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Submissions from 2015

 

Outcomes and Predictors of Hospital Mortality in Metastatic Cancer Patients Receiving Life Sustaining Treatments (LSTs), Kah Poh Loh MD

 

Predictors of Life Sustaining Treatments in Patients with Metastatic Cancer, Kah Poh Loh MD

 

Sleep apnea and severe bradyarrhythmia--an alternative treatment option: a case report, Amir Lotfi MD

 

Effect of an exercise intervention on gestational diabetes mellitus: a randomized controlled trial, Glenn Markenson MD

 

Gout as Cause of Severe Neck Pain, Saki Miwa MD

 

Letter: future directions for epidemiological studies of Barrett's oesophagus, Farhad Navab MD

 

The association between skilled nursing facility care quality and 30-day readmission rates after hospitalization for heart failure, Owolabi Ogunneye MD, Jennifer Friderici, Mara Slawsky MD, T. Vijay Gadiraju MD, and Mihaela Stefan MD

 

Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis and Hepatic Fibrosis in HIV-1-Monoinfected Adults With Elevated Aminotransferase Levels on Antiretroviral Therapy, Abigail Orenstein MD

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Participation Rates, Process Monitoring, and Quality Improvement Among Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs in the United States: A NATIONAL SURVEY, Quinn Pack MD

 

Association of guideline-based antimicrobial therapy and outcomes in healthcare-associated pneumonia, Penny Pekow, Aruna Priya, Sarah Haessler MD, Raquel Belforti MD, Daniel Skiest MD, Tara Lagu MD, Thomas Higgins MD, and Peter Lindenauer MD

 

The Baystate Frailty Study - Prevalence of Frailty in a Cohort of Hospitalized Elderly Patients, Hari Pokharel MD

 

Effects of oral premedication on cognitive status of elderly patients undergoing cardiac catherization, Marc Schweiger MD, Neelima Vallurupalli MD, Sandra Bellantonio MD, and James Cook MD

 

Direct admission to hospitals among children in the United States, Meng-Shiou Shieh, Tara Lagu MD, Penny Pekow, and Peter Lindenauer MD

 

Investigation of Efavirenz Discontinuation in Multi-ethnic Populations of HIV-positive Individuals by Genetic Analysis, Daniel Skiest MD

 

Poststreptococcal immunologic complications, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

 

Death among patients hospitalized with pneumonia: implications for hospital outcome measures, Mihaela Stefan MD, Randa Jaber MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, Jane Garb, and Jan Fitzgerald

 

Is optimism bias about prognosis by surrogate decision makers associated with more health care utilization at the end of life?, Jay Steingrub MD

 

An Unusual Cause of Fever, Eng Tan MD

 

Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus: Master of Disguise, Eng Tan MD and Kah Poh Loh MD

 

A seashell by the seashore, Matthew Thornton MD

 

Genetic factors in susceptibility to contact sensitivity., Peter S. Friedmann, Tilman Sanchez-Elsner, and Axel Schnuch

 

Characteristics of smoking used cigarettes among an incarcerated population., Ryan Lantini, Jacob J. van den Berg, Mary B. Roberts, Beth C. Bock, L A R Stein, Donna R. Parker, Peter D. Friedmann, and Jennifer G. Clarke

 

Long Eye Lashes, Too Long to See Them!, Fadi Alkhatib MD

 

Too Little Can Make You Bleed, Too Much Can Give You a Heart Attack!, Fadi Alkhatib MD

 

Unmasking the Silent Infection!, Fadi Alkhatib MD

 

The Association Between Insurance Type and Cost-Related Delay in Care: A Survey of Access to Care in Massachusetts, Sora Al Rowas MD

 

Adjunctive Diagnostic Procedures for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, Auras Atreya MD and Amir Lotfi MD

 

Seeing is believing: Optimizing outpatient direct observation in the age of milestones, Sudeep Kaur Aulakh MD and Michael Rosenblum MD

 

Proton Pump Inhibitor Induced Acute Interstitial Nephritis - Remaining Mindful of the Medication Reconciliation, Jasdeep Badwal MD

 

Novel method to collect medication adverse events in juvenile arthritis: results from the childhood arthritis and rheumatology research alliance enhanced drug safety surveillance project, Peter Blier MD

 

Health Librarianship: An Introduction, edited by Jeffrey T. Huber and Feilu Tu-Keefner Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2014. 295p. ISBN 978-1-61069-321-9. $75.00 (softcover), Ellen Brassil

 

Myocardial Infarction: The Forme Fruste of Endocarditis, Daniel Coffin DO

 

Bevacizumab in high-grade gliomas: past, present, and future, Saurabh Dahiya MD

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Topic: Recent Innovations in Hernia Surgery, David Desilets MD and John Romanelli MD

 

Countless Causes of Confusion, Jillian Edmonds DO

 

Change of heart-assessing decisional capacity in discharges, Nura El-Haj MD, Randa Jaber MD, and Wanda Colon-Cartagena MD

 

Effects of Red-Cell Storage Duration on Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery, Richard Engelman MD

 

Strategies and Devices to Minimize Stroke in Adult Cardiac Surgery, Richard Engelman MD and Daniel Engelman MD

 

A Cryptic Pneumonia in an Immunocompetent Patient, Amanda Fernandes MD

 

Reduced Frequencies of Polyfunctional CMV-Specific T Cell Responses in Infants with Congenital CMV Infection, Donna Fisher MD

 

Outcomes associated with a mandatory gastroenterology consultation to improve the quality of care of patients hospitalized with decompensated cirrhosis, Rony Ghaoui MD, Jennifer Friderici, David Desilets MD, Tara Lagu MD, Paul Visintainer, Angelica Belo MD, Jorge Sotelo MD, and Peter Lindenauer MD

 

Small cell carcinoma of the bladder- a rare aggressive tumor and a curse to the elderly, Santhi Gokaraju MD, Ritika Vankina MD, Kathryn Jobbins DO, Reham Shaaban MD, and Wanda Colon-Cartagena MD

 

Mirtazapine Induced Galactorrhea: A Rare Adverse Effect, Hector Guzman MD

 

Frequency of Follow Up Imaging Recommended by Radiologists and the Impact on Clinical Treatment Plans, Owen Hanley MD

 

Resource specification for prototyping human-intensive systems, Philip Henneman MD

 

Where are the brakes? Assessing driving safety in dementia, James Higgs MD and Rebecca Starr MD

 

Impact of the 2008 USPSTF Recommendation on Clinician's Practice Following an Elevated PSA Test in Elderly Men, Sami Ibrahimi MD

 

Thick serum can clog the brain, Sami Ibrahimi MD, Evrim Erdogan PhD, Wanda Colon-Cartagena MD, and Ashish Verma MD

 

HIV in the elderly, Sami Ibrahimi MD and Armando Paez MD

 

Schizophrenia and coronary artery disease, Martha Ignaszewski MD

 

Lithium Induced Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus in an older adult, Randa Jaber MD and Maria Ferrera MD

 

“Please help me”-a caregiver’s stress, Randa Jaber MD and Rebecca Starr MD

 

TRANSFORM-ing patient safety culture: a universal imperative, Tara Lagu MD

 

Prevalence and Predictors of Mental/Emotional Distress Among HIV+ Jail Detainees at Enrollment in an Observational Study, Thomas Lincoln MD and Maureen Desabrais

 

Extrahepatic Biliary Adenomas: Rare but with Unforeseeable Clinical Course, Kah Poh Loh MD

 

Geriatrics in Malaysia, Kah Poh Loh MD, Yee Chuan Ang MD, and Maura Brennan MD

 

Between Scylla and Charybdis: Antipsychotic use and agitation in hospitalized older adults, Kah Poh Loh MD, Maria Ferrera MD, and Maura Brennan MD

 

Linking digital natives with digital immigrants, Gina Luciano MD, Sudeep Kaur Aulakh MD, and Michael Rosenblum MD

 

Code Status in the Perioperative Period, Alexandra Marchetta MD

 

TRACER: an 'eye-opener' to the patient experience across the transition of care in an internal medicine resident program, Lauren Meade MD, Reva Kleppel, and Kevin Hinchey MD

 

Use of radiofrequency ablation probe for eradication of residual adenoma after ampullectomy, Vaibhav Mehendiratta MD and David Desilets MD

 

An Unusual Presentation of Gout, Saki Miwa MD

 

Systemically delivered adipose stromal vascular fraction cells disseminate to peripheral artery walls and reduce vasomotor tone through a CD11b+ cell-dependent mechanism, Marvin Morris MD

 

A Puff of Smoke in the Brain: Moyamoya Disease in a 25-Year-Old Female, Anita Mulye MD

 

The Baystate Frailty Study - Prevalence of Frailty in a Cohort of Hospitalized Elderly Patients, Hari Pokharel MD

 

Sensitive troponin assays in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome: Results from the multicenter rule out myocardial infarction using computer assisted tomography II trial, J. Hector Pope MD

 

Thrombosis in a Bleeding Disorder, Sheryl Ramdass MD

 

Sextuplets at 67, Sheryl Ramdass MD and Rebecca Starr MD

 

Accepted Wisdom: Not Necessarily Correct, Jolian Rios MD

 

Cardiac Strain during Upright Cycle Ergometry in Adolescent Males, Thomas Rowland MD

