gregory Braden MD, Dina Kornblau MD, and Jane Garb

Hypercapneic Cerebral Edema in Asthma, William McGee MD, Ryan Joyce MD, and Charles Gibson

Hypercapnic cerebral edema presenting in a woman with asthma: A case report, William McGee MD and Ryan Joyce MD

Hypercoagulable State, Sudeep Kaur Aulakh MD

Hyperkalemia and pyloric stenosis., Donald Schwartz MD, Neil Connelly MD, Poornachandran Manikantan MD, and James Nichols

Hypersplenism, Sudeep Kaur Aulakh MD

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Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy (2 vols), edited by Deirdre Barrett., Margot Malachowski MLS

Hypnosis for functional abdominal pain, David Gottsegen MD

Hypogammaglobinemia in an elder, Carmela Mancini MD

Hypoglycemic myocardial stunning as cause of cardiogenic shock in a patient with ischemic cardiomyopathy: A case report and review of literature, Khawar Maqsood MD and Amatur Amarah MD

Hypothermia for epilepsia partialis continua and complex partial seizures in an adult with Rasmussen's Encephalitis, William House MD, Carmel Armon MD, Erika LaChance MD, Luis Moral MD, Eric Smith MD, Patrick Mailloux MD, and Grace Albert

Hysterectomy, James Wang MD and Ronald Burkman MD

Hysterectomy after Novasure endometrial ablation failure of a bridge to menopause, Albert Hsu MD, Carrie Bell MD, Ronald Burkman MD, and Daniel Grow MD

I am not clear, Deepak Asudani MD

Iatrogenic abnormalities of the extraperitoneal spaces, Jeffrey Alvis MD

I can do patient care on my own: Autonomy and the manager role, Kevin Hinchey MD and Michael Picchioni MD

ICU mortality risk may be overestimated in elders without other risk factors, Maura Brennan MD, Thomas Higgins MD, and Paul Jodka MD

IDEAS for a healthy baby study: Reducing disparities in use of publicly reported quality data, Sarah Goff MD, Penny Pekow, Katharine White MD, Tara Lagu M.D., and Peter Lindenauer M.D.

Identification and analysis of Hic-5/ARA55 isoforms: Implications for integrin signaling and steroid hormone action, Larry Schwartz

Identifying potentially preventable readmissions, Norbert Goldfield MD

Identifying the milestones for the fundamental skills of the internist: A competency-based progression, Lauren Meade MD, Samuel Borden MD, Michael Picchioni MD, David Longworth MD, Mihaela Stefan MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, and Kevin Hinchey MD

Identifying what pediatric residents are taught about children and youth with special health care needs and the medical home, Matthew Sadof MD

Idiopathic short stature: Management and growth hormone treatment, Edward Reiter MD

I dont have a drinking problem, Jeannette Wolfe MD

Idraparinux versus standard therapy for venous thromboembolic disease, Mark Tidswell MD

I get by with a little help from my friends: Peer emotional support in the emergency department, Eric Griffin

Ileostomy adenocarcinomas in the setting of ulcerative colitis., Neal Seymour MD

Ilioinguinal block following a caudal block - how practical, Donald Schwartz MD and Ajita Amin MD

Image gently: Imaging of pectus excavatum revisited, Ajay Puri MD

Images in dermatology: Handful of sweets., Sandhya Kommana MD, Carol Richardson MD, Brendan Kelly MD, and Archan Shah MD

Images in emergency medicine. Elderly woman with rectal bleeding, Gavin Budhram MD and Linda Willard MD

Images in HIV/AIDS: Fatal HIV-associated anaplastic large-cell lymphoma, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Jonathan Freeman MD

Images in HIV/AIDS: HIV-associated toxic megacolon, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Images in HIV/AIDS. Patterns of renal injury in HIV-positive persons, Giovanna Crisi MD

Images in HIV/AIDS: Unsuspected parvovirus B19 infection in a person with AIDS, Liron Pantanowitz MD, Vandita Johari MD, Adriana Doldan Silvero MD, and Adriana Doldan-Silvero MD

Imaging characteristics of central pontine myelinolysis and extrapontine myelinolysis, Cheri Nguyen MD, Simon Li MD, and Shan Li MD

Imaging evaluation of breast implants: Complications and implant associated pathology, Erica Tyler MD, David March MD, and Vivian Miller MD

Imaging of the placenta with pathologic correlation, Cheri Nguyen MD, Margaret Yacobozzi MD, Fadi Bsat MD, Dmitry Rakita MD, and Dustin Nguyen MD

