Scholars@Duke
Joanna Cavalier

Joanna Cavalier

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medicine, Hospital Medicine

Selected Publications

A Centralized Virtual Care Support Model for Improved Telehealth Operational Outcomes.

Journal Article Nejm Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery · October 1, 2025 As telehealth achieves a steady state in the post-Covid-19 pandemic health care landscape, health systems require operational models that can support clinicians across service lines. The authors describe a highly successful case study of a centralized tele ... Full text Cite

Ethics in Patient Preferences for Artificial Intelligence-Drafted Responses to Electronic Messages.

Journal Article JAMA Netw Open · March 3, 2025 IMPORTANCE: The rise of patient messages sent to clinicians via a patient portal has directly led to physician burnout and dissatisfaction, prompting uptake of artificial intelligence (AI) to alleviate this burden. It is important to understand patient pre ... Full text Link to item Cite

Stress cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging in intermediate-risk emergency department patients with abnormal high-sensitivity troponin.

Journal Article J Cardiovasc Magn Reson · 2025 BACKGROUND: Patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with chest pain often have abnormal high-sensitivity troponin (hsTn). However, only about 5% have an acute coronary syndrome. We aimed to assess the safety, feasibility, and utility of a clin ... Full text Link to item Cite

Bending the Cardiovascular Event Curve by Evaluating the Potential Impact of Achieving Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Goal Across a Large Health System Among Secondary Prevention Patients.

Journal Article Am J Cardiol · January 1, 2023 Guidelines recommend aggressive low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) lowering in patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). However, the recommended threshold of LDL-C ≤70 mg/dL is often not achieved. We used data from the Duke Un ... Full text Link to item Cite

A Customized Electronic Health Record-Based Tool Highlights and Addresses Gaps in Patient Safety.

Journal Article Am J Med Qual · September 2022 The authors present a tool to improve gaps in patient safety using the electronic health record. The tool integrates gap identification, passive alerts, and actions into a single interface embedded within clinicians' workflow. The tool was developed to add ... Full text Link to item Cite

Vitals are Vital: Simpler Clinical Data Model Predicts Decompensation in COVID-19 Patients

Journal Article ACI Open · January 2022 Abstract Objective Several risk scores have been developed and tested on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients to predict clinical decompensation. We aimed to compare an institutional, automated, custom-bui ... Full text Open Access Cite

Using Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Evaluate Patients with Chest Pain in the Emergency Department.

Journal Article J Cardiovasc Imaging · April 2021 Chest pain is one of the most common presenting symptoms in the emergency department (ED). Among patients with abnormal troponins, it is imperative to quickly and accurately distinguish type 1 acute myocardial infarction (AMI) from other etiologies of myoc ... Full text Link to item Cite

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patterns of outpatient cardiovascular care.

Journal Article Am Heart J · January 2021 BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic brought about abrupt changes in the way health care is delivered, and the impact of transitioning outpatient clinic visits to telehealth visits on processes of care and outcomes is unclear. METHO ... Full text Link to item Cite

A 13-Year-Old with Coexistence of Gastric Volvulus and Leprosy: A Case Report of Two Rare Entities.

Journal Article Case Rep Infect Dis · 2018 Leprosy, or Hansen's disease, is caused by infection with Mycobacterium leprae. It is a rare diagnosis within the continental United States. We present the case of a 13-year-old immigrant from the Marshall Islands who presented with recurrent nausea, vomit ... Full text Link to item Cite