Benjamin J. Brintz, PhD

Journal Article

1. Malhotra NR, Smith JD, Jacobs AC, Johnson CE, Khan US, Ellison HB, Brintz BJ, Millar MM, Cloud WG, Nahmias J, Hendershot KM, Smith BK (2021). High value care education in general surgery residency programs: A multi-institutional needs assessment. Am J Surg, 221(2), 291-297. (Read full article)
2. Wahlig TA, Brintz BJ, Prettyman M, Azman AS, Leung DT (2021). A Novel Luminescence-Based Serum Bactericidal Assay for Vibrio cholerae Reduces Assay Variation, Is Time- and Cost-Effective, and Directly Measures Continuous Titer Values. Am J Trop Med Hyg, 105(3), 622-626. (Read full article)
3. Reimer JR, Ahmed SM, Brintz B, Shah RU, Keegan LT, Ferrari MJ, Leung DT (2021). Using a clinical prediction rule to prioritize diagnostic testing leads to reduced transmission and hospital burden: A modeling example of early SARS-CoV-2. Clin Infect Dis, 73, 1822-1830. (Read full article)
4. Brintz B, Fuentes C, Madsen L (2018). An asymptotic approximation to the N-mixture model for the estimation of disease prevalence. Biometrics, 74(4), 1512-1518. (Read full article)
5. Ungricht EL, Culp C, Qu P, Jensen N, Harris JT, Brintz BJ, Mamalis N, Olson RJ, Werner L (2021). The effect of longitudinal and torsional ultrasound on corneal endothelium cells: An experimental study in rabbit eyes. J Cataract Refract Surg, 48(3), 349-354. (Read full article)
6. Ahmed SM, Shah RU, Fernandez V, Grineski S, Brintz B, Samore MH, Ferrari MJ, Leung DT, Keegan LT (2021). Robust Testing in Outpatient Settings to Explore COVID-19 Epidemiology: Disparities in Race/Ethnicity and Age, Salt Lake County, Utah, 2020. Public Health Rep, 136(3), 345-353. (Read full article)
7. Shahrin L, Chisti MJ, Brintz B, Islam Z, Shahid ASMSB, Hassan MZ, Leung DT, Chowdhury F (2020). Clinical and laboratory predictors of 30-day mortality in severe acute malnourished children with severe pneumonia. Trop Med Int Health, 25(11), 1422-1430. (Read full article)
8. Kroll AJ, Garcia TS, Jones JE, Dugger K, Murden B, Johnson J, Peterman S, Brintz B, Rochelle M (2015). Evaluating Multi-Level Models to Test Occupancy State Responses of Plethodontid Salamanders. PLoS One, 10(11), e0142903. (Read full article)
9. Brintz BJ, Howard JI, Haaland B, Platts-Mills JA, Greene T, Levine AC, Nelson EJ, Pavia AT, Kotloff KL, Leung DT (2020). Clinical predictors for etiology of acute diarrhea in children in resource-limited settings. PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 14(10), e0008677. (Read full article)
10. Brintz BJ, Haaland B, Howard J, Chao DL, Proctor JL, Khan AI, Ahmed SM, Keegan LT, Greene T, Keita AM, Kotloff KL, Platts-Mills JA, Nelson EJ, Levine AC, Pavia AT, Leung DT (2021). A modular approach to integrating multiple data sources into real-time clinical prediction for pediatric diarrhea. Elife, 10. (Read full article)
11. Garbern SC, Islam MT, Islam K, Ahmed SM, Brintz BJ, Khan AI, Taniuchi M, Platts-Mills JA, Qadri F, Leung D (2023). Derivation and External Validation of a Clinical Prediction Model for Viral Diarrhea Etiology in Bangladesh. Open forum infectious diseases, 10(7), ofad295. (Read full article)
12. Le HDH, Sreekantaswamy S, Lind H, Birdsall MB, Jensen J, Foster-Palmer SC, Brintz BJ, Chow C, Richards B, Cipriano S (2023). Skin Color Representation in Teaching Photographs: One Institution's Approach to Addressing Visual Racism in Medical Education. Teaching and learning in medicine, 1-9. (Read full article)
13. Ahmed SM, Brintz BJ, Talbert A, Ngari M, Pavlinac PB, Platts-Mills JA, Levine AC, Nelson EJ, Walson JL, Kotloff KL, Berkley JA, Leung D (2023). Derivation and external validation of a clinical prognostic model identifying children at risk of death following presentation for diarrheal care. PLOS global public health, 3(6), e0001937. (Read full article)
14. Pires GR, Moss WD, Memmott S, Wright T, Eddington D, Brintz BJ, Agarwal JP, Kwok A (2023). Analysis of Readmissions and Reoperations in Pediatric Microvascular Reconstruction. Journal of reconstructive microsurgery, 39(5), 343-349. (Read full article)
15. Etheridge T, Brintz BJ, Jensen MS, Peralta E, Ayesha A, Jebaraj A, Marx D (2023). Incidence and severity of asymptomatic ocular injury in adult and pediatric orbital fractures. Orbit (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 42(3), 273-278. (Read full article)
16. Jensen NC, Cocks M, Brintz BJ, Stoff B, Cipriano S (2023). Structured Case-Based Ethics Discussion for Trainees and Faculty on Dermatopathology. MedEdPORTAL, 19, 11314. (Read full article)
17. Ahmed SM, Brintz BJ, Pavlinac PB, Hossain MI, Khan AI, Platts-Mills JA, Kotloff KL, Leung D (2023). Clinical Prediction Rule to Guide Diagnostic Testing for Shigellosis and Improve Antibiotic Stewardship for Pediatric Diarrhea. Open forum infectious diseases, 10(3), ofad119. (Read full article)
18. Brown DG, Worby CJ, Pender MA, Brintz BJ, Ryan ET, Sridhar S, Oliver E, Harris JB, Turbett SE, Rao SR, Earl AM, LaRocque RC, Leung D (2023). Development of a prediction model for the Acquisition of Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactam Resistant Organisms in U.S. international travellers. Journal of travel medicine, (Read full article)
19. Brenner RJ, Hansen J, Brintz BJ, Bouldin ED, Pugh MJ, Rupper R, Munoz R, Garcia-Davis S, Dang (2023). Association between specific unmet functional needs and desire to institutionalize among caregivers of older veterans. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 71(7), 2264-2270. (Read full article)
20. Zhang W, Koh MY, Sirohi D, Ying J, Brintz BJ, Knudsen B (2023). Predicting IHC staining classes of NF1 using features in the hematoxylin channel. Journal of pathology informatics, 14, 100196. (Read full article)
21. Ahmed SM, Brintz BJ, Pavlinac PB, Shahrin L, Huq S, Levine AC, Nelson EJ, Platts-Mills JA, Kotloff KL, Leung D (2023). Derivation and external validation of clinical prediction rules identifying children at risk of linear growth faltering. eLife, 12, (Read full article)
22. Kaiser JE, Kurtz T, Glasser A, Brintz BJ, Gawron LM, Turok DK, Sanders J (2022). Mifepristone for miscarriage treatment in Utah: A survey of clinician knowledge and assessment of an educational video on future use. AEM education and training, 6(6), e10834. (Read full article)
23. Park SSE, Wilkinson SW, Ungricht EL, Trapnell M, Nydegger J, Brintz BJ, Mamalis N, Olson RJ, Werner (2022). Corneal endothelium protection provided by ophthalmic viscosurgical devices during phacoemulsification: experimental study in rabbit eyes. Journal of cataract and refractive surgery, 48(12), 1440-1445. (Read full article)
24. Reynolds MS, Katz BJ, Digre KB, Brintz BJ, Olson LM, Warner JE (2022). Sharp Edge Eye Syndrome: A Case Report and Survey of Self-Identified Individuals. Journal of neuro-ophthalmology, 42(4), 524-529. (Read full article)
25. Moss WD, Pires GR, Samlowski E, Webb J, DeAngelo MM, Eddington D, Brintz BJ, Agarwal J, Kwok A (2022). Characterizing the volume of surgery and post-operative complications during the COVID-19 pandemic. Langenbeck's archives of surgery, 407(8), 3727-3733. (Read full article)
