Curriculum Vitae John Spertus, md mph facc faha

Spertus JA, Kennedy KF, Chan PS, American Heart Association's Get With the Guidelines-Resuscitation I. Association between hospital rates of early Do-Not-Resuscitate orders and favorable neurological survival among survivors of inhospital cardiac arrest. Am Heart J. 2017;193:108-116.

Salisbury AC, Sapontis J, Grantham JA, Qintar M, Gosch KL, Lombardi W, Karmpaliotis D, Moses J, Cohen DJ, Spertus JA, Kosiborod M and Group OCS. Outcomes of Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients With Diabetes: Insights From the OPEN CTO Registry. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2017;10(21):2174-2181.

Tang Y, Xia M, Sun L, Spertus JA, Jones PG. A general framework for constraint approaches to adjusted risk differences. Biom J. 2018;60(1):207-215.

Lu J, Lu Y, Wang X, Li X, Linderman GC, Wu C, Cheng X, Mu L, Zhang H, Liu J, Su M, Zhao H, Spatz ES, Spertus JA, Masoudi FA, Krumholz HM and Jiang L. Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in China: data from 1.7 million adults in a population-based screening study (China PEACE Million Persons Project). Lancet. 2017;390(10112):2549-2558.

Pokharel Y, Khariton Y, Tang Y, Nassif ME, Chan PS, Arnold SV, Jones PG and Spertus JA. Association of Serial Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire Assessments With Death and Hospitalization in Patients With Heart Failure With Preserved and Reduced Ejection Fraction: A Secondary Analysis of 2 Randomized Clinical Trials. JAMA Cardiol. 2017;2(12):1315-1321.

Inohara T, Kohsaka S, Miyata H, Sawano M, Ueda I, Maekawa Y, Fukuda K, Jones PG, Cohen DJ, Zhao Z, Spertus JA and Smolderen KG. Prognostic Impact of Subsequent Acute Coronary Syndrome and Unplanned Revascularization on Long-Term Mortality After an Index Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Report From a Japanese Multicenter Registry. J Am Heart Assoc. 2017;6(11).

Salisbury AC, Sapontis J, Saxon JT, Gosch KL, Lombardi WL, Karmpaliotis D, Moses JW, Qintar M, Kirtane AJ, Spertus JA, Cohen DJ, Grantham JA. Association of Stress Test Risk Classification With Health Status After Chronic Total Occlusion Angioplasty (from the Outcomes, Patient Health Status and Efficiency in Chronic Total Occlusion Hybrid Procedures [OPEN-CTO] Study). The American Journal of Cardiology, 2017,

Qintar M, Sharma PP, Pokharel Y, Tang Y, Lu Y, Jones P, Dreyer RP, Spertus JA. Prevalence and predictors of elevated high-sensitivity C-reactive protein in post-myocardial infarction patients: Insights from the VIRGO and TRIUMPH registries. Clin Cardiol. 2017, (In Press)

Qu H, Lu Y, Gudbranson E, Bucholz EM, Xuan S, Masoudi FA, Spertus JA, Zheng X, Li J, Krumholz HM. Large-Scale Epidemiologic Studies of Cardiovascular Diseases in China: Need for Improved Data Collection, Methods, Transparency, and Documentation. Glob Heart. 2017, (In Press)

Patel KK, Spertus JA, Khariton Y, Tang Y, Curtis LH, Chan PS. Association Between Prompt Defibrillation and Epinephrine Treatment With Long Term Survival After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. Circulation. 2017, (In Press)

Hirai T, Grantham JA, Sapontis J, Cohen DJ, Marso SP, Lombardi W, Karmpaliotis D, Moses J, Nicholson WJ, Pershad A, Wyman RM, Spaedy A, Cook S, Doshi P, Federici R, Nugent K, Gosch KL, Spertus JA, Salisbury AC. Group OCS. Impact of subintimal plaque modification procedures on health status after unsuccessful chronic total occlusion angioplasty. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2017, (In Press)

Alturkmani HJ, Qintar M, Patel KK, Jones PG, Spertus JA. The Association of Invasive Treatment with Health Status Outcomes in Patients with Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction and Pre-infarct Angina, Eur Heart J Qual Care Clin Outcomes. 2017, (In Press)

Tang Y, Xia M, Sun L, Spertus JA, Jones PG. A general framework for constraint approaches to adjusted risk differences. Biom J. 2018, 60(1): 207-215.

Kutty S, Jones PG, Karels Q, Joseph N, Spertus JA, Chan PS. Association of Pediatric Medical Emergency Teams With Hospital Mortality. Circulation, 2018, 137(1):38-46.

Huo X, Spatz ES, Ding Q, Horak P, Zheng X, Masters C, Zhang H, Irwin ML, Yan X, Guan W, Li J, Li X, Spertus JA, Masoudi FA, Krumholz HM, Jiang L. Design and rationale of the Cardiovascular Health and Text Messaging (CHAT) Study and the CHAT-Diabetes Mellitus (CHAT-DM) Study: two randomised controlled trials of text messaging to improve secondary prevention for coronary heart disease and diabetes. BMJ Open. 2017, 7(12): e018302.

Jayaram NM, Khariton Y, Krumholz HM, Chaudhry SI, Mattera J, Tang F, Herrin J, Hodshon B, Spertus JA. Impact of Telemonitoring on Health Status. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2017,10(12).

Lu J, Lu Y, Wang X, Li X, Linderman GC, Wu C, Cheng X, Mu L, Zhang H, Liu J, Su M, Zhao H, Spatz ES, Spertus JA, Masoudi FA, Krumholz HM, Jiang L. Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in China: data from 1.7 million adults in a population-based screening study (China PEACE Million Persons Project). Lancet, 2017, 390(10112): 2549-2558.

Pokharel Y, Khariton Y, Tang Y, Nassif ME, Chan PS, Arnold SV, Jones PG, Spertus JA. Association of Serial Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire Assessments With Death and Hospitalization in Patients With Heart Failure With Preserved and Reduced Ejection Fraction: A Secondary Analysis of 2 Randomized Clinical Trials. JAMA Cardiol, 2017,2(12): 1315-1321.

Qintar M, Grantham JA, Sapontis J, Gosch KL, Lombardi W, Karmpaliotis D, Moses J, Salisbury AC, Cohen DJ, Spertus JA, Arnold SV. Dyspnea Among Patients With Chronic Total Occlusions Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Prevalence and Predictors of Improvement. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes, 2017,10(12). PMCID:5752153.

Grady KL, Jones PG, Cristian-Andrei A, Naftel DC, Myers S, Dew MA, Idrissi K, Weidner G, Wissman SA, Kirklin JK, Spertus JA. Causes and Consequences of Missing Health-Related Quality of Life Assessments in Patients Who Undergo Mechanical Circulatory Support Implantation: Insights From INTERMACS (Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support). Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes, 2017,10(12): e003268. PMCID:5737781.

Shaw LJ, Blankstein R, Jacobs JE, Leipsic JA, Kwong RY, Taqueti VR, Beanlands RSB, Mieres JH, Flamm SD, Gerber TC, Spertus J, Di Carli MF, American Heart Association Cardiovascular I, Intervention Subcommittee of the Council on Clinical C, Council on Cardiovascular R, Intervention, Council On C, Stroke N, Council on Cardiovascular Disease in The Y, Council on Quality Of COutcomes R. Defining Quality in Cardiovascular Imaging: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging, 2017,10(12).

