Submissions from 2020
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sleep medicine practices, Karin Johnson MD, Afua Nti, and Vida Rastegar
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sleep medicine practices, Karin Johnson MD, Afua Nti, and Vida Rastegar
Accommodating patients with obesity and mobility difficulties: Observations from physicians, Tara Lagu
Fool Me Twice: The Role for Hospitals and Health Systems in Fixing the Broken PPE Supply Chain, Tara Lagu and Andrew Artenstein MD
Apparent Increase in COPD Mortality Likely an Artifact of Changes in Documentation and Coding, Peter Lindenauer
COVID-19: An Emerging Threat to Antibiotic Stewardship in the Emergency Department, Peter Lindenauer
First-line treatment in older patients with Hodgkin lymphoma: a Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare population-based study, Peter Lindenauer
Use of Hydrocortisone, Ascorbic Acid, and Thiamine in Adults with Septic Shock, Peter Lindenauer
Spirometry Utilization Among Patients With Asthma, Peter Lindenauer, Alex Knee, and Tara Lagu
Association Between Initiation of Pulmonary Rehabilitation After Hospitalization for COPD and 1-Year Survival Among Medicare Beneficiaries, Peter Lindenauer, Mihaela Stefan MD, Penny Pekow, Aruna Priya, Kerry Spitzer, Tara Lagu, Quinn Pack MD, and Victor Pinto-Plata
Development of a Simple Clinical Tool for Predicting Early Dropout in Cardiac Rehabilitation: A SINGLE-CENTER RISK MODEL, Quinn Pack MD, Paul Visintainer, Michel Farah, Grace LaValley, Heidi Szalai, Peter Lindenauer, and Tara Lagu
Shared Decision Making in Patients With Suspected Uncomplicated Ureterolithiasis: A Decision Aid Development Study, Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD, Connor Houghton MD, Pooja Patel DO, Leanora Merwin DO, Kye Poronsky, and Peter Lindenauer
Missed Opportunities to Save Lives-Treatments for Opioid Use Disorder After Overdose, Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD, Lauren Westafer DO, and William Soares MD
Use of Vasoactive Medications after Cardiac Surgery in the United States, Meng-Shiou Shieh, Penny Pekow, and Peter Lindenauer
The Impact of a Medical Education Research Faculty Development Program on Career Development, Through the Lens of Social Cognitive Career Theory, William Soares MD
Safety Assessment of a Noninvasive Respiratory Protocol for Adults with COVID-19, William Soares MD, Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD, Paul Visintainer, Tala Elia MD, Venkatrao Medarametla MD, Ashley Deutsch MD, Doug Salvador MD, Diane Dietzen MD, Mark Tidswell MD, Peter A. Depergola, Peter St. Marie, and Lauren Westafer DO
"You Leave There Feeling Part of Something": A Qualitative Study of Hospitalized COPD Patients' Perceptions of Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Kerry Spitzer, Mihaela Stefan MD, Aubri Drake, Quinn Pack MD, Tara Lagu, Victor Pinto-Plata, and Peter Lindenauer
A geographic analysis of racial disparities in use of pulmonary rehabilitation after hospitalization for COPD exacerbation, Kerry Spitzer, Mihaela Stefan MD, Aruna Priya, Quinn Pack MD, Penny Pekow, Tara Lagu, Victor Pinto-Plata, and Peter Lindenauer
Improving stamina and mobility with preop walking in surgical patients with frailty traits -OASIS IV: randomized clinical trial study protocol, Mihaela Stefan MD
A clinical investigation into the benefits of using charge codes in perioperative and critical care epidemiology: A retrospective cohort database study, Mihaela Stefan MD and Peter Lindenauer
Bleeding After Musculoskeletal Surgery in Hospitals That Switched From Hydroxyethyl Starch to Albumin Following a Food and Drug Administration Warning, Mihaela Stefan MD and Peter Lindenauer
Does Adherence to GOLD Recommendations Regarding Inhaler Therapy Lead to Better Patient Outcomes?: Insights from the LOTT Trial, Mihaela Stefan MD and Peter Lindenauer
Protocol for Two-Arm Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Hybrid Implementation-Effectiveness Trial Comparing Two Education Strategies for Improving the Uptake of Noninvasive Ventilation in Patients With Severe COPD Exacerbation, Mihaela Stefan MD, Penny Pekow, Jay Steingrub MD, and Peter Lindenauer
Pandemic as a Catalyst for Rapid Implementation: How Our Hospital Became a Learning Health System Overnight, Mihaela Stefan MD, Doug Salvador MD, and Tara Lagu
