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Emergency department triage of patients infected with HIVJason S Haukoos
Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
Acad Emerg Med 9:880-8. 2002..Until accurate and reliable triage methods are developed, all patients infected with HIV who present to the ED for care should receive timely evaluation and care...- Advanced statistics: missing data in clinical research--part 1: an introduction and conceptual frameworkJason S Haukoos
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA
Acad Emerg Med 14:662-8. 2007..In part 2, the authors will describe in detail multiple imputation, a more sophisticated and valid method for handling missing data... 
Validation of 3 termination of resuscitation criteria for good neurologic survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrestMichael L Ruygrok
University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
Ann Emerg Med 54:239-47. 2009....- Comparison of Enhanced Targeted Rapid HIV Screening Using the Denver HIV Risk Score to Nontargeted Rapid HIV Screening in the Emergency DepartmentJason S Haukoos
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO Electronic address
Ann Emerg Med 61:353-61. 2013..Our goal was to compare targeted rapid HIV screening using the Denver HIV Risk Score to nontargeted rapid HIV screening in an urban emergency department (ED) and urgent care... 
Derivation and validation of the Denver Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) risk score for targeted HIV screeningJason S Haukoos
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, 777 Bannock Street, Mail Code 0108, Denver, CO 80204, USA
Am J Epidemiol 175:838-46. 2012..63, 1.47) (n = 24/2,431), 1.59% (95% CI: 1.02, 2.36) (n = 24/1,505), and 3.59% (95% CI: 2.73, 4.63) (n = 57/1,588), respectively. The risk score accurately categorizes patients into groups with increasing probabilities of HIV infection...- Use of kiosks and patient understanding of opt-out and opt-in consent for routine rapid human immunodeficiency virus screening in the emergency departmentJason S Haukoos
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, CO, USA
Acad Emerg Med 19:287-93. 2012..The objective was to evaluate patient acceptance and understanding of nontargeted opt-out and opt-in rapid human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) screening using computerized kiosks in the emergency department (ED)... - Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in denver, colorado: epidemiology and outcomesJason S Haukoos
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA
Acad Emerg Med 17:391-8. 2010..The objectives of this study were to describe the incidence of OOHCA in Denver, Colorado, and to define the prevalence of survival with good neurologic function in the context of this particular EMS system... - Research priorities for human immunodeficiency virus and sexually transmitted infections surveillance, screening, and intervention in emergency departments: consensus-based recommendationsJason S Haukoos
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA
Acad Emerg Med 16:1096-102. 2009..These priorities have the potential to improve future clinical and health services research and extramural funding in this important public health sector... - Design and implementation of a controlled clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of routine opt-out rapid human immunodeficiency virus screening in the emergency departmentJason S Haukoos
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA
Acad Emerg Med 16:800-8. 2009..Such ED-based trials are rare, but serve to provide valid comparisons between testing approaches. Investigators should consider similar methodology when performing future ED-based health services research... - Patient acceptance of rapid HIV testing practices in an urban emergency department: assessment of the 2006 CDC recommendations for HIV screening in health care settingsJason S Haukoos
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO 80204, USA
Ann Emerg Med 51:303-9, 309.e1. 2008..The objective of this study is to evaluate patients' acceptance of the CDC's revised recommendations in an urban emergency department (ED)... - Development and implementation of a model to improve identification of patients infected with HIV using diagnostic rapid testing in the emergency departmentJason S Haukoos
Departments of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA
Acad Emerg Med 14:1149-57. 2007.... - Validation of the Simplified Motor Score for the prediction of brain injury outcomes after traumaJason S Haukoos
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO 80204, USA
Ann Emerg Med 50:18-24. 2007..The purpose of this study was to validate the Simplified Motor Score in a large heterogeneous trauma population... - The effect of financial incentives on adherence with outpatient human immunodeficiency virus testing referrals from the emergency departmentJason S Haukoos
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, CO 80204, USA
Acad Emerg Med 12:617-21. 2005..The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of a financial incentive on the proportion of referred ED patients who completed outpatient HIV counseling and testing... - Derivation and reliability of an instrument to estimate medical benefit of emergency treatmentJason S Haukoos
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO 80204, USA
Am J Emerg Med 28:404-11. 2010..The objectives of this study were to develop a decision algorithm to be used in estimating benefit of emergency treatment (EBET) and to assess its reliability when applied to patients making unscheduled ED visits... - Routine opt-out rapid HIV screening and detection of HIV infection in emergency department patientsJason S Haukoos
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Colorado, USA
JAMA 304:284-92. 2010..1% or greater. The utility of this approach in EDs remains unknown... - Advanced statistics: bootstrapping confidence intervals for statistics with "difficult" distributionsJason S Haukoos
