Submissions from 2018
Abstract 16990: Impact of 2013 ACC/AHA Cholesterol Management Guidelines on Statins Use Among Nationally Representative Adult Populations in United States: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (2010-2015), Joseph Salami, Anshul Saxena, Victor Okunrintemi, and Emir Veledar
Abstract 17177: Cost of Hospitalizations Related to Hypertension (HTN) and Acute Myocardial Infraction (AMI) Related Events: Result From the 2014 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, Emir Veledar, Anshul Saxena, Muni Rubens, Sankalp Das, and Peter McGranaghan
Abstract 17208: Trends in Hospitalizations Due to Cocaine-Induced Acute Myocardial Infarction: Results From National Inpatient Sample, 2005-2014, Anshul Saxena, Muni Rubens, Sankalp Das, Peter McGranaghan, and Emir Veledar
Abstract 240: Association of Depression Risk With Patient Experience, Healthcare Expenditure and Health Resource Utilization Among Adults With Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease, Victor Okunrintemi, Javier Valero-Elizondo, Joseph Salami, Oluseye Ogunmoroti, Emeka Osondu, and Khurram Nasir
Adaptive planning and toxicities of uniform scanning proton therapy for lung cancer patients, Suresh Rana
A five-step strategy for building an LDCT lung cancer screening program, Juan Batlle, Muhammad Latif, and Ricardo Cury
An Alternative To Implanting Loop Recorders In A Hospital, Valerie Smith, Marsha Lambert, and Marie Paule Lafontant
Association of Body Mass Index With Blood Pressure Among 1.7 Million Chinese Adults, Khurram Nasir
A survey of intracranial aneurysm treatment practices among United States physicians, Italo Linfante
A systematic review of the associations between HIV/HCV coinfection and biomarkers of cardiovascular disease, Oluseye Ogunmoroti and Khurram Nasir
Big Data and Machine Learning: A Resident's Perspective of the 2016 Intersociety Conference, Alexander Misono
Breathing Easier a Lung Health Outpatient Team Has Your Back, Maureen Lintner and Jose Morales
Cardiac CTA in the Emergency Department, Constantino Pena and Ricardo Cury
CAUTI: CHASING ZERO, Sasha Topping
Characteristics of False-Negative Thyroid Fine-Needle Aspirates, Andrew Renshaw and Edwin Gould
Comparison of Loop Recorder Implantation in the Electrophysiology Lab vs bedside: A Retrospective comparative study, Marie Paule Lafontant and Valerie Smith
Compliance and Real Life Performance of a FAST-ED Scale Based Pre-Hospital Stroke Initiative, Felipe De Los Rios La Rosa, Maygret Ramirez, Jayme Strauss, Ivis Gonzalez, and Amy Starosciak
Comprehensive Treatment of Scars and Other Abnormalities of Wound Healing, Jill Waibel
Coronary Atherosclerotic Precursors of Acute Coronary Syndromes, Ricardo Cury
Current Issues Affecting the Practice of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgeons: Results of the 2014 Workforce Survey of American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Orthopaedics, Pooya Hosseinzadeh
Development of a Teaching and Assessment Tool to Improve Culturally Diverse Patient’s International Normalized Ration (INR) Levels, Aradys Bello, Tina Hyman, Michael Salinero, and Nohemi Sadule Rios
Discovering your true north, Tanya Cohn
Dosimetric Evaluation of Pinnacle's Automated Treatment Planning Software to Manually Planned Treatments, Alonso Gutierrez
Early outcomes of robotic-assisted inguinal hernia repair in obese patients: a multi-institutional, retrospective study, Jorge Rabaza and Anthony Gonzalez
ED Unit Practice Council’s Innovation to Reduce Length of Stay for Acuity Level 4 & 5 Patients in the ED Task Area, Silvia Clark, Chera Quiroga, and Davinia Steadman
Effect of Change of Shift Admissions on Patient Outcomes, Juliet Diaz, Vicky Wheeler, and Maria Villafuerte
Effect of FAST-ED Implementation and Age on Distance Patients Travel from Scene to Comprehensive Stroke Center, Amy Starosciak, Maygret Ramirez, Virginia Ramos, Ivis Gonzalez, Jayme Strauss, and Felipe De Los Rios La Rosa
Effect of RN Practice Change on NICU Infant Outcomes, Maureen Pahl
Electronic Cigarette Use Prevalence, Associated Factors, and Pattern by Cigarette Smoking Status in the United States From NHANES (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey) 2013-2014, Rana Jaber, Anshul Saxena, and Khurram Nasir
Evaluation of the Competency and Clinical Advancement Program at BHSF, Nada Wakim
