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James A. Cranford is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Medicine, with a strong focus on Emergency Medicine, comprising a significant portion of their scholarly output.

Their work covers several key subfields including Emergency Medicine, Epidemiology, General Health Professions, Clinical Psychology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. The main topics addressed in their research are Emergency and Acute Care Studies, Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation, Trauma and Emergency Care Studies, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Acute Ischemic Stroke Management, Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment, and Innovations in Medical Education.

Recent publications by Cranford illustrate an emphasis on emergency department-based intensive care and management strategies for critical conditions. Some of their recent papers include:

  • Cost-effectiveness of an Emergency Department-Based Intensive Care Unit, 2022, JAMA Network Open
  • An emergency department-based intensive care unit is associated with decreased hospital length of stay for upper gastrointestinal bleeding, 2021, The American Journal of Emergency Medicine
  • Variability in emergency department management of hypothermic infants ≤90 days of age, 2022, The American Journal of Emergency Medicine
  • What Happens After School? Linking Latino Adolescents' Activities and Exposure to Community Violence, 2021, Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Sonogram of safety: Ultrasound outperforms the fifth intercostal space landmark for tube thoracostomy site selection, 2020, Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Cranford frequently collaborates with several coauthors, reflecting ongoing partnerships in their research efforts. The most frequent collaborators include Keith E. Kocher, Nathan L. Haas, Benjamin S. Bassin, Rosario Ceballo, and Gul Sachwani-Daswani.

Their work is published extensively in journals known for emergency medicine and critical care topics. The most common publication venues include:

  • Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
  • Stroke
  • Annals of Emergency Medicine
  • The American Journal of Emergency Medicine
  • Journal of Emergency Medicine

This profile reflects a research career centered on acute and emergency care contexts, with contributions spanning clinical practice studies, epidemiological aspects, and health outcomes research likely impacting protocols and therapeutic approaches within emergency settings.

Best Publications

  • A Procedure for Evaluating Sensitivity to Within-Person Change: Can Mood Measures in Diary Studies Detect Change Reliably?

    James A. Cranford;Patrick E. Shrout;Masumi Iida;Eshkol Rafaeli

  • Illicit use of specific prescription stimulants among college students: prevalence, motives, and routes of administration.

    Christian J. Teter;Christian J. Teter;Sean Esteban McCabe;Kristy LaGrange;James A. Cranford

  • Prognostic importance of marital quality for survival of congestive heart failure

    James C Coyne;Michael J Rohrbaugh;Varda Shoham;John S Sonnega

  • Prevalence and Motives for Illicit Use of Prescription Stimulants in an Undergraduate Student Sample

    Christian J Teter;Sean Esteban McCabe;James A Cranford;Carol J Boyd

  • Substance use behaviors, mental health problems, and use of mental health services in a probability sample of college students.

    James A. Cranford;Daniel Eisenberg;Alisha M. Serras

  • Motives, diversion and routes of administration associated with nonmedical use of prescription opioids

    Sean Esteban McCabe;James A. Cranford;Carol J. Boyd;Christian J. Teter;Christian J. Teter;Christian J. Teter

  • Simultaneous and concurrent polydrug use of alcohol and prescription drugs: prevalence, correlates, and consequences

    Sean Esteban Mccabe;James A. Cranford;Michele Morales;Amy Young

  • Adolescents' motivations to abuse prescription medications.

    Carol J. Boyd;Sean Esteban McCabe;James A. Cranford;Amy Young

  • Does early onset of non-medical use of prescription drugs predict subsequent prescription drug abuse and dependence? Results from a national study.

    Sean E. McCabe;Brady T. West;Michele Morales;James A. Cranford

  • Race/Ethnicity and Gender Differences in Drug Use and Abuse Among College Students

    Sean Esteban McCabe;Michele Morales;James A. Cranford;Jorge Delva

  • Trends in prescription drug abuse and dependence, co-occurrence with other substance use disorders, and treatment utilization: Results from two national surveys

    Sean Esteban McCabe;James A. Cranford;Brady T. West

  • Self-injury, substance use, and associated risk factors in a multi-campus probability sample of college students.

    Alisha Serras;Karen K. Saules;James A. Cranford;Daniel Eisenberg

  • Six-month changes in spirituality, religiousness, and heavy drinking in a treatment-seeking sample

    Elizabeth A.R. Robinson;James A. Cranford;Jon R. Webb;Jon R. Webb;Kirk J. Brower

  • Does resilience moderate the associations between parental problem drinking and adolescents’ internalizing and externalizing behaviors?: A study of Korean adolescents

    Hyun Hwa Lee;James A. Cranford

  • Couples coping with congestive heart failure: role and gender differences in psychological distress.

    Michael J. Rohrbaugh;James A. Cranford;Varda Shoham;John M. Nicklas

  • Nonmedical use of prescription stimulants and depressed mood among college students: frequency and routes of administration.

    Christian J. Teter;Christian J. Teter;Anthony E. Falone;James A. Cranford;Carol J. Boyd

  • A New Measure of Binge Drinking: Prevalence and Correlates in a Probability Sample of Undergraduates

    James A. Cranford;Sean Esteban McCabe;Carol J. Boyd

  • The relationship between past-year drinking behaviors and nonmedical use of prescription drugs: Prevalence of co-occurrence in a national sample

    Sean Esteban McCabe;James A. Cranford;Carol J. Boyd

  • Prescription drug abuse and diversion among adolescents in a southeast michigan school district

    Carol J. Boyd;Sean Esteban McCabe;James A. Cranford;Amy Young

  • Motives for Nonmedical Use of Prescription Opioids Among High School Seniors in the United States: Self-treatment and Beyond

    Sean Esteban McCabe;Carol J. Boyd;James A. Cranford;Christian J. Teter

Frequent Co-Authors

Carol J. Boyd
Carol J. Boyd University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robert A. Zucker
Robert A. Zucker University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Maureen A. Walton
Maureen A. Walton University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kirk J. Brower
Kirk J. Brower University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Brady T. West
Brady T. West University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Rebecca M. Cunningham
Rebecca M. Cunningham University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
R. Lorraine Collins
R. Lorraine Collins University at Buffalo, State University of New York
James C. Coyne
James C. Coyne University of Groningen
Hiram E. Fitzgerald
Hiram E. Fitzgerald Michigan State University
Margit Burmeister
Margit Burmeister University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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