Submissions from 2017
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
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 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
Widowhood and severity of coronary artery disease: a multicenter study, Amir Lotfi
Audience Response System Facilitates Prediction of Scores on In-Training Examination, Lucienne Lutfy-Clayton M.D.
Student-Advising Recommendations from the Council of Residency Directors Student Advising Task Force, Lucienne Lutfy-Clayton M.D. and Adam Kellogg M.D.
Shortcut to a Long Stay Delayed diagnosis with cognitive bias, Alexander Ly MD
The Capacity to Use Cocaine Mandated substance abuse treatment, Alexander Ly MD
Identifying the Natural History of a Giant Prolactinoma in a Young Hispanic Female That Was Untreated for 34 Years, Charles Ma MD
National Institutes of Health-Funded Cardiac Arrest Research: A 10-Year Trend Analysis, Timothy Mader MD
Targeted Temperature Management Effectiveness in the Elderly: Insights from a Large Registry, Timothy Mader MD, Lauren Westafer DO, and Nadia Villarroel MD
Comparison of antithrombotic agents during urgent percutaneous coronary intervention following thrombolytic therapy: A retrospective cohort study, Jaya Mallidi, Peter Robinson MD, Paul Visintainer, Amir Lotfi, and Gregory Giugliano MD
Another Amiodarone Side Effect! A Rare Case of Amiodarone Induced SIADH, Katherine Markelz MD
The Challenges of Teaching Ambulatory Internal Medicine: Faculty Recruitment, Retention, and Development: An AAIM/SGIM Position Paper, Lauren Meade MD
Effects of an Ambulation Orderly Program Among Cardiac Surgery Patients, Saki Miwa MD, Paul Visintainer, Richard Engelman MD, Amanda Miller RN, Tara Lagu, Peter Lindenauer, and Quinn Pack MD
An Anticoagulation Dilemma. Case of a patient with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage and Saddle Pulmonary Embolism, Rehan Mujahid MD
Fulminant systemic amyloidosis causing cardiogenic shock and multi-organ failure, Rehan Mujahid MD
Invasive thymoma with pericardial involvement presenting as cardiac tamponade, Rehan Mujahid MD
Invasive thymoma with pericardial involvement presenting as cardiac tamponade, Rehan Mujahid MD
The importance of non-pharmacologic therapy in advanced dementia care A case report of lumbar puncture in a patient with hypoactive delirium, Dermot Murphy MD
Disseminated Varicella after Vaccination Vaccine or Wild-Type?, Anthony Nicolas MD
Smoking Cessation Pharmacotherapy Among Smokers Hospitalized for Coronary Heart Disease, Quinn Pack MD, Aruna Priya, Tara Lagu, Penny Pekow, and Peter Lindenauer
Stroke of sadness, Sarvani Penumarty MD
Tripping all over the place – Foot drop associated with Lupus, Sarvani Penumarty MD
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Elderly Patients, Victor Pinto-Plata
Functional interactors of three genome-wide association study genes are differentially expressed in severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease lung tissue, Victor Pinto-Plata
Prevalence of persistent blood eosinophilia: relation to outcomes in patients with COPD, Victor Pinto-Plata
Prospective comparison of non-invasive risk markers of major cardiovascular events in COPD patients, Victor Pinto-Plata
Assessing Frailty and Vulnerability in Older Adults with Cancer, Sheryl Ramdass MD
Thrombosis in a bleeding disorder: case of thromboembolism in factor VII deficiency, Sheryl Ramdass MD
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among Older Adults Experiencing Motor Vehicle Collision: A Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study, Niels Rathlev MD
Efficacy and Safety of Peroral Endoscopic Myotomy for Treatment of Achalasia After Failed Heller Myotomy, John Romanelli MD and David Desilets MD
The SGIM TEACH Program: A Curriculum for Teachers of Clinical Medicine, Michael Rosenblum MD
Pulmonary Artery Pseudoaneurysm Following Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy, Riffat Sabir MD
Pulmonary Artery Pseudoaneurysm When the Lung bleeds, Riffat Sabir MD
When the lung bleeds Pulmonary Artery Pseudoaneurysm following Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy, Riffat Sabir MD
The Autonomous Indecision, Shazia Samanani MD
Dextrose, hypokalemia and torsade de pointes, Rajeswer Sarasam MD
Historical TB treatment-Plombage, Rajeswer Sarasam MD
Coronary revascularization for acute myocardial infarction in the HIV population, Ghanshyambhai Savani MD
Individual-specific Variation in the Respiratory Activities of HMECs and Their Bioenergetic Response to IGF1 and TNFα, Sallie Schneider PhD, Elizabeth Henchey, Nazeen Sultana, D Joseph Jerry, D. Joseph Jerry, Grace Makari-Judson MD, Giovanna Crisi MD, Richard Arenas MD, Holly Mason MD, and Nagendra Yadava PhD
Predictors of Hospital Admission and Urological Intervention in Adult Emergency Department Patients with Computerized Tomography Confirmed Ureteral Stones, Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD
Shared Decisionmaking in the Emergency Department: A Guiding Framework for Clinicians, Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD
The Diagnosis and Management of Patients with Renal Colic across a Sample of US Hospitals: High CT Utilization Despite Low Rates of Admission and Inpatient Urologic Intervention, Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD, Penny Pekow, Meng-Shiou Shieh, Tara Lagu, and Peter Lindenauer
Physician communication coaching effects on patient experience, Adrienne Seiler MD, Alex Knee, Reham Shaaban MD, Christine Bryson MD, Jasmine Paadam MD, Rohini Harvey MD, Satoko Igarashi MD, Christopher LaChance MD, Evan Benjamin MD, and Tara Lagu
A rare case of myocardial injury in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus Hydroxychloroquine induced cardiomyopathy, Shakil Shaikh MD
Emphysematous Gastritis with portal venous gas treated with conservative management, Ali Shami MD