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, 777 Bannock Street, Mail Code 0108, Denver, CO 80204, USA
Acad Emerg Med 12:360-5. 2005.... - Prediction rules for estimating neurologic outcome following out-of-hospital cardiac arrestJason S Haukoos
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, 777 Bannock Street, Mail Code 0108, Denver, CO 80204, USA
Resuscitation 63:145-55. 2004..The purpose of this study was to develop a prediction model for meaningful survival following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest using variables available during resuscitation... - Validation and refinement of a rule to predict emergency intervention in adult trauma patientsJason S Haukoos
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, 777 Bannock Street, Denver, CO 80206, USA
Ann Emerg Med 58:164-71. 2011..Our goal was to validate this rule in an adult trauma population and to compare it with the American College of Surgeons' major resuscitation criteria... - Operational methods of HIV testing in emergency departments: a systematic reviewJason S Haukoos
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO 80204, USA
Ann Emerg Med 58:S96-103. 2011..The objective of this study is to provide a detailed account of the various models and operational constructs that have been described for performing HIV testing in EDs... - HIV testing in emergency departments in the United States: a national surveyJason S Haukoos
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO 80204, USA
Ann Emerg Med 58:S10-6.e1-8. 2011..The objective of this study is to survey academic and community EDs throughout the United States to determine ED-based HIV testing practices... - Recognition of undiagnosed HIV infection: an evaluation of missed opportunities in a predominantly urban minority populationAlbert M Kuo
Department of Emergency Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Santa Clara, California, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 19:239-46. 2005..This study documented missed opportunities and delays in diagnosis of patients with unrecognized HIV infection. Clinicians must maintain a high index of suspicion for HIV infection in all patients... - How well do paramedics predict admission to the hospital? A prospective studySaul D Levine
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Colorado, USA
J Emerg Med 31:1-5. 2006..In our EMS system, the prehospital diversion policies should not be based solely on paramedic determination... - Evaluating the use of existing data sources, probabilistic linkage, and multiple imputation to build population-based injury databases across phases of trauma careCraig Newgard
Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, USA
Acad Emerg Med 19:469-80. 2012..The objective was to evaluate the process of using existing data sources, probabilistic linkage, and multiple imputation to create large population-based injury databases matched to outcomes... - Is the ACLS score a valid prediction rule for survival after cardiac arrest?Jason S Haukoos
Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
Acad Emerg Med 10:621-6. 2003..However, the ACLS Score has not been validated in other emergency medical services systems... - Out-of-hospital and emergency department utilization by adult homeless patientsDavid A Pearson
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA
Ann Emerg Med 50:646-52. 2007..The objectives of this study are to describe emergency medical services and hospital utilization by homeless patients and to estimate their benefit of ED care... - Evaluation of an emergency department referral system for outpatient HIV testingClinton J Coil
Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, 1000 West Carson Street, Box 21, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 35:52-5. 2004..Providing appropriate counseling, testing, and follow-up in the ED is difficult. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a referral-based outpatient HIV testing system for patients referred from the ED... - Safety of prehospital intravenous fentanyl for adult trauma patientsGina C Soriya
Department of Emergency Medicine, St Anthony Hospital, Denver, Colorado, USA
J Trauma Acute Care Surg 72:755-9. 2012..Our objective was to study the hemodynamic effect of prehospital intravenous fentanyl in initially normotensive adult trauma patients... - Payer status, race/ethnicity, and acceptance of free routine opt-out rapid HIV screening among emergency department patientsJeffrey Sankoff
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA
Am J Public Health 102:877-83. 2012..We estimated associations between payer status, race/ethnicity, and acceptance of nontargeted opt-out rapid HIV screening in the emergency department (ED)... - Advanced statistics: missing data in clinical research--part 2: multiple imputationCraig D Newgard
Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
Acad Emerg Med 14:669-78. 2007.... - A multisite assessment of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma field triage decision scheme for identifying seriously injured children and adultsCraig D Newgard
Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
J Am Coll Surg 213:709-21. 2011..We estimate the diagnostic value of the Field Triage Decision Scheme for identifying major trauma patients (Injury Severity Score [ISS] ≥ 16) in a large and diverse multisite cohort... - Nomenclature and definitions for emergency department human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing: report from the 2007 conference of the National Emergency Department HIV Testing ConsortiumMichael S Lyons
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Acad Emerg Med 16:168-77. 2009..These definitions are designed to facilitate discussion, increase comparability of future reports, and potentially accelerate wider implementation of ED HIV testing... - Study designs and evaluation models for emergency department public health researchKerry B Broderick
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA
Acad Emerg Med 16:1124-31. 2009..Public health investigators are poised to make substantial contributions to this important area of research, but this will only be accomplished by employing sound research methodology in the context of rigorous program evaluation... - Association of neighborhood characteristics with bystander-initiated CPRComilla Sasson
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
N Engl J Med 367:1607-15. 2012..For persons who have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, the probability of receiving bystander-initiated cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) may be influenced by neighborhood characteristics... - Identifying high-risk geographic areas for cardiac arrest using three methods for cluster analysisComilla Sasson
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
Acad Emerg Med 19:139-46. 2012.... - Assessment of the pulmonary embolism rule-out criteria rule for evaluation of suspected pulmonary embolism in the emergency departmentStephen J Wolf
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO 80204, USA
Am J Emerg Med 26:181-5. 2008..The pulmonary embolism rule-out criteria (PERC) rule was derived to prevent unnecessary diagnostic testing in this patient population. The objective of this study was to assess the PERC rule's performance in an external population... - Pulmonary embolism risk assessment screening tools: the interrater reliability of their criteriaKristen E Nordenholz
Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO 80262, USA
Am J Emerg Med 25:285-90. 2007..We sought to determine the interrater agreement of attending and third-year resident emergency medicine physicians in the specific elements of the Canadian and the Charlotte risk stratification tools and their clinical application... - False-negative FAST examination: associations with injury characteristics and patient outcomesBrooks T Laselle
Department of Emergency Medicine, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 60:326-34.e3. 2012..The objectives of this study are to estimate associations between false-negative FAST results and patient characteristics, specific abdominal organ injuries, and patient outcomes... - Derivation of a clinical decision rule to exclude thoracic aortic imaging in patients with blunt chest trauma after motor vehicle collisionsTodd C Ungar
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Colorado 80204, USA
J Trauma 61:1150-5. 2006..CONCLUSION: We report a clinical decision rule with a high NPV for exclusion of TAI. This may standardize the approach to such patients and may reduce the need for CT... - Impact of the Final Rule on the rate of clinical cardiac arrest research in the United StatesKatherine M Hiller
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Acad Emerg Med 12:1091-8. 2005..It is unclear, however, how this change has impacted the performance of this research... - Validation of the Simplified Motor Score in the out-of-hospital setting for the prediction of outcomes after traumatic brain injuryDavid O Thompson
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA
Ann Emerg Med 58:417-25. 2011..Our goal is to validate the SMS in the out-of-hospital setting, with the hypothesis that it is equivalent to the GCS score for discriminating brain injury outcomes... - Paramedic response time: does it affect patient survival?Peter T Pons
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, CO 80204, USA
Acad Emerg Med 12:594-600. 2005.... - Risk factors for drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae and antibiotic prescribing practices in outpatient community-acquired pneumoniaTimothy C Jenkins
Department of Medicine, The Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO, USA
Acad Emerg Med 19:703-6. 2012..pneumoniae (DRSP). The objectives of this study were to assess the prevalence of these risk factors and antibiotic prescribing practices in cases of outpatient CAP treated in the acute care setting... - Validation of the Mortality in Emergency Department Sepsis (MEDS) score in patients with the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS)Jeffrey D Sankoff
Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO, USA
Crit Care Med 36:421-6. 2008..To prospectively and externally validate the Mortality in Emergency Department Sepsis (MEDS) score as a predictor of 28-day mortality in patients who present to the emergency department with a systemic inflammatory response syndrome... - Public health in the emergency department: surveillance, screening, and intervention--funding and sustainabilityRobert Woolard
Department of Emergency Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, TX, USA
Acad Emerg Med 16:1138-42. 2009..Recommendations for actions by EM summarize the findings of workshop... - Surge capacity: a proposed conceptual frameworkCarl J Bonnett
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO 80204, USA
Am J Emerg Med 25:297-306. 2007..This framework will cover the types of events that can cause a surge of patients, the general ways in which healthcare facilities respond to these events, and the categories of people who would make up the population of affected victims... - The Denver Seizure Score: anion gap metabolic acidosis predicts generalized seizureKatherine M Bakes
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO 80204, USA
Am J Emerg Med 29:1097-102. 2011..Our objective was to assess the association between AG metabolic acidosis and generalized seizure and to derive a simple score to predict seizure... - An evaluation of out-of-hospital advanced airway management in an urban settingChristopher B Colwell
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, 777 Bannock Street, Mail Code 0108, Denver, CO 80204, USA
Acad Emerg Med 12:417-22. 2005..To determine the success and complication rates associated with endotracheal intubation in an urban emergency medical services (EMS) system... - Derivation of a clinical risk score for traumatic orbital fractureKabir Yadav
Department of Emergency Medicine, The George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
J Trauma Acute Care Surg 73:1313-8. 2012.... - The changing landscape of america's health care system and the value of emergency medicineComilla Sasson
