Publications

  1. Tejeda MI, Fernandez J, Valledor P, Almirall C, Barberan J, Romero-Brufau S. Retrospective validation study of a machine learning-based software for empirical and organism-targeted antibiotic therapy selection. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2024 Oct 8; 68 (10):e0077724 Epub 2024 Aug 28
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  2. Poddar M, Marwaha JS, Yuan W, Romero-Brufau S, Brat GA. An operational guide to translational clinical machine learning in academic medical centers. NPJ Digit Med. 2024 May 17; 7 (1):129
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  3. Fearington FW, Zhao CY, Romero-Brufau S, Moore EJ, Price DL, Tasche KK, Yin LX, Kunkel ET, Kisiel JB, Giridhar KV, Routman DM, Van Abel KM. Addressing positive multi-cancer early detection tests in head and neck Surgery: Experience with head and neck work up for high-risk referrals. Oral Oncol. 2024 May; 152:106809. Epub 2024 Apr 14.
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  4. Elgart M, Lyons G, Romero-Brufau S, Kurniansyah N, Brody JA, Guo X, Lin HJ, Raffield L, Gao Y, Chen H, de Vries P, Lloyd-Jones DM, Lange LA, Peloso GM, Fornage M, Rotter JI, Rich SS, Morrison AC, Psaty BM, Levy D, Redline S, Sofer T, NHLBI's Trans-Omics in Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium. Non-linear machine learning models incorporating SNPs and PRS improve polygenic prediction in diverse human populations. Commun Biol. 2022 Aug 22; 5 (1):856
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  5. Juhn YJ, Ryu E, Wi CI, King KS, Malik M, Romero-Brufau S, Weng C, Sohn S, Sharp RR, Halamka JD. Assessing socioeconomic bias in machine learning algorithms in health care: a case study of the HOUSES index. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2022 Jun 14; 29 (7):1142-1151
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  6. Ryu AJ, Romero-Brufau S, Qian R, Heaton HA, Nestler DM, Ayanian S, Kingsley TC. Assessing the Generalizability of a Clinical Machine Learning Model Across Multiple Emergency Departments. Mayo Clin Proc Innov Qual Outcomes. 2022 Jun; 6 (3):193-199 Epub 2022 Apr 26
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  7. Cram P, Selker H, Carnahan J, Romero-Brufau S, Fischer MA, SGIM Health Policy Research Committee. Getting to 100%: Research Priorities and Unanswered Questions to Inform the US Debate on Universal Health Insurance Coverage. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Mar; 37 (4):949-953 Epub 2022 Jan 21
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  8. Toubiana R, Macdonald M, Rajananda S, Lokvenec T, Kingsley TC, Romero-Brufau S. Blockchain for Electronic Vaccine Certificates: More Cons Than Pros? Front Big Data. 2022; 5:833196. Epub 2022 Jul 08.
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  9. Rosenstrom E, Meshkinfam S, Ivy JS, Goodarzi SH, Capan M, Huddleston J, Romero-Brufau S. Optimizing the first response to sepsis: an electronic health record-based Markov decision process model. Decision Analysis. 2022; 19 (4):265-96
  10. Ryu AJ, Romero-Brufau S, Shahraki N, Zhang J, Qian R, Kingsley TC. Practical development and operationalization of a 12-hour hospital census prediction algorithm. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2021 Aug 13; 28(9):1977-1981.
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  11. Huang K, Gray TF, Romero-Brufau S, Tulsky JA, Lindvall C. Using nursing notes to improve clinical outcome prediction in intensive care patients: A retrospective cohort study. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2021 Jul 30; 28(8):1660-1666.
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  12. Romero-Brufau S, Whitford D, Johnson MG, Hickman J, Morlan BW, Therneau T, Naessens J, Huddleston JM. Using machine learning to improve the accuracy of patient deterioration predictions: Mayo Clinic Early Warning Score (MC-EWS). J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2021 Jun 12; 28(6):1207-1215.
