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1. Charting the course: natural language processing unveils regional anesthesia procedures in clinical records - an infographic..  Regional anesthesia and pain medicine.  50:-. 2025
2. Use of natural language processing method to identify regional anesthesia from clinical notes..  Regional anesthesia and pain medicine.  50:271-275. 2025
3. Frailty and Long-Term Health Care Utilization After Elective General and Vascular Surgery..  JAMA surgery.  160:210-218. 2025
4. Antihypertensive Deprescribing and Functional Status in VA Long-Term Care Residents With and Without Dementia..  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.  73:1144-1154. 2025
5. Antihypertensive Deprescribing and Cardiovascular Events Among Long-Term Care Residents..  JAMA network open.  7:-. 2024
6. Deprescribing of Antihypertensive Medications and Cognitive Function in Nursing Home Residents..  JAMA internal medicine.  184:1347-1355. 2024
7. Variations in Current Practice and Protocols of Intraoperative Multimodal Analgesia: A Cross-Sectional Study Within a Six-Hospital US Health Care System..  Anesthesia and analgesia.  141:847-55. 2024
8. Health Insurance Enrollment Among US Veterans, 2010-2021..  JAMA network open.  7:-. 2024
9. Complex Patterns of Antihypertensive Treatment Changes in Long-Term Care Residents..  Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.  25:-. 2024
10. Antihypertensive Medication and Fracture Risk in Older Veterans Health Administration Nursing Home Residents..  JAMA internal medicine.  184:661-669. 2024
11. Effects of residential socioeconomic polarization on high blood pressure among nursing home residents..  Health & place.  -. 2024
12. Mapping the Discharge Process After Surgery..  JAMA surgery.  159:438-444. 2024
13. Housing Status Changes Are Associated With Cancer Outcomes Among US Veterans..  Health affairs (Project Hope).  43:234-241. 2024
14. Managing Competing Risks for Surgical Patients With Complex Medical Problems-Considering Confounding..  JAMA surgery.  159:149-150. 2024
15. Housing Status, Cancer Care, and Associated Outcomes Among US Veterans..  JAMA network open.  6:-. 2023
16. Myocardial Infarction Across COVID-19 Pandemic Phases: Insights From the Veterans Health Affairs System..  Journal of the American Heart Association.  12:-. 2023
17. Association Between Self-Reported Health and Reliance on Veterans Affairs for Health Care Among Veterans Affairs Enrollees..  JAMA network open.  6:-. 2023
18. Association Between Preoperative Diabetes Control and Postoperative Adverse Events Among Veterans Health Administration Patients With Diabetes Who Underwent Elective Ambulatory Hernia Surgery..  JAMA network open.  6:-. 2023
19. Systolic blood pressure, antihypertensive treatment, and cardiovascular and mortality risk in VA nursing home residents..  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.  71:2131-2140. 2023
20. Applying cognitive task analysis to health services research..  Health services research.  58:415-422. 2022
21. Expansion of the Veterans Health Administration Network and Surgical Outcomes..  JAMA surgery.  157:1115-1123. 2022
22. Trends in blood pressure diagnosis, treatment, and control among VA nursing home residents, 2007-2018..  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.  70:2280-2290. 2022
23. Quality Reporting Windows May Not Capture the Effects of Surgical Site Infections After Orthopaedic Surgery..  The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume.  104:1281-1291. 2022
24. Exploring the Dynamics of Week-to-Week Blood Pressure in Nursing Home Residents Before Death..  American journal of hypertension.  35:65-72. 2022
25. Association of Antihypertensives and Cognitive Impairment in Long-Term Care Residents..  Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD.  86:1149-1158. 2022
26. Timing and Cost of Wound Complications After Colorectal Resection..  Diseases of the colon and rectum.  64:1551-1558. 2021
27. Challenging weekend discharges associated with excess length of stay in surgical patients at Veterans Affairs hospitals..  Surgery.  171:405-410. 2021
28. Association of Expanded Health Care Networks With Utilization Among Veterans Affairs Enrollees..  JAMA network open.  4:-. 2021
29. Psychosocial Determinants of Readmission After Surgery..  Medical care.  59:864-871. 2021
30. Deprescribing Blood Pressure Treatment in Long-Term Care Residents..  Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.  22:2540-2546.e2. 2021
31. The Association Between Alpha-1 Adrenergic Receptor Antagonists and In-Hospital Mortality From COVID-19..  Frontiers in medicine.  -. 2021
32. Impact of policy-based and institutional interventions on postoperative opioid prescribing practices..  American journal of surgery.  222:766-772. 2021
33. The Association Between Alpha-1 Adrenergic Receptor Antagonists and In-Hospital Mortality from COVID-19..  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences.  2021
