Submissions from 2017
Tolerance of uncertainty: conceptual analysis, integrative model, and implications for healthcare., Marij A Hillen, Caitlin M Gutheil, Tania D Strout, Ellen M A Smets, and Paul K J Han
Unusual Lesion of the Bile Duct Diagnosed With Digital Cholangioscopy and Biopsy...Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2017 American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) Program and Abstracts, Chicago, Illinois, 6–9 May 2017, Tian Gao, Douglas A. Howell, and Daniil Rolshud
Woman with severe headache., Randy M Kring and David C Mackenzie
A systematic review of transition studies of pulmonary arterial hypertension specific medications., Avraham Sofer, Michael J Ryan, Ryan J Tedford, Joel A Wirth, and Wassim H Fares
Cardio-Oncology-a rapidly evolving and expanding field of medicine., Daniel J Lenihan and Douglas B Sawyer
Cardio-oncology: the role of big data., Anant Mandawat, Andrew E Williams, and Sanjeev A Francis
“Choosing Wisely” Imaging Recommendations: Initial Implementation in New England Emergency Departments., Ali S. Raja
"Choosing Wisely" imaging recommendations: initial implementation in New England emergency departments., Ali S Raja, Arjun K Venkatesh, Nathan Mick, Cristopher P Zabbo, Kohei Hasegawa, Janice A Espinola, Jane C Bittner, and Carlos A Camargo
Determinants of follow-up failure in patients undergoing vascular surgery procedures., Dejah R Judelson, Jessica P Simons, Julie M Flahive, Virendra I Patel, Christopher T Healey, Brian W Nolan, Daniel J Bertges, and Andres Schanzer
Disclosing the uncertainty associated with prognostic estimates in breast cancer., Ellen G Engelhardt, Arwen H Pieterse, Paul K J Han, Nanny van Duijn-Bakker, Frans Cluitmans, Ed Maartense, Monique M E M Bos, Nir I Weijl, Cornelis J A Punt, Patricia Quarles van Ufford-Mannesse, Harm Sleeboom, Johanneke E A Portielje, Koos J M van der Hoeven, F J Sherida Woei-A-Jin, Judith R Kroep, Hanneke C J M de Haes, Ellen M A Smets, and Anne M Stiggelbout
Emergency Medicine Faculty Are Poor at Predicting Burnout in Individual Trainees: An Exploratory Study., Dave W Lu, Patrick M Lank, and Jeremy B Branzetti
Factors associated with deciding between risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy and ovarian cancer screening among high-risk women enrolled in GOG-0199: an NRG Oncology/Gynecologic Oncology Group study., Phuong L Mai, Marion Piedmonte, Paul K Han, Richard P Moser, Joan L Walker, Gustavo Rodriguez, John Boggess, Thomas J Rutherford, Oliver Zivanovic, David E Cohn, J Tate Thigpen, Robert M Wenham, Michael L Friedlander, Chad A Hamilton, Jamie Bakkum-Gamez, Alexander B Olawaiye, Martee L Hensley, Mark H Greene, Helen Q Huang, and Lari Wenzel
IGFBP-4 regulates adult skeletal growth in a sex-specific manner., David E Maridas, Victoria E DeMambro, Phuong T Le, Kenichi Nagano, Roland Baron, Subburaman Mohan, and Clifford J Rosen
Inhibition of osteoclast differentiation and collagen antibody-induced arthritis by CTHRC1., Yong-Ri Jin, J Patrizia Stohn, Qiaozeng Wang, Kenichi Nagano, Roland Baron, Mary L Bouxsein, Clifford J Rosen, Vyacheslav A Adarichev, and Volkhard Lindner
Personal Digital Assistant-Based Self-Work Sampling Study of Pediatric Interns Quantifies Workday and Educational Value., Joyce K Campbell, Michael V Ortiz, Mary C Ottolini, Sarah Birch, and Dewesh Agrawal
Public perceptions of expert disagreement: Bias and incompetence or a complex and random world?, Nathan F Dieckmann, Branden B Johnson, Robin Gregory, Marcus Mayorga, Paul K J Han, and Paul Slovic
