CREST​ NETWORK

2019

​

Stroke prophylaxis action after US emergency department diagnosis and discharge of atrial fibrillation and flutter patients.

Kea B, Warton EM, Sun BC, Olshansky B, Lip GY, Raitt M, Reed ME, Ballard DW, Vinson DR, on behalf of the CREST Network.

Circ. 2019;140:A12578.

              Presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, Philadelphia, PA, November 2019.

​

ECG Report: Brugada Syndrome

Othieno AA, Isaacs DJ, Vinson DR, Levis JT.

Perm J. 2019;23:19.044.

​

​

Medically clear: A glimpse into the future with DecisionBot2020.

Ballard D, Vinson D. 

Emerg Med News. 2019;41(10):34.

​

​

Appropriate stroke prophylaxis action after US emergency department diagnosis and discharge of atrial fibrillation and flutter patients.

Kea B, Warton EM, Sun BC, Reed ME, Ballard DW, Vinson DR.

Ann Emerg Med. 2019;74(4S):S38-39 [abstract 96].

              Presented at the American College of Emergency Physicians Research Forum, Denver, CO, October 2019.

​

Treatment variation of stable ventricular tachycardia in the emergency department.

Arangan J, Lin JS, Bouvet SC, Fazleabas Q, Warton EM, Reed ME, Liu TI, Vinson DR, McLachlan I for the KP CREST Network.

Ann Emerg Med. 2019;74(4S):S27 [abstract 69].

              Presented at the American College of Emergency Physicians Research Forum, Denver, CO, October 2019.

 

​

Procainamide vs ibutilide in the cardioversion of recent-onset atrial fibrillation and flutter: a retrospective cohort study.

Vinson DR, Lugovskaya N, Warton EM, Reed ME, Nagam MR, Dutczak O, Ballard DW, for the KP CREST Network.

Ann Emerg Med. 2019;74(4S):S7-8 [abstract 16].

              Presented at the American College of Emergency Physicians Research Forum, Denver, CO, October 2019.

​

​

Detecting right ventricular dysfunction in patients diagnosed with low-risk pulmonary embolism: is routine computed tomographic pulmonary angiography sufficient?

Vinson DR, Arasu V, Trujillo-Santos J.

Eur Heart J. 2019;40(40):3356.

​

​

Outpatient management of patients with pulmonary embolism.

Vinson DR, Mark DG, Ballard DW.

Ann Intern Med. 2019;171(3):228.

​

​

Text message alerts to emergency physicians identifying potential study candidates increases clinical trial enrollment.

Simon LE, Rauchwerger AS, Chettipally UK, Babakhanian L, Vinson DR, Warton EM, Kharbanda AB, Kharbanda EO, Ballard DW.

J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2019;26(11):1360-1363.

​

​

Early or delayed cardioversion in recent-onset atrial fibrillation [letter].

Vinson DR, Atzema CL.

N Engl J Med. 2019; 381(4):386-387.

​

​

Medically Clear: Survival rate high for cardiac arrest patients treated with percutaneous mechanical circulatory support.

Ballard D, Vinson D.

Emerg Med News. 2019;41(7):1,33.

​

​

Validation of the pediatric Appendicitis Risk Calculator (pARC) in a community setting.

Cotton DM, Vinson DR, Vazquez-Benitez G, Warton EM, Chettipally UK, Kene MV, Lin JS, Mark DG, Sax DR, McLachlan ID, Rauchwerger AS, Simon LE, Kharbanda AB, Kharbanda EO, Ballard DW. 

Ann Emerg Med. 2019;74(4):471-480.

Presented at the Health Care Systems Research Network Annual Conference, Portland, OR, 2019. 

Presented at the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly, San Diego, CA, 2018.

​

​

ECG diagnosis: acute myocardial infarction in a ventricular-paced rhythm.

Abraham AS, Vinson DR, Levis JT.

Perm J. 2019; 23:19-001.

​

​

Changing U.S. recommendations on lidocaine for stable monomorphic ventricular tachycardia: have Emergency Medical Services kept pace? [letter]

Le DD, Abraham AS, Vinson DR.