Imaging of trauma in a pregnant patient, Ajay Puri MD, Paryssa Khadem MD, Khaldoon Al Dulaimy MD, Parul Yadav MD, and Khaldoon Al Dulaimy MD

Imaging results and endovascular management of hemosuccus pancreaticus; gastrointestinal hemorrhage from a splenic artery pseudoaneurysm eroding into the pancreatic duct, Qiqing Ge, Aram Fereshetian MD, and Njogu Njuguna MD

Imaging the obesity epidemic: A pictoral review of postoperative anatomy and complications associated with bariatric surgery, Cheri Nguyen MD, Dustin Nguyen MD, Dmitry Rakita MD, and Khaldoon Al Dulaimy MD

Imatinib-induced regression of AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma., Liron Pantanowitz MD

Immunocytochemical evaluation of p16(INK4A) in ThinPrep Pap Tests diagnosed as atypical squamous cells, cannot exclude high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion, Liron Pantanowitz MD, Christopher Otis MD, and Robert Goulart MD

Immunogenecity of modified alkane polymers is mediated through TLR1/2 activation, Giovanna Crisi MD

Immunohistochemistry in Kaposi's Sarcoma, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Christopher Otis MD

Immuno-localization of CD44 and osteopontin in developing human kidney, Giovanna Crisi MD, Sharon Marconi, Gary Rockwell MD, Gregory Braden MD, and Thomas Campfield MD

Immuno-localization of the calcium-sensing receptor in developing & adult human kidney, Gregory Braden MD, Giovanna Crisi MD, Sharon Marconi, and Thomas Campfield MD

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Immunolocalization of the calcium-sensing receptor in developing human kidney, Giovanna Crisi MD, Gary Rockwell MD, Gregory Braden M.D., and Thomas Campfield MD

Immunophenotypic changes and clinical outcome in B-cell lymphomas treated with rituximab., Jonathan Freeman MD and Richard Steingart MD

Immunosuppression in the transplant patient: what the primary care doctor needs to know, Daniel Landry MD

Impact of an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome on a hospital in Taiwan, ROC., Jeffrey Arnold MD

Impact of a novel geriatric track on resident education, Maura Brennan MD and Jennifer Dorantes MD

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Impact of cardiac telemetry on patient safety and cost, Evan Benjamin MD

Impact of diabetes self management education interventions on diabetes-related emotional distress: A meta-analysis of randomized, controlled trials, Garry Welch, Jane Garb, and Sofija Zagarins MD

Impact of digital image manipulation in cytology, Liron Pantanowitz MD, Jeffrey Pinco MD, Robert Goulart MD, Christopher Otis MD, and Jane Garb

Impact of digital image manipulation in cytopathology, Jeffrey Pinco MD, Robert Goulart MD, Christopher Otis MD, Jane Garb, and Liron Pantanowitz MD

Impact of initial antibiotic choice on clinical outcomes in community-acquired pneumonia: analysis of a hospital claims-made database., Richard Brown MD

Impact of mandatory inpatient infectious disease consultation on outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy., Richard Brown MD and William Loomis

Impact of physician and patient gender on pain management in the emergency department--a multicenter study, Timothy Mader MD

Impact of rate-modulated pacing on quality of life and exercise capacity-evidence from the Advanced Elements of Pacing Randomized Controlled Trial (ADEPT)., James Cook MD

Impact of resuscitation system errors on survival from in-hospital cardiac arrest, Timothy Mader MD

Impact of the 2008 USPSTF Recommendation on PSA screening in elderly men, Shin Yin Lee MD, Mihaela Stefan M.D., Jennifer Friderici, and Maura Brennan MD

Impact of the 2008 USPSTF recommendation on PSA screening in elderly men, Shin Yin Lee MD

Impact on clinical laboratories of the Supreme Court's decision on the Affordable Care Act, Richard Friedberg MD

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Impaired mitochondrial metabolism and mammary carcinogenesis, Nagendra Yadava PhD, Sallie Schneider PhD, D. Joseph Jerry, and Chul Kim

Implementation of a call center to facilitate medical management of obstructive sleep apnea, Michael Coppola MD

Implementation of a palliative care ICU interdisciplinary conference, Diane Dietzen MD

Implementation of a rapid response team: A success story, Sheila Elliott and Susan Scott

Implementation of evidence-based practices to improve asthma in an urban school system, Kathleen Szegda and Matthew Sadof MD

Implementation of full patient simulation training in surgical residency, Gladys Fernandez MD, Patrick Lee MD, David Page MD, Elizabeth D'Amour, Richard Wait MD, and Neal Seymour MD

Implementing laboratory automation: Operational challenges and practical solutions, James Nichols