Uncertainty as a critical determinant of antibiotic prescribing in patients with an asthma exacerbation: a qualitative study, Mihaela Stefan MD, Kerry Spitzer, Sehar Zulfiqar MD, Brent Heineman BA, Lauren Westafer DO, Victor Pinto-Plata, and Peter Lindenauer
Deconstructing the Network Meta-analysis, Lauren Westafer DO
A Transdisciplinary COVID-19 Early Respiratory Intervention Protocol: An Implementation Story, Lauren Westafer DO, Tala Elia MD, Venkatrao Medarametla MD, and Tara Lagu
Provider Perspectives on the Use of Evidence-based Risk Stratification Tools in the Evaluation of Pulmonary Embolism: A Qualitative Study, Lauren Westafer DO, Ashley Kunz MD, Mihaela Stefan MD, and Peter Lindenauer
Outpatient Management of Patients Following Diagnosis of Acute Pulmonary Embolism, Lauren Westafer DO, Meng-Shiou Shieh, Penny Pekow, Mihaela Stefan MD, and Peter Lindenauer
Submissions from 2019
Utility of ICD Codes for Stress Cardiomyopathy in Hospital Administrative Databases: What Do They Signify?, Anusha Bhat MD, Katharine White MD, Kyle Gobeil MD, Tara Lagu, Peter Lindenauer, and Quinn Pack MD
An Acute Care for Elders Quality Improvement Program for Complex, High-Cost Patients Yields Savings for the System, Maura Brennan MD, Alex Knee, Erin Leahy MD, Mike Ehresman, Heidi-Ann Courtney, Patricia Coffelt, and Mihaela Stefan MD
Estimating the Financial Impact of Reducing Primary Cesareans, Susan DeJoy, Matthew Bohl, Kathleen Mahoney MD, and Connie Blake
Association Between Patient Cost Sharing and Cardiac Rehabilitation Adherence, Michel Farah, Maya Abdallah MD, Heidi Szalai, Tara Lagu, Peter Lindenauer, and Quinn Pack MD
Organizational characteristics associated with high performance on quality measures in pediatric primary care: A positive deviance study, Sarah Goff MD, Aruna Priya, Michael Moran, Penny Pekow, and Peter Lindenauer
Characteristics of High Performing Primary Care Pediatric Practices: A Qualitative Study, Sarah Goff MD, Aruna Priya, Penny Pekow, and Peter Lindenauer
Preoperative leukopenia does not affect outcomes in cancer patients undergoing elective and emergent abdominal surgery: A brief report, Heather Grant MD, Jane Garb, Richard Arenas MD, and Mihaela Stefan MD
Blood cultures versus respiratory cultures: Two different views of pneumonia, Sarah Haessler MD and Peter Lindenauer
An analysis of homeless patients in the United States requiring ICU admission, Thomas Higgins M.D., Mihaela Stefan MD, Tara Lagu, Peter Lindenauer, and Jay Steingrub MD
Physician Beliefs About Online Reporting of Quality and Experience Data, Tara Lagu
What Words Convey: The Potential for Patient Narratives to Inform Quality Improvement, Tara Lagu
Are Pediatric Readmission Reduction Efforts Falling Flat?, Tara Lagu MD and Peter Lindenauer
Reporting of Patient Experience Data on Health Systems' Websites and Commercial Physician-Rating Websites: Mixed-Methods Analysis, Tara Lagu, Aruna Priya, Sarah Goff MD, and Peter Lindenauer
Reporting of Patient Experience Data on Health Systems' Websites and Commercial Physician-Rating Websites: Mixed-Methods Analysis, Tara Lagu, Aruna Priya, Sarah Goff MD, and Peter Lindenauer
A Motivational Telephone Intervention to Reduce Early Dropouts in Cardiac Rehabilitation: A FEASIBILITY PILOT STUDY, Grace LaValley, Heidi Szalai, Michel Farah, and Quinn Pack MD
Changes in coding of pneumonia and impact on the hospital readmission reduction program, Peter Lindenauer
Poor Metered-Dose Inhaler (MDI) Technique Is Associated with Overuse of Inhaled Corticosteroids in COPD, Peter Lindenauer
Unexpected Harm From an Intensive COPD Intervention, Peter Lindenauer
Patient Perception of How Smoking Status Influences Cardiac Rehabilitation Attendance After an Acute Cardiac Hospitalization, Peter Lindenauer, Sarah Goff MD, Heidi Szalai, and Quinn Pack MD
Association Between Alcohol Use Disorders and Outcomes of Patients Hospitalized With Community-Acquired Pneumonia, Peter Lindenauer and Sarah Haessler MD
Examining the "Repletion Reflex": The Association between Serum Potassium and Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients with Heart Failure, Kevin O'Sullivan, Mohammad Amin Kashef MD, Alex Knee, Alexander Roseman, Penny Pekow, Mihaela Stefan MD, Meng-Shiou Shieh, Quinn Pack MD, Peter Lindenauer, and Tara Lagu
