JAMA Network Open
Original Investigation
Surgery
March 16, 2022
Molly P. Jarman, PhD, MPH; Ginger Jin, MS; Joel S . Weissman , PhD; Arlene S. Ash, PhD; Jennifer Tjia, MD, MSCE; Ali Salim, MD; Adil Haider, MD, MPH; Zara Cooper, MD, MSc
open access
JAMA Netw Open. 2022; 5(3):e222448. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.2448
This cohort study assesses the association between mortality rates of older adults with injuries and the treating hospital’s trauma center level.
JAMA Network Open
Original Investigation
Health Policy
January 10, 2022
Tarsicio Uribe-Leitz, MD, MPH; Bridget Matsas, BS; Michael K. Dalton, MD, MPH; Monica A. Lutgendorf, MD; Esther Moberg, MPH; Andrew J. Schoenfeld, MD, MSc; Eric Goralnick, MD, MS; Joel S . Weissman , PhD; Lynette Hamlin, PhD, RN; Zara Cooper, MD, MSc; Tracey P. Koehlmoos, PhD, MHA; Molly P. Jarman, PhD, MPH
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JAMA Netw Open. 2022; 5(1):e2142835. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.42835
This cross-sectional study uses geospatial analysis to identify medical facilities that present opportunities for military-civilian partnership in obstetric care and assess whether expanded use of military medical treatment facilities could improve access to emergency cesarean delivery care.
JAMA Surgery
Original Investigation
January 1, 2022
Michael K. Dalton, MD, MPH; Kyle N. Remick, MD; Michael Mathias, MPP; Quoc-Dien Trinh, MD; Zara Cooper, MD, MSc; Eric A. Elster, MD; Joel S . Weissman , PhD
JAMA Surg. 2022; 157(1):43-50. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2021.5331
This cohort study examines the status of US military surgeons’ readiness to perform high- and low-acuity procedures after a decrease in workload from 2015 to 2019.
JAMA Network Open
Original Investigation
Health Policy
September 24, 2021
Joel T. Adler, MD, MPH; Lingwei Xiang, MS; Joel S . Weissman , PhD; James R. Rodrigue, PhD; Rachel E. Patzer, PhD; Sushrut S. Waikar, MD, MPH; Thomas C. Tsai, MD, MPH
open access
JAMA Netw Open. 2021; 4(9):e2126719. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.26719
This cohort study examines whether patient, facility, and kidney transplant waitlisting characteristics are associated with variations in dialysis center quality.
JAMA Health Forum
Original Investigation
July 30, 2021
Joel S . Weissman , PhD; Amanda J. Reich, PhD, MPH; Holly G. Prigerson, PhD; Priscilla Gazarian, PhD, RN; Jennifer Tjia, MD, MSCE; Dae Kim, MD, ScD; Phil Rodgers, MD; Adoma Manful, MPH
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JAMA Health Forum. 2021; 2(7):e211829. doi: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2021.1829
This cohort study tests the hypothesis that having a billed advance care planning visit is associated with less intensive use of end-of-life health care services among Medicare beneficiaries with serious illness.
JAMA Network Open
Research Letter
Surgery
July 14, 2020
Rebecca Masutani, MD; Ajinkya Pawar, PhD; Hemin Lee, MD, MPH; Joel S . Weissman , PhD; Dae Hyun Kim, MD, MPH, ScD
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JAMA Netw Open. 2020; 3(7):e2010395. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.10395
This cross-sectional study uses data from the Premier Healthcare Database to compare in-hospital mortality, home discharge, and hospital length of stay among older adults with and without dementia who have undergone major surgical procedures.
JAMA Network Open
Consensus Statement
Emergency Medicine
July 6, 2020
Eric Goralnick, MD, MS; Chibuike Ezeibe, MD; Muhammad Ali Chaudhary, MD; Justin McCarty, DO, MPH; Juan P. Herrera-Escobar, MD, MPH; Tomas Andriotti, MD, MPH; Elzerie de Jager, MBBS(Hons); Daniel Ospina-Delgado, MD; Craig Goolsby, MD, MEd; Richard Hunt, MD; Joel S . Weissman , PhD; Adil Haider, MD, MPH; Lenworth Jacobs, MD, MPH; and the Stop the Bleed National Research Agenda Consensus Conference Working Group
open access
JAMA Netw Open. 2020; 3(7):e209393. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.9393
This consensus statement uses a Delphi consensus process to create a national research agenda to help guide future work in prehospital hemorrhage control performed by layperson immediate responders.
JAMA Surgery
Original Investigation
March 1, 2020
Katherine C. Lee, MD, MSc; Daniel Sturgeon, MS; Stuart Lipsitz, ScD; Joel S . Weissman , PhD; Susan Mitchell, MD, MPH; Zara Cooper, MD, MSc
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JAMA Surg. 2020; 155(3):216-223. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2019.5087
This cohort study examines whether Medicare beneficiaries who undergo emergency general surgery experience similar 1-year outcomes compared with patients admitted with acute medical conditions.
JAMA Surgery
Original Investigation
August 1, 2019
Elaine W. Yu, MD, MMSc; Seoyoung C. Kim, MD, ScD, MSCE; Daniel J. Sturgeon, MS; Katherine G. Lindeman, BA; Joel S . Weissman , PhD
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JAMA Surg. 2019; 154(8):746-753. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2019.1157
This cohort study examines claims data from 42 345 Medicare beneficiaries who underwent Roux-en-y gastric bypass or adjustable gastric banding to compare the association of each of the procedures with incidence of nonvertebral fracture.
