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| Angela M MillsSummaryAffiliation: University of Pennsylvania Country: USA Publications
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Diagnostic characteristics of S100A8/A9 in a multicenter study of patients with acute right lower quadrant abdominal painAngela M Mills
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 19:48-55. 2012....
Are blood cultures necessary in adults with cellulitis?Angela M Mills
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 45:548-9. 2005- The impact of crowding on time until abdominal CT interpretation in emergency department patients with acute abdominal painAngela M Mills
Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4283, USA
Postgrad Med 122:75-81. 2010..We assessed the relationship between emergency department (ED) crowding and delays in care in patients presenting with abdominal pain who receive abdominal computed tomography (CT)... - Racial disparity in analgesic treatment for ED patients with abdominal or back painAngela M Mills
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Am J Emerg Med 29:752-6. 2011..Research on how race affects access to analgesia in the emergency department (ED) has yielded conflicting results. We assessed whether patient race affects analgesia administration for patients presenting with back or abdominal pain... - The association between emergency department crowding and analgesia administration in acute abdominal pain patientsAngela M Mills
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 16:603-8. 2009..The authors assessed the effect of emergency department (ED) crowding on the nontreatment and delay in treatment for analgesia in patients who had acute abdominal pain... - Effect of household children on adult ED smokers' motivation to quitAngela M Mills
Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4283, USA
Am J Emerg Med 26:757-62. 2008..We hypothesized adult parenting smokers in the emergency department (ED) have a higher interest in quitting and may be more amenable to tobacco cessation counseling than smokers without children... - Abdominal pain: a survey of clinically important outcomes for future researchAngela M Mills
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 19104, USA
CJEM 12:485-90. 2010..We aimed to use the consensus opinion of a group of expert emergency physicians to derive a set of emergency diagnoses for acute abdominal pain that might be used as clinically significant outcomes for future research... - The effect of emergency department crowding on analgesia in patients with back pain in two hospitalsJesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA
Acad Emerg Med 17:276-83. 2010..The authors assessed the association between measures of emergency department (ED) crowding and treatment with analgesia and delays to analgesia in ED patients with back pain... - Gender disparity in analgesic treatment of emergency department patients with acute abdominal painEsther H Chen
Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 15:414-8. 2008..The authors assessed whether a gender disparity exists in the administration of analgesia for acute abdominal pain... - Derivation of a clinical prediction rule for evaluating patients with abdominal pain and diarrheaEsther H Chen
Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4283, USA
Am J Emerg Med 26:450-3. 2008..The objective of the study was to develop a simple prediction rule to reliably identify abdominal pain patients with diarrhea who may require surgical intervention... - Transfer status: a risk factor for mortality in patients with necrotizing fasciitisDaniel N Holena
Department of Surgery, Division of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care, and Emergency Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Surgery 150:363-70. 2011..We hypothesized that mortality would be higher in patients undergoing surgical debridement for necrotizing fasciitis after IT compared to Emergency Department (ED) admission... - Discordance between serum creatinine and creatinine clearance for identification of ED patients with abdominal pain at risk for contrast-induced nephropathyRoger A Band
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4283, USA
Am J Emerg Med 25:268-72. 2007..5 mg/dL (the most commonly accepted Cr cutoff for the administration of intravenous contrast). This study was conducted in a population of emergency department patients with acute abdominal pain being considered for CT scan... - The association between physician risk tolerance and imaging use in abdominal painJesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Am J Emerg Med 27:552-7. 2009..We sought to determine the impact of 3 validated scales of physician risk behavior on imaging use in emergency department (ED) patients with abdominal pain... - Emergency physicians do not use more resources to evaluate obese patients with acute abdominal painEsther H Chen
Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4283, USA
Am J Emerg Med 25:925-30. 2007..We hypothesized that emergency physicians would use more resources to evaluate acute abdominal pain in obese patients as compared with that in nonobese patients... - The impact of a concurrent trauma alert evaluation on time to head computed tomography in patients with suspected strokeEsther H Chen
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 13:349-52. 2006..Emergency department (ED) overcrowding threatens quality of care by delaying the time to diagnosis and treatment of patients with time-sensitive diseases, such as acute stroke... - Emergency ultrasound usage among recent emergency medicine residency graduates of a convenience sample of 14 residenciesAnthony J Dean
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
J Emerg Med 38:214-20, quiz 220-1. 2010..Emergency Medicine (EM) residency graduates are trained to perform Emergency Medicine bedside ultrasound (EMBU). However, the degree to which they use this skill in their practice after graduation is unknown... - Patient perceptions of computed tomographic imaging and their understanding of radiation risk and exposureBrigitte M Baumann
Department of Emergency Medicine, UMDNJ RWJMS, Camden, NJ 08103, USA
Ann Emerg Med 58:1-7.e2. 2011..We describe patient perceptions of computed tomography (CT) and their understanding of radiation exposure and risk... - Hyperbaric oxygen therapy in necrotizing soft tissue infectionsPaul R Massey
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
J Surg Res 177:146-51. 2012..Despite this, the efficacy of HBO remains unclear. We hypothesized that HBO would have no effect on mortality or amputation rates... 
