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Submissions from 2009

 

Nezhat's Operative Gynecologic Laparoscopy and Hysteroscopy, Ronald Burkman MD and Daniel Grow MD

 

Questionable benefit of perioperative beta-blockade, Neil Connelly MD and Maureen McNeely MD

 

Implementation of a call center to facilitate medical management of obstructive sleep apnea, Michael Coppola MD

 

Endoscopic interventions for weight loss surgery, David Desilets MD

 

Gastric transmural pressure measurements in vivo: Implications for natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES), David Desilets MD, Timothy Mader MD, John Romanelli MD, and David Earle MD

 

NOTES transgastric ventral hernia repair, David Desilets MD, John Romanelli MD, and David Earle MD

 

Critical care ultrasound: Undifferentiated hypotension, Tala Elia MD

 

Down-regulation of sfrp1 in a mammary epithelial cell line promotes the development of a cd44high/cd24low population which is invasive and resistant to anoikis, Kelly Gauger, Sallie Schneider, and Melissa Troester

 

Metastatic versus primary oncocytic papillary adenocarcinoma of the endometrium: A report of a case and review of the literature, James Gebhardt MD

 

Book Review, Eric Granowitz MD

 

Blunt pancreatoduodenal injury: A multicenter study of the Research Consortium of New England Centers for Trauma (ReCONECT), Ronald Gross MD, Lisa Patterson MD, and Yorell Manon-Matos MD

 

Gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist pretreatment did not decrease postoperative adhesion formation after abdominal myomectomy in a randomized control trial, Daniel Grow MD and Mohammed Ahmed MD

 

Egg activation and ICSI failure in humans: Sperm devoid of PLCZI, Daniel Grow MD and Teru Jellerette

 

Simulating patient flow through an Emergency Department using process-driven discrete event simulation, Philip Henneman MD

 

Many emergency health care workers do not verify patient identity prior to performing common tasks, Philip Henneman MD and Elizabeth Henneman

 

Prolonged acute mechanical ventilation: Implications for hospital benchmarking, Thomas Higgins MD

 

Prospective validation of the intensive care unit admission Mortality Probability Model (MPM0-III)., Thomas Higgins MD

 

Midwives on the inside: Educational experiences with incarcerated women, Donna Jackson-Kohlin MD

 

Clinical Pathologic Case Competition, Adam Kellogg MD

 

Does proteinuria predict severity in eating disorders, Laura Koenigs MD, Nancy Miller MD, Allison Paroskie MD, and Claire Norton

 

Management of infective endocarditis: Clinical experience with outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy, Julius Larioza MD, Richard Brown MD, Amy Girard, and Lena Heung MD

 

Characteristics of a residential and working community with diverse exposure to World Trade Center dust, gas, and fumes, Sybille Liautaud MD

 

Financing of hospital-based psychiatry, Benjamin Liptzin MD

 

Post-liver transplant cholestatic disorder with biliary strictures: de novo versus recurrent primary sclerosing cholangitis, Kenneth McPartland MD

 

STEMI Regionalization, Benjamin Osborne MD

 

Anthracotic pigment in pleural fluid: A case report, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Robert Goulart MD

 

Fatty infiltration of the aortic valve, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Leng Jiang MD

 

Cytologic findings of psammocarcinoma in peritoneal washings, Liron Pantanowitz MD, Christopher Otis MD, and Robert Goulart MD

 

Effectiveness of antibiotic class in acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Penny Pekow, Michael Rothberg MD, Oren Brody MD, Daniel Skiest MD, and Peter Lindenauer MD

 

Shop for quality or volume? Volume, quality, and outcomes of coronary artery bypass surgery, Penny Pekow, Michael Rothberg MD, and Peter Lindenauer MD

 

Academic career development for clinical directors, Niels Rathlev MD

 

Best practice updates for surgical care in weight loss surgery, John Romanelli MD

 

Expert panel on weight loss surgery: Executive report update, John Romanelli MD

 

Dental care for children with special health care needs in Massachusetts, Matthew Sadof MD

 

Developing effective collaboration in children's mental health: One question at a time, Barry Sarvet MD

 

Expanded use of the TAXUS Express Stent: Two-year safety insights from the 7,500 patient ARRIVE Registry programme, Marc Schweiger MD