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  13. Romero-Brufau S, Chopra A, Ryu AJ, Gel E, Raskar R, Kremers W, Anderson KS, Subramanian J, Krishnamurthy B, Singh A, Pasupathy K, Dong Y, O'Horo JC, Wilson WR, Mitchell O, Kingsley TC. Public health impact of delaying second dose of BNT162b2 or mRNA-1273 covid-19 vaccine: simulation agent based modeling study. BMJ. 2021 May 12; 373:n1087.
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  14. Martin-Brufau R, Martin-Gorgojo A, Suso-Ribera C, Estrada E, Capriles-Ovalles ME, Romero-Brufau S. Emotion Regulation Strategies, Workload Conditions, and Burnout in Healthcare Residents. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Oct 26; 17 (21)
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  15. Benfari G, Mantovani F, Romero-Brufau S, Setti M, Rossi A, Ribichini FL, Nistri S, Clavel MA. The right parasternal window: when Doppler-beam alignment may be life-saving in patients with aortic valve stenosis. J Cardiovasc Med (Hagerstown) 2020 Oct; 21 (10):831-834
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  16. Romero-Brufau S, Wyatt KD, Boyum P, Mickelson M, Moore M, Cognetta-Rieke C. Implementation of Artificial Intelligence-Based Clinical Decision Support to Reduce Hospital Readmissions at a Regional Hospital. Appl Clin Inform. 2020 Aug; 11(4):570-577. Epub 2020 Sep 02.
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  17. McKenzie KE, Mayorga ME, Miller KE, Singh N, Arnold RC, Romero-Brufau S. Notice to comply: A systematic review of clinician compliance with guidelines surrounding acute hospital-based infection management. Am J Infect Control. 2020 Aug; 48(8):940-947. Epub 2020 Mar 17.
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  18. Romero-Brufau S, Wyatt KD, Boyum P, Mickelson M, Moore M, Cognetta-Rieke C. What's in a name? A comparison of attitudes towards artificial intelligence (AI) versus augmented human intelligence (AHI). BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2020 Jul 20; 20(1):167.
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  19. Romero-Brufau S, Wyatt KD, Boyum P, Mickelson M, Moore M, Cognetta-Rieke C. A lesson in implementation: A pre-post study of providers' experience with artificial intelligence-based clinical decision support. Int J Med Inform. 2020 May; 137:104072 Epub 2019 Dec 30
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  20. Romero-Brufau S, Gaines K, Nicolas CT, Johnson MG, Hickman J, Huddleston JM. The fifth vital sign? Nurse worry predicts inpatient deterioration within 24 hours. JAMIA Open. 2019 Dec; 2 (4):465-470 Epub 2019 Aug 28
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  21. Van De Wyngaerde KM, Lee MK, Jacobson GP, Pasupathy K, Romero-Brufau S, McCaslin DL. The Component Structure of the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI): A Reappraisal. Otol Neurotol. 2019 Oct; 40(9):1217-1223.
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  22. Agor J, Ozaltin OY, Ivy JS, Capan M, Arnold R, Romero S. The value of missing information in severity of illness score development. J Biomed Inform. 2019 Sep; 97:103255 Epub 2019 July 23
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  23. Romero-Brufau S, Whitford D, Whitford KJ, Manning DM, Huddleston JM. Identifying patients at risk of inhospital death or hospice transfer for early goals of care discussions in a US referral center: the HELPS model derived from retrospective data. BMJ Open. 2018 Jan 21; 8 (1):e015550
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  24. Romero-Brufau S, Kostandy P, Maass KL, Wutthisirisart P, Sir M, Bartholmai B, Stuve M, Pasupathy K. Development of data integration and visualization tools for the Department of Radiology to display operational and strategic metrics. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2018; 2018:942-951. Epub 2018 Dec 05.
