Content Posted in 2024
A 12-year Retrospective Cohort Study of Point-of-care Ultrasound and Aortic Dissection Risk Score in Type A Aortic Dissection, Danielle Aston DO, Thomas Burgess MD, Sarah Badach MD, Komal Paladugu MD, Brian Thompson DO, Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD, and Gavin Budhram MD
A case report of vaping-associated sudden cardiac arrest in a young healthy patient, Andrew Goldsweig MD
Achromobacter cluster related to COVID-19 supply chain issues, Mary Ellen Scales, Megan Gallagher, Sarah Haessler MD, Kristy Lindsey, Michele Maryanski, Manju Mathews, Franklin Moore MD, Karen Hogan, Morgan Gilmore, Stacey Peters, and Kristin Smith RN
Adult Vitamin B12 Deficiency-Associated Pseudo-Thrombotic Microangiopathy: A Systematic Review of Case Reports, Venu Ganipisetti MD
Advancing Primary Care Access: Exploring the Impact of the Virtual Waiting Room on the Quadruple Aim, Mayu Sekiguchi MD, Lauren Meade MD, Zaid Obaida MD, Vincent Mariano MD, Nicola Sumorok MD, Eric Churchill MD, Sudeep Kaur Aulakh MD, Booker Bush MD, Linda Canty MD, Leilani Kidder MD, Brian Bourgeault MD, Katherine Newport MD, Emanuel Parrilla MD, and Paul A. Pirraglia
An endovascular- vs. a surgery-first revascularization strategy for chronic limb-threatening ischemia: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials, Andrew Goldsweig MD
An Older Woman Presenting with Jaw Pain and a Kidney Mass, Matthew McAuliffe DO and Kostas Papamakakis MD
Approval, Evidence, and "Off-Label" Device Utilization: The Patent Foramen Ovale Closure Story, Andrew Goldsweig MD
A rare case of aortitis presenting as chest pain: a case report and literature review, Andrew Goldsweig MD
A retrospective comparison of upper and lower extremity intraosseous access during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest resuscitation, Mat Goebel MD
Association between Environmental Temperature and Survival in Gastroesophageal Cancers: A Population Based Study, Kush Gupta MD
Association of Postpartum Mental Illness Diagnoses with Severe Maternal Morbidity, Kimberley Geissler MD
Association of random and observed urine drug screening with long-term retention in opioid treatment programs, Alex Knee, Donna M. Wilson, and Peter Friedmann MD
Associations between Present-on-Admission Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders and Short-Term Outcomes in Patients with Pneumonia, Sarah Haessler MD
Barriers and Facilitators to Harm Reduction for Opioid Use Disorder: A Qualitative Study of People With Lived Experience, Lauren Westafer DO, William Soares MD, and Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD
Barriers to Healthcare and Social Service Utilization Among Rural Older Adults Who Use Drugs, Peter Friedmann MD
Baystate Medical Center Nursing Report - 2022, Joanne Miller RN
Baystate Medical Practices Annual Report - 2022, Andrew Artenstein MD and Betty LaRue RN
Blood pressure difference between pre and post-menopausal women and age-matched men: A cross-sectional study at a tertiary center, Leen Al-Faris MD and Mohammad Abdulelah MD
Breaking Barriers: A Single-Center Real-World Experience With Recruitment and Administration of COVID-19 Monoclonal Antibodies and Opportunities for Improvement, Alex Knee, Doug Salvador MD, Erica Housman, Gladys Fernandez MD, and Armando Paez MD
Brown Tumor From Secondary Hyperparathyroidism Mimicking Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma in a Patient With End-Stage Renal Disease, Venu Ganipisetti MD
Burnout and the role of mentorship for radiology trainees and early career radiologists, Tara Catanzano MD
Cardiac Arrest Following Drug Overdose in the United States: An Analysis of the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival, Timothy Mader MD
Cardiac Tamponade in ECMO: Infrequent but Important, Siavash Saadat MD
Cavitary Hodgkin Lymphoma of the Lung, Ibrahim Elkhawas MD
Characterization of Initial Gastrointestinal Evaluation of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Descriptive Study, Wael Sayej MD
Child Health Needs and the Pediatric Endocrinology Workforce: 2020-2040, Charlotte Boney MD
Chronic Chest CT Findings following COVID-19 pneumonia, Nupur Verma MD
C-L Case Conference: Explicit, Implicit, and Tacit Consultation Questions for a Patient with Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura and Agitation, Flannery Merideth MD and Joseph Jabaily DO
Clinical Protocol for Selecting Intracardiac or Transesophageal Echocardiography-Guided Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion, Andrew Goldsweig MD
Clinicians' Use of Choice Framing in ICU Family Meetings, Jay Steingrub MD
Closure of Dialysis Clinics in the US in 2021-2023, Daniel Landry MD
"Coke in the Dope": The Underrecognized Complications of a Cocaine-Adulterated Fentanyl Supply, Vincent Mariano MD
Consensus Guidance for Monitoring Individuals With Islet Autoantibody-Positive Pre-Stage 3 Type 1 Diabetes, Ksenia Tonyushkina MD
Consensus guidance for monitoring individuals with islet autoantibody-positive pre-stage 3 type 1 diabetes, Ksenia Tonyushkina MD
Contextual barriers and enablers to establishing an addiction-focused consultation team for hospitalized adults with opioid use disorder, Peter Friedmann MD
Continuity of Clinician Type and Intrapartum Experiences During the Perinatal Period in California, Mary Paterno CNM
Correction: A Case of a Novel MAGED2 Mutation Resulting in Non-transient Bartter's Syndrome in an Adult Female, Sharmeen Azher MD
Correction to: Bayesian methods: a potential path forward for sepsis trials, Mark Tidswell MD
Correlates of overdose among 2711 people who use drugs and live in 7 rural US sites, Peter Friedmann MD
County-Level Cardiac Rehabilitation and Broadband Availability: Opportunities for Hybrid Care in the United States, Quinn Pack MD
Dalbavancin Use in Persons Who Use Drugs May Increase Adherence Without Increasing Cost, Hannah Ritchie, Jennifer Schimmel MD, and Michael Lorenzo
Daylight saving time and mortality-proceed with caution, Karin Johnson MD
Declining Cardiology Board Pass Rates, Anis Kadado MD, Abdullah Pervaiz MD, and Quinn Pack MD
Deep learning-based cell segmentation for rapid optical cytopathology of thyroid cancer, Ashraf Khan MD
Differences in Health Care Utilization for Asthma by Children with Medicaid versus Private Insurance, Meng-Shiou Shieh, Peter Lindenauer, and Kimberley Geissler MD
Diffusion of medications for opioid use disorder treatment in jail settings: a convergent mixed methods study of jail staff perspectives, Peter Friedmann MD
Do Decision Support Tools Decrease the Prevalence of Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolisms When Compared to Clinical Judgement? A Single-Center Pre-Post Study, Mohammad Abdulelah MD, Omar Haider MD, Matthew McAuliffe DO, Leen Al-Faris MD, Jasmine Paadam MD, Venkatrao Medarametla MD, Reva Kleppel, and Kirti Joshi MD
Do pulmonary rehabilitation programmes improve outcomes in patients with COPD posthospital discharge for exacerbation: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Peter Lindenauer
Drainology: Leveraging research in chest-drain management to enhance recovery after cardiothoracic surgery, Daniel Engelman MD
Early Initiation of Guideline Directed Medical Therapy for Heart Failure Following Cardiac Surgery, Leeor Jaffe MD and Daniel Engelman MD
Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer Patients Do Not Require Shorter Intervals for Post-Surgical Surveillance Colonoscopy, V V Pavan Kedar Mukthinuthalapati MD
Editorial: Like a kid in a candy shop: Choosing the sweetest therapy for submassive pulmonary embolism, Andrew Goldsweig MD
Emergency Presentations of COVID-19: A Review of the Literature and Radiologic Perspective, Tara Catanzano MD
Enhanced recovery protocols after surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials in cardiac surgery, Daniel Engelman MD
ERAS® Cardiac Society Turnkey Order Set for Surgical Site Infection Prevention: Proceedings from the AATS ERAS Conclave 2023, Cheryl Crisafi RN and Daniel Engelman MD
Etiology of hospital mortality in children living in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Carol Pineda MD
Evaluating Acute Pulmonary Changes in COVID-19: A Comparative Analysis of CT, CXR, LUS, MRI, and FDG-PET Modalities, Nupur Verma MD
Evaluation of respondent-driven sampling in seven studies of people who use drugs from rural populations: findings from the Rural Opioid Initiative, Peter Friedmann MD
Evaluation of respondent-driven sampling in seven studies of people who use drugs from rural populations: findings from the Rural Opioid Initiative, Peter Friedmann MD
"Expected to happen": perspectives on post-release overdose from recently incarcerated people with opioid use disorder, Elyse Bianchet and Peter Friedmann MD
Factors Impacting the Implementation of Mobile Integrated Health Programs for the Acute Care of Older Adults, Peter Lindenauer
Feasibility of His Bundle Pacing and Atrioventricular Junction Ablation with Left Bundle Branch Area Pacing as Back-up, Ankit Mahajan MD
Fistula first, catheter last: can the mouth be second?, George Fares MD
Funny things are everywhere: Combatting geographic disparities in aortic stenosis care, Andrew Goldsweig MD
Funny things are everywhere: Combatting geographic disparities in aortic stenosis care, Andrew Goldsweig MD
Geriatric Oncology: A 5-Year Strategic Plan, Rawad Elias MD
Growing together: Optimization of care through quality improvement for the mother/infant dyad affected by perinatal opioid use, Megan Miller MD
Health Insurance Type and Outpatient Specialist Care Among Children With Asthma, Kimberley Geissler MD, Meng-Shiou Shieh, and Peter Lindenauer
Health-related quality of life at age 10 years in children born extremely preterm, Ruben Vaidya MD
High-Flow Nasal Cannula Versus Noninvasive Ventilation as Initial Treatment in Acute Hypoxia: A Propensity Score-Matched Study, Mark Tidswell MD
Hot off the press: I ain't missing you-Spinal epidural abscess, Lauren Westafer DO
Hot off the press: I ain't missing you-Spinal epidural abscess, Lauren Westafer DO
How do we use the National Healthcare Safety Network for Hemovigilance in Massachusetts?, Lynne O'Hearn and Chester Andrzejewski MD
How I Do It Applying non-invasive ventilation in treatment of acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease using evidence-based interprofessional clinical practice, Mary Jo S. Farmer MD, Christine Callahan, and Karen Riska
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2024.05.002, Peter Lindenauer
IL-10 Differentially Promotes Mast Cell Responsiveness to IL-33, Resulting in Enhancement of Type 2 Inflammation and Suppression of Neutrophilia, Sallie Schneider PhD
IL-10 Neutralization Attenuates Mast Cell Responses in a Murine Model of Experimental Food Allergy, Sallie Schneider PhD
Impact of anemia on outcomes and resource utilization in patients with myocardial infarction: A national database analysis, Andrew Goldsweig MD
Impact of environmental temperature on the survival outcomes of breast cancer: A SEER-based study, Kush Gupta MD
Impact of Remote Patient Monitoring Platform on Patients With Moderate to Severe Persistent Asthma: Observational Study, Denzil Reid MD and Karim Anis MD
Implementing Measurement-Based Care in a Youth Partial Hospital Setting: Leveraging Feedback for Sustainability, Jill Donelan, Tyrena Lester, and Stephanie Daly MD
Infant out-of-hospital cardiac arrest during nights and weekends, Timothy Mader MD
Infant out-of-hospital cardiac arrest during nights and weekends, Timothy Mader MD
Infective Pleural Effusions-A Comprehensive Narrative Review Article, Mohammad Abdulelah MD and Mohammad Abu-Hishmeh
Influence of Patient and Clinician Gender on Emergency Department HEART Scores: A Secondary Analysis of a Prospective Observational Trial, Rebecca Barron MD, Timothy Mader MD, Alex Knee, Donna M. Wilson, Jeannette Wolfe MD, Seth Gemme MD, and William Soares MD
In-hospital safety outcomes of left atrial appendage occlusion in octogenarians and nonagenarians, Andrew Goldsweig MD
In reply, Lauren Westafer DO
Intensive longitudinal assessment following index trauma to predict development of PTSD using machine learning, Niels Rathlev MD
Interim Estimates of 2023-24 Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness - United States, Jay Steingrub MD
Interim Estimates of 2023-24 Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness - United States, Jay Steingrub MD
Intravenous Iron in Patients Hospitalized with Bacterial Infections: Utilization and Outcomes, Jennifer Hammond
"It Can't Hurt!": Why Many Patients With Limited Life Expectancy Decide to Accept Lung Cancer Screening, Eduardo Nunez MD
Left atrial appendage occlusion and patent foramen ovale closure using a steerable sheath and intracardiac echocardiography, Andrew Goldsweig MD
Library & Knowledge Services Newsletter - Spring 2024, Baystate Health Sciences Library
Library & Knowledge Services Newsletter - Winter 2023/24, Baystate Health Sciences Library
Male Breast Cancer: a Review on Diagnosis, Treatment, and Survivorship, Prarthna Bhardwaj MD
Malnutrition in hospitalized adults in the United States, 2016-2019, Meng-Shiou Shieh, Penny Pekow, and Peter Lindenauer
Mammary epithelium permeability during established lactation: associations with cytokine levels in human milk, Sallie Schneider PhD
Measuring accuracy of International Classification of Diseases codes in identification of patients with non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis, O'Neil Green MD, Sybille Liautaud MD, and Alex Knee
Meditation for the reduction of perioperative anxiety in patients undergoing oncology surgery: A scoping review, Cidalia Vital RN
Microaxial Flow Pump in Infarct-Related Cardiogenic Shock, Amir Lotfi
Microvascular recovery with ultrasound in myocardial infarction post-PCI trial, Andrew Goldsweig MD
Mpox Surveillance Based on Rash Characteristics - 13 Emergency Departments, United States, June-December 2023, Howard Smithline
Nanoparticle-mediated co-delivery of inflammasome inhibitors provides protection against sepsis, Hariharan Sivakumar Bharadwaj MD and Ruchi Patel MD
Neonatal respiratory care practice among level III and IV NICUs in New England, Ruben Vaidya MD
Nitrous Oxide Use for Pain in Labor, Conversion to Neuraxial Anesthesia and Birth Outcome, Susan DeJoy, Candice Killeen, Donna Jackson-Kohlin MD, Audrey Psaltis CNM, and Alex Knee
Noninvasive respiratory support in the emergency department: Controversies and state-of-the-art recommendations, Mark Tidswell MD
Nursing News & Views - April 2024, Joanne Miller RN
Nursing News & Views - February 2024, Joanne Miller RN
Nursing News & Views - January 2024, Joanne Miller RN
Nursing News & Views - June 2024, Joanne Miller RN
Nursing News & Views - March 2024, Joanne Miller RN
Nursing Perceptions of Robotic Technology in Healthcare: A Pretest-Posttest-Survey Analysis Using an Educational Video, Cidalia Vital RN
Outcomes of Device-detected Atrial High-rate Episodes in Patients with No Prior History of Atrial Fibrillation: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, Andrew Goldsweig MD
Outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve replacement in patients with amyloidosis: a comparative meta-analysis, Andrew Goldsweig MD
Pediatricians' Career Satisfaction and Wellbeing by Sex Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Amy Starmer MD
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Versus Optimal Medical Therapy for Severe Ischemic Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction, Andrew Goldsweig MD
Perioperative Care in Cardiac Surgery: A Joint Consensus Statement by the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Cardiac Society, ERAS International Society, and The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), Cheryl Crisafi RN and Daniel Engelman MD
Policy Priorities in Cancer Care for Transgender People, Michael Yunes MD
Post-traumatic stress and future substance use outcomes: leveraging antecedent factors to stratify risk, Niels Rathlev MD
Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in newborns born to SARS-CoV-2-positive mothers at 2 weeks of life, Joanna Beachy MD
Preventive Primary Care in the Postpartum Year: The Role of Medicaid Delivery System Reform, Kimberley Geissler MD
Preventive Primary Care in the Postpartum Year: The Role of Medicaid Delivery System Reform, Kimberley Geissler MD
Prison Buprenorphine Implementation and Postrelease Opioid Use Disorder Outcomes, Benjamin Bovell-Ammon and Peter Friedmann MD
Probing the neurocardiac circuit in trauma and posttraumatic stress, Niels Rathlev MD
Protocol for a parallel cluster randomized trial of a participatory tailored approach to reduce overuse of antibiotics at hospital discharge: the ROAD home trial, Peter Lindenauer
Racial Disparities in Surgical Treatment of Uterine Fibroids During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Rebecca Barbaresso, Neena Qasba MD, Alex Knee, and Kelly Benabou MD
Receipt of medications for opioid use disorder before and after incarceration in Massachusetts State prisons, 2014-2019, Peter Friedmann MD
Recombinant ADAMTS13 for Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, Sajjad Hassan and Chester Andrzejewski MD
Review of interventions that improve uptake of lung cancer screening: a cataloging of strategies that have been shown to work (or not), Eduardo Nunez MD
Safety and Efficacy of Combining Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion With Another Cardiac Procedure, Andrew Goldsweig MD
Sarcopenia and aortic valve disease, Daniel Engelman MD
SARS-CoV-2 Symptoms during the Omicron Surge Differ between Boosted and Vaccinated Non-Boosted Persons, Paul Visintainer
Selective breast/gynecologic pathology fellowship training in the United States: Experience of program directors, Ashraf Khan MD
Severity of Respiratory Syncytial Virus vs COVID-19 and Influenza Among Hospitalized US Adults, Jay Steingrub MD
Sex-dependent differences in vulnerability to early risk factors for posttraumatic stress disorder: results from the AURORA study, Niels Rathlev MD
Sex differences in response inhibition-related neural predictors of PTSD in recent trauma-exposed civilians, Niels Rathlev MD
SFRP1 decreases WNT-Mediated M2 macrophage marker expression in breast tissue, Kelly Gregory, Holly Mason MD, Jesse Casaubon, and Sallie Schneider PhD
SHEA position statement on pandemic preparedness for policymakers: building a strong and resilient healthcare workforce, Sarah Haessler MD
SHEA position statement on pandemic preparedness for policymakers: emerging infectious threats, Sarah Haessler MD
SHEA position statement on pandemic preparedness for policymakers: introduction and overview, Sarah Haessler MD
SHEA position statement on pandemic preparedness for policymakers: pandemic data collection, maintenance, and release, Sarah Haessler MD
SHEA position statement on pandemic preparedness for policymakers: the role of healthcare epidemiologists in communicating during infectious diseases outbreaks, Sarah Haessler MD
Short term outcomes of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome: a comparison of two approaches, Robert Rothstein MD and Marcia VanVleet MD
Social determinants of health rather than race impact health-related quality of life in 10-year-old children born extremely preterm, Ruben Vaidya MD
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America position statement on pandemic preparedness for policymakers: mitigating supply shortages, Sarah Haessler MD
Tackling Guideline Non-concordance: Primary Care Barriers to Incorporating Life Expectancy into Lung Cancer Screening Decision-Making-A Qualitative Study, Eduardo Nunez MD
Target trial emulation for comparative effectiveness research with observational data: Promise and challenges for studying medications for opioid use disorder, Benjamin Bovell-Ammon
The BMP Voice - February 2024, Andrew Artenstein MD
The BMP Voice Introduction, Andrew Artenstein MD
The effect of a selenium-based anti-inflammatory strategy on postoperative functional recovery in high-risk cardiac surgery patients - A nested sub-study of the sustain CSX trial, Daniel Engelman MD
The effect of per-oral endoscopic myotomy by achalasia subtype as measured by impedance planimetry, Matthew Mikulski MD, Craig Ashcroft MD, Christina Provenza MD, David Desilets MD, and John Romanelli MD
The Financial Impact of COVID on Radiology Health Systems, Ahmed Farag MD and Kal Dulaimy MD
The Impact of COVID on Health Systems: The Workforce and Telemedicine Perspective, Kal Dulaimy MD and Ahmed Farag MD
The Innovator - Winter 2023/24, Matthew Hamel
The joy of surgery: how gender influences surgeons' experiences, John Romanelli MD
The joy of surgery: how surgeons experience joy, time, and support, John Romanelli MD
The Public Health and Economic Impact of Drug Overdose Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest in the United States, Timothy Mader MD
The relationship between felt stigma and non-fatal overdose among rural people who use drugs, Peter Friedmann MD
The role of machine learning models for predicting in-hospital mortality after transcatheter aortic valve replacement, Andrew Goldsweig MD
Trailblazing Clinical Trials in Asthma, COPD, Sleep Medicine, and Education and Clinical Practice in 2023, Mary Jo S. Farmer MD
Transcatheter Versus Surgical Mitral Valve Interventions in Patients With Prior Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting, Andrew Goldsweig MD
Transitions in health insurance among continuously insured patients with schizophrenia, Kimberley Geissler MD
Trends in Initial Anticoagulation Among US Patients Hospitalized With Acute Pulmonary Embolism 2011-2020, Lauren Westafer DO, Thomas Presti MD, Meng-Shiou Shieh, Penny Pekow, and Peter Lindenauer
Unveiling the Chilaiditi Syndrome: A Case Report and Management Implications, Ibrahim Elkhawas MD
Vaccination for Patients Receiving Dialysis, Daniel Landry MD
Validation of dried blood spots for capturing hepatitis C virus diversity for genomic surveillance, Peter Friedmann MD
Validation of the PediBIRN-7 clinical prediction rule for pediatric abusive head trauma, Stephen Boos MD
Validity of Computer-interpreted "Normal" and "Otherwise Normal" ECG in Emergency Department Triage Patients, Ashley Deutsch MD, Kye Poronsky, Lauren Westafer DO, Paul Visintainer, and Timothy Mader MD
Visual Intelligence Education as a Tool for Enhancing Medical Students' Self-Perception of Communication Skills, Chloe Jammes MD
Wake you up to put you asleep. do pharmacological combinations for obstructive sleep apnea make sense?, Karin Johnson MD
What Every Colorectal Surgeon Needs to Know about the Proposed Limitations to Noncompete Clauses, Kelly Tyler MD
Your BMP Voice – April 2024, Andrew Artenstein MD
Your BMP Voice – June 2024, Andrew Artenstein MD
Your BMP Voice: The Interview – March 2024, Andrew Artenstein MD
Your BMP Voice: The Interview – May 2024, Andrew Artenstein MD