Lucas BP, Mendes de Leon CF, Prineas R, Bienias JL, Evans DA.Electrocardiographic repolarization abnormalities and cognitive function in a community population. (Under review by Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences.)

Lucas BP, Asbury JK, Franco-Sadud R. Training future hospitalists with simulators: a needed step toward accessible, expertly performed bedside procedures. J Hosp Med 2009;4:395–396.

Lucas BP, Candotti C, Margeta B, Evans AT, Mba B, Baru J, Asbury JK, Asmar A, Kumapley R, Patel M, Borkowsky S, Fung S, Charles-Damte M. Diagnostic accuracy of hospitalist-performed hand-carried ultrasound echocardiography after a brief training program. J Hosp Med 2009;4:340–349.

Lucas BP, Kumapley R, Mba B, Nisar I, Lee K, Ofori-Ntow S, Borkowsky S, Asmar A, Lewis T, Bienias JL. A hospitalist-run short stay unit: features that predict patients’ length-of-stay and eventual admission to traditional inpatient services. J Hosp Med 2009;4:276–284.

Lucas BP, Asbury JK, Wang Y, Lee K, Kumapley R, Mba B, Borkowsky S, Asmar A. Impact of a bedside procedure service on general medicine inpatients: a firm-based trial. J Hosp Med 2007;2:143-149.

Reilly BM, Smith CA, Lucas BP. Physical examination: bewitched, bothered, and bewildered. Med J Aust 2005;182:375–376.

Lucas BP, Evans AT, Reilly BM, Khodakov YV, Perumal K, Rohr LG, Akamah JA, Alausa TM, Smith CA, Smith JP. The impact of evidence on physicians’ inpatient treatment decisions. J Gen Intern Med 2004;19:401–409.

Bargout R, Lucas BP. The clinical picture: a homeless 63-year-old man with an abnormal electrocardiogram. Cleve Clin J Med 2002;69:62–64.

Himmelmann A, Wilson GL, Riva A, Lucas BP, Thevenin C, Kehrl JH. PU.1/Pip and basic helix loop helix zipper transcription factors interact with binding sites in the CD20 promoter to help confer lineage- and stage-specific expression of CD20 in B lymphocytes. Blood 1997;90:3984–3995.

Thevenin C, Lucas BP, Kozlow EJ, Kehrl JH. Cell type- and stage-specific expression of the CD20/B1 antigen correlates with the activity of a diverged octamer DNA motif present in its promoter. J Biol Chem 1993;268:5949–5956.

PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS EDITED

Halasyamani LK, Lucas BP, eds. Pocket Primary Care. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2001.

PEER-REVIEWED ABSTRACTS

Importance of Differentiation between Vascular and Structural Spinal Cord Abstracts Compression in Paget’s Disease of Bone. Velinova S, Satkus J, Kazlauskaite R, Lucas BP, Franco PM. Arq Bras Endocrinol Metabol 2008 52(Suppl 6):S1146. Poster presentation, 13th International Congress of Endocrinology, Rio, Brazil.

A Hospitalist-Run Exercise Treadmill Testing Laboratory in an Emergency Department. Lucas BP, Ezeokoli C, Deshpande A, Borkowsky S, Kumapley R, Lee K, Ofori-Ntow S, Patel M, Mba B, Baru J, Asmar A, Candotii C. J Hosp Med 2008 3(Suppl1):66. Poster presentation, National Society of Hospital Medicine Meeting, San Diego, California.

Diagnostic Accuracy of Hand-Carried Ultrasound Echocardiography by Hospitalists after a Brief Training Program. Lucas BP, Candotti C, Margeta B, Mba B, Baru J, Asbury JK, Asmar A, Kumapley R, Patel M, Borkowsky S, Fung S, Charles-Damte M, Evans AT. J Hosp Med 2008 3(Suppl1):26. Poster presentation, National Society of Hospital Medicine Meeting, San Diego, California.

Lee K, Lucas BP, Baru J. When a patient has no voice. J Hosp Med 2007; 2(Suppl2):80. Poster presentation, National Society of Hospital Medicine Meeting, Dallas, Texas.

Asbury J, Lucas BP. PICC-ing up the pace: a new hospitalist service for peripherally inserted central catheters. J Hosp Med 2007; 2(Suppl2):4. Poster presentation, National Society of Hospital Medicine Meeting, Dallas, Texas.