EXCESS NATIONAL US EXPENDITURES ASSOCIATED WITH LIPITOR USE AFTER INTRODUCTION OF GENERIC ATORVASTATIN: INSIGHTS FROM THE MEDICAL EXPENDITURES PANEL SURVEY, 2012-2014, Joseph Salami, Victor Okunrintemi, and Khurram Nasir
Exploring Nurses’ Occupational Stressors and Coping Strategies, Nada Wakim
Fulfilling the Promises of Health Information Technology: Expect to Maximize Positive Patient Care Outcomes, Advance Analytics and Innovative Research with Tele-Healthcare Application, Donna Lee Armaignac
Healing Hands: Does therapeutic touch decrease pain and stress levels in adult patients?, Berline Penel, Erin O'Brien, Evelyne Michel, Heather Stein, Hope Brill, Priscilla Egemba, Rosmery Garrote, and Sebastian Zuluaga
High-Grade Urothelial Carcinoma on Urine Cytology Resembling Umbrella Cells, Andrew Renshaw and Edwin Gould
HIV-Related Stigma, Quality of Care, and Coping Skills: Exploring Factors Affecting Treatment Adherence among PLWH in Haiti, Muni Rubens and Anshul Saxena
Hospital-Wide Hand Hygiene Initiative to Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections, Yola Duhaney, Andrea Bloomfield, and Cam Kha
Implement Best Practice to Reduce the Rate of Colon Surgical Site Infections (SSI) below the NHSN Mean at South Miami Hospital, Ami Kruger and Gilyem Casanova
Improving Length of Stay: Transitioning Care from the Emergency Department to a Clinical Decision Unit, Griselle Pastor, Van Cronkhite, Natalie Mancuso, and Emilia Villoch
Improving the therapeutic index for nonoperable esophageal cancer patients with modern radiation technologies, Michael Chuong and Matthew Hall
Is diabetes mellitus equivalent to atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease from a healthcare cost perspective? Insights from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey: 2010–2013, Javier Valero-Elizondo, Joseph Salami, Oluseye Ogunmoroti, Victor Okunrintemi, Emeka Osondu, Emir Veledar, and Khurram Nasir
Left-Biased Clavicle Length Asymmetry in Children and Young Adults 12 to 25 Years Old, Pooya Hosseinzadeh
Merging of Two Observation Units to Increase Capacity and Decrease Length of Stay, Diana Rios
Mid/Distal Esophageal Cancer and Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer (Siewert Type I and II), Michael Chuong
Modern Temporomandibular Joint Arthroscopy: Operative Single-Cannula Arthroscopy, Joseph McCain
Nurse Patient Ratios’ Requirements for the Care of Bariatric Patients (2T), Ashley Escandon, Gaileen Quammie, Bianca De La Barra, and Anielka Corea Membreno
Nurses' Perception of Unit-Based Competency Assessment Compared to Traditional Skills Fair, Solimar Figueroa, Judith Bowling, Roberto Roman Laporte, Tanya Cohn, and Jose Irizarry
Optimizing Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes through Evidence-based Interventions for the at Risk Pre-term Labor Population, Deborah Pol, Geraldine Lamoglia, Erin Soto, Lou-Jean Reyes, Idalmys Castillo, Jennifer Brooks, Alecia Ballard, Beth-Ann Fraser, Laura Timmons, and Allison Marmol
Outcomes of office-based temporomandibular joint arthroscopy: a 5-year retrospective study, Joseph McCain
Persistent socioeconomic disparities in cardiovascular risk factors and health in the United States: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey 2002-2013, Javier Valero-Elizondo, Joseph Salami, and Khurram Nasir
Phase I study of sorafenib and tipifarnib for recurrent glioblastoma: NABTC 05-02, Minesh Mehta
Pre-Hospital FAST-ED Initiatives Improve t-PA and Endovascular Treatment Times, Amy Starosciak, Maygret Ramirez, Ivis Gonzalez, Virginia Ramos, Jayme Strauss, and Felipe De Los Rios La Rosa
Procalcitonin in Practice: Chronicle of a Health System's Journey to Better Sepsis Care, Maria Gauthreaux
Promoting Post Arthroplasty Incision Healing: A Nurse Driven Initiative, Kimberly Thomas
Reduce Turn Around Time in Pre Anesthesia Testing (PAT), Arlyn Cua
Sclerotherapy of Vascular Malformations, Guilherme Dabus
SMH Implements Strategies for Prevention of SSI in Bariatric Surgery, Maria Fuego
Socially Accountable Medical Education: An Innovative Approach at Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine Affiliates
The effects of bracing and knee flexion angle on hamstring activity during crutch walking: A preliminary study for post-operative care, John Zvijac and Luis Vargas
