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Present	MD, Baystate Health ‐ Department of Medicine
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Medicine and Health Sciences

Baystate Gastroenterology

Tolosky Center, 3300 Main Street, Suite 3A

Springfield, MA 01107

Weekend Admissions With Ascites Are Associated With Delayed Paracentesis: A Nationwide Analysis of the 'Weekend Effect' (Kamesh Gupta, Nicolas Cal, Tiago Martins, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2020)

Introduction and objectives: Weekend admissions has previously been associated with worse outcomes in conditions requiring specialists. Our study aimed to determine in-hospital outcomes in patients with ascites admitted over the weekends versus weekdays. Time to ...

A Multicenter Evaluation of Adherence to 4 Major Elements of the Baveno Guidelines and Outcomes for Patients With Acute Variceal Hemorrhage (Jennifer Friderici, Jacob Alexander, Sheryl Ramdass, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2018)

GOALS: To determine the rate of and outcomes associated with guideline adherence in the care of acute variceal hemorrhage (AVH). BACKGROUND: Four major elements of high-quality care for AVH defined by the Baveno consensus (VI) ...

Open access colonoscopy: Critical appraisal of indications, quality metrics and outcomes (Rony Ghaoui, Sheryl Ramdass, Jennifer Friderici, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2016)

INTRODUCTION: In an era of cost containment and measurement of value, screening for colon cancer represents a clear target for better accountability. Bundling payment is a real possibility and will likely have to rely on ...

Impact of geography on organ allocation: Beyond the distance to the transplantation center (Rony Ghaoui and Jane Garb) All Scholarly Works (2015)

AIM: To illustrate the application and utility of Geographic Information System (GIS) in exploring patterns of liver transplantation. Specifically, we aim to describe the geographic distribution of transplant registrations and identify disparities in access to ...

Outcomes associated with a mandatory gastroenterology consultation to improve the quality of care of patients hospitalized with decompensated cirrhosis (Rony Ghaoui, Jennifer Friderici, David Desilets, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2015)

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Patients with decompensated cirrhosis (DC) have significant morbidity and resource utilization. In a cohort of patients with DC undergoing usual care (UC) in 2009, we demonstrated that quality indicators (QI) were met ...

Use of paracentesis in hospitalized patients with decompensated cirrhosis and ascites: Opportunities for quality improvement (Rony Ghaoui, Peter Lindenauer, Jennifer Friderici, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2014)

Liver cancer presenting as a pancreatic mass (Rony Ghaoui, Maria Gonzalez and David Desilets) All Scholarly Works (2014)

Measurement of the quality of care of patients admitted with decompensated cirrhosis (Rony Ghaoui, Jennifer Friderici, Paul Visintainer, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2014)

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Process-based quality measures are increasingly used to evaluate hospital performance. However, practices vary, and patients with cirrhosis are a challenge to manage, given their risks of mortality, morbidity, and resources utilization. In ...

Hemosuccus pancreaticus - A commonly forgotten and uncommon cause of upper gastrointestinal bleed (Iheanyichukwu Ogu, David Desilets and Rony Ghaoui) All Scholarly Works (2013)

Improvement in the quality of care of patients admitted with decompensated cirrhosis (Rony Ghaoui, Jennifer Friderici, Peter Lindenauer, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2013)

Measurement of the quality of care of patients admitted with decompensated cirrhosis (Rony Ghaoui, Jennifer Friderici, Peter Lindenauer, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2012)

Porto-gastric fistula from penetration of coil from gastric varix after TIPS procedure for bleeding gastric varices (Syed Hussain and Rony Ghaoui) All Scholarly Works (2011)

Russell body gastritis (David Gang, Claudine Habib, Rony Ghaoui, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2010)