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Increased Risk of Mortality and Readmission among Patients Discharged Against Medical Advice by Southern, William N., MD, MS, Nahvi, Shadi, MD, MS, Arnsten, Julia H., MD, MPH

“…Abstract Background Approximately 500,000 patients are discharged from US hospitals against medical advice annually, but the associated risks are unknown…”
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Hypoglycemia-associated Mortality Is Not Drug-associated but Linked to Comorbidities by Boucai, Laura, MD, MS, Southern, William N., MD, MS, Zonszein, Joel, MD, CDE, FACP, FACE

“…Abstract Objective Although tight glucose control is used widely in hospitalized patients, there is concern that medication-induced hypoglycemia may worsen…”
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Longer Lengths of Stay and Higher Risk of Mortality among Inpatients of Physicians with More Years in Practice by Southern, William N., MD, MS, Bellin, Eran Y., MD, Arnsten, Julia H., MD, MPH

“…Abstract Background More physician years in practice have been associated with less frequent guideline adherence, but it is unknown whether years in practice…”
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Ischemic Colitis Has a Worse Prognosis When Isolated to the Right Side of the Colon by SOTIRIADIS, John, BRANDT, Lawrence J, BEHIN, Daniel S, SOUTHERN, William N

“…In general, ischemic colitis has a very good prognosis, but there is concern that when ischemia affects the right side of the colon in an isolated fashion, the…”
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Severe obesity, increasing age and male sex are independently associated with worse in-hospital outcomes, and higher in-hospital mortality, in a cohort of patients with COVID-19 in the Bronx, New York by Palaiodimos, Leonidas, Kokkinidis, Damianos G., Li, Weijia, Karamanis, Dimitrios, Ognibene, Jennifer, Arora, Shitij, Southern, William N., Mantzoros, Christos S.

“…New York is the current epicenter of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The underrepresented minorities, where the prevalence of obesity is higher,…”
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Postoperative Clostridium difficile -associated diarrhea by Southern, William N., MD, MS, Rahmani, Rabin, MD, Aroniadis, Olga, MD, Khorshidi, Igal, MD, Thanjan, Andy, MD, Ibrahim, Christopher, MD, Brandt, Lawrence J., MD

“…Background Abdominal surgery is thought to be a risk factor for Clostridium difficile -associated diarrhea (CDAD). The aims of this study were to discern…”
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Patient-controlled Analgesia For Vaso-Occlusive Crisis: A Cohort Study by Averbukh, Yelena, Porrovecchio, Andrea, Southern, William N

“…BACKGROUND:Sickle cell disease (SCD) accounts for over 68,000 hospital admissions each year in the United States, with long inpatient length of stays (LOS) and…”
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Effect of restricting electronic health records on clinician efficiency: substudy of a randomized clinical trial by Kneifati-Hayek, Jerard Z, Applebaum, Jo R, Schechter, Clyde B, Dal Col, Alexis, Salmasian, Hojjat, Southern, William N, Adelman, Jason S

“…Abstract A prior randomized controlled trial (RCT) showed no significant difference in wrong-patient errors between clinicians assigned to a restricted…”
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Limiting the Number of Open Records in an Electronic Health Record—Reply by Adelman, Jason S, Applebaum, Jo R, Southern, William N

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SARS-CoV-2 coinfection with additional respiratory virus does not predict severe disease: a retrospective cohort study by Chekuri, Sweta, Szymczak, Wendy A, Goldstein, D Yitzchak, Nori, Priya, Marrero Rolon, Rebecca, Spund, Brian, Singh-Tan, Sumeet, Mohrmann, Laurel, Assa, Andrei, Southern, William N, Baron, Sarah W

“…Abstract Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) claimed over 4…”
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Midline Catheter-Associated Thrombosis (MCAT): Does Tip Location in the Axillary Vein Increase Risk? by Schechter, Max S., Baron, Sarah W., Gohari, Arash, Southern, William N., Galen, Benjamin T.

“…Midline catheters, used for short- and intermediate-term venous access, are recommended to be placed with the tip in an upper arm vein rather than more…”
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BNP-Response to Acute Heart Failure Treatment Identifies High-Risk Population by Patel, Achint N., Southern, William N.

“…Using serial measurements of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) has been proposed as a method to guide therapy for patients treated for acute decompensated heart…”
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Utility of D-dimer in predicting venous thromboembolism in non-mechanically ventilated COVID-19 survivors by Nauka, Peter C., Baron, Sarah W., Assa, Andrei, Mohrmann, Laurel, Jindal, Shawn, Oran, Erick, Glazman-Kuczaj, Galina, Southern, William N., Chekuri, Sweta

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Hospitalization Rates of People Living with HIV in the United States, 2009 by Bachhuber, Marcus A., Southern, William N.

“…Objectives. We determined hospitalization rates and disparities among people with HIV, which may have been underestimated in previous studies, as only those in…”
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Association Between English Proficiency and Timing of Analgesia Administration After Surgery by Plancarte, Carlos A, Hametz, Patricia, Southern, William N

“…Pediatric patients from families with limited English proficiency (LEP) are at risk for health care disparities. We examined timeliness of analgesic…”
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Reducing Opioid Analgesic Prescribing in Dentistry Through Prescribing Defaults: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial by Bachhuber, Marcus A, Nash, Denis, Southern, William N, Heo, Moonseong, Berger, Matthew, Schepis, Mark, Sugarman, Olivia K, Cunningham, Chinazo O

“…Abstract Objective To determine the effect of a uniform, reduced, default dispense quantity for new opioid analgesic prescriptions on the quantity of opioids…”
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Increased Risk of Mortality among Patients Cared for by Physicians with Short Length-of-Stay Tendencies by Southern, William N., Arnsten, Julia H.

“…Background Since the introduction of the prospective payment system in 1983, U.S. hospitals have been financially incentivized to reduce inpatient length of…”
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Understanding and preventing wrong-patient electronic orders: a randomized controlled trial by Adelman, Jason S, Kalkut, Gary E, Schechter, Clyde B, Weiss, Jeffrey M, Berger, Matthew A, Reissman, Stan H, Cohen, Hillel W, Lorenzen, Stephen J, Burack, Daniel A, Southern, William N

“…To evaluate systems for estimating and preventing wrong-patient electronic orders in computerized physician order entry systems with a two-phase study. In…”
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Safety of High-Flow Nasal Cannula Outside the ICU for Previously Healthy Children With Bronchiolitis by Dadlez, Nina M, Esteban-Cruciani, Nora, Khan, Asama, Shi, Yi, McKenna, Kevin J, Azzarone, Gabriella, Southern, William N

“…High-flow nasal cannula (HFNC), a form of noninvasive respiratory support, is effective for the treatment of respiratory distress in ICUs. Although HFNC has…”
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Effect of Restriction of the Number of Concurrently Open Records in an Electronic Health Record on Wrong-Patient Order Errors: A Randomized Clinical Trial by Adelman, Jason S, Applebaum, Jo R, Schechter, Clyde B, Berger, Matthew A, Reissman, Stan H, Thota, Raja, Racine, Andrew D, Vawdrey, David K, Green, Robert A, Salmasian, Hojjat, Schiff, Gordon D, Wright, Adam, Landman, Adam, Bates, David W, Koppel, Ross, Galanter, William L, Lambert, Bruce L, Paparella, Susan, Southern, William N

“…IMPORTANCE: Recommendations in the United States suggest limiting the number of patient records displayed in an electronic health record (EHR) to 1 at a time,…”
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