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O’Donoghue, A, Dechen, T, Pavlova, W, Boals M, Moussa G, Madan M, Thakkar A, DeFalco F, Stevens J. Reopening Businesses and Risk of COVID-19 Transmission. npj Digit. Med. 4, 51 (2021). [Full-Text]
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2021
O’Donoghue, A, Dechen, T, Pavlova, W, Boals M, Moussa G, Madan M, Thakkar A, DeFalco F, Stevens J. Reopening Businesses and Risk of COVID-19 Transmission. npj Digit. Med. 4, 51 (2021). [Full-Text]
Seethala, RR, Frakes, MA, Cocchi, MN, Cohen, JE, Dargin, J, Friedman, F, Grant, C, Kaye, A, Wilcox, SR. Feasibility and Safety of Prone Position Transport for Severe Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure Due to Coronavirus Disease. Critical Care Explorations, 2(12), e0293. PMID: 33294848 [Full-Text]
Klann JG, Weber GM, Estiri H, et al. Validation of an Internationally Derived Patient Severity Phenotype to Support COVID-19 Analytics from Electronic Health Record Data. J Am Med Inform Assoc. Published online February 10, 2021. PMID: 33566082 [Full-Text]
2020
Antkowiak PS, Cocchi MN, Chiu DT, Sanchez LD. Who should we treat: elective surgical admissions or patients with COVID-19? Am J Manag Care. 2020 Oct;26(10) PMID: 33094936 [Full-Text]
Brat GA, Weber GM, Gehlenborg N, et al. International electronic health record-derived COVID-19 clinical course profiles: the 4CE consortium. NPJ Digit Med. 2020;3:109. PMID: 32864472 [Full-Text]
Auerbach A, O'Leary KJ, Greysen SR, Harrison JD, Kripalani S, Ruhnke GW, Vasilevskis EE, Maselli J, Fang MC, Herzig SJ, Lee T; HOMERuN COVID-19 Collaborative Group. Hospital Ward Adaptation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A National Survey of Academic Medical Centers. J Hosp Med. 2020;15(8):483-488. PMID: 32804610 [Full-Text]
Anderson TS, Stevens JP, Pinheiro A, Li S, Herzig SJ. Hospitalizations for Emergent Medical, Surgical, and Obstetric Conditions in Boston During the COVID-19 Pandemic. J Gen Intern Med. Published online July 22, 2020. PMID: 32700221 [Full-Text]
Stevens JP, Horng S, O’Donoghue A, Moravick S, Weiss A. How One Boston Hospital Built a Covid-19 Forecasting System. Harvard Business Review. Published online June 29, 2020. [Full-Text]
Basu S, Phillips RS, Phillips R, Peterson LE, Landon BE. Primary Care Practice Finances In The United States Amid The COVID-19 Pandemic. Health Affairs. Published online June 25, 2020:10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00794. PMID: 32584605 [Full-Text]
Brat GA, Hersey S, Chhabra K, Gupta A, Scott J. Protecting Surgical Teams During the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Narrative Review and Clinical Considerations. Ann Surgery. Published online April 17, 2020. PMID: 32379080 [Full-Text]
2021
Chauhan, G, Liao, R, Wells, W, Andreas, J, Wang, X, Berkowitz, S, Horng, S, Szolovits, P, Golland, P. Joint Modeling of Chest Radiographs and Radiology Reports for Pulmonary Edema Assessment. Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention: MICCAI ... International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, 12262, 529–539. PMID: 33634272 [PubMed]
2020
Sokol-Hessner L, Allen G, Cluett J. Improving Ambulatory Health Care Proxy Completion Rates: Implementing an Interdisciplinary Clinic-Based Process. Am J Med Qual. Published online April 20, 2020:1062860620915280. PMID: 32306743 [PubMed]
Kapoor A, Bloomstone S, Javed S, Silva M, Lynch A, Yogaratnam D, Carlone B, Springer K, Maheswaran A, Chen X, Nagy A, Elhag R, Markaddy E, Aungst T, Bartlett D, Houng D, Darling C, McManus D, Herzig SJ, Barton B, Mazor K. Reducing Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits in Patients With Venous Thromboembolism Using a Multicomponent Care Transition Intervention. INQUIRY. 2020;57. PMID: 31965873 [Full-Text]
Chen IY, Agrawal M, Horng S, Sontag D. Robustly Extracting Medical Knowledge from EHRs: A Case Study of Learning a Health Knowledge Graph. Pac Symp Biocomput. 2020;25:19-30. PMID: 31797583 [Full-Text]
2019
Johnson AEW, Pollard TJ, Berkowitz SJ, Greenbaum NR, Lungren MP, Deng CY, Mark RG, Horng S. MIMIC-CXR, a de-identified publicly available database of chest radiographs with free-text reports. Sci Data. 2019;6(1):317. PMID: 31831740 [Full-Text]
Horng S, Joseph JW, Calder S, Stevens JP, O'Donoghue AL, Safran C, Nathanson LA, Leventhal EL. Assessment of Unintentional Duplicate Orders by Emergency Department Clinicians Before and After Implementation of a Visual Aid in the Electronic Health Record Ordering System. JAMA Netw Open. 2019;2(12):e1916499-e1916499. PMID: 31790566 [Full-Text]