26. Bhuiyan MS, Brintz BJ, Whitcombe AL, Markmann AJ, Bartelt LA, Moreland NJ, Azman AS, Leung D (2022). Combining antibody markers for serosurveillance of SARS-CoV-2 to estimate seroprevalence and time-since-infection - CORRIGENDUM. Epidemiology and infection, 150, e188. (Read full article)
27. Gray L, Olson J, Brintz BJ, Cipriano S (2022). Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome: Clinical features, ancillary testing, and patient management. Pediatric dermatology, 39(6), 908-913. (Read full article)
28. Wilkinson SW, Park SSE, Ungricht EL, Trapnell M, Nydegger J, Cardenas IA, Brintz BJ, Mamalis N, Olson RJ, Werner (2022). Effect of simulated lenticular debris on corneal endothelial cells: experimental study in rabbit eyes. Journal of cataract and refractive surgery, 48(11), 1325-1330. (Read full article)
29. Etheridge T, Kennedy B, Millar MM, Brintz BJ, Wu C, Pettey (2022). Cognitive enhancing supplements and medications in United States Resident Physicians. BMC medical education, 22(1), 744. (Read full article)
30. Sharareh N, Wallace AS, Brintz BJ, Wan N, Guo JW, Wong (2022). Associated factors with patient-reported unmet food needs among emergency department adult patients - A social need perspective. Preventive medicine reports, 29, 101974. (Read full article)
31. Young MP, Ployprasith W, Brintz BJ, Rutar (2022). Refractive error in unilateral Duane syndrome. Journal of AAPOS, 26(5), 247.e1-247.e5. (Read full article)
32. Nelson EJ, Khan AI, Keita AM, Brintz BJ, Keita Y, Sanogo D, Islam MT, Khan ZH, Rashid MM, Nasrin D, Watt MH, Ahmed SM, Haaland B, Pavia AT, Levine AC, Chao DL, Kotloff KL, Qadri F, Sow SO, Leung D (2022). Improving Antibiotic Stewardship for Diarrheal Disease With Probability-Based Electronic Clinical Decision Support: A Randomized Crossover Trial. JAMA pediatrics, 176(10), 973-979. (Read full article)
33. Burton E, Jebaraj A, Eddington D, Brintz BJ, Simpson RG, Pettey J (2022). Gender Representation Among Presenters in Ophthalmology Subspecialties in 2019: A Retrospective Review. American journal of ophthalmology, 242, 18-25. (Read full article)
34. Swiston CJ, Hu KS, Simpson A, Burton E, Brintz BJ, Lin (2022). Prevention of Exposure Keratopathy in the Intensive Care Unit: Evaluation of an EMR-Based Lubrication Order Protocol for Ventilated Patients. Journal of academic ophthalmology (2017), 14(2), e141-e146. (Read full article)
35. Pender MA, Smith T, Brintz BJ, Pandey P, Shrestha SK, Anuras S, Demons S, Sornsakrin S, Bodhidatta L, Platts-Mills JA, Leung D (2022). Weather variables as important clinical predictors of bacterial diarrhoea among international travellers. Journal of travel medicine, 29(4), (Read full article)
36. Keita AM, Brintz BJ, Khan AI, Taufiqul Islam M, Khan ZH, Keita Y, Hwang J, Nelson EJ, Qadri F, Sow S, Leung DT, Watt M (2022). Introduction of an Electronic Clinical Decision Support Tool to Inform Prescribing for Pediatric Diarrhea in Bangladesh and Mali: Do Provider Expectations Predict Experiences?. The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 107(1), 32-34. (Read full article)
37. Song K, Brintz BJ, Wang CP, McGeary DD, McGeary CA, Potter JS, Jaramillo CA, Eapen BC, Pugh M (2022). Complex pain phenotypes: Suicidal ideation and attempt through latent multimorbidity. PloS one, 17(4), e0267844. (Read full article)
38. Ungricht EL, Culp C, Qu P, Harris JT, Brintz BJ, Mamalis N, Olson RJ, Werner (2022). Effect of phacoemulsification fluid flow on the corneal endothelium: experimental study in rabbit eyes. Journal of cataract and refractive surgery, 48(4), 481-486. (Read full article)
