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We want to take the time to highlight the great success and published work our Division of Hospital Medicine faculty produces through out the year. We've collected their published work including work from Denver Health and the VA Medical Center from the past month. Please take a look at the links below!

Allison Nitsch, MD; Philip Mehler, MD
Nitsch, A., & Mehler, P. (2023). Restrictive eating disorders, an expanding but forgotten patient population in medical education. Journal of hospital medicine, 10.1002/jhm.13261. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.13261
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38105591/

Moksha Patel, MD
Duffy, K. A., Fenstermacher, E. A., Thompson, J. A., Tanabe, J., Patel, M. S., Ojemann, S., & Davis, R. A. (2023). Case report: Clinical efficacy of deep brain stimulation contacts corresponds to local field potential signals in a patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Frontiers in psychiatry, 14, 1279972. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1279972
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38076699/

Joseph Simonetti, MD
Polzer, E. R., Holliday, R., Rohs, C. M., Thomas, S. M., Miller, C. N., Simonetti, J. A., Brenner, L. A., & Monteith, L. L. (2023). Women Veterans' perspectives, experiences, and preferences for firearm lethal means counseling discussions. PloS one, 18(12), e0295042. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0295042
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38055694/

Vineet Chopra, MD, MSc
Marsh, N., Larsen, E. N., Ullman, A. J., Mihala, G., Cooke, M., Chopra, V., Ray-Barruel, G., & Rickard, C. M. (2023). Peripheral intravenous catheter infection and failure: A systematic review and meta-analysis. International journal of nursing studies, 151, 104673. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2023.104673
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38142634/ 

Christine Jones, MD; Amy Yu, MD
Jones, C. D., Moss, A., Sevick, C., Roczen, M., Sterling, M. R., Portz, J., Lum, H. D., Yu, A., Urban, J. A., & Khazanie, P. (2023). Factors Associated with Mortality and Hospice Use Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Heart Failure Who Received Home Health Services. Journal of cardiac failure, S1071-9164(23)00921-1. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cardfail.2023.11.019
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38142043/ 

Jeffrey Wagner, MD
Wagner J. (2023). Semaglutide and Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction and Obesity. The New England journal of medicine, 389(25), 2398. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMc2312296
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38118035/

Dennis Gibson, MD; Vishnu Khatri, MD; Philip Mehler, MD
Gibson, D., Stein, A., Khatri, V., Wesselink, D., Sitko, S., & Mehler, P. S. (2024). Associations between low body weight, weight loss, and medical instability in adults with eating disorders. The International journal of eating disorders, 10.1002/eat.24129. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.24129
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38183342/

Anna Maw, MD
Maw, A. M., Trinkley, K. E., & Glasgow, R. E. (2024). The Role of Pragmatic Implementation Science Methods in Achieving Equitable and Effective Use of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare. Journal of general internal medicine, 10.1007/s11606-023-08580-y. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-023-08580-y
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38172408/

Mel Anderson, MD
Khazanie, P., & Anderson, M. L. (2024). Clinical progress notes: ACC/AHA/HFSA 2022 heart failure guideline pearls for hospitalists. Journal of hospital medicine, 10.1002/jhm.13250. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.13250
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38168086/ 

Marina Mutter, MD
Akhverdyan, N., & Mutter, M. (2023). Malakoplakia of the small intestine presenting as an abdominal mass. Journal of surgical case reports, 2023(12), rjad712. https://doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjad712
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38164217/

Vineet Chopra, MD, MSc
Quinn, M., Horowitz, J. K., Krein, S. L., Gaston, A., Ullman, A., & Chopra, V. (2024). The role of hospital-based vascular access teams and implications for patient safety: A multi-methods study. Journal of hospital medicine, 19(1), 13–23. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.13253
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38100201/ 

Lawrence Haber, MD
Haber, L. A., Boudin, C., & Williams, B. A. (2024). Criminal Justice Reform Is Health Care Reform. JAMA, 331(1), 21–22. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2023.25005
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38095916/ 

Juan Lessing, MD
Lessing, J. N., & Manning, K. D. (2024). Leadership & professional development: Finding and making the most of your "professional home". Journal of hospital medicine, 19(1), 51–52. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.13204
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37726953/

Essay on Lily Cervantes and her inspiring work won the AOA Robert H. Moser Essay Award. The article is titled "Brick by Brick: The Advocacy Journey of Dr. Lilia Cervantes" and will be published in The Pharos. 

Jennifer Lyden, MD
Lyden, J. R., Xu, S., Narwaney, K. J., Glanz, J. M., & Binswanger, I. A. (2023). Opioid Overdose Risk Following Hospital Discharge Among Individuals Prescribed Long-Term Opioid Therapy: a Risk Interval Analysis. Journal of general internal medicine, 38(11), 2560–2567. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-022-08014-1
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36697930/ 

Carol Stamm, MD
Yi, H., Stamm, C. A., Wright, G., Mondie, W. S., Rupp, L., & Borgelt, L. (2023). Emergency contraception in a historic southern city: mystery caller study in Birmingham, Alabama. Contraception, 110361. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2023.110361
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38160962/ 

Tyra Fainstad, MD
McClintock, A. H., Fainstad, T., Blau, K., & Jauregui, J. (2023). Psychological safety in medical education: A scoping review and synthesis of the literature. Medical teacher, 45(11), 1290–1299. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2023.2216863
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37266963/ 

Amy Yu, MD; Vineet Chopra, MD, MSc; Christine Jones, MD
SHM Publication: Engineering safe care journeys: Reenvisioning interhospital transfers
https://shmpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jhm.13266