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
Acad Emerg Med 19:1204-11. 2012.... - Blunt abdominal trauma patients are at very low risk for intra-abdominal injury after emergency department observationJohn L Kendall
Denver Health Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver, Colorado
West J Emerg Med 12:496-504. 2011.... - Pilot study to determine the feasibility of training Army National Guard medics to perform focused cardiac ultrasonographyBrandon H Backlund
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Colorado 80204, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 14:118-23. 2010..To assess the ability of Army National Guard combat medics to perform a limited bedside echocardiography (BE) to determine cardiac activity after a brief training module... - Decreased antibiotic utilization after implementation of a guideline for inpatient cellulitis and cutaneous abscessTimothy C Jenkins
Department of Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO 80204, USA
Arch Intern Med 171:1072-9. 2011..We hypothesized that implementation of an institutional guideline to standardize and streamline the evaluation and treatment of inpatient cellulitis and abscess would decrease antibiotic and health care resource utilization... - Uncovering HIV infection in the emergency department: a broader perspectiveRichard E Rothman
Acad Emerg Med 14:653-7. 2007 - Identification of admission values predictive of complicated acute alcoholic pancreatitisChristine Dauphine
Department of Surgery, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
Arch Surg 139:978-82. 2004..The predictive values of leukocytosis and hyperglycemia compare favorably with those of the admission Ranson score... - HIV testing in the emergency department: pretest counseling or pretest education?Morgan Silverman
Ann Emerg Med 49:380; author reply 380-1. 2007 - Advanced modeling strategies in emergency medicine research: is the pendulum swinging?Jason S Haukoos
Ann Emerg Med 52:365-7. 2008 - Long-term thrombotic recurrence after nonoperative management of Paget-Schroetter syndromeJason T Lee
Division of Vascular Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, Calif. 94305, USA
J Vasc Surg 43:1236-43. 2006..Younger patients should be offered early surgical decompression, and the use of stents without thoracic outlet decompression is not indicated... - Evaluation of three scoring systems predicting non sentinel node metastasis in breast cancer patients with a positive sentinel node biopsyChristine E Dauphine
Department of Surgery, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA
Ann Surg Oncol 14:1014-9. 2007..Scoring systems have been published to aid in the prediction of nonsentinel node metastasis. Our purpose was to assess the validity of these scoring systems in our patient population... - The effect of older blood on mortality, need for ICU care, and the length of ICU stay after major traumaZuri Murrell
Department of Surgery, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1000 W. Carson St, Box 15, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
Am Surg 71:781-5. 2005..87-1.64). The quantity of aged blood is an independent risk factor for length of ICU care. This may be a proxy indicator for multiple organ failure. Further research is required to define which patients may benefit from newer blood... - Factors affecting the successful management of intra-abdominal abscesses with antibiotics and the need for percutaneous drainageRavin R Kumar
Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Box 25, 1000 West Carson Street, Torrance, California 90509, USA
Dis Colon Rectum 49:183-9. 2006..This retrospective study evaluated the use of antibiotic therapy and percutaneous image-guided drainage in adult patients with intra-abdominal abscesses... - An assessment of the severity of recurrent appendicitisMatthew R Dixon
Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
Am J Surg 186:718-22; discussion 722. 2003..Elective interval appendectomy may be reserved until a recurrent episode... - Productivity and career paths of previous recipients of Society for Academic Emergency Medicine research grant awardsKelly D Young
Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 15:560-6. 2008..The objective was to assess productivity of previous recipients of Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) grant awards... - Postprocedural microembolic events following carotid surgery and carotid angioplasty and stentingMaureen M Tedesco
Division of Vascular Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
J Vasc Surg 46:244-50. 2007..We compared the incidence and distribution of cerebral microembolic events after carotid angioplasty and stenting (CAS) with distal protection to standard open carotid endarterectomy (CEA) using DW-MRI... - Risk factors for developing postprocedural microemboli following carotid interventionsMaureen M Tedesco
Division of Vascular Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center, CA 94305, USA
J Endovasc Ther 14:561-7. 2007..To determine risk factors predictive of microemboli found on diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) following carotid angioplasty and stenting (CAS) with distal protection and carotid endarterectomy (CEA)... - Public health, prevention, and emergency medicine: a critical juxtapositionSteven L Bernstein
Department of Emergency Medicine Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center Bronx, NY, USA
Acad Emerg Med 15:190-3. 2008 - Carcinoembryonic antigen and albumin predict survival in patients with advanced colon and rectal cancerMatthew R Dixon
Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Harbor-University of California-Los Angeles, USA
Arch Surg 138:962-6. 2003..7 g/dL had a significantly shorter survival time. Conversely, patients with an ALB level greater than or equal to 2.7 g/dL and a CEA level less than 275 ng/mL had a longer survival time...
Research Grants
- PS06-003, Opt-out HIV Testing in Emergency Dept settingsJason Haukoos; Fiscal Year: 2007....