Greenbaum NR, Jernite Y, Halpern Y, Calder S, Nathanson LA, Sontag DA, Horng S. Improving documentation of presenting problems in the emergency department using a domain-specific ontology and machine learning-driven user interfaces. International Journal of Medical Informatics. 2019;132:103981. PMID:31605881 [PubMed]
Redfield C, Tlimat A, Halpern Y, Schoenfeld DW, Ullman E, Sontag DA, Nathanson LA, Horng S. Derivation and validation of a machine learning record linkage algorithm between emergency medical services and the emergency department. J Am Med Inform Assoc. PMID:31605488 [Full-Text]
Kim E, Torous J, Horng S, et al. Mobile device ownership among emergency department patients. Int J Med Inform. 2019;126:114-117. PMID: 31029252 [PubMed]
Huckvale K, Torous J, Larsen ME. Assessment of the Data Sharing and Privacy Practices of Smartphone Apps for Depression and Smoking Cessation. JAMA Netw Open. 2019;2(4):e192542-e192542. PMID: 31002321 [Full-Text]
Saha K, Torous J, Ernala SK, Rizuto C, Stafford A, De Choudhury M. A computational study of mental health awareness campaigns on social media. Transl Behav Med. March 2019. PMID: 30834942 [Full-Text]
2018
Blumenthal Daniel M., Strom Jordan B., Valsdottir Linda R., et al. Patient-Reported Outcomes in Cardiology: Comparison of Two Programs to Assess Angina Burden in Coronary Artery Disease. Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. 2018;11(11):e004794. [Full-Text]
Corey J, OʼDonoghue SC, Kelly V, et al. Adoption of an Electronic Template to Promote Evidence-Based Practice for Policies, Procedures, Guidelines, and Directives Documents. Dimens Crit Care Nurs. 2018;37(4):225-234. [PubMed]
Naidus EL, LaSalvia MT, Marcantonio ER, Herzig SJ. The Diagnostic Yield of Noninvasive Microbiologic Sputum Sampling in a Cohort of Patients with Clinically Diagnosed Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia. J Hosp Med. 2018;13(1):34-37. PMID: 29073317 [PubMed]
Mackinson LG, Corey J, Kelly V, et al. Nurse Project Consultant: Critical Care Nurses Move Beyond the Bedside to Affect Quality and Safety. Crit Care Nurse. 2018;38(3):54-66. PMID: 29858196 [PubMed]
2017
Collins SA, Rozenblum R, Leung WY, Morrison CR, Stade DL, McNally K, Bourie PQ, Massaro A, Bokser S, Dwyer C, Greysen RS, Agarwal P, Thornton K, Dalal AK. Acute care patient portals: a qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives on current practices. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2017;24(e1):e9-e17. PMID: 27357830 [Full-Text]
Stevens, JP. Noninvasive ventilation across hospitals: an example of healthcare delivery science. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2017; 14(11): 1634-1635. PMID: 29090991 [Full-Text]
DeSanto-Madeya S, McDermott D, Zerillo JA, Weinstein N, Buss MK. Developing a model for embedded palliative care in a cancer clinic. BMJ Support Palliat Care. 2017;7(3):247-250. PMID: 28258162 [PubMed]
Einstein DJ, DeSanto-Madeya S, Gregas M, Lynch J, McDermott DF, Buss MK. Improving End-of-Life Care: Palliative Care Embedded in an Oncology Clinic Specializing in Targeted and Immune-Based Therapies. J Oncol Pract. 2017;13(9):e729-e737. PMID: 28562197 [Full-Text]
Bell SK, Gerard M, Fossa A, Delbanco T, Folcarelli PH, Sands KE, Sarnoff Lee B, Walker J. A patient feedback reporting tool for OpenNotes: implications for patient-clinician safety and quality partnerships. BMJ Qual Saf. 2017;26(4):312-322. PMID: 27965416 [PubMed]
Tapper EB, Herzig SJ. Nondirected Testing for Inpatients With Severe Liver Injury. J Hosp Med. 2017;12(3):184-187. PMID: 28272597 [Full-Text]
2016
Stevens JP, Baker K, Howell MD, Banzett RB. Prevalence and predictive value of dyspnea ratings in hospitalized patients: pilot studies. PLOS ONE, 2016, 11(4):e0152601. PMID: 27070144 [Full-Text]
Bell SK, Roche SD, Johansson AC, O'Reilly KP, Lee BS, Sands KE, Talmor DS, Brown SM. Clinician Perspectives on an Electronic Portal to Improve Communication with Patients and Families in the Intensive Care Unit. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2016;13(12):2197-2206. PMID: 27700144 [Full-Text]
Barnett S, Hung A, Tsao R, Sheehan J, Bukoye B, Sheth SG, Leffler DA. Capnographic Monitoring of Moderate Sedation During Low-Risk Screening Colonoscopy Does Not Improve Safety or Patient Satisfaction: A Prospective Cohort Study. Am J Gastroenterol. 2016;111(3):388-394. PMID: 26832654 [Full-Text]
Penna ND, Stevens JP, Stretch R. Instrumental variable analysis of electronic health records. In: MIT Critical Data. Secondary Analysis of Electronic Health Records. Springer Open, 2016. [Full-Text]
Myers L, Stevens JP. Using EHR to conduct outcomes and health services research. In: MIT Critical Data. Secondary Analysis of Electronic Health Records. Springer Open, 2016. [Full-Text]
