Submissions from 2014
Detection of eastern equine encephalitis virus antibodies in moose (Alces americana), Maine, 2010., Charles Lubelczyk, Susan P Elias, Lee Kantar, Jennifer Albert, Stephen Hansen, Kali Saxton-Shaw, Katharine MacMillan, Leticia B Smith, Rebecca Eisen, Bethany Swope, Robert Pease Smith, and John-Paul Mutebi
Development and evaluation of a risk communication curriculum for medical students., Paul K J Han, Katherine Joekes, Glyn Elwyn, Kathleen M Mazor, Richard Thomson, Philip Sedgwick, Judith Ibison, and John B Wong
Early cardiac catheterization is associated with improved survival in comatose survivors of cardiac arrest without STEMI., Ryan D Hollenbeck, John A McPherson, Michael R Mooney, Barbara T Unger, Nainesh C Patel, Paul W McMullan, Chiu-Hsieh Hsu, David B Seder, and Karl B Kern
Effect of a dedicated acute care operating room on hospital efficiency., Cecilia Trydestam, Steven Prato, Brad Cushing, and James Whiting
Elevated plasma levels of the pituitary hormone Cthrc1 in individuals with red hair but not in patients with solid tumors., Christine W Duarte, J Patrizia Stohn, Qiaozeng Wang, Ivette F Emery, Andrew Prueser, and Volkhard Lindner
Evidence-based leadership council - a national collaborative., Margaret Haynes, Susan Hughes, Kate Lorig, June Simmons, Susan J Snyder, Lesley Steinman, Nancy Wilson, Roseanne DiStefano, Jennifer Raymond, Stephanie FallCreek, Martha B Pelaez, and Don Smith
Factors associated with different patterns of nonadherence to HIV care in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania., Gabriela Poles, Michelle Li, Hellen Siril, Aisa Mhalu, Claudia Hawkins, Sylvia Kaaya, Eric Aris, Guerino Chalamilla, and Lisa R Hirschhorn
FOXD1 promotes nephron progenitor differentiation by repressing decorin in the embryonic kidney., Jennifer L Fetting, Justin A Guay, Michele J Karolak, Renato V Iozzo, Derek C Adams, David E Maridas, Aaron C Brown, and Leif Oxburgh
Home diuretic protocol for heart failure: partnering with home health to improve outcomes and reduce readmissions., Richard P Veilleux, Joseph N Wight, Ann Cannon, Moira Whalen, and David Bachman
Impact of perioperative acute kidney injury as a severity index for thirty-day readmission after cardiac surgery., Jeremiah R Brown, Chirag R Parikh, Cathy S Ross, Robert S Kramer, Patrick C Magnus, Kristine Chaisson, Richard A Boss, Robert E Helm, Susan R Horton, Patricia Hofmaster, Helen Desaulniers, Pamela Blajda, Benjamin M Westbrook, Dennis Duquette, Kelly LeBlond, Reed D Quinn, Cheryl Jones, Anthony W DiScipio, and David J Malenka
Improved survival outcomes in cancer patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia., Christine W Duarte, Kimberly Murray, F Lee Lucas, Kathleen Fairfield, Heather Miller, Peter Brooks, and Calvin P H Vary
Next generation sequencing reveals skewing of the T and B cell receptor repertoires in patients with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome., Amy E O'Connell, Stefano Volpi, Kerry Dobbs, Claudia Fiorini, Erdyni Tsitsikov, Helen de Boer, Isil B Barlan, Jenny M Despotovic, Francisco J Espinosa-Rosales, I Celine Hanson, Maria G Kanariou, Roxana Martínez-Beckerat, Alvaro Mayorga-Sirera, Carmen Mejia-Carvajal, Nesrine Radwan, Aaron R Weiss, Sung-Yun Pai, Yu Nee Lee, and Luigi D Notarangelo
Overview of genetic tools and techniques to study Notch signaling in mice., Thomas Gridley and Andrew K Groves
Partnership, Maine Medical Center
Psychiatric hospital treatment of children with autism and serious behavioral disturbance., Matthew Siegel and Robin L Gabriels