Desai NR, Kennedy KF, Cohen DJ, Connolly T, Diercks DB, Moscucci M, Ramee S, Spertus J, Wang TY, Mcnamara RL. Contemporary risk model for inhospital major bleeding for patients with acute myocardial infarction: The acute coronary treatment and intervention outcomes network (ACTION) registry(R)-Get With The Guidelines (GWTG)(R). Am Heart J, 2017,194: 16-24.

Pokharel Y, Tang Y, Bhardwaj B, Patel KK, Qintar M, O'Keefe JH, Jr., Kulkarni KR, Jones PH, Martin SS, Virani SS, Spertus JA. Association of low-density lipoprotein pattern with mortality after myocardial infarction: Insights from the TRIUMPH study. J Clin Lipidol, 2017, 11(6):1458-1470 e1454. PMCID:5698121.

Khera R, Spertus JA, Starks MA, Tang Y, Bradley SM, Girotra S, Chan PS. Administrative Codes for Capturing In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. JAMA Cardiol, 2017, 2(11):1275-1277. PMCID: 5736791.

Jayaram N, Spertus JA, Kennedy KF, Vincent R, Martin GR, Curtis JP, Nykanen DG, Moore PM, Bergersen L. Modeling Major Adverse Outcomes of Pediatric and Adult Patients with Congenital Heart Disease Undergoing Cardiac Catheterization: Observations from the NCDR IMPACT Registry. Circulation, 2017, 136(21):2009-2019. PMCID:5698125.

Salisbury AC, Sapontis J, Grantham JA, Qintar M, Gosch KL, Lombardi W, Karmpaliotis D, Moses J, Cohen DJ, Spertus JA, Kosiborod M, Group OCS. Outcomes of Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients With Diabetes: Insights From the OPEN CTO Registry. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2017, 10(21):2174-2181.

Inohara T, Kohsaka S, Miyata H, Sawano M, Ueda I, Maekawa Y, Fukuda K, Jones PG, Cohen DJ, Zhao Z, Spertus JA, Smolderen KG. Prognostic Impact of Subsequent Acute Coronary Syndrome and Unplanned Revascularization on Long-Term Mortality After an Index Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Report From a Japanese Multicenter Registry, J Am Heart Assoc, 2017,6(11). PMCID:5721753.

Fendler TJ, Spertus JA, Kennedy KF, Chan PS, American Heart Association's Get With the Guidelines-Resuscitation I. Association between hospital rates of early Do-Not-Resuscitate orders and favorable neurological survival among survivors of inhospital cardiac arrest, Am Heart J. 2017,193:108-116. PMCID:5747564.

Li X, Murugiah K, Li J, Masoudi FA, Chan PS, Hu S, Spertus JA, Wang Y, Downing NS, Krumholz HM, Jiang L, China PCG. Urban-Rural Comparisons in Hospital Admission, Treatments, and Outcomes for ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction in China From 2001 to 2011: A Retrospective Analysis From the China PEACE Study (Patient-Centered Evaluative Assessment of Cardiac Events). Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes, 2017,10(11).

Murugiah K, Wang Y, Nuti SV, Li X, Li J, Zheng X, Downing NS, Desai NR, Masoudi FA, Spertus JA, Jiang L, Krumholz HM, China PCG. Are Non-ST-segment Elevation Myocardial Infarctions (NSTEMI) missing in China? Eur Heart J Qual Care Clin Outcomes, 2017, 3(4):319-327.

Barrabes JA, Gupta A, Porta-Sanchez A, Strait KM, Acosta-Velez JG, D'Onofrio G, Lidon RM, Geda M, Dreyer RP, Lorenze NP, Lichtman JH, Spertus JA, Bueno H, Krumholz HM. Comparison of Electrocardiographic Characteristics in Men Versus Women Am J Cardiol, 2017, 120(10):1727-1733.

Nassif ME, Spertus JA, Jones PG, Fendler TJ, Allen LA, Grady KL, Arnold SV. Changes in disease-specific versus generic health status measures after left ventricular assist device implantation: Insights from INTERMACS. J Heart Lung Transplant, 2017, 36(11):1243-1249. PMCID: 5651195.

Stehlik J, Rodriguez-Correa C, Spertus JA, Biber J, Nativi-Nicolau J, Zickmund S, Steinberg BA, Peritz DC, Walker A, Hess J, Drakos SG, Kfoury AG, Fang JC, Selzman CH, Hess R. Implementation of Real-Time Assessment of Patient-Reported Outcomes in a Heart Failure Clinic: A Feasibility Study. J Card Fail, 2017,23(11):813-816.

Qintar M, Towheed A, Tang F, Salisbury AC, Ho PM, Grantham JA, Spertus JA, Arnold SV. The Impact of De-escalation of Antianginal Medications on Health Status After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. J Am Heart Assoc, 2017,6(10).

Nassif ME, Tang Y, Cleland JG, Abraham WT, Linde C, Gold MR, Young JB, Daubert JC, Sherfesee L, Schaber D, Tang ASL, Jones PG, Arnold SV, Spertus JA. Precision Medicine for Cardiac Resynchronization: Predicting Quality of Life Benefits for Individual Patients-An Analysis From 5 Clinical Trials. Circ Heart Fail, 2017,10(10). PMCID: 5724761.

Amin AP, Bach RG, Caruso ML, Kennedy KF, Spertus JA. Association of Variation in Contrast Volume With Acute Kidney Injury in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. JAMA Cardiol, 2017, 2(9):1007-1012.

Sapontis J, Salisbury AC, Yeh RW, Cohen DJ, Hirai T, Lombardi W, McCabe JM, Karmpaliotis D, Moses J, Nicholson WJ, Pershad A, Wyman RM, Spaedy A, Cook S, Doshi P, Federici R, Thompson CR, Marso SP, Nugent K, Gosch K, Spertus JA, Grantham JA. Early Procedural and Health Status Outcomes After Chronic Total Occlusion Angioplasty: A Report From the OPEN-CTO Registry (Outcomes, Patient Health Status, and Efficiency in Chronic Total Occlusion Hybrid Procedures). JACC Cardiovasc Interv, 2017, 10(15):1523-1534.

Pokharel Y, Sharma PP, Qintar M, Lu Y, Tang Y, Jones P, Dreyer RP, Spertus JA. High-sensitivity C-reactive protein levels and health status outcomes after myocardial infarction. Atherosclerosis, 2017, 266:16-23. PMC5671892.

Qintar M, Smolderen KG, Chan PS, Gosch KL, Jones PG, Buchanan DM, Girotra S, Spertus JA. Preinfarct Health Status and the Use of Early Invasive Versus Ischemia-Guided Management in Non-ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome. Am J Card, 2017, 120(7):1062-1069.

Grodzinsky A, Kosiborod M, Tang F, Jones PG, McGuire DK, Spertus JA, Beltrame JF, Jang JS, Goyal A, Butala NM, Yeh RW, Arnold SV. Residual Angina After Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients With Diabetes Mellitus. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes, 2017, 10(9). PMCID: 5611809.

Qintar M, Chhatriwalla AK, Arnold SV, Tang F, Buchanan DM, Shafiq A, Pokharel Y, deBronkart D, Ashraf JM, Spertus JA. Beyond restenosis: Patients' preference for drug eluting or bare metal stents. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv, 2017, 90(3):357-363.

