Publications

Dr. Adam Cifu has published well over 100 peer reviewed articles. He has written on medical reversal, medical education, and summarized clinical guidelines in the JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis series.

On this page are research articles, reviews, editorials and commentaries.

Research Articles, Reviews, Editorials, and Commentaries

  1. Long DR, Cifu AS, Salipante SJ, Sawyer RG, Machutta K, Alverdy JC. Preventing Surgical Site Infections in the Era of Escalating Antibiotic Resistance and Antibiotic Stewardship. JAMA Surg. 2024.

  2. Abassi A, Cifu A. Why Some Patients Benefit from Participating in a Sham Surgery Trial. Annals of Surgery. 2024; 279: 577-582.

  3. Cifu AS, Sorrentino M, Siegler M, Krapec, J. Preface. Academic Medicine 98(6S):p S1-S2, 2023.

  4. Sorrentino M, Krapec J, Cifu AS, Pace-Moody A, Siegler M. The Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence and the Doctor–Patient Relationship: Origins, Programs, and Future Directions. Academic Medicine 98(6S):p S3-S5, 2023.

  5. Machutta K, Xiao J, Winters C, Perrott J, Chidambaram S, Kinross JM, Morgan RB, Subramanian T, Cifu AS, Alverdy J. Defeating Cancel Culture in Surgical Site Infection Research: A plea to include microbial cultures and antibiotic sensitivity data. Surgical Infections. 2022;10: 902-907. 

  6. Martinez M, Falvey JR, Cifu A. Deconditioned, disabled, or debilitated? Formalizing management of functional mobility impairments in the medical inpatient setting. J. Hosp. Med. 2022;17:843–846.

  7. Hutchison AL, Cifu AS, Pillai AA. Discarding Dichotomization: Retrieving Data in the Service of Patient Care. Clinical Liver Disease. 2022;19:12-16.

  8. Cifu AS, Stein SL. Yellow Sac Spider Bite. N Engl J Med. 2021; 385:1893.

  9. Alexander JT, Cifu AS. JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods: Interpreting the ACC/AHA Clinical Practice Guideline Recommendation Classification System. JAMA. 2021;326:762-763.

  10. Cifu AS, Alexander JT, Stein SL. What Just Happened? The NRMP 2020–2030: A Speculative Fiction. J Grad Med Educ. 2021;13:321–322.

  11. Cifu AS, Dorsey C, Humphrey HJ. Alpha Omega Alpha in the 21st Century — One School’s Approach. Academic Medicine. 2020. Vol. 95, S136-S138.

  12. Chua KP, Cifu AS, Conti RM . Spike in prescribing dexamethasone to Covid-19 patients may do more harm than good. Stat. 11/2/20.

  13. Cifu AS, Lembo A, Davis, AM. Can an Evidence-Based Approach Improves the Patient - Physician Relationship? JAMA. 2020;323:31-32.

  14. Mandrola J, Cifu AS, Prasad V, Foy A. The Case for Being a Medical Conservative. Am J Med. 2019;132:900–901.

  15. Cifu AS, Vandross AL, Prasad V.  Case Reports in the Age of Twitter. Am J Med. 2019;132:e725-e72. 

  16. Mandrola J, Cifu AS, Prasad V, Foy A. Essere un medico conservative. Recenti Prog Med. 2019;110:156-158.

  17. Shah SD, Cifu AS. From Guideline to Order Set to Patient Harm. JAMA. 2018:319 1207-1208.

  18. Cifu, AS. Diagnostic Errors and Diagnostic Calibration. JAMA. 2017;318:905-906.

  19. O'Donnell PH, Wadhwa N, Danahey K, Borden BA, Lee SM, Hall JP, Klammer C, Hussain S, Siegler M, Sorrentino MJ, Davis AM, Sacro YA, Nanda R, Polonsky TS, Koyner JL, Burnet DL, Lipstreuer K, Rubin DT, Mulcahy C, Strek ME, Harper W, Cifu AS, Polite B, Patrick-Miller L, Yeo KT, Leung E, Volchenboum SL, Altman RB, Olopade OI, Stadler WM, Meltzer DO, Ratain MJ. Pharmacogenomics-Based Point-of-Care Clinical Decision Support Significantly Alters Drug Prescribing. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2017 Nov;102:859-869.

  20. Chapa J, Haq Z, Cifu AS. Comparative Analysis of the Factors Associated with Citation and Media Coverage of Clinical Research. Scientometrics. 2017;112:1271-1283.

  21. Kogan JR, Lapin J, Aagaard E, Boscardin C, Aiyer MK, Cayea D, Cifu A, Diemer G, Durning S, Elnicki M, Fazio SB, Khan AR, Lang VJ, Mintz M, Nixon LJ, Paauw D, Torre DM, Hauer KE. The Effect of Resident Duty-Hours Restrictions on Internal Medicine Clerkship Experiences: Surveys of Medical Students and Clerkship Directors. Teaching and Learning in Medicine: An International Journal. 2015;27:37–50.

  22. Pincavage A, Cifu AS. Faculty Member Feedback Reports. The Clinical Teacher. 2015;12:50–54.

  23. Cifu AS. Evaluation Drives Curriculum. Medical Teacher. 2012;34:425.

  24. Cifu, AS. Developing Standardized and Acceptable Oral Exams. Academic Internal Medicine Insight. 2010; 8:10-11.

  25. Fischer MA, Harrell HE, Haley HL, Cifu AS, Alper E, Johnson KM, Hatem D.  Between two worlds: a multi-institutional qualitative analysis of students’ reflections on joining the medical profession. J Gen Int Med. 2008;23:958-963.

  26. Cifu AS, Fischer MA, Harrell HE, Alper EJ. Incorporating Reflective Writing into the Clerkship. Academic Internal Medicine Insight. 2007; 5:12-13.

  27. Roach K, Stern S, Altkorn D, Cifu AS, Levinson W. Update in General Internal Medicine. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2000;133:209-217.

  28. Cifu AS and L. Influenza. JAMA. 2000;284:2847-2849.

  29. Cifu AS, Koeppe II RE, Andersen AS. On the Supramolecular Organization of  Gramicidin Channels, The Elementary Conducting Unit is a Dimer. Biophysical Journal.1992;61:189-203.