Relationship between regional spending on vascular care and amputation rate., Philip P Goodney, Lori L Travis, Benjamin S Brooke, Randall R DeMartino, David C Goodman, Elliott S Fisher, and John D Birkmeyer
The epidemiology and pathogenesis of osteoporosis., Clifford J. Rosen
The Snail transcription factor regulates the numbers of neural precursor cells and newborn neurons throughout mammalian life., Mark A Zander, Gonzalo I Cancino, Thomas Gridley, David R Kaplan, and Freda D Miller
Total knee arthroplasty designed to accommodate the presence or absence of the posterior cruciate ligament., Melinda K Harman, Stephanie J Bonin, Chris J Leslie, Scott A Banks, and W Andrew Hodge
Transfer of intracellular HIV Nef to endothelium causes endothelial dysfunction., Ting Wang, Linden A Green, Samir K Gupta, Chul Kim, Liang Wang, Sharilyn Almodovar, Sonia C Flores, Igor A Prudovsky, Paul Jolicoeur, Ziyue Liu, and Matthias Clauss
Unfreezing the Flexnerian Model: introducing longitudinal integrated clerkships in rural communities., Robert G Bing-You, Robert L Trowbridge, Catherine Kruithoff, and John L Daggett
Use of osmium tetroxide staining with microcomputerized tomography to visualize and quantify bone marrow adipose tissue in vivo., Erica L Scheller, Nancy Troiano, Joshua N Vanhoutan, Mary A Bouxsein, Jackie A Fretz, Yougen Xi, Tracy Nelson, Griffin Katz, Ryan Berry, Christopher D Church, Matthew S Rodeheffer, Ormond A Macdougald, Clifford J Rosen, Mark C Horowitz, and Casey R. Doucette
Submissions from 2013
Impairment of subendocardial perfusion reserve and oxidative metabolism in nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy., Susan P Bell, Douglas W Adkisson, Henry Ooi, Douglas B Sawyer, Mark A Lawson, and Marvin W Kronenberg
Radical, passionate, and curious., Robert C Groom
Validity and reliability of the critical care pain observation tool: a replication study., Kathleen Marie Keane
Vitamin D and calcium: what do we need to know?, Vincent Zhang, Xuezhi Jiang, Yousaf Z Farukhi, Clifford J Rosen, and Peter F Schnatz
Absence of a major role for the snai1 and snai3 genes in regulating skeletal muscle regeneration in mice., Christine R Norton, Ying Chen, Xiang Hua Han, Cara K Bradley, Luke T Krebs, Jeong Kyo Yoon, and Thomas Gridley
Know Thyself: A Knowledge Repository in the Hospital Setting, Dina McKelvy
Contemporary issues in nursing: patient safety, decision-making and social support in challenging economic times., Lynn Macken and Kristiina Hyrkas
Estimating the effect of emergency care on early survival after traffic crashes., David E Clark, Robert J Winchell, and Rebecca A Betensky
Risk modifiers for concussion and prolonged recovery., Kristen A Scopaz and John R Hatzenbuehler
Testing the reliability of the Fall Risk Screening Tool in an elderly ambulatory population., Susan J Fielding, Michael McKay, and Kristiina Hyrkas
The effect of medical students and residents on measures of efficiency and timeliness in an academic medical center emergency department., Matthew DeLaney, Kate D Zimmerman, Tania D Strout, and Megan L Fix
Interactive 3D analysis of blood vessel trees and collateral vessel volumes in magnetic resonance angiograms in the mouse ischemic hindlimb model., Peter C Marks, Marilena Preda, Terry Henderson, Lucy Liaw, Volkhard Lindner, Robert E Friesel, and Ilka M Pinz
IGF-1 regulation of key signaling pathways in bone., Anyonya R Guntur and Clifford J Rosen
Acute complications of movement disorders surgery: effects of age and comorbidities., Anand I Rughani, Mojgan Hodaie, and Andres M Lozano
Dietary calcium from dairy and nondairy sources, and risk of symptomatic kidney stones., Eric N Taylor and Gary C Curhan