Am J Emerg Med. 2019;37(11):2114-2115.

​

​

Trends in red blood cell transfusion practice amongst emergency department patients with gastrointestinal bleeding.

Mark DG, Huang J, Plimier C, Reed ME, Vinson DR, Escobar GJ, Roubinian NH.

Am J Emerg Med. 2019;28(4):746-753.

​

Medically Clear: A practice changer for cardioversion in obesity.

Ballard DW, Vinson DR. 

Emerg Med News. 2019;41(5):6.

​

Patient-provider video telemedicine integrated with clinical care: patient experiences.

Reed ME, Huang J, Parikh R, Millman A, Ballard DW, Barr I, Wargon C.

Ann Intern Med. 2019: 171(3):222-224.

​

Appropriate stroke prophylaxis action after emergency department diagnosis and discharge for atrial fibrillation.

Kea B, Warton EM, Ballard DW, Reed ME, Go AS, Sun BC, Vinson DR.

Acad Emerg Med. 2019;26(S1):S170 [abstract 443].

Presented at Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, 2019.

​

The management of stable ventricular tachycardia across 21 community emergency departments.

Fazleabas QG, Arangan J, Lin JS, Bouvet SC, Vinson DR, Warton EM, Reed MR, Liu TI, McLachlan ID.

Acad Emerg Med. 2019;26(S1):S169 [abstract 440].

Presented at Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, 2019.

​

Implementation of a clinical decision support system for children with minor blunt head trauma who are at nonnegligible risk for traumatic brain injuries.

Ballard DW, Kuppermann N, Vinson DR, Tham E, Hoffman JM, Swietlik M, Deakyne Davis SJ, Alessandrini, EA, Tzimenatos L, Bajaj L, Mark DG, Offerman SR, Chettipally UK, Paterno MD, Schaeffer MH, Richards R, Casper TC, Goldberg HS, Grundmeier RW, Dayan PS; Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN), Clinical Research on Emergency Services and Treatment (CREST) Network, and Partners HealthCare.

Ann Emerg Med. 2019;73(5):440-451.  

​

Development of a clinical decision support system for pediatric abdominal pain in emergency department settings across two health systems within the Healthcare Systems Research Network.

Ekstrom HL, Kharbanda EO, Ballard DW, Vinson DR, Vazquez-Benitez G, Chettipally UK, Dehmer SP, Kunisetty G, Sharma R, Rauchwerger AS, O’Conner PJ, Kharbanda AB.

EGEMS (Wash DC). 2019;7(1):15.

​

Medically Clear: When doing nothing is doing all that's needed.

Ballard D, Vinson D.

Emerg Med News. 2019;41(4):9.

​

Improving first shock success in patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing electrical cardioversion.

Vinson DR, Isaacs DJ, Othieno AA, Liu TI.

Europace. 2019;21(5):833.

​

Long-term outcomes among patients discharged from the hospital with moderate anemia: a retrospective cohort study.

Roubinian NH, Murphy EL, Mark DG, Triulzi DJ, Carson JL, Lee C, Kipnis P, Kleinman S, Liu VX, Escobar GJ.

Ann Intern Med. 2019;170(2):81-89.

​

Discriminatory value of the ascending aorta diameter in suspected acute type A aortic dissection.

Mark DG, Davis JA, Hung YY, Vinson DR.

Acad Emerg Med. 2019;26(2):217-225.

​

ECG diagnosis: Ibutilide-induced torsade de pointes.

Le DD, Levis JT, Lugovskaya N, Vinson DR.

Perm J. 2019;23:18-187.

​

Expert Reviewers

 

CREST researchers have acted as peer reviewers for many clinical journals, including:

 

Academic Emergency Medicine,The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, American Journal of Managed Care, Annals of Internal Medicine, BMJ, Circulation, The Cochrane Collaboration, Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, Health Affairs, Journal of the American Medical Association, The Journal of Emergency Medicine, Journal of General Internal Medicine, Journal of Medical Toxicology, Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, Medical Care MedEdPORTAL, New England Journal of Medicine, Stroke