Survey of neonatal intensive care unit nurse attitudes toward therapeutic hypothermia treatment., Alexa Craig, Christine James, Janelle Bainter, Francis L Lucas, Scott Evans, and John Glazer
Tacrolimus interaction with nafcillin resulting in significant decreases in tacrolimus concentrations: a case report., Minkey Wungwattana and Marizela Savic
Therapeutic options to treat pediatric obesity., Allen F Browne
Usefulness of a noninvasive device to identify elevated left ventricular filling pressure using finger photoplethysmography during a Valsalva maneuver., Panagis Galiatsatos, Theingi Tiffany Win, Jennifer Monti, Peter V Johnston, William Herzog, Jeffrey C Trost, Chao-Wei Hwang, Gene Y Fridman, Nae-Yuh Wang, and Harry A Silber
Valproate protein binding is highly variable in ICU patients and not predicted by total serum concentrations: a case series and literature review., Richard R Riker, David J Gagnon, Colman Hatton, Teresa May, David B Seder, Katie Stokem, and Gilles L Fraser
The airway in inhalational injury: diagnosis and management., A Sabri, H Dabbous, A Dowli, and R Barazi
Parathyroid hormone directs bone marrow mesenchymal cell fate., Yi Fan, Jun-Ichi Hanai, Phuong T Le, Ruiye Bi, David Maridas, Victoria DeMambro, Carolina A Figueroa, Serkan Kir, Xuedong Zhou, Michael Mannstadt, Roland Baron, Roderick T Bronson, Mark C Horowitz, Joy Y Wu, John P Bilezikian, David W Dempster, Clifford J Rosen, and Beate Lanske
Bone-fat interaction., Elizabeth Rendina-Ruedy and Clifford J Rosen
Effect of adjunct femoral endarterectomy in lower extremity bypass on perioperative and 1-year outcomes., Peter A Soden; Sara L Zettervall; Katie E Shean; Sarah E. Deery MD, MPH; Jeffrey A Kalish; Christopher T. Healey; Nikhil Kansal; Marc L Schermerhorn; and Vascular Study Group of New England (VSGNE)
Harms of cervical cancer screening in the United States and the Netherlands., Dik Habbema, Sheila Weinmann, Marc Arbyn, Aruna Kamineni, Andrew E Williams, Inge M C M de Kok, Folkert van Kemenade, Terry S Field, Joost van Rosmalen, and Martin L Brown
Increased utilization of cervical disk arthroplasty in university hospitals with regional variation and socioeconomic discrepancies., Sheri K Palejwala, Anand I Rughani, and Travis M Dumont
Pioglitazone and risk for bone fracture: safety data from a randomized clinical trial., Catherine M Viscoli, Silvio E Inzucchi, Lawrence H Young, Karl L Insogna, Robin Conwit, Karen L Furie, Mark Gorman, Michael A Kelly, Anne M Lovejoy, and Walter N Kernan
Project IMPACT pilot report: feasibility of implementing a hospital-to-home transition bundle., Leah A Mallory, Snezana Nena Osorio, B Stephen Prato, Jennifer DiPace, Lisa Schmutter, Paula Soung, Amanda Rogers, William J Woodall, Kayla Burley, Sandra Gage, and David Cooperberg
Real-time H2 O2 measurements in bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) show increased antioxidant capacity in cells from osteoporotic women., Flavia Román, Carla Urra, Omar Porras, Ana María Pino, Clifford J. Rosen, and Juan Pablo Rodríguez
Spontaneous elbow hemarthrosis identified by point-of-care ultrasound., David C Mackenzie and Scott McCorvey
The development of an international standard set of outcomes measures for evaluating the treatment of overactive bladder., S J. Pulliam, C E. Foust-Wright, and A Morse
Ultrasound gel minimizes third body debris with partial hardware removal in joint arthroplasty., Aidan C McGrory, Lee Replogle, and Donald Endrizzi
Patient-reported outcome metrics in total joint arthroplasty., Adam Rana and Shaleen Vira
Social Contexts in Medicine: A Patient-Centered Curriculum Empowering Medical Students to Provide Contextualized Care., Carolyn Drake, Melissa Keeport, Alice Chapman, and Chayan Chakraborti
