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Submissions from 2017 2017

From Pharyngitis to Myocarditis, Mark Abel MD

Maintenance of the Phenotype and Abundance of Islet-Resident Macrophages Promotes Islet Graft Survival and Appears to Prevent Type 1 Diabetes (ORAL presentation) 2nd Author BIDMC, Krishna Agarwal MD

Severe aortic complications in a patient with variant Shone's complex and bicuspid aortic valve, Mohammed Ahmed MD, Hany Aziz MD, and Leng Jiang MD

Comparison of In-Hospital Outcomes and Readmission Rates in Acute Pulmonary Embolism Between Systemic and Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis (from the National Readmission Database), Nitesh Ainani MD

Cancer Rates in Adults After Cardiac Interventions: A Preliminary Observational Report, Ak Alameddine MD and Paul Visintainer

Cancer Rates in Adults After Cardiac Interventions: A Preliminary Observational Report, Ak Alameddine MD and Paul Visintainer

Recurrent, Metastatic Glucogonoma, Fahd Almohid MD

Recurrent, Metastatic Glucogonoma, Fahd Almohid MD

The association between insurance type and cost-related delay in care: a survey, Sora Al Rowas MD, Jennifer Friderici, Sarah Goff MD, and Tara Lagu

The Confusion after a Heart Break, Amulya Amirneni MD

When the Head Aches for a Diagnosis An Unusual Presentation of Lymphocytic Hypophysitis, Amulya Amirneni MD

Decreasing Emergency Department Walkout Rate and Boarding Hours by Improving Inpatient Length of Stay, Andrew Artenstein MD, Niels Rathlev MD, Vernette Townsend, Michael Vemula MD, and Joseph Schmidt MD

Isolated cardiac sarcoidosis masquerading as right ventricular outflow tract ventricular tachycardia, Auras Atreya, Mitkumar Patel MD, Senthil Sivalingam MD, and Mathias Stoenescu MD

Outcomes In Two Massachusetts Hospital Systems Give Reason For Optimism About Communication-And-Resolution Programs, Evan Benjamin MD

A case report curriculum to promote scholarship, Behdad Besharatian MD, Jorge Velez MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, Mihaela Stefan MD, and Gina Luciano MD

Capacity Conundrum, Prarthna Bhardwaj MD

Polypharmacy in advanced dementia, Prarthna Bhardwaj MD

Primary signet cell carcinoma of the lung - a rare and aggressive subtype of lung neoplasm, Prarthna Bhardwaj MD

Perspectives on the Nephrology Match for Fellowship Applicants, Gregory Braden M.D.

Morpheus Stroke An anatomical variant causing bilateral thalamic infarctions, Philip Brandt MD

Unanswered clinical questions: a survey of specialists and primary care providers, Ellen Brassil, Bridget Gunn, Anant Shenoy MD, and Rebecca Blanchard PhD

Geographical assignment of hospitalists in an urban teaching hospital: feasibility and impact on efficiency and provider satisfaction, Christine Bryson MD, Jane Garb, Reva Kleppel, Farzan Irani MD, Sivakumar Natanasabapathy MD, and Mihaela Stefan MD

Cost analysis of the History, ECG, Age, Risk factors, and initial Troponin (HEART) Pathway randomized control trial, Vinod Chaubey MD, Mitkumar Patel MD, and Auras Atreya

A novel approach to extraction of a large thrombus on the intraventricular guide-wire during transcatheter aortic valve replacement, Thomas Chin MD and Ashequl Islam MD

An Assessment of Risk Factors for Duration of Mechanical Ventilation Given the Competing Risk of Mortality, Woon Chong MD

Don't Judge a Lung by It's Cover, Woon Chong MD

Listen to your Lung, Woon Chong MD

Presentation and Course of Prenatal Sepsis in an Academic Medical Center, Jonathan Davis MD

Bilateral Femoral Neuropathy Following Psoas Muscle Hematomas Caused by Enoxaparin Therapy, Selma Demir MD

Results of a Quality Improvement Project Aimed at Eliminating Healthcare Waste by Changing Medical Resident Test Ordering Behavior, Selma Demir MD

Management of post-ERCP complications, David Desilets MD

31638 - A Case of Hypoglycemia Multifactorial Overlooked Mechanisms, Omar El Kawkgi MD

Case Snapper: Hypoglycemia, Omar El Kawkgi MD

Principles of precision medicine in stroke, Edward Feldmann MD

Effect of Transient and Sustained Acute Kidney Injury on Readmissions in Acute Decompensated Heart Failure, Benjamin Freda MD, Alex Knee, Gregory Braden M.D., and Paul Visintainer

The Affordable Care Act Transformation of Substance Use Disorder Treatment, Paul Friedmann MD