39. Garbern SC, Nelson EJ, Nasrin S, Keita AM, Brintz BJ, Gainey M, Badji H, Nasrin D, Howard J, Taniuchi M, Platts-Mills JA, Kotloff KL, Haque R, Levine AC, Sow SO, Alam NH, Leung D (2022). External validation of a mobile clinical decision support system for diarrhea etiology prediction in children: A multicenter study in Bangladesh and Mali. eLife, 11, (Read full article)
40. Brady ST, Vegunta S, Olson LM, Brintz BJ, Pettey JH, Jardine G (2022). A Double-Flipped Virtual Classroom Format for Medical Students Learning Ophthalmology: An Approach to Clinical Rotations in the Context of COVID-19. Journal of academic ophthalmology (2017), 14(1), e18-e22. (Read full article)
41. Bhuiyan MS, Brintz BJ, Whitcombe AL, Markmann AJ, Bartelt LA, Moreland NJ, Azman AS, Leung D (2022). Combining antibody markers for serosurveillance of SARS-CoV-2 to estimate seroprevalence and time-since-infection. Epidemiology and infection, 150, e20. (Read full article)
42. Pupaibool J, Walaliyadda H, Tasevac B, Brintz BJ, Park IK, Graves M, Benson LS, Hale P, Powell J, Leung D (2021). Travel-Related Behaviors and Health Outcomes of Adolescents Compared with Adults on Short-Term International Service Missions. The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 106(1), 345-350. (Read full article)
43. Thorman A, Engle A, Brintz B, Simmons RG, Sanders JN, Gawron LM, Turok DK, Kaiser J (2022). Quantitative and qualitative impact of One Key Question on primary care providers' contraceptive counseling at routine preventive health visits. Contraception, 109, 73-79. (Read full article)
44. Kaiser JE, Galindo E, Sanders JN, Simmons RG, Gawron LM, Herrick JS, Brintz B, Turok D (2021). Determining the impact of the Zika pandemic on primary care providers' contraceptive counseling of non-pregnant patients in the US: a mixed methods study. BMC health services research, 21(1), 1215. (Read full article)
45. Ahmed SM,Brintz BJ,Pavlinac PB,Hossain MI,Khan AI,Platts-Mills JA,Kotloff KL,Leung D (2023). Clinical Prediction Rule to Guide Diagnostic Testing for Shigellosis and Improve Antibiotic Stewardship for Pediatric Diarrhea. Open forum infectious diseases, 10(3), (Read full article)
46. Brintz BJ,Madsen L,Fuentes (2023). A spatially explicit N-mixture model for the estimation of disease prevalence. Statistical modelling, 23(1), 31-52. (Read full article)
47. Zhang W,Koh MY,Sirohi D,Ying J,Brintz BJ,Knudsen B (2023). Predicting IHC staining classes of NF1 using features in the hematoxylin channel. Journal of pathology informatics, 14, (Read full article)
48. Kaiser JE,Kurtz T,Glasser A,Brintz BJ,Gawron LM,Turok DK,Sanders J (2022). Mifepristone for miscarriage treatment in Utah: A survey of clinician knowledge and assessment of an educational video on future use. AEM education and training, 6(6), (Read full article)
49. Sharareh N,Wallace AS,Brintz BJ,Wan N,Guo JW,Wong (2022). Associated factors with patient-reported unmet food needs among emergency department adult patients ¿ A social need perspective. Preventive medicine reports, 29, (Read full article)
50. Kyriakopoulos, Christos P and Visker, Joseph R and Brintz, Ben J and Taleb, Iosif and Badolia, Rachit and Haaland, Benjamin and Shankar, Thirupura S and Ling, Jing and Hamouche, Rana and Tseliou, Eleni and other (2022). Machine Learning Identification Of Transcriptomics And Clinical Characteristics Associated With Myocardial Recovery In Heart Failure Patients Undergoing Mechanical Circulatory Support. Journal of Cardiac Failure, 29(4), 547.
