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Improving a mature palliative care program at a Level I trauma center.

Background: Similar to the significant rise in the geriatric population in the United States, trauma centers have seen an increase in geriatric trauma patients. These patients present with additional challenges such as a higher likelihood of…

Memory Evaluation In Alzheimers-disease - Caregivers Appraisals And Objective Testing

Objectives.-To evaluate if caregivers are reliable informants concerning memory deficits in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Design.-Responses of caregivers of patients with probable AD and responses of healthy control subjects on a…

Tags: 1993, adulthood, Archives of Neurology, cerad, complaints, consortium, dementia, establish, Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication, Koss E, neuropsychological assessment, Neurosciences & Neurology, Ownby R, Patterson M B, Questionnaires, rating-scale, relatives, Stuckey J C, Whitehouse P J

The educational experience of pediatric emergency medicine fellows in the use and application of procedural sedation/analgesia.

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study is to describe the clinical and educational experience provided to the pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) fellows in procedural sedation/analgesia during their course of training. METHODS: A nonanonymous survey…

Examining the gray zones in guardianship and involuntary protective services laws.

Multidisciplinary focus groups were convened in three geographically diverse areas of Ohio to compare the application of guardianship and adult protective services interventions in the lives of vulnerable adults. The results suggest that there is…

Do elder emergency department patients and their informants agree about the elder's functioning?

OBJECTIVE: To compare elder patients' and their informants' ratings of the elder's physical and mental function measured by a standard instrument, the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form 12 (SF-12). METHODS: This was a randomized, cross-sectional study…

Confronting the communication gap between conventional and alternative medicine: a survey of physicians' attitudes.

Tags: 1999, Adult, Alternative Therapies – Psychosocial Factors, Alternative Therapies in Health & Medicine, Crock R D, Descriptive Statistics, Female, Human, Internal Consistency, Jarjoura D, Male, Middle Age, P-Value, Physician Attitudes, Polen A, Questionnaires, Repeated Measures, Rutecki G W, T-Tests

Anti-tobacco socialization in homes in African-American and White parents, and smoking and nonsmoking parents.

PURPOSE: To examine parental perceptions and behaviors with regard to teen smoking, comparing African-American and white parents, and those who did and did not smoke. METHODS: Focus groups consisting of African-American and white parents who smoked…

The medically underserved: who is likely to exercise and why?

Adults who exercise regularly have better health, but only 15% of U.S. adults engage in regular exercise, with some social groups, such as people with lower incomes and women, having even lower rates. This study investigates the rate at which…

The effect of a 12-month longitudinal long-term care rotation on knowledge and attitudes of internal medicine residents about geriatrics.

OBJECTIVE: To determine if participation in a 12-month longitudinal long-term care (LTC) rotation resulted in improved knowledge and attitudes about geriatrics. DESIGN: Longitudinal study with paired measurements. SETTING: A community LTC facility…

Impact of preceptor and orientee learning styles on satisfaction: a pilot study.

This descriptive pilot study assessed the impact of learning style on satisfaction with orientation. Three learning style instruments were sent to all preceptors on inpatient units in two hospitals, and newly hired registered nurses and licensed…

Does functional decline prompt emergency department visits and admission in older patients?

BACKGROUND: Older patients may visit the emergency department (ED) when their illness affects their function. OBJECTIVES: To quantify the function of older ED patients, to assess whether functional decline (FD) had occurred, and to determine whether…

The influence of family environment on dissociation in pediatric injury patients.

Tags: 2011, Accidents – Adverse Effects, Adolescence, Akron Children's Hospital, Analysis of Covariance, Bