Submissions from 2010
Hematocrit-dependent response to initial coil embolization in a model side-wall aneurysm, Clemens Schirmer MD
Residents experience on reproductive endocrinology and infertility rotations affects knowledge, Cynthia Sites MD
Extended culture of embryos results in detection of bacterial contamination of cultures in IVF cycles but not ICSI cycles, Cynthia Sites MD, Margaret Arny, Daniel Grow MD, and Kelly Lynch MD
Effect of soy supplementation on dietary macronutrients and trace elements in postmenopausal women, Cynthia Sites MD and Alex Knee
Effect of soy supplementation on regional lean and fat mass and resting metabolic rate in Caucasian and African American postmenopausal women, Cynthia Sites MD and Alex Knee
Patients' attitudes toward and factors predictive of human immunodeficiency virus testing of academic medical clinics, Mihaela Stefan MD
The association of lean mass and fat mass with peak bone mass in young premenopausal women, Sofija Zagarins MD
Outpatient versus inpatient diabetes education for children diagnosed with new onset type 1 diabetes mellitus, Holley Allen MD, Ksenia Tonyushkina MD, Dennis Brenner MD, Edward Reiter MD, and Nancy Dunbar MD
Axioms to consider when entering practice: Reprise, Ronald Burkman MD
H1N1 pandemic: Challenges of information dissemination and practice modification, Ronald Burkman MD
LegalEASE-Fetal heart tracing-Why communication and documentation are essential, Ronald Burkman MD
Evaluation of cinacalcet HCl treatment after kidney transplantation, Michael Germain MD
Eosinophilic ascites due to severe eosinophilic ileitis, Peter Ghobrial MD, Namrata Setia MD, and Liron Pantanowitz MD
Perturbation analysis of heterochromatin-mediated gene silencing and somatic inheritance, Sara Goldstein
Bar-Code Scanning May Reduce but Not Eliminate Medication and Patient Identification Errors In Clinical Simulation, Philip Henneman MD and Fidela Blank
Using discrete event simulation to study patient length of stay, Philip Henneman MD and Haiping Li
The author replies, Thomas Higgins MD
Exercise intolerance in obese children-Is it asthma?, Robert Kaslovsky MD
Patients' evaluations of health care providers in the era of social networking: an analysis of physician-rating websites, Tara Lagu MD, Michael Rothberg MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, and Nicholas Hannon
Testamentary capacity and delirium, Benjamin Liptzin MD
Body mass index and survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest, Timothy Mader MD
New Directions in Point of Care and Critical Care Testing: Innovation, Controversies, and Partnerships, James Nichols
Point of Care Testing, James Nichols
Preanalytical Variation, James Nichols
Quality Control, James Nichols
In reply, Michael Rothberg MD, Penny Pekow, and Peter Lindenauer MD
Influence of sex on the "Athlete's Heart" in trained cyclists, Thomas Rowland MD
Sex influence on myocardial function with exercise in adolescents, Thomas Rowland MD
Intraoperative use of indocyanine green fluorescence videography for resection of a spinal cord hemangioblastoma, Robert Schapiro MD
Successful bilateral deep brain stimulation of the globus pallidus internus for persistent status dystonicus and generalized chorea, Clemens Schirmer MD
Type-2 iodothyronine Deiodinase (D2) in skeletal muscle of C57Bl Mice: Authenticity and responses to adrenergic stimulation in thyroid hormone receptor-Ñ null mice (Thra-0/0), J Enrique Silva MD and Waile Ramadan MD
D-Dimer and exhaled CO2/O2 to detect segmental pulmonary embolism in moderate-risk patients, Howard Smithline MD
Assessing validity by comparing transition and static measures of dyspnea in patients with acute decompensated heart failure, Howard Smithline MD, Selin Caglar MD, and Fidela Blank
Do depressed mood, psychological stress and eating disordered symptoms increase the risk for oral contraceptive discontinuation in young minority women, Katharine White MD
The impact of pack supply on oral contrceptive continuation: A randomized controlled trial, Katharine White MD
Helpful maneuvers for controlling bleeding from operative or traumatic vascular injuries, Ak Alameddine MD, David Deaton MD, John Rousou MD, and Victor Alimov MD
Is the lithium-for-ALS genie back in the bottle?: Not quite, Carmel Armon MD
11-year-old girl with fevers, headaches and new onset altered mental status, Jonathan Cogley MD
2-week-old boy with vomiting, Jonathan Cogley MD
46-year-old female with history of Marfan's presenting with back pain x 40 minutes, Jonathan Cogley MD
Blood bank safety practices: Mislabeled samples and wrong blood in tube--a Q-Probes analysis of 122 clinical laboratories, Richard Friedberg MD
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