2010 - 2011 Department of Emergency Medicine Faculty Publications:
Bessman SC, Agada NO, Ding R, Chiang W, Bernstein SL, McCarthy ML. Comparing National Institute of Health Funding of Emergency Medicine to Four Medical Specialties. Academic Emergency Medicine (in press).
Boniface KS McKay MP, Lucas R, Shaffer A, Sikka N. Serious Injuries Related to the Segway® Personal Transporter: A Case Series. Ann Emerg Med. 2011 Apr;57(4): 370-4.
Boniface KS, Shokoohi H, Smith ER, Scantlebury K. Tele-ultrasound and paramedics: real-time remote guidance of the FAST exam. American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011;29(5):477-481. PMID:20825815
Borloz MP, Mark DG,
Pines JM, Brady WJ. ECG Differential Diagnosis of Narrow Complex Tachycardia. Emergencias 2010;22 .
Braithwaite SA,
Pines JM, Asplin BR, Epstein SK. Enhancing Systems to Improve the Management of Acute, Unscheduled Care.
Acad Emerg Med 2011;18:e39-44.
Brown J, Gishta R, Fleming R, Ariztabal J. Does a pelvic exam in the emergency department add useful information? Western J Emergency Medicine. 2011, 12:2: 204-208.
Brown J, White, D, Magnus M, Czarnogosrki M, Lee, V. CD4 Counts in patients diagnosed with HIV through routine HIV screening in two urban emergency departments. JAIDS 2010, 15: 54 (5): e15-16.
Brown T,
McCarthy ML, Kelen GD, Frederick F. An Epidemiological Study of Closed Emergency Department Malpractice Claims in a National Database of Physician Malpractice Insurers.
AEM 17 (5): 553-560, 2010.
Chatterjee P, Cucchiara B, Lazarcuic N, Shofer FS,
Pines JM. Emergency department crowding and time to head CT in patients with acute stroke.
Stroke 2011;42:1074-80 .
Cunningham RM , Harrison SR,
McKay M , Mello MJ , Sochor M , Shandro JR , Walton MA , D'Onofrio G. National Survey of Emergency Department Alcohol Screening and Intervention Practices.
Ann Emerg Med. 2010 Jun;55(6): 556-62.
Czarnogorski M,
Brown, J, Lee V, Kuo I, Stern R, Simon, G. The prevalence of undiagnosed HIV infection in those who decline HIV screening in an Urban Emergency Department.
AIDS Research & Treatment 2011 article ID 879065, doi:10.1155/2011/879065 .
Ding R,
McCarthy ML, Desmond JS, Lee JS, Aronsky D, Zegar SL. Characterizing Waiting Room Time, Treatment Time and Boarding Time in the Emergency Department Using Quantile Regression.
AEM 17(8):813-823, 2010.
Glickman SW, Kit Delgado M, Hirshon JM, Hollander JE, Iwashyna TJ, Jacobs AK, Kilaru AS, Lorch SA, Mutter RL, Myers SR, Owens PL, Phelan MP,
Pines JM, Seymour CW, Ewen Wang N, Branas CC. Defining and Measuring Successful Emergency Care Networks: A Research Agenda.
Acad Emerg Med. 2010;17:1297-1305.
Handel DA, Hilton JA,
Ward M, Rabin E,
Pines JM.
ED Throughput, Crowding and Financial Outcomes for Hospitals. Acad Emerg Med 2010;17:840-7
Handel DA, Nathanson L, Wears RL,
Pines JM. Health Information Technology in the ED: A Research Agenda.
Acad Emerg Med 2011;18:e45-51.
Hirschmann KB, Paik H,
Pines JM, Naylor MD, Hollander JE. Cognitive Impairment Among Older Adults in the Emergency Department.
West J Emerg Med 2011;12:56-62.
Hoffman B, Bessman ES, Um P, Ding R,
McCarthy ML. Successful Sonographic Visualization of the Abdominal Aorta Differs Significantly Among a Diverse Group of Credentialed Emergency Department Providers.
