Clinical Researcher: Publications

David R. Vinson, MD
 
The Permanente Medical Group, Sacramento and Roseville, California, USA
Co-chair, KP CREST Network, TPMG's Emergency Medicine Clinical Research Collaborative
Local Research Chair, Kaiser Permanente Roseville Medical Center, KPNC Central Research Committee
 
 
Our Department Supports
 
  • An Active Research Division (publications are listed below; see also ongoing projects)
  • *Junior Investigators, including fellows, residents, medical students, and pre-meds (studies with junior investigators are denoted below with an asterisk). For more on our Research Internship
  • EM Research across Kaiser Permanente's two California medical groups (see the 2016 Q3 report, attached below) 
 
Publications (1998-2017)
 
These include over 120 peer-reviewed publications, several of which landed in the New England Journal of Medicine, the British Medical Journal, JAMA Internal Medicine, and Circulation. Most are in emergency medicine journals. 

For a list at Google Scholar, see here. For those indexed on PubMed, see here. Current H Index of 21 in May 2017.

Featured in New Engl J Med's Journal Watch
Publications are listed below in a topical fashion.
 
Abdominal Pain in Children

  • Kene MV, Ballard DW, Vinson DR, Carpenter D, Rauchwerger AS, Kharbanda A, Kharbanda E. Pediatric appendicitis: trends in emergency department imaging and outcomes in the community setting, 2010-2015. Ann Emerg Med. 2016;68(4S):S82-S83 [abstract 211]. The abstract can be found at the CREST site.

Acute Myocardial Infarction and Chest Pain
 
  • Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Mark DG, Chettipally UK. Shared decision making in low risk chest pain: looking ahead [letter]. BMJ. 2017;356;j324. Full-text    For a fuller version, see BMJ. 2016;355:i6165/rr-1. Full-text
  • *Nagam MR, Vinson DR, Levis JT. ECG Diagnosis: Right ventricular myocardial infarction. Perm J. 2017;21:16-105. Full-text
  • Mark DG, Vinson DR. Low-risk chest pain in the emergency department: Should we be focusing on better follow-up instead of accelerated testing? JAMA Intern Med. 2014;174(6):1009-1010.  Excerpt
  • Tricomi AJ, Magid DJ, Rumsfeld JS, Vinson DR, et al. Missed opportunities for reperfusion therapy for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction:  results of the Emergency Department Quality in Myocardial Infarction (EDQMI) Study.  Amer Heart J. 2008;155:471-477.    PubMed
                Presented at the AHA Scientific Forum, Washington, DC, May 2007
 
  • Vinson DR, Magid DJ, Brand DW, et al. Patient sex and quality of emergency department care for patients with acute myocardial infarction. Amer J Emerg Med. 2007;25:996-1003.  PubMed
                Presented at the 2004 American College of Emergency Physicians’ Research Forum, San Francisco, CA
  • Masoudi FA, Magid DJ, Vinson DR, et al. Implications of the failure to identify high-risk electrocardiogram findings for the quality of care of patients with acute myocardial infarction. Results of the ED Quality in Myocardial Infarction (EDQMI) Study. Circulation. 2006;114:1565-1571.  Full-text 
                Presented at the 2005 Amer College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions, Orlando, FL
                Featured on HeartWire, WebMD, Oct 6, 2006

 

  • Magid DJ, Masoudi FA, Vinson DR, et al. Older emergency department patients with acute myocardial infarction receive lower quality of care than younger patients. Ann Emerg Med. 2005;46:14-21.  PubMed
                Presented at the 2004 American College of Emergency Physicians’ Research Forum, San Francisco, CA. 

 

Acute Otitis Media in Children
  • Vinson DR. Acute otitis media in children. N Engl J Med. 2017;376:e24. Full-text

Ambulance Diversion 

  • Patel PB, Vinson DR. The rise of regional "No Diversion" policies. Ann Emerg Med. 2012;59(2):157-158. Full-text
  • Patel PB, Vinson DR. Ambulance diversion reduction and elimination: The 3-2-1 Plan. J Emerg Med. 2012;43(5):e363-371.  PubMed
                Presented at the 2011 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
  • Patel PB, Derlet RW, Vinson DR, Williams M, Wills J. Ambulance diversion reduction: the Sacramento solution. Am J Emerg Med. 2006;24:206-13.  PubMed
        Presented at the 2004 American College of Emergency Physicians’ Research Forum, San Francisco, CA
 
Atrial Fibrillation

  • Vinson DR, Warton EM, Mark DG, Ballard DW, Reed ME, Rauchwerger AS, Go AS. Thromboprophylaxis for high-risk adults with atrial fibrillation and flutter discharged from the ED. Acad Emerg Med. 2017;24(S1):S87-S88 [abstract 231]. The abstract can be found at the CREST site.

  • *Lugovskaya N, Warton EM, Nagam MR, Reed ME, Ballard DW, Rome AM, Stevenson MD, Vinson DR, for the KP CREST Network. Effectiveness and safety of procainamide in the cardioversion of atrial fibrillation and flutter in the community ED setting: a Pharm CAFÉ Study. Ann Emerg Med. 2016;68(4S):S40 [abstract 100].  The abstract can be found at the CREST site.

