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Present	Faculty Member, Baystate Health ‐ Department of Medicine
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Present	Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
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Medicine and Health Sciences

Baystate High Street Health Center
Hospital Medicine
759 Chestnut Street
Springfield, MA 01109

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Using highly detailed administrative data to predict pneumonia mortality (Penny Pekow, Aruna Priya, Raquel Belforti, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2014)

BACKGROUND: Mortality prediction models generally require clinical data or are derived from information coded at discharge, limiting adjustment for presenting severity of illness in observational studies using administrative data. OBJECTIVES: To develop and validate a ...

Medical student boot camp: A two-week elective for the advancement of cognitive and technical skills in preparation for internship (Raquel Belforti, Adam Kellogg, Lucienne Lutfy-Clayton, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2013)

Pulmonary cryptococcosis: An unlikely pathogen (Behdad Besharatian, Eimear Kitt, Armando Paez, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2012)

A longitudinal simulation based medical education curriculum in an internal medicine residency program (Raquel Belforti, Ngina Muigai and Mihaela Stefan) All Scholarly Works (2012)

Four years' experience with a hospitalist-led medical emergency team: An interrupted time series (Michael Rothberg, Raquel Belforti, Jan Fitzgerald, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2012)

BACKGROUND: The effect of Medical Emergency Teams (METs) on cardiopulmonary arrests (codes) and fatal codes remains unclear and widely debated. OBJECTIVE: To describe the implementation of a hospitalist-led MET and compare the number of code ...

A simulation-based program to train medical residents to lead and perform advanced cardiovascular life support (Mihaela Stefan, Raquel Belforti, Gerard Langlois, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2011)

BACKGROUND: Medical residents are often responsible for leading and performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation; however, their levels of expertise and comfort as leaders of advanced cardiovascular life support (ACLS) teams vary widely. While the current American Heart ...

A rare etiology of pancreatitis in a nursing home patient (Amit Bhargava, Curtis Andrews, Raquel Belforti, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2011)

Acute pancreatitis from gastrostomy tube migration in a nursing home resident (Raquel Belforti and Amit Bhargava) All Scholarly Works (2011)

A rare etiology for pancreatitis in an adult nursing home patient (Amit Bhargava, Curtis Andrews and Raquel Belforti) All Scholarly Works (2010)

Using ABIM performance improvement modules to improve care set utilization, quality-care indicators and enhance resident education in quality improvement (Mihaela Stefan, Raquel Belforti, Sarah Workman, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2010)

International outsourcing of medical research by high-income countries: Changes from 1995 to 2005 (Raquel Belforti, Michael Wall, Peter Lindenauer, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2010)

BACKGROUND: Medical research outsourcing provides a financial benefit to those conducting research and financial incentives to the developing countries hosting the research. Little is known about how frequently outsourcing occurs or the type of research ...

Recurrent diabetic ketoacidosis in a patient with abnormal uterine bleeding (Raquel Belforti and Jaime Hernandez-Montfort) All Scholarly Works (2009)

Facilitating interns acquisition of medical knowledge and core skills through experiential learning (Reham Shaaban, Raquel Belforti and Mihaela Stefan) All Scholarly Works (2009)

Experiential learning: Facilitating interns' acquisition of core skills with an innovative two-week training program (Mihaela Stefan, Kevin Hinchey, Raquel Belforti, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2009)

Is it elder abuse (Raquel Belforti, Sandra Bellantonio, Michael Rosenblum, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2009)

International outsourcing of medical research by high income countries: Changes from 1925-2005 (Raquel Belforti, Michael Wall, Peter Lindenauer, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2009)

False positive lactic acidosis in ethylene glycol toxicity: A confounding variable (Raquel Belforti, Giselle Cruz, Barbara Greco, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2007)

The impact of a simulation training program on the confidence of internal medicine residents to lead and perform adult resuscitation (Raquel Belforti, Mihaela Stefan, Gerard Langlois, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2007)

Development of a simulation program to teach adult resuscitation in an internal medicine residency program (Raquel Belforti, Mihaela Stefan and Gerard Langlois) All Scholarly Works (2006)