 

Idiopathic Non-Uremic Calciphylaxis: A Case Study, Abdullah Shaikh MD

 

Drug-Induced Psoriatic Arthritis - Rare Presentation after Hepatitis C Treatment, Dilpreet Singh MD

 

Hemorrhagic Pancreatic Pseudocyst - Blood Weeping Pseudocyst with Fistulization, an Uncommon Complication of Pancreatic Pseudocyst, Dilpreet Singh MD

 

A Differential to Remember: Pylephlebitis in a Patient with HIV Presenting with Abdominal Pain and Fever, Donielle Sliwa MD

 

Independent evaluation of a simple clinical prediction rule to identify right ventricular dysfunction in patients with shortness of breath, Howard Smithline MD

 

Emergency medicine residents' knowledge of mechanical ventilation, Howard Smithline MD and Lucienne Lutfy-Clayton MD

 

Trends in mechanical ventilation among patients hospitalized with acute exacerbations of COPD in the United States, 2001 to 2011, Mihaela Stefan MD, Meng-Shoiu Shieh, Penny Pekow, Nancy Hill RN, and Peter Lindenauer MD

 

‘The double effect’ of capacity assessment on care goals for a neglected elder with advanced dementia superimposed by delirium, Monica Thim DO

 

Risk factor model to predict a missed clinic appointment in an urban, academic, and underserved setting, Orlando Torres MD, Jane Garb, Owolabi Ogunneye MD, and Thomas Higgins MD

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An internet-based diabetes management platform improves team care and outcomes in an urban Latino population, Garry Welch, Sofija Zagarins MD, and Paula Santiago-Kelley

 

Adverse drug reaction-related hospitalization in the elderly: five year trends from 2007-2011, Shugin Xing MD and Michael Voisine MD

 

Extended-release naltrexone to prevent relapse among opioid dependent, criminal justice system involved adults: rationale and design of a randomized controlled effectiveness trial., Joshua D. Lee, Peter D. Friedmann, Tamara Y. Boney, Randall A Jr Hoskinson, Ryan McDonald, Michael Gordon, Marc Fishman, Donna T. Chen, Richard J. Bonnie, Timothy W. Kinlock, Edward V. Nunes, James W. Cornish, and Charles P. O'Brien

 

The Association Between Insurance Type and Cost-related Delay in Care: A Survey of Access to Care in Massachusetts, Sora Al Rowas MD

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Practice patterns in imaging of the abdomen and pelvis of the pregnant patient: a survey from the 2012 Radiological Society Of North America Annual Meeting controversies session, Tara Catanzano MD

 

Milk-alkali-induced Pancreatitis in a Chronically Hypocalcemic Patient with DiGeorge Syndrome, Nicholas Daniel MD

 

Focal Crescentic and Necrotizing Proliferative Glomerulonephritis with Crystalline Light Chain Deposits: A Unique Light Chain Associated Pattern of Injury, Jillian Edmonds DO

 

Skin Necrosis from Levamisole Contaminated Cocaine, Amanda Fernandes MD

 

Red blood cell transfusion practices: a college of american pathologists q-probes study of compliance with audit criteria in 128 hospitals, Richard Friedberg MD

 

Time-Limited vs Unlimited Physician Certification, Paul Friedmann MD

 

Advance care planning: a qualitative study of dialysis patients and families, Sarah Goff MD, Rebecca Feinberg MPH, Jennifer Germain, and Lewis Cohen MD

 

Life Threatening Transaminitis as a Complication from the Use of Clozaoine, Santhi Gokaraju MD

 

Small Cell Carcinoma of the Bladder - A Rare Aggressive Tumor and a Curse to the Elderly, Santhi Gokaraju MD

 

Mirtazapine Induced Galactorrhea: A Rare Adverse Effect, Hector Guzman MD

 

Frequency of Follow Up Imaging Recommended by Radiologists and the Impact on Clinical Treatment Plans, Owen Hanley MD and Tiara Sanborn MD

 

"Less is more" and the house of god: was the fat man right again?, Tara Lagu MD

 

Hospital patterns of mechanical ventilation for patients with exacerbations of COPD, Peter Lindenauer MD, Mihaela Stefan MD, Meng-Shiou Shieh, Penny Pekow, and Nancy Hill RN

 

Elderly-Onset Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders, Kah Poh Loh MD

 

From hospital to community: Use of antipsychotics in hospitalized elders, Kah Poh Loh MD

 

Prepregnancy body mass index, gestational weight gain, and elevated depressive symptoms in a Hispanic cohort, Glenn Markenson MD

 

Found in transition: applying milestones to three unique discharge curricula, Lauren Meade MD