Pedersen SS, Schmidt T, Skovbakke SJ, Wiil UK, Egstrup K, Smolderen KG, Spertus JA. A Personalized and Interactive Web-Based Health Care Innovation to Advance the Quality of Life and Care of Patients With Heart Failure (ACQUIRE-HF): A Mixed Methods Feasibility Study. JMIR Res Protoc, 2017, 6(5):e96. PMCID:5461421.

Shafiq A, Gosch K, Amin AP, Ting HH, Spertus JA, Salisbury AC. Predictors and variability of drug-eluting vs bare-metal stent selection in contemporary percutaneous coronary intervention: Insights from the PRISM study. Clin Cardiol, 2017, 40(8):521-527.

Acharya T, Salisbury AC, Spertus JA, Kennedy KF, Bhullar A, Reddy HKK, Joshi BK, Ambrose JA. In-Hospital Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in America's Safety Net: Insights From the NCDR Cath-PCI Registry. JACC, 2017, 10(15):1475-1485.

Sawano M, Kohsaka S, Abe T, Inohara T, Maekawa Y, Ueda I, Sueyoshi K, Suzuki M, Noma S, Numasawa Y, Miyata H, Fukuda K, Smolderen KG, Spertus JA. Patterns of statin non-prescription in patients with established coronary artery disease: A report from a contemporary multicenter Japanese PCI registry. PLoS ONE, 2017, 12(8):e0182687. PMCID: 5560610.

Stehlik J, Estep JD, Selzman CH, Rogers JG, Spertus JA, Shah KB, Chuang J, Farrar DJ, Starling RC. Investigators RS. Patient-Reported Health-Related Quality of Life Is a Predictor of Outcomes in Ambulatory Heart Failure Patients Treated With Left Ventricular Assist Device Compared With Medical Management: Results From the ROADMAP Study (Risk Assessment and Comparative Effectiveness of Left Ventricular Assist Device and Medical Management). Circ Heart Fail, 2017,10(6).

Sud M, Yu B, Wijeysundera HC, Austin PC, Ko DT, Braga J, Cram P, Spertus JA, Domanski M, Lee DS. Associations Between Short or Long Length of Stay and 30-Day Readmission and Mortality in Hospitalized Patients With Heart Failure. JACC Heart Fail, 2017, 5(8):578-588.

Filippatos G, Maggioni AP, Lam CSP, Pieske-Kraigher E, Butler J, Spertus J, Ponikowski P, Shah SJ, Solomon SD, Scalise AV, Mueller K, Roessig L, Bamber L, Gheorghiade M, Pieske B. Patient-reported outcomes in the SOluble guanylate Cyclase stimulatoR in heArT failurE patientS with PRESERVED ejection fraction (SOCRATES-PRESERVED) study. Eur J Heart Fail, 2017,19(6):782-791.

DeVore AD, Thomas L, Albert NM, Butler J, Hernandez AF, Patterson JH, Spertus JA, Williams FB, Turner SJ, Chan WW, Duffy CI, McCague K, Mi X, Fonarow GC. Change the management of patients with heart failure: Rationale and design of the CHAMP-HF registry. American Heart J, 2017,189:177-183.

Kontos MC, Lanfear DE, Gosch K, Daugherty SL, Heidenriech P, Spertus JA. Prognostic Value of Serial N-Terminal Pro-Brain Natriuretic Peptide Testing in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction. The American Journal of Cardiology, 2017,120(2):181-185.

Downing NS, Wang Y, Dharmarajan K, Nuti SV, Murugiah K, Du X, Zheng X, Li X, Li J, Masoudi FA, Spertus JA, Jiang L, Krumholz HM. Quality of Care in Chinese Hospitals: Processes and Outcomes After ST-segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction. J Am Heart Assoc, 2017,6(6). PMCID: 5669155.

Smolderen KG, Spertus JA, Gosch K, Dreyer RP, D'Onofrio G, Lichtman JH, Geda M, Beltrame J, Safdar B, Bueno H, Krumholz HM. Depression Treatment and Health Status Outcomes in Young Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction: Insights From the VIRGO Study (Variation in Recovery: Role of Gender on Outcomes of Young AMI Patients). Circulation, 2017,135(18):1762-1764. PMCID:5755692.

Qintar M, Spertus JA, Tang Y, Buchanan DM, Chan PS, Amin AP, Salisbury AC. Noncardiac chest pain after acute myocardial infarction: Frequency and association with health status outcomes. American Heart J, 2017,186:1-11. PMCID: 5575910.

Shamim S, Tang F, Safley D, Jones P, Spertus JA, Baklanov D. Patient Versus Physician Variation in Use of Transradial Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. Am J Card, 2017, 119(12):1937-1941.

Roumia M, Aronow HD, Soukas P, Gosch K, Smolderen KG, Spertus JA, Abbott JD. Sex differences in disease-specific health status measures in patients with symptomatic peripheral artery disease: Data from the PORTRAIT Study. Vascular Medicine (London, England), 2017,22(2):103-109.

Pitts R, Daugherty SL, Tang F, Jones P, Ho PM, Tsai TT, Spertus J, Maddox TM. Optimal secondary prevention medication use in acute myocardial infarction patients with nonobstructive coronary artery disease is modified by management strategy: insights from the TRIUMPH Registry. Clin Cardiol, 2017, 40(6):347-355. PMCID: 5596450.

Stolker JM, Cohen DJ, Kennedy KF, Pencina MJ, Arnold SV, Kleiman NS, Spertus JA. Combining clinical and angiographic variables for estimating risk of target lesion revascularization after drug eluting stent placement., Cardiovasc Revasc Med, 2017,18(3):169-176.

Howson JMM, Zhao W, Barnes DR, Ho WK, Young R, Paul DS, Waite LL, Freitag DF, Fauman EB, Salfati EL, Sun BB, Eicher JD, Johnson AD, Sheu WHH, Nielsen SF, Lin WY, Surendran P, Malarstig A, Wilk JB, Tybjaerg-Hansen A, Rasmussen KL, Kamstrup PR, Deloukas P, Erdmann J, Kathiresan S, Samani NJ, Schunkert H, Watkins H, Do R, Rader DJ, Johnson JA, Hazen SL, Quyyumi AA, Spertus JA, Pepine CJ, Franceschini N, Justice A, Reiner AP, Buyske S, Hindorff LA, Carty CL, North KE, Kooperberg C, Boerwinkle E, Young K, Graff M, Peters U, Absher D, Hsiung CA, Lee WJ, Taylor KD, Chen YH, Lee IT, Guo X, Chung RH, Hung YJ, Rotter JI, Juang JJ, Quertermous T, Wang TD, Rasheed A, Frossard P, Alam DS, Majumder AAS, Di Angelantonio E, Chowdhury R, Chen YI, Nordestgaard BG, Assimes TL, Danesh J, Butterworth AS, Saleheen D. Fifteen new risk loci for coronary artery disease highlight arterial-wall-specific mechanisms. Nature Genetics, 2017, 49(7):1113-1119. PMCID: 5555387.

Tang Y, Jones PG, Sun L, Arnold SV, Spertus JA. Constraint approaches to the estimation of relative risk. Stat Methods Med Res, 2017, 962280217702934.

Patel KK, Arnold SV, Chan PS, Tang Y, Pokharel Y, Jones PG, Spertus JA. Personalizing the Intensity of Blood Pressure Control: Modeling the Heterogeneity of Risks and Benefits From SPRINT (Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial). Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes, 2017,10(4). PMCID: 5428922.