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Implementing postgraduate training for physician assistants in emergency medicine at a major urban academic medical center, JohnPaul Magenis PA

Implementing practice improvement modules in residencies: lessons learned from the AAIM-ABIM practicum project, Kevin Hinchey MD

Importance of intravenous fluid dose and composition in surgical ICU patients, William McGee MD, Karthik Raghunathan MD, and Thomas Higgins MD

Important features of study design, Oz Harmanli MD

Improved exercise behaviors associated with a comprehensive structured exercise program following bariatric surgery, Sofija Zagarins MD and Garry Welch

Improved measures of quality of life, lipid profile, and lipoatrophy after treatment interruption in HIV-infected patients with immune preservation: Results of ACTG 5170, Daniel Skiest MD

Improved pulmonary and growth outcomes in cystic fibrosis by newborn screening, Mary-Alice Abbott MD

Improved survival and differentiation of human bone marrow-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells (hMSCs) in serum-free conditions using Human Endothelial Progenitor Cell (hEPC)-conditioned media, Sabyasachi Sen MD and Jagendra Yadava

Improvement in glycemic control following a diabetes education intervention is associated with change in diabetes distress but not change in depressive symptoms, Jane Garb, Sofija Zagarins MD, Nancy Allen, and Garry Welch

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Improvement in headaches with continuous positive airway pressure for obstructive sleep apnea: A retrospective analysis, Karin Johnson M.D. and Jane Garb

Improvement in headaches with CPAP for obstructive sleep apnea, Karin Johnson MD

Improvement in the quality of care of patients admitted with decompensated cirrhosis, Rony Ghaoui MD, Jennifer Friderici, Peter Lindenauer M.D., Tara Lagu M.D., David Desilets MD, Angelica Belo MD, and Jorge Sotelo MD

Improving access to mental health care for children: The Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project, Barry Sarvet MD

Improving medical engagement of HIV+ inmates through dually-based mental health and case management, Thomas Lincoln MD

Improving mental health services in primary care: Reducing administrative and financial barriers to access and collaboration, Barry Sarvet MD

Improving nurse-to-patient staffing ratios as a cost-effective safety intervention., Peter Lindenauer MD, Michael Rothberg MD, and David Rose MD

Improving patient glycemic control using a multi-faceted approach, Adrienne Seiler MD, Vasantha Reddy MD, Winthrop Whitcomb MD, Stephanie Calcasola, and Lynn Roncalli

Improving patient safety in the ED waiting room, Fidela Blank, John Santoro MD, Ann Maynard, Deborah Provost, and Marjorie Keyes

Improving patient satisfaction through aggressive surgical pain management, Christine Gryglik, Cheryl Reilly, and Michael Davis

Improving patient-to-nurse ratios as a cost-effective safety intervention, Michael Rothberg MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, and David Rose MD

Improving quality of life for menopausal women, Cynthia Sites MD

Improving tactile sensation in minimally invasive pediatric surgery, Michael Tirabassi MD, Kevin Moriarty MD, George Wadie MD, and David Tashjian MD

Improving the care of patients with regard to chemotherapy-induced nausea and emesis: the effect of feedback to clinicians on adherence to antiemetic prescribing guidelines., Wilson Mertens MD, Donald Higby MD, Evan Benjamin MD, Jan Fitzgerald, and Peter Lindenauer MD

Improving the Effectiveness of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in a Simulated Environment Through Biofeedback, Patrick Mailloux MD, William McGee MD, Gerard Langlois, and Jennifer Friderici

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Improving the health status of minority women: overcoming the knowledge deficit, Auras Atreya MD

Improving the management of chronic disease, Matthew Sadof MD

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Improving the Quality and Outcomes of Perioperative Care, Mihaela Stefan M.D. and Peter Lindenauer M.D.

Improving the quality of care through the use of bundled payments, Evan Benjamin MD and Winthrop Whitcomb MD

Inadequate vitamin D status in adolescents with substantial bone mineral density loss during the use of depot medroxyprogesterone acetate injectable contraceptive: A pilot study, Ronald Burkman MD

Inadequate Vitamin D status in adolescents with substantial bone mineral density loss during use of Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate Injectable Contraceptive, Ronald Burkman MD

In adult cardiac arrest (prehospital or in-hospital) (P), initially with a non-shockable rhythm but who develop a shockable rhythm (prehospital or in-hospital) (P), does any specific alteration in treatment algorithm (I) as opposed to standard care (accor, Timothy Mader MD

Inappropriate medication use in older adults undergoing surgery: a national study, Michael Rothberg MD and Peter Lindenauer MD