Educational agenda for diagnostic error reduction., Robert L Trowbridge, Gurpreet Dhaliwal, and Karen S Cosby
Impact of Let's Go! 5-2-1-0: a community-based, multisetting childhood obesity prevention program., Victoria W Rogers, Patricia H Hart, Elizabeth Motyka, Emily N Rines, Jackie Vine, and Deborah A Deatrick
Sex-specific association of a common variant of the XG gene with autism spectrum disorders., Shun-Chiao Chang, David L Pauls, Christoph Lange, Roksana Sasanfar, and Susan L Santangelo
Sprouty4 regulates endothelial cell migration via modulating integrin β3 stability through c-Src., Yan Gong, Xuehui Yang, Qing He, Lindsey Gower, Igor Prudovsky, Calvin P H Vary, Peter C Brooks, and Robert E Friesel
TMEFF2 and SARDH cooperate to modulate one-carbon metabolism and invasion of prostate cancer cells., Thomas Green, Xiaofei Chen, Stephen Ryan, Adam S Asch, and Maria J Ruiz-Echevarría
Telephone administration of the aberrant behavior checklist: a pilot study of feasibility in children with intellectual disability and autism., Matthew Siegel, Briana Milligan, Hannah Stein, Olivia Teer, and Kahsi A Smith
The value of personalised risk information: a qualitative study of the perceptions of patients with prostate cancer., Paul K J Han, Norbert Hootsmans, Michael Neilson, Bethany Roy, Terence Kungel, Caitlin Gutheil, Michael Diefenbach, and Moritz Hansen
Patient safety in the cardiac operating room: human factors and teamwork: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association., Joyce A Wahr, Richard L Prager, J H Abernathy, Elizabeth A Martinez, Eduardo Salas, Patricia C Seifert, Robert C Groom, Bruce D Spiess, Bruce E Searles, Thoralf M Sundt, Juan A Sanchez, Scott A Shappell, Michael H Culig, Elizabeth H Lazzara, David C Fitzgerald, Vinod H Thourani, Pirooz Eghtesady, John S Ikonomidis, Michael R England, Frank W Sellke, Nancy A Nussmeier, and American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research
Altered thermogenesis and impaired bone remodeling in Misty mice., Katherine J Motyl, Kathleen A Bishop, Victoria E DeMambro, Sheila A Bornstein, Phuong Le, Masanobu Kawai, Sutada Lotinun, Mark C Horowitz, Roland Baron, Mary L Bouxsein, and Clifford J Rosen
Mediastinal teratoma diagnosed via ultrasound-guided biopsy., Elena L Resnick, Jennifer M Talmadge, and Steven S Winn
Test- Management of the base of the appendix in pediatric laparoscopic appendectomy: clip, ligate, or staple?, Monica Langer, Arash Safavi, and Erik D Skarsgard
The path to best care., Robert C Groom
Stent healing response following delivery of paclitaxel via durable polymeric matrix versus iopromide-based balloon coating in the familial hypercholesterolaemic swine model of coronary injury., Piotr P Buszman, Armando Tellez, Maxwell Afari, Yanping Cheng, Gerard B Conditt, Jennifer C McGregor, Krzysztof Milewski, Mark Stenoien, Greg L Kaluza, and Juan F Granada
Effect of chronic oral anticoagulation with warfarin on the durability and outcomes of endovascular aortic aneurysm repair., Marques S Johnson, Jasmine Chiang, Jens Eldrup-Jorgensen, David E Clark, and Christopher T Healey
Lesser trochanter avulsion fracture., Nicholas C Papacostas, Christopher T Bowe, and Tania D Shaffer Strout
Tissue uptake, distribution, and healing response after delivery of paclitaxel via second-generation iopromide-based balloon coating: a comparison with the first-generation technology in the iliofemoral porcine model., Piotr P Buszman, Armando Tellez, Maxwell E Afari, Athanasios Peppas, Gerard B Conditt, Serge D Rousselle, Jennifer C McGregor, Mark Stenoien, Greg L Kaluza, and Juan F Granada
Common misconceptions about vitamin D--implications for clinicians., Clifford J Rosen and Christine L Taylor