                Presented at the 2016 Research Forum of the American College of Emergency Physicians, Las Vegas, NV.

  • *Lugovskaya N, Rome AM, Stevenson MD, Warton EM, Reed ME, Ballard DW, Vinson DR. Predictors of ibutilide’s effectiveness in the cardioversion of atrial fibrillation and flutter in the community emergency department setting. Acad Emerg Med. 2016;23(S1):S176-177 [abstract 412].   The abstract can be found at the CREST site.

                Presented at the 2016 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. 

  • *Rome AM, Lugovskaya N, Stevenson MD, Warton EM, Reed ME, Ballard DW, Vinson DR. Ibutilide-induced ventricular tachycardia in the community emergency department setting: incidence and risk factors. Acad Emerg Med. 2016;23(S1):S175-176 [abstract 405].   The abstract can be found at the CREST site.

                Presented at the 2016 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

  • *Lugovskaya N, Vinson DR. Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and brain freeze: a case of recurrent co-incident precipitation from a frozen beverage. Am J Case Rep. 2015;17:23-26. Full-text

  • *Ballard DW, Reed ME, Singh N, Rauchwerger AS, Hamity CA, Warton EM, Chettipally UK, Mark DG, Vinson DR. Emergency department management of atrial fibrillation/flutter and patient quality of life at one-month post-visit. Ann Emerg Med. 2015;66(6):646-654.e2. Abstract

Presented at the 2014 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX
  • *Singh N, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Chettipally UK, Mark DG, Offerman SR, Vinson DR, Ballard DW. Adaptation of a disease-specific research instrument for quality of life assessments in ED patients with atrial fibrillation/flutter. Acad Emerg Med. 2013;20(5) Suppl:S138 (abstract 332). Link
Presented at the 2013 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA
  • Vinson DR. The safety of cardioversion of recent-onset atrial fibrillation in emergency department patients. Ann Emerg Med. 2012;60(1):134-135. Full-text    Reply 
  • Vinson DR, Hoehn T, Graber D, Williams T. Managing emergency department patients with recent-onset atrial fibrillation. J Emerg Med. 2012;42(2):139-148. PubMed  
                Featured in Physician's Weekly, July 11, 2012
  • Burton JH, Vinson DR, Drummond K, Strout TD, Thode HC, McInturff JJ. Electrical cardioversion of emergency department patients with atrial fibrillation. Ann Emerg Med. 2004;44:20-30.  PubMed 
     Presented at the 2003 Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
Featured in Von Besser K, Mills AM. Is discharge to home after emergency department cardioversion safe for the treatment of recent-onset atrial fibrillation? Ann Emerg Med. 2011;58:517-20.

 

Call Center Management of Bladder Infections  
  • Vinson DR. Expediting emergency throughput: Kiosk-assisted care and telephone treatment protocols. Acad Emerg Med. 2012;19:365. PubMed

     

  • Vinson DR, Quesenberry CP Jr. Telephone management of presumed cystitis in women: Factors associated with recurrence. J Clin Outcomes Manage. 2007;14:41-46.  Abstract

Winner of the 2008 Morris F. Collen Research Award for best paper by a clinician in Kaiser Northern California 

Study summary       Award Intro Video (3 min)    Our Project Video (3 min)

 

  • Vinson DR, Quesenberry CP Jr. The safety of telephone management of presumed cystitis in women. Arch Intern Med. 2004;164:1026-9.  Extract

Presented at the 2003 Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Chicago, IL

Presented at the 2002 International Meeting on the Therapies of Infections, Florence, IT.

Media coverage: Newsweek, Sept 22, 2003; Chicago Sun-Times, Good Housekeeping, Shape, First for Women, Health, Urology Times--Oct 9, 2003; Family Practice News 2003;33:41, Cosmopolitan (Cosmo. Ring Up UTI Relief, attached below)

 

Cardiac Arrest

  • Mark DG, Vinson DR, Ballard DW. Non-inferiority, but not superiority of basic life support ambulance response to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest [letter]. JAMA Inter Med. 2015;175(8):1422-3.

  • Mark DG, Vinson DR, Hung YY, Anderson ES, Escobar GJ, Carr BG, Abella BS, Ballard DW. Lack of improved outcomes with increased use of targeted temperature management following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A multicenter retrospective cohort study. Resuscitation. 2014;85(11):1549-56. PubMed


  • *Mark DG, Vinson DR, Anderson E, Ballard DW. Treatment of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients with electrocardiographic ST segment elevation myocardial infarction: differences in rates of emergent cardiac catheterization between receiving hospitals with and without on-site cardiac catheterization capacity. Crit Care Med. 2012;43(12 Suppl.):295 [abstract]. Link
Presented at the Society of Critical Care Medicine's 42nd Critical Care Congress in San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 2013. 

