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Avoidance and reassurance seeking in response to health anxiety are differentially related to use of healthcare by Jones, Salene M. W., Andersen, M. Robyn, Litwin, Paul

“…Aim Responses to health anxiety include avoidance and reassurance-seeking behaviors. We tested the hypothesis that avoidance would be associated with less…”
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Prehospital-Initiated vs Hospital-Initiated Thrombolytic Therapy: The Myocardial Infarction Triage and Intervention Trial by Weaver, W. Douglas, Cerqueira, Manuel, Hallstrom, Alfred P, Litwin, Paul E, Martin, Jenny S, Kudenchuk, Peter J, Eisenberg, Mickey

“…Objective.—To determine the effect of prehospital-initiated vs hospital-initiated treatment of myocardial infarction on clinical outcome.Design.—Randomized,…”
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The Association between On-Site Cardiac Catheterization Facilities and the Use of Coronary Angiography after Acute Myocardial Infarction by Every, Nathan R, Larson, Eric B, Litwin, Paul E, Maynard, Charles, Fihn, Stephan D, Eisenberg, Mickey S, Hallstrom, Alfred P, Martin, Jenny S, Weaver, W. Douglas

“…Performing coronary angiography after acute myocardial infarction can be useful in obtaining prognostic information 1 , 2 as well as details of the coronary…”
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Association of healthcare utilization with financial worry and anxiety in a general population sample by Jones, Salene M.W., Litwin, Paul

“…This study examined the association of healthcare use (HCU) with financial outcomes in a general population sample (n = 395) to determine if HCU was associated…”
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Delay between onset of chest pain and seeking medical care: the effect of public education by Ho, M T, Eisenberg, M S, Litwin, P E, Schaeffer, S M, Damon, S K

“…Thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is now routinely given in the emergency department and is being considered for pre-hospital care…”
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Hospital mortality in acute myocardial infarction in the era of reperfusion therapy (the myocardial infarction triage and intervention project) by Maynard, Charles, Douglas Weaver, W., Litwin, Paul E., Martin, Jenny S., Kudenchuk, Peter J., Dewhurst, Timothy A., Eisenberg, Mickey S., Hallstrom, Alfred P., Chambers, Joseph, MITI Project Investigators

“…This study was conducted in 19 hospitals in the metropolitan Seattle area and included 6,270 unselected patients who had acute myocardial infarction (AMI)…”
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The location of collapse and its effect on survival from cardiac arrest by Litwin, P E, Eisenberg, M S, Hallstrom, A P, Cummins, R O

“…Survival from cardiac arrest is higher when the collapse occurs outside the home. Of 781 patients collapsing at home, 101 (13%) survived to hospital discharge…”
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Automatic External Defibrillators Used by Emergency Medical Technicians: A Controlled Clinical Trial by Cummins, Richard O, Eisenberg, Mickey S, Litwin, Paul E, Graves, Judith Reid, Hearne, Thomas R, Hallstrom, Alfred P

“…In a randomized controlled clinical trial, the effectiveness of emergency medical technician (EMT) use of automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) was compared…”
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Effect of age on use of thrombolytic therapy and mortality in acute myocardial infarction by Weaver, W.Douglas, Litwin, Paul E., Martin, Jenny S., Kudenchuk, Peter J., Maynard, Charles, Eisenberg, Mickey S., Ho, Mary T., Cobb, Leonard A., Kennedy, J.Ward, Wirkus, Mark S.

“…The findings in 3,256 consecutive patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction were tabulated to assess the history, treatments and outcome in the…”
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In-flight Deaths During Commercial Air Travel: How Big Is the Problem? by Cummins, Richard O, Chapman, Peter J. C, Chamberlain, Douglas A, Schubach, Jessica A, Litwin, Paul E

“…Do passenger deaths occur during commercial air travel? If so, how often and from what causes? We reviewed information reported to the International Air…”
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Myocardial infarction triage and intervention project—Phase I: Patient characteristics and feasibility of prehospital initiation of thrombolytic therapy by Weaver, W.Douglas, Eisenberg, Mickey S., Martin, Jenny S., Litwin, Paul E., Shaeffer, Sharon M., Ho, Mary T., Kudenchuk, Peter, Hallstrom, Alfred P., Cerqueira, Manuel D., Copass, Michael K., Kennedy, J.Ward, Cobb, Leonard A., Ritchie, James L.

