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Submissions from 2012

 

Four years' experience with a hospitalist-led medical emergency team: An interrupted time series, Michael Rothberg MD, Raquel Belforti MD, Jan Fitzgerald, Jennifer Friderici, and Marjorie Keyes

 

Little evidence of correlation between growth in health care spending and reduced mortality, Michael Rothberg MD, Jaime Cohen MD, and Peter Lindenauer MD

 

Effectiveness of varenicline for smoking cessation at 2 urban academic health centers, Michael Rothberg MD, Ranjit Dhelaria MD, Jennifer Friderici, Ella Gupta MD, and Cyrus Khan MD

 

Comparative effectiveness of low-molecular-weight heparin versus unfractionated heparin for thromboembolism prophylaxis for medical patients, Michael Rothberg MD and Peter Lindenauer MD

 

Association between statins given in hospital and mortality in pneumonia patients, Michael Rothberg MD, Penny Pekow, and Peter Lindenauer MD

 

The relationship between time spent communicating and communication outcomes on a hospital medicine service, Michael Rothberg MD, John Wheeler MD, Ashish Arora MD, and Peter Lindenauer MD

 

Delirium or pain or urinary retention, Geetika Sachdeva MD

 

Antibiotic-resistance and carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae (CRE): Assessment of clinical knowledge and practices in non-infectious disease trained clinicians in the hospital., Jennifer Schimmel MD

 

Breastpumping in the ED? Just do it., Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD

 

Massive hemothorax from a type-B aortic dissection, Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD

 

Near-infrared spectroscopy in healthy and torsed testes, Elizabeth Schoenfeld MD

 

Bleeding risk and safety profile related to the use of eptifibatide: a current review, Marc Schweiger MD, Fadi Saab MD, and Costin Ionescu MD

 

Community-acquired, health care-associated, and ventilator-associated pneumonia: three variations of a serious disease, Susan Scott

 

Measuring quality of inpatient care, Adrienne Seiler MD and Evan Benjamin MD

 

MD Communication: A LEAN performance improvement project at Baystate Medical Center, Adrienne Seiler MD, Jasmine Paadam MD, Christine Bryson MD, and Roy Sittig MD

 

Improving patient glycemic control using a multi-faceted approach, Adrienne Seiler MD, Vasantha Reddy MD, Winthrop Whitcomb MD, Stephanie Calcasola, and Lynn Roncalli

 

Pisa syndrome with altered mental status secondary to risperidone and donepezil: A case report, Vijairam Selvaraj MD

 

High glucose induced inflammation and intracellular lipid accumulation in human mesenchymal stem cells is reduced by mitochondrial antioxidant manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) up-regulation, Sabyasachi Sen MD

 

P53 silenced, apoptosis resistant, endothelial progenitor stem cells (EPC) improve collateral circulation post femoral artery occlusion in diabetic mice, Sabyasachi Sen MD

 

P53 silenced endothelial progenitor stem cells (EPC) improve collateral circulation post femoral artery occlusion in diabetic mice, Sabyasachi Sen MD

 

Vascular reactivity improves in pre-diabetic patients, post aerobic exercise, Sabyasachi Sen MD and Ashequl Islam MD

 

The effect of controlled aerobic exercise on endothelial dysfunction in patients with pre-diabetes: A crossover pilot study, Sabyasachi Sen MD, Pragathi Saligram MD, and Ashequl Islam MD

 

Not useful in modern healthcare, Ramakant Sharma MD

 

Guidelines in practice: Therapies for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo., Anant Shenoy MD

 

Guidelines in practice: Treatment of painful diabetic neuropathy, Anant Shenoy MD

 

Thyroid hormone receptor-α gene knockout mice are protected from diet-induced hepatic insulin resistance, J Enrique Silva MD

 

Post-operative outcomes in dialysis patients undergoing elective or emergent non-cardiac surgery, Gurmukteshwar Singh MD, Arley Diaz MD, Paul Visintainer, Penny Pekow, Peter Lindenauer MD, and Michael Rothberg MD

 

Q: Should N-acetylcysteine be used routinely to prevent contrast-induced acute kidney injury?, Senthil Sivalingam MD, Gregory Braden MD, and Benjamin Freda MD

 

Efficacy and safety of switching suppressed patients with elevated triglycerides from lopinavir/ritonavir or fosamprenavir/ritonavir to atazanavir/ritonavir or darunavir/ritonavir based therapy: The LARD study, Daniel Skiest MD

 