  • *Anderson E, Ballard DW, Vinson DR, Mark DG. Does the annual volume of patients admitted following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest predict use of therapeutic hypothermia? Crit Care Med. 2012;43(12 Suppl.):555 [abstract].

     
    Presented at the Society of Critical Care Medicine's 42nd Critical Care Congress in San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 2013.

     

  • Mark DG, Vinson DR, Ballard DW. Letter by Mark et al Regarding Article "Implementation of the fifth link of the chain of survival concept for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Circulation. 2013;127:e566. Extract 

Central Venous Catheterization
  • Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Gould MK. Complications of central venous catheterization [letter]. N Engl J Med. 2016;374(15):1489-1492. Full-text 
  • Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Mark DG. The indications for screening chest radiography after failed thoracic central venous catheterization. Am J Emerg Med. 2015;33(7):970-971. Abstract
  • *Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Hance LG, Stevenson DW, Clague VA, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Mark DG, for the CREST Network Investigators. Pneumothorax is a rare complication of thoracic central venous catheterization in community Emergency Departments. Amer J Emerg Med. 2015;33(1):60-66. PubMed
  • Ballard DW, Vinson DR, Mark DG. Departure from central line ritual. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. May 2015. Full-text
  • *Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Hance LG, Hung YY, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Kene MV, Chettipally UK, Elms AR, Mark DG, for the Kaiser Permanente CREST Network Investigators. Bleeding complications of central venous catheterization in septic patients with abnormal hemostasis. Amer J Emerg Med. 2014;32(7):737-42.  PubMed
Presented at the 2013 Research Forum, American College of Emergency Physicians, Seattle, WA. iPoster 
  • Ballard DW, Reed ME, Rauchwerger AS, Chettipally UK, Offerman SR, Vinson DR. Emergency physician perspectives on central venous catheterization in septic patients: a survey-based study. Acad Emerg Med. 2014;21(6):623-30. PubMed
  • * Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Stevenson MD, Mark DG, Reed ME, Rauchwerger AS, Chettipally UK, Offerman SR, for the Kaiser Permanente CREST Network Investigators. Predictors of unattempted central venous catheterization in septic patients eligible for early goal-directed therapy. West J Emerg Med. 2014;15(1):67-75.   Full-text
Presented at the 2011 Research Forum, American College of Emergency Physicians, San Francisco, CA. Abstract

Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism 

  • *Liu MY, Ballard DW, Huang J, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Vinson DR. Acute pulmonary embolism in ED patients despite adequate anticoagulation: prevalence, anticoagulation management, and 30-day outcomes. Acad Emerg Med. 2017;24(S1):S119-S120 [abstract 324]. The abstract can be found at the CREST site.

  • *Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Huang J, Reed ME, Lin JS, Kene MV, Sax DR, Wang DS, Raughwerger AS, Mark DG. Outpatient management of ED patients with acute pulmonary embolism: variation, patient characteristics and outcomes. Acad Emerg Med. 2017;24(S1):S120 [abstract 326]. The abstract can be found at the CREST site.

  • Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Mark DG, Yealy DM, Reed ME, Huang J, Rauchwerger AS, Lin JS, Kene MV, Chettipally UK, for the KP CREST Network. Impact of electronic clinical decision support on initial site of care for emergency department patients with acute pulmonary embolism. Ann Emerg Med. 2016;68(4S):S54 [abstract 136].   The abstract can be found at the CREST site.

                Presented in part at the 2016 Research Forum of the American College of Emergency Physicians, Las Vegas, NV.
                Discussed in Forbes Magazine: The Human-Machine Equation: How Predictive Analytics Equips Doctors To Take Better Care Of You
                Featured in an ACEP E-QUAL Webinar: Optimizing Update of Clinical Decision Support in theElectronic Health Record

  • *Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Mark DG, Huang J, Reed ME, Rauchwerger AS, Wang DH, Lin DS, Kene MV, Pleshakov TS, Sax DK, Sax JM, McLachlan DI, Yamin CK, Swap CJ, HIskin HR, Vemula R, Fleming BS, Elms AR, Aujesky D; for the MAPLE Investigators of the KP CREST Network. Risk stratifying emergency department patients with acute pulmonary embolism: does the simplified Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index perform as well as the original? Thromb Res. 2016;148:1-8. Abstract

  • *Ballard DW, Vemula R, Reed ME, Huang J, Chettipally UK, Vinson DR. Optimizing clinical decision support in the electronic health record: clinical characteristics associated with the use of a decision tool for disposition of ED patients with pulmonary embolism. Appl Clin Inform. 2016;7(3):883-898. PubMed

                Presented in part at the 2016 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

  • *Yamin C, Reed ME, Ballard DW, Mark DG, Vinson DR. Not so fast! β-Blockers blunt tachycardia in pulmonary embolism: implications for clinical decision rules? Acad Emerg Med. 2016;23(S1):S130 [abstract 294].    The abstract can be found at the CREST site.