51. Dang S, Garcia-Davis S, Noël PH, Hansen J, Brintz BJ, Munoz R, Valencia Rodrigo WM, Rupper R, Bouldin ED, Trivedi R, Penney LS, Pugh MJ, Kinosian B, Intrator O, Leykum LK, Elizabeth Dole Center of Excellence for Veteran and Caregiver Research Tea (2023). Measuring the unmet needs of American military Veterans and their caregivers: Survey protocol of the HERO CARE survey. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 71(12), 3814-3825. (Read full article)
52. Mamun GMS, Zou M, Sarmin M, Brintz BJ, Rahman ASMMH, Parvin I, Ackhter MM, Chisti MJ, Leung DT, Shahrin (2023). Derivation and validation of a clinical prediction model for risk-stratification of children hospitalized with severe pneumonia in Bangladesh. PLOS global public health, 3(8), e0002216. (Read full article)
53. Ferrero A, Ghelichkhan E, Manoochehri H, Ho MM, Albertson DJ, Brintz BJ, Tasdizen T, Whitaker RT, Knudsen B (2024). HistoEM: A Pathologist-Guided and Explainable Workflow Using Histogram Embedding for Gland Classification. Modern pathology, 37(4), 100447. (Read full article)
54. Williams RJ, Brintz BJ, Ribeiro Dos Santos G, Huang AT, Buddhari D, Kaewhiran S, Iamsirithaworn S, Rothman AL, Thomas S, Farmer A, Fernandez S, Cummings DAT, Anderson KB, Salje H, Leung D (2024). Integration of population-level data sources into an individual-level clinical prediction model for dengue virus test positivity. Science advances, 10(7), eadj9786. (Read full article)
55. Tonna JE, Pierce J, Brintz BJ, Bardsley T, Hatton N, Lewis G, Phillips JD, Skidmore CR, Selzman C (2023). A randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trial of sterile filtered human amniotic fluid for treatment of COVID-19. BMC infectious diseases, 23(1), 864. (Read full article)
56. Garbern SC,Islam MT,Islam K,Ahmed SM,Brintz BJ,Khan AI,Taniuchi M,Platts-Mills JA,Qadri F,Leung D (2023). Derivation and External Validation of a Clinical Prediction Model for Viral Diarrhea Etiology in Bangladesh. Open forum infectious diseases, 10(7), (Read full article)
57. Le HDH,Sreekantaswamy S,Lind H,Birdsall MB,Jensen J,Foster-Palmer SC,Brintz BJ,Chow C,Richards B,Cipriano S (2023). Skin Color Representation in Teaching Photographs: One Institution's Approach to Addressing Visual Racism in Medical Education. Teaching and learning in medicine, (Read full article)
58. Knudsen BS, Jadhav A, Perry LJ, Thagaard J, Deftereos G, Ying J, Brintz BJ, Zhang (2024). A Pipeline for Evaluation of Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence Models to Quantify Programmed Death Ligand 1 Immunohistochemistry. Laboratory investigation; a journal of technical methods and pathology, 104(6), 102070. (Read full article)
59. Wu YP, Woodside LA, Kaphingst KA, Jensen JD, Hamilton JG, Kohlmann W, Haaland B, Brintz BJ, Phillips SM, Hay J (2024). The risk information and skin-cancer education for undergraduate prevention (RISE-UP) study: Protocol for a trial of personalized sun protection interventions for skin cancer prevention among undergraduate students. Contemporary clinical trials, 107728. (Read full article)
60. Brintz BJ, Colston JM, Ahmed SM, Chao DL, Zaitchik BF, Leung D (2024). Assessment and comparison of model estimated and directly observed weather data for prediction of diarrhoea aetiology. Epidemiology and infection, 152, e122. (Read full article)
61. Bouldin ED, Brintz BJ, Hansen J, Rupper R, Brenner R, Intrator O, Kinosian B, Viny M, Dang S, Pugh MJ, Elizabeth Dole Center of Excellence for Veteran and Caregiver Research Tea (2024). Trajectories and Transitions in Service Use Among Older Veterans at High Risk of Long-Term Institutional Care. Medical care, 62(10), 650-659. (Read full article)