Tatlock S, Arbuckle R, Sanchez R, Grant L, Khan I, Manvelian G, Spertus JA. Psychometric Evaluation of a Treatment Acceptance Measure for Use in Patients Receiving Treatment via Subcutaneous Injection. Value Health, 2017,20(3):430-440.

Flint KM, Spertus JA, Tang F, Jones P, Fendler TJ, Allen LA. Association of global and disease-specific health status with outcomes following continuous-flow left ventricular assist device implantation. BMC Cardiovasc Disord, 2017,17(1):78. PMCID:5348898.

Fowkes FG, Forster RB, Levin CE, Naidoo NG, Roy A, Shu C, Spertus J, Fang K, Bechara-Zamudio L, Catalano M, Visona A, Nikol S, Fletcher JP, Jaff MR, Hiatt WR, Norgren L. Prioritization of treatments for lower extremity peripheral artery disease in low- and middle-income countries. Int Angiol, 2017,36(3):203-215.

Li J, Li X, Ross JS, Wang Q, Wang Y, Desai NR, Xu X, Nuti SV, Masoudi FA, Spertus JA, Krumholz HM, Jiang L. Fibrinolytic therapy in hospitals without percutaneous coronary intervention capabilities in China from 2001 to 2011: China PEACE-retrospective AMI study. Eur Heart J Acute Cardiovasc Care, 2017,6(3):232-243.

Masoudi FA, Ponirakis A, de Lemos JA, Jollis JG, Kremers M, Messenger JC, Moore JW, Moussa I, Oetgen WJ, Varosy PD, Vincent RN, Wei J, Curtis JP, Roe MT, Spertus JA. Trends in U.S. Cardiovascular Care: 2016 Report From 4 ACC National Cardiovascular Data Registries. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2017,69(11):1427-1450.

Masoudi FA, Ponirakis A, de Lemos JA, Jollis JG, Kremers M, Messenger JC, Moore JW, Moussa I, Oetgen WJ, Varosy PD, Vincent RN, Wei J, Curtis JP, Roe MT, Spertus JA. Executive Summary: Trends in U.S. Cardiovascular Care: 2016 Report From 4 ACC National Cardiovascular Data Registries. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2017,69(11):1424-1426.

Pokharel Y, Tang F, Jones PG, Nambi V, Bittner VA, Hira RS, Nasir K, Chan PS, Maddox TM, Oetgen WJ, Heidenreich PA, Borden WB, Spertus JA, Petersen LA, Ballantyne CM, Virani SS. Adoption of the 2013 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Cholesterol Management Guideline in Cardiology Practices Nationwide. JAMA Cardiol, 2017,2(4):361-369. PMCID:5470413.

Amin AP, Patterson M, House JA, Giersiefen H, Spertus JA, Baklanov DV, Chhatriwalla AK, Safley DM, Cohen DJ, Rao SV, Marso SP. Costs Associated With Access Site and Same-Day Discharge Among Medicare Beneficiaries Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: An Evaluation of the Current Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Care Pathways in the United States. JACC Cardiovasc Interv, 2017,10(4):342-351.

Dreyer RP, Dharmarajan K, Kennedy KF, Jones PG, Vaccarino V, Murugiah K, Nuti SV, Smolderen KG, Buchanan DM, Spertus JA, Krumholz HM. Sex Differences in 1-Year All-Cause Rehospitalization in Patients After Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Prospective Observational Study. Circulation, 2017,135(6):521-531. PMCID:5312975.

Xu X, Bao H, Strait KM, Edmondson DE, Davidson KW, Beltrame JF, Bueno H, Lin H, Dreyer RP, Brush JE, Spertus JA, Lichtman JH, D'Onofrio G, Krumholz HM. Perceived Stress After Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Comparison Between Young and Middle-Aged Women Versus Men. Psychosom Med, 2017,79(1):50-58. PMCID:5459399.

Lu Y, Zhou S, Dreyer RP, Spatz ES, Geda M, Lorenze NP, D'Onofrio G, Lichtman JH, Spertus JA, Ridker PM, Krumholz HM. Sex Differences in Inflammatory Markers and Health Status Among Young Adults With Acute Myocardial Infarction: Results From the VIRGO (Variation in Recovery: Role of Gender on Outcomes of Young Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients) Study. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes, 2017,10(2):e003470. PMCID: 5459381.

Smolderen KG, Buchanan DM, Gosch K, Whooley MA, Chan PS, Vaccarino V, Parashar S, Shah AJ, Ho PM, Spertus JA. Depression Treatment and 1-Year Mortality Following Acute Myocardial Infarction: Insights from the TRIUMPH Registry. Circulation, 2017, 135(18):1681-1689.

Sharma PK, Chhatriwalla AK, Cohen DJ, Jang JS, Baweja P, Gosch K, Jones P, Bach RG, Arnold SV, Spertus JA. Predicting long-term bleeding after percutaneous coronary intervention. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv, 2017,89(2):199-206.

Zewinger S, Kleber ME, Tragante V, McCubrey RO, Schmidt AF, Direk K, Laufs U, Werner C, Koenig W, Rothenbacher D, Mons U, Breitling LP, Brenner H, Jennings RT, Petrakis I, Triem S, Klug M, Filips A, Blankenberg S, Waldeyer C, Sinning C, Schnabel RB, Lackner KJ, Vlachopoulou E, Nygard O, Svingen GFT, Pedersen ER, Tell GS, Sinisalo J, Nieminen MS, Laaksonen R, Trompet S, Smit RAJ, Sattar N, Jukema JW, Groesdonk HV, Delgado G, Stojakovic T, Pilbrow AP, Cameron VA, Richards AM, Doughty RN, Gong Y, Cooper-DeHoff R, Johnson J, Scholz M, Beutner F, Thiery J, Smith JG, Vilmundarson RO, McPherson R, Stewart AFR, Cresci S, Lenzini PA, Spertus JA, Olivieri O, Girelli D, Martinelli NI, Leiherer A, Saely CH, Drexel H, Mundlein A, Braund PS, Nelson CP, Samani NJ, Kofink D, Hoefer IE, Pasterkamp G, Quyyumi AA, Ko YA, Hartiala JA, Allayee H, Tang WHW, Hazen SL, Eriksson N, Held C, Hagstrom E, Wallentin L, Akerblom A, Siegbahn A, Karp I, Labos C, Pilote L, Engert JC, Brophy JM, Thanassoulis G, Bogaty P, Szczeklik W, Kaczor M, Sanak M, Virani SS, Ballantyne CM, Lee VV, Boerwinkle E, Holmes MV, Horne BD, Hingorani A, Asselbergs FW, Patel RS, consortium G-C, Kramer BK, Scharnagl H, Fliser D, Marz W, Speer T. Relations between lipoprotein(a) concentrations, LPA genetic variants, and the risk of mortality in patients with established coronary heart disease: a molecular and genetic association study. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol, 2017,5(7):534-543. PMCID: 5651679.

Kureshi F, Shafiq A, Arnold SV, Gosch K, Breeding T, Kumar AS, Jones PG, Spertus JA. The prevalence and management of angina among patients with chronic coronary artery disease across US outpatient cardiology practices: insights from the Angina Prevalence and Provider Evaluation of Angina Relief (APPEAR) Study. Clin Cardiol, 2017,40(1):6-10. PMCID:5300688.

