Our Research
In addition to our clinical and educational duties, our hospitalists are quite active in the research community. For examples of some of our recent publications, please see below.
2018
Chi J, Hosamani P. Is It Time To Re-Examine The Physical Exam?. J. Hosp. Med. 2018 June;13(6):433-434
Rudy M, Ahuja N, Aaronson A. Diabetes and Hyperglycemia in Lower-Extremity Total Joint Arthroplasty: Clinical Epidemiology, Outcomes, and Management. JBJS Rev. 2018 May;6(5):e10
Kane M, Rohatgi N, Heidenreich P, Thakur A, Winget M, Shum K, Hereford J, Shieh L, Lew T, Horn J, Chi J, Weinacker A, Seay-Morrison T, Ahuja N. Lean-Based Redesign of Multidisciplinary Rounds on General Medicine Service. Journal Of Hospital Medicine. 2018 May; 13(5) pgs. 296-362. ISSN: 1553-5592
Kumar A, Liu G, Chi J, Kugler J. The Role of Technology in the Bedside Encounter. Med Clin North Am. 2018 May;102(3):443-451
Rohatgi N, Kane M, Winget M, Haji-Sheikhi F, Ahuja N. Factors Associated With Delayed Discharge on General Medicine Service at an Academic Medical Center. Journal For Healthcare Quality. 2018 Mar;40(2) pgs. 67-118,e20-e32
2017
Wang, B., Svec, D. Physicians and blocking: can we tear down this wall? Postgraduate medical journal 2017
Garth, M., Millet, A., Shearer, E., Stafford, S., Merrell, S. B., Bruce, J., Schillinger, E., Aaronson, A., Svec, D. Interprofessional Collaboration: A Qualitative Studyof Non-Physician Perspectives on Resident Competency Interprofessional Collaboration: A Qualitative Studyof Non-Physician Perspectives on Resident Competency 2017
Ahuja, N, Perioperative Medicine Meets Hospital Medicine, Lane Library, Stanford Medicine, Stanford University, 2017, Sep
Kroll H, Hom J, Ahuja N, Smith CD, Wintermark M, R-SCAN: Imaging for Uncomplicated Acute Rhinosinusitis. J Am Coll Radiol. 2017 Jan;14(1):82-83.e1.
Hosamani P, Verghese A, Annals for Hospitalists Inpatient Notes - Rituals in Chaos, the Sacred in the Profane, Annals of Internal Med, 2017 Jan 17
Ragavan MV, Svec D, Shieh L. Barriers to Timely Discharge from the General Medicine Service at an Academic Teaching Hospital. Postgrad Med J. 2017 Apr 27
Kumar AD, Chi J, The Illness of Present Histories. Acad Med. 2017 Apr;92(4):434-435
Kittle J, Lopes RD, Huang M, Marquess ML, Wilson MD, Ascher J, Krishen A, Hasselblad V, Kolls BJ, Roe MT, McGuire DK, Russell SD, Mahaffey KW. Cardiovascular Adverse Events in the Drug-Developed Program of Bupropion for Smoking Cessation: A Systematic Retrospective Adjudication Effort. Clin Cardiol. 2017 June 12
Hom J, Kumar A, Evans KH, Svec D, Richman I, Fang D, Smeralgio A, Holubar M, Johnson T, Shah N, Renault C, Witteles R, Ahuja N, Harman S, Sheih L. A High Value Care Curriculum for Interns: A Description of Curricular Design, Implementation and Housestaff Feedback. Postgrad Med J. 2017: accepted, in press
Chen J, Asch S, Machine Learning and Prediction in Medicine - Beyond the Peak of Inflated Expectations, N Engl J Med, 2017 Jun 29
2016
Lin S, Osborn K, Sattler A, Nelligan I, Svec D, Aaronson A, Schillinger E .Creating the medical school of the future through incremental curricular transformation: the Stanford Healthcare Innovations and Experiential Learning Directive (SHIELD). Educ Prim Care. 2016 Nov 28:1-5. [Epub ahead of print]
Hom J, Richman I, Hall P, Ahuja N, Harman S, Harrington R, Witteles R. The State of Medical Student Performance Evaluations: Improved Transparency or Continued Obfuscation? Acad Med. 2016 Nov;91(11):1534-1539.
Mazer, L. M., Storage, T., Bereknyei, S., Chi, J., Skeff, K. A Pilot Study of the Chronology of Present Illness: Restructuring the HPI to Improve Physician Cognitionand Communication. J Gen Intern Med. 2016 Nov 28.