Emergency Medicine Journal 28(6): 472-6, 2011
Howard J, Levy F, Patch M, Craven CK,
McCarthy ML, Mareiniss DP, Epstein-Peterson ZD, Wong V, Pronovost PJ. New Legal Protections For Reporting Patient Errors Under the Patient Safety Quality Improvement Act: Analysis Of Provider Awareness.
Journal of Patient Safety (in press).
Hwang U, Aronksy D, Asplin B, Crane PW, Epstein SK, Fee C, Handel DA,
McCarthy ML, Morgan-Edwards S,
Pines JM, Rathlev NK, Schafermeyer RW, Zwemer FL, Bernstein SL. Measures of emergency department crowding: A systematic review.
Acad Emerg Med 2011;18:527-538.
Katz R,
May L, Baker J, Test E. Redefining Syndromic Surveillance. Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health. 2011, in press.
Li SF, Cole M, Forest R, Chilstrom M, Reinersman E, Jones M, Zinzuwadia S, King S,
Yadav K. Are 2 Smaller Intravenous Catheters As Good As 1 Larger Intravenous Catheter?
Am J Emerg Med. 2010Jul;28(6):724-727.
Mark DG, Brady WJ,
Pines JM. In response to pre-excitation syndromes..
Am J Emerg Med. 2010;28:251-2.
Marshall R, Hunting C,
McKay MP. The effect of driver age on the incidence and severity of upper extremity injuries due to second-generation front air bag deployment.
Ann Adv Automot Med. 2010;54: 215-22.
May LS, Carim M, Yadav K. Adult Asthma Exacerbations and Environmental Triggers: A Retrospective Review of ED Visits. Am J Emerg Med. 2010 Aug 12. [Epub ahead of print]
May LS, Griffin BA, Bauers NM, Jain A, Mitchum M, Sikka N et al. Emergency Department Chief Complaint and Diagnosis Data to Detect Influenza-Like Illness with an Electronic Medical Record. West. J. Emerg. Med. (1936-9018) 11:1, 2010.
May L. Harter K. Yadav K. Strauss R. Abualenain J. Keim A. Practice Patterns and Management Strategies for Purulent Skin and Soft Tissue Infections in an Urban Academic Emergency Department. Am J Emerg Med. 2011 Jan 27. [Epub ahead of print.
May L. Katz R. Johnston L. Sanza M. Petinaux B. Assessing Physicians’ in Training Attitudes and Behaviors During the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Season: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Medical Students and Residents in an Urban Academic Setting. Influenza and Respiratory Viruses. 2010, 4 (5): 267-75.
May L. Porter C. Tribble D. Armstrong A. Mostafa M. Riddle MR. Self-Reported Incidence of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections among Deployed U.S. Military. Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease 9 (2011) pp. 213-220 in press.
McCarthy ML, Ding R, Zegar SL, Agada NO, Bessman SC, Chiang W, Kelen GD, Scheulen JJ, Bessman ES. A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Impact of Service Delivery Information on Patient Satisfaction in an ED Fast Track.
Academic Emergency Medicine 18(7): 674-685, 2011.
McCarthy ML, Overcrowding in emergency departments and adverse outcomes.
British Medical Journal 2011 (Jun 1;342:d2830. doi: 10.1136/bmj.d2830
McCarthy ML, Pines JM. Conference Proceedings: Interventions to Improve Quality in the Crowded Emergency Department.
Academic Emergency Medicine (in press).
McCarthy ML, Ding R,
Pines JM, Zegar SL. Comparison of Methods of Measuring Crowding and its Impact on Emergency Department Length of Stay.
Academic Emergency Medicine (in press).
Napoli AM, Fischer CM,
Pines JM, Soe-lin H, Goyal M, Milzman D. Absolute Lymphocyte Count in the Emergency Department Predicts a Low CD4 count in admitted HIV Positive Patients.
Acad Emerg Med 2011;18:385-9.
Pilgrim R, Hilton JA, Carrier E,
Pines JM, Hufstetler G, Thorby S, Milling TJ, Cesta B, Hsia RY. Research Priorities for Administrative Challenges of Integrated Networks of Care.
Acad Emerg Med. 2010;17:1330-1336.
Pines JM,
McCarthly ML. The crowding-effectiveness link: it doesn't matter how fast we deliver care, if we don't deliver it right.
Ann Emerg Med 2011;57:201-2 (Invited editorial) .
Pines JM, Fee C, Fermann GJ, Ferroggiaro AA, Irvin CB, Mazer M, Peacock WF, Schuur JD, Pollack CV.
The Role of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine in the Development of Guidelines and Performance Measures. Acad Emerg Med 2010;17:e130-40.
Pines JM, Asplin BR, Kaji AH, Lowe RA, Magid DJ, Raven M, Weber EJ, Yealy DM. Frequent users of emergency department services: Gaps in knowledge and a proposed research agenda.
Acad Emerg Med 2011;18:e64-69.
Pines JM, Batt R, Hilton JM, Terwiesch C. The financial consequences of lost demand and reducing boarding in hospital emergency departments.
Ann Emerg Med 2011 Epub April 25.
Pines JM, Asplin BR. Conference Proceedings: Improving the Quality and Efficiency of Emergency Care Across the Continuum: A Systems Approach.
Acad Emerg Med 2011;18:655-61.
Pines JM, Mongelluzzo J, Hilton JA, Hollander JE, Shofer FS, Souder J, Synnestvedt M, Weiner MG, Datner EM. Post-discharge adverse events for one-day hospital admissions in older adults admitted from the emergency department.
Ann Emerg Med 2010;56:253-7.
Pourmand A,
Sikka N. Online Health Information Impacts Patients? Decisions to Seek Emergency Department Care.
West J Emerg Med. 2011; 12(2):174-177
Quest TE, Asplin BR, Cairns CB, Hwang, U,
Pines JM. Research Priorities for Palliative and End of Life Care in the Emergency Setting.
Acad Emerg Med 2011;18:e70-76.
Retezar R, Bessman ES, Ding R, Zegar SL, McCarthy ML. The Effect of Diagnostic Triage Standing Orders on Emergency Department Treatment Time.
Annals of Emergency Medicine 57(2), 89-99, 2011
Schoenfeld E,
Boniface K,
Shokoohi H. ED Technicians can successfully place ultrasound-guided IVs in patients with poor vascular access.
American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011 Jun; 29(5): 496-501.
Schuur JD, Baugh CW, Hess E, Hilton JA,
Pines JM, Asplin BR. Critical Pathways for Post–Emergency Outpatient Diagnosis and Treatment: Tools to Improve the Value of Emergency Care.
Acad Emerg Med 2011;18:e52-63.
Shah A, Mosdossy G, McLeod S,
Lehnhardt KR, Peddle M, Rieder M. A Blinded, Randomized Controlled Trial to EvaluateKetamine-Propofol Versus Ketamine Alone for Procedural Sedation inChildren.
Ann Emerg Med 2011; 57:425-433.
Simonsen L. Taylor RJ.
Young-Xu Y. Haber M.
May L.
Klugman KP. Impact of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccination of Infants on Pneumonia and Influenza Hospitalization and Mortality in All Age Groups in the United States.
mBio 2011; 2(1).
Yadav K, Cowan E, Wall S, Gennis P. Orbital Fracture Clinical Decision Rule Development: Burden of Disease and Use of a Mandatory Electronic Data Collection Instrument. Acad Emerg Med. 2011Mar;18(3):313-6.
Yadav K, Jalili M, Zehtabchi S. Managementof Traumatic Occult Pneumothorax. Resuscitation. 2010 Sep; 81(9): 1063-8.
Zhang Y.
May L. Stoto M. Evaluating syndromic surveillance systems at institutions of higher education: a retrospective analysis of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic at two universities. BMC Public Health, 2011, in press.
Zehtabchi S, Nishijima DK,
McKay MP, Clay Mann N. Trauma registries: history, logistics, limitations, and contributions to emergency medicine research.
Acad Emerg Med. 2011 Jun;18(6): 637-43.
Zehtabchi S,
Yadav K, Brothers E, Khan F, Singh S, Wilcoxson RD, Malhotra S. Prophylactic antibiotics for simple handlacerations: Time for a clinical trial?
Injury. 2011 May 20.
[Epub ahead of print].
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