                Presented at the 2016 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

  • Sharp AL, Vinson DR, Alamshaw F, Handler J, Gould MK. An age-adjusted d-dimer threshold for Emergency Department patients with suspected pulmonary embolus: accuracy and clinical implications. Ann Emerg Med. 2016;67(2):249-57.  Abstract

  • *Vinson DR, Mark DG, Huang J, Iskin HR, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Pleshakov T, Wang DH, Ballard DW, for the KP CREST Network. The characteristics and outcomes of ED patients with acute pulmonary embolism discharged home within 24 hours. Acad Emerg Med. 2015;22(S1):S93-4 [abstract 201].

                Presented at the 2015 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, San Diego, CA.

  • *Vinson DR, Morley JE, Huang J, Liu V, Anderson ML, Drenten CE, Radecki RP, Nishijima DK, Reed ME. The accuracy of an electronic Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index auto-populated from the electronic health record: setting the stage for computerized clinical decision support. Appl Clin Inform. 2015:66(2):318-333.  Abstract

                    Presented at the 2015 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, San Diego, CA.
  • Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Huang J, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Mark DG, for the KP CREST Network. Timing of discharge follow-up for acute pulmonary embolism: retrospective cohort study. West J Emerg Med. 2015;16(1):55-61. Full-text
  • *Vinson DR, Drenten CE, Huang J, Morley JE, Anderson ML, Reed ME, Nishijima DK, Liu V, on behalf of the KP CREST Network. Impact of relative contraindications to home management in emergency department patients with low-risk pulmonary embolism. Ann Am Thoracic Soc. 2015;12(5):666-673. Abstract
Presented at the 2014 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, Dallas, TX.
  • Vinson DR, Zehtabchi S, Yealy DM. Can selected patients with newly diagnosed pulmonary embolism be safely treated without hospitalization? A systematic review. Ann Emerg Med. 2012;60(5):651-662.e4.  Full-text   
  • *Vinson DR, Patel JP, Irving CS. Pretest probability estimation in the evaluation of patients with possible deep vein thrombosis. Amer J Emerg Med. 2011;29:594-600. PubMed 
  • *Vinson DR, Berman DA, Patel PB, Hickey DO. Outpatient management of deep venous thrombosis: Two models of integrated care. Amer J Manag Care. 2006;12:405-410.  Full-text 
  • Vinson DR. Eligibility criteria for home treatment of DVT vary. BMJ. 2001;323:866.  PubMed 
  • Vinson DR. Outpatient treatment of deep venous thrombosis: effective management by emergency physicians. Thrombosis in Oncology. 2001;4:2-7. 
  • Vinson DR, Berman DA. Outpatient treatment of deep venous thrombosis: a clinical care pathway managed by the emergency department. Ann Emerg Med. 2001;37(3):251-258.  Full-text

Reviewed by Journal Watch Emergency Medicine 2001 May 2.

Presented at the 2000 Research Forum, American College of Emergency Physicians, Philadelphia, PA.

 

Elbow Injuries

  • *Makin CW, Vinson DR. A literature-based algorithm for treatment of children with radial head subluxation who fail to respond to initial hyperpronation [letter]. Amer J Emerg Med. 2017 Mar 2 [Epub ahead of print].  The letter can be found at the CREST site. A popular-level discussion was published in Emerg Med News. 

  • *Vinson DR, Kann GS, Gaona SD, Panacek EA. Performance of the four-way range of motion test for radiographic injuries after blunt elbow trauma. Amer J Emerg Med. 2016;34(2):235-239. PubMed

                   Presented at the 2015 Research Forum, American College of Emergency Physicians, Boston, MA

 A lay-friendly version is here: Vinson DR. Doc, I think I just bruised my elbow. Do I really need to wait for x-rays? Atlas of Science. 2016 Jan 14 [Epub]. Full-text

  • Darracq MA, Vinson DR, Panacek EA. Preservation of active range of motion following acute elbow trauma predicts absence of elbow fracture. Amer J  Emerg Med. 2008;26:779-782. PubMed

 
Emergency Department Efficiency

  • Vinson DR, Song H, Tucker AL, Murrell KL. Leveraging open data with best practices to reduce length of stay. Acad Emerg Med. 2017;24(S1):S202 [abstract 569].
  • Patel PB, Vinson DR, Combs MA. Reduction of admit wait times: The effect of a leadership-based program. Acad Emerg Med. 2014;21(3):266-273. PubMed  

  • Vinson DR. Expediting emergency management: Kiosk-assisted care and telephone treatment protocols. Acad Emerg Med. 2012;19(3):365. PubMed 

  • Vinson DR, Patel PB. Facilitating follow-up after emergency care using an appointment assignment system. J Healthcare Quality. 2009;31:18-24. Abstract 
  • Patel PB, Vinson DR. Team Assignment System: Expediting emergency department care. Ann Emerg Med. 2005;46:499-506.  PubMed

Presented at the 2004 American College of Emergency Physicians’ Research Forum, San Francisco, CA

Reviewed by Emergency Medical Abstracts, October, 2006

 

Head Injury (Adult)
  • Nishijima DR, Gaona S, Elms A, Farrales R, Montoya J, Gilbert M, Trajano R, Hatchel K, Vinson DR, Ballard DB, Holmes J. The incidence of traumatic intracranial hemorrhage in head-injured older adults transported by EMS with and without anticoagulant or antiplatelet use. Acad Emerg Med. 2017;24(S1):S7 [abstract 1].  The abstract can be found at the CREST site.
  • Buss AR, Nishijima DK, Daniels B, Warton EM, Anderson TJ, Gill KS, McLachlan DI, Lin JS, Garrido M, McHargue C, Vinson DR. External validation of the UC Davis clinical decision instrument to identify adults in a community setting with mild traumatic intracranial hemorrhage at low risk for requiring ICU admission. Acad Emerg Med. 2017;24(S1):S27 [abstract 56].  The abstract can be found at the CREST site.

