2024
Association between 82Rb positron emission tomography-derived regional myocardial blood flow, severity of angiographic coronary artery stenosis, and mortality in patients with chest pain
Gallegos C, Paredes C, Hu J, Posada E, Saito Y, Lansky A, Shah S, Liu Y, Smolderen K, Mena-Hurtado C, Sinusas A, Miller E. Association between 82Rb positron emission tomography-derived regional myocardial blood flow, severity of angiographic coronary artery stenosis, and mortality in patients with chest pain. Advances In Radiotherapy & Nuclear Medicine 2024, 2: 3786. DOI: 10.36922/arnm.3786.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMyocardial flow reserveGlobal myocardial flow reserveQuantitative coronary angiographyAssociated with increased all-cause mortalityPositron emission tomographyCoronary artery stenosis severityMyocardial blood flowAll-Cause MortalityCoronary angiographyChest painStenosis severityAngiographic coronary artery stenosisResting myocardial blood flowAcute chest painBlood flowInvasive coronary angiographyLeft circumflex arteryLeft descending arteryRight coronary arteryCoronary artery stenosisStress testCoronary stenosis severityCardiovascular eventsDescending arteryWeak correlation
2023
Factors Associated With Improved Pediatric Resuscitative Care in General Emergency Departments.
Auerbach M, Whitfill T, Montgomery E, Leung J, Kessler D, Gross I, Walsh B, Fiedor Hamilton M, Gawel M, Kant S, Janofsky S, Brown L, Walls T, Alletag M, Sessa A, Arteaga G, Keilman A, Van Ittersum W, Rutman M, Zaveri P, Good G, Schoen J, Lavoie M, Mannenbach M, Bigham L, Dudas R, Rutledge C, Okada P, Moegling M, Anderson I, Tay K, Scherzer D, Vora S, Gaither S, Fenster D, Jones D, Aebersold M, Chatfield J, Knight L, Berg M, Makharashvili A, Katznelson J, Mathias E, Lutfi R, Abu-Sultaneh S, Burns B, Padlipsky P, Lee J, Butler L, Alander S, Thomas A, Bhatnagar A, Jafri F, Crellin J, Abulebda K. Factors Associated With Improved Pediatric Resuscitative Care in General Emergency Departments. 2023, 152 PMID: 37416979, DOI: 10.1542/peds.2022-060790.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchGeneral emergency departmentsPediatric academic medical centerPediatric emergency care coordinatorPediatric readiness scoreHospital-level factorsComposite quality scoreResuscitative careEmergency departmentPediatric volumeNonmodifiable factorsModifiable factorsCare coordinatorsHigher composite quality scoreProspective observational studyAcademic medical centerReadiness scoresHospital factorsAdjusted analysisUnadjusted analysesObservational studyMedical CenterResuscitation teamWeak correlationCareScores
2019
Crowdsourcing to delineate skin affected by chronic graft‐vs‐host disease
Tkaczyk E, Coco J, Wang J, Chen F, Ye C, Jagasia M, Dawant B, Fabbri D. Crowdsourcing to delineate skin affected by chronic graft‐vs‐host disease. Skin Research And Technology 2019, 25: 572-577. PMID: 30786065, PMCID: PMC6719554, DOI: 10.1111/srt.12688.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsChronic graftHost diseaseAffected skinPercent body surface areaBody surface areaBoard-certified dermatologistsCurrent clinical standardMedian Dice indexCGVHD patientsPrimary outcomeImportant unmetAffected surface areaThree-dimensional photographsClinical standardsFleiss' kappaDiseaseSkinGraftPractical managementWeak correlationHigh agreementKappaConsensus delineationPatients
2017
Service readiness of health facilities in Bangladesh, Haiti, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nepal, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania
Leslie HH, Spiegelman D, Zhou X, Kruk ME. Service readiness of health facilities in Bangladesh, Haiti, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nepal, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania. Bulletin Of The World Health Organization 2017, 95: 738-748. PMID: 29147054, PMCID: PMC5677617, DOI: 10.2471/blt.17.191916.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHealth centers/clinicsCenters/clinicsHealth facilitiesService readinessBasic clinical careFacility-level characteristicsHealth system capacityMost health facilitiesService Provision AssessmentWorld Health OrganizationClinical careDiagnostic capacityHealth systemHealth OrganizationCountry inequitiesUnited RepublicHealth careHospitalClinicHealth financingUniversal coverageStudy countriesCareWeak correlationIndexHospital Performance on Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Process and Outcomes Measures
Chui PW, Parzynski CS, Nallamothu BK, Masoudi FA, Krumholz HM, Curtis JP. Hospital Performance on Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Process and Outcomes Measures. Journal Of The American Heart Association 2017, 6: e004276. PMID: 28446493, PMCID: PMC5524055, DOI: 10.1161/jaha.116.004276.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsCardiac RehabilitationCoronary DiseaseCross-Sectional StudiesHealthcare DisparitiesHumansHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsMedicarePatient DischargePatient ReadmissionPercutaneous Coronary InterventionPlatelet Aggregation InhibitorsProcess Assessment, Health CareQuality ImprovementQuality Indicators, Health CareReferral and ConsultationRegistriesRisk FactorsTime FactorsTime-to-TreatmentTreatment OutcomeUnited StatesConceptsProcess measuresReadmission ratesOutcome measuresNational Cardiovascular Data Registry CathPCI RegistryHospital performancePercutaneous coronary interventionSpecific process measuresRisk-Standardized MortalityPCI patientsCathPCI RegistryCoronary interventionHospital variationOutcome ratesHospital qualityPhysician ConsortiumMortalitySmall percentageWeak correlationAssociationIntervention processPatientsRelative predictive value of lung cancer screening CT versus myocardial perfusion attenuation correction CT in the evaluation of coronary calcium
Bailey G, Healy A, Young BD, Sharma E, Meadows J, Chun HJ, Wu WC, Choudhary G, Morrison AR. Relative predictive value of lung cancer screening CT versus myocardial perfusion attenuation correction CT in the evaluation of coronary calcium. PLOS ONE 2017, 12: e0175678. PMID: 28437443, PMCID: PMC5402939, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175678.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCoronary artery calcium scoreECG-gated cardiac CTCardiac CTMACE predictionLung cancerTotal coronary artery calcium scoreArtery calcium scoreCardiovascular risk assessmentSame patient populationPrediction of MACEAttenuation correction CTAgatston methodCalcium scoreCoronary calciumPatient populationRelative predictive valueElevated riskMajor vesselsPredictive valueCutoff valueVessel basisSecondary analysisSimilar AUCWeak correlationGold standard
2016
The Correlation of Workplace Simulation-Based Assessments With Interns’ Infant Lumbar Puncture Success
Auerbach M, Fein DM, Chang TP, Gerard J, Zaveri P, Grossman D, Van Ittersum W, Rocker J, Whitfill T, Pusic M, Kessler DO. The Correlation of Workplace Simulation-Based Assessments With Interns’ Infant Lumbar Puncture Success. Simulation In Healthcare The Journal Of The Society For Simulation In Healthcare 2016, 11: 126-133. PMID: 27043098, DOI: 10.1097/sih.0000000000000135.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsProcedural successPuncture successSuccess rateAcademic medical centerPrimary outcomeMedical CenterPatientsLarger studyRating ScaleClinical performanceProcedural readinessLittle dataGlobal rating scaleScale ratingsSimulation-based assessmentFirst procedureIncoming internsTotalWeak correlationAssessmentInterns
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