Cardiac Rehabilitation Utilization During an Acute Cardiac Hospitalization: A NATIONAL SAMPLE, Quinn Pack MD, Aruna Priya, Tara Lagu, Penny Pekow, Robert Berry, Auras Atreya, and Peter Lindenauer
Association Between Inpatient Echocardiography Use and Outcomes in Adult Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction, Quinn Pack MD, Aruna Priya, Tara Lagu, Penny Pekow, Joshua Schilling MD, William Hiser MD, and Peter Lindenauer
Early Intervention Referral and Enrollment Among Infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, Elizabeth Peacock-Chambers MD, Sheila Foss, Donna M. Wilson, Peter Friedmann MD, Paul Visintainer, and Rachana Singh MD
Use and Outcomes Associated With Perioperative Amiodarone in Cardiac Surgery, Aruna Priya, Quinn Pack MD, Penny Pekow, Mihaela Stefan MD, Tara Lagu, Amir Lotfi, and Peter Lindenauer
Smoking cessation after hospitalization for myocardial infarction or cardiac surgery: Assessing patient interest, confidence, and physician prescribing practices, Hayden Riley MD, Nitesh Ainani MD, Ahamad Turk MD, Heidi Szalai, Mihaela Stefan MD, Peter Lindenauer, and Quinn Pack MD
Pneumococcal urinary antigen testing in US hospitals: A missed opportunity for antimicrobial stewardship, Jennifer Schimmel MD, Sarah Haessler MD, and Peter Lindenauer
Physician-identified barriers to and facilitators of shared decision-making in the Emergency Department: an exploratory analysis, Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD, Sarah Goff MD, Tala Elia MD, Kye Poronsky, Kelly Nault, and Peter Lindenauer
Association of Patient and Visit Characteristics With Rate and Timing of Urologic Procedures for Patients Discharged From the Emergency Department With Renal Colic, Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD, Meng-Shiou Shieh, Penny Pekow, James Munger DO, and Peter Lindenauer
Does Shared Decision-Making actually occur in the ED? Looking at it from the patients' perspective, Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD and Peter St. Marie
The association of cognitive impairment as screened by the Mini-Cog with long term post-hospitalization outcomes, Ali Shami MD, Maura Brennan MD, Peter St. Marie, Peter Lindenauer, and Mihaela Stefan MD
Changing heart failure coding practices and hospital risk-standardized mortality rates, Meng-Shiou Shieh, Penny Pekow, Tara Lagu, and Peter Lindenauer
Use of Rheumatologic Testing in Patients Who Eventually Receive a Diagnosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis, Dilpreet Singh MD, Jasdeep Badwal MD, Ritika Vankina MD, Santhi Gokaraju MD, Jennifer Friderici MS, and Tara Lagu
A Thousand Cuts: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Emergency Medicine, William Soares MD, Kenneth Knowles MD, and Peter Friedmann MD
Association 'Between Gabapentinoids on the Day of Colorectal Surgery and Adverse Postoperative Respiratory Outcomes, Mihaela Stefan MD and Peter Lindenauer
The association of nicotine replacement therapy with outcomes among smokers hospitalized for a major surgical procedure, Mihaela Stefan MD, Quinn Pack MD, Meng-Shiou Shieh, Penny Pekow, Katie Nason MD, and Peter Lindenauer
Risk Factors for Severe Opioid-Related Adverse Events in a National Cohort of Medical Hospitalizations, Mihaela Stefan MD, Penny Pekow, Meng-Shiou Shieh, William Soares MD, Karthik Raghunathan MD, and Peter Lindenauer
Participation in Pulmonary Rehabilitation after Hospitalization for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease among Medicare Beneficiaries, Mihaela Stefan MD, Aruna Priya, Quinn Pack MD, Penny Pekow, Tara Lagu, Victor Pinto-Plata, and Peter Lindenauer
Association of Antibiotic Treatment With Outcomes in Patients Hospitalized for an Asthma Exacerbation Treated With Systemic Corticosteroids, Mihaela Stefan MD, Meng-Shiou Shieh, Kerry Spitzer, Penny Pekow, and Peter Lindenauer
An observational study of the management practices and outcomes of patients with new onset atrial fibrillation in non-cardiothoracic surgeries, Mihaela Tiru MD, Anis Kadado MD, Vida Rastegar, Kanval Shah MD, Kirti Joshi MD, Peter Lindenauer, Tara Lagu, and Mihaela Stefan MD
A Hospitalist-Led Team to Manage Patient Boarding in the Emergency Department: Impact on Hospital Length of Stay and Cost, Vishal Tiwari MD, Michael Vemula MD, Ashley Donovan, Christine Scibelli, Kirti Joshi MD, Paul Visintainer, and Mihaela Stefan MD