Effects of neuregulin GGF2 (cimaglermin alfa) dose and treatment frequency on left ventricular function in rats following myocardial infarction., Tom J Parry, Anindita Ganguly, Erika L Troy, J Luis Guerrero, Jennifer F Iaci, Maya Srinivas, Andrea M Vecchione, Donald C Button, Craig S Hackett, Ronald Zolty, Douglas B Sawyer, and Anthony O Caggiano
Cancer incidence in patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia., Christine W. Duarte, Adam W. Black, F Lee Lucas, and Calvin P H Vary
Cervical spine MRI in patients with negative CT: a prospective, multicenter study of the Research Consortium of New England Centers for Trauma (ReCONECT)., Adrian A Maung, Dirk C Johnson, Kimberly Barre, Thomas Peponis, Tomaz Mesar, George C Velmahos, Daniel McGrail, George Kasotakis, Ronald I Gross, Michael S Rosenblatt, Kristen C Sihler, Robert J Winchell, Walter Cholewczynski, Kathryn L Butler, Stephen R Odom, and Kimberly A Davis
Diagnosis of Severe Acute Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding With CTA., Samantha L. Wood, Louis Eubank, and Tania D. Strout
Factor analysis of the scale of prodromal symptoms: data from the early detection and intervention for the prevention of psychosis program., Ivy F Tso, Stephan F Taylor, Tyler B Grove, Tara Niendam, Steven Adelsheim, Andrea Auther, Barbara Cornblatt, Cameron S Carter, Roderick Calkins, J Daniel Ragland, Tamara Sale, and William R McFarlane
Human NUMB6 induces epithelial-mesenchymal transition and enhances breast cancer cells migration and Invasion., Aldona A. Karaczyn, Tamara L Adams, Robert Y S Cheng, Nicholas N Matluk, and Joseph M Verdi
ICU clinicians underestimate breathing discomfort in ventilated subjects., Andrew P Binks, Steven Desjardin, and Richard Riker
Intensity in End-of-Life Care for Medicare Patients Dying with Melanoma (S741)., Rebecca Hutchinson, Lee Lucas, and Kathleen Fairfield
Mechanisms of marrow adiposity and its implications for skeletal health., Annegreet G Veldhuis-Vlug and Clifford J Rosen
Minor papilla endotherapy in patients with ventral duct obstruction: identification and management., Nicholas G Brown, Douglas A. Howell, Brian C Brauer, John Walker, Sachin Wani, and Raj J Shah
One-year pivotal trial outcomes of the Nellix system for endovascular aneurysm sealing., Jeffrey P Carpenter, Robert Cuff, Clifford Buckley, Christopher Healey, Sajjad Hussain, Michel M P J Reijnen, Jose Trani, and Dittmar Böckler
Reducing Acute Kidney Injury Due to Contrast Material: How Nurses Can Improve Patient Safety., Peggy Lambert, Kristine Chaisson, Susan Horton, Carmen Petrin, Emily Marshall, Sue Bowden, Lynn Scott, Sheila Conley, Janette Stender, Gertrude Kent, Ellen Hopkins, Brian Smith, Anita Nicholson, Nancy Roy, Brenda Homsted, Cindy Downs, Cathy S Ross, Jeremiah Brown, and Northern New England Cardiovascular Disease Study Group
Social Media in Nurse Anesthesia: A Model of a Reproducible Educational Podcast., Kristin Andrejco, Jon Lowrance, Brad Morgan, Cassidy Padgett, and Shawn Collins
The effect of anticoagulation on bleeding-related complications following ureteroscopy., Mary E Westerman, Joseph A Scales, Vidit Sharma, Derek J Gearman, Johann P Ingimarsson, and Amy E Krambeck
Type 3 deiodinase role on central thyroid hormone action affects the leptin-melanocortin system and circadian activity., Zhaofei Wu, M Elena Martinez, Donald L St Germain, and Arturo Hernandez
Valproate for agitation in critically ill patients: a retrospective study., David J. Gagnon, Gabriel V Fontaine, Kathryn E. Smith, Richard R. Riker, Russell R Miller, Patricia A. Lerwick, F L. Lucas, John T. Dziodzio, Kristen C. Sihler, and Gilles L. Fraser
