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Submissions from 2010

 

Use of 12x/month haemoglobin monitoring with a computer algorithm reduces haemoglobin variability, Jane Garb, Warren Ho MD, and Michael Germain MD

 

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

 

Pearls of left upper quadrant pain, Peter Ghobrial MD

 

Using lubricant for speculum insertion, Oz Harmanli MD and Keisha Jones MD

 

Vaginal evisceration during pessary fitting and treatment with immediate colpocleisis, Oz Harmanli MD and Keisha Jones MD

 

Is antibiotic prophylaxis necessary for midurethral sling procedures? A case series, Oz Harmanli MD, Keisha Jones MD, and Alex Knee

 

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

 

57 y.o. with DKA, Roozbeh Houshyar MD

 

Outcomes of critically ill patients who received cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Timothy Mader MD

 

Utilizing a PGY-1 resident-run pharmacotherapy clinic to achieve a longitudinal ambulatory experience, Aaron Michelucci, Jason Cross, and Evan Horton

 

Development of a defined residency research project timeline, Aaron Michelucci and Evan Horton

 

Use of a four-step resident-candidate rank process to equalize preceptor input in a PGY-1 residency program, Aaron Michelucci and Adam Pesaturo

 

Understanding the CMS pass-through process for PGY-1 residencies, Aaron Michelucci, Adam Pesaturo, and Evan Horton

 

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

 

Inferior vena cava distensibility in patients with SAH, new technology and numbers, better care?, Clemens Schirmer MD

 

Pneumocephalus: Case illustrations and review, Clemens Schirmer MD

 

Metabolic effects of soy supplementation in postmenopausal Caucasian and African American women: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial, Cynthia Sites 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

 

Antidepressant treatment does not improve buprenorphine retention among opioid-dependent persons., Michael D. Stein, Debra S. Herman, Malyna Kettavong, Patricia A. Cioe, Peter D. Friedmann, Tahir Tellioglu, and Bradley J. Anderson

 

The design and evaluation of a graphical display for laboratory data, Patrick Brown MD

 

Images in emergency medicine. Elderly woman with rectal bleeding, Gavin Budhram MD and Linda Willard MD

 

Pretty safe or safe enough and late preterm birth, Ronald Burkman MD

 

Respiratory morbidity in late preterm births, Ronald Burkman MD

 

Increasing hospice services for elderly patients maintained with hemodialysis, Lewis Cohen MD and Michael Germain MD

 

Microtumor embolization leading to cor pulmonale: an extremely rare complication of ovarian cancer, Giovanna Crisi MD and Ranjit Dhelaria MD

 

Anticonvulsant hypersensitivity syndrome treated with intravenous immunoglobulin, David Dredge MD

 

Venous thromboembolism: Have we made headway?, Jan Fitzgerald

 

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

 

Does surgical volume influence short-term outcomes of laparoscopic hysterectomy?, Oz Harmanli MD and Alex Knee

 

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

 

Low Prevalence of Primary HIV Resistance in Western Massachusetts, Dmitri Iarikov MD, Daniel Skiest MD, Claudia Martorell MD, and Robert Hoffman MD

 

Obstructive sleep apnea is a risk factor for stroke and atrial fibrillation, Karin Johnson MD and Douglas Johnson MD

 

Retropubic and transobturator midurethral slings: a decision analysis to compare outcomes including efficacy and complications, Keisha Jones MD

 

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

 

Strategies of correctional health care services organization medical director boot camp, Thomas Lincoln MD

 

The performance of US hospitals as reflected in risk-standardized 30-day mortality and readmission rates for medicare beneficiaries with pneumonia, Peter Lindenauer MD

 

Right anterolateral hip pain with physical activity and sports, Julio Martinez-Silvestrini MD

 

Malignant mesothelioma: A personal perspective and a chronologic review of three decades, Christopher Otis MD

 

Time for oncologists to opt in for routine opt-out HIV testing?, Liron Pantanowitz 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

 

Door-to-balloon time: Performance improvement in the multidisciplinary treatment of myocardial infarction, J. Mark Peterman MD

 

Door-to-balloon time: are we evaluating the wrong metric?, J. Mark Peterman MD, Gregory Giugliano MD, and Marc Schweiger MD

 

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

 

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

 

Vertebral reconstruction using the telescopic plate spacer-thoracolumbar (TPS-TL) device, Clemens Schirmer MD

 

Emerging roles for the TGFbeta family in pancreatic beta-cell homeostasis, Alan Schneyer

 

Estrogen treatment impairs cognitive performance after psychosocial stress and monoamine depletion in postmenopausal women, Cynthia Sites MD

 

Pulse oximetry using a disposable finger sensor placed on the forehead in hypoxic patients, Howard Smithline MD, Ned Rudnitzky MD, Sandra Macomber, and Fidela Blank

 

Dietary vitamin D intake, 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 levels and premenstrual syndrome in a college-aged population, Sofija Zagarins MD

 

Top manager effects on buprenorphine adoption in outpatient substance abuse treatment programs., Peter D. Friedmann, Lan Jiang, and Jeffrey A. Alexander

 

Operative blood loss, blood transfusion, and 30-day mortality in older patients after major noncardiac surgery., Wen-Chih Wu, Tracy S. Smith, William G. Henderson, Charles B. Eaton, Roy M. Poses, Georgette Uttley, Vincent Mor, Satish C. Sharma, Michael Vezeridis, Shukri F. Khuri, and Peter D. Friedmann

 

Electromechanical Dissociation, Sudeep Kaur Aulakh MD

 

Scopolamine treatment and muscarinic receptor subtype-3 gene ablation augment azoxymethane-induced murine liver injury, Angelica Belo MD

 

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

 

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

 

LegalEASE-Breast complaints: How to reduce the risk of medical liabilty, Ronald Burkman MD

 

A need for better predictors of death, Lewis Cohen 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

 

Split decision, Michael Coppola MD

 

Parents' perception of medical errors, Sarah Goff MD

 

Overview of robotics in ObGyn surgery, Daniel Grow MD

 

Patient identification errors are common in a simulated setting, Philip Henneman MD, Donna Fisher MD, and Elizabeth Henneman

 

Preventing serious sequelae after an acute coronary syndrome: the consequences of thrombosis versus bleeding with antiplatelet therapy, Ashequl Islam MD and Pikeshkumar Patel MD

 

Unshackling birth: New models in the criminal justice system, Donna Jackson-Kohlin MD

 

Epstein-BARR virus-associated smooth muscle tumors, Hal Jenson MD

 

Hospitalizations for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: how you count matters, Peter Lindenauer MD

 

Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis among medical patients at US hospitals, Peter Lindenauer MD, Michael Rothberg MD, and Penny Pekow

 

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

 

Looking back at Lyme carditis, Jose Martagon-Villamil MD and Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD

 

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

 

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

 

Sedentary behaviors and abnormal glucose tolerance among pregnant Latina women, Penny Pekow and Glenn Markenson MD

 

Single-port laparoscopic cholecystectomy: initial experience, John Romanelli MD and David Earle MD

 

Transgastric Endoscopic Guided Excision of a large gastric trichobezoar, Connie Rossini MD, Gregory Banever MD, and Kevin Moriarty MD

 

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

 

Flawed experimental design reveals the need for guidelines requiring appropriate positive controls in endocrine disruption research, Alan Schneyer

 

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

 

Role of antioxidants manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) and Catalase (CAT) in preventing adipogenic and promoting osteogenic differentiation of human bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells (hMSC) in hyperglycemia, Sabyasachi Sen MD and J Enrique Silva MD

 

Preface, Neal Seymour MD and Barry Sarvet MD

 

Mice lacking the thyroid hormone receptor-á gene are protected against fat-induced insulin resistance, J Enrique Silva MD

 

Mice lacking the thyroid hormone receptor-á gene have increased insulin sensitivity when fed a high-fat diet, J Enrique Silva MD

 

Type-2 iodothyronine deiodinase in mouse skeletal muscles, J Enrique Silva MD and Waile Ramadan MD

 

Factors associated with positive D-dimer results in patients evaluated for pulmonary embolism, Howard Smithline 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

 

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

 

The management of the open abdomen in trauma and emergency general surgery: Part 1-damage control, Eleanor Winston MD

 

Randomized controlled trial comparing metformin with OCP vs. OCP alone in the treatment of adolescents with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), Holley Allen MD

 

The value of vitamin D therapy in neonatal hypocalciuric hypercalcemia, Holley Allen MD, Ksenia Tonyushkina MD, Edward Reiter MD, Mary-Alice Abbott MD, and Nancy Dunbar MD

 

Management of the most severely injured spleen: a multicenter study of the Research Consortium of New England Centers for Trauma (ReCONECT), Reginald Alouidor MD and Ronald Gross MD

 

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF) in an elderly woman, Emily Baiyee MD

 

A double "HIT", Sandra Bellantonio MD

 

Non-adherence: Hypertensive emergency in a nongenarian, Sandra Bellantonio MD and Curtis Andrews MD

 

Paradox and promise in the knowledge society, Elisabeth Bennett

 

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

 

RMSF in an elderly woman, Maura Brennan MD and Emily Baiyee MD

 

Geriatrics: The art and heart behind the science, Maura Brennan MD and Amit Bhargava MD

 

Mad as a hatter, stiff as a board, Maura Brennan MD, Amit Bhargava MD, Tara Lagu MD, and Miguel Mujica-Baella MD

 

Leg pain from a pericardial effusion, Maura Brennan MD, Ashita Talsania MD, and Manmeet Singh MD

 

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

 

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater: Time to revisit VBAC, Ronald Burkman MD