January 2021

  1. Micro-Randomized Trial Design for Evaluating Just-In-Time-Adaptive-Interventions Through Mobile Health Technologies for Cardiovascular Disease.

    Jessica R Golbus, Walter Dempsey, Elizabeth A Jackson, Brahmajee K Nallamothu, Predrag Klasnja
    Circulation. Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33430608/

June 2020

  1. Use of a Polygenic Risk Score Improves Prediction of Myocardial Injury after Non-cardiac Surgery.

    Nicholas J. Douville, Ida Surakka, Aleda Leis, Christopher B. Douville, Whitney E. Hornsby, Chad M. Brummett, Sachin Kheterpal, Cristen J. Miller, Milo Engoren, Michael Mathis
    Circulation. Genomic and precision medicine
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32517536

  2. Statin intensity and risk for cardiovascular events after heart transplantation.

    Jessica R. Golbus, Sarah Adie, Matheos Yosef, Venkatesh Murthy, Keith D. Aaronson, Matthew C. Konerman
    ESC heart failure
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32578953

  3. Developing a template matching algorithm for benchmarking hospital performance in a diverse, integrated healthcare system.

    Daniel Molling, Brenda M. Vincent, Wyndy Wiitala, Gabriel J. Escobar, Timothy P. Hofer, Vincent X. Liu, Amy K. Rosen, Andrew M. Ryan, Sarah Seelye, Hallie C. Prescott
    Medicine
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32541458

  4. Cohort discovery and risk stratification for Alzheimer’s disease: an electronic health record-based approach.

    Donna Tjandra, Raymond Q. Migrino, Bruno Giordani, Jenna Wiens
    Alzheimer’s & dementia (New York, N. Y.)
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32548236

  5. HRS/EHRA/APHRS/LAHRS/ACC/AHA worldwide practice update for telehealth and arrhythmia monitoring during and after a pandemic.

    Niraj Varma, Nassir F. Marrouche, Luis Aguinaga, Christine M. Albert, Elena Arbelo, Jong-Il Choi, Mina K. Chung, Giulio Conte, Lilas Dagher, Laurence M. Epstein, Hamid Ghanbari, Janet K. Han, Hein Heidbuchel, He Huang, Dhanunjaya R. Lakkireddy, Tachapong Ngarmukos, Andrea M. Russo, Eduardo B Saad, Luis C. Saenz Morales, Kristin E. Sandau, Arun Raghav M Sridhar, Eric C. Stecker, Paul D. Varosy
    Journal of the American College of Cardiology
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32534936

  6. Comprehensive review of ICD-9 code accuracies to measure multimorbidity in administrative data.

    Melissa Y Wei, Luster, Jamie E., Chan, Chiao-Li, Min, Lillian
    BMC health services research
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32487087/

  7. Failure of Cardiovascular Phase 3 Randomized Clinical Trials to Report Pre-trial and Post-trial Parameters: a Cross-sectional Analysis of ClinicalTrials.gov.
    Alexander R. Zheutlin, Joshua D Niforatos, Eric Stulberg, Jeremy B. Sussman
    Journal of general internal medicine
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32583344

BONUS

  1. Use of Electronic Medical Records in Development and Validation of Risk Prediction Models of Hospital Readmission: Systematic Review

    Elham Mahmoudi, Neil Kamdar, Noa Kim, Gabriella Gonzales, Karandeep Singh, Akbar K Waljee
    BMJ
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32269037/

July

  1. Variations in Health Care Utilization Patterns Among Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients at Risk for High Medical Service Utilization Enrolled in High Deductible Health Plans.

    Jeffrey A Berinstein, Shirley A Cohen-Mekelburg, Calen A Steiner, Megan McLeod, Mohamed Noureldin, John I Allen, Jeffrey Kullgren, Akbar K Waljee, Peter D R Higgins
    Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32676638/

  2. Survival After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Critically Ill Patients: Implications for COVID-19 Outbreak

    Saket Girotra, Yuanyuan Tang, Paul S. Chan, Brahmajee K Nallamothu
    Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
    Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32438836/

  3. The incidence of intraoperative hypotension in moderate to high risk patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery: A retrospective multicenter observational analysis.

    Nirav J Shah, Graciela Mentz, Sachin Kheterpal
    Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32663738/

  4. Pathophysiology, Transmission, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Review.

    W Joost Wiersinga, Andrew Rhodes, Allen C Cheng, Sharon J Peacock, Hallie C Prescott
    JAMA
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32648899/

August

  1. Variation in Provider Connectedness Associates with Outcomes of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases in an Analysis of Data from a National Health System.