  • Nishijima DK, Gaona SD, Waechter T, Maloney R, Bair T, Blitz A, Elms AR, Farrales RD, Howard C, Montoya J, Bell JM, Vinson DR, Holmes JF, Ballard DW. Improved performance of field triage using anticoagulation use in older adults with head injury transported by Emergency Medical Services. Ann Emerg Med. 2017 Feb 23 [Epub ahead of print].  PubMed

  • Sharp AL, Nagaraj G, Rippberger E, Shen E, Swap CJ, Silver MA, McCormick T, Campbell C, Vinson DR, Hoffman JR. Low-value adult traumatic head computed tomography: describing community ED use of the Canadian CT Head Rule.  Acad Emerg Med. 2016 July 30 [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

  • *Nishijima DK, Gaona S, Bair T, Blitz A, Carter D, Elms A, Farrales RD, Howard C, Maloney R, Montoya J, Waechter T, Foley M, Bell JM, Coronado VC, Sugerman DE, Chenoweth J, Vinson DR, Holmes JF. Incidence of outcomes based of field triage in older adults with blunt head trauma transported by EMS. Acad Emerg Med. 2016;23(S1):S34-35 [abstract 60].    The abstract can be found at the CREST site.

                  Presented at the 2015 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

  • *Nishijima DK, Gaona S, Waechter T, Maloney R, Bair T, Blitz A, Elms AR, Farrales RD, Howard C, Montoya J, Bell JM, Coronado VC, Sugerman DE, Ballard DW, Mackey KE, Vinson DR, Holmes JF; for the Sacramento County Prehospital Research Consortium. Do EMS providers accurately ascertain anticoagulant and antiplatelet use in older adults with head trauma? Prehosp Emerg Care. 2016 Sept 16 [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Presented in part at the 2015 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
  • Nishijima DK, Offerman SR, Ballard DW, Vinson DR, Chettipally UK, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Holmes JF, for the Clinical Research in Emergency Services and Treatment (CREST) Network. Risk of traumatic intracranial hemorrhage in patients with head injury and pre-injury warfarin or clopidogrel use. Acad Emerg Med. 2013;20(2):140-5.  PubMed
  • Nishijima DK, Offerman SR, Ballard DW, Vinson DR, Chettipally UK, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Holmes JF, for the Clinical Research in Emergency Services and Treatment (CREST) Network. Immediate and delayed traumatic intracranial hemorrhage in patients with head trauma and pre-injury warfarin or clopidogrel use. Ann Emerg Med. 2012;59(6):460-468.e7. PubMed
  • Nishijima DK, Holmes JF,  Offerman SR, Ballard DW, Vinson DR, Chettipally UK, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME. In reply (response to Rasler F, Delayed intracranial hemorrhage from mild head injury and warfarin use). Ann Emerg Med. 2013;61:126-127. Full text   
Head Injury (pediatrics) and Clinical Decision Support
  • Dayan PS, Ballard DW, Tham E, Hoffman JM, Swietlik M, Deakyne SJ, Alessandrini EA, Tzimenatos L, Bajaj L, Vinson DR, Mark DG, Offerman SR, Chettipally UK, Paterno MD, Schaeffer MH, Wang J, Casper TC, Goldberg HS, Grundmeier RW, Kuppermann N. Use of traumatic brain injury prediction rules with clinical decision support. Pediatrics. 2017 Mar 24 [Epub ahead of print].  PubMed
  • Sheehan B, Nigrovic LE, Dayan PS, Kuppermann N, Ballard DW, Alessandrini E, Bajaj L, Goldberg H, Hoffman J, Offerman SR, Mark DG, Swietlik M, Tham E, Tzimenatos L, Vinson DR, Jones GS, Bakken S; for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). Informing the design of clinical decision support services for evaluation of children with minor blunt head trauma in the emergency department: A sociotechnical analysis. J Biomed Inform. 2013;46(5):905-13. PubMed
Presented at the 2011 American Medical Informatics Association’s Annual Symposium, Washington, DC
  • Ballard DW, Reed ME, Rauchwerger AS, Vinson DR, Mark DG, Offerman SR, Chettipally UK, Graetz I, Dayan P, Kuppermann N, for the Clinical Research in Emergency Services and Treatment (CREST) Network. Emergency physicians’ knowledge and attitudes of clinical decision support in the electronic health record: a survey-based study. Acad Emerg Med. 2013;20(4):352-360. PubMed  
Headache

