Submissions from 2016
Multiple myeloma in the marrow: pathogenesis and treatments., Heather Fairfield, Carolyne Falank, Lindsey Avery, and Michaela R Reagan
Delirium recall - an integrative review., Valerie Fuller
Premeasured chordal loops for mitral valve repair., Marc Gillinov, Reed Quinn, Faraz Kerendi, Vince Gaudiani, Richard Shemin, Glenn Barnhart, Edward Raines, Marc W Gerdisch, and Michael Banbury
The cost and outcome effectiveness of total hip replacement: technique choice and volume-output effects matter., Jonathan P Goldstein, George M. Babikian, Adam J. Rana, Johanna A. Mackenzie, and Andrew Millar
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
Decompressive craniectomy for severe traumatic brain injury: clinical study, literature review and meta-analysis., Gene A. Grindlinger, David H. Skavdahl, Robert D. Ecker, and Matthew R. Sanborn
Same-Day Discharge Following Laparoscopic Appendectomy for Uncomplicated Acute Appendicitis as a Measure of Quality in the Pediatric Population., Jeffrey M Halter, Baird Mallory, Ian R Neilson, and Monica Langer
Closed mitral commissurotomy during pregnancy in East Africa., Robert Kramer, Reed Quinn, Agneta Odera, Robert Groom, Nancy Boulanger, Eric Gunnoe, and Russell White
Narcotic Independence After Pancreatic Duct Stenting Predicts Narcotic Independence After Lateral Pancreaticojejunostomy for Chronic Pancreatitis., Richard S Kwon, Benjamin E Young, William F Marsteller, Christopher Lawrence, Bechien U Wu, Linda S Lee, Daniel Mullady, David A Klibansky, Timothy B Gardner, and Diane M Simeone
A prospective randomized study of the efficacy of "Turning Point," an inpatient violence intervention program., Catherine Loveland-Jones, Lucas Ferrer, Scott Charles, Frederick Ramsey, Andrea van Zandt, Jill Volgraf, Thomas Santora, Abhijit Pathak, Jay Dujon, Lars Sjoholm, Joseph Rappold, and Amy Goldberg
Transfer of acute care surgery patients in a rural state: a concerning trend., Brittany Misercola, Kristen Sihler, Molly Douglas, Stephen Ranney, and Jonathan Dreifus
Pediatric surgery as an essential component of global child health., Doruk Ozgediz, Monica Langer, Phyllis Kisa, and Dan Poenaru
Colorectal carcinoma in pediatric patients: A comparison with adult tumors, treatment and outcomes from the National Cancer Database., Gabriela C Poles, David E Clark, Sara W Mayo, Elizabeth A Beierle, Melanie Goldfarb, Kenneth W Gow, Adam Goldin, John J Doski, Jed G Nuchtern, Sanjeev A Vasudevan, and Monica Langer
Building a patient-reported outcome metric database: one hospital's experience., Adam J. Rana
Surgical adjuncts to noncompressible torso hemorrhage as tools for patient blood management., Joseph F Rappold and Grant V Bochicchio
Direct and Indirect Costs Following Living Kidney Donation: Findings From the KDOC Study., J R Rodrigue, J D Schold, P Morrissey, J Whiting, J Vella, L K Kayler, D Katz, J Jones, B Kaplan, A Fleishman, M Pavlakis, and D A Mandelbrot
Gender and Cardiothoracic Surgery Training: Specialty Interests, Satisfaction, and Career Pathways., Elizabeth H Stephens, Michael P Robich, Dustin M Walters, Walter F DeNino, Muhammad Aftab, Vakhtang Tchantchaleishvili, Amanda L Eilers, Robert D Rice, Andrew B Goldstone, Ryan C Shlestad, Tarek Malas, Marisa Cevasco, Erin A Gillaspie, Amy G Fiedler, Damien J LaPar, and Asad A Shah
Adverse reaction to metal debris with concomitant incidental crystalline arthropathy in hip arthroplasty., Edward J Testa and Brian J. McGrory
AAOS Clinical Practice Guideline: Surgical Management of Osteoarthritis of the Knee: evidence-based guideline., Kristy L Weber, David S Jevsevar, and Brian J. McGrory
Gastroschisis in Uganda: opportunities for improved survival., Anne S Wesonga, Tamara N Fitzgerald, Ronald Kabuye, Samuel Kirunda, Monica Langer, Nasser Kakembo, Doruk Ozgediz, and John Sekabira
Submissions from 2015
Prognostic significance of tumor mitotic rate in T2 melanoma staged with sentinel lymphadenectomy., Justin J Baker, Michael O Meyers, Allison M Deal, Jill F Frank, Karyn B Stitzenberg, and David W Ollila
The effect of tonsillectomy on the immune system: a systematic review and meta-analysis., Mohamad A Bitar, Alexander Dowli, and Marc Mourad
Distal hypospadias repair in infants without a postoperative stent., David J Chalmers, Georgette L Siparsky, Cole A Wiedel, and Duncan T Wilcox
Participation in the Vascular Quality Initiative is associated with improved perioperative medication use, which is associated with longer patient survival., Randall R De Martino, Andrew W Hoel, Adam W Beck, Jens Eldrup-Jorgensen, John W Hallett, Gilbert R Upchurch, Jack L Cronenwett, and Philip P Goodney
Retrograde tibiopedal access for the treatment of critical limb ischemia., Ethan M Dobrow and Derek Mittleider
Scapulothoracic fusion for low-energy intrathoracic scapula dislocation: a report of two cases., Donald P Endrizzi, Daniel J Shubert, and Raymond R White
Using vascular quality initiative as a platform for organizing multicenter, prospective, randomized clinical trials: OVERPAR trial., Mohammad H Eslami, Gheorghe Doros, Philip P Goodney, Jens Elderup-Jorgenson, Jack L Cronenwett, Marina Malikova, and Alik Farber
American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) position statement: interventional musculoskeletal ultrasound in sports medicine., Jonathan T Finnoff, Mederic M Hall, Erik Adams, David Berkoff, Andrew L Concoff, William Dexter, and Jay Smith
Operative indications in recurrent ileocolic intussusception., Jeremy G Fisher, Eric A Sparks, Christopher G B Turner, Justin D Klein, Elliot Pennington, Faraz A Khan, David Zurakowski, Emily T Durkin, Dario O Fauza, and Biren P Modi
Large penile mass with unusual benign histopathology., Nate Johnson, Maria Voznesensky, and Graham VerLee
Preservation of multidimensional quality of life after endoscopic pituitary adenoma resection., Edward D McCoul, Jeffrey C Bedrosian, Olga Akselrod, Vijay K Anand, and Theodore H Schwartz
Intranasal cross-sectional area and quality of life changes following endoscopic transsphenoidal skull base surgery., Edward D McCoul, Amit S Patel, Jeffrey C Bedrosian, Vijay K Anand, and Theodore H Schwartz
A high prevalence of corrosion at the head-neck taper with contemporary Zimmer non-cemented femoral hip components., Brian J McGrory, Johanna MacKenzie, and George Babikian
Pediatric papillary thyroid cancer >1 cm: is total thyroidectomy necessary?, Tate Nice, Sebastian Pasara, Melanie Goldfarb, John Doski, Adam Goldin, Kenneth W Gow, Jed G Nuchtern, Sanjeev A Vasudevan, Monica Langer, and Elizabeth A Beierle
Vaginal anomalies and atresia associated with imperforate anus: diagnosis and surgical management., Kartikey A Pandya, Hiroyuki Koga, Manabu Okawada, Arnold G Coran, Atsuyuki Yamataka, and Daniel H Teitelbaum
Bundled payments in orthopaedics., Adam J Rana and Kevin J Bozic
Predonation direct and indirect costs incurred by adults who donated a kidney: findings from the KDOC study., J R Rodrigue, J D Schold, P Morrissey, J Whiting, J Vella, L K Kayler, D Katz, J Jones, B Kaplan, A Fleishman, M Pavlakis, and D A Mandelbrot
Survival following Ommaya reservoir placement for neoplastic meningitis., Marie Roguski, Anand Rughani, Chih-Ta Lin, Deborah A Cushing, Jeffrey E Florman, and Julian K Wu
Cerebral hemodynamics at altitude: effects of hyperventilation and acclimatization on cerebral blood flow and oxygenation., Matthew R Sanborn, Mark E Edsell, Meeri N Kim, Rickson Mesquita, Mary E Putt, Chris Imray, Heng Yow, Mark H Wilson, Arjun G Yodh, Mike Grocott, and Daniel S Martin
Heart rate variables in the Vascular Quality Initiative are not reliable predictors of adverse cardiac outcomes or mortality after major elective vascular surgery., Salvatore Scali, Daniel Bertges, Daniel Neal, Virendra Patel, Jens Eldrup-Jorgensen, Jack Cronenwett, and Adam Beck
Preoperative β-blockers do not improve cardiac outcomes after major elective vascular surgery and may be harmful., Salvatore Scali, Virendra Patel, Daniel Neal, Daniel Bertges, Karen Ho, Jens-Eldrup Jorgensen, Jack Cronenwett, and Adam Beck
Treatment of arthritis associated with Legg-Calve-Perthes disease with modular total hip arthroplasty., Christopher R Seufert and Brian J McGrory
Sharp lower abdominal pain and calcified abdominal mass., Kristen Sihler, Michael Mazza, Lena M Napolitano, and David V Feliciano
Serotonin syndrome following methylene blue administration during cardiothoracic surgery., Christina J Smith, Dorothy Wang, Anna Sgambelluri, Robert S Kramer, and David J Gagnon
Pediatric sutureless circumcision: an effective and cost efficient alternative., Maria Voznesensky, Christopher Mutter, Matthew Hayn, Thomas Kinkead, and Brian Jumper
A structured teaching curriculum for medical students improves their performance on the National Board of Medical Examiners shelf examination in surgery., Keith Wirth, Bethany Malone, Christopher Turner, Robert Schulze, Warren Widmann, and Aliu Sanni
Prospective series of two hours supine rest after 4fr sheath-based diagnostic cerebral angiography: outcomes, productivity and cost., Scott L Zuckerman, Ritwik Bhatia, Crystiana Tsujiara, Christopher B Baker, Alex Szafran, Deborah Cushing, Judy Aiken, Marilyn Tracy, J Mocco, and Robert D Ecker
Submissions from 2014
Outcomes and unmet need for neonatal surgery in a resource-limited environment: estimates of global health disparities from Kampala, Uganda., Raghav Badrinath, Nasser Kakembo, Phyllis Kisa, Monica Langer, Doruk Ozgediz, and John Sekabira
Systematic review: surgery for patients with metastatic melanoma during active treatment with ipilimumab., Justin J Baker, Karyn B Stitzenberg, Frances A Collichio, Michael O Meyers, and David W Ollila
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
Thoracoscopic lobectomy is associated with acceptable morbidity and mortality in patients with predicted postoperative forced expiratory volume in 1 second or diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide less than 40% of normal., Bryan M Burt, Andrzej S Kosinski, Joseph B Shrager, Mark W Onaitis, and Tracey Weigel
Improving patients' readiness for coronary artery bypass graft surgery., Kristine Chaisson, Mary Sanford, Richard A Boss, Bruce J Leavitt, Michael J Hearne, Cathy S Ross, Elaine M Olmstead, Robert S Kramer, Patricia Hofmaster, Cathy Mingo, Dennis Duquette, Elizabeth Maislen, Jean A Clark, Donald S Likosky, Susan R Horton, Gerald T O'Connor, and David J Malenka
The effect of hospital care on early survival after penetrating trauma., David E Clark, Peter C Doolittle, Robert J Winchell, and Rebecca A Betensky
Perioperative management with antiplatelet and statin medication is associated with reduced mortality following vascular surgery., Randall R De Martino, Jens Eldrup-Jorgensen, Brian W Nolan, David H Stone, Julie Adams, Daniel J Bertges, Jack L Cronenwett, and Philip P Goodney
Endovascular reconstruction of vertebral artery occlusion prior to basilar thrombectomy in a series of six patients presenting with acute symptomatic basilar thrombosis., Robert D Ecker, Crystiana A Tsujiura, Christopher B Baker, and Deborah Cushing
Factors that determine the length of stay after carotid endarterectomy represent opportunities to avoid financial losses., Julia Glaser, David Kuwayama, David Stone, Andres Schanzer, Jens Eldrup-Jorgensen, Richard Powell, Andrew Stanley, and Brian Nolan
Deep brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder: systematic review and evidence-based guideline sponsored by the American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) and endorsed by the CNS and American Association of Neurological Surgeons., Clement Hamani, Julie Pilitsis, Anand I Rughani, Joshua M Rosenow, Parag G Patil, Konstantin S Slavin, Aviva Abosch, Emad Eskandar, Laura S Mitchell, and Steven Kalkanis
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
Invited commentary., Robert S Kramer
Invited commentary., Robert S Kramer and Jeremiah R Brown
Use of transesophageal echocardiography to avoid a never event., Paul Lennon, Douglas Salvador, Reed Quinn, and Kathleen Black
Blood levels of S-100 calcium-binding protein B, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, and interleukin-6 for changes in depressive symptom severity after coronary artery bypass grafting: prospective cohort nested within a randomized, controlled trial., Daniel M Pearlman, Jeremiah R Brown, Todd A MacKenzie, Felix Hernandez, and Souhel Najjar
Trajectories of perceived benefits in living kidney donors: association with donor characteristics and recipient outcomes., James R Rodrigue, Matthew Paek, James Whiting, John Vella, Krista Garrison, Martha Pavlakis, and Didier A Mandelbrot
Editorial: Predicting surgical satisfaction using artificial neural networks., Anand I Rughani, Travis M Dumont, and Bruce I Tranmer
Effect of a dedicated acute care operating room on hospital efficiency., Cecilia Trydestam, Steven Prato, Brad Cushing, and James Whiting