Vitamin D intake and the risk of incident kidney stones., Pietro Manuel Ferraro, Eric N. Taylor, Giovanni Gambaro, and Gary C Curhan
Integrating GWAS and co-expression network data identifies bone mineral density genes SPTBN1 and MARK3 and an osteoblast functional module., Gina M Calabrese, Larry D Mesner, Joseph P Stains, Steven M Tommasini, Mark C Horowitz, Clifford J Rosen, and Charles R Farber
Dyslipidemia: Current Therapies And Guidelines For Treatment, Edward T. Carreras and Donna M. Polk
Parent vessel occlusion for treatment of cerebral aneurysms: Is there still an indication? A series of 17 patients., Nishant Ganesh Kumar, Travis R Ladner, Imad S Kahn, Scott L Zuckerman, Christopher B Baker, Deborah Cushing, Matthew R Sanborn, J Mocco, and Robert D Ecker
Activation of inflammatory and pro-thrombotic pathways in acute stress cardiomyopathy., Timothy P Fitzgibbons, Yvonne J K Edwards, Peter Shaw, Aline Iskandar, Mohamed Ahmed, Josiah Bote, Tejen Shah, Sumita Sinha, Robert E Gerszten, John F Keaney, Michael R Zile, and Gerard P Aurigemma
Airway management and mechanical ventilation in acute brain injury., D B Seder and J Bösel
An Investigation of the Relationship Between Emergency Medicine Trainee Burnout and Clinical Performance in a High-fidelity Simulation Environment., Dave W Lu, Scott M Dresden, D Mark Courtney, and David H Salzman
A Quality Improvement Program to Reduce Potential Overtreatment of Diabetes Among Veterans at High Risk of Hypoglycemia., Versha G. Vimalandanda, Kristine DeSotto, TeChieh Chen, Jenny Mullakary, James Schlosser, Cliona Archambeault, Jordan Peck, Hannah Cassidy, Paul R. Conlin, Stewart Evans, Mark McConnell, and Eric Shirley
Bim expression in endothelial cells and pericytes is essential for regression of the fetal ocular vasculature., Shoujian Wang, Ismail S Zaitoun, Ryan P Johnson, Nasim Jamali, Zafer Gurel, Catherine M Wintheiser, Andreas Strasser, Volkhard Lindner, Nader Sheibani, and Christine M Sorenson
Corrigendum: Dose-Dependent and Lasting Influences of Intranasal Vasopressin on Face Processing in Men., Daniel Price, Debra Burris, Anna Cloutier, Carol B Thompson, James K Rilling, and Richmond R Thompson
Development of a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Order Set at Maine Medical Center, Sarah Bockian, Emily Esslinger, and Martha Weatherhead
Development of a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Order Set at Maine Medical Center, Sarah Bockian, Emily Esslinger, and Martha Weatherhead
Diet-induced adipose tissue expansion is mitigated in mice with a targeted inactivation of mesoderm specific transcript (Mest)., Rea P Anunciado-Koza, Justin Manuel, Randall L Mynatt, Jingying Zhang, Leslie P Kozak, and Robert A Koza
Does medication safety and diversion education improve medication securement practices in SCU compared to current practice?, Natasha Stankiewicz
Erratum to: Suppression of Spry4 enhances cancer stem cell properties of human MDA-MB-231 breast carcinoma cells., Hongyu Jing, Lucy Liaw, Robert Friesel, Calvin Vary, Shucheng Hua, and Xuehui Yang
First-trimester chorionic bump--association with fetal aneuploidy in a high-risk population., Joseph R Wax, Angelina Cartin, Christian Litton, Michael G Pinette, and F L Lucas
Growth factor regulation in the nephrogenic zone of the developing kidney., Leif Oxburgh, Sree Deepthi Muthukrishnan, and Aaron Brown
Increased number of circulating CD8/CD26 T cells in the blood of Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients is associated with augmented binding of adenosine deaminase and higher muscular strength scores., Jonathan H Soslow, Larry W Markham, W Bryan Burnette, Cristi L Galindo, Igor Feoktistov, Frank J Raucci, Bruce M Damon, Douglas B. Sawyer, and Sergey Ryzhov