National evidence on the use of shared decision making in prostate-specific antigen screening., Paul K J Han, Sarah Kobrin, Nancy Breen, Djenaba A Joseph, Jun Li, Dominick L Frosch, and Carrie N Klabunde
Predictive value of the Pediatric Ulcerative Colitis Activity Index in the surgical management of ulcerative colitis., Fabienne L Gray, Christopher G Turner, David Zurakowski, Athos Bousvaros, Bradley C Linden, Robert C Shamberger, and Craig W Lillehei
SPECT vs CT: CT is not the first line test for the diagnosis and prognosis of stable coronary artery disease., Zachary J Trzaska and Mylan C Cohen
The SNAI1 and SNAI2 proteins occupy their own and each other's promoter during chondrogenesis., Ying Chen and Thomas Gridley
Carotid artery endarterectomy: a multidisciplinary approach to improving resource utilization and quality assurance., Jill A Knutson, Carol Jo Morse, Jens Eldrup-Jorgensen, Margaret Estee, Lois Hayworth, Tara A Herman, and Angela S Vereshko
Closure of tubular patent ductus arteriosus in infants with the Amplatzer Vascular Plug II., Abby A R Gross and Jon P Donnelly
Compensatory regulation of the Snai1 and Snai2 genes during chondrogenesis., Ying Chen and Thomas Gridley
Pediatric postoperative intussusception in the minimally invasive surgery era: a 13-year, single center experience., Justin D Klein, Christopher G Turner, Sophia C Kamran, Alvin Y C Yu, Lynne Ferrari, David Zurakowski, and Dario O Fauza
Combating infections at Maine Medical Center: Insights into complexity-informed leadership from positive deviance, Curt Lindberg and Margaritte Schneider
HELP© prevent falls by preventing delirium., Rhonda L Babine, Stacey Farrington, and Heidi R Wierman
Historic condition in a modern child with autism., Megan Berube, Carol Hubbard, Leah Mallory, Eric Larsen, Peter Morrison, and Marilyn Augustyn
Managing blunt trauma in patients receiving dabigatran etexilate: case study and review of the literature., Peter Eamonn Croft, Katherine P Cabral, Tania D Strout, Michael R Baumann, Michael A Gibbs, and Matthew C Delaney
Periurethral aggressive angiomyxoma: a case report., Caroline Foust-Wright, Arielle Allen, and S Abbas Shobeiri
Aorto-mesenteric and renal allograft transplant: a novel treatment for midaortic syndrome., K Vakili, N M Fullington, C G Turner, R P Cauley, K M Potanos, S Lee, M Ferguson, J E Lock, and H B Kim
Congenital hypothyroidism., Heather J Shanholtz
ErbB/integrin signaling interactions in regulation of myocardial cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions., Laura Pentassuglia and Douglas B Sawyer
Notch1 activation in embryonic VE-cadherin populations selectively blocks hematopoietic stem cell generation and fetal liver hematopoiesis., Yuefeng Tang, Hao Bai, Sumithra Urs, Zack Wang, and Lucy Liaw
Physicians' beliefs about breast cancer surveillance testing are consistent with test overuse., Paul K J Han, Carrie N Klabunde, Anne-Michelle Noone, Craig C Earle, John Z Ayanian, Patricia A Ganz, Katherine S Virgo, and Arnold L Potosky
Type 1 diabetes mellitus abrogates compensatory augmentation of myocardial neuregulin-1β/ErbB in response to myocardial infarction resulting in worsening heart failure., Oghenerukevwe Odiete, Ewa A Konik, Douglas B Sawyer, and Michael F Hill
Role for compartmentalization in nephron progenitor differentiation., Aaron C Brown, Sree Deepthi Muthukrishnan, Justin A Guay, Derek C Adams, Dillon A Schafer, Jennifer L Fetting, and Leif Oxburgh
Blistering rash in an older man., Nathaniel J Ward and Casey Z MacVane
Bone Remodeling and Energy Metabolism: New Perspectives., Francisco J A de Paula and Clifford J Rosen