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  25. Storlie CB, Therneau TM, Carter RE, Chia N, Bergquist JR, Huddleston JM, Romero-Brufau S. Prediction and Inference with Missing Data in Patient Alert Systems Arxiv.org. 2017.
  26. Romero-Brufau S, Morlan BW, Johnson M, Hickman J, Kirkland LL, Naessens JM, Huddleston J. Evaluating Automated Rules for Rapid Response System Alarm Triggers in Medical and Surgical Patients. J Hosp Med. 2017 Apr; 12(4):217-223.
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  27. Maldonado AA, Romero-Brufau S, Kircher R N MF, Kircher MF, Spinner RJ, Bishop AT, Shin AY. Free Functioning Gracilis Muscle Transfer for Elbow Flexion Reconstruction after Traumatic Adult Brachial Pan-Plexus Injury: Where Is the Optimal Distal Tendon Attachment for Elbow Flexion? Plast Reconstr Surg. 2017 Jan; 139 (1):128-136
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  28. Kipnis P, Turk BJ, Wulf DA, LaGuardia JC, Liu V, Churpek MM, Romero-Brufau S, Escobar GJ. Development and validation of an electronic medical record-based alert score for detection of inpatient deterioration outside the ICU. J Biomed Inform. 2016 Dec; 64:10-19 Epub 2016 Sept 20
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  29. Romero-Brufau S, Manning DM, Borrud A, Keller AS, Kashiwagi D, Cha S, Huddleston JM, Croghan I. I-move: inpatient pre-discharge mobility score as a predictor of post-discharge mortality Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management. 2016; 23(7):303-10. Epub 1900 Jan 01.
  30. De la Rosa AJ, Rodriguez-Hernandez A, Gonzalez R, Romero-Brufau S, Navarro-Villaran E, Barrera-Pulido L, Pereira S, Marin LM, Lopez-Bernal F, Alamo JM, Gomez-Bravo MA, Padillo FJ, Muntane J. Antitumoral gene-based strategy involving nitric oxide synthase type III overexpression in hepatocellular carcinoma. Gene Ther. 2016 Jan; 23 (1):67-77 Epub 2015 July 23
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  31. Romero-Brufau S, Huddleston JM, Escobar GJ, Liebow M. Why the C-statistic is not informative to evaluate early warning scores and what metrics to use. Crit Care. 2015 Aug 13; 19:285
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  32. Martín-Brufau R, Romero-Brufau S, Martín-Gorgojo A, Brufau Redondo C, Corbalan J, Ulnik J. Psoriasis lesions are associated with specific types of emotions. Emotional profile in psoriasis. Eur J Dermatol. 2015 Jul-Aug; 25(4):329-34.
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  33. Sathyanarayana A, Pathak J, McCoy R, Romero-Brufau S, Panaziahar M, Srivastava J. Clinical decision making: A framework for predicting Rx response. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, ICDMW. 2015; 2015-January(January):1185-8.
  34. Romero-Brufau S, Huddleston JM, Naessens JM, Johnson MG, Hickman J, Morlan BW, Jensen JB, Caples SM, Elmer JL, Schmidt JA, Morgenthaler TI, Santrach PJ. Widely used track and trigger scores: are they ready for automation in practice? Resuscitation. 2014 Apr; 85 (4):549-52 Epub 2014 Jan 07
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  35. Lova Navarro M, Vera Casano A, Benito Lopez C, Fernandez Ballesteros MD, Godoy Diaz DJ, Crespo Erchiga A, Romero Brufau S. Transient neonatal zinc deficiency due to a new autosomal dominant mutation in gene slc30a2 ( znt-2). Pediatr Dermatol. 2014 Mar; 31(2):251-2.
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  36. Romero-Brufau S, Best PJ, Holmes DR Jr, Mathew V, Davis MD, Sandhu GS, Lennon RJ, Rihal CS, Gulati R. Outcomes after coronary stent implantation in patients with metal allergy. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2012 Apr; 5(2):220-6. Epub 2012 Mar 27.
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