34. Patient-reported health literacy scores are associated with readmissions following surgery..  American journal of surgery.  220:1138-1144. 2020
35. Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Transmission From Community Contacts in Healthcare Workers..  Annals of surgery.  278:e947-e948. 2020
36. Impact of Gastrointestinal Surgical Site Wound Complications on Long-term Healthcare Utilization..  Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract.  25:503-511. 2020
37. Association of Food Access, Recreational Opportunities, and Natural Amenities with Engagement in the Veterans MOVE! Weight Management Program..  Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.).  28:55-64. 2020
38. Learning Curves and the Challenges of Adopting New Surgical Techniques..  JAMA network open.  2:-. 2019
39. Trends in the Inclusion of Black and Female Surgeons in Invited Visiting Professorships..  JAMA surgery.  154:878-879. 2019
40. Perioperative opioid use and pain-related outcomes in the Veterans Health Administration..  American journal of surgery.  219:969-975. 2019
41. Comparison of a Potential Hospital Quality Metric With Existing Metrics for Surgical Quality-Associated Readmission..  JAMA network open.  2:-. 2019
42. Preoperative opioid use and postoperative pain associated with surgical readmissions..  American journal of surgery.  218:828-835. 2019
43. Exploring Trajectories of Health Care Utilization Before and After Surgery..  Journal of the American College of Surgeons.  228:116-128. 2018
44. Association Between Preoperative Proteinuria and Postoperative Acute Kidney Injury and Readmission..  JAMA surgery.  153:-. 2018
45. Databases for surgical health services research: Veterans Health Administration data..  Surgery.  165:876-878. 2018
46. Association of Postoperative Readmissions With Surgical Quality Using a Delphi Consensus Process to Identify Relevant Diagnosis Codes..  JAMA surgery.  153:728-737. 2018
47. Facility-level association of preoperative stress testing and postoperative adverse cardiac events..  Heart (British Cardiac Society).  104:2018-2025. 2018
48. Homeless Status, Postdischarge Health Care Utilization, and Readmission After Surgery..  Medical care.  56:460-469. 2018
49. Association Between Preoperative Hemoglobin A1c Levels, Postoperative Hyperglycemia, and Readmissions Following Gastrointestinal Surgery..  JAMA surgery.  152:1031-1038. 2017
50. Mitral valve surgery in the US Veterans Administration health system: 10-year outcomes and trends..  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery.  155:105-117.e5. 2017
51. The Fifth Vital Sign: Postoperative Pain Predicts 30-day Readmissions and Subsequent Emergency Department Visits..  Annals of surgery.  266:516-524. 2017
52. Association of the Modified Frailty Index With 30-Day Surgical Readmission..  JAMA surgery.  152:749-757. 2017
53. Perioperative beta blockers and statins for noncardiac surgery patients with coronary stents..  American journal of surgery.  214:180-185. 2017
54. A study to reduce readmissions after surgery in the Veterans Health Administration: design and methodology..  BMC health services research.  17:-. 2017
55. Incomplete Revascularization Is Associated With an Increased Risk for Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events Among Patients Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery..  JACC. Cardiovascular interventions.  10:329-338. 2017
56. Triple Antithrombotic Therapy and Outcomes in Post-PCI Patients Undergoing Non-cardiac Surgery..  World journal of surgery.  41:423-432. 2017
57. Venous thromboembolic events: How low can you go?.  American journal of surgery.  213:706-710. 2017
58. Hospital Readmissions after Surgery: How Important Are Hospital and Specialty Factors?.  Journal of the American College of Surgeons.  224:515-523. 2017
59. A high-throughput UHPLC-MS/MS method for the quantification of five aged butyrylcholinesterase biomarkers from human exposure to organophosphorus nerve agents..  Biomedical chromatography : BMC.  31. 2016
60. Postoperative 30-day Readmission: Time to Focus on What Happens Outside the Hospital..  Annals of surgery.  264:621-31. 2016
61. Pre-operative echocardiography among patients with coronary artery disease in the United States Veterans Affairs healthcare system: A retrospective cohort study..  BMC cardiovascular disorders.  16:-. 2016
62. Coronary angiography and failure to rescue after postoperative myocardial infarction in patients with coronary stents undergoing noncardiac surgery..  American journal of surgery.  212:814-822.e1. 2016
63. Patient and lesion-specific characteristics predict risk of major adverse cardiovascular events among patients with previous percutaneous coronary intervention undergoing noncardiac surgery..  Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions.  89:617-627. 2016
64. A Role for the Early Warning Score in Early Identification of Critical Postoperative Complications..  Annals of surgery.  263:918-23. 2016