 

Facilitating interns’ acquisition of medical knowledge and core skills through experiential learning, Reham Shaaban MD, Raquel Belforti MD, and Mihaela Stefan MD

 

Metabolic effects of thyroid hormones, J Enrique Silva MD

 

12-lead electrocardiogram findings of pulmonary hypertension occur more frequently in emergency department patients with pulmonary embolism than in patients without pulmonary embolism, Howard Smithline MD

 

Classification and regression tree (CART) analysis: A novel method to derive and validate a pretest probability prediction rule for pulmonary embolism, Howard Smithline MD

 

Empiric systemic anticoagulation in patients with suspected pulmonary embolism, Howard Smithline MD

 

Factors associated with positive D-dimer results in patients evaluated for pulmonary embolism: A prospective multivariate analysis, Howard Smithline MD

 

High frequency of repeated negative computerized tomographic pulmonary angiography in emergency department patients, Howard Smithline MD

 

History of anxiety significantly decreases the probability of pulmonary embolism in symptomatic emergency department patients, Howard Smithline MD

 

Influence of gender on the clinical presentation of venous thromboembolism (VTE): A prospective multi-center, observational study of emergency department patients, Howard Smithline MD

 

Prospective multi-center assessment of interobserver agreement for radiologist interpretation of 64-channel CT angiography for pulmonary embolism, Howard Smithline MD

 

Pulmonary infiltrates revealed on CT in patients with negative evaluation for pulmonary embolism, Howard Smithline MD

 

Achieving universal HIV screening: Predictors of what influences screening, Mihaela Stefan MD

 

Factors surrounding physician-patient discussions about HIV and the impact on testing, Mihaela Stefan MD

 

Laboratory and diagnostic test interpretation, Diane Szlachetka

 

EKG warnings of impending mischief, Susan Torrey MD

 

Subtle EKG signs of ischemia and infarction, Susan Torrey MD

 

Workflow interruptions in the hospitalist model of care, Surinder Yadav MD and Evan Benjamin MD

 

A hospitalist-led multidisciplinary team rounding model to improve quality of care, Surinder Yadav MD, Jan Fitzgerald, David Ling MD, Evan Benjamin MD, and Donna Borah

 

Cardiovascular implications of proteinuria: An indicator of chronic kidney disease, Varun Agrawal MD

 

Continuous glucose monitoring improved glucose control in adults but not in young adults or children with type 1 diabetes, Nancy Allen

 

Smoking is a probable risk factor for ALS: An evidenced-based update(2003-2008), Carmel Armon MD

 

A rare case of octogenarian pseudosyncope, Emily Baiyee MD and Maura Brennan MD

 

Is it elder abuse, Raquel Belforti MD, Sandra Bellantonio MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, Todd Capizzi MD, Elizabeth Case MD, Sarah Workman MD, Zulfiqar Chaudhry MD, and Jackcy Jacob MD

 

Quinolone induced hypoglycemia in an elder with acute kidney injury, Amit Bhargava MD and Maura Brennan MD

 

Rare cause of infective endocarditis presenting as delirium in NH resident, Amit Bhargava MD, Imran Dosani MD, Ashish Verma MD, Siddharth Wartak MD, Sarah Haessler MD, Maura Brennan MD, and Sandra Bellantonio MD

 

Human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-B, DRB1, and DQB1 allotypes associated with disease and protection of trachoma endemic villagers, Linda Bobo MD

 

Assessment of echocardiography image acquisition and image interpretation skills in emergency medicine residents, Gavin Budhram MD

 

Epilepsia partialis continua in the elderly, Melisha Cumberland MD, Ashish Verma MD, Sandra Bellantonio MD, and Maura Brennan MD

 

A NOTES survival study of a novel gastric closure device: Loop-anchor purse-string, David Desilets MD, John Romanelli MD, Carolanne Lovewell, Christopher Chapman MD, and David Earle MD

 

Primum non nocere (first, do no harm): A prescription error resulting in a near-fatal fall, Ranjit Dhelaria MD and Maura Brennan MD

 

AGS resident chapters: First year's progress, Tara DuVal MD, Gina Luciano MD, Sandra Bellantonio MD, and Maura Brennan MD

