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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 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!

Lily Cervantes, MD
Wainstein, M., Marioli, P. A., & Cervantes, L. (2025). Group Medical Care Models Transforming Access to Kidney Disease Treatment: An Argentine Experience, Seminars in Nephrology. 151612, ISSN 0270-9295, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semnephrol.2025.151612
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0270929525000476

Santos PMG, Narayan A, Hong AS, et al. Landscape of Emergency Medicaid and Health Care Coverage for Undocumented Immigrants in the US. JAMA Intern Med. Published online May 12, 2025. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.0604
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2833600

Rizzolo, K., Villegas, L., & Cervantes, L. (2025). The national landscape of kidney transplantation for undocumented immigrants: advancing kidney transplantation equity. Kidney international, 107(6), 976–979. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.kint.2025.03.014
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40404260/

Mel Anderson, MD

Smeraglio, A., Heppe, D., Cox, L. M., Gunderson, C., Tuck, M., Schackmann, E., Nickoloff, S., Albert, T., Beard, A., Arundel, C., Boggan, J. C., Villanueva, M., Anderson, M., Rush, R., Akwe, J., Price, E., & Garg, M. (2025). Prolonged Hospitalization and Adverse Events in Veterans Awaiting Guardianship: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis. Journal of general internal medicine, 10.1007/s11606-025-09463-0. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-025-09463-0
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40341476/

Elizabeth Boggs, MD
Lindrooth, R. C., Murphy, N. J., Devoss, R., Boggs, E., Khetani, M. A., Tung, G. J., Daniel, J., & McManus, B. (2025). Does Family-Centered Care Coordination Improve Outcomes for Children Enrolled in Early Intervention Services? An Analysis of Colorado's GO4IT Initiative. Health services research, e14634. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.14634
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40355347/

Michelle Knees, DO
Kochar, A., Knees, M., & Arnold, R. M. (2025). Training Interrupted-The Hidden Costs of Secure Messaging on Medical Trainee Learning. JAMA internal medicine, 10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.1245. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.1245
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40388147/

Knees, M., Flynn, S.J., Hsiang, E. Y., & Kubey, A. A. (2025). Is secure messaging an effective tool for inpatient communication?  J Hosp Med. Published online May 29, 2025. doi:10.1002/jhm.70090
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40437881/

Cat Callister, MD
Callister C. (2025). When There Are no Daughters. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 10.1111/jgs.19520. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.19520
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40405349/

Jeffrey Wagner, MD
Wagner J. (2025). Doctor Dad. Annals of internal medicine, 178(5), 748. https://doi.org/10.7326/ANNALS-25-00449
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40388816/

Christine Jones, MD
Kennedy, K. A., DeVone, F., Cornell, P. Y., Gozalo, P., Thomas, K. S., Gravenstein, S., Magid, K. H., Mroz, T., & Jones, C. D. (2025). Does the Veterans Health Administration Purchase High-Quality Home Health Care?. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 26(7), 105684. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2025.105684
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40412434/

Ben Vipler, MD
Oliver, D., Vipler, B. (2025). Internist to fellowship: a path to success. The Lancet Haematology. DOI: 10.1016/S2352-3026(25)00138-3. PMID: 40447350.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhae/article/PIIS2352-3026(25)00138-3/abstract

Thomas Mee, MD; Eric Grimm, MS; Amiran Baduashvili, MD
Chockalingam L, Mee T, Gardner T, Grimm E, Baduashvili A. Real-world interpretation of procalcitonin to guide antibiotic prescribing: a retrospective cohort study with regression discontinuity analysis. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2025;5(1):e119. Published 2025 May 28. doi:10.1017/ash.2025.72
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40453517/

Jason Gilbert, MD
Madarang, E., Lykon, J., Zhao, W., Sekeres, M. A., Bradley, T., Chandhok, N. S., Taylor, J., Venugopal, S., Koru-Sengul, T., Iyer, S. G., Gilbert, J. S., Miller, R. M., Nanni, J., Zacheo, I., Mattei, A., Al Ali, N., Kishtagari, A., Marconi, G., Sallman, D. A., Pollyea, D. A., … Watts, J. (2024). Venetoclax and hypomethylating agents in octogenarians and nonagenarians with acute myeloid leukemia. Blood neoplasia, 1(2), 100016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bneo.2024.100016
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40454395/

Marisha Burden, MD, MBA
Badr, S., Nahle, T., Rahman, S., Al Soueidy, A., Stefaniak, M., Burden, M., & Rachoin, J. S. (2025). Correction: Hospital Rating Organizations' Quality and Patient Safety Scores: Analysis of Result Discrepancies. Journal of general internal medicine, 10.1007/s11606-025-09607-2. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-025-09607-2
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40445579/

Larry Haber, MD; Julie Taub, MD
Haber LA, Berk J, Taub J, South AM. Initiating Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Hospitalized Incarcerated Patients. J Gen Intern Med. 2025 May 29. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 40439866
https://www.lifescience.net/publications/1313167/initiating-medications-for-opioid-use-disorder-in-/

Amy Yu, MD; Lauren McBeth, BA; Claire Westcott, PA-C; Anna Maw, MD; Christine Jones, MD
Yu, A., McBeth, L., Westcott, C., Mueller, S., Ozkaynak, M., Holliman, B. D., Maw, A., Nicklas, J., & Jones, C. D. (2025). Overloaded: How task switching, information synthesis, and poor relational trust make interhospital transfers challenging. Journal of hospital medicine, 10.1002/jhm.70084. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.70084
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40437890/

Amy Yu, MD
Mueller, S. K., Harrison, J. D., Yu, A., Kelly, C., & Leykum, L. K. (2025). Re-envisioning interhospital transfer: A qualitative study exploring alternatives to transfer. Journal of hospital medicine, 10.1002/jhm.70083. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.70083
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40443062/

Larry Haber, MD
Haber, L. A., Lupez, E. L., & Berk, J. (2025). Letter re: Access to Surgery and Health Care for Justice-Involved Individuals. The American surgeon, 31348251346545. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00031348251346545
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40432312/