Kramer DB, Reynolds MR, Normand SL, Parzynski CS, Spertus JA, Mor V, Mitchell SL. Nursing Home Use After Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Implantation in Older Adults: Results from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2017,65(2):340-347. PMCID:5325141.

Arnold SV, Spertus JA, Vemulapalli S, Li Z, Matsouaka RA, Baron SJ, Vora AN, Mack MJ, Reynolds MR, Rumsfeld JS, Cohen DJ. Quality-of-Life Outcomes After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in an Unselected Population: A Report From the STS/ACC Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry. JAMA Cardiol, 2017, 2(4):409-416. PMCID: 5408740.

Fendler TJ, Nassif ME, Kennedy KF, Joseph SM, Silvestry SC, Ewald GA, LaRue SJ, Vader JM, Spertus JA, Arnold SV. Global Outcome in Patients With Left Ventricular Assist Devices. Am J Card, 2017,119(7):1069-1073. PMCID 5348271.

Lu Y, Zhou S, Dreyer RP, Caulfield M, Spatz ES, Geda M, Lorenze NP, Herbert P, D'Onofrio G, Jackson EA, Lichtman JH, Bueno H, Spertus JA, Krumholz HM. Sex differences in lipid profiles and treatment utilization among young adults with acute myocardial infarction: Results from the VIRGO Study. Am Heart J, 2017,183:74-84. PMCID:5459396.

Sapontis J, Marso SP, Cohen DJ, Lombardi W, Karmpaliotis D, Moses J, Nicholson WJ, Pershad A, Wyman RM, Spaedy A, Cook S, Doshi P, Federici R, Thompson CR, Nugent K, Gosch K, Spertus JA, Grantham JA. The Outcomes, Patient Health Status, and Efficiency IN Chronic Total Occlusion Hybrid Procedures registry: rationale and design. Coron Artery Dis, 2017,28(2):110-119.

Jayaram N, Spertus JA, O'Byrne ML, Chan PS, Kennedy KF, Bergersen L, Glatz AC. Relationship between hospital procedure volume and complications following congenital cardiac catheterization: A report from the IMproving Pediatric and Adult Congenital Treatment (IMPACT) registry. Am Heart J, 2017,183:118-128. PMCID:5179039.

Randolph TC, Simon DN, Thomas L, Allen LA, Fonarow GC, Gersh BJ, Kowey PR, Reiffel JA, Naccarelli GV, Chan PS, Spertus JA, Peterson ED, Piccini JP. Patient factors associated with quality of life in atrial fibrillation. Am Heart Journal, 2016,182:135-143.

Grodzinsky A, Arnold SV, Wang TY, Sharma P, Gosch K, Jones PG, Bhatt DL, Steg PG, McGuire DK, Cohen DJ, Spertus JA, Chhatriwalla AK, Lind M, Graham G, Kosiborod M. Bleeding risk following percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with diabetes prescribed dual anti-platelet therapy. Am Heart Journal, 2016,182:111-118. PMCID:5357237.

Qintar M, Spertus JA, Gosch KL, Beltrame J, Kureshi F, Shafiq A, Breeding T, Alexander KP, Arnold SV. Effect of angina under-recognition on treatment in outpatients with stable ischaemic heart disease. Euro Heart J, 2016, 2:208-214. PMCID:5322471.

Li X, Li J, Masoudi FA, Spertus JA, Lin Z, Krumholz HM, Jiang L. China PEACE risk estimation tool for in-hospital death from acute myocardial infarction: an early risk classification tree for decisions about fibrinolytic therapy. BMJ Open, 2016,6(10):e013355. PMCID:5093680.

Kureshi F, Kennedy KF, Jones PG, Thomas RJ, Arnold SV, Sharma P, Fendler T, Buchanan DM, Qintar M, Ho PM, Nallamothu BK, Oldridge NB, Spertus JA. Association Between Cardiac Rehabilitation Participation and Health Status Outcomes After Acute Myocardial Infarction. JAMA Cardiol, 2016,1(9):980-988. PMCID:5482268.

Beckman AL, Bucholz EM, Zhang W, Xu X, Dreyer RP, Strait KM, Spertus JA, Krumholz HM, Spatz ES. Sex Differences in Financial Barriers and the Relationship to Recovery After Acute Myocardial Infarction. J Am Heart Assoc, 2016,5(10). PMCID:5121496.

Arnold SV, Afilalo J, Spertus JA, Tang Y, Baron SJ, Jones PG, Reardon MJ, Yakubov SJ, Adams DH, Cohen DJ. Prediction of Poor Outcome After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2016,68(17):1868-1877. PMCID:5119650.

Chan PS, Berg RA, Tang Y, Curtis LH, Spertus JA. Association Between Therapeutic Hypothermia and Survival After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. JAMA, 2016,316(13):1375-1382. PMCID: 5486217

Shore S, Smolderen KG, Kennedy KF, Jones PG, Arnold SV, Cohen DJ, Stolker JM, Zhao Z, Wang TY, Ho PM, Spertus JA. Health Status Outcomes in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction After Rehospitalization. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes, 2016, 9(6):777-784.

Lindau ST, Abramsohn E, Bueno H, D'Onofrio G, Lichtman JH, Lorenze NP, Sanghani RM, Spatz ES, Spertus JA, Strait KM, Wroblewski K, Zhou S, Krumholz HM. Sexual Activity and Function in the Year After an Acute Myocardial Infarction Among Younger Women and Men in the United States and Spain. JAMA Cardiol, 2016,1(7):754-764. PMCID:5459405.

Adamo L, Tang Y, Nassif ME, Novak E, Jones PG, LaRue S, Spertus JA, Mann DL. The HeartMate Risk Score Identifies Patients With Similar Mortality Risk Across All INTERMACS Profiles in a Large Multicenter Analysis. JACC Heart Fail, 2016,4(12):950-958.

McNamara RL, Kennedy KF, Cohen DJ, Diercks DB, Moscucci M, Ramee S, Wang TY, Connolly T, Spertus JA. Predicting In-Hospital Mortality in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2016,68(6):626-635.

Pokharel Y, Gosch K, Nambi V, Chan PS, Kosiborod M, Oetgen WJ, Spertus JA, Ballantyne CM, Petersen LA, Virani SS. Practice-Level Variation in Statin Use Among Patients With Diabetes: Insights From the PINNACLE Registry. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2016,68(12):1368-1369. PMCID: 5250510.

Wiklund I, Anatchkova M, Oko-Osi H, von Maltzahn R, Chau D, Malik FI, Patrick DL, Spertus J, Teerlink JR. Incorporating development of a patient-reported outcome instrument in a clinical drug development program: examples from a heart failure program. Health Qual Life Outcomes, 2016,14(1):131. PMCID:5024511.

Arnold SV, Grodzinsky A, Gosch KL, Kosiborod M, Jones PG, Breeding T, Towheed A, Beltrame J, Alexander KP, Spertus JA. Predictors of Physician Under-Recognition of Angina in Outpatients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes, 2016, 9(5):554-559. PMCID:5031528.

Decker C, Garavalia L, Garavalia B, Gialde E, Yeh RW, Spertus J, Chhatriwalla AK. Understanding physician-level barriers to the use of individualized risk estimates in percutaneous coronary intervention. Am Heart J, 2016,178:190-197. PMCID: 5340532

Shore S, Smolderen KG, Spertus JA, Kennedy KF, Jones PG, Zhao Z, Wang TY, Arnold SV. Clinical Relevance of Rehospitalizations for Unstable Angina and Unplanned Revascularization Following Acute Myocardial Infarction. J Am Heart Assoc, 2016,5(8). PMCID: 5015270.