In reply to Hauswald., Samir A Haydar, Tania D Strout, and Michael R Baumann
Introduction: Cognition, Rarely Discussed., John J. Compbell III
Is feedback to medical learners associated with characteristics of improved patient care?, Victoria Hayes, Robert Bing-You, Kalli Varaklis, Robert Trowbridge, Heather Kemp, and Dina McKelvy
Is trucking along enough? An exploration of mid-career nurses’ satisfaction, Heather Docherty
Liberation From Mechanical Ventilation in Critically Ill Adults: An Official American College of Chest Physicians/American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline: Inspiratory Pressure Augmentation During Spontaneous Breathing Trials, Protocols Minimizing Sedation, and Noninvasive Ventilation Immediately After Extubation., Daniel R Ouellette, Sheena Patel, Timothy D Girard, Peter E Morris, Gregory A Schmidt, Jonathon D Truwit, Waleed Alhazzani, Suzanne M Burns, Scott K Epstein, Andres Esteban, Eddy Fan, Miguel Ferrer, Gilles L Fraser, Michelle Ng Gong, Catherine L Hough, Sangeeta Mehta, Rahul Nanchal, Amy J Pawlik, William D Schweickert, Curtis N Sessler, Thomas Strøm, and John P Kress
Liberation From Mechanical Ventilation in Critically Ill Adults: Executive Summary of an Official American College of Chest Physicians/American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline., Gregory A Schmidt, Timothy D Girard, John P Kress, Peter E Morris, Daniel R Ouellette, Waleed Alhazzani, Suzanne M Burns, Scott K Epstein, Andres Esteban, Eddy Fan, Miguel Ferrer, Gilles L Fraser, Michelle Ng Gong, Catherine L Hough, Sangeeta Mehta, Rahul Nanchal, Sheena Patel, Amy J Pawlik, William D Schweickert, Curtis N Sessler, Thomas Strøm, Kevin C Wilson, and Jonathon D Truwit
Maine Medical Center Research Institute: 2017 Year in Review, Maine Medical Center Research Institute
Medical humanities: Using MedHum to promote the goal of professional identity in UME, Michael P.H. Stanley
Optimal Timing From Myocardial Infarction to Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting on Hospital Mortality., Elizabeth L Nichols, Jock N McCullough, Cathy S Ross, Robert S Kramer, Benjamin M Westbrook, John D Klemperer, Bruce J Leavitt, Jeremiah R Brown, Elaine Olmstead, Felix Hernandez, Gerald L Sardella, Carmine Frumiento, David Malenka, Anthony DiScipio, and Northern New England Cardiovascular Disease Study Group
Predicting mortality of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms in the era of endovascular repair., Christopher T Healey, Michael Neilson, David Clark, Andres Schanzer, William Robinson, and Vascular Study Group of New England None
Predictors of recurrent hospital admission for patients presenting with diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperglycemic hyperosmolar state., Annabel L Bradford, Courtney Champagne Crider, Xizheng Xu, and Syed Hasan Naqvi
Stroke and myocardial infarction following bronchial artery embolization in a cystic fibrosis patient., Matt Hoffman, Joseph P Gerding, and Jonathan B Zuckerman
The bioengineering core, Michaela Reagan
Submissions from 2016
IDH2 mutations define a unique subtype of breast cancer with altered nuclear polarity., Sarah Chiang, Britta Weigelt, Huei-Chi Wen, Fresia Pareja, Ashwini Raghavendra, Luciano G Martelotto, Kathleen A Burke, Thais Basili, Anqi Li, Felipe C Geyer, Salvatore Piscuoglio, Charlotte K Y Ng, Achim A Jungbluth, Jörg Balss, Stefan Pusch, Gabrielle M Baker, Kimberly S Cole, Andreas von Deimling, Julie M Batten, Jonathan D Marotti, Hwei-Choo Soh, Benjamin L McCalip, Jonathan Serrano, Raymond S Lim, Kalliopi P Siziopikou, Song Lu, Xiaolong Liu, Tarek Hammour, Edi Brogi, Matija Snuderl, A John Iafrate, Jorge S Reis-Filho, and Stuart J Schnitt