Incidence and impact on mortality of acute renal dysfunction after the onset of acute lung injury, Jay Steingrub MD

Incidence and management of graft erosion, wound granulation, and dyspareunia following vaginal prolapse repair with graft materials: A systematic review, Oz Harmanli MD

Incidence and risk factors of developing nephrotoxicity in adult non-intensive care unit patients receiving vancomycin for greater than 48 hours, Jane Garb, Jason Cross, Daniel Skiest MD, Kathleen Kopcza, and Seth Housman

Incidence of common duct stones after positive intraoperative cholangiogram, David Desilets MD

Incidence of treated cardiac arrest in hospitalized patients in the United States, Timothy Mader MD

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Income inequality and 30 day outcomes after acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia: Retrospective cohort study, Peter Lindenauer M.D., Tara Lagu M.D., Michael Rothberg M.D., Jill Avrunin, and Penny Pekow

Incorporating cell cycle progression and drug penetration into metabolic models of multicellular tumor spheroid growth, Neil Forbes

Incorporating cellular metabolism into growth models of multicellular tumor spheroids, Neil Forbes

Incorporating energy metabolism into a growth model of multicellular tumor spheroids, Neil Forbes

Incorporating initial treatments improves performance of a mortality prediction model for patients with sepsis, Tara Lagu MD, Michael Rothberg MD, Jay Steingrub MD, and Peter Lindenauer MD

Incorporating initial treatments improves the performance of a mortality prediction model based on administrative data, Tara Lagu MD, Thomas Higgins MD, and Peter Lindenauer MD

Incorporation of a formalized emergency radiology curriculum to facilitate population of a MIRC-based digital teaching file, Frank Welte MD, Sunah Kim MD, Devang Doshi MD, Stephen O'Connor, and Bret Coughlin MD

Increased facial hair in a postmenopausal woman: a common complain that warrants investigation?, Cynthia Sites MD

Increased promoter methylation in exfoliated breast epithelial cells in women with a previous breast biopsy, Christopher Otis MD

Increased prostaglandin E2 release and activated Akt/beta-catenin signaling pathway occur after opioid withdrawal in rat spinal cord., Stuart Dunbar MD, I Karamian, and J Zhang

Increased response, but lower responsiveness, to growth hormone (GH) in very young children (aged 0-3 years) with idiopathic GH Deficiency: Analysis of data from KIGS., Edward Reiter MD

Increased risk of calcium oxalate nephrolithiasis after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery starts in the early post-operative period, Xiao Liu MD

Increases in left atrial volume, left ventricular volume and left ventricular mass with right ventricular only versus biventricular pacing after atrioventricular node ablation in symptomatic atrial fibrillation patients: Preliminary results of the AVAIL, Mara Slawsky MD

Increasing hospice services for elderly patients maintained with hemodialysis, Lewis Cohen MD and Michael Germain MD

Increasing patient safety and efficiency in transfusion therapy using formal process definitions., Elizabeth Henneman, Philip Henneman MD, and Chester Andrzejewski MD

Increasing the quality and quantity of feedback in medical education, Kevin Hinchey MD and Michael Picchioni MD

In-date blood product wastage (QT4) Annual summary report, Richard Friedberg MD

In-Date Blood Product Wastage (QT-4), Q-Tracks Annual Summary Report., Richard Friedberg MD

Indexed hemodynamic measurements may be inappropriate at body surface area extremes, William McGee MD, Karthik Raghunathan MD, and Adam Adler MD

Index of suspicion., James Burns MD

Induced Brugada-type electrocardiogram in a near fatal Flecainide overdose, Mohammad Amin Kashef MD and Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD

Induction of Anoikis following myoblast transplantation into SCID mouse muscles requires the Bit1 and FADD pathways, Larry Schwartz

Induction of apoptosis in the absence of p53: Implications for chemoprevention for ER-negative breast cancer, Richard Arenas MD, Sabha Ganai MD, and Holly Mason MD

Infant safe sleeping in homeless family shelters, Sonia Chaudhry MD and Nancy Miller MD

Infection Control Issues after Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation., David Longworth MD

Infections of intracardiac devices., David Longworth MD

Infectious Chlamydia pneumoniae is associated with elevated interleukin-8 and airway neutrophilia in children with refractory asthma, Paul Salva MD

Infective endocarditis presenting from locally invasive adenocarcinoma of esophagus, Ranjit Dhelaria MD and Srikanth Penumetsa MD

Inferior exercise economy in children: Perpetuating a myth?, Thomas Rowland MD

Inferior vena cava distensibility in patients with SAH, new technology and numbers, better care?, Clemens Schirmer MD

Infertility drugs and the risk of breast cancer: findings from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Women's Contraceptive and Reproductive Experiences Study., Ronald Burkman MD

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Inflammation-initiating illnesses, inflammation-related proteins, and cognitive impairment in extremely preterm infants, Bhavesh Shah M.D.

