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Submissions from 2022 2022

Intraoperative Lymph Node Assessment (Touch Preparation Only) for Metastatic Breast Carcinoma in Neoadjuvant and Non-neoadjuvant Settings, Esma Ersoy MD, Mahmoud Elsayad, Madhavi Pandiri MD, Alex Knee, Q Jackie Cao MD, and Giovanna Crisi MD

Principles and Considerations in the Early Identification and Prehospital Treatment of Thrombocytopenia, Seth Kelly MD

Efficacy and safety of brolucizumab versus aflibercept in eyes with early persistent retinal fluid: 96-week outcomes from the HAWK and HARRIER studies, David Lally MD

Subretinal Fluid Resolution and Visual Acuity in Patients with Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration: A HARBOR Post Hoc Analysis, David Lally MD

Insulin resistance and weight gain in women treated for early stage breast cancer, Grace Makari-Judson MD, Deborah Katz MD, Ruth Barham, and Wilson Mertens MD

Mucinous Signet-Cell Adenocarcinoma of the Ileum: A Diagnostic Challenge-Case Report and Review of the Literature, Tiago Martins, Jalaluddin Umar MD, Kevin Groudan MD, Hariharan Sivakumar Bharadwaj MD, and David Desilets MD

The New England Neurosurgical Society: growth and evolution over 70 years, Dennis Oh MD

Assessment of Bleeding Risk in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients: A Tertiary Hospital Experience during the Pandemic in a Predominant Minority Population-Bleeding Risk Factors in COVID-19 Patients, Antoinette Pacifico MD

Relation of a Maximal Exercise Test to Change in Exercise Tolerance During Cardiac Rehabilitation, Quinn Pack MD

Fractional Flow Reserve-Guided PCI as Compared with Coronary Bypass Surgery, Adam Rosenblum DO and Quinn Pack MD

Unraveling Ondine's curse caused by Listeria rhombencephalitis, Michael Sansait DO and William McGee MD

Cardiovascular Predictors of Intracerebral Hematoma Expansion, Khalid Sawalha MD

Exposure to Low Doses of Oxybenzone During Perinatal Development Alters Mammary Gland Stroma in Female Mice, Sallie Schneider PhD

Update on the Personal and Professional Well-Being of Surgical Residents in New England, Neal Seymour MD

Tocilizumab in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 pneumonia: Efficacy, safety, viral clearance, and antibody response from a randomised controlled trial (COVACTA), Daniel Skiest M.D.

Protection of mRNA vaccines against hospitalized COVID-19 in adults over the first year following authorization in the United States, Jay Steingrub MD

Non-reimbursable Workload in Pediatric Diabetes Care – the Providers’ Perspective, Ksenia Tonyushkina MD and Nicholas Koran

Prescribe to Save Lives: Improving buprenorphine prescribing among HIV clinicians, Donna M. Wilson, Randall Hoskinson, and Peter Friedmann MD

The History of Durable Left Ventricular Assist Devices and Comparison of Outcomes: HeartWare, HeartMate II, HeartMate 3, and the Future of Mechanical Circulatory Support, Cecilia Berardi MD

Association Between Loss of SATB2 Expression in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Indefinite for Dysplasia and a Diagnosis of Definitive Dysplasia on Follow-up, Anthony Cretara MD, Alex Knee, James Mueller MD, and Rahul Jawale

Controversies in enhanced recovery after cardiac surgery, Daniel Engelman MD

ERAS without Intraoperative Goal Directed Fluid Therapy is Still ERAS, Daniel Engelman MD

Video Images about Decisions for Ethical Outcomes in Kidney Disease (VIDEO-KD): the study protocol for a multi-centre randomised controlled trial, Michael Germain MD

How the COVID Crisis Changed Our Lives in the ICU, O'Neil Green MD, Mohammad Abu-Hishmeh MD, and Thomas Higgins MD

Search for Venous Endothelial Biomarkers Heralding Venous Thromboembolism in Space: A Qualitative Systematic Review of Terrestrial Studies, Tovy Kamine MD

Reply: Low-Cost, Three-Dimensionally-Printed, Anatomical Models for Optimization of Orbital Wall Reconstruction, Jonathan Lee MD

Improving Outcomes Following a COPD Hospitalization; Lessons in Population Health from VA, Peter Lindenauer

Association of fluoroquinolones or cephalosporin plus macrolide with Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) after treatment for community-acquired pneumonia, Peter Lindenauer and Sarah Haessler MD

Novel User-Friendly Application for MRI Segmentation of Brain Resection following Epilepsy Surgery, Georgios Ntolkeras MD

Case report: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia presenting as myocarditis, Eva Nunlist MD

Comparison of Ratings of Perceived Exertion and Target Heart Rate-Based Exercise Prescription in Cardiac Rehabilitation: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED PILOT STUDY, Quinn Pack MD and Patrick Schilling

Failure to Detect SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the Air During Active Labor in Mothers Who Recently Tested Positive, Corina Schoen MD and Elizabeth Morgan