Chen JH, Goldstein MK, Asch SM, Mackey L, Altman RB. Predicting inpatient clinical order patterns with probabilistic topic models vs conventional order sets. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2016 Sep 20. pii: ocw136. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocw136.
Lembke A, Chen JH .Use of Opioid Agonist Therapy for Medicare Patients in 2013. JAMA Psychiatry. 2016 Sep 1;73(9):990-2. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2016.1390.
Desautels T, Calvert J, Hoffman J, Jay M, Kerem Y, Shieh L, Shimabukuro D, Chettipally U, Feldman MD, Barton C, Wales DJ, Das R. Prediction of Sepsis in the Intensive Care Unit With Minimal Electronic Health Record Data: A Machine Learning Approach. JMIR Med Inform. 2016 Sep 30;4(3):e28.
Chen JH, Hom J, Richman I, Asch SM, Podchiyska T, Johansen NA. Effect of opioid prescribing guidelines in primary care. Medicine (Baltimore). 2016 Aug;95(35):e4760. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000004760.
Rohatgi N, Loftus P, Grujic O, Cullen M, Hopkins J, Ahuja N. Surgical Comanagement by Hospitalists Improves Patient Outcomes: A Propensity Score Analysis. Ann Surg. 2016 Aug;264(2):275-82. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000001629
J. Rolnick, N. L. Downing, J. Shepard, W. Chu, J. Tam, A. Wessels, R. Li, B. Dietrich, M. Rudy, L. Castaneda , L. Shieh. Validation of test performance and clinical time zero for an electronic health record embedded severe sepsis alert. Applied Clinical Informatics, 2016 Jun 22;7(2):560-72.
Hom J, Richman I, Chen JH, Singh B, Crump C, Chi J. Fulfilling outpatient medicine responsibilities during internal medicine residency: a quantitative study of housestaff participation with between visit tasks. BMC Med Educ. 2016 May 10;16(1):139. doi: 10.1186/s12909-016-0665-6.
Chen JH. .A PIECE OF MY MIND. The Patient You Least Want to See. .JAMA. 2016 Apr 26;315(16):1701-2. doi: 10.1001/jama.2016.0221
Ouyang D, Chen JH, Krishnan G, Hom J, Witteles R, Chi J. Patient Outcomes When Housestaff Exceed Eighty Hours per Week. Am J Med. 2016 Apr 18. pii: S0002-9343(16)30351-5. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2016.03.023. [Epub ahead of print]
Evans KH, Ozdalga E, Ahuja N. The Medical Education of Generation Y. .Acad Psychiatry. 2016 Apr;40(2):382-5. doi: 10.1007/s40596-015-0399-5. Epub 2015 Aug 18.
Ahuja N, Ozdalga E, Aaronson A. .Integrating Mobile Fitness Trackers into the Practice of Medicine. American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. Published online before print April 21, 2015. doi: 10.1177/15598276155836432015
Chi J, Artandi M, Kugler J, Ozdalga E, Hosamani P, Koehler E, Osterberg L, Zaman J, Thadaney S, Elder A, Verghese A. The Five-Minute Moment. Am J Med. 2016 Mar 10. pii: S0002-9343(16)30209-1. PMID: 26972793
Chang AY, Kittle JT, Wu SM. Regenerative Medicine: Potential Mechanisms of Cardiac Recovery in Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy Curr Treat Options Cardiovasc Med. 2016 Mar;18(3):20. doi: 10.1007/s11936-016-0443-0
Chen JH, Podchiyska T, Altman RB. .OrderRex: clinical order decision support and outcome predictions by data-mining electronic medical records. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2016 Mar;23(2):339-48. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocv091. Epub 2015 Jul 21.
Barroso V, Caceres W, Loftus P, Evans KH, Shieh L. Hand hygiene of medical students and resident physicians: predictors of attitudes and behaviour. Postgrad Med J. 2016 Feb 24. pii: postgradmedj-2015-133509. doi: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2015-133509. [Epub ahead of print]
Ouyang D, Chen JH, Hom J, Chi J. Internal Medicine Resident Computer Usage: An Electronic Audit of an Inpatient Service. JAMA Intern Med. 2016 Feb 1;176(2):252-4. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.6831. No abstract available.
Chen JH, Podchiyska T, Altman RB. Distribution of Opioids by Different Types of Medicare Prescribers. .JAMA Intern Med. 2016 Feb;176(2):259-61. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.6662
2015
Svec D, Ahuja N, Evans KH, Hom J, Garg T, Loftus P, Shieh L. Hospitalist intervention for appropriate use of telemetry reduces length of stay and cost. J Hosp Med. 2015 Sep;10(9):627-32. doi: 10.1002/jhm.2411. Epub 2015 Jul 7.