The Lived Experiences of Role Transition among Novice Clinical Nurse Educators: A Phenomenological Study, Edwina Brathwaite
The Nursing Management of Open Abdomen Patients, Rosemary Lee
The Power of Poop, Barbara Russell
Towards phenotyping stroke: Leveraging data from a large-scale epidemiological study to detect stroke diagnosis, Felipe De Los Rios La Rosa
TREVO stent-retriever mechanical thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke secondary to large vessel occlusion registry, Guilherme Dabus and Italo Linfante
What is the best way to calculate IOL power for cataract surgery?, William Trattler
Submissions from 2017
Estimates of Mortality Benefit From Ideal Cardiovascular Health Metrics: A Dose Response Meta-Analysis, Ehimen Aneni, Emeka Osondu, Javier Valero-Elizondo, Adnan Younus, Khurram Nasir, and Emir Veledar
Erratum: Correction of Figure. The Implication of Coronary Artery Calcium Testing for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Diabetes, Khurram Nasir
The State of the Absorb Bioresorbable Scaffold: Consensus From an Expert Panel, Ramon Quesada
Barriers of Whiteboard Use, Paige Kaplan, Jessica Isaac Lopez, Vanessa Marquez, Cynthia Francois, Gilberto Perez, and Ana Barro Hernandez
Can standardizing skin preparation agents for surgical patients versus using doctor's preferences reduce surgical site infections?, Alice Davel-Freitas, Sheila Hodgson, Patrick Dennison, Lian Acosta, and Jenilice Novoa Miralles
Central Line Infection Prevention, Yesenia Perez, Armando Gomez, Kristina Casals, Anna Diaz, Susana Salgado, and Horacio Lopez
Do diabetic patients have decreased readmissions with a discharge team composed of diabetic educators from moment of admission in comparison to floor nurses performing discharging?, Walter Diaz, Lizzette Gonzalez, Laura Pinero, Bianca Porras, Marian Ramos, and Joselyn Ruiz Cruz
Do you need a nap?, Andrew Gonzalez, Christian de Quesada, Giancarlo Tapanes, Michael Alfonso, Rachel Rairden, Alicia Ali, Tania Carballo, Yoandra Gallardo, and Olga Viego
Fixed Workstation versus Workstations on Wheels in the Emergency Department, Ariel Bowers, Razvan Buricel, Andrea Jimenez, Stefanie Moses, Yandro Perez Trevieso, and Juan Ramirez
How does endotracheal suctioning with normal saline affect mechanically ventilated patients?, Jamil Aboumansour, Kristina Del Rey, Danielle Herrera, Philip Huynh, Guadalupe Izaguirre, Hazel Lara, Elizabeth Magallon, Valeria Miranda, Arturo Pena, Angela Rabaza, and Naomi Rosa
Inpatient Pain Management, Anel Chirino, Kelly Vasquez, Liliana Quezada, Skarlet Santana, Yensly Gonzalez Carrazana, and Vanessa Castellanos
Interventions to Reduce Emergency Department Wait Times, Briege Osle, Patricia Brito Gomez, Madeleine Cook, Gerald Santiesteban, Tatiana Pardo, Lauren Gonzalez, and Stephanie Costa
Nurse to Patient Ratio, Meliss Cabrera-Matiz, Jasmine Cabrera, Michelle Cedeno, Andres Moya Aguilar, Guillermo Martin III, Stephanie Velazquez, and Lia Williams
Oh wait, what did you say?, Taylor Salas, Christina Cabrera, Peggy Noel, Margarita Ramirez, Yabeiri Nieves, Patrick Charles, and Michelle Garcia
Overcoming Challenges to Implementing Beside Shift Report, Matt Mihm, Zahily Dominguez, Jessica Infante, Tina McCants, Desha Fleureme, and Crystal Everett
Pain Protocol: To improve pain management in the acute care setting, Elizabeth Cerdeira, Lauren Rodriguez, Mariosis Matias, Melissa Granada, Tarrah Kallusingh, and Valerie Juarez
Vaccines: Yes? Or No?, Alicia Davis, Vivian de Mena, Elizabeth Fernandez, Yaima Parra Escalona, and Sofia Valentini
Will implementing an admission/discharge nurse improve the quality of care in hospitalized patients?, Yeine Salvo, Joanna Leal, Tamyko Thomas, Farrah Insignares, Kimberly Cantor, and Shina Chase
Would using a "middleman" during delays in transfer report be more cost efficient to nursing resources and ED wait times?, Gabriel Lastre, Ysis Alvarez, Yenice Lorenzo Santos, Sophia Perez-Heydrich, Lorena Gort, Kimberly Carias, Tiffany Hernandez, Marquita Butler, and Daphne Thelemarque
Use of cardiovascular magnetic resonance in the evaluation of a giant right atrial appendage aneurysm: a case report and review of the literature, Frank Sanchez, Jonathan Fields, and Ricardo Cury
Can thrombus age guide thrombolytic therapy?, Ripal Gandhi