2021
Factors Associated With Access to and Receipt of Liver Transplantation in Veterans With End-stage Liver Disease
Kanwal F, Hernaez R, Liu Y, Taylor TJ, Rana A, Kramer JR, Naik AD, Smith D, Taddei T, Asch SM. Factors Associated With Access to and Receipt of Liver Transplantation in Veterans With End-stage Liver Disease. JAMA Internal Medicine 2021, 181: 949-959. PMID: 34028505, PMCID: PMC8145153, DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.2051.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEnd-stage liver diseaseAdvanced liver diseaseLiver diseaseLiver transplantationCohort studyMedical recordsOrgan transplantsVeterans Affairs Health Care SystemLower ratesRetrospective cohort studyWait-listed patientsAfrican American patientsComprehensive electronic medical recordsElectronic medical recordsHealth care systemReferral stepsLiver allograftsLiver transplantAdult patientsAlcohol etiologyLow annual incomePatient ageCurative therapyLiver cirrhosisSodium scoreImpact of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy and Pretreatment Biliary Drainage for Pancreatic Head Ductal Adenocarcinoma
Saffo S, Peng C, Salem R, Taddei T, Nagar A. Impact of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy and Pretreatment Biliary Drainage for Pancreatic Head Ductal Adenocarcinoma. Digestive Diseases And Sciences 2021, 67: 1409-1416. PMID: 33811566, PMCID: PMC8487432, DOI: 10.1007/s10620-021-06967-7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNeoadjuvant chemotherapyBiliary drainageDuctal adenocarcinomaSingle-center cohort studyHigh-volume tertiary centerPancreatic head ductal adenocarcinomaBackgroundPancreatic ductal adenocarcinomaUse of chemotherapyMultidisciplinary treatment modelCancer-related deathImplementation of guidelinesDelivery of careElectronic medical recordsResectable diseaseCohort studySurgical complicationsSurvival benefitTertiary centerPostprocedure complicationsPreoperative jaundiceAppropriate indicationsMedical recordsTherapeutic endoscopistsOutcome dataPractice trends
2012
EMR-linked cancer tracker facilitates lung and liver cancer care.
Taddei T, Hunnibell L, DeLorenzo A, Rosa M, Connery D, Vogel D, Garla V, Taylor C, Rose M. EMR-linked cancer tracker facilitates lung and liver cancer care. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2012, 30: 77-77. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2012.30.34_suppl.77.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchTracking systemAbnormal imagesLung cancerNatural language processing programNLP technologySurveillance featuresNLP systemsCancer careHepatocellular carcinomaLiver cancerVA Connecticut Healthcare SystemReporting functionsStage I/II lung cancerProcessing programCase discoveryLiver cancer careCare coordination programMultidisciplinary cancer careLive linkAccuracy of identificationElectronic medical recordsDaily operationsPatient informationRadiology reportsCare navigators