62. Hanson OR, Khan II, Khan ZH, Amin MA, Biswas D, Islam MT, Nelson EJ, Ahmed SM, Brintz BJ, Hegde ST, Qadri F, Watt MH, Leung DT, Khan A (2024). Identification, mapping, and self-reported practice patterns of village doctors in Sitakunda subdistrict, Bangladesh. Journal of global health, 14, 04185. (Read full article)
63. Brintz BJ, Madaras-Kelly K, Nevers M, Echevarria KL, Goetz MB, Samore M (2024). Predicting antibiotic resistance in Enterobacterales to support optimal empiric treatment of urinary tract infections in outpatient veterans. Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology, 4(1), e118. (Read full article)
64. Mamun GM, Moretti K, Afroze F, Brintz BJ, Rahman AS, Gainey M, Sarmin M, Shaima SN, Chisti MJ, Levine AC, Garbern S (2024). Modelling climate impacts on paediatric sepsis incidence and severity in Bangladesh. Journal of global health, 14, 04107. (Read full article)
65. Garcia-Davis S, Tyagi P, Bouldin ED, Hansen J, Brintz BJ, Noel P, Rupper R, Trivedi R, Kinosian B, Intrator O, Pugh MJ, Leykum LK, Dang (2024). Sex differences in unmet needs between male and female older veterans. Journal of women & aging, 36(6), 1-16. (Read full article)
66. Brintz BJ, Operario DJ, Brown DG, Wu S, Wang L, Houpt ER, Leung DT, Liu J, Platts-Mills J (2025). Automated post-run analysis of arrayed quantitative PCR amplification curves using machine learning. Gates open research, 9, 1. (Read full article)
67. Fonseca-Romero P, Brintz BJ, Vierkant DM, Dien Bard J, Cohen DM, Festekjian A, Leber AL, Jackson JT, Kanwar N, Larsen C, Selvarangan R, Chapin KC, Pavia AT, Ahmed SM, Leung DT, IMPACT study investigator (2024). Etiologies of Bloody Diarrhea in Children Presenting With Acute Gastroenteritis to US Emergency Departments. Open forum infectious diseases, 11(12), ofae692. (Read full article)
68. Quandt Z, Jacob S, Fadlullah MZH, Wu C, Wu C, Huppert L, Levine LS, Sison P, Tsai KK, Chow M, Kang JH, Hwang J, Lee JC, Oglesby A, Venegas J, Brintz BJ, Tan AC, Anderson MS, Rosenblum MD, Young A, Daud A (2024). Phase II trial of pembrolizumab, ipilimumab, and aspirin in melanoma: clinical outcomes and translational predictors of response. BJC reports, 2(1), 46. (Read full article)
69. Fonseca-Romero P, Ahmed SM, Brintz BJ, Vierkant DM, Bard JD, Cohen DM, Festekjian A, Leber AL, Jackson JT, Kanwar N, Larsen C, Selvarangan R, Chapin KC, Pavia AT, IMPACT study investigator (2024). Etiologies of bloody diarrhea in children presenting with acute gastroenteritis to US emergency departments. (Read full article)
70. Williams RJ, Brintz BJ, Nicholson WL, Crump JA, Moorthy G, Maro VP, Kinabo GD, Ngocho J, Saganda W, Leung DT, Rubach M (2025). Derivation and Internal Validation of a Clinical Prediction Model for Diagnosis of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsioses in Northern Tanzania. Open forum infectious diseases, 12(3), ofaf100. (Read full article)
71. Davis KL, Nieznanski C, Maisha F, Brintz BJ, Clutter C, Alam M, Saleem C, Ali A, Morris JG, Leung D (2025). Kinetics of vibriocidal antibody responses among cholera patients in Goma, the Democratic Republic of Congo. (Read full article)
72. Brintz BJ, Colston JM, Ahmed SM, Chao DL, Zaitschik B, Leung D (2023). Assessment of Model Estimated and Directly Observed Weather Data for Etiological Prediction of Diarrhea. (Read full article)
73. Williams RJ, Brintz BJ, Santos GRD, Huang A, Buddhari D, Kaewhiran S, Iamsirithaworn S, Rothman AL, Thomas S, Farmer A, Fernandez S, Cummings DAT, Anderson KB, Salje H, Leung D (2023). Integration of population-level data sources into an individual-level clinical prediction model for dengue virus test positivity. (Read full article)
74. Ahmed SM, Brintz BJ, Talbert A, Ngari M, Pavlinac PB, Platts-Mills JA, Levine AC, Nelson EJ, Walson JL, Kotloff KL, Berkley JA, Leung D (2023). Derivation and external validation of a clinical prognostic model identifying children at risk of death following presentation for diarrheal care. (Read full article)