Raman S, Dai H, DeLurgio SA, Williams DD, Lind M, Patton SR, Spertus JA, Kosiborod M. Clements MA. High hemoglobin A1c variability is associated with early risk of microalbuminuria in children with T1D. Pediatr Diabetes, 2016,17(6):398-406.

Arnold SV, Jones PG, Allen LA, Cohen DJ, Fendler TJ, Holtz JE, Aggarwal S, Spertus JA. Frequency of Poor Outcome (Death or Poor Quality of Life) After Left Ventricular Assist Device for Destination Therapy: Results From the INTERMACS Registry. Circ Heart Fail, 2016,9(8) PMCID: 4985017.

Shafiq A, Valle J, Jang JS, Qintar M, Gosch K, Cohen DJ, Singh M, Bach R, Spertus JA. Variation in Practice Regarding Pretreatment With Dual Antiplatelet Therapy for Patients With Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction. J Am Heart Assoc, 2016,5(6). PMCID: 4937284.

Chan ML, Spertus JA, Tang F, Jayaram N, Chan PS. Missed opportunities in use of medical emergency teams prior to in-hospital cardiac arrest. Am Heart J, 2016,177(87-95). PMCID: 4908832 .

Arnold SV, Spertus JA, Jones PG, McGuire DK, Lipska KJ, Xu Y, Stolker JM, Goyal A, Kosiborod M. Predicting Adverse Outcomes After Myocardial Infarction Among Patients With Diabetes Mellitus. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes, 2016,9(4):372-379. PMCID: 5341790

Shafiq A, Jang JS, Kureshi F, Fendler TJ, Gosch K, Jones PG, Cohen DJ, Bach R, Spertus JA. Predicting Likelihood for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting After Non-ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Finding the Best Prediction Model. Ann Thorac Surg, 2016, 102(4):1304-1311. PMCID: 5145468.

Chan PS, McNally B, Nallamothu BK, Tang F, Hammill BG, Spertus JA, Curtis LH. Long-Term Outcomes Among Elderly Survivors of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. J Am Heart Assoc, 2016,5(3):e002924. PMCID: 4943267.

Hamburger RF, Spertus JA, Winchester DE., Utility of the Diamond-Forrester Classification in Stratifying Acute Chest Pain in an Academic Chest Pain Center. Crit Pathw Cardiol, 2016,15(2):56-59. PMCID: 4874514.

Shafiq A, Jayaram N, Gosch KL, Spertus JA, Buchanan DM, Decker C, Kosiborod M, Arnold SV. The Association Between Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Health Status Following Acute Myocardial Infarction. Clin Cardiol, 2016, 39(8):440-445.

Navarro MA, Gosch KL, Spertus JA, Rumsfeld JS, Ho PM. Chronic Kidney Disease and Health Status Outcomes Following Acute Myocardial Infarction. J Am Heart Assoc, 2016,5(5). PMCID: 4889168.

Psotka MA, von Maltzahn R, Anatchkova M, Agodoa I, Chau D, Malik FI, Patrick DL, Spertus JA, Wiklund I, Teerlink JR. Patient-Reported Outcomes in Chronic Heart Failure: Applicability for Regulatory Approval. JACC Heart Fail, 2016, 4(10):791-804.

Doll JA, Tang F, Cresci S, Ho PM, Maddox TM, Spertus JA, Wang TY. Change in Angina Symptom Status After Acute Myocardial Infarction and Its Association With Readmission Risk: An Analysis of the Translational Research Investigating Underlying Disparities in Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients' Health Status (TRIUMPH) Registry. J Am Heart Assoc, 2016,5(6). PMCID: 4937266.

Shafiq A, Arnold SV, Gosch K, Kureshi F, Breeding T, Jones PG, Beltrame J, Spertus JA. Patient and physician discordance in reporting symptoms of angina among stable coronary artery disease patients: Insights from the Angina Prevalence and Provider Evaluation of Angina Relief (APPEAR) study. Am Heart J, 2016,175:94-100. PMCID: 5266615

Piccini JP, Simon DN, Steinberg BA, Thomas L, Allen LA, Fonarow GC, Gersh B, Hylek E, Kowey PR, Reiffel JA, Naccarelli GV, Chan PS, Spertus JA, Peterson ED. Differences in Clinical and Functional Outcomes of Atrial Fibrillation in Women and Men: Two-Year Results From the ORBIT-AF Registry. JAMA Cardiol, 2016,1(3):282-291.

Tran JN, Kao TC, Caglar T, Stockl KM, Spertus JA, Lew HC, Solow BK, Chan PS. Impact of the 2013 Cholesterol Guideline on Patterns of Lipid-Lowering Treatment in Patients with Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease or Diabetes After 1 Year., J Manag Care Spec Pharm, 2016,22(8):901-908.

Grady KL, Sherri W, Naftel DC, Myers S, Gelijins A, Moskowitz A, Pagani FD, Young JB, Spertus JA, Kirklin JK. Age and gender differences and factors related to change in health-related quality of life from before to 6 months after left ventricular assist device implantation: Findings from Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support. J Heart Lung Transplant, 2016,35(6):777-788. PMCID: 4917446.

Shirali G, Erickson L, Apperson J, Goggin K, Williams D, Reid K, Bradley-Ewing A, Tucker D, Bingler M, Spertus J, Rabbitt L, Stroup R. Harnessing Teams and Technology to Improve Outcomes in Infants With Single Ventricle. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes, 2016,9(3):303-311.

Zhang L, Li J, Li X, Nasir K, Zhang H, Wu Y, Hu S, Wang Q, Downing NS, Desai NR, Masoudi FA, Spertus JA, Krumholz HM, Jiang L. National Assessment of Statin Therapy in Patients Hospitalized with Acute Myocardial Infarction: Insight from China PEACE-Retrospective AMI Study, 2001, 2006, 2011. PLoS One, 2016,11:e0150806. PMCID: 4825974.

Grodzinsky A, Goyal A, Gosch K, McCullough PA, Fonarow GC, Mebazaa A, Masoudi FA, Spertus JA, Palmer BF, Kosiborod M. Prevalence and Prognosis of Hyperkalemia in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction. Am J Med, 2016,129(8):858-865. PMCID:5031155.

Zheng X, Curtis JP, Hu S, Wang Y, Yang Y, Masoudi FA, Spertus JA, Li X, Li J, Dharmarajan K, Downing NS, Krumholz HM, Jiang L. Coronary Catheterization and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in China: 10-Year Results From the China PEACE-Retrospective CathPCI Study. JAMA Intern Med. 2016;176(4):512-521. PMCID:5459379.

Inohara T, Kohsaka S, Miyata H, Ueda I, Maekawa Y, Fukuda K, Cohen DJ, Kennedy KF, Rumsfeld JS, Spertus JA. Performance and Validation of the U.S. NCDR Acute Kidney Injury Prediction Model in Japan. J Am Coll Cardiol, 2016,67:1715-1722.

Gupta BP, Grady KL, Fendler T, Jones PG, Spertus JA. Variation of Quality of Life Data Collection Across INTERMACS Sites. J Card Fail, 2016,22:323-337.