JAMA Network Open
Original Investigation
Health Policy
May 31, 2019
Ashwin Ramaswamy, BA; Maya Marchese, MS; Alexander P. Cole, MD; Sabrina Harmouch, MD; David Friedlander, MD, MPH; Joel S . Weissman , PhD; Stuart R. Lipsitz, ScD; Adil H. Haider, MD; Adam S. Kibel, MD; Andrew J. Schoenfeld, MD, MSc; Quoc-Dien Trinh, MD
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is active quiz
JAMA Netw Open. 2019; 2(5):e194634. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.4634
This cohort study examines whether the US Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program was associated with a greater decrease in readmissions after targeted procedures (total hip arthroplasty and total knee arthroplasty) compared with similar nontargeted procedures (lumbar spine fusion and laminectomy).
JAMA Surgery
Original Investigation
March 1, 2018
Joshua B. Brown, MD, MSc; Kenneth J. Smith, MD, MS; Mark L. Gestring, MD; Matthew R. Rosengart, MD, MPH; Timothy R. Billiar, MD; Andrew B. Peitzman, MD; Jason L. Sperry, MD, MPH; Joel S . Weissman , PhD
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JAMA Surg. 2018; 153(3):261-268. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2017.4485
This analysis evaluates the cost-effectiveness of current practice compared with the Air Medical Prehospital Triage score for helicopter emergency medical services scene triage of trauma patients.
JAMA Surgery
Original Investigation
January 1, 2018
Elizabeth J. Lilley, MD, MPH; John W. Scott, MD, MPH; Joel S . Weissman , PhD; Anna Krasnova, MHS; Ali Salim, MD; Adil H. Haider, MD, MPH; Zara Cooper, MD, MSc
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JAMA Surg. 2018; 153(1):44-50. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2017.3148
This cohort study compares end-of-life treatment between low-mortality hospitals and all other hospitals in older patients with traumatic brain injury.
JAMA Surgery
Viewpoint
Surgical Outcomes Club
September 1, 2017
Joel S . Weissman , PhD; Rachel R. Kelz, MD, MSCE; Clara N. Lee, MD, MPP
JAMA Surg. 2017; 152(9):813-814. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2017.1572
This Viewpoint discusses the appropriate use of health care resources and potential barriers to implementing appropriateness standards to surgical practice.
JAMA Surgery
Original Investigation
June 1, 2017
Louis L. Nguyen, MD, MBA, MPH; Ann D. Smith, MD, MPH; Rebecca E. Scully, MD; Wei Jiang, MS; Peter A. Learn, MD; Stuart R. Lipsitz, ScD; Joel S . Weissman , PhD; Lorens A. Helmchen, PhD; Tracey Koehlmoos, PhD, MHA; Andrew Hoburg, PhD; Linda G. Kimsey, PhD
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JAMA Surg. 2017; 152(6):565-572. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2017.0077
This database study examines evidence of provider-induced demand in the management of carotid artery stenosis.
JAMA Oncology
Research Letter
April 1, 2016
Firas Abdollah, MD; Maxine Sun, MPH; Jesse D. Sammon, DO; Toni K. Choueiri, MD; Mani Menon, MD; Joel S . Weissman , PhD; Quoc-Dien Trinh, MD
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JAMA Oncol. 2016; 2(4):543-545. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2015.5871
This survey study assesses the prevalence of nonrecommended screening for prostate cancer and breast cancer in the United States.
JAMA
Research Letter
January 19, 2016
Joel S . Weissman , PhD; Zara Cooper, MD, MSc; Joseph A. Hyder, MD, PhD; Stuart Lipsitz, ScD; Wei Jiang, MSc; Michael J. Zinner, MD; Holly G. Prigerson, PhD
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JAMA. 2016; 315(3):303-305. doi: 10.1001/jama.2015.17408
This study uses Medicare death records to compare the intensity of end-of-life care received by physicians, lawyers, and the general US population.
JAMA Surgery
Original Investigation
March 1, 2014
Elliot Wakeam, MD; Nathanael D. Hevelone, MPH; Rebecca Maine, MD; Jabaris Swain, MD; Stuart A. Lipsitz, ScD; Samuel R. G. Finlayson, MD, MPH; Stanley W. Ashley, MD; Joel S . Weissman , PhD
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JAMA Surg. 2014; 149(3):229-235. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2013.3566
Wakeam et al assess the association between safety-net burden and failure to rescue and evaluate the effect of clinical resources on this relationship. A retrospective cohort of 46 519 patients who underwent high-risk inpatient surgery between 2007 and 2010 was assembled using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample. See the Invited Commentary by Hiatt.
JAMA
Editorial
February 20, 2013
Joel S . Weissman , PhD; Michael Zinner, MD
JAMA. 2013; 309(7):721-722. doi: 10.1001/jama.2013.1107
JAMA Surgery
Original Article
March 1, 2012
Yue-Yung Hu, MD, MPH; Megan L. Fix, MD; Nathanael D. Hevelone, MPH; Stuart R. Lipsitz, ScD; Caprice C. Greenberg, MD, MPH; Joel S . Weissman , PhD; Jo Shapiro, MD
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Arch Surg. 2012; 147(3):212-217. doi: 10.1001/archsurg.2011.312
JAMA Internal Medicine
Original Investigation
Health Care Reform
November 9, 2009
Lenny López, MD, MDiv, MPH; Joel S . Weissman , PhD; Eric C. Schneider, MD; Saul N. Weingart, MD, PhD; Amy P. Cohen, BA; Arnold M. Epstein, MD, MA
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Arch Intern Med. 2009; 169(20):1888-1894. doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.387