Publications

Department of Medicine faculty members published more than 3,600 peer-reviewed articles in 2024.

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Clinical lymphoma, myeloma & leukemia

Serum Free Light Chain Assessment Early After Stem Cell Transplantation as a Prognostic Factor in Multiple Myeloma.

2015

Authors: Barley K, Tindle S, Bagiella E, Jagannath S, Chari A

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Updates in adult-onset Still disease: Atypical cutaneous manifestations and associations with delayed malignancy.

2015

Authors: Sun NZ, Brezinski EA, Berliner J, Haemel A, Connolly MK, Gensler L, McCalmont TH, Shinkai K

Journal of substance abuse treatment

Beyond the Ask and Advise: Implementation of a Computer Tablet Intervention to Enhance Provider Adherence to the 5As for Smoking Cessation.

2015

Authors: Kalkhoran S, Appelle NA, Napoles AM, Munoz RF, Lum PJ, Alvarado N, Gregorich SE, Satterfield JM

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN

Renal Clearance of Mineral Metabolism Biomarkers.

2015

Authors: van Ballegooijen AJ, Rhee EP, Elmariah S, de Boer IH, Kestenbaum B

Scientific Reports

Printed Flexible Plastic Microchip for Viral Load Measurement through Quantitative Detection of Viruses in Plasma and Saliva.

2015

Authors: Shafiee H, Kanakasabapathy MK, Juillard F, Keser M, Sadasivam M, Yuksekkaya M, Hanhauser E, Henrich TJ, Kuritzkes DR, Kaye KM, Demirci U

Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Interview of Robert M. Wachter, MD.

2015

Authors: Wachter RM, Kerbel RB, Aung KK

Volume 26 of Issue 2 | Trends in cardiovascular medicine

MADIT-CRT and his many sons.

2015

Authors: Rogers PA, Morin DP

Cancer

Fragmentation in specialist care and stage III colon cancer.

2015

Authors: Hussain T, Chang HY, Veenstra CM, Pollack CE

Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation

Prevalence of abdominal aortic calcifications in older living renal donors and its effect on graft function and histology.

2015

Authors: Wu EH, Wojciechowski D, Chandran S, Yeh BM, Park M, Westphalen A, Wang ZJ

Volume 3 of Issue 2 | JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Cartographic Analysis of Antennas and Towers: A Novel Approach to Improving the Implementation and Data Transmission of mHealth Tools on Mobile Networks.

2015

Authors: Brown Iii W, Ibitoye M, Bakken S, Schnall R, Balán I, Frasca T, Carballo-Diéguez A

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BACKGROUND

Most mHealth tools such as short message service (SMS), mobile apps, wireless pill counters, and ingestible wireless monitors use mobile antennas to communicate. Limited signal availability, often due to poor antenna infrastructure, negatively impacts the implementation of mHealth tools and remote data collection. Assessing the antenna infrastructure prior to starting a study can help mitigate this problem. Currently, there are no studies that detail whether and how the antenna infrastructure of a study site or area is assessed.

OBJECTIVE

To address this literature gap, we analyze and discuss the use of a cartographic analysis of antennas and towers (CAAT) for mobile communications for geographically assessing mobile antenna and tower infrastructure and identifying signal availability for mobile devices prior to the implementation of an SMS-based mHealth pilot study.

METHODS

An alpha test of the SMS system was performed using 11 site staff. A CAAT for the study area's mobile network was performed after the alpha test and pre-implementation of the pilot study. The pilot study used a convenience sample of 11 high-risk men who have sex with men who were given human immunodeficiency virus test kits for testing nonmonogamous sexual partners before intercourse. Product use and sexual behavior were tracked through SMS. Message frequency analyses were performed on the SMS text messages, and SMS sent/received frequencies of 11 staff and 11 pilot study participants were compared.

RESULTS

The CAAT helped us to successfully identify strengths and weaknesses in mobile service capacity within a 3-mile radius from the epicenters of four New York City boroughs. During the alpha test, before CAAT, 1176/1202 (97.84%) text messages were sent to staff, of which 26/1176 (2.21%) failed. After the CAAT, 2934 messages were sent to pilot study participants and none failed.

CONCLUSIONS

The CAAT effectively illustrated the research area's mobile infrastructure and signal availability, which allowed us to improve study setup and sent message success rates. The SMS messages were sent and received with a lower fail rate than those reported in previous studies.

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