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Helland E, Jena AB, Ly DP, Seabury SA. Self-Insuring against Liability Risk: Evidence from Physicians' Home Values in States with Unlimited Homestead Exemptions. The Journal of Legal Studies. 2024 Jan 1; 53(1):https://doi.org/10.1086/723753.
Ly DP, Song Z. Anchoring to a Diagnosis?-Reply. JAMA internal medicine. 2023 Oct 16.
Ly DP, Shekelle PG, Song Z. Evidence for Anchoring Bias During Physician Decision-Making. JAMA internal medicine. 2023 Aug 1; 183(8):818-823.
Ly DP, Giuriato MA, Song Z. Changes in Prescription Drug and Health Care Use Over 9 Years After the Large Drug Price Increase for Colchicine. JAMA internal medicine. 2023 Jul 1; 183(7):670-676.
Faiz J, Essien UR, Washington DL, Ly DP. Racial and Ethnic Differences in Barriers Faced by Medical College Admission Test Examinees and Their Association With Medical School Application and Matriculation. JAMA health forum. 2023 Apr 7; 4(4):e230498.
Essien UR, Ly DP, Jena AB. Op-Ed: Why affirmative action bans hurt health equity. Los Angeles Times. 2022 May 3: Opinion: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-05-03/op-ed-why-affirmative-action-bans-hurt-health-equity.
Ly DP, Essien UR, Olenski AR, Jena AB. Affirmative Action Bans and Enrollment of Students From Underrepresented Racial and Ethnic Groups in U.S. Public Medical Schools. Annals of internal medicine. 2022 Jun 1; 175(6):873-878.
Ly DP, Shekelle PG. Reply to: Comment on: How physicians evaluate patients with dementia who present with shortness of breath. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2022 Mar 1; 70(3):910.
Ly DP. Gender Differences in Number of Citations Per Paper Among Well-Cited Researchers in Cardiology in the United States (1960 to 2018). The American journal of cardiology. 2022 Jan 15; 163:138-139.
Ly DP. Black-white differences in the clinical manifestations and timing of initial Lyme disease diagnoses. Journal of general internal medicine. 2022 Aug 1; 37(10):2597-2600.
Ly DP, Shekelle PG. How physicians evaluate patients with dementia who present with shortness of breath. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2022 Jan 1; 70(1):119-125.
Ly DP. Association of Patient Race and Ethnicity With Differences in Opioid Prescribing by Primary Care Physicians for Older Adults With New Low Back Pain. JAMA health forum. 2021 Sep 1; 2(9):e212333.
Ly DP. The Influence of the Availability Heuristic on Physicians in the Emergency Department. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2021 Nov 1; 78(5):650-657.
Ly DP, Jena AB. Trends in Diversity and Representativeness of Health Care Workers in the United States, 2000 to 2019. JAMA Network Open. 2021 Jul 1; 4(7):e2117086.
Ly DP. Differences in Administration of Influenza Vaccine to Elderly Adults by Physician Sex, 2006-2016. JAMA internal medicine. 2021 Jun 1; 181(6):872-874.
Ly DP. Historical Trends in the Representativeness and Incomes of Black Physicians, 1900-2018. Journal of general internal medicine. 2022 Apr 1; 37(5):1310-1312.
Ly DP. Age, disability, and household composition of nurses and physicians who are not in the labor force. PLoS ONE. 2021 Feb 26; 16(2):e0247967.
LeBlanc TW, Bloom N, Wolf SP, Lowman SG, Pollak KI, Steinhauser KE, Ariely D, Tulsky JA. Triadic treatment decision-making in advanced cancer: a pilot study of the roles and perceptions of patients, caregivers, and oncologists. Supportive Care in Cancer : Official Journal of The Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer. 2018 Apr 1; 26(4):1197-1205.
Padala KP, Padala PR, McNeilly DP, Geske JA, Sullivan DH, Potter JF. The effect of HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors on cognition in patients with Alzheimer's dementia: a prospective withdrawal and rechallenge pilot study. The American journal of geriatric pharmacotherapy. 2012 Oct 1; 10(5):296-302.
Renaud B, Brun-Buisson C, Santin A, Coma E, Noyez C, Fine MJ, Yealy DM, Labarère J. Outcomes of early, late, and no admission to the intensive care unit for patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia. Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. 2012 Mar 1; 19(3):294-303.
Kelly D, Hubenthal E, Empson SF, Barrie MB, Kargbo B, Giordano TP. Validating multiple self-report measures of HIV treatment adherence in Sierra Leone. Poster session presented at: International Conference on HIV Treatment and Prevention Adherence; 2011 May 22; Miami, FL.
Lee JS, Primack BA, Mor MK, Stone RA, Obrosky DS, Yealy DM, Fine MJ. Does performance of evidence-based processes of care improve survival for patients with community-acquired pneumonia? Poster session presented at: Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting; 2011 May 4; Phoenix, AZ.
Aujesky D, McCausland JB, Whittle J, Obrosky DS, Yealy DM, Fine MJ. Reasons why emergency department providers do not rely on the pneumonia severity index to determine the initial site of treatment for patients with pneumonia. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 2009 Nov 15; 49(10):e100-8.
Yealy DM, Fine MJ. Measurement of serum procalcitonin: a step closer to tailored care for respiratory infections? JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association. 2009 Sep 9; 302(10):1115-6.
Milner KK, Healy D, Barry KL, Blow FC, Irmiter C, De Chavez P. State mental health policy: implementation of computerized medication prescribing algorithms in a community mental health system. Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.). 2009 Aug 1; 60(8):1010-2.
Healy DG, Wood AE, O'Neill A, McCarthy JF, Fitzpatrick JM, Watson RW. Can preoperative modeling of individual neutrophil adhesion responses predict renal morbidity? European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery : Official Journal of The European Association For Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 2007 Jun 1; 31(6):1088-93.
Yealy DM, Auble TE, Fine MJ. Using the pneumonia severity index to guide hospitalization decisions. The American journal of medicine. 2007 Jun 1; 120(6):e21.
Healy DJ, Barry K, Blow F, Welsh D, Milner KK. Routine use of the Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation in a psychiatric emergency department. General hospital psychiatry. 2006 Jul 1; 28(4):323-9.
McCausland JB, Auble TE, Whittle J, Obrosky DS, Yealy DM, Fine MJ. Clinician-reported barriers for admission of low risk and discharge of higher risk patients with pneumonia. Paper presented at: Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting; 2005 May 1; New Orleans, LA.
Aujesky DA, Stone RA, Obrosky DS, Yealy DM, Auble TE, Fine MJ. How good is the agreement between prospectively and retrospectively collected data comprising the pneumonia severity index. Paper presented at: Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting; 2004 May 12; Chicago, IL.
McCausland JB, Yealy DM, Fine MJ. The agree instrument: critical appraisal of community-acquired pneumonia guidelines by physicians. Paper presented at: Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting; 2004 May 12; Chicago, IL.
Aujesky D, Auble TE, Yealy DM, Obrosky DS, Stone RA, Fine MJ. Predicting mortality in patients with community-acquired pneumonia: a comparison of 3 prognostic models. Paper presented at: Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting; 2003 May 1; Vancouver, Canada.
Yealy DM, Auble TE, Fine MJ. Adult community-acquired pneumonia. In: Frank LR, Jobe KA, editors. Admission & Discharge. Philadelphia, PA: Hanley & Belfus; 2001.
Yealy DM, Fine MJ. Community-acquired pneumonia: epidemiology, risk stratification and the decision to admit. In: Rose BD, editor. UpToDate. Wellesley; 2001.