Anastomotic complications after esophagectomy: Influence of omentoplasty in propensity-weighted cohorts, Paul Visintainer
Submissions from 2018
Physician Engagement: The "Secret Sauce" to Success in Bundled Health Care, Daniel Engelman MD and Evan Benjamin MD
Effect of Smoking Status on Exercise Perception and Intentions for Cardiac Rehabilitation Enrollment Among Patients Hospitalized With an Acute Cardiac Condition, Sarah Goff MD, Peter Lindenauer, and Quinn Pack MD
Flow limitation/obstruction with recovery breath (FLOW) event for improved scoring of mild obstructive sleep apnea without electroencephalography, Karin Johnson MD, Douglas Johnson MD, Robert Thomas, Edward Feldmann MD, Peter Lindenauer, and Paul Visintainer
Derivation and Validation of an In-Hospital Mortality Prediction Model Suitable for Profiling Hospital Performance in Heart Failure, Tara Lagu, Penny Pekow, Mihaela Stefan MD, Quinn Pack MD, Mohammad Amin Kashef MD, Auras Atreya, Gregory Valania MD, Mara Slawsky MD, and Peter Lindenauer
Early Blood Transfusions in Sepsis: Unchanged Survival and Increased Costs, Peter Lindenauer
Echocardiogram in the Evaluation of Hemodynamically Stable Acute Pulmonary Embolism: National Practices and Clinical Outcomes, Peter Lindenauer
Hospital Variation in Utilization of Life-Sustaining Treatments among Patients with Do Not Resuscitate Orders, Peter Lindenauer
Importance and Feasibility of Transitional Care for Children With Medical Complexity: Results of a Multistakeholder Delphi Process, Peter Lindenauer
Intensive Intervention to Improve Outcomes for Patients With COPD, Peter Lindenauer
Paediatric hospital admission processes and outcomes: a qualitative study of parents' experiences and priorities, Peter Lindenauer
Preventability of Early Versus Late Hospital Readmissions in a National Cohort of General Medicine Patients, Peter Lindenauer
Risk Trajectories of Readmission and Death in the First Year after Hospitalization for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Peter Lindenauer
Variation in the Diagnosis of Aspiration Pneumonia and Association with Hospital Pneumonia Outcomes, Peter Lindenauer
A Protocol-Based Approach to Spinal Epidural Abscess Imaging Improves Performance and Facilitates Early Diagnosis, Nikhil Madhuripan MD, Richard Hicks MD, Edward Feldmann MD, Niels Rathlev MD, Doug Salvador MD, and Andrew Artenstein MD
An analysis of homeless patients in the United States requiring ICU admission, Brian Nathanson, Mihaela Stefan MD, Tara Lagu, Peter Lindenauer, and Jay Steingrub MD
Short-Term Safety of Nicotine Replacement in Smokers Hospitalized With Coronary Heart Disease, Quinn Pack MD, Aruna Priya, Tara Lagu, Penny Pekow, Auras Atreya, and Peter Lindenauer
Inpatient Echocardiography Use for Common Cardiovascular Conditions, Quinn Pack MD, Aruna Priya, Tara Lagu, Penny Pekow, Joshua Schilling MD, William Hiser MD, and Peter Lindenauer
The Association of Frailty with Discharge Disposition for Hospitalized Community Dwelling Elderly Patients, Sheryl Ramdass MD, Maura Brennan MD, Rebecca Starr MD, Peter Lindenauer, Xiao Liu MD, Penny Pekow, and Mihaela Stefan MD
A Qualitative Analysis of Patients' Perceptions of Shared Decision Making in the Emergency Department: "Let Me Know I Have a Choice", Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD, Sarah Goff MD, Gwendolyn Downs MD, Robert Wenger MD, and Peter Lindenauer
A Qualitative Analysis of Attending Physicians' Use of Shared Decision-Making: Implications for Resident Education, Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD, Sarah Goff MD, Tala Elia MD, Kye Poronsky, Kelly Nault, and Peter Lindenauer
Mortality Measures to Profile Hospital Performance for Patients With Septic Shock, Meng-Shiou Shieh and Peter Lindenauer
Use of Inpatient Palliative Care Services in Patients With Advanced Cancer Receiving Critical Care Therapies, Meng-Shiou Shieh, Mihaela Stefan MD, Penny Pekow, Peter Lindenauer, and Tara Lagu
Response to letter to the editor noninvasive and invasive ventilation in severe pneumonia: Insight for the noninvasive ventilator approach, Mihaela Stefan MD, Peter Lindenauer, and Aruna Priya
Participation in Pulmonary Rehabilitation Following Hospitalization for COPD among Medicare Beneficiaries, Mihaela Stefan MD, Aruna Priya, Quinn Pack MD, Penny Pekow, Tara Lagu, Victor Pinto-Plata, and Peter Lindenauer