    Shirley Cohen-Mekelburg, Xianshi Yu, Deena Costa, Timothy P Hofer, Sarah Krein, John Hollingsworth, Wyndy Wiitala, Sameer Saini, Ji Zhu, Akbar Waljee
    Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32798705/

  2. Trends in the Incidence of Acute Kidney Injury in a National Cohort of US Veterans.

    Ryann Sohaney, Huiying Yin, Vahakn Shahinian, Rajiv Saran, Diane Steffick, Brahmajee K Nallamothu, Michael Heung
    American Journal of Kidney Diseases
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32768633/

  3. Incidence and Bedside Predictors of the First Episode of Overt Hepatic Encephalopathy in Patients With Cirrhosis.

    Elliot B Tapper, Lilli Zhao, Samantha Nikirk, Jad Baki, Neehar D Parikh, Anna S Lok, Akbar K Waljee
    The American Journal of Gastroenterology
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32773463/

  4. Fully Automated Endoscopic Disease Activity Assessment in Ulcerative Colitis.

    Heming Yao, Kayvan Najarian, Jonathan Gryak, Shrinivas Bishu, Michael D Rice, Akbar K Waljee, H Jeffrey Wilkins, Ryan W Stidham
    Gastrointestinal endoscopy
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32810479/

September

  1. HRS/EHRA/APHRS/LAHRS/ACC/AHA Worldwide Practice Update for Telehealth and Arrhythmia Monitoring During and After a Pandemic.

    Niraj Varma, Nassir F Marrouche, Luis Aguinaga, Christine M Albert, Elena Arbelo, Jong-Il Choi, Mina K Chung, Giulio Conte, Lilas Dagher, Laurence M Epstein, Hamid Ghanbari, Janet K Han, Hein Heidbuchel, He Huang, Dhanunjaya R Lakkireddy, Tachapong Ngarmukos, Andrea M Russo, Eduardo B Saad, Luis C SaenzMorales, Kristin E Sandau, Arun Raghav M Sridhar, Eric C Stecker, Paul D Varosy
    Journal of the American College of Cardiology
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32534936/

  2. Asymptomatic man with an incidental finding of a massive empyema.

    Kashvi Gupta, Elena Stuewe, Marianne Barry
    BMJ case reports
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32913067/

  3. Potential for Standardization and Automation for Pathology and Endoscopy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

    Sana Syed, Ryan W Stidham
    Inflammatory bowel diseases
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32869844

  4. Effects of Random Measurement Error on Lung Cancer Screening Decisions:: A Retrospective-Cohort-Based Microsimulation Study
    Tanner J Caverly, Xuefei Zhang, Rodney Hayward, Ji Zhu, Akbar K Waljee
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32941860/

  5. Burst Case Scenario: Why Shorter May Not Be Any Better When It Comes to Corticosteroids

    Beth I. Wallace, Akbar K. Waljee
    Annals of Internal Medicine
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32628530/

October

  1. Robust segmentation of lung in chest x-ray: applications in analysis of acute respiratory distress syndrome.

    Narathip Reamaroon, Michael W Sjoding, Harm Derksen, Elyas Sabeti, Jonathan Gryak, Ryan P Barbaro, Brian D Athey, Kayvan Najarian
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33059612

  2. Utilization of smartphone and tablet camera photographs to predict healing of diabetes-related foot ulcers.

    Renaid B Kim, Jonathan Gryak, Abinash Mishra, Can Cui, SM Reza Soroushmehr, Kayvan Najarian, James S Wrobel
    Computers in biology and medicine
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33059239/

November

  1. UA Novel Recurrent COL5A1 Genetic Variant Is Associated With a Dysplasia-Associated Arterial Disease Exhibiting Dissections and Fibromuscular Dysplasia.

    Julie Richer, Hannah L Hill, Yu Wang, Min-Lee Yang, Kristina L Hunker, Jamie Lane, Susan Blackburn, Dawn M Coleman, Jonathan Eliason, Guillaume Sillon, Franois-Pierre Mongeon, Anne-Marie Laberge, Stephen E Ryan, Natalia Fendrikova-Mahlay, Thais Coutinho, Michael R Mathis, Matthew Zawistowski, Stanley L Hazen, Alexander E Katz, Heather L Gornik, Chad M Brummett, Goncalo Abecasis, Ingrid L Bergin, James C Stanley, Jun Z Li, Santhi K Ganesh.
    Computers in biology and medicine https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32938213.

  2. Sixty-Day Outcomes Among Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19.

    Vineet Chopra, Scott A’ Flanders, Hallie C Prescott.
    Annals of Internal Medicine https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33175566.