Inflammatory fibroid polyps are not inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors., Liron Pantanowitz MD

Inflammatory fibroid polyps of the gastrointestinal tract: evidence for a dendritic cell origin., Liron Pantanowitz MD

Influence of depressed mood and psychological stress symptoms on perceived oral contraceptive side effects and discontinuation in young minority women, Katharine White MD

Influence of embryo transfer depth on in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer outcomes., Daniel Grow MD and Michael Plevyak MD

Influence of gender on the clinical presentation of venous thromboembolism (VTE): A prospective multi-center, observational study of emergency department patients, Howard Smithline MD

Influence of Low-Dose Aspirin (81 mg) on the Incidence of Definite Stent Thrombosis in Patients Receiving Bare-Metal and Drug-Eluting Stents, Amir Lotfi MD, Jiang Cui MD, Siddharth Wartak MD, Michael Davis, Marc Schweiger MD, and Gregory Giugliano MD

Influence of participation in clinical trials on outcome of sepsis patients, Jay Steingrub MD, Mark Tidswell MD, and Lori-Ann Kozikowski

Influence of prior sexual risk experience on response to intervention targeting multiple risk behaviors among adolescents., James Burns MD

Influence of sex on the "Athlete's Heart" in trained cyclists, Thomas Rowland MD

Influenza, Michael Rothberg MD

Informal adult learning in simulated and virtual environments, Elisabeth Bennett

Information-sharing in out-of-hospital disaster response: the future role of information technology., Jeffrey Arnold MD and K Francis Lee MD

Inhaled Epoprostenol During One-Lung Ventilation, Neil Connelly MD, Karthik Raghunathan MD, Larry Robbins MD, Rose Ganim MD, and Gary Hochheiser MD

Inhibitory activity of YKL-40 in mammary epithelial cell differentiation and polarization induced by lactogenic hormones: A role in mammary tissue involution, Wei Yan, Stephan Scully, Brooke Bentley, Q Jackie Cao MD, and Rong Shao

In-hospital outcomes with thrombolytic therapy in patients with renal dysfunction presenting with acute ischaemic stroke, Varun Agrawal MD

Initial trophic vs full enteral feeding in patients with acute lung injury: The EDEN randomized trial, Jay Steingrub MD

Initiation, maintenance and discontinuation of opioids for patients with chronic pain, Michael Picchioni MD

Initiation of Drotrecogin Alfa(Activated)[DTAA] versus placebo infusion acutely improves hemodynamics in patients with septic shock, Archan Shah MD and Mark Tidswell MD

In office ancillary services, Richard Friedberg MD

Inpatient hyperglycemia, Deepak Asudani MD

Inpatient hyperglycemia: Slide through the scale but cover the bases first., Deepak Asudani MD

Inpatient stress testing reduces subsequent ED visits and readmissions for chest pain, Jaya Mallidi MD, Jennifer Friderici, Fadi Saab MD, and Michael Rothberg MD

In reply, Michael Rothberg MD, Penny Pekow, and Peter Lindenauer MD

In reply: Surgeon-performed ultrasound and prediction of differentiated thyroid cancer, Azad Jabiev MD

In response, Sarah Haessler MD, Mary Ellen Scales, Jan Fitzgerald, and Neil Connelly MD

Insights into left ventricular synchrony: Peak velocity versus peak contraction, James Cook MD, Kenneth Santiago MD, Leng Jiang MD, and Adrian Fluture MD

In situ characterization of cell cycle distribution of multicellular spheroid as a drug delivery model, Neil Forbes

Insulin-like growth factor-I inhibits growth regulatory responses engaged by estrogen and progesterone in the mouse mammary gland, Sallie Schneider

Insulin-like growth factors as diagnostic tools in growth hormone deficiency during childhood and adolescence: the KIGS experience., Edward Reiter MD

Insulin resistance and nephrolithiasis: Risk in obese adolescents, Thomas Campfield MD, Rishita Tiwari MD, Chrystal Wittcopp MD, Gregory Braden MD, and Holley Allen MD

Insulin therapy to improve BMI in cystic fibrosis-related diabetes without fasting hyperglycemia, Holley Allen MD and Penny Pekow