“…Prehospital initiation of thrombolytic therapy by paramedics, if both feasible and safe, could considerably reduce the time to treatment and possibly decrease…”
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Patient Knowledge and Expectations About Return of Genomic Results in a Biomarker-Driven Master Protocol Trial (SWOG S1400GEN) by Roth, Joshua A, Trivedi, Meghna S, Gray, Stacy W, Patrick, Donald L, Delaney, Debbie M, Watabayashi, Kate, Litwin, Paul, Shah, Parth, Crew, Katherine D, Yee, Monica, Redman, Mary W, Unger, Joseph M, Papadimitrakopoulou, Vassiliki, Johnson, Judy, Kelly, Karen, Gandara, David, Herbst, Roy S, Hershman, Dawn L, Ramsey, Scott D

“…Biomarker-driven master protocols represent a new paradigm in oncology clinical trials, but their complex designs and wide-ranging genomic results returned can…”
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Accuracy of computer-interpreted electrocardiography in selecting patients for thrombolytic therapy by Kudenchuk, Peter J., Ho, Mary T., Weaver, W.Douglas, Litwin, Paul E., Martin, Jenny S., Eisenberg, Mickey S., Hallstrom, Alfred P., Cobb, Leonard A., Kennedy, J.Ward

“…A prehospital computer-interpreted electrocardiogram (ECG) was obtained in 1,189 patients with chest pain of suspected cardiac origin during an ongoing trial…”
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Lay person use of automatic external defibrillation by Moore, J E, Eisenberg, M S, Cummins, R O, Hallstrom, A, Litwin, P, Carter, W

“…The ability of lay persons to learn and retain defibrillation skills using an automatic external defibrillator (AED) was assessed. Thirty-four family members…”
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Ventilation skills of emergency medical technicians: A teaching challenge for emergency medicine by Cummins, R O, Austin, D, Graves, J R, Litwin, P E, Pierce, J

“…We assessed the ability of 64 emergency medical technicians (EMTs) to ventilate a resuscitation manikin with a bag valve mask and with a pocket face mask to…”
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Gender differences in the treatment and outcome of acute myocardial infarction. Results from the Myocardial Infarction Triage and Intervention Registry by Maynard, C, Litwin, P E, Martin, J S, Weaver, W D

“…The objective of this study was to compare treatment and outcome of acute myocardial infarction in women and men. In this survey, patient hospital records were…”
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Use of the automatic external defibrillator in homes of survivors of out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation by Eisenberg, Mickey S., Moore, James, Cummins, Richard O., Andresen, Elena, Litwin, Paul E., Hallstrom, Alfred P., Hearne, Thomas

“…This 57-month study evaluated the use of automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) in the homes of high risk cardiac patients (survivors of out-of-hospital…”
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Automatic external defibrillators: clinical, training, psychological, and public health issues by Cummins, R O, Eisenberg, M S, Moore, J E, Hearne, T R, Andresen, E, Wendt, R, Litwin, P E, Graves, J R, Hallstrom, A P, Pierce, J

“…Automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) will be used by spouses, family members, emergency first-responders, and the citizenry at large. Such use, however,…”
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Training lay persons to use automatic external defibrillators: success of initial training and one-year retention of skills by Cummins, R O, Schubach, J A, Litwin, P E, Hearne, T R

“…This study was conducted to determine the feasibility of recruitment of lay persons to use automatic external defibrillators (AEDs), the effectiveness of their…”
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Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: significance of symptoms in patients collapsing before and after arrival of paramedics by Eisenberg, M S, Cummins, R O, Litwin, P E, Hallstrom, A P

“…The authors retrospectively studied victims of sudden cardiac death who experienced cardiac arrest before and after arrival of emergency personnel in order to…”
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