Assessing informed consent in an opioid relapse prevention study with adults under current or recent criminal justice supervision, Peter Friedmann MD

Cost-effectiveness of extended release naltrexone to prevent relapse among criminal justice-involved individuals with a history of opioid use disorder, Peter Friedmann MD

How ACA Repeal Would Worsen the Opioid Epidemic, Peter Friedmann MD

Mobile technology intervention to improve care coordination between HIV and substance use treatment providers: development, training, and evaluation protocol, Peter Friedmann MD

More beds are not the answer: transforming detoxification units into medication induction centers to address the opioid epidemic, Peter Friedmann MD

The Affordable Care Act Transformation of Substance Use Disorder Treatment, Peter Friedmann MD

Mapping the Human Body: A GIS Perspective, Jane Garb

Type 3 renal tubular acidosis associated with growth hormone deficiency, Jane Garb, Holley Allen MD, Edward Reiter MD, Thomas Campfield MD, and Gregory Braden M.D.

Optimal cut points of plasma and urine neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin for the prediction of acute kidney injury among critically ill adults: retrospective determination and clinical validation of a prospective multicentre study, Michael Germain MD

Palliative Nephrology: Time for New Insights, Michael Germain MD

Purple Spots and Polka Dots! A rare case of adult onset HenochSchonlein Purpura (HSP), Kyle Gobeil MD

Factors That Matter to Low-Income and Racial/Ethnic Minority Mothers When Choosing a Pediatric Practice: a Mixed Methods Analysis, Sarah Goff MD, Haley Guhn-Knight, Tara Lagu, Penny Pekow, Aruna Priya, and Peter Lindenauer

Effects of an enhanced primary care program on diabetes outcomes, Sarah Goff MD, Alex Knee, Haley Guhn-Knight, Audrey Guhn, and Peter Lindenauer

Successful Use of Noninvasive Ventilation in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. How Do High-Performing Hospitals Do It?, Sarah Goff MD, Mihaela Stefan MD, Penny Pekow, Lauren Williams, Vida Rastegar, and Peter Lindenauer

Ruptured Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm Associated with Situs Ambiguus, Isolated Levocardia, and Polysplenia, Safieh Golestaneh MD, Mohammad Amin Kashef MD, William Hiser MD, Amir Lotfi, and Timothy Egan MD

Promoting academic careers of women in medicine, Amy Gottlieb MD

The Career Advising Program: A Strategy to Achieve Gender Equity in Academic Medicine, Amy Gottlieb MD

Adherence rates to ferric citrate as compared to active control in patients with end stage kidney disease on dialysis, Barbara Greco MD

The safety of achieved iron stores and their effect on IV iron and ESA use: post-hoc results from a randomized trial of ferric citrate as a phosphate binder in dialysis, Barbara Greco MD

Treatment Trends and Outcomes in Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia, Sarah Haessler MD, Tara Lagu, Peter Lindenauer, Daniel Skiest M.D., Aruna Priya, Penny Pekow, and Thomas Higgins MD

Radiologists' Recommendations for Additional Imaging on Inpatient CT Studies: Do Referring Physicians Follow Them?, Owen Hanley MD, Amir Lotfi, Tiara Sanborn MD, Jennifer Friderici, Poornachandran Manikantan MD, Linda Canty MD, and Mihaela Stefan MD

Always doubt the heart- A rare case of ARVC as a cause of sudden cardiac death, Mini Hariharan MD

Transfusion-Associated Circulatory Overload: Evidence-Based Strategies to Prevent, Identify, and Manage a Serious Adverse Event, Elizabeth Henneman, Chester Andrzejewski MD, Thomas Panaccione RN, and Kimberly Dziel RN

The dangers of extreme body mass index values in patients with Clostridium difficile, Thomas Higgins MD and William McGee MD

An Evaluation of Shared Mental Models and Mutual Trust on General Medical Units: Implications for Collaboration, Teamwork, and Patient Safety, Kevin Hinchey MD

Improving management of hospitalized adults with uncomplicated cellulitis or cutaneous abscess, Erica Housman, Alex Knee, and Jennifer Schimmel MD

Pseudo-monoclonal gammopathy: a report of four cases, Majd Jaawad

Future of Positive Airway Pressure Technology, Karin Johnson MD

Cognitive dysfunction: another reason to treat obstructive sleep apnea in stroke patients, Karin Johnson MD and Douglas Johnson MD

