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Vreeman DJ, Abhyankar S, McDonald CJ.Re: Unit conversions between LOINC codes Published June 19, 2017 [Letter]. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2018 May 1;25(5):614-615. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocx087.
Abhyankar S, Vreeman DJ, Westra BL, Delaney CW.Comments on the Use of LOINC and SNOMED CT for Representing Nursing Data [Letter]. Int J Nurs Knowl. 2017 Aug 30. doi: 10.1111/2047-3095.12183. [Epub ahead of print]
Vreeman DJ, Abhyankar S, McDonald CJ.Unit conversions between LOINC codes Published June 19, 2017 [Letter]. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 1–3. http://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocx087.
Zarin D, Tse T.Trust but verify: trial registration and determining fidelity to the protocol [Letter]. Ann Intern Med. 2013 Jul 2;159(1):65-7. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-159-1-201307020-00011.
McDonald CJ, Tierney WM.The effect of electronic health records on test ordering [Letter}. Health Aff (Millwood). 2012 Jun;31(6):1365; author reply 1366. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2012.0471.
Zarin D.Factual Errors about ClinicalTrials.gov and other federal mandates in special report by Shuster [Letter]. Clin Transl Sci. 2012 Apr;5(2):217; author reply 217. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-8062.2012.00410.x.
McDonald CJ, McDonald MH.Electronic medical records and preserving primary care physicians' time: comment on "electronic health record-based messages to primary care providers" [Letter]. Arch Intern Med. 2012 Feb 13;172(3):285-7. doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.1678.
Zarin D, Tse T.The effect of funding source on outcome reporting among drug trials [Letter]. Ann Intern Med. 2011 Jan 18;154(2):137-8; author reply 138. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-154-2-201101180-00020.
Névéol A, Mork JG, Aronson AR.Comment on 'MeSH-up: effective MeSH text classification for improved document retrieval'. Bioinformatics. 2009 Oct 15;25(20):2770-1; author reply 2772. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp483. Epub 2009 Aug 11.
McDonald CJ, Overhage JM, Mamlin BW, Dexter PD, Tierney WM.Physicians, information technology, and health care systems: a journey, not a destination [Letter]. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2004 Mar-Apr;11(2):121-4.