Brown SM, Bell SK, Roche SD, Dente E, Mueller A, Kim TE, O'Reilly K, Lee BS, Sands K, Talmor D. Preferences of Current and Potential Patients and Family Members Regarding Implementation of Electronic Communication Portals in Intensive Care Units. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2016;13(3):391-400. PMID: 26700656 [Full-Text]
Koliani-Pace J, Vaughn B, Herzig SJ, Davis RB, Gashin L, Obuch J, Cheifetz AS. Utility of Emergency Department Use of Abdominal Pelvic Computed Tomography in the Management of Crohn’s Disease. J Clin Gastroenterol. 2016;50(10):859-864. PMID: 26974753 [Full-Text]
Herzig SJ, Nardino RJ. Reconsidering a Common Practice: In-Hospital Use of PPIs. J Gen Intern Med. 2016;31(4):361-362. PMID: 26693727 [Full-Text]
2015
Leffler DA, Bukoye B, Sawhney M, Berzin T, Sands K, Chowdary S, Shah A, Barnett S. Development and validation of the PROcedural Sedation Assessment Survey (PROSAS) for assessment of procedural sedation quality. Gastrointest Endosc. 2015;81(1):194-203.e1. PMID: 25293829 [Full-Text]
Kazberouk A, Martin BI, Stevens JP, McGuire K. Validation of an administrative coding algorithm for classifying surgical indication and operative features of spine surgery. Spine, 2015; 40(2): 114-120. PMID: 25575086 [Full-Text]
Bell SK, Folcarelli PH, Anselmo MK, Crotty BH, Flier LA, Walker J. Connecting Patients and Clinicians: The Anticipated Effects of Open Notes on Patient Safety and Quality of Care. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2015;41(8):378-384. PMID: 26215527 [Full-Text]
Herzig SJ, Guess JR, Feinbloom DB, Adra M, Afonso KA, Howell MD, Marcantonio ER. Improving appropriateness of acid-suppressive medication use via computerized clinical decision support. J Hosp Med. 2015;10(1):41-45. PMID: 25603790 [Full-Text]
2014
Stevens JP, Johansson AC, Lennes IT, Hsu D, Tess A, Howell, MD. Long-term culture change related to rapid response implementation. Medical Education. 2014; 48(12):1211-9. PMID: 25413914 [PubMed]
Stevens JP, Kachniarz B, Wright SB, Gillis J, Talmor D, Clardy P, Howell MD. When Policy Gets It Right: Variability in U.S. Hospitals’ Diagnosis of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia. Critical Care Medicine. 2014;42:497-503. PMID: 24145845 [Full-Text]
Howell MD, Stevens JP. Rationing without contemplation: why attention to patient flow is important and how to make it better. In: Damon Sales, Gordon Rubenfeld, editors. The Organization of Critical Care: An Evidence-Based Approach to Improving Quality. New York: Springer Healthcare; 2014.
Allen-Dicker J, Herzig SJ, Mukamal KJ, Tess A. ACGME Duty Hour Revisions and Self-Reported Intern ICU Sleep Schedules. J Grad Med Educ. 2014;6(3):561-566. PMID: 26279785 [Full-Text]
Gonzalo JD, Yang JJ, Stuckey HL, Fischer CM, Sanchez LD, Herzig SJ. Patient care transitions from the emergency department to the medicine ward: evaluation of a standardized electronic signout tool. Int J Qual Health Care. 2014;26(4):337-347. PMID: 24737836 [Full-Text]
2013
Stevens JP, Howell MD. Liberating brain-injured patients from mechanical ventilation. Learning from healthcare delivery science. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2013; 188(8): 894-896. PMID: 24127796 [Full-Text]
2012
Howell MD, Ngo L, Folcarelli P, Yang J, Mottley L, Marcantonio ER, Sands KE, Moorman D, Aronson MD. Sustained effectiveness of a primary-team-based rapid response system. Crit Care Med. 2012;40(9):2562-2568. PMID:22732285 [Full-Text]
2021
Hoeyer-Nielsen, AK, Holmberg, MJ, Christensen, EF, Cocchi, MN, Donnino, MW, Grossestreuer, AV. Thermoregulation in post-cardiac arrest patients treated with targeted temperature management. Resuscitation, 162, 63–69. PMID: 33582256 [PubMed]
2020
Appelbaum L, Cambronero JP, Stevens JP, Horng S, Pollick K, Silva G, Haneuse S, Piatkowski G, Benhaga N, Duey S, Stevenson MA, Mamon H, Kaplan ID, Rinard MC. Development and validation of a pancreatic cancer risk model for the general population using electronic health records: An observational study. European Journal of Cancer. 2021;143:19-30. PMID: 33278770 [PubMed]
Schulson LB, Novack V, Folcarelli PH, Stevens JP, Landon BE. Inpatient patient safety events in vulnerable populations: a retrospective cohort study. BMJ Qual Saf. Published online October 26, 2020. PMID: 33251516 [Full-Text]
Feinbloom, David, Jason A. Freed, Alexander Carbo, Yoojin Jung, May Adra, and Shoshana J. Herzig. Incidence and Risk Factors for PTT Prolongation in Patients Receiving Low-Dose Unfractionated Heparin Thromboprophylaxis. Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis, October 2020. PMID: 33006065 [Full-Text]
Althoff FC, Wachtendorf LJ, Rostin P, Santer P, Schaefer MS, Xu X, Grabitz SD, Chitilian H, Houle TT, Brat GA, Akeju O, Eikermann M. Effects of night surgery on postoperative mortality and morbidity: a multicentre cohort study. BMJ Qual Saf. Published online October 7, 2020. PMID: 33028658 [Full-Text]