Inter-rater reliability of historical data collected by non-medical research assistants and physicians in patients with acute abdominal painAngela M Mills
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Emergency Medicine
West J Emerg Med 10:30-6. 2009..We hypothesized that non-medical research assistants (RAs) could obtain historical information from patients with acute abdominal pain as accurately as physicians...- Imaging and laboratory testing in acute abdominal painNova L Panebianco
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Ground Ravdin, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Emerg Med Clin North Am 29:175-93, vii. 2011..It focuses on the contributions that laboratory testing and imaging make in the emergency management of abdominal complaints... - Resident exposure to critical patients in a pediatric emergency departmentEsther H Chen
Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4283, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 23:774-8. 2007..We hypothesize that nonpediatric and pediatric residents are exposed to a very low percentage of critically ill patients in a high-volume children's hospital emergency department (ED)... - Analgesia for older adults with abdominal or back pain in emergency departmentAngela M Mills
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
West J Emerg Med 12:43-50. 2011..To determine the association between age and analgesia for emergency department (ED) patients with abdominal or back pain... - Use of abdominopelvic computed tomography in emergency departments and rates of urgent diagnoses in Crohn's diseaseCaroline Kerner
Division of Gastroenterology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 10:52-7. 2012..We proposed that trends would be similar for patients with Crohn's disease (CD)... - Abdominal pain in special populationsEsther H Chen
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Emerg Med Clin North Am 29:449-58, x. 2011..The unique characteristics of abdominal pain in these two populations and, more specifically, which diseases to consider and how to use appropriate testing to detect life-threatening conditions, are discussed... - Is screening radiography necessary to detect retained foreign bodies in adequately explored superficial glass-caused wounds?Lauren N Weinberger
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4283, USA
Ann Emerg Med 51:666-7. 2008 - Therapeutic hypothermia for treatment of intractable intracranial hypertension after liver transplantationDaniel N Holena
Department of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Am J Crit Care 21:72-5. 2012..Normalization of intracranial pressure was rapid. Findings on neurological examination improved and the patient was discharged from the hospital with no neurological impairment... - Evaluation of a novel wound closure device: a multicenter randomized controlled trialAdam J Singer
Department of Emergency Medicine, Stony Brook University, NY, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:1060-4. 2011..We hypothesized that the rate of complete wound edge apposition would be equivalent for the two closure devices... - Is it necessary to admit low-risk patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome to inpatient telemetry beds?Esther H Chen
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 46:440-4. 2005 - Preliminary experience with the smooth muscle troponin-like protein, calponin, as a novel biomarker for diagnosing acute aortic dissectionToru Suzuki
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7 3 1 Hongo, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo 113 8655, Japan
Eur Heart J 29:1439-45. 2008..The early diagnosis of acute aortic dissection (AD) remains challenging. We sought to determine the utility of the troponin-like protein of smooth muscle, calponin, as a diagnostic biomarker of acute AD...