  • Vinson DR. Managing migraine in complicated patients [expert opinion]. Acad Life in Emerg Med. 2016 May 18. Full-text

  • Friedman BW, West J, Vinson DR, Minen MT, Restivo A, Gallagher EJ. Current management of migraine in U.S. emergency departments: An analysis of the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. Cephalalgia. 2015;35(4):301-9.  PubMed
  • Friedman BW, Vinson DR. Convincing the skeptic. How to fix emergency department headache management. Cephalalgia. 2015;35(8):641-3. Full-text
  • Hurtado T, Vinson DR, Vandenberg JT. ED treatment of migraine headache: factors influencing pharmacotherapeutic choices. Headache. 2007;47:1134-1143.  PubMed  
  • Vinson DR. Reply to Gupta R, Gernsheimer J. Treating headache in the emergency department: Avoiding the migraine-meperidine trap. Ann Emerg Med. 2003;42:161-2.  
  • *Vinson DR, Hurtado TR, Banwert L, Vandenberg JT: Variations among emergency departments in the treatment of benign headache. Ann Emerg Med. 2003;41:90-97.  PubMed

Reported in The Year Book of Emergency Medicine 2004, WP Burdick, ed. (St. Louis: Mosby, 2004), 121-122.

Presented at the 2002 American College of Emergency Physicians’ Research Forum, Seattle, WA.

 

  • Vinson DR. Emergency department treatment of migraine headaches. Arch Intern Med. 2002;162:845-846.
  • Vinson DR. Treatment patterns of isolated benign headache in US emergency departments. Ann Emerg Med. 2002;39:215-22.  PubMed 

Reviewed by Journal Watch Emergency Medicine 2002 May 15, and AnalgesiaFile. 
 
Neuroleptic-induced Akathisia

 

  • Vinson DR. Development of a simplified instrument for the diagnosis and grading of akathisia in a cohort of patients receiving prochlorperazine. J Emerg Med. 2006;31:139-145.  PubMed 

Featured in “You can’t assume headaches are benign”  ED Nursing. 2008;11:65-66.

 

  • Vinson DR. Diphenhydramine in the treatment of akathisia induced by prochlorperazine. J Emerg Med. 2005;28:348-349 [letter]. In response to Baden EY et al. Diphenhydramine in the treatment of akathesia [sic] induced by prochlorperazine. J Emerg Med. 2005;28:347-348. 
  • Vinson DR. Diphenhydramine in the treatment of akathisia induced by prochlorperazine. J Emerg Med.  2004;26:265-270.  Full-text

Presented at the 2002 American College of Emergency Physicians’ Research Forum, Seattle, WA.

 

  • Gupta R, Vinson DR. Akathisia can be reduced by lowering the dose of D2 receptor antagonists. Ann Emerg Med. 2003;41:280.  
  • Vinson DR. Akathisia: Problematic but preventable. Ann Emerg Med. 2002; 39:575-576. 
  • Vinson DR. Drug-induced akathisia: In Need of Detection and Prevention. Rapid Response to “Akathisia: overlooked at a cost.” BMJ. 2002; 324: 1506-1507.  BMJ Online 
  • Vinson DR. Frequency of adverse reactions to prochlorperazine in the ED: a response. Amer J Emerg Med. 2001; 19:175. 
  • Vinson DR, Drotts DL. Diphenhydramine for the prevention of akathisia induced by prochlorperazine: a randomized, controlled trial. Ann Emerg Med. 2001:37:125-131.  Full-text

Discussed in Side Effects of Drugs—Annual 26, ed. Aronson JK (Boston/London: Elsevier, 2003), 66.

Presented at the 1999 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.

 

  • Vinson DR, Migala AF, Quesenberry CP, Jr. Slow infusion for the reduction of akathisia induced by prochlorperazine: a randomized controlled trial. J Emerg Med. 2001;20:113-119.  PubMed 

Discussed in Side Effects of Drugs—Annual 26, ed. Aronson JK (Boston/London: Elsevier, 2003), 66.

Presented at the 2000 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

 

  • Vinson DR, Drotts DL: Akathisia and prochlorperazine. Ann Emerg Med. 2000;36:170-1. 
  • Drotts DL, Vinson DR. Prochlorperazine induces akathisia in emergency patients. Ann Emerg Med. 1999;34:469-475.  PubMed

Reviewed by Journal Watch Emergency Medicine, 1999 Dec 1.