Yeh RW, Secemsky EA, Kereiakes DJ, Normand SL, Gershlick AH, Cohen DJ, Spertus JA, Steg PG, Cutlip DE, Rinaldi MJ, Camenzind E, Wijns W, Apruzzese PK, Song Y, Massaro JM, Mauri L. Development and Validation of a Prediction Rule for Benefit and Harm of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy Beyond 1 Year After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. JAMA, 2016,315:1735-1749. PMCIC:5408574.

Ranchord AM, Spertus JA, Buchanan DM, Gosch KL, Chan PS. Initiation of beta-blocker therapy and depression after acute myocardial infarction. Am Heart J. 2016;174:37-42. PMCID: 4802859.

Kramer DB, Reynolds MR, Normand SL, Parzynski CS, Spertus JA, Mor V, Mitchell SL. Hospice Use Following Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Implantation in Older Patients: Results From the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. Circulation, 2016,133(21):2030-2037. PMCID: 4872640.

Dreyer RP, Jones PG, Kutty S, Spertus JA. Quantifying clinical change: discrepancies between patients' and providers' perspectives. Qual Life Res, 2016,25(9):2213-2220.

Lewis EF, Kim HY, Claggett B, Spertus J, Heitner JF, Assmann SF, Kenwood CT, Solomon SD, Desai AS, Fang JC, McKinlay SA, Pitt BA, Pfeffer MA. Impact of Spironolactone on Longitudinal Changes in Health-Related Quality of Life in the Treatment of Preserved Cardiac Function Heart Failure With an Aldosterone Antagonist Trial. Circ Heart Fail. 2016;9(3).

Khazanie P, Hammill BG, Patel CB, Kiernan MS, Cooper LB, Arnold SV, Fendler TJ, Spertus JA, Curtis LH, Hernandez AF. Use of Heart Failure Medical Therapies among Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices: Insights From INTERMACS. J Card Fail, 2016,22(9):672-679. PMCID: 5237600.

Kelkar AA, Spertus J, Pang P, Pierson RF, Cody RJ, Pina IL, Hernandez A, Butler J. Utility of Patient-Reported Outcome Instruments in Heart Failure. JACC Heart Fail. 2016;4(3):165-175.

Du X, Spatz ES, Dreyer RP, Hu S, Wu C, Li X, Li J, Wang S, Masoudi FA, Spertus JA, Nasir K, Krumholz HM, Jiang L. Sex Differences in Clinical Profiles and Quality of Care Among Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction From 2001 to 2011: Insights From the China Patient-Centered Evaluative Assessment of Cardiac Events (PEACE)-Retrospective Study. J Am Heart Assoc. 2016;5(2). PMCID: 4802449.

Du X, Pi Y, Dreyer RP, Li J, Li X, Downing NS, Li L, Feng F, Zhan L, Zhang H, Guan W, Xu X, Li SX, Lin Z, Masoudi FA, Spertus JA, Krumholz HM, Jiang L. The china patient-centered evaluative assessment of cardiac events (PEACE) prospective study of percutaneous coronary intervention: Study design. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2016,88(7):E212-E221. PMCID: 5215582

Dreyer RP, Xu X, Zhang W, Du X, Strait KM, Bierlein M, Bucholz EM, Geda M, Fox J, D'Onofrio G, Lichtman JH, Bueno H, Spertus JA, Krumholz HM. Return to Work After Acute Myocardial Infarction: Comparison Between Young Women and Men. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2016;9(1):S45-52. PMCID: 4771977.

Dodson JA, Arnold SV, Gosch KL, Gill TM, Spertus JA, Krumholz HM, Rich MW, Chaudhry SI, Forman DE, Masoudi FA, Alexander KP. Slow Gait Speed and Risk of Mortality or Hospital Readmission After Myocardial Infarction in the Translational Research Investigating Underlying Disparities in Recovery from Acute Myocardial Infarction: Patients' Health Status Registry. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2016;64(3):596-601. PMCID: 4803531.

Bunte MC, House JA, Spertus JA, Cohen DJ, Marso SP, Safley DM. Association between health status and long-term mortality after percutaneous revascularization of peripheral artery disease. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv, 2016,87:1149-1155.

Cedars AM, Stefanescu Schmidt A, Broberg C, Zaidi A, Opotowsky A, Grewal J, Kay J, Bhatt AB, Novak E, Spertus J. Adult Congenital Heart Disease Patients Experience Similar Symptoms of Disease Activity. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2016;9(2):161-170. PMCID: 5412706

Bikdeli B, Wang Y, Minges KE, Desai NR, Kim N, Desai MM, Spertus JA, Masoudi FA, Nallamothu BK, Goldhaber SZ, Krumholz HM. Vena Caval Filter Utilization and Outcomes in Pulmonary Embolism: Medicare Hospitalizations From 1999 to 2010. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2016;67(9):1027-1035. PMCID: 5322943.

Acharjee S, Teo KK, Jacobs AK, Hartigan PM, Barn K, Gosselin G, Tanguay JF, Maron DJ, Kostuk WJ, Chaitman BR, Mancini GB, Spertus JA, Dada MR, Bates ER, Booth DC, Weintraub WS, O'Rourke RA, Boden WE. Optimal medical therapy with or without percutaneous coronary intervention in women with stable coronary disease: A pre-specified subset analysis of the Clinical Outcomes Utilizing Revascularization and Aggressive druG Evaluation (COURAGE) trial. Am Heart J. 2016;173:108-117.

Dreyer RP, Smolderen KG, Strait KM, Beltrame JF, Lichtman JH, Lorenze NP, D'Onofrio G, Bueno H, Krumholz HM, Spertus JA. Gender differences in pre-event health status of young patients with acute myocardial infarction: A VIRGO study analysis. Eur Heart J Acute Cardiovasc Care. 2016;5(1):43-54. PMCID:4658311.

Harris WS, Kennedy KF, Maddox TM, Kutty S, Spertus JA. Multiple differences between patients who initiate fish oil supplementation post-myocardial infarction and those who do not: the TRIUMPH Study. Nutr Res. 2016;36(1):65-71. PMCID: 5364948.

Li J, Dreyer RP, Li X, Du X, Downing NS, Li L, Zhang HB, Feng F, Guan WC, Xu X, Li SX, Lin ZQ, Masoudi FA, Spertus JA, Krumholz HM, Jiang LX. China Patient-centered Evaluative Assessment of Cardiac Events Prospective Study of Acute Myocardial Infarction: Study Design. Chin Med J (Engl). 2016;129(1):72-80. PMCID: 4797546.

Stubbs JR, House JA, Ocque AJ, Zhang S, Johnson C, Kimber C, Schmidt K, Gupta A, Wetmore JB, Nolin TD, Spertus JA, Yu AS. Serum Trimethylamine-N-Oxide is Elevated in CKD and Correlates with Coronary Atherosclerosis Burden. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2016;27(1):305-313. PMCID: 4696571.

Krumholz HM, Chaudhry SI, Spertus JA, Mattera JA, Hodshon B, Herrin J. Do Non-Clinical Factors Improve Prediction of Readmission Risk?: Results From the Tele-HF Study. JACC Heart Fail. 2016;4(1):12-20. PMCID: 5459404.

Tatlock S, Grant L, Spertus JA, Khan I, Arbuckle R, Manvelian G, Sanchez RJ. Development and Content Validity Testing of a Patient-Reported Treatment Acceptance Measure for Use in Patients Receiving Treatment via Subcutaneous Injection. Value Health. 2015;18(8):1000-1007.