Shieh L, Go M, Gessner D, Chen JH, Hopkins J, Maggio P. Improving and sustaining a reduction in iatrogenic pneumothorax through a multifaceted quality-improvement approach. J Hosp Med. 2015 Sep;10(9):599-607. doi: 10.1002/jhm.2388. Epub 2015 Jun 3.
Kantor MA, Evans KH, Shieh L. Pending Studies at Hospital Discharge. J Gen Intern Med. 2015 Aug;30(8):1061. doi: 10.1007/s11606-015-3322-6. No abstract available.
Garg T, Lee JY, Evans KH, Chen J, Shieh L. Development and evaluation of an electronic health record-based best-practice discharge checklist for hospital patients. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2015 Mar;41(3):126-31.
Liao C, Thosani N, Kothari S, Friedland S, Chen A, Banerjee S. .Radiation exposure to patients during ERCP is significantly higher with low-volume endoscopists. .Gastrointest Endosc. 2015 Feb;81(2):391-8.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.gie.2014.08.001. Epub 2014 Oct 5.
Evans KH, Daines W, Tsui J, Strehlow M, Maggio P, Shieh L. Septris: a novel, mobile, online, simulation game that improves sepsis recognition and management. .Acad Med. 2015 Feb;90(2):180-4. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000611.
Liao, C, Banerjee, S, et al. .Radiation exposure to patients during ERCP is significantly higher with low volume endoscopists. Journal of Gastro-Intestinal Endoscopy. 2015 Feb;81(2):391-8.e1.
Gyang E, Shieh L, Forsey L, Maggio P. A nurse-driven screening tool for the early identification of sepsis in an intermediate care unit setting. J Hosp Med. 2015 Feb;10(2):97-103. doi: 10.1002/jhm.2291. Epub 2014 Nov 25.
Chen JH, Fang DZ, Tim Goodnough L, Evans KH, Lee Porter M, Shieh L. Why providers transfuse blood products outside recommended guidelines in spite of integrated electronic best practice alerts. J Hosp Med. 2015 Jan;10(1):1-7. doi: 10.1002/jhm.2236. Epub 2014 Jul 7.
2014
Fang DZ, Sran G, Gessner D, Loftus PD, Folkins A, Christopher JY 3rd, Shieh L. Cost and turn-around time display decreases inpatient ordering of reference laboratory tests: a time series. BMJ Qual Saf. 2014 Dec;23(12):994-1000. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2014-003053. Epub 2014 Aug 27.
Chi J, Verghese A. .Clinical education and the electronic health record: the flipped patient. JAMA. 2014 Dec 10;312(22):2331-2. doi: 10.1001/jama.2014.12820.
Chi J, Kugler J, Chu IM, Loftus PD, Evans KH, Oskotsky T, Basaviah P, Braddock CH 3rd. Medical students and the electronic health record: 'an epic use of time'. Am J Med. 2014 Sep;127(9):891-5. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2014.05.027.
Przybylo JA, Wang A, Loftus P, Evans KH, Chu I, Shieh L. Smarter hospital communication: secure smartphone text messaging improves provider satisfaction and perception of efficacy, workflow. J Hosp Med. 2014 Sep;9(9):573-8. doi: 10.1002/jhm.2228. Epub 2014 Aug 11.
Shao Z, Zhang R, Shrestha K, Borowski AG, Schuster A, Thakur A, Hazen SL, Tang WH. Usefulness of Elevated Urine Neopterin Levels in Assessing Cardiac Dysfunction and Exercise Ventilation Inefficiency in Patients With Chronic Systolic Heart Failure. Am J Cardiol 2014 Jun 1;113(11):1839-43. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2014.03.016.
Thosani, N, Liao, C, et al. Delivery of Monthly Patient Radiation Exposure Report Cards to Endoscopists Significantly Reduces Patient Radiation Exposure During ERCP: a Prospective Quality Improvement Study. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy May 2014 Volume 79, Issue 5, Supplement, Page AB158
Thosani, N, Liao, C, et al. Prospective Evaluation of Predictors of Increased Patient Radiation During ERCP: the Stanford ERCP Radiation Safety (Sers) Study. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy May 2014 Volume 79, Issue 5, Supplement, Pages AB340–AB341
Chen JH, Altman RB. Automated physician order recommendations and outcome predictions by data-mining electronic medical records. AMIA Jt Summits Transl Sci Proc. 2014 Apr 7;2014:206-10. eCollection 2014.
Thakur A, Witteles RM. Cancer Therapy-Induced Left Ventricular Dysfunction: Interventions and Prognosis. Journal of Cardiac Failure 2014 Mar;20(3):155-8. doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2013.12.018.
Shieh L, Chi J, Kulik C, Momeni A, Shelton A, DePorte C, Hopkins J. Assigning a team-based pager for on-call physicians reduces paging errors in a large academic hospital. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2014 Feb;40(2):77-82.
Batniji R, Khatib L, Cammett M, Sweet J, Basu S, Jamal A, Wise P, Giacaman R. Governance and health in the Arab world. Lancet. 2014 Jan 25;383(9914):343-55. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62185-6. Epub 2014 Jan 20
2013
Eisenberg M, Hom J, Sharp C. The electronic health record as a healthcare management strategy and implications for obstetrics and gynecologic practice. Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol. 2013 Dec;25(6):476-81. doi: 10.1097/GCO.0000000000000029. Review.
Chi J, Verghese A. Improving communication with patients: learning by doing. JAMA. 2013 Dec 4;310(21):2257-8. doi: 10.1001/jama.2013.281828. No abstract available.
Tan M, Hooper Evans K, Braddock CH 3rd, Shieh L. Patient whiteboards to improve patient-centred care in the hospital. Postgrad Med J. 2013 Oct;89(1056):604-9. doi: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2012-131296. Epub 2013 Aug 6.
Elder A, Chi J, Ozdalga E, Kugler J, Verghese A. A piece of my mind. The road back to the bedside. JAMA. 2013 Aug 28;310(8):799-800. doi: 10.1001/jama.2013.227195. No abstract available.
Kochar, R, Liao, C, et al. Patient Radiation Exposure During ERCP Can Be Successfully Reduced by Education of Endoscopists: Prospective Evaluation of the Impact of an Educational Program. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy May 2013
Aaronson A, Kittleson M, Patel J, Rafiei M, Osborne A, Chang D, Czer L, Kobashigawa J. Benefit of Tacrolimus/Mycophenolate to Reduce Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy after Heart Transplantation. J Am Coll Cardiol. Mar 2013;61(10_S). doi:10.1016/S0735-1097(13)60798-6
2012
Andres Schuster, Akanksha Thakur, Zeneng Wang, Allen G. Borowski, James D. Thomas, MD,1 And W. H. Wilson Tang Increased Exhaled Nitric Oxide Levels After Exercise in Patients With Chronic Systolic Heart Failure With Pulmonary Venous Hypertension. J Cardiac Failure 2012 Oct 2012 Vol 18 799-803
Ozdalga E, Ozdalga A, Ahuja N. The smartphone in medicine: a review of current and potential use among physicians and students. J Med Internet Res. 2012 Sep 27;14(5):e128. Review.
Shao Z, Wang Z, Shrestha K, Thakur A, Borowski AG, Sweet W, Thomas JD, Moravec CS, Hazen SL, Tang WH. Pulmonary hypertension associated with advanced systolic heart failure: dysregulated arginine metabolism and importance of compensatory dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase-1. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012 Mar 27;59(13):1150-8
Detels RW, Winslow DL. Treatment as Prevention: Some Additional Thoughts (editorial). AIDS 2012; 26: 519-520.
2011
Verghese A, Charlton B, Cotter B, Kugler J..A history of physical examination texts and the conception of bedside diagnosis. Trans Am Clin Climatol Assoc. 2011;122:290-311. No abstract available.
Shelby S, Ho C, Brooks E, Winslow DL, Kamal A, Doorley S. HIV and the Homeless: The Effect of Housing Status on HIV Disease Progression and Healthcare Access. J Gen Int Med 2011; 26: S52-S53.
Nguyen CT,Aaronson A, Morrissey RP, Agarwal M, Willix RD, Schwarz ER. Myths and Truths of Growth Hormone and Testosterone Therapy in Heart Failure. Expert Rev Cardiovas Ther. 2011 Jun;9(6):711-20. Review. PMID: 21714602
Aaronson AJ, Morrissey RP, Nguyen CT, Willix R, Schwarz ER. Update on the Safety of Testosterone Therapy in Cardiac Disease. Expert Opin Drug Saf. 2011 Sep;10(5):697-704. Epub 2011 Mar 22. Review. PMID: 21417959
2010
Kugler J, Verghese A. The physical exam and other forms of fiction. J Gen Intern Med. 2010 Aug;25(8):756-7. doi: 10.1007/s11606-010-1400-3. No abstract available.