Lucas BP, Smith CA, Mba B, Evans AT, Wang Y. Improvement of academic inpatient attending physicians’ performance scores: how long until underperforming rookies bat the department average? J Hosp Med 2007; 2(Suppl2):22. Poster presentation, National Society of Hospital Medicine Meeting, Dallas, Texas.

Lucas BP, Tchernodrinski S. High recidivism rates after discharge from a hospitalist-run short-stay unit: preparing to reduce the “frequent flyer” effect. J Hosp Med 2007; 2(Suppl2):22. Poster presentation, National Society of Hospital Medicine Meeting, Dallas, Texas.

Shannon JJ, Charles-Damte M, Evans A, Lucas BP, Wang Y. Standardized inpatient care for asthmatics reduced relapse rates and improved quality of life: a randomized controlled trial at a large public hospital. Proc Am Thorac Soc 2006; 3 (Suppl 1): A529. Poster presentation, International American Thoracic Society Meeting, San Diego, California.

Tchernodrinski S, Lucas BP. Bothersome gynecomastia in a cirrhotic man using heroin. J Gen Intern Med 2006; 21(Suppl 4):226. Poster presentation, National Society of General Medicine Meeting, Los Angeles, California.

Tchernodrinski S, Lucas BP. Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis after injecting speedballs made with crack cocaine dissolved in Kool-Aid® Lemonade. J Gen Intern Med 2006;21(Suppl 4):231. Poster presentation, National Society of General Medicine Meeting, Los Angeles, California.

Lucas BP, Evans AT, Reilly BM, Khodakov YV, Perumal K, Rohr LG, Akamah JA, Alausa TM, Smith CA, Smith JP. Is treatment of medical inpatients evidence-based? A study of the impact of evidence on physicians’ treatment decisions. J Gen Intern Med 2002;17(Suppl 1):202.

Sekhon G, Lucas BP. A continuous conundrum: a ruptured aneurysm of the sinus of valsalva. J Gen Intern Med 2001;16(Suppl 1):62. Poster presentation, National Society of General Medicine Meeting, San Diego, California.

Lucas BP, Perumal K, Smith CA. E-Reports: morning report summaries via e-mail. J Gen Intern Med 2001;16(Suppl 1):82. Poster presentation, National Society of General Medicine Meeting, San Diego, California.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Evans AT, Lucas BP. Commentary on “Pravastatin was not better than usual care in reducing all-cause mortality or CHF events.” ACP J Club 2003;139:10. Comment on: Major outcomes in moderately hypercholesterolemic, hypertensive patients randomized to pravastatin vs usual care. The Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial (ALLHAT-LLT). JAMA 2002;288:2998–3007.

MAJOR PRESENTATIONS

Updates in Hospital Medicine. Lucas BP, O’Leary K. Society of Hospital Medicine Midwest Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, October 3, 2009.

Quality Improvement Data Collection Made Easy. Lucas BP, Malkenson D, Schumacher M. Society of Hospital Medicine Midwest Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, October 1, 2009.

On-the-Fly Data Collection by Hospitalists. Society of Hospital Medicine Midwest Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, September 26, 2008.

Keys to a Successful Academic Hospitalist Program: What Hospitalists and Their Leaders Should Do. Lucas BP, Bennet A, Wachter RM. Society of Hospital Medicine National Meeting, San Diego, California, April 4, 2008.

Is treatment of medical inpatients evidence-based? A study of the impact of evidence on physicians’ treatment decisions. Hamolsky Award Finalist, Society of General Internal Medicine National Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, May 3, 2002.

Deduction is for Deities; Induction is for Doctors. Basic Science Seminar, Department of Dermatology, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, August 5, 2009.

On-the-Fly Data Collection in a Hospitalist-Run Short Stay Unit and the Potential Role of Hand-Carried Ultrasound Echocardiography. Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, November 9, 2007.

Twenty-three year-old man who died of hypovolemic shock in the hospital. Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, March 25, 2005.

Hospitalists: Doctors for Sick Patients and Hospitals. Grand Rounds, Cermak Health Services of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois, November 29, 2005.

Takayasu's arteritis in a 46 year-old Hispanic woman with chest pain. Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, April 27, 2001.