 

Is it senile ptosis? An uncommon presentation of carotid cavernous aneurysm, Fei Gu MD and Senthil Sivalingam MD

 

The costs of delayed diagnosis: Pain, isolation, functional decline, Theodore Hartenstein MD and Maura Brennan MD

 

Exogenous lipoid pneumonia in a chronic laxative user, Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD, Jose Martagon-Villamil MD, Ashish Arora MD, and Boyd Hehn MD

 

Purpura fulminans and the paradox of an unfortunate outcome, Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD, Manmeet Singh MD, and Sarah Haessler MD

 

A metabolic hurricane in a patient with non-specific mid-epigastric pain, Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD, Mihaela Stefan MD, and Melody Brewer MD

 

Competency-based progression: The learner-manager-teacher model, Kevin Hinchey MD and Samuel Borden MD

 

The ambulatory learner milestones checklist: A tool to quantify resident competency, Kevin Hinchey MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, Sudeep Kaur Aulakh MD, and Lauren Meade MD

 

Baystate EIP: Present practice and future direction: Tracer and continuous healing relationships, Kevin Hinchey MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, Samuel Borden MD, Lauren Meade MD, Mihaela Stefan MD, and Reva Kleppel

 

Miller Cischer Syndrome, William House MD

 

An especially sweet elder, Gina Luciano MD, Douglas Porter MD, Maura Brennan MD, and Sandra Bellantonio MD

 

Cascading drug errors−hyponatremia followed by hypernatremia: Mirtazapine−induced SIADH and volume depletion from Demeclocycline, Alejandra Marin Ruiz MD, Maura Brennan MD, and Fei Gu MD

 

Vesicocentesis may be therapeutic in pathologic fetal bladder distension, Glenn Markenson MD, Andrew Healy MD, Fadi Bsat MD, and Michael Plevyak MD

 

Blood glucose measurement in patients with suspected diabetic ketoacidosis: A comparison of Abbott MediSense PCx point-of-care meter values to reference laboratory values, James Nichols, Howard Smithline MD, Fidela Blank, and Penny Pekow

 

Practice evolution: Decentralized computer-assisted immunohistochemical image analysis, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Richard Friedberg MD

 

A trial to end ambulance diversion in Boston, Niels Rathlev MD

 

Issues in the management of Central Precocious Puberty, Edward Reiter MD

 

Magnetic retraction of the gallbladder during NOTES transvaginal cholecystectomy, John Romanelli MD, David Desilets MD, and David Earle MD

 

Rapid resident cycling: The 14 day mini-block, Michael Rosenblum MD

 

The future is now: Continuity as a team-based concept in radical office redesign, Michael Rosenblum MD, Sudeep Kaur Aulakh MD, and Lauren Meade MD

 

Sudden unexpected death in young athletes: Reconsidering "hypertrophic cardiomyopathy"., Thomas Rowland MD

 

Improving mental health services in primary care: Reducing administrative and financial barriers to access and collaboration, Barry Sarvet MD

 

MMSE limitations in diagnosing vascular dementia, Mayu Sekiguchi MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, and Maura Brennan MD

 

A retrospective observational comparison study Poractant alpha and Beractant in preterm infants with very low birth weight with respiratory distress syndrome, Bhavesh Shah MD, Penny Pekow, and Evan Horton

 

The utility of human papillomavirus testing in the management of atypical glandular cells on cytology, Kathryn Sharpless MD

 

Use of human papillomavirus testing in the management of atypical glandular cells, Kathryn Sharpless MD

 

Mild cognitive impairment: Not to be forgotten, Manmeet Singh MD, Maura Brennan MD, and Geetika Sachdeva MD

 

Effects of high frequency oscillatory amplitudes on respiratory mechanics of preterm infants, Rachana Singh MD

 

Measurement of phosphocreatine recovery kinetics in muscle using phosphorous magnetic resonance imaging, Howard Smithline MD

 

Potential impact of adjusting the threshold of the quantitative D-dimer based on pretest probability of acute pulmonary embolism, Howard Smithline MD

 

Bartonellosis, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

 

Borrelia(Lyme Disease), Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

 

Diphtheria, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

 

Eosinophilic Meningitis, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD