Submissions from 2022
COVID-19 and venous thromboembolism: A narrative review, Dana E. Angelini, Scott Kaatz, Rachel P. Rosovsky, Rebecca L. Zon, Shreejith Pillai, William E. Robertson, Pavania Elavalakanar, Rushad Patell, and Alok Khorana
Thromboembolic prevention and anticoagulant therapy during the COVID-19 pandemic: updated clinical guidance from the anticoagulation forum, Geoffrey D. Barnes, Allison Burnett, Arthur Allen, Jack Ansell, Marilyn Blumenstein, Nathan P. Clark, Mark Crowther, William E. Dager, Steven B. Deitelzweig, Stacy Ellsworth, David Garcia, Scott Kaatz, Leslie Raffini, Anita Rajasekhar, Andrea Van Beek, and Tracy Minichiello
Trends in Undiagnosed Diabetes Mellitus Among United States Adults: Cross-Sectional Analyses from NHANES 2011-2020, Kartik Gupta, Liyan Obeidat, Tanya S. Kakar, Raef A. Fadel, Mahmoud Al Rifai, Layla A. Abushamat, and Salim S. Virani
Comparison of Patient Outcomes Before and After Switching From Warfarin to a Direct Oral Anticoagulant Based on Time in Therapeutic Range Guideline Recommendations, Brian Haymart, Geoffrey D. Barnes, Xiaowen Kong, Mona Ali, Eva Kline-Rogers, Deborah DeCamillo, and Scott Kaatz
An Elusive Case of Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy: Diagnostic and Treatment Considerations, Erin L. Hommel, Deepa Nagaraja, Eyas Chakfeh, and John C. Heymann
Pulmonary embolism response teams: Changing the paradigm in the care for acute pulmonary embolism, Mateo Porres-Aguilar, Rachel P. Rosovsky, Belinda N. Rivera-Lebron, Scott Kaatz, Debabrata Mukherjee, Javier E. Anaya-Ayala, David Jimenez, and Carlos Jerjes-Sánchez
Management Strategies Following Slightly Out of Range INRs: Watchful Waiting vs. Dose Changes, Hallie B. Remer, Xiaokui Gu, Brian Haymart, Geoffrey D. Barnes, Mona A. Ali, Eva Kline-Rogers, Tina Alexandris-Souphis, Jay Kozlowski, James Froehlich, Vinay Shah, Gregory D. Krol, and Scott Kaatz
ISTH guidelines for antithrombotic treatment in COVID-19, Sam Schulman, Michelle Sholzberg, Alex C. Spyropoulos, Ryan Zarychanski, Helaine E. Resnick, Charlotte A. Bradbury, Lisa Broxmeyer, Jean Marie Connors, Anna Falanga, Toshiaki Iba, Scott Kaatz, Jerrold H. Levy, Saskia Middeldorp, Tracy Minichiello, Eduardo Ramacciotti, Charles Marc Samama, and Jecko Thachil
Association of adding antiplatelet therapy to warfarin for management of venous thromboembolism with bleeding and other adverse events, Melinda Song, Brian Haymart, Xiaowen Kong, Mona Ali, Scott Kaatz, Jay Kozlowski, Gregory D. Krol, Jordan Schaefer, James B. Froehlich, and Geoffrey D. Barnes
Predicting major bleeding during extended anticoagulation for unprovoked or weakly provoked venous thromboembolism, Philip S. Wells, Tobias Tritschler, Faizan Khan, David R. Anderson, Susan R. Kahn, Alejandro Lazo-Langner, Marc Carrier, Gregoire Le Gal, Lana A. Castellucci, Vinay Shah, Scott Kaatz, Clive Kearon, Susan Solymoss, Russell Scott Zide, Sam Schulman, Isabelle Chagnon, Ranjeeta Mallick, Marc Rodger, and Michael J. Kovacs
Submissions from 2021
Preoperative Assessment and Management of Cardiovascular Risk in Patients Undergoing Non-Cardiac Surgery: Implementing a Systematic Stepwise Approach during the COVID-19 Pandemic Era, Eduardo Bossone, Filippo Cademartiri, Hani AlSergani, Salvatore Chianese, Rahul Mehta, Valentina Capone, Carlo Ruotolo, Imran H. Tarrar, Antonio Frangiosa, Olga Vriz, Vincenzo Maffei, Roberto Annunziata, Domenico Galzerano, Brigida Ranieri, Chiara Sepe, Andrea Salzano, Rosangela Cocchia, Massimo Majolo, Giuseppe Russo, Giuseppe Longo, Mario Muto, Paolo Fedelini, Ciro Esposito, Alessandro Perrella, Gianluca Guggino, Eliana Raiola, Mara Catalano, Maurizio De Palma, Luigia Romano, Gaetano Romano, Ciro Coppola, Ciro Mauro, and Rajendra H. Mehta
Perioperative consultative hematology: can you clear my patient for a procedure?, Allison Elaine Burnett, Bishoy Ragheb, and Scott Kaatz
Common Complications of Sickle Cell Disease: A Simulation-Based Curriculum, Cassondra Cramer-Bour, Justin Peterson, Barbara Walsh, and Elizabeth S. Klings
The Impact of Diabetes Mellitus in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Hospitalization, Kulothungan Gunasekaran, Swetha Murthi, Kalaimani Elango, Mandeep Singh Rahi, Bright Thilagar, Sathishkumar Ramalingam, Dinesh Voruganti, Vijaya Kumar Paramasivam, Krishna Prasad Kolandaivel, Ashish Arora, and Arul Chandran
Leadership & Professional Development: Lessons Learned From the Other Side of the Stethoscope (and Endotracheal Tube), Scott Kaatz
Derivation and external validation of a simple risk score to predict in-hospital mortality in patients hospitalized for COVID-19: A multicenter retrospective cohort study, Charlotte Z. Mann, Chelsea Abshire, Monica Yost, Scott Kaatz, Lakshmi Swaminathan, Scott A. Flanders, Hallie C. Prescott, and Johann A. Gagnon-Bartsch
Risk factors and outcomes associated with community-onset and hospital-acquired coinfection in patients hospitalized for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): A multihospital cohort study, Lindsay A. Petty, Scott A. Flanders, Valerie M. Vaughn, David Ratz, Megan O'Malley, Anurag N. Malani, Laraine Washer, Tae Kim, Keith E. Kocher, Scott Kaatz, Tawny Czilok, Elizabeth McLaughlin, Hallie C. Prescott, Vineet Chopra, and Tejal Gandhi
COVID-19 risk index (CRI): a simple and validated emergency department risk score that predicts mortality and the need for mechanical ventilation, Mohamad Raad, Sarah Gorgis, Chelsea Abshire, Monica Yost, Mohammed F. Dabbagh, Omar Chehab, Lindsey Aurora, Sati Patel, Paul Nona, Jerry Yan, Gurjit Singh, John Syrjamaki, Scott Kaatz, and Sachin Parikh
Derivation and Validation of a Risk Factor Model to Identify Medical Inpatients at Risk for Venous Thromboembolism, Michael B. Rothberg, Aaron Hamilton, M. Todd Greene, Jacqueline Fox, Oleg Lisheba, Alex Milinovich, Thomas N. Gautier, Priscilla Kim, Scott Kaatz, and Bo Hu
Clinical impact of pre-kidney transplant pulmonary hypertension on post-transplant outcomes, Besher Sadat, Deepthi Tirunagari, Vanji Karthikeyan, Anita Patel, Meredith Van Harn, Mariam Saleem, and Karthikeyan Ananthasubramaniam
Adverse Events Associated With the Addition of Aspirin to Direct Oral Anticoagulant Therapy Without a Clear Indication, Jordan K. Schaefer, Josh Errickson, Yun Li, Xiaowen Kong, Tina Alexandris-Souphis, Mona A. Ali, Deborah Decamillo, Brian Haymart, Scott Kaatz, Eva Kline-Rogers, Jay H. Kozlowski, Gregory D. Krol, Sahana R. Shankar, Suman L. Sood, James B. Froehlich, and Geoffrey D. Barnes
Comparison of temporary interruption with continuation of direct oral anticoagulants for low bleeding risk procedures, Muhammad Adil Sheikh, Xiaowen Kong, Brian Haymart, Scott Kaatz, Gregory D. Krol, Jay Kozlowski, Musa Dahu, Mona Ali, Steven Almany, Tina Alexandris-Souphis, Eva Kline-Rogers, James B. Froehlich, and Geoffrey D. Barnes
COVID-19 and thrombosis: searching for evidence, Bright Thilagar, Mohamad Beidoun, Ruben Rhoades, and Scott Kaatz
Trends in Venous Thromboembolism Anticoagulation in Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19, Valerie M. Vaughn, Monica Yost, Chelsea Abshire, Scott A. Flanders, David Paje, Paul Grant, Scott Kaatz, Tae Kim, and Geoffrey D. Barnes
Value of Discharging Heart Failure Patients Home, Peter Y. Watson
Implementation of Diabetes Prevention in Health Care Organizations: Best Practice Recommendations, Janet Williams, Neha Sachdev, Kate Kirley, Tannaz Moin, O. Kenrik Duru, Kimberly D. Brunisholz, Kelly Sill, Elizabeth Joy, Gina C. Aquino, Ameldia Brown, Christopher O'Connell, Brenda Rea, Holly Craig-Buckholtz, Patricia W. Witherspoon, and Cindy Bruett
Submissions from 2020
Extended Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in Medically Ill Patients: An NATF Anticoagulation Action Initiative, Ebrahim Barkoudah, Gregory Piazza, Todd EH Hecht, Paul Grant, Steven Deitelzweig, Margaret C. Fang, John Fanikos, Cheng-Kai Kao, Geoffrey D. Barnes, Thomas Chen, Téa Ramishvili, Jeffrey L. Schnipper, Jennifer N. Goldstein, Christian T. Ruff, Scott Kaatz, Aviva Schwartz, Jean M. Connors, and Samuel Z. Goldhaber
Thromboembolism and anticoagulant therapy during the COVID-19 pandemic: interim clinical guidance from the anticoagulation forum, Geoffrey D. Barnes, Allison Burnett, Arthur Allen, Marilyn Blumenstein, Nathan P. Clark, Adam Cuker, William E. Dager, Steven B. Deitelzweig, Stacy Ellsworth, David Garcia, Scott Kaatz, and Tracy Minichiello
Periprocedural Bridging Anticoagulation in Patients with Venous Thromboembolism: A Registry-based Cohort Study, Geoffrey D. Barnes, Yun Li, Xiaokui Gu, Brian Haymart, Eva Kline-Rogers, Mona A. Ali, Jay Kozlowski, Gregory D. Krol, James B. Froehlich, and Scott Kaatz
Correcting Inappropriate Prescribing of Direct Oral Anticoagulants: A Population Health Approach, Taylor Dawson, Deborah DeCamillo, Xiaowen Kong, Brian Shensky, Scott Kaatz, Gregory D. Krol, Mona Ali, Brian Haymart, James B. Froehlich, and Geoffrey D. Barnes
Impact of a Positive Viral Polymerase Chain Reaction on Outcomes of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Exacerbations, Kulothungan Gunasekaran, Mudassar Ahmad, Sana Rehman, Bright Thilagar, Kavitha Gopalratnam, Sathish Ramalingam, Vijayakumar Paramasivam, Ashish Arora, and Arul Chandran
A Review of the Incidence Diagnosis and Treatment of Spontaneous Hemorrhage in Patients Treated with Direct Oral Anticoagulants, Kulothungan Gunasekaran, Venkat Rajasurya, Joe Devasahayam, Mandeep Singh Rahi, Arul Chandran, Kalaimani Elango, and Goutham Talari
A Case for Biopsy: Injectable Naltrexone-Induced Acute Eosinophilic Pneumonia, Pranay R. Korpole, Souad Al-Bacha, and Salim Hamadeh
Treatment of Acute Venous Thromboembolism, Sashi N. Nair, Nina Garza, Matt George, and Scott Kaatz
Surgical Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis: Clinical Practice Update, Yogita Sharma Segon, Robert D. Summey, Barbara Slawski, and Scott Kaatz
Perioperative management of anticoagulation, Goutham Talari, Zachary D. Demertzis, Robert D. Summey, Baljinder Gill, and Scott Kaatz
COVID-19 versus HIT hypercoagulability, Theodore E Warkentin and Scott Kaatz
Submissions from 2019
Periprocedural Bridging Anticoagulation: Measuring the Impact of a Clinical Trial on Care Delivery., Geoffrey D. Barnes, Yun Li, Xiaokui Gu, Brian Haymart, Eva Kline-Rogers, Steven Almany, Jay Kozlowski, Gregory D. Krol, Michael McNamara, James B. Froehlich, and Scott Kaatz
Creatinine monitoring patterns in the setting of direct oral anticoagulant therapy for non-valvular atrial fibrillation, Martin M. Gruca, Yun Li, Xiaowen Kong, Deborah DeCamillo, Eva Kline-Rogers, Mona A. Ali, Scott Kaatz, Musa Dahu, James B. Froehlich, and Geoffrey D. Barnes
Is chest radiography routinely needed after thoracentesis?, Aibek E. Mirrakhimov, Aram Barbaryan, Taha Ayach, Fabrizio Canepa Escaro, Goutham Talari, and Adam Gray
Contemporary NSTEMI management: The role of the hospitalist., Charles V. Pollack, Alpesh Amin, Tracy Wang, Steven Deitelzweig, Marc Cohen, David Slattery, John Fanikos, Christopher DiLascia, Regan Tuder, and Scott Kaatz
Excess Antibiotic Treatment Duration and Adverse Events in Patients Hospitalized With Pneumonia: A Multihospital Cohort Study., Valerie M. Vaughn, Scott A. Flanders, Ashley Snyder, Anna Conlon, Mary AM Rogers, Anurag N. Malani, Elizabeth McLaughlin, Sarah Bloemers, Arjun Srinivasan, Jerod Nagel, Scott Kaatz, Danielle Osterholzer, Rama Thyagarajan, Lama Hsaiky, Vineet Chopra, and Tejal N. Gandhi
Submissions from 2018
Extended International Normalized Ratio testing intervals for warfarin-treated patients., Geoffrey D. Barnes, X Kong, D Cole, B Haymart, E Kline-Rogers, S Almany, M Dahu, M Ekola, Scott Kaatz, J Kozlowski, and J B. Froehlich
Clinical outcomes of prolonged anticoagulation with rivaroxaban after unprovoked venous thromboembolism., Jeffrey S. Berger, Roger Seheult, François Laliberté, Concetta Crivera, Dominique Lejeune, Yongling Xiao, Jeff Schein, Patrick Lefebvre, and Scott Kaatz
Risk of Venous Thromboembolism Following Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter Exchange: An Analysis of 23,000 Hospitalized Patients., Vineet Chopra, Scott Kaatz, Paul Grant, Lakshmi Swaminathan, Tanya Boldenow, Anna Conlon, Steven J. Bernstein, and Scott A. Flanders
Brainstem abscess successfully treated with stereotactic aspiration., K Elango, Deepthi Tirunagari, S Murthi, and Kulothungan Gunasekaran
Resolution of osseous sarcoidosis with steroids., Kulothungan Gunasekaran, Mudassar R. Ahmad, Bhavin Dalal, and Lee Edmonds
Warfarin for prevention of thromboembolism in atrial fibrillation: comparison of patient characteristics and outcomes of the "Real-World" Michigan Anticoagulation Quality Improvement Initiative (MAQI(2)) registry to the RE-LY, ROCKET-AF, and ARISTOTLE trials, Andrew B. Hughey, Xiaokui Gu, Brian Haymart, Eva Kline-Rogers, Steve Almany, Jay Kozlowski, Dennis Besley, Gregory D. Krol, Syed Ahsan, Scott Kaatz, James B. Froehlich, and Geoffrey D. Barnes
Implications of stroke and bleeding risk scores and comorbidities on episode-based bundled payments for patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation., Scott Kaatz, Craig I. Coleman, Brahim Bookhart, François Laliberté, Winnie W. Nelson, Kip Brown, Silas Martin, Jeffrey Schein, and Patrick Lefebvre
Enrichment and mutation detection of circulating tumor cells from blood samples., Ruqin Kou, Jian Zhao, Priya Gogoi, Shannon Carskadon, Will Chow, Clara Hwang, Nallasivam Palanisamy, Conrad Leung, and Yixin Wang
Mind the gap: results of a multispecialty survey on coordination of care for peri-procedural anticoagulation., Jacob E. Kurlander, Geoffrey D. Barnes, Michelle A. Anderson, Brian Haymart, Eva Kline-Rogers, Scott Kaatz, Sameer D. Saini, Sarah L. Krein, Caroline R. Richardson, and James B. Froehlich
CMS hospital readmission reduction program and anticoagulants received following a total hip and knee arthroplasty discharge., François Laliberté, Craig I. Coleman, Brahim Bookhart, Jeff Schein, Silas Martin, Willy Wynant, Yongling Xiao, Patrick Lefebvre, and Scott Kaatz
Patterns and Predictors of Short-Term Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter Use: A Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study., David Paje, Anna Conlon, Scott Kaatz, Lakshmi Swaminathan, Tanya Boldenow, Steven J. Bernstein, Scott A. Flanders, and Vineet Chopra
Utilization of the 21-Gene Recurrence Score in a Diverse Breast Cancer Patient Population: Development of a Clinicopathologic Model to Predict High-Risk Scores and Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy., Ko-Un Park, Yalei Chen, Dhananjay A. Chitale, Sarah Choi, Haythem Y. Ali, S David Nathanson, Jessica Bensenhaver, Erica Proctor, Lindsay Petersen, Randa Loutfi, Alyson Simonds, Marcia Kuklinski, Thomas Doyle, Vrushali Dabak, Kim Cole, Melissa Davis, and Lisa A. Newman
Impending cardiac tamponade as a primary presentation of Hashimoto's thyroiditis., Deepthi Tirunagari, Swetha Murthi, Besher Sadat, and Kalaimani Elango
Submissions from 2017
Discontinuation of Warfarin Therapy for Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: The Michigan Anticoagulation Quality Improvement Initiative Experience., Geoffrey D. Barnes, Scott Kaatz, Alexis Lopez, Xiaokui Gu, Jay Kozlowski, Gregory D. Krol, and James B. Froehlich
Barriers and facilitators to reducing frequent laboratory testing for patients who are stable on warfarin: a mixed methods study of de-implementation in five anticoagulation clinics., Geoffrey D. Barnes, Sevan Misirliyan, Scott Kaatz, Elizabeth A. Jackson, Brian Haymart, Eva Kline-Rogers, Jay Kozlowski, Gregory D. Krol, James B. Froehlich, and Anne Sales
The Michigan Risk Score to predict peripherally inserted central catheter-associated thrombosis., V Chopra, Scott Kaatz, A Conlon, D Paje, P J. Grant, M AM Rogers, Steven J. Bernstein, S Saint, and S A. Flanders
Pain as a Predictor of Disability in Elderly Population., Himabindu Gandam Venkata, Aman Y. Upadhyay, and Goutham Talari
Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) presenting as thick-walled cavitary lung lesion., Kulothungan Gunasekaran, Mudassar Ahmad, S Murthi, and Jeffrey H. Jennings
Rectus Sheath Hematoma Associated with Apixaban., Kulothungan Gunasekaran, Amanda R. McFee Winans, Swetha Murthi, Mudassar R. Ahmad, and Scott Kaatz
Unusual metallic penile foreign body., Kulothungan Gunasekaran and Swetha Murthi
Aripiprazole-induced hypersensitivity pneumonitis., Kulothungan Gunasekaran, Swetha Murthi, Jeffrey H. Jennings, and Nazir Lone
Spontaneous Thyroid Hemorrhage on Chronic Anticoagulation Therapy., Kulothungan Gunasekaran, Kelly M. Rudd, Swetha Murthi, Scott Kaatz, and Nazir Lone
Prescribing trends of atrial fibrillation patients who switched from warfarin to a direct oral anticoagulant., Zachary D. Hale, Xiowen Kong, Brian Haymart, Xiaokui Gu, Eva Kline-Rogers, Steve Almany, Jay Kozlowski, Gregory D. Krol, Scott Kaatz, James B. Froehlich, and Geoffrey D. Barnes
Management of Elective Surgery and Emergent Bleeding with Direct Oral Anticoagulants., Scott Kaatz, Charles E. Mahan, Asaad Nakhle, Kulothungan Gunasekaran, Mahmoud Ali, Robert Lavender, and David G. Paje
SAMe-TT2R2 predicts quality of anticoagulation in patients with acute venous thromboembolism: The MAQI2 experience., Akash Kataruka, Xiaowen Kong, Brian Haymart, Eva Kline-Rogers, Steve Almany, Jay Kozlowski, Gregory D. Krol, Scott Kaatz, Michael W. McNamara, James B. Froehlich, and Geoffrey D. Barnes
Risk for Venous Thromboembolism Recurrence Among Rivaroxaban-treated Patients Who Continued Versus Discontinued Therapy: Analyses Among Patients with VTE., Alok A. Khorana, Jeffrey S. Berger, Philip S. Wells, Roger Seheult, Veronica Ashton, François Laliberté, Concetta Crivera, Dominique Lejeune, Jeff Schein, Peter Wildgoose, Patrick Lefebvre, and Scott Kaatz
Sociodemographic factors in patients continuing warfarin vs those transitioning to direct oral anticoagulants., Jordan K. Schaefer, Suman L. Sood, Brian Haymart, Xiaokui Gu, Xiaowen Kong, Eva Kline-Rogers, Steven Almany, Jay Kozlowski, Gregory D. Krol, Scott Kaatz, James B. Froehlich, and Geoffrey D. Barnes
Socioeconomic and Racial Disparities: a Case-Control Study of Patients Receiving Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement for Severe Aortic Stenosis., Anna Sleder, Shiloh Tackett, Matthew Cerasale, Chetan Mittal, Iyad Isseh, Ryhm Radjef, Andrew Taylor, Rashad Farha, Oleksandra Lupak, Dana Larkin, Lois E. Lamerato, George W. Divine, Kimberlydawn Wisdom, Kimberly Baker-Genaw, and William W. O'Neill
Patterns and Predictors of Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter Occlusion: The 3P-O Study., Shawna N. Smith, Nancy Moureau, Valerie M. Vaughn, Tanya Boldenow, Scott Kaatz, Paul J. Grant, Steven J. Bernstein, Scott A. Flanders, and Vineet Chopra
Submissions from 2016
Bridging Anticoagulation Before Colonoscopy: Results of a Multispecialty Clinician Survey., Geoffrey D. Barnes, Jacob Kurlander, Brian Haymart, Scott Kaatz, Sameer Saini, and James B. Froehlich
Piezoelectric power harvesting devices: An overview, Ashok K. Batra, Almuatasim Alomari, Ashwith Chilvery, Alak Bandyopadhyay, and Kunal Grover
A case of reactive arthritis due to Clostridium difficile colitis., Alex C. Essenmacher, Nazish Khurram, and Gregory T. Bismack
The Comparison of Physician to Computer Interpreted Electrocardiograms on ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction Door-to-balloon Times, Sagger Mawri, Alexander Michaels, Joseph J. Gibbs, Sunay Shah, Sunil Rao, Aaron Kugelmass, Natesh Lingam, Muhammad Arida, Gordon Jacobsen, Ian Rowlandson, Karthik Iyer, Akshay Khandelwal, and James McCord
Preclinical and Clinical Data for Factor Xa and "Universal" Reversal Agents., Truman J. Milling and Scott Kaatz
Renal function in atrial fibrillation patients switched from warfarin to a direct oral anticoagulant., Anum S. Minhas, Qingmei Jiang, Xiaokui Gu, Brian Haymart, Eva Kline-Rogers, Steve Almany, Jay Kozlowski, Gregory D. Krol, Scott Kaatz, James B. Froehlich, and Geoffrey D. Barnes
Submissions from 2015
A Rare Case of Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage Secondary to Acute Pulmonary Histoplasmosis, Kunal Grover, Hadeel Zainah, Shubhita Bhatnagar, and Tricia Stein
