Boston ED doc/clinical researcher and entreprenuer McAfee killed in scooter crash

Update : BWH will hold a a memorial service for Dr.  McAfee on Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Temple Israel of Boston.
From the Globe:

The accident occurred when Dr. Andrew T. McAfee, an attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s and an instructor at Harvard Medical School, collided with a truck, according to Ron M. Walls, chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s.

In addition to his work at the Brigham and Women’s, McAfee served as executive director of epidemiology for i3 Drug Safety in Waltham, a global pharmaceutical services company, Walls said…

As a medical researcher, McAfee’s work primarily dealt with the outcomes of drug therapy, Walls said. Among other things, he studied the possible links between treatments for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and seizures.

Commonhealth has more info on services and a statement from Dr. Ron M. Walls, chair of the hospital’s department of emergency medicine

About Dr. McAfee from the Brigham:

Saving Lives and Preventing Errors

Forget about Hollywood. Forget about primetime. This has nothing to do with “ER.” It has everything to do with preventing errors and facilitating high quality patient care. With nearly two years’ worth of experience, the ED tracking system at BWH has already demonstrated its value in a fast moving environment of complex care….

The innovative system tracks a variety of patient care variables from waiting times to the severity of patient conditions. It also provides a customized interface with the hospital’s computer order entry system prompting physicians about possible allergies and preventing redundant orders from being entered.

The system also incorporates the BWH-developed emergency severity index (ESI) that monitors the level of care required for each patient and provides an accurate reading on the necessary departmental resources. The ESI breaks patient conditions into five categories and allows providers to plan for the efficient care of many patients simultaneously.

“This is a rather unique system that allows our physicians to manage care far more effectively and with greater safety,” said Andrew McAfee, MD, one of the developers of the order entry software. “In this type of environment, verbal orders can be easily misinterpreted. This system is easy to use and provides us with information that we previously did not have access to in our setting of care.”

His company: i3 DrugSafety

From Pub Med:

Comorbidities in patients with persistent or chronic immune thrombocytopenia.

Enger C, Bennett D, Forssen U, Fogarty PF, McAfee AT.

Int J Hematol. 2010 Jul 24.

The thiazolidinediones rosiglitazone and pioglitazone and the risk of coronary heart disease: a retrospective cohort study using a US health insurance database.

Ziyadeh N, McAfee AT, Koro C, Landon J, Arnold Chan K.

Clin Ther. 2009 Nov;31(11):2665-77.

Prognostic value of the duke treadmill score for emergency department patients with chest pain.

Manini AF, McAfee AT, Noble VE, Bohan JS.

J Emerg Med. 2010 Aug;39(2):135-43. Epub 2008 Dec 4.PMID: 19062225 [PubMed – in process]Related citations

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The effect of pharmacotherapy for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder on risk of seizures in pediatric patients as assessed in an insurance claims database.

McAfee AT, Holdridge KC, Johannes CB, Hornbuckle K, Walker AM.

Curr Drug Saf. 2008 May;3(2):123-31.