Challenges implementing bar-coded medication administration in the emergency room in comparison to medical surgical units., Nancy Glover
Development and impact of human papillomavirus vaccines., Christopher J Darus and Jennifer J Mueller
Educational Exhibit Abstract No. 294. Financial impact of a resident-run vascular and interventional radiology clinic, Matthew Recker, K Cicuto, Pablo Kim, and D Mittleider
Management of genetic syndromes predisposing to gynecologic cancers., Susan Miesfeldt, Amanda Lamb, and Christine Duarte
Racial disparities in survival among injured drivers., Amy E Haskins, David E Clark, and Lori L Travis
Single-dose etomidate is not associated with increased mortality in ICU patients with sepsis: analysis of a large electronic ICU database., Laura C McPhee, Omar Badawi, Gilles L Fraser, Patricia A Lerwick, Richard R Riker, Ilene H Zuckerman, Christine Franey, and David B Seder
The power of partnerships., Robert C Groom
Nonclassically secreted regulators of angiogenesis., Igor Prudovsky
The amniotic fluid as a source of neural stem cells in the setting of experimental neural tube defects., Christopher G Turner, Justin D Klein, Junmei Wang, Devang Thakor, Darcy Benedict, Azra Ahmed, Yang D Teng, and Dario O Fauza
Protein-phospholipid interactions in nonclassical protein secretion: problem and methods of study., Igor Prudovsky, Thallapuranam Krishnaswamy Suresh Kumar, Sarah Sterling, and David Neivandt
Conceptual, methodological, and ethical problems in communicating uncertainty in clinical evidence., Paul K. Han
Conceptual, methodological, and ethical problems in communicating uncertainty in clinical evidence., Paul K J Han
Generalized weakness in the geriatric emergency department patient: an approach to initial management., Robert S Anderson and Sarah A M Hallen
Hyperperfusion syndrome after stent/coiling of a ruptured carotid bifurcation aneurysm., Robert D Ecker, Richard D Murray, and David B Seder
Voices of family members and significant others in the tele-intensive care unit, Mary Jahrsdoerfer and Susan Goran
An epizootic of eastern equine encephalitis virus, Maine, USA in 2009: outbreak description and entomological studies., Charles Lubelczyk, John-Paul Mutebi, Sara Robinson, Susan P Elias, Leticia B Smith, Sherrie A Juris, Kimberly Foss, Anne Lichtenwalner, Kirk J Shively, Donald E Hoenig, Lori Webber, Stephen Sears, and Robert P Smith
Chapter: Apitherapy-The use of honeybee products., Theodore Cherbuliez
Effect of a botanical acaricide on Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) and nontarget arthropods., Susan P Elias, Charles B Lubelczyk, Peter W Rand, Joseph K Staples, Theodore W St Amand, Constance S Stubbs, Eleanor H Lacombe, Leticia B Smith, and Robert P Smith
Evolution of an innovative role: the clinical nurse leader., Lauri Wilson, Sonja Orff, Terilee Gerry, Bobbi R Shirley, Danielle Tabor, Kathryn Caiazzo, and Darlene Rouleau
Health sciences libraries, Susan Bloomfield, Deborah Clark, Dina McKelvy, and Lucinda White
Intra-amniotic delivery of amniotic-derived neural stem cells in a syngeneic model of spina bifida., Christopher Turner, Elliot C Pennington, Fabienne L Gray, Azra Ahmed, Yang D Teng, and Dario O Fauza
Inverse propensity weighting to adjust for bias in fatal crash samples., David E Clark and Edward L Hannan
Lower motor neuron findings after upper motor neuron injury: insights from postoperative supplementary motor area syndrome., Jeffrey E Florman, Hugues Duffau, and Anand I Rughani
Management of microcarcinomas (papillary and medullary) of the thyroid., Leslie S Wu and Stacey A Milan