Presented at the 1998 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL  

 
Patient Safety and Quality of Care
  • *Patel PB, Keenly LD, Anderson HE, Vinson DR. Informed consent for lumbar puncture in the Emergency Department. West J Emerg Med. 2014;21:266-73. Full-text
  • We at Kaiser Sacramento served as one of eighty-plus study sites who abstracted medical records for the following studies:
    • Sullivan AF, Camargo CA Jr, Cleary PD, et al. The National Emergency Department Safety Study: study rationale and design. Acad Emerg Med. 2007;14:1182-9.
    • Magid DJ, Sullivan AF, Cleary PD, et al. The safety of emergency care systems: Results of a survey of clinicians in 65 US emergency departments. Ann Emerg Med. 2009;53:715-23.e1.
    • Tsai CL, Sullivan AF, Gordon JA, et al. Quality of care for acute asthma in 63 US emergency departments. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2009;123:354-61.
    • Kansagra SM, Rao SR, Sullivan AF, et al. A survey of workplace violence across 65 U.S. emergency departments. Acad Emerg Med. 2008;15:1268-74.
Patient Satisfaction

  • Patel PB, Vinson DR. Physician email and telephone follow-up after emergency department visit improves patient satisfaction: A cross-over trial. Ann Emerg Med. 2013;61(6):631-7.   PubMed  Full-text

                Presented at the 2011 Research Forum, American College of Emergency Physicians, San Francisco, CA.
                Featured in PR Newswire   
                Featured in ED Management   

 
Procedural Sedation  

  • Josephy CP, Vinson DR. Safety of single- vs two-physician procedural sedation in a small community Emergency Department. Undergoing peer review.

  • *Vinson DR, Hoehn C. Sedation-assisted orthopedic reduction in emergency medicine: the safety and success of a one physician/one nurse model. West J Emerg Med. 2013;14(1):47-54. Full-text
                        Featured in Journal Watch
                        
                        Letter to the editor exchange: Full-text

 

  • Vinson DR, Bradbury DR. Etomidate for procedural sedation in emergency medicine. Ann Emerg Med. 2002;39:592-598. PubMed

Reviewed by Journal Watch Emergency Medicine 2002 August 28.

 

Research Methods
  • Offerman SR, Nishijima D, Ballard D, Chettipally U, Vinson DR, Holmes JF. The use of delayed telephone informed consent for observational emergency medicine research is ethical and effective. Acad Emerg Med. 2013;20(4):403-407.  Abstract
    Presented at the 2010 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV.
  • Offerman SR, Rauchwerger AS, Nishijima DK, Ballard DW, Chettipally UK, Vinson DR, Reed ME, Holmes JF Jr. Use of an electronic medical record ‘‘dotphrase’’ data template for a prospective head injury study. West J Emerg Med. 2013;14(2):109-113. Full-text

                    Presented at the 2012 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
 
Sepsis
  • Mark DG, Morehouse JW, Hung YY, Kene MV, Elms AR, Liu V, Ballard DW, Vinson DR, for the KP CREST Network Investigators. In-hospital mortality following treatment with red blood cell transfusion or inotropic therapy during early goal-directed therapy for septic shock: a retrospective propensity-adjusted analysis. Crit Care. 2014;18:496. Full-text pdf
  • Mark D, Morehouse J, Kene M, Elms A, Ballard D, Vinson D. Unbundling early goal-directed therapy: correction of low central venous oxygen saturation. Crit Care Med. 2013; 41(S12), A269 [abstract 1068]. Abstract
  • Mark D, Hung Y-Y, Morehouse J, Kene M, Elms A, Vinson D, Ballard D, for the KP CREST Network Investigators. Predictors of dobutamine and red blood cell administration among patients treated with EGDT in the ED. Ann Emerg Med. 2013;62(4S):S134  [abstract 375]. iPoster  
  • Chettipally UK, Reed ME, Huang J, Rauchwerger AS, Ballard DW, Offerman SR, Vinson DR, for the CREST Network. Life After Sepsis Therapy: A one-year follow-up study of Early Goal Directed Therapy. Ann Emerg Med. 2013;62(4S):S132-S133  [abstract 372].   iPoster
 

Stroke

  • Fox CK, Hills KN, Sidney S, Vinson DR, Fullerton HJ. Ischemic stroke risk after traumatic head or neck injury. Stroke. 2016;47(Suppl_1):AWP201 [abstract].

  • Ballard DW, Huang J, Vinson DR, Reed ME, Kim AS. Reply to Shy BD, et al. The complexities of studying computerized physician order entry: implications for the perceived effectiveness of stroke order sets [letter]. Ann Emerg Med. 2016;67(4):561-562. Full-text

  • *Kene MV, Ballard DW, Vinson DR, Rauchwerger AS, Iskin HR, Kim AS. Emergency physician attitudes, preferences, and risk tolerance for stroke as a potential cause of dizziness symptoms. West J Emerg Med. 2015;16(5):768-776.  Full-text

  • *Ballard DW, Kim AS, Huang J, Park DK, Kene MV, Chettipally UK, Iskin HR, Hsu J, Vinson DR, Mark DG, Reed ME. Implementation of an inpatient electronic health record with computerized physician order entry is associated with improved outcomes for patients admitted with ischemic stroke. Ann Emerg Med. 2015;66(6):601-10.  Abstract

  • Coralic Z, Kim AS, Vinson DR. Prochlorperazine-induced hemidystonia mimicking acute stroke. West J Emerg Med. 2015;16(4):572-4. Full-text


Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

  • Mark DG, Sonne D, Jun P, Schwartz D, Kene MV, Vinson DR, Ballard DW. False negative interpretations of cranial computed tomography in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Acad Emerg Med. 2016;23(5):591-8. Abstract             
  • Mark DG, Kene MV, Udaltsova N, Vinson DR, Ballard DW. Sensitivity of a subarachnoid hemorrhage decision rule and early computed tomography in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a retrospective cohort study. West J Emerg Med. 2015;16(5):671-676. Full-text

  • Mark DG, Kene MV, Offerman SR, Vinson DR, Ballard DW. Validation of cerebrospinal fluid findings in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a case series study. Amer J Emerg Med. 2015;33(9):1249-52. Abstract

  • Mark DG, Kene MV, Sonne D, Udaltsova N, Vinson DR, Ballard DW. Outcomes following missed diagnoses of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Acad Emerg Med. 2015;22(S1):S36-7 [abstract 70].

  • Mark DG, Hung YY, Offerman SR, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Chettipally UK, Vinson DR, Ballard DW, for the Kaiser Permanente CREST Network Investigators. Non-traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage in the setting of negative cranial computed tomography: External validation of a clinical and imaging prediction rule. Ann Emerg Med. 2013;62(1):1-10.e1    PubMed
Presented at the 2012 Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. 
  • Mark DG, Vinson DR, Ballard DW; Kaiser Permanente CREST Network investigators. Reply to Perry JJ, “Pragmatic interpretation of the study of nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage in the setting of negative cranial computed tomography results: External validation of a clinical and imaging prediction rule.” Ann Emerg Med. 2013;62(4):436-437.
  • Mark DG, Sonne DC, Vinson DR, Ballard DW; Kaiser Permanente CREST Network investigators. Reply to Schwartz DT, “Sensitivity of computed tomography for subarachnoid hemorrhage.” Ann Emerg Med. 2013;62(4):438-439.
  • Mark DG, Vinson DR, Ballard DW. Reply to Verrgouwen MD, et al, “Clinical suspicion of subarachnoid hemorrhage and negative head CT scan performed within 6 hours of headache onset - no need for lumbar puncture.” Ann Emerg Med. 2013;61(4):504-5.
 
Miscellany 

  • Furyk JS, Meek RA, Egerton-Warburton D, Vinson DR. Oligo-evidence for antiemetic efficacy in the emergency department [letter]. Amer J Emerg Med. 2017 Mar 10 [Epub ahead of print]. 

  • *Vinson DR, Nagam MR, Lugovskaya N, Nasrollahi F, Egerton-Warburton D, Furyk JS, Meek RA. Oligoantiemesis: a premature neologism for an intervention insufficiently substantiated in the emergency setting. J Emerg Med. 2017;52(3):366-368.    The full text pdf can be found at the CREST site.

  • *Abraham AS, Liu MY, Vinson DR. Image diagnosis: Iliopsoas abscess from Crohn disease. Perm J. 2017;21:16-150. Full-text (pending)

  • Patel PB, Vinson DR. Emergency physicians seek...and are finding their place [letter]. Ann Emerg Med. 2016;68(3):397-398. Full-text

  • *Stieglitz DD, Vinson DR, Hampton MD. Equipment-based Pilates reduces work-related chronic low back pain and disability: a pilot study. J Bodyw Mov Ther. 2016;20(1):74-82. Abstract

  • Vinson DR. NEXUS Cervical Spine Criteria. Ann Emerg Med. 2001;37:237-238.
Discussed by Fatovich DM. Recent developments: Emergency medicine. BMJ. 2002; 324:958-962. 
 
  • Vinson DR. Tetanus not 100% preventable. J Emerg Med. 2000;19:74-5. 

  • Vinson DR: Immunisation does not rule out tetanus. BMJ. 2000; 320:383.  Full-text 

  • Vandenberg JT, Lutz RH, Vinson DR. Large-diameter suction system reduces oropharyngeal evacuation time. J Emerg Med. 1999;17:941-944.  PubMed

 

  • Vinson DR, Burke TF, Sung HM. Rapid reversal of life-threatening diltiazem-induced tetany with calcium chloride. Ann Emerg Med. 1999;34:676-678.  PubMed 

 

  • Vandenberg JT, Vinson DR. The inadequacies of contemporary oropharyngeal suction. Am J Emerg Med. 1999;17:611-613.  PubMed 
  • Vinson DR: Epiploic appendagitis. a new diagnosis for the emergency physician. Two cases and a review. J Emerg Med. 1999;17:827-832.  PubMed 

 

  • Vinson DR. The Ellis fracture: An anachronistic eponym in dentistry. Ann Emerg Med. 1999; 33:599-600. 

 

  • Roth BA, Vinson DR, Kim S. Carisoprodol-induced myoclonic encephalopathy. J Toxicol Clin Toxicol. 1998;36:609-612.  PubMed 

 

  • Vinson DR. Superstitions in medicine: bad luck or bad logic? Ann Emerg Med. 1998;31:650-652.

 

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