Fine-tuning of Notch signaling sets the boundary of the organ of Corti and establishes sensory cell fates., Martin L Basch, Rogers M Brown, Hsin-I Jen, Fatih Semerci, Frederic Depreux, Renée K Edlund, Hongyuan Zhang, Christine R Norton, Thomas Gridley, Susan E Cole, Angelika Doetzlhofer, Mirjana Maletic-Savatic, Neil Segil, and Andrew K Groves
Adverse reaction to metal debris with concomitant incidental crystalline arthropathy in hip arthroplasty., Edward J Testa and Brian J. McGrory
American Telemedicine Association guidelines for TeleICU operations., Theresa M Davis, Connie Barden, Steve Dean, Amnon Gavish, Irene Goliash, Susan Goran, Andrew Graley, Pat Herr, William Jackson, Edward Loo, James P Marcin, John Morgan Morris, David E Morledge, Carol Olff, Teresa Rincon, Stephanie Rogers, Herb Rogove, Rebecca Rufo, Elizabeth Thomas, Marc T Zubrow, Elizabeth A Krupinski, and Jordana Bernard
A Phase I, Single Ascending Dose Study of Cimaglermin Alfa (Neuregulin 1β3) in Patients With Systolic Dysfunction and Heart Failure., Daniel J Lenihan, Sarah A Anderson, Carrie Geisberg Lenneman, Evan Brittain, James A S Muldowney, Lisa Mendes, Ping Z Zhao, Jennifer Iaci, Stephen Frohwein, Ronald Zolty, Andrew Eisen, Douglas B Sawyer, and Anthony O Caggiano
Circulating vascular endothelial growth factor and the risk of cardiovascular events., Bernhard M Kaess, Sarah R Preis, Alexa Beiser, Douglas B. Sawyer, Tai C Chen, Sudha Seshadri, and Ramachandran S Vasan
Combined supine and prone imaging acquisition in cardiac SPECT: A turn for the better., Mylan C Cohen
Conflicting health information: a critical research need., Delesha M Carpenter, Lorie L Geryk, Annie T Chen, Rebekah H Nagler, Nathan F Dieckmann, and Paul K J Han
Decreased anxiety- and depression-like behaviors and hyperactivity in a type 3 deiodinase-deficient mouse showing brain thyrotoxicosis and peripheral hypothyroidism., J Patrizia Stohn, M Elena Martinez, and Arturo Hernandez
Development and evaluation of the "BRISK Scale," a brief observational measure of risk communication competence., Paul K J Han, Katherine Joekes, Greg Mills, Caitlin Gutheil, Kahsi Smith, Nancy E Cochran, and Glyn Elwyn
Implementation of a simplistic bivalirudin-warfarin transition protocol Is associated with improved achievement of INR values within the therapeutic range., Amber R Rollins, Kathryn E Smith, and Wesley R Zemrak
Intensive point-of-care ultrasound training with long-term follow-up in a cohort of Rwandan physicians., Patricia C Henwood, David C. Mackenzie, Joshua S Rempell, Emily Douglass, Damas Dukundane, Andrew S Liteplo, Megan M Leo, Alice F Murray, Samuel Vaillancourt, Anthony J Dean, Resa E Lewiss, Stephen Rulisa, Elizabeth Krebs, A K Raja Rao, Emmanuel Rudakemwa, Vincent Rusanganwa, Patrick Kyanmanywa, and Vicki E Noble
New insights into bone marrow adipocytes: report from the first European meeting on bone marrow adiposity (BMA 2015)., Pierre Hardouin, Pierre J Marie, and Clifford J Rosen
Plasma hepatocyte growth factor is a novel marker of AL cardiac amyloidosis., Kristopher J Swiger, Eitan A Friedman, Evan L Brittain, Kelsey A Tomasek, Shi Huang, Yan R Su, Douglas B Sawyer, and Daniel J Lenihan
Pneumonia prevention in intubated patients given sucralfate versus proton-pump inhibitors and/or histamine II receptor blockers., Gene A Grindlinger, Sarah B Cairo, and Carole B Duperre
