Submissions from 2012
Novel NaPi-IIc mutations causing HHRH and idiopathic hypercalciuria in several unrelated families: Long-term follow-up in one kindred, Nancy Dunbar MD
Decongestive treatment of heart failure-Cardiorenal Implications, Benjamin Freda MD
Decongestive treatment of heart failure-Ultrafiltration and diuretics, Benjamin Freda MD
Now and future agenda: Key policy issues, Richard Friedberg MD
Renal Palliative Care, Michael Germain MD and Lewis Cohen MD
Measurement of the quality of care of patients admitted with decompensated cirrhosis, Rony Ghaoui MD, Jennifer Friderici, Peter Lindenauer MD, Tara Lagu MD, and David Desilets MD
Ventilator-associated pneumonia rates at major trauma centers compared with a national benchmark: A multi-institutional study of the AAST, Ronald Gross MD
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
Preterm Birth and 17 Alpha-Hydroxyprogesterone Caproate, Andrew Healy MD
Getting the patient out of the woods - Near death from babesiosis in an elder, Randa Jaber MD and Maura Brennan MD
Scurvy from "Too much Coca-Cola" in a malnourished and bipolar woman, Payal Jhawar MD
Fungal bronchitis: Morbidity, mortality, and treatment, Douglas Johnson MD
Airway management in blunt neck trauma, Adam Kellogg MD
Alcohol withdrawal syndromes, Adam Kellogg MD
Population: A case of a delirious elder, Eimear Kitt MD
Patient opinion of hospital care in England: Analysis of reviews from the NHS Choices website, Tara Lagu MD, Nicholas Hannon, Sarah Goff MD, and Peter Lindenauer MD
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
Elderly female with hypercalcemia: Hodgkin lymphoma masquerading as relapsed, Shin Yin Lee MD, Yee Chuan Ang MD, and Sandra Bellantonio MD
Procedure intensity and the cost of care, Peter Lindenauer MD and Tara Lagu MD
Primary care physicians' use of publicly reported quality data in hospital referral decisions, Peter Lindenauer MD and Michael Rothberg MD
Joint injections, Julio Martinez-Silvestrini MD
Changing ICU practice: The RN/MD collaboration project, William McGee MD, Paula Lusardi, and Elizabeth Henneman
Cardiac output measured with both esophageal doppler device and Vigileo-FloTrac Device, William McGee MD and Karthik Raghunathan MD
Observational study of functional hemodynamics during one lung ventilation, William McGee MD, Karthik Raghunathan MD, Charles Gibson, Gary Hochheiser MD, and Rose Ganim MD
Less is more: management of pediatric splenic injury, Kevin Moriarty MD and David Tashjian MD
Surgical management of pediatric adhesive bowel obstruction, Kevin Moriarty MD and David Tashjian 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
Nursing home care quality and 30-day readmission rates for patients with heart failure, Owolabi Ogunneye MD, Michael Rothberg MD, Jennifer Friderici, Mara Slawsky MD, Reva Kleppel, Stephanie Calcasola, Mihaela Stefan MD, and T. Vijay Gadiraju MD
Risk factor model to predict a missed clinic appointment in an urban, academic and underserved setting, Owolabi Ogunneye MD, Orlando Torres MD, Jane Garb, Reva Kleppel, Thomas Higgins MD, and Michael Rothberg MD
Birds don't make the best companions: Hypersensitivity pneumonitis in the elderly, Wei Ooi MD
Covert cryptococcal meningitis in a patient with systemic lupus erythematous, Armando Paez MD, Senthil Sivalingam MD, Pragathi Saligram MD, and Sivakumar Natanasabapathy MD
More educated emergency department patients are less likely to receive opioids for acute pain, Niels Rathlev MD
Time series analysis of emergency department length of stay per 8-hour shift, Niels Rathlev MD
The patient centered medical home journey, Michael Rosenblum MD
Prophylaxis rates for venous thromboembolism and gastrointestinal bleeding in general medical patients: too low or too high?, Michael Rothberg MD
Continuing medical education activity in echocardiography, Thomas Rowland MD
Orthostatic effects on echocardiographic measures of ventricular function, Thomas Rowland MD
Delirium or pain or urinary retention, Geetika Sachdeva MD
The Strongest Families intervention is more effective than usual care in children with mild or moderate oppositional, attention or anxiety disorders, Barry Sarvet MD
Spontaneous resolution of a Chiari malformation Type I and syrinx after supratentorial craniotomy for excision of a cavernous malformation, Clemens Schirmer MD
Vascular reactivity improves in pre-diabetic patients, post aerobic exercise, Sabyasachi Sen MD and Ashequl Islam MD
A large tumor on the right forearm, Namrata Setia MD, David Refermat MD, Jean Henneberry MD, and Carlos Prieto-Granada MD
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
Paralemmin-1 is over-expressed in estrogen-receptor positive breast cancers, Sallie Smith-Schneider PhD, Sharon Marconi, Christopher Otis MD, and Giovanna Crisi MD
The impact of COPD on management and outcomes of patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction - A ten-year retrospective observational study, Mihaela Stefan MD and Peter Lindenauer MD
The effectiveness and safety of beta-blocker therapy for patients hospitalized for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive lung disease with underlying comorbid ischemic heart disease or heart failure, Mihaela Stefan MD, Michael Rothberg MD, Penny Pekow, and Peter Lindenauer MD
From the white elephant to the common canary: Presentation and outcomes of common and not-so-common critical illnesses, Jay Steingrub MD
The effect of night time admission to a medical-surgical ICU, Mark Tidswell MD and Jay Steingrub MD
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
Floodlighting Unconscious Bias, Jeannette Wolfe MD
Gender Differences in Negotiation, Jeannette Wolfe MD
Understanding the drug treatment community's ambivalence towards tobacco use and treatment., Kimber P. Richter, Jamie J. Hunt, A Paula Cupertino, Susan Garrett, and Peter D. Friedmann
Patent foramen ovale and embolic stroke "en flagrant délit", Ak Alameddine MD, Victor Alimov MD, and Daniel Engelman MD
Frozen blue toes, Anju Bhagavan MD
Abusive head trauma Part II: Radiological aspects, Stephen Boos MD
Oral contraceptive formulation and risk of breast cancer, Ronald Burkman 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
When fat planes take off: A pattern approach to the abdominal radiograph, Lindsay Fox MD and Tara Catanzano MD
Myelofibrosis associated with romiplostim treatment in a patient with immune thrombocytopenia, Jonathan Freeman MD and Maria Gonzalez MD
Update in anemia in CKD, Michael Germain MD
Extreme hypocalcemia associated with Denosumab, Michael Germain MD and Gregory Braden MD
ST segment elevation myocardial infarction as a presenting feature of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, Gregory Giugliano MD, Auras Atreya MD, Sonali Arora MD, and Senthil Sivalingam MD
Effect of concomitant oophorectomy on the perioperative outcomes of laparoscopic hysterectomy, Keisha Jones MD, Oz Harmanli MD, and Alex Knee
Applying for emergency medicine residency, Adam Kellogg 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
Developing and implementing a chief resident leadership curriculum, Gina Luciano MD and Kevin Hinchey MD
So you want to change practice: Recognizing practice issues and channeling those ideas, Paula Lusardi
She sails in medicine, Lucienne Lutfy-Clayton MD
Hospital Collaboration with a Public Library, Margot Malachowski MLS
Hospital Collaboration with a Public Library, Margot Malachowski MLS
Advances in sports medicine and exercise sciences, Julio Martinez-Silvestrini MD
Applying milestones in training: Lessons form a multi-center educational study, Lauren Meade MD
TRACER: Early transitions of care, Lauren Meade MD
Where in the abdomen is the appendix? A review of normal vermiform appendix anatomy and correlation to observed clinical and radiologic presentations in acute appendicitis, Chiedozie Mkpolulu MD and Tara Catanzano MD
MR and CT imaging of orbital tumors: A pictorial essay, Cheri Nguyen MD, Jane An MD, and Shan Li MD
The function and evaluation of lines, tubing and support devices, Dustin Nguyen MD, Tara Catanzano MD, and Michael Swirsky MD
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome associated with para-influenza virus infection. Under so much pressure!, Owolabi Ogunneye MD, . ., James Canoy MD, Daniel Landry MD, and Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD
A rare case of cerebellar abscess secondary to ppeptostreptococcus, Owolabi Ogunneye MD and Eric Churchill 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
The state of transitions of care in emergency medicine, Benjamin Osborne MD
Guillain-Barré syndrome, Beth Rosen MD
Education is ALL about patient care, Michael Rosenblum MD
Team-based care and practice partnerships: making continuity clinic work, Michael Rosenblum MD and Gina Luciano MD
MD Communication: A LEAN performance improvement project at Baystate Medical Center, Adrienne Seiler MD, Jasmine Paadam MD, Christine Bryson MD, and Roy Sittig MD
Improving patient glycemic control using a multi-faceted approach, Adrienne Seiler MD, Vasantha Reddy MD, Winthrop Whitcomb MD, Stephanie Calcasola, and Lynn Roncalli
P53 silenced endothelial progenitor stem cells (EPC) improve collateral circulation post femoral artery occlusion in diabetic mice, Sabyasachi Sen MD
Respiratory mechanics during high-frequency oscillatory ventilation: a physical model and preterm infant study, Rachana Singh MD
D-Dimer threshold increase with pretest probability unlikely for pulmonary embolism to decrease unnecessary computerized tomographic pulmonary angiography, Howard Smithline MD
Metabolic syndrome in obese adolescents is associated with risk for nephrolithiasis., Rishita Tiwari MD, Thomas Campfield MD, Chrystal Wittcopp MD, Gregory Braden MD, Paul Visintainer, Edward Reiter MD, and Holley Allen 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
Urine sampling in hospitalised patients is erroneous and unreliable for clinical care, Surinder Yadav MD, Mary Ellen Scales, Mary Brunton, Denise Schoen, and Evan Benjamin MD
Association between hospital intraoperative blood transfusion practices for surgical blood loss and hospital surgical mortality rates., Wen-Chih Wu, Amal Trivedi, Peter D. Friedmann, William G. Henderson, Tracy S. Smith, Roy M. Poses, Georgette Uttley, Michael Vezeridis, Charles B. Eaton, and Vincent Mor
Adding positive reinforcement in justice settings: acceptability and feasibility., Danielle S. Rudes, Faye S. Taxman, Shannon Portillo, Amy Murphy, Anne Rhodes, Maxine Stitzer, Peter F. Luongo, and Peter D. Friedmann
Toxoplasma encephalitis in HIV: Is a CD4+ count greater than 200/ìL reassuring?, Ashish Arora MD, Jose Martagon-Villamil MD, T. Vijay Gadiraju MD, Auras Atreya MD, and Sonali Arora MD
A longitudinal simulation based medical education curriculum in an internal medicine residency program, Raquel Belforti MD, Ngina Muigai MD, and Mihaela Stefan MD
A rare cause of abdominal pain, Anju Bhagavan MD
Abusive head trauma Part I: Clinical aspects, Stephen Boos MD