Integrating ArcWeb explorer with medical crisis information, Christopher Boyd MD

Integrating behavior changes into the family medicine curriculum: Successes and challenges, Eric Churchill MD

Integrating cell-cycle progression, drug penetration and energy metabolism to identify improved cancer therapeutic strategies, Neil Forbes

Integrating pluralistic organizational culture in an American Community hospital, Elisabeth Bennett

Integrating quality across the continuum of medical education, Hal Jenson MD

Integrating quality improvement and residency education: Insights from the AIAMC National Initiative about the roles of the designated institutional official and program director, Hal Jenson MD and Kevin Hinchey MD

Integrating simulation into a busy residency program, Neal Seymour MD

Integration of simulation based training into third year medical students' clerkship curriculum: A combined medical and surgical effort to link theory with practice, Mihaela Stefan MD, Gladys Fernandez MD, Gerard Langlois, Joel Abraham MD, Rukshana Cader MD, and Elizabeth D'Amour

Integrative informal learning in virtual HRD: The key to tacit knowledge?, Elisabeth Bennett

Intensive care unit organization and management, Jay Steingrub MD and Thomas Higgins MD

Intensive care unit readmissions in U.S. hospitals: Patient characteristics, risk factors, and outcomes, Thomas Higgins MD

Intentionality and Hatha Yoga: An exploration of the theory of intentionality, the matrix of healing - A growth model, Joan Roche and Lauri Deary

Inter-institutional differences in frozen section protocols for endometrial carcinoma, Christopher Otis MD

Interinstitutional variation in prediction of death by SNAP-II and SNAPPE-II among extremely preterm infants, Bhavesh Shah MD

Internal medicine-pediatrics residency training: current program trends and outcomes., Samuel Borden MD

International emergency medicine: recent trends and future challenges., Jeffrey Arnold MD

International outsourcing of medical research by high income countries: Changes from 1925-2005, Raquel Belforti MD, Michael Wall MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, Penny Pekow, and Michael Rothberg MD

International outsourcing of medical research by high-income countries: Changes from 1995 to 2005, Raquel Belforti MD, Michael Wall MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, Penny Pekow, and Michael Rothberg MD

International Perspectives on Emergency Department Crowding, Niels Rathlev MD

International study of the prevalence and outcomes of infection in intensive care units, Jay Steingrub MD

International volunteer work for the practicing pediatrician., David Norton MD

Intern immersion: A novel paradigm for orientation, Michael Picchioni MD, Lauren Meade M.D., Kevin Hinchey MD, Samuel Borden MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, and Gina Luciano MD

Interpretation of indeterminate HIV serologic test, Michelle Haggar MD, Beth Carter MD, and Eric Granowitz MD

Interpretation of newborn screening tests, Mary-Alice Abbott MD

Inter-Professional Management of the Complex Acute Surgical Patient, Mihaela Stefan MD and Gladys Fernandez MD

Interruption of antiretroviral treatment in HIV-infected patients with preserved immune function is associated with a low rate of clinical progression: A prospective study by AIDS Clinical Trials Group 5170., Daniel Skiest MD

Interventional options for malignant upper gastrointestinal obstruction, Lisa Patterson MD

Interventions to safeguard system effectiveness during periods of emergency department crowding, Niels Rathlev MD

Intestinal type adenocarcinoma in situ of the cervix, Rukmini Modem MD, Christopher Otis MD, Roxanne Florence MD, and Liron Pantanowitz MD

In the blink of an eye: The deadly story of epidemic meningitis, Andrew Artenstein MD

In the Literature, Glenn Allison MD, David Ling MD, and Xiao Liu MD

Intracerebroventricular administration of drugs, Adam Pesaturo

Intracranial manifestations of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome: A pictoral essay, Chiedozie Mkpolulu MD

Intra-operative hyperglycemia commonly occurs in cardiac bypass patients, Gary Kanter MD

Intraoperative hyperkalemic cardiac arrest during revascularization surgery, Mamatha Kadiyala MD and Stanlies D'Souza MD

Intraoperative monitoring, William McGee MD and Karthik Raghunathan MD

Intraoperative use of indocyanine green fluorescence videography for resection of a spinal cord hemangioblastoma, Robert Schapiro MD

Intraosseous infusion is unreliable for adenosine delivery in the treatment of supraventricular tachycardia, Ian Goodman MD

Intrapartum management of the second twin, Fadi Bsat MD, Glenn Markenson MD, and Andrew Healy MD

Intravascular lesions of the hand, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Wayne Duke MD

Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy in refractory clostridium difficile diarrhea, Michael Wall MD, Melina Irizarry MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, Orlando Torres MD, and Eric Granowitz MD

