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We would like to take a moment to highlight the outstanding success and published work that our Division of Hospital Medicine faculty produces throughout the year. We've collected publications, including research from Denver Health and the VA Medical Center, from the past month. Please take a look at the links below!

Aakriti Pandita, MD; Angela Keniston, PhD, MSPH
Pandita, A., Keniston, A. & Madhuripan, N. Synthetic data trained open-source language models are feasible alternatives to proprietary models for radiology reporting. npj Digit. Med. 8, 472 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-025-01658-3

DOM Article: http://news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/free-ai-tools-can-help-doctors-read-medical-scans-safely-and-affordably

Amiran Baduashvili, MD; Claire Brickson, MD; Beret Fitzgerald, MD; Jeffrey Wagner, MD
Baduashvili, A., Radonovich, L., Leslie, L., Pease, S., Brickson, C., Chockalingam, L., Banacos, N., Fitzgerald, B., Wagner, J., Bahnfleth, W. P., Cox-Ganser, J., Mead, K. R., Olsiewski, P., Gregory, C. O., Stone, E., Taliano, J., Weissman, D. N., & Bero, L. (2025). Engineering Infection Controls to Reduce Indoor Transmission of Respiratory Infections : A Scoping Review. Annals of internal medicine, 10.7326/ANNALS-25-00577. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.7326/ANNALS-25-00577

Joe Simonetti, MD
Miller, M., Wertz, J., Swanson, S. A., Simonetti, J. A., Zhang, Y., & Azrael, D. R. (2025). Firearm Storage and Firearm Suicide. JAMA network open, 8(7), e2519266. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.19266
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40622712/

Wright-Kelly, E., Simonetti, J. A., Haasz, M., Rosenberg, S., Myers, Q. W. O., & Brooks-Russell, A. (2025). Perceived Access to a Loaded Firearm Among Youths in Colorado. JAMA network open, 8(7), e2523362. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.23362
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40711791/

Maria Klimenko, MD
Lang, V. J., Fluet, K., Bloom-Feshbach, K., & Klimenko, M. (2025). Academic internal medicine hospitalist professional identity development. Journal of hospital medicine, 10.1002/jhm.70132. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.70132
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40671203/

Lang, V. J., Fluet, K., Klimenko, M., & Bloom-Feshbach, K. (2025). Academic hospitalists' views on promotion through the lens of professional identity. Journal of hospital medicine, 10.1002/jhm.70139. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.70139
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40659362/

Christine Jones, MD
Sterling, M. R., Kern, L. M., McDonald, M. V., Tobin, J. N., Arbaje, A. I., Cené, C. W., Jones, C. D., Dicpinigaitis, M., Shum, M., & Bowles, K. H. (2025). Envisioning Home Health as a Critical Component of Learning Health Systems to Improve Evidence-Based Care in Heart Failure. JACC. Advances, 101980. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacadv.2025.101980
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40704937/

Vineet Chopra, MD, MSc
Paje, D., Walzl, E., Heath, M., McLaughlin, E., Horowitz, J. K., Tatarcuk, C., Swaminathan, L., Kaatz, S., Malani, A. N., Gupta, A., Vaughn, V. M., Bernstein, S. J., Flanders, S. A., & Chopra, V. (2025). Safety of Vancomycin Use Through Midline Catheters for Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy. JAMA internal medicine, e253110. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.3110
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40690240/

Pisney, L., Clarke, K. A., Chatterjee, A., & Chopra, V. (2025). Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection, Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection, and Clostridioides difficile Infection-An Overview. The Medical clinics of North America, 109(5), 1089–1102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mcna.2025.02.005
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40752932/

Darlene Tad-y, MD
Auguste, B. L., Wong, B. M., & Tad-Y, D. B. (2025). Equity in Quality Improvement: A Comprehensive Approach. The Medical clinics of North America, 109(5), 1145–1156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mcna.2025.03.004
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40752936/

Lily Cervantes, MD
Santos, P. M. G., Dubey, M., Simpson, H., Hong, A. S., Narayan, A., Persaud, S., Feldman, K., Anderson, E., Santos, J., Smith, M., Bryant, M. F., Doran, J. F., Torres, M. A., Cervantes, L., Yabroff, K. R., & Chino, F. (2025). Access to cancer care for undocumented immigrants in the USA. The Lancet. Oncology, 26(8), e448–e457. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(25)00207-4
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40744044/

Susan Calcaterra, MD
Lebin, J. A., Mitchell, K., Trinkley, K. E., Calcaterra, S. L., Lun, Z., Hensen, C., & Hoppe, J. A. (2025). Clinical Decision Support to Increase Naloxone Co-prescribing from the Inpatient Setting. Journal of general internal medicine, 10.1007/s11606-025-09772-4. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-025-09772-4 
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40721708/