Genome sequence of Listeria monocytogenes 07PF0776, a Cardiotropic Serovar 4b strain, Daniel Skiest MD and Linda Bobo MD

 

D-Dimer threshold increase with pretest probability unlikely for pulmonary embolism to decrease unnecessary computerized tomographic pulmonary angiography, Howard Smithline MD

 

Evaluation of pulmonary embolism in the emergency department and consistency with a national quality measure: quantifying the opportunity for improvement, Howard Smithline MD

 

Pharmacokinetics of high-dose oral thiamine hydrochloride in healthy subjects, Howard Smithline MD

 

Use of magnetic resonance imaging to measure endothelial function, Howard Smithline MD

 

Correlation between change in dyspnea severity and clinical outcome in patients with acute heart failure, Howard Smithline MD, Richard Barus, Fidela Blank, and Ryan Coute

 

Using acoustic analysis of coughs to identify respiratory infections in the emergency department, Howard Smithline MD, Ryan Coute, and Richard Barus

 

Vancomycin and Daptomycin induced acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis in a woman with family history of psoriasis, Daniel Soule MD, Payal Jhawar MD, and Stephen Ryzewicz MD

 

Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring: Comparative Effectiveness [Internet], Mihaela Stefan MD

 

Improving the quality and outcomes of perioperative care, Mihaela Stefan MD and Peter Lindenauer MD

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Improving the Quality and Outcomes of Perioperative Care, Mihaela Stefan MD and Peter Lindenauer MD

 

The impact of COPD on management and outcomes of patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction - A ten-year retrospective observational study, Mihaela Stefan MD and Peter Lindenauer MD

 

The impact of COPD on management and outcomes of patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction: A 10-year retrospective observational study, Mihaela Stefan MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, and Robert Goldberg MD

 

Association between â-blocker therapy and outcomes in patients hospitalised with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive lung disease with underlying ischaemic heart disease, heart failure or hypertension, Mihaela Stefan MD, Michael Rothberg MD, Penny Pekow, and Peter Lindenauer MD

 

The effectiveness and safety of beta-blocker therapy for patients hospitalized for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive lung disease with underlying comorbid ischemic heart disease or heart failure, Mihaela Stefan MD, Michael Rothberg MD, Penny Pekow, and Peter Lindenauer MD

 

A phase I study evaluating the pharmacokinetics, safety and tolerability of an antibody-based tissue factor antagonist in subjects with acute lung injury or acute respiratory distress syndrome, Jay Steingrub MD

 

ARDS: Beyond ventilatory strategies, Jay Steingrub MD

 

Controversies: Therapeutic hypothermia, Jay Steingrub MD

 

From the white elephant to the common canary: Presentation and outcomes of common and not-so-common critical illnesses, Jay Steingrub MD

 

Initial trophic vs full enteral feeding in patients with acute lung injury: The EDEN randomized trial, Jay Steingrub MD

 

Pathogenetic and predictive value of biomarkers in patients with ALI and lower severity of illness: Results from two clinical trials, Jay Steingrub MD

 

Randomized trial of initial trophic vs. early advancements to full enteral feeding in patients with acute lung injury (ALI) (EDEN), Jay Steingrub MD

 

Cryptic Meningoencephalitis, Anna Stepczynski MD

 

Esomeprazole-induced hypomagnesemia, parathyroid hormone resistance and tetany, Dhivya Sundaramurthy MD

 

The effect of night time admission to a medical-surgical ICU, Mark Tidswell MD and Jay Steingrub MD

 

Metabolic syndrome in obese adolescents is associated with risk for nephrolithiasis., Rishita Tiwari MD, Thomas Campfield MD, Chrystal Wittcopp MD, Gregory Braden MD, Paul Visintainer, Edward Reiter MD, and Holley Allen MD

 

A suffocating bleed, Jorge Velez MD

 

Overtreatment and undertreatment of hyperlipidemia in the outpatient setting, Ashish Verma MD, Paul Visintainer, Mohamed Elarabi MD, Siddharth Wartak MD, and Michael Rothberg MD

 

Altered mental status and low anion gap in a patient with sickle cell anemia: a case report, Siddharth Wartak MD, Benjamin Freda MD, Ashish Verma MD, and David Rose MD

 

A unique case of asystole secondary to facial injury, Siddharth Wartak MD and Amir Lotfi MD

 

Assessment of diabetes knowledge, skills and behaviors, Garry Welch and Sofija Zagarins MD

 

Telehealth program for Medicaid patients with type 2 diabetes lowers hemoglobin A1C, Garry Welch and Sofija Zagarins MD