Introducing clinical laboratory risk assessment: A look at the new guidelines from CLSI, James Nichols

Introduction, Hal Jenson MD

Introduction of alcohol-based surgical antisepsis associated with a surgical site infection cluster: The problem with a culture of cutting corners, Annette Golubchik MD and Sarah Haessler MD

Introduction of a MIRC-based digital teaching file to supplement the subspecialty emergency radiology curriculum in radiologic training., Devang Doshi MD, Bret Coughlin MD, Sunah Kim MD, Stephen O'Connor, Frank Welte MD, and Steve Lee MD

Introduction of a modified neonatal resuscitation course to lay midwives in the Dominican Republic., Barbara Graves, Robert Comer MD, Jane Cross MD, and Jason Cross

Introduction of a modified neonatal resuscitation course to lay midwives in the Dominican Republic., Robert Comer MD, Barbara Graves, Jane Cross MD, and Jason Cross

Introduction to geriatric medicine tracks in the United States, Maura Brennan MD

In tumors Salmonella migrate away from vasculature toward the transition zone and induce apoptosis, Sabha Ganai MD, Richard Arenas MD, Brooke Bentley, and Neil Forbes

Invasive aspergillosis presenting as a neck mass in a person with HIV/AIDS, Daniel Skiest MD, Eric Granowitz MD, David Robertson MD, and Dmitri Iarikov MD

Invasive mammary carcinoma after immediate and short-term follow-up for lobular neoplasia on core biopsy., Giovanna Crisi MD

Investigating racial disparities in percutaneous coronary intervention(PCI) rates, Richard Wait MD, Jane Garb, and James Cook MD

Invited talk, Michael Picchioni MD

Iron and associated expression of the transferrin receptor (CD71) and heme-oxygenase-1 (HO-1) in kaposi sarcoma, Patrick O'Donnell MD, Sharon Marconi, and Liron Pantanowitz MD

Iron oxide nanoparticles induce human microvascular endothelial cell permeability through reactive oxygen species production and microtubule remodeling, Rong Shao

Irregular [CA2+] l release in in vitro matured human oocytes: A possible link to poor developmental potential, Teru Jellerette

Is antibiotic prophylaxis necessary for midurethral sling procedures? A case series, Oz Harmanli MD, Keisha Jones MD, and Alex Knee

Is antibiotic prophylaxis necessary for midurethral sling procedures? A series of 174 cases without preoperative antibiotics, Oz Harmanli MD, Keisha Jones MD, and Stephen Metz MD

Is blood glucose control improvement sustained one year after an intensive diabetes case management intervention? Findings from a pilot study invovling poorly controlled Hispanic Type 2 patients, Garry Welch, Jane Garb, and Paula Santiago-Kelley

Ischemic leg after placement of femoral arterial line, Stanlies D'Souza MD

Is enrollment in school free lunch programs or receiving door to door bus transportation a risk factor for obesity, James Burns MD and Jane Garb

Is epicardial fat a risk factor for significant coronary artery disease? An echocardiographic study, Gui Hua Yao MD, Neelima Vallurupalli MD, James Cook MD, and Leng Jiang MD

Is head trauma a risk factor for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis? An evidence based review, Carmel Armon MD

Is head trauma a risk factor for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis? An evidence-based review, Carmel Armon MD

Is Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) a plausible explanation for the recent increase in large breast tumors, Wilson Mertens MD, Deborah Katz MD, Richard Arenas MD, and Grace Makari-Judson MD

Is improvement in blood glucose control for type 2 diabetes associated with depression or diabetes distress following a diabetes education intervention?, Garry Welch, Sofija Zagarins MD, and Jane Garb

Is it elder abuse, Raquel Belforti MD, Sandra Bellantonio MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, Todd Capizzi MD, Elizabeth Case MD, Sarah Workman MD, Zulfiqar Chaudhry MD, and Jackcy Jacob MD

Is it senile ptosis? An uncommon presentation of carotid cavernous aneurysm, Fei Gu MD and Senthil Sivalingam MD

Is laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy better in obese women? A comparison of perioperative morbidity with total laparoscopic hysterectomy, Oz Harmanli MD, Alex Knee, and Elena Tunitsky-Bitten MD

Isolated jejunal perforation after blunt thoracoabdominal trauma., Imtiaz Munshi MD and Gerald Khachi MD

Isolated left ventricular noncompaction: A rare cardiomyopathy, Siddharth Wartak MD, Syed Hussain MD, and M Javed Ashraf MD

Isolated right-sided heart failure secondary to thyrotoxicosis, T. Vijay Gadiraju MD