Doctoroff L, Herzig SJ. Predicting Patients at Risk for Prolonged Hospital Stays. Med Care. 2020;58(9):778-784. PMID: 32826743 [PubMed]
Mitra AR, Griesdale DEG, Haljan G, O’Donoghue A, Stevens JP. How the high acuity unit changes mortality in the intensive care unit: a retrospective before-and-after study. Can J Anaesth. Published online August 3, 2020. PMID: 32748188 [PubMed]
Anderson TS, Marcantonio ER, McCarthy EP, Herzig SJ. National Trends in Potentially Preventable Hospitalizations of Older Adults with Dementia. J Am Geriatr Soc. Published online July 23, 2020. PMID: 32700399 [PubMed]
Poole BR, Reese ZA, Dechen T, et al. Patient and Care Delivery Characteristics Associated With Harm From Neuromuscular Blockade. Critical Care Explorations. 2020;2(6):e0147. PMID: 32696010 [Full-Text]
Law AC, Weissman GE, Iwashyna TJ. A Dangerous Myth: Does Speaking Imply Breathing? Annals of Internal Medicine. Published online June 25, 2020. PMID: 32584592 [Full-Text]
Fernandes M, Mendes R, Vieira SM, Leite F, Palos C, Johnson A, Finkelstein S, Horng S, Celi LA. Predicting Intensive Care Unit admission among patients presenting to the emergency department using machine learning and natural language processing. PLoS ONE. 2020;15(3):e0229331. PMID: 32126097 [Full-Text]
Mortensen SJ, Hurley M, Blewett L, Uber A, Yassa D, MacDonald M, Patel P, Chase M, Holmberg MJ, Grossestreuer AV, Donnino MW, Cocchi MN. Infections in out-of-hospital and in-hospital post-cardiac arrest patients. Intern Emerg Med. February 2020. PMID: 32052366 [PubMed]
2019
Herzig SJ, Stefan MS, Pekow PS, et al. Risk Factors for Severe Opioid-Related Adverse Events in a National Cohort of Medical Hospitalizations. J Gen Intern Med. November 2019. PMID: 31728892 [PubMed]
Basciotta M, Zhou W, Ngo L, Donnino M, Marcantonio ER, Herzig SJ. Antipsychotics and the Risk of Mortality or Cardiopulmonary Arrest in Hospitalized Adults. J Am Geriatr Soc. November 2019. PMID: 31743435 [PubMed]
Moskowitz A, Berg KM, Cocchi MN, et al. Cardiac arrest in the intensive care unit: An assessment of preventability. Resuscitation. 2019;145:15-20. PMID:31521775 [PubMed]
Law AC, Stevens JP, Walkey AJ. National Trends in Timing of Death Among Patients With Septic Shock, 1994-2014. Crit Care Med. August 2019. PMID:31397713 [Full-Text]
Horng S, Greenbaum NR, Nathanson LA, McClay JC, Goss FR, Nielson JA. Consensus Development of a Modern Ontology of Emergency Department Presenting Problems-The Hierarchical Presenting Problem Ontology (HaPPy). Appl Clin Inform. 2019;10(3):409-420. PMID: 31189204 [PubMed]
Stevens, JP, Levi, R, Sands, K. Changing the patient safety paradigm. Journal of patient safety. 2019;15(4):288–289. PMID: 28691972 [Full-Text]
2018
O’Brien A, O’Reilly K, Dechen T, et al. Redesigning Rounds in the ICU: Standardizing Key Elements Improves Interdisciplinary Communication. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. July 2018. [Full-Text]
Stevens JP, Law A, Giannakoulis J. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. JAMA. 2018;319(7):732. PMID: 29466593 [PubMed]
Feuerstein JD, Curran T, Alosilla M, Cataldo T, Falchuk KR, Poylin V. Abstract 438. Mortality Is Rare Following Elective and Non-elective Surgery for Ulcerative Colitis, but Mild Postoperative Complications Are Common. Dig Dis Sci. 2018;63(3):713-722. PMID: 29353444 [PubMed]
Stevens JP, Dechen T, Schwartzstein R, et al. Prevalence of Dyspnea Among Hospitalized Patients at the Time of Admission. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2018;56(1):15-22.e2. PMID:29476798 [PubMed]
2017
Stevens JP, Wall M, Novack L, Marshall J, Hsu D, Howell, M. The critical care crisis of opioid overdoses in the United States, Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2017, 14(12): 1803-1809. PMID: 28800256 [Full-Text]
Hsu D, McCarthy EP, Stevens JP, Mukamal KJ. Hospitalization, costs, and outcomes associated with heroin and prescription opioid overdoses in the United States 2001-2012, Addiction, 2017, 112(9): 1558-1564. PMID: 28191702 [Full-Text]
Smulowitz PB, Dizitzer Y, Tadiri S, Thibodeau L, Jagminas L, Novack V. Impact of implementation of the HEART pathway using an electronic clinical decision support tool in a community hospital setting. Am J Emerg Med. August 2017. PMID: 28869099 [PubMed]
Mosher H, Herzig SJ, Danovitch I, Boutsicaris C, Hassamal S, Wittnebel K, Dashti A, Nuckols T. The Evaluation of Medical Inpatients Who Are Admitted on Long-term Opioid Therapy for Chronic Pain. J Hosp Med. 06 2017. PMID: 29240853 [Full-Text]
Herzig SJ, LaSalvia MT, Naidus E, Rothberg MB, Zhou W, Gurwitz JH, Marcantonio ER. Antipsychotics and the Risk of Aspiration Pneumonia in Individuals Hospitalized for Nonpsychiatric Conditions: A Cohort Study. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2017. 65 (12): 2580–86. PMID: 29095482 [Full-Text]
2016
Marshall JM, Herzig SJ, Howell MD, Le SH, Mathew C, Kats JS, Stevens JP. Antipsychotic utilization in the intensive care unit and in transitions of care, Journal of Critical Care, 2016, 33:119-124. PMID: 26818629 [Full-Text]
Herzig SJ, Rothberg MB, Guess JR, Stevens JP, Marshall J, Gurwitz JH, Marcantonio ER. Antipsychotic use in hospitalized adults: rates, indications, and predictors. Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 2016; 64: 299-305. PMID: 26889839 [Full-Text]
Herzig SJ, Marcantonio ER. Reply to "Antipsychotics: Mortality Risk Themselves?" J Am Geriatr Soc. 2016;64(11):2400. PMID: 27783402 [Full-Text]
Herzig SJ, Schnipper JL, Doctoroff L, Kim CS, Flanders SA, Robinson EJ, Ruhnke GW, Thomas L, Kripalani S, Lindenauer PK, Williams MV, Metlay JP, Auerbach AD. Physician Perspectives on Factors Contributing to Readmissions and Potential Prevention Strategies: A Multicenter Survey. J Gen Intern Med. 2016;31(11):1287-1293. PMID: 27282857 [Full-Text]
Herzig SJ. Opening the black box of inpatient opioid prescribing. J Hosp Med. 2016;11(8):595-596. PMID: 27157070 [Full-Text]
Ronan MV, Herzig SJ. Hospitalizations Related To Opioid Abuse/Dependence And Associated Serious Infections Increased Sharply, 2002-12. Health Aff (Millwood). 2016;35(5):832-837. PMID: 27140989 [Full-Text]
Herzig SJ, Rothberg MB, Guess JR, Gurwitz JH, Marcantonio ER. Antipsychotic medication utilization in nonpsychiatric hospitalizations. J Hosp Med. 2016;11(8):543-549. PMID: 27130311 [Full-Text]
Auerbach AD, Kripalani S, Vasilevskis EE, Sehgal N, Lindenauer PK, Metlay JP, Fletcher G, Ruhnke GW, Flanders SA, Kim C, Williams MV, Thomas L, Giang V, Herzig SJ, Patel K, Boscardin WJ, Robinson EJ, Schnipper JL. Preventability and Causes of Readmissions in a National Cohort of General Medicine Patients. JAMA Intern Med. 2016;176(4):484-493. PMID: 26954564 [Full-Text]
Sokol-Hessner L, White AA, Davis KF, Herzig SJ, Hohmann SF. Interhospital transfer patients discharged by academic hospitalists and general internists: Characteristics and outcomes. J Hosp Med. 2016;11(4):245-250. PMID: 26588825 [Full-Text]
Herzig SJ. Capsule Commentary on Scales et al., Unintentional Continuation of Medications Intended for Acute Illness After Hospital Discharge: A Population-Based Cohort Study. J Gen Intern Med. 2016;31(2):224. PMID: 26558912 [Full-Text]
2015
Stevens JP, Kachniarz B, O’Reilly K, Howell MD. Seasonal variation in perceptions of physician competence in the intensive care unit, Academic Medicine, 2015; 90(4): 472-478. PMID: 25374038 [Full-Text]
Graham KL, Wilker EH, Howell MD, Davis RB, Marcantonio ER. Differences between early and late readmissions among patients: a cohort study. Ann Intern Med. 2015;162(11):741-749. PMID: 26030632 [Full-Text]
Leffler DA, Lamont JT. Clostridium difficile Infection. N Engl J Med. 2015;373(3):287-288. PMID: 25875259 [Full-Text]
Howell MD, Stevens JP. ICUs after surgery, mortality, and the Will Rogers effect. Intensive Care Medicine, 2015; 44(11): 1990-1992. PMID: 26248953 [Full-Text]
Herzig SJ. Growing concerns regarding long-term opioid use: the hospitalization hazard. J Hosp Med. 2015;10(7):469-470. PMID: 25914320 [Full-Text]
2014
Bertisch SM, Herzig SJ, Winkelman JW, Buettner C. National use of prescription medications for insomnia: NHANES 1999-2010. Sleep. 2014;37(2):343-349. PMID: 24497662 [Full-Text]
Herzig SJ, Rothberg MB, Cheung M, Ngo LH, Marcantonio ER. Opioid utilization and opioid-related adverse events in nonsurgical patients in US hospitals. J Hosp Med. 2014;9(2):73-81. PMID: 24227700 [Full-Text]
Herzig SJ, Doughty C, Lahoti S, Marchina S, Sanan N, Feng W, Kumar S. Acid-suppressive medication use in acute stroke and hospital-acquired pneumonia. Ann Neurol. 2014;76(5):712-718. PMID: 25164323 [Full-Text]
2013
Rothberg MB, Herzig SJ, Pekow PS, Avrunin J, Lagu T, Lindenauer PK. Association between sedating medications and delirium in older inpatients. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2013;61(6):923-930. PMID: 23631415 [PubMed]
Herzig SJ, Rothberg MB, Feinbloom DB, Howell MD, Ho KK, Ngo LH, Marcantonio ER. Risk factors for nosocomial gastrointestinal bleeding and use of acid-suppressive medication in non-critically ill patients. J Gen Intern Med. 2013;28(5):683-690. PMID: 23292499 [Full-Text]
2012
Hunziker S, Stevens J, Howell MD. Red cell distribution width and mortality in newly hospitalized patients. Am J Med. 2012; 125(3): 283-91. PMID: 22340927 [Full-Text]
Howell MD, Stevens JP. Rapid response systems. In: UpToDate, Gandhi TK, Eamranond P (Eds), UpToDate, Waltham, MA, 2012.
2021
Holmberg, MJ, Andersen, LW, Moskowitz, A, Berg, KM, Cocchi, MN, Chase, M, Liu, X, Kuhn, DM, Grossestreuer, AV, Hoeyer-Nielsen, AK, Kirkegaard, H, & Donnino, MW. Ubiquinol (reduced coenzyme Q10) as a metabolic resuscitator in post-cardiac arrest: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Resuscitation. 2021.01.041 PMID: 33577964 [PubMed]
Shannon, EM, Chopra, V, Greysen, SR, Herzig, SJ, Kripalani, S, O’Leary, KJ, Vasilevskis, EE, Williams, MV, Mueller, SK, Auerbach, AD, & Schnipper, JL. Dearth of Hospitalist Investigators in Academic Medicine: A Call to Action. Journal of Hospital Medicine, 16(3), 189–191. PMID: 33617444 [PubMed]
2020
Law AC, Turnbull AE. Patient-Centered Outcomes After Sepsis: Disentangling Mind and Matter. Chest. 2020;158(5) PMID: 33160521 [Full-Text]
Grossestreuer, Anne V., Ari Moskowitz, Lars W. Andersen, Mathias J. Holmberg, Varun Konacki, Katherine M. Berg, Maureen Chase, Michael N. Cocchi, and Michael W. Donnino Effect of Ascorbic Acid, Corticosteroids, and Thiamine on Health-Related Quality of Life in Sepsis. Crit Care Explor. 2020;2(12) PMID: 33251516 [Full-Text]
Moskowitz A, Andersen LW, Rittenberger JC, Swor R, Seethala RR, Kurz MC, Berg KM, Chase M, Cocchi MN, Grossestreuer AV, Liu X, Holmberg MJ, Callaway CW, Donnino MW. Continuous Neuromuscular Blockade Following Successful Resuscitation From Cardiac Arrest: A Randomized Trial. Journal of the American Heart Association. 2020;9(17) PMID: 32851921 [Full-Text]
Kim JH, Fine DR, Li L, Kimmel SD, Ngo LH, Suzuki J, Price CN, Ronan MV, Herzig SJ. Disparities in United States hospitalizations for serious infections in patients with and without opioid use disorder: A nationwide observational study. PLoS Med. 2020;17(8):e1003247. PMID: 32764761 [Full-Text]
Maley JH, Landon BE, Stevens JP. Regional Variation in Use of End-of-Life Care at Hospitals, Intensive Care Units, and Hospices Among Older Adults With Chronic Illness in the US, 2010 to 2016. JAMA Netw Open. 2020;3(7):e2010810-e2010810. PMID: 32692369 [Full-Text]
Heher YK. Something’s Lost and Something’s Gained: Seeing Reference Laboratory Quality from Both Sides, Now. Clin Lab Med. 2020;40(3):341-356. PMID: 32718504 [PubMed]
Robinson KA, Thiels CA, Stokes S, et al. Comparing Clinician Consensus Recommendations to Patient-reported Opioid Use Across Multiple Hospital Systems. Ann Surg. Published online June 24, 2020. PMID: 32590547 [PubMed]
Hale AJ, Ricotta DN, Herzig SJ, William JH, Freed JA. A Quantitative Approach to Dilutional Anemia. J Hematol. 2019;8(2):86-87. PMID: 32300451 [PubMed]
Banzett RBB, Sheridan AR, Baker KM, Lansing RW, Stevens JP. ‘Scared to death’ dyspnoea from the hospitalised patient’s perspective. BMJ Open Respiratory Research. 2020;7(1):e000493. PMID: 32169831 [Full-Text]
Mello MM, Roche S, Greenberg Y, Folcarelli PH, Niel MBV, Kachalia A. Ensuring successful implementation of communication-and-resolution programmes. BMJ Qual Saf. January 2020. PMID: 31959716 [Full-Text]
Law AC, Forbath N, O’Donoghue S, Stevens JP, Walkey AJ. Hospital-Level Availability of Prone Positioning in Massachusetts Intensive Care Units. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. January 2020. PMID: 31899648 [PubMed]
Druwé P, Benoit DD, Monsieurs KG, Gagg J, Nakahara S, Alpert EA, van Schuppen H, Élő G, Huybrechts SA, Mpotos N, Joly LM, Xanthos T, Roessler M, Paal P, Cocchi MN, Bjørshol C, Nurmi J, Salmeron PP, Owczuk R, Svavarsdóttir H, Cimpoesu D, Raffay V, Pachys G, De Paepe P, Piers R; REAPPROPRIATE study group. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Adults Over 80: Outcome and the Perception of Appropriateness by Clinicians. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020;68(1):39-45. PMID: 31840239 [PubMed]
2019
Cocchi MN, Edlow JA. Managing Hypertension in Patients With Acute Stroke. Annals of Emergency Medicine. December 2019. PMID: 31864729 [Full-Text]
Bicket MC, Brat GA, Hutfless S, Wu CL, Nesbit SA, Alexander GC. Optimizing opioid prescribing and pain treatment for surgery: Review and conceptual framework. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2019;76(18):1403-1412. [PubMed]
Marcondes FO, Punjabi P, Doctoroff L, et al. Does Scheduling a Postdischarge Visit with a Primary Care Physician Increase Rates of Follow-up and Decrease Readmissions? J Hosp Med. 2019;14:E37-E42. PMID: 31532749 [PubMed]
Loh FE, Herzig SJ. Pain in the United States: Time for a Culture Shift in Expectations, Messaging, and Management. J Hosp Med. 2019;14:E1-E2. PMID: 31339835 [PubMed]
Reichheld AM, Hills-Evans K, Sheehan JK, Tocci NX, Tandon M, Hsu D, Marshall J, O'Donoghue S, Stevens JP. A national survey of approaches to manage the ICU patient with opioid use disorder. Journal of Critical Care. 2019; 54:42-47. PMID: 31349158 [Full-Text]
Anandaiah AM, Stevens JP, Sullivan AM. Implementation of a Bundled Consent Process in the ICU: A Single-Center Experience. Crit Care Med. July 2019. PMID: 31305496 [PubMed]
Moore AB, Navarrett S, Herzig SJ. Potentially Inappropriate Use of Intravenous Opioids in Hospitalized Patients. J Hosp Med. 2019;14:E1-E4. PMID: 31251152 [PubMed]
Hegde S, Gromski MA, Halic T, Turkseven, M., Xia, Z., Çetinsaya, B., Sawhney, M.S., Jones, D.B., De, S., Jackson, C.D. Endoscopic submucosal dissection: a cognitive task analysis framework toward training design. Surg Endosc. May 2019. PMID: 31102078 [Full-Text]
Law AC, Stevens JP, Walkey AJ. Gastrostomy Tube Use in the Critically Ill, 1994–2014. Annals ATS. 2019;16(6):724-730. PMID: 31104470 [Full-Text]
Yorkgitis BK, Dugan MM, Bell A, Brat GA, Crandall M. Controlled substance prescribing and education in orthopedic residencies: A program director survey. The American Journal of Surgery. 2019;0(0). PMID: 31088626 [Full-Text]
Roche SD, Reichheld AM, Demosthenes N, et al. Measuring the quality of inpatient specialist consultation in the intensive care unit: Nursing and family experiences of communication. PLOS ONE. 2019;14(4):e0214918. PMID: 30973891 [Full-Text]
2018
Sokol-Hessner L, Kane GJ, Annas CL, et al. Development of a framework to describe patient and family harm from disrespect and promote improvements in quality and safety: a scoping review. Int J Qual Health Care. November 2018. PMID: 30428052 [Full-Text]
Schulson L, Novack V, Smulowitz PB, Dechen T, Landon BE. Emergency Department Care for Patients with Limited English Proficiency: a Retrospective Cohort Study. J Gen Intern Med. September 2018. PMID: 30187374 [PubMed]
Sokol-Hessner L, Folcarelli PH, Annas CL, et al. A Road Map for Advancing the Practice of Respect in Health Care: The Results of an Interdisciplinary Modified Delphi Consensus Study. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. PMID: 30071966 [Full-Text]
Heher YK, Dintzis SM. Disclosure of Harmful Medical Error to Patients: A Review With Recommendations for Pathologists. Adv Anat Pathol. 2018;25(2):124-130. PMID: 29356714 [PubMed]
Lucier D, Folcarelli P, Totte C, Carbo AR, Sokol-Hessner L. Surveying Care Teams after in-Hospital Deaths to Identify Preventable Harm and Opportunities to Improve Advance Care Planning. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2018;44(2):84-93. PMID: 29389464 [PubMed]
2017
Schnock KO, Ravindran SS, Fladger A, Leone K, Williams DM, Dwyer CL, Vu TG, Thornton K, Gazarian P. Identifying Information Resources for Patients in the Intensive Care Unit and Their Families. Crit Care Nurse. 2017;37(6):e10-e16. PMID: 29196595 [Full-Text]
Francis L, Vorwaller MA, Aboumatar H, et al. A Clinician’s Guide to Privacy and Communication in the ICU. Crit Care Med. 2017;45(3):480-485. PMID: 27922454 [PubMed]
2016
O’Reilly K, Ruokis S, Russell K, Teves T, DiLibero J, Yassa D, Berry H, Howell MD. Standard work for room entry: Linking lean, hand hygiene, and patient-centeredness. Healthc (Amst). 2016;4(1):45-51. PMID: 27001098 [PubMed]
Brown SM, Aboumatar HJ, Francis L, Halamka J, Rozenblum R, Rubin E, Sarnoff Lee B, Sugarman J, Turner K, Vorwaller M, Frosch DL. Balancing digital information-sharing and patient privacy when engaging families in the intensive care unit. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2016;23(5):995-1000. PMID: 26984048 [Full-Text]
Feuerstein JD, Sheppard V, Cheifetz AS, Ariyabuddhiphongs K. How to Develop the Medical Neighborhood. J Med Syst. 2016;40(9):196. PMID: 27447470 [Full-Text]
2015
Sokol-Hessner L, Folcarelli PH, Sands KEF. Emotional harm from disrespect: the neglected preventable harm. BMJ Qual Saf. 2015;24(9):550-553. PMID: 26085331 [Full-Text]
Brown SM, Rozenblum R, Aboumatar H, Fagan MB, Milic M, Lee BS, Turner K, Frosch DL. Defining patient and family engagement in the intensive care unit. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2015;191(3):358-360. PMID: 25635496 [Full-Text]
2014
Stevens JP, Silva G, Gills J, Klompas M, Talmor, D, Howell MD. Automated surveillance for ventilator- associated events. Chest, 2014; 146(6):1612-1618. PMID: 25451350 [Full-Text]
Breu AC, Herzig SJ. Differentiating DNI from DNR: combating code status conflation. J Hosp Med. 2014;9(10):669-670. PMID: 24978058 [Full-Text]
Breu AC, Allen-Dicker J, Mueller S, Palamara K, Hinami K, Herzig SJ. Hospitalist and primary care physician perspectives on medication management of chronic conditions for hospitalized patients. J Hosp Med. 2014;9(5):303-309. PMID: 24616183 [Full-Text]
2013
Stevens JP, Johansson C, Schonberg MA, Howell MD. Elements of a high quality inpatient consultation in the intensive care unit: a qualitative study. Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2013; 10(3):220-227. PMID: 23802818 [Full-Text]
2012
Hunziker S, McHugh W, Sarnoff-Lee B, Cannistraro S, Ngo L, Marcantonio E, Howell MD. Predictors and correlates of dissatisfaction with intensive care. Crit Care Med. 2012;40(5):1554-1561. PMID: 22511136 [Full-Text]
Stevens JP, Howell MD. Preventing harm and improving quality in the intensive care unit. Hospital Medicine Clinics, 2012;1(1):e12-e35.
2020
Stevens JP, Hatfield LA, Nyweide DJ, Landon B. Association of Variation in Consultant Use Among Hospitalist Physicians With Outcomes Among Medicare Beneficiaries. JAMA Netw Open. 2020;3(2):e1921750-e1921750. PMID: 32083694 [Full-Text]
2019
Anderson JD, Wadhera RK, Joynt Maddox KE, Wang Y, Shen C, Stevens JP, Yeh RW. Thirty-day Spending and Outcomes for an Episode of Pneumonia Care Among Medicare Beneficiaries. Chest. November 2019. PMID: 31759965 [Full-Text]
Doctoroff L, Mukamal KJ. The Changing Distribution of Length of Hospitalization at Academic Medical Centers 2007-2016. Med Care. July 2019. PMID: 31295164 [PubMed]
2018
Kachalia A, Sands K, Niel MV, et al. Effects Of A Communication-And-Resolution Program On Hospitals’ Malpractice Claims And Costs. Health Affairs. 2018;37(11):1836-1844. PMID: 30395501 [PubMed]
Law AC, Stevens JP, Hohmann S, Walkey AJ. Patient Outcomes After the Introduction of Statewide ICU Nurse Staffing Regulations. Critical Care Medicine. 2018; Online First. [Full-Text]
Stevens JP, Nyweide DJ, Landon BE. Concerns Regarding Resource Use and Outcomes in Subsets of Clinicians-Reply. JAMA Intern Med. 2018;178(4):581. PMID: 29610890 [PubMed]
2017
Stevens JP, Nyweide D, Maresh S, Hatfield L, Howell M, Landon B. Hospital resource use and outcomes among hospitalists, primary care providers, and other generalists, JAMA Internal Medicine, 2017, 177(12):1781-1787. PMID: 29131897 [Full-Text]
Mello MM, Kachalia A, Roche S, Niel MV, Buchsbaum L, Dodson S, Folcarelli P, Benjamin EM, Sands KE. Outcomes In Two Massachusetts Hospital Systems Give Reason For Optimism About Communication-And-Resolution Programs. Health Aff (Millwood). 2017;36(10):1795-1803. PMID: 28971925 [PubMed]
Allen-Dicker J, Auerbach A, Herzig SJ. Perceived Safety and Value of Inpatient "Very Important Person" Services. J Hosp Med. 2017;12(3):177-179. PMID:28272595 [Full-Text]
2016
Marshall J, Wood SJ, Stevens JP. Skyrocketing drug costs – beyond the news and into your ICU. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2016; 193(12):1433-1434. PMID: 27304244 [Full-Text]
2015
Stevens JP, Nyweide D, Maresh S, Zaslavsky A, Shrank W, Howell MD, Landon BE. Variation in inpatient consultation among older adults in the United States. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2015; 30: 992-999. PMID: 25693650 [Full-Text]
Allen-Dicker J, Herzig SJ, Kerbel R. Global payment contract attitudes and comprehension among internal medicine physicians. Am J Manag Care. 2015;21(8):e474-479. PMID: 26625507 [Full-Text]