Spatz ES, Jiang X, Lu J, Masoudi FA, Spertus JA, Wang Y, Li X, Downing NS, Nasir K, Du X, Li J, Krumholz HM, Liu X, Jiang L. Qingdao Port Cardiovascular Health Study: a prospective cohort study. BMJ Open. 2015;5(12):e008403. PMCID: 4679897.

Arnold SV, Spertus JA, Vemulapalli S, Dai D, O'Brien SM, Baron SJ, Kirtane AJ, Mack MJ, Green P, Reynolds MR, Rumsfeld JS, Cohen DJ. Association of Patient-Reported Health Status With Long-Term Mortality After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Report From the STS/ACC TVT Registry. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2015;8(12). PMCID: 4673686.

Smolderen KG, van Zitteren M, Jones PG, Spertus JA, Heyligers JM, Nooren MJ, Vriens PW, Denollet J. Long-Term Prognostic Risk in Lower Extremity Peripheral Arterial Disease as a Function of the Number of Peripheral Arterial Lesions. J Am Heart Assoc. 2015;4(10). PMCID:4845133.

Sedlis SP, Hartigan PM, Teo KK, Maron DJ, Spertus JA, Mancini GB, Kostuk W, Chaitman BR, Berman D, Lorin JD, Dada M, Weintraub WS, Boden WE. Effect of PCI on Long-Term Survival in Patients with Stable Ischemic Heart Disease. N Engl J Med. 2015;373(20):1937-1946.

Padala SK, Sidhu MS, Hartigan PM, Maron DJ, Teo KK, Spertus JA, Mancini GB, Sedlis SP, Chaitman BR, Heller GV, Weintraub WS, Boden WE. Effect of Baseline Exercise Capacity on Outcomes in Patients With Stable Coronary Heart Disease (A Post Hoc Analysis of the Clinical Outcomes Utilizing Revascularization and Aggressive Drug Evaluation Trial). Am J Cardiol. 2015;116(10):1509-1515.

Martin SS, Faridi KF, Joshi PH, Blaha MJ, Kulkarni KR, Khokhar AA, Maddox TM, Havranek EP, Toth PP, Tang F, Spertus JA, Jones SR. Remnant Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Mortality After Acute Myocardial Infarction: Further Evidence for a Hypercholesterolemia Paradox From the TRIUMPH Registry. Clin Cardiol. 2015;38(11):660-667. PMCID:4715617.

Leifheit-Limson EC, D'Onofrio G, Daneshvar M, Geda M, Bueno H, Spertus JA, Krumholz HM, Lichtman JH. Sex Differences in Cardiac Risk Factors, Perceived Risk, and Health Care Provider Discussion of Risk and Risk Modification Among Young Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction: The VIRGO Study. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2015;66(18):1949-1957. PMCID: 4628727.

Jayaram N, Beekman RH, 3rd, Benson L, Holzer R, Jenkins K, Kennedy KF, Martin GR, Moore JW, Ringel R, Rome J, Spertus JA, Vincent R, Bergersen L. Adjusting for Risk Associated With Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Catheterization: A Report From the NCDR IMPACT Registry. Circulation. 2015;132(20):1863-1870. PMCID: 4787531.

Jang JS, Spertus JA, Arnold SV, Shafiq A, Grodzinsky A, Fendler TJ, Salisbury AC, Tang F, McNulty EJ, Grantham JA, Cohen DJ, Amin AP. Impact of Multivessel Revascularization on Health Status Outcomes in Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction and Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2015;66(19):2104-2113. PMCID: 4638151.

Enriquez JR, de Lemos JA, Parikh SV, Simon DN, Thomas LE, Wang TY, Chan PS, Spertus JA, Das SR. Modest Associations Between Electronic Health Record Use and Acute Myocardial Infarction Quality of Care and Outcomes: Results From the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2015;8(6):576-585. PMCID: 4651742.

Desai NR, Bradley SM, Parzynski CS, Nallamothu BK, Chan PS, Spertus JA, Patel MR, Ader J, Soufer A, Krumholz HM, Curtis JP. Appropriate Use Criteria for Coronary Revascularization and Trends in Utilization, Patient Selection, and Appropriateness of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. JAMA. 2015;314(19):2045-2053.

Decker C, Chhatriwalla E, Gialde E, Garavalia B, Summers D, Quinlan ME, Cheng E, Rymer M, Saver JL, Chen E, Kent DM, Spertus JA. Patient-Centered Decision Support in Acute Ischemic Stroke: Qualitative Study of Patients' and Providers' Perspectives. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2015;8(6 Suppl 3):S109-116.

Chen SI, Wang Y, Dreyer R, Strait KM, Spatz ES, Xu X, Smolderen KG, Desai NR, Lorenze NP, Lichtman JH, Spertus JA, D'Onofrio G, Bueno H, Masoudi FA, Krumholz HM. Insurance and Prehospital Delay in Patients Am J Cardiol. 2015;116(12):1827-1832.

Zhang H, Masoudi FA, Li J, Wang Q, Li X, Spertus JA, Ross JS, Desai NR, HM, Jiang L. National assessment of early beta-blocker therapy in patients with acute myocardial infarction in China, 2001-2011: The China Patient-centered Evaluative Assessment of Cardiac Events (PEACE)-Retrospective AMI Study. Am Heart J. 2015;170(3):506-515.

Wetmore JB, Tang F, Sharma A, Jones PG, Spertus JA. The association of chronic kidney disease with the use of renin-angiotensin system inhibitors after acute myocardial infarction. Am Heart J. 2015;170(4):735-743. PMCID:4745905.

Wasfy JH, Singal G, O'Brien C, Blumenthal DM, Kennedy KF, Strom JB, Spertus JA, Mauri L, Normand SL, Yeh RW. Enhancing the Prediction of 30-Day Readmission After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Using Data Extracted by Querying of the Electronic Health Record. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2015;8(5):477-485.

Thomas MP, Parzynski CS, Curtis JP, Seth M, Nallamothu BK, Chan PS, Spertus JA, Patel MR, Bradley SM, Gurm HS. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Utilization and Appropriateness across the United States. PLoS One. 2015;10(9):e0138251. PMCID: 4575022.

Raman S, Dai H, DeLurgio SA, Williams DD, Lind M, Patton SR, Spertus JA, Kosiborod M, Clements MA. High hemoglobin A1c variability is associated with early risk of microalbuminuria in children with T1D. Pediatr Diabetes. 2015.

Fendler TJ, Spertus JA, Kennedy KF, Chen LM, Perman SM, Chan PS. Alignment of Do-Not-Resuscitate Status With Patients' Likelihood of Favorable Neurological Survival After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. JAMA. 2015;314(12):1264-1271. PMCID: 4701196.

Chhatriwalla AK, Venkitachalam L, Kennedy KF, Stolker JM, Jones PG, Cohen DJ, Spertus JA. Relationship between stent type and quality of life after percutaneous coronary intervention for acute myocardial infarction. Am Heart J. 2015;170(4):796-804.

Arnold SV, McGuire DK, Spertus JA, Tang F, Yue P, Inzucchi SE, Belardinelli L, Chaitman BR, Kosiborod M. Glucose-Lowering Medications and Angina Burden in Patients with Stable Coronary Disease: Results from the Type 2 Diabetes Evaluation of Ranolazine in Subjects With Chronic Stable Angina (TERISA) Trial. Am Heart J. 2015;170(4):753-759.