65. Association of Coronary Stent Indication With Postoperative Outcomes Following Noncardiac Surgery..  JAMA surgery.  151:462-9. 2016
66. The Incremental Risk of Coronary Stents on Postoperative Adverse Events: A Matched Cohort Study..  Annals of surgery.  263:924-30. 2016
67. Outcomes associated with preoperative weight loss after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass..  Surgical endoscopy.  30:5077-5083. 2016
68. Blood Transfusion and 30-Day Mortality in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease and Anemia Following Noncardiac Surgery..  JAMA surgery.  151:139-45. 2016
69. Delays in Surgery for Patients With Coronary Stents Placed After Diagnosis of Colorectal Cancer..  JAMA surgery.  151:86-8. 2016
70. Frequency of Surgery Cancellations Associated With Myocardial Infarction or Death 6 Months After Coronary Stent Placement..  JAMA surgery.  150:1199-201. 2015
71. Oral Antibiotic Bowel Preparation Significantly Reduces Surgical Site Infection Rates and Readmission Rates in Elective Colorectal Surgery..  Annals of surgery.  261:1034-40. 2015
72. Association of race and socioeconomic status with outcomes following laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass..  Obesity surgery.  25:705-11. 2015
73. The incremental risk of noncardiac surgery on adverse cardiac events following coronary stenting..  Journal of the American College of Cardiology.  64:2730-9. 2014
74. Improved adverse postoperative outcomes with revised American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines for patients with cardiac stents..  JAMA surgery.  149:1113-20. 2014
75. Risk of major adverse cardiac events following noncardiac surgery in patients with coronary stents..  JAMA.  310:1462-72. 2013
76. Timing of surgical antibiotic prophylaxis and the risk of surgical site infection..  JAMA surgery.  148:649-57. 2013
77. Coronary stents and subsequent surgery: reported provider attitudes and practice patterns..  The American surgeon.  79:514-23. 2013
78. Adverse cardiac events in patients with coronary stents undergoing noncardiac surgery: a systematic review..  American journal of surgery.  204:494-501. 2012
79. The incidence and timing of noncardiac surgery after cardiac stent implantation..  Journal of the American College of Surgeons.  214:658-66; discussion 666-7. 2012
80. Outcomes for incisional hernia repair in patients undergoing concomitant surgical procedures..  The American surgeon.  78:243-9. 2012
81. The attributable risk of smoking on surgical complications..  Annals of surgery.  254:914-20. 2011
82. Translating preoperative smoking cessation interventions into routine clinical care of veterans: provider beliefs..  Translational behavioral medicine.  1:604-8. 2011
83. Surgical site infection prevention: time to move beyond the surgical care improvement program..  Annals of surgery.  254:494-9; discussion 499-501. 2011
84. Outcomes of emergent incisional hernia repair..  The American surgeon.  77:971-6. 2011
85. Agreement between patient survey and medical chart: Pitfalls in measurement strategies for hernia recurrence..  Surgery.  150:371-8. 2011
86. Predictors of mesh explantation after incisional hernia repair..  American journal of surgery.  202:28-33. 2011
87. Effect of mesh type and position on subsequent abdominal operations after incisional hernia repair..  Journal of the American College of Surgeons.  212:496-502; discussion 502-4. 2011
88. Hospital-level variability in incisional hernia repair technique affects patient outcomes..  Surgery.  149:185-91. 2011
89. Descriptive operative reports: teaching, learning, and milestones to safe surgery..  Journal of surgical education.  68:452-8. 2011
90. HIV and hepatitis B and C incidence rates in US correctional populations and high risk groups: a systematic review and meta-analysis..  BMC public health.  -. 2010
91. Patient satisfaction, chronic pain, and quality of life after elective incisional hernia repair: effects of recurrence and repair technique..  Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery.  15:123-9. 2010
92. Long-term follow-up of technical outcomes for incisional hernia repair..  Journal of the American College of Surgeons.  210:648-55, 655-7. 2010
93. Elective surgical case cancellation in the Veterans Health Administration system: identifying areas for improvement..  American journal of surgery.  198:600-6. 2009
94. Primary sternal plating to prevent sternal wound complications after cardiac surgery: early experience and patterns of failure..  Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery.  9:763-6. 2009
95. Risk of complications from enterotomy or unplanned bowel resection during elective hernia repair..  Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960).  143:582-6. 2008
96. Variation in mesh placement for ventral hernia repair: an opportunity for process improvement?.  American journal of surgery.  196:201-6. 2008
97. Umbilical herniorrhapy in cirrhosis: improved outcomes with elective repair..  Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract.  12:675-81. 2008