Isolation and characterization of glioma stem cells, Dennis Oh MD, Sherry Taylor MD, Robert Schapiro MD, Rong Shao, and Stephan Scully

Is partial colectomy the operation of choice in pediatric Clostridium difficile colitis?, David Tashjian MD and Kevin Moriarty MD

Is prophylactic vena cava filter placement beneficial in acute spinal cord injury, Ronald Gross MD, Patrick Lee MD, and Lisa Patterson MD

Is severe perineal damage increased in women with prior anal sphincter injury?, Oz Harmanli MD

Is statin use associated with reduced mortality after pneumonia? A systematic review and meta-analysis, Peter Lindenauer MD

Issues in precocious puberty, Edward Reiter MD

Issues in the management of Central Precocious Puberty, Edward Reiter MD

Is the 'Athlete's Heart' arrhythmogenic?: Implications for Sudden Cardiac Death, Thomas Rowland MD

Is the lithium-for-ALS genie back in the bottle?: Not quite, Carmel Armon MD

Is there a different relationship between Vitamin DE 250H and parathyroid hormone in children with type 1 diabetes, Holley Allen MD, Chrystal Wittcopp MD, Edward Reiter MD, Paul Visintainer, Nancy Dunbar MD, and Emily Frydman MD

Is there a role for low tidal volume ventilation to prevent ALI/ARDS? Survey of tidal volumes and incidence of ALI/ARDS in ventilated patients, Jay Steingrub MD, Mark Tidswell MD, and Archan Shah MD

Is there a role for surgery in the management of giant B-cell right atrial lymphoma?, Ak Alameddine MD, Victor Alimov MD, Joseph Flack MD, and John Rousou MD

Is There Value in Follow-Up Stress Testing for Emergency Department Patients With Chest Pain and Normal Rest SPECT Myocardian Perfusion., J. Hector Pope M.D.

Is this a gender issue or just life in the ED, Jeannette Wolfe MD

Is this dementia or alcohol intoxication or both?, Wanda Colon-Cartagena MD and Sandra Bellantonio MD

Is varenicline effectiveness declining in randomized trials?, Michael Rothberg MD and Ranjit Dhelaria MD

Is your laboratory's quality meeting the mark?, Richard Friedberg MD

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Jails as an Opportunity to Increase Engagement in HIV Care: Findings from an Observational Cross-Sectional Study, Thomas Lincoln MD

Jaundice and shock after a Father's Day celebration, Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD

Joint injections, Julio Martinez-Silvestrini MD

Joint injections work-shop, Julio Martinez-Silvestrini MD

Journal Watch from ACE (Alliance for Clinical Education): Annual Review of Medical Education Articles in Internal Medicine Journals 2005-2006, Michael Picchioni MD

Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, Jeannette Wolfe MD

Kaposi sarcoma: Appraisal of therapeutic agents, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Kaposi sarcoma in unusual locations, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Kaposi sarcoma of the musculoskeletal system: A review of 66 patients., Liron Pantanowitz MD and Gabriel Caponetti MD

Kaposi's sarcoma., Liron Pantanowitz MD

Kaposi's sarcoma and pemphigus, Liron Pantanowitz MD

Keep your chin up, kid: A pictorial review of pediatric mandibular lesions, Grace Mitchell MD, Stephen O'Connor MD, and Stanley Polansky MD

Keloids do not harbor EBV or HHV8, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Wayne Duke MD

Ketorolac prevents recurrent withdrawal induced hyperalgesia but does not inhibit tolerance to spinal morphine in the rat., J Zhang, Stuart Dunbar MD, and I Karamian

Key issues in evaluation and management of acute kidney injury, Benjamin Freda MD

Keynote presentation: Emergency department crowding - effects on patient outcomes, Niels Rathlev MD

Keys to communicating about prognosis in the ICU: A multicenter study of family, provider, and expert perspectives, Jay Steingrub MD

Knowledge sharing in academic medical centers: Examining the nexus of higher education and workforce development, Elisabeth Bennett, Rebecca Blanchard PhD, and Gladys Fernandez MD

Labetalol-induced tricyclic antidepressant toxicity without overdose, Maura Brennan MD, Roy Sittig MD, and Rosette Odulio MD

Laboratory accreditation and inspection, Carol Ann Rauch MD and James Nichols

Laboratory and diagnostic test interpretation, Diane Szlachetka

Laboratory evaluation of clopidogrel responsiveness by platelet function and genetic methods, Vandita Johari MD

Laboratory quality control based on risk management, James Nichols

Laboratory reports in the electronic medical record, Liron Pantanowitz MD

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