Is there a place for medical students as teachers in the education of junior residents?, Keith Wirth, Bethany Malone, Kaylene Barrera, Warren D Widmann, Christopher Turner, and Aliu Sanni
Submissions from 2013
Inverse propensity weighting to adjust for bias in fatal crash samples., David E Clark and Edward L Hannan
Estimating the effect of emergency care on early survival after traffic crashes., David E Clark, Robert J Winchell, and Rebecca A Betensky
Hyperperfusion syndrome after stent/coiling of a ruptured carotid bifurcation aneurysm., Robert D Ecker, Richard D Murray, and David B Seder
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
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
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
Dietary calcium from dairy and nondairy sources, and risk of symptomatic kidney stones., Eric N Taylor and Gary C Curhan
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
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
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
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
Management of microcarcinomas (papillary and medullary) of the thyroid., Leslie S Wu and Stacey A Milan
Submissions from 2012
The distribution of survival times after injury., David E Clark, Jing Qian, Kristen C Sihler, Lee D Hallagan, and Rebecca A Betensky
Hazard regression models of early mortality in trauma centers., David E Clark, Jing Qian, Robert J Winchell, and Rebecca A Betensky
SCORE at Maine Medical Center., Katharine A Connolly
Medical student knowledge of global health problems: obstetric fistulas in developing countries., Caroline E Foust-Wright, S Abbas Shobeiri, Christine L Curry, Lieschen H Quiroz, and Mikio A Nihira
The challenge of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus prevention in hemodialysis therapy., Mark G Parker and Bradley N Doebbeling
Does treatment of split-thickness skin grafts with negative-pressure wound therapy improve tissue markers of wound healing in a porcine experimental model?, Christopher Ward, David Ciraulo, Michael Coulter, Steven Desjardins, Lucy Liaw, and Sarah Peterson
Submissions from 2011
Outcomes of 33 patients from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan undergoing bilateral or bicompartmental craniectomy., Robert D Ecker, Lisa P Mulligan, Michael Dirks, Randy S Bell, Meryl A Severson, Robin S Howard, and Rocco A Armonda
Measuring quality and the story of beta blockers., Jens Eldrup-Jorgensen
The future nephrology workforce: will there be one?, Mark G Parker, Tod Ibrahim, Rachel Shaffer, Mitchell H Rosner, and Bruce A Molitoris
An assessment of patient satisfaction with nonoperative management of clavicular fractures using the disabilities of the arm, shoulder and hand outcome measure., Timothy M Thormodsgard, Kayla Stone, David L Ciraulo, Matthew R Camuso, and Steven Desjardins
Medullary thyroid cancer: an update of new guidelines and recent developments., Leslie S Wu, Sanziana A Roman, and Julie A Sosa
Submissions from 2010
Using a hierarchical model to estimate risk-adjusted mortality for hospitals not included in the reference sample., David E Clark, Edward L Hannan, and Stephen W Raudenbush
Predicting risk-adjusted mortality for trauma patients: logistic versus multilevel logistic models., David E Clark, Edward L Hannan, and Chuntao Wu
Systeme International in the ICU in the United States., David E Clark and Paul F Laeseke
The general surgery residency at Maine Medical Center., Ajita S Prabhu, Jonathan F Dreifus, and James F Whiting
Kidney allograft biopsy: timing to complications., Z Yablon, P Recupero, J McKenna, J Vella, and M G Parker
Submissions from 2009
Benign skin lesions: lipomas, epidermal inclusion cysts, muscle and nerve biopsies., Kartik A Pandya and Frederick Radke
Submissions from 2008
Bariatric Nursing and Surgical Patient Care, Maine Medical Center Bariatric Surgery Center
Pioneering a new role: the beginning, current practice and future of the Clinical Nurse Leader., Danielle Poulin-Tabor, Rebecca L Quirk, Lauri Wilson, Sonja Orff, Paulette Gallant, Nina Swan, and Nicole Manchester
Submissions from 1992
Laparoscopic instrumentation, videoimaging, and equipment disinfection and sterilization, D W. Duppler