 

2011 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards. Mentored implementation: building leaders and achieving results through a collaborative improvement model. Innovation in patient safety and quality at the national level, Winthrop Whitcomb MD

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Annual meeting didactic summary - Unconscious bias, Jeannette Wolfe MD

 

Floodlighting Unconscious Bias, Jeannette Wolfe MD

 

Gender Balance in Leadership, Jeannette Wolfe MD

 

Gender Differences in Communication, Jeannette Wolfe MD

 

Gender Differences in Negotiation, Jeannette Wolfe MD

 

Why women lose at the negotiating table, Jeannette Wolfe MD

 

XX, XY and the art of asking - What, when and how to negotiate, Jeannette Wolfe MD

 

The impact of a palliative care team on residnets' experieinces and comfort levels with pediatric palliative care, Kelly Wu MD, Jennifer Friderici, and Sarah Goff MD

 

Mitochondrial antioxidant manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) up-regulated human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) reduce inflammation in high glucose exposed adipocytes, Nagendra Yadava PhD and Sabyasachi Sen MD

 

Embedding the concepts of waste and systems failure reduction in an innovative quality curriculum for resident education, Surinder Yadav MD, Reva Kleppel, Jasmine Paadam MD, Reham Shaaban MD, and Lauren Meade MD

 

Urine sampling in hospitalised patients is erroneous and unreliable for clinical care, Surinder Yadav MD, Mary Ellen Scales, Mary Brunton, Denise Schoen, and Evan Benjamin MD

 

Household chemical exposures and the risk of canine malignant lymphoma, a model for human non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Sofija Zagarins MD

 

Painful shoulder and altered mental status in an elderly, Khalid Zarug MD

Submissions from 2011

 

Pictoral review of idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis: A simplified approach, Khaldoon Al Dulaimy MD, Abdullah Shaikh MD, and Khaldoon Al Dulaimy MD

 

Granulomatous stump appendicitis mimicking Crohn's disease, Mazen Al-Mansour MD

 

Adrenal insufficiency following spontaneous bilateral adrenal hemorrhage during pregnancy with spontaneous recovery, Yousef Altowaireb MD, Kamal Shoukri MD, and J Enrique Silva MD

 

Commentary: Disability evaluations--Are the evaluators able?, Stuart Anfang MD

 

Forensic Evaluation of the Older Patient, Stuart Anfang MD

 

ALSUntangled 13: Bee venom, Carmel Armon MD

 

ALSUntangled No. 11: Nu Tech Mediworld, Carmel Armon MD

 

A population-based statewide registry of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in Massachusetts, Carmel Armon MD

 

Is head trauma a risk factor for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis? An evidence-based review, Carmel Armon MD

 

To the editor, Carmel Armon MD

 

Stroke in 28-year-old female: Migraine induced or triptan use?, Carmel Armon MD, Sean Stanhope MD, Naweed Alzaman MD, and Reham Shaaban MD

 

Competency-based education: Linking advancement to competency-based assessment, Sudeep Kaur Aulakh MD and Michael Rosenblum MD

 

Acute brachial diplegia due to lyme disease, George Baquis MD

 

Acute pancreatitis from gastrostomy tube migration in a nursing home resident, Raquel Belforti MD and Amit Bhargava MD

 

Mystery diarrhea leads to a QI initiative on drug-related diarrhea in long-term care, Sandra Bellantonio MD

 

Myasthenia gravis in the setting of polypharmacy in an 86 year old, Rebeca Bell MD and Sandra Bellantonio MD

 

Muscarinic receptor agonists stimulate human colon cancer cell migration and invasion, Angelica Belo MD

 

Improving the quality of care through the use of bundled payments, Evan Benjamin MD and Winthrop Whitcomb MD

 

Informal adult learning in simulated and virtual environments, Elisabeth Bennett

 

Integrative informal learning in virtual HRD: The key to tacit knowledge?, Elisabeth Bennett

 

Gender differences in new residents' perceptions of their preparation to teach, Elisabeth Bennett and Rebecca Blanchard PhD

 

Virtual HRD and international medical education: A conceptual analysis, Elisabeth Bennett and Jennifer Hurst

 

From the classroom to the clinic: A review of literature investigating the experiences of medical students with learning disabilities in the clinical years, Elisabeth Bennett, Michael Willers MD, and Rebecca Blanchard PhD

 

Medicine: The Art Behind the Science, Amit Bhargava MD

 

SGIM Taking the Lead on Promoting, Amit Bhargava MD