Blood Management Strategies to Reduce Transfusions After Elective Lower-Extremity Joint Arthroplasty Surgeries: One Tertiary Care Hospital's Early Experience With an Alternative Payment Model-a Total Joint "Bundle"., Ankit Kansagra MD, Chester Andrzejewski MD, Robert Krushell MD, Andrew Lehman MD, Jordan Greenbaum MD, Paul Visintainer, Joan McGirr, Kathleen Mahoney MD, Darlene Cloutier, Alice Ehresman, and Mihaela Stefan MD

Quality of Care of Hospitalized Infective Endocarditis Patients: Report from a Tertiary Medical Center, Mohammad Amin Kashef MD, Jennifer Friderici, Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD, Auras Atreya, Peter Lindenauer, and Tara Lagu

Quality of Care of Hospitalized Infective Endocarditis Patients: Report from a Tertiary Medical Center, Mohammad Amin Kashef MD, Jennifer Friderici, Jaime Hernandez-Montfort MD, Auras Atreya, Peter Lindenauer, and Tara Lagu

A Northeasterner’s Tale of Chronic Cough From the South, Asad Khan MD

Bleeding in a Broken Heart: A Rare Case of Immune Thrombocytopenia and Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy, Asad Khan MD

F-‘loco’-quinolones! Levofloxacin Induced Delirium with Psychotic Features, Asad Khan MD

Strongyloider Than the Average Suspicion: An Intriguing Case of Pulmonary Strongyloidiasis, Asad Khan MD

A Rare Case of Kaposi Sarcoma, Eesha Khan MD

Between a Stent and a Hard Place, Eesha Khan MD

Of Bumper Cars and Bad Teeth A Case of Acute Mediastinitis From Trauma Versus Dental Infection, Eesha Khan MD

Of Bumper Cars and Bad Teeth: A Case of Acute Mediastinitis From Trauma Versus Dental Infection, Eesha Khan MD

The Way to a Man’s Heart Through His Quadriceps, Eesha Khan MD

When Old Clots Present Like New Ones, Eesha Khan MD

Of Bumper Cars and Bad Teeth A Case of Acute Mediastinitis From Trauma Versus Dental Infection, Eesha Khan MD and Omar El Kawkgi MD

Use of Accessible Examination Tables in the Primary Care Setting: A Survey of Physical Evaluations and Patient Attitudes, Tara Lagu

Use of Accessible Examination Tables in the Primary Care Setting: A Survey of Physical Evaluations and Patient Attitudes, Tara Lagu

Use of Systematic Methods to Improve Disease Identification in Administrative Data: The Case of Severe Sepsis, Tara Lagu and Xiao Liu MD

Website Characteristics and Physician Reviews on Commercial Physician-Rating Websites, Tara Lagu, Aruna Priya, Sarah Goff MD, and Peter Lindenauer

Pain is Associated with Missed Clinic Visits Among HIV-Positive Women, Thomas Lincoln MD

Association Between Noninvasive Ventilation and Mortality Among Older Patients With Pneumonia, Peter Lindenauer

Association of Early Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders with Unplanned Readmissions among Patients Hospitalized for Pneumonia, Peter Lindenauer

Association of Early Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders with Unplanned Readmissions among Patients Hospitalized for Pneumonia, Peter Lindenauer

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Readmissions and Other Measures of Hospital Quality, Peter Lindenauer

Keeping It Simple in Sepsis Measures, Peter Lindenauer

Patient characteristics associated with poor inhaler technique among a cohort of patients with COPD, Peter Lindenauer

Procalcitonin Test Availability: A Survey of Acute Care Hospitals in Massachusetts, Peter Lindenauer

Procalcitonin Test Availability: A Survey of Acute Care Hospitals in Massachusetts, Peter Lindenauer

Sleep Disturbance in Smokers with Preserved Pulmonary Function and with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Peter Lindenauer

The authors reply, Peter Lindenauer

Hospital Procalcitonin Testing and Antibiotic Treatment of Patients Admitted for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation, Peter Lindenauer, Meng-Shiou Shieh, Mihaela Stefan MD, and Sarah Haessler MD

The impact of Bakri balloon tamponade on the rate of postpartum hysterectomy for uterine atony, Anderson Lo, Peter St. Marie, Parul Yadav MD, and Glenn Markenson MD

Predictors of the Use of Specific Critical Care Therapies in Patients With Metastatic Cancer, Kah Poh Loh MD, Ankit Kansagra MD, Meng-Shiou Shieh, Penny Pekow, Peter Lindenauer, Mihaela Stefan MD, and Tara Lagu

Ambiguities in Selecting the Optimal Strategy for the Nonculprit Stenosis in STEMI, Amir Lotfi

Divorce and Severity of Coronary Artery Disease: A Multicenter Study, Amir Lotfi

The Metamorphosis of ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Programs: The Changing Role of the Interventional Cardiologist and its Manpower Implications, Amir Lotfi