"Just give them a choice": Patients' perspectives on starting medications for opioid use disorder in the ED, Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD, Lauren Westafer DO, Jillian Tozloski, Abigail Girardin, and William Soares MD

Death among patients hospitalized with symptomatic COVID-19: Implications for high-risk patients, Mihaela Stefan MD, Ahmed Eltanbedawi MD, Neil Devoe DO, Sabiha Khan MD, Ya Zhou MD, Taroob Latef MD, Anthony Esposito DO, Anum Fatima MD, and Alex Knee

Efficacy of models of palliative care delivered beyond the traditional physician-led, subspecialty consultation service model: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Mihaela Stefan MD, Alex Knee, Audrey Ready, Vida Rastegar, and Bridget Gunn

Modeling clinical trajectory status of critically ill COVID-19 patients over time: A method for analyzing discrete longitudinal and ordinal outcomes, Jay Steingrub MD

mRNA Vaccine Effectiveness Against COVID-19 Hospitalization Among Solid Organ Transplant Recipients, Jay Steingrub MD

Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome: A Comparison of As-Needed Pharmacotherapy, Marcia Van Vleet MD and Robert Rothstein MD

Hot off the Press: We care a lot: the EmPATH study, Lauren Westafer DO

Risk for Recurrent Venous Thromboembolism in Patients With Subsegmental Pulmonary Embolism Managed Without Anticoagulation, Lauren Westafer DO

Great Question! The Art and Science of Crafting High-Quality Multiple-Choice Questions, Tara Catanzano MD

"I've been to more of my friends' funerals than I've been to my friends' weddings": Witnessing and responding to overdose in rural Northern New England, Peter Friedmann MD

Legislatively mandated implementation of medications for opioid use disorders in jails: A qualitative study of clinical, correctional, and jail administrator perspectives, Peter Friedmann MD

A Five-Week-Old Twin With Profound Anemia: A Case Report of Asymmetric Congenital Babesiosis, Julien Ginsberg-Peltz and Liza Smith MD

PAP therapy and readmission rates after in-hospital laboratory titration polysomnography in patients with hypoventilation, Karin Johnson MD, Vida Rastegar, Nicholas Scuderi, Douglas Johnson MD, and Paul Visintainer

Safe Positioning of Central Venous Catheters, Asad Khan MD and William McGee MD

Ergonomics of gastrointestinal endoscopies: Musculoskeletal injury among endoscopy physicians, nurses, and technicians, Aysha Khan MD

Utilization of Core Values and Branding to Recruit the Best Trainees for Your Program, Stewart Mackie MD and Sharon Wretzel MD

The Burden of Critical Illness in Hospitalized Children in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Carol Pineda MD

The Expanding Use of Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Type 2 Diabetes, Paul A. Pirraglia

Corrigendum to "Learning from gain and loss: Links to suicide risk" [J. Psychiatr. Res. 147 (2022) 126-134], Niels Rathlev MD

Long term results on the severity of acute appendicitis during COVID-19 pandemic, Elizabeth Santone MD, Francesca Izzo MD, Karina Lo, Aixa Perez Coulter, Nicolas Jabbour MD, and Georgios Orthopoulos MD

COVID-19: The Impact on Internal Medicine Resident Training, Khalid Sawalha MD

Traction versus no traction in Foley catheter use for induction of labor: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials, Corina Schoen MD and Elizabeth Baker MD

Cytopenia after CAR-T Cell Therapy-A Brief Review of a Complex Problem, Naman Sharma MD

Associations between persistent symptoms after mild COVID-19 and long-term health status, quality of life, and psychological distress, Jay Steingrub MD

Clinical severity of, and effectiveness of mRNA vaccines against, covid-19 from omicron, delta, and alpha SARS-CoV-2 variants in the United States: prospective observational study, Jay Steingrub MD

Evaluation of three barrier-type closed system transfer devices using the 2015 NIOSH vapor containment performance draft protocol, Andrew Szkiladz

Comparative Efficacy of Endoscopic Assist Devices on Colonic Adenoma Detection: A Systematic Review With Network Meta-analysis, Kartikeya Tripathi MD

At Fifty Annals Finds Itself in a Hybrid Era, Straddling the Print and Digital Worlds: The Future of Both Platforms Depends on Usability, Lauren Westafer DO

Safety of Laparoscopic Appendectomy in the Setting of Coagulopathy: An ACS-NSQIP Study, Ya Zhou MD, Vida Rastegar, and Mazen Al-Mansour MD

Extra-axial haemorrhages in young children with skull fractures: abuse or accident?, Stephen Boos MD

Abortion bans and implications for physician-patient trust, Christene DeJong and Carolyn Delk MD

Advanced practice providers in academic emergency medicine: A national survey of chairs and program directors, Tala Elia MD

Situational Awareness of Opioid Consumption: The Missing Link to Reducing Dependence After Surgery?, Daniel Engelman MD; Cheryl Crisafi, MSN, RN, CNL; Taylor Hodle; and John Stiles

Uncommon and preventable: Perceptions of diversion of medication for opioid use disorder in jail, Peter Friedmann MD

Etiology, Treatments, and Outcomes of Patients With Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia in a Large U.S. Sample, Sarah Haessler MD and Peter Lindenauer

A response to COVID-19 school closures: the feasibility of a school-linked text message intervention as an adaptation to school-supervised asthma therapy, Peter Lindenauer

Use of minimally invasive surgery for the management of hollow viscus traumatic injuries, Andrew Litwin MD, Aixa Perez Coulter, John Romanelli MD, and Michael Tirabassi MD

Prevalence of post-acute COVID-19 syndrome symptoms at different follow-up periods: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Yasin Obeidat MD

Exercise Prescription Methods and Attitudes in Cardiac Rehabilitation: A National Survey, Quinn Pack MD

Perinatal Opioid Use Disorder Research, Race, and Racism: A Scoping Review, Elizabeth Peacock-Chambers MD

Chest CT-assessed comorbidities and all-cause mortality risk in COPD patients in the BODE cohort, Victor Pinto-Plata

Implicit bias or selection bias? The need for rigorous methods when attempting to identify disparities in care, Aruna Priya

How Much Fluid Should I Give to My Patient on a Ventilator?, Nakul Ravikumar MD and William McGee MD

Comparison of Use of the Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Program and Patient Characteristics Before vs During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Barry Sarvet MD

Are We Making Progress in the Hunt for Biomarkers that Could Differentiate Proton Pump Inhibitor-Responsive Eosinophilic Esophagitis?, Wael Sayej MD

A checklist for assessing the methodological quality of concurrent tES-fMRI studies (ContES checklist): a consensus study and statement, Gottfried Schlaug MD

Vaginal progesterone versus Intramuscular 17-hydroxyprogesterone caproate for Prevention of recurrent preterm birth (VIP): a randomized controlled trial, Corina Schoen MD and Sami Backley MD

Neutralizing Antibodies and Cytokines in Breast Milk After Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) mRNA Vaccination, Corina Schoen MD and Sallie Schneider PhD

Overcoming Systems Factors in Case Logging with Artificial Intelligence Tools, Neal Seymour MD

Variability of Prognostic Communication in Critically Ill Neurologic Patients: A Pilot Multicenter Mixed-Methods Study, Jay Steingrub MD

Hot off the Press: Stop fallin': Geriatric fall prevention in the ED, Lauren Westafer DO

Incorporating the entity of under-transfusion into hemovigilance monitoring: Documenting cases due to lack of inventory, Chester Andrzejewski MD

Menstrual Health and Hygiene among Adolescents in the United States, Paula Braverman MD

Finding the Right Academic Position, Tara Catanzano MD

An Unlikely Trio: Profound Anemia, Elevated Lactate, and Riociguat, Mary Jo S. Farmer MD

Intracranial atherosclerosis: Review of imaging features and advances in diagnostics, Edward Feldmann MD

Lipid Levels and Short-Term Risk of Recurrent Brain Infarcts in Symptomatic Intracranial Stenosis, Edward Feldmann MD

Monitored COVID-19 mRNA vaccine second doses for people with adverse reactions after the first dose, Megan Gallagher, Sarah Haessler MD, Elizabeth Pecoy-Whitcomb PA, and Jonathan Bayuk MD

Central Sleep Apnea: Adaptive Servo-Ventilation, Intelligent Volume-Assured Pressure Support, and Hypoventilation, Karin Johnson MD and Douglas Johnson MD

Very low tidal volume, high-frequency ventilation in atrial fibrillation ablation: a systematic review, Anis Kadado MD, Kyle Gobeil MD, Abdullah Pervaiz MD, and Jean Chalhoub MD

Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines for Extramammary Paget Disease, Ashraf Khan MD

Treatment of refractory overactive bladder with OnabotulinumtoxinA vs PTNS: TROOP trial, Katelyn Kopcsay MD

Reply: Low-Cost, Three-Dimensionally-Printed, Anatomical Models for Optimization of Orbital Wall Reconstruction, Jonathan Lee MD

The Impact of Principal Diagnosis on Readmission Risk among Patients Hospitalized for Community-Acquired Pneumonia, Peter Lindenauer

Away Rotation Applications in Emergency Medicine: Medical Student Behaviors, Outcomes, and Stressors, Lucienne Lutfy-Clayton M.D.

Exploring Patient Experience with Noninvasive Ventilation: A Human-Centered Design Analysis to Inform Planning for Better Tolerance, Jill McCormick, Taylar Clark, Peter Lindenauer, Crystal Allen, Mary Jo S. Farmer MD, Jay Steingrub MD, and Mihaela Stefan MD

Surgeon perceptions of volume threshold and essential practices for pediatric thyroidectomy, Kevin Moriarty MD

Antibody Response Among Maintenance Dialysis Patients to the COVID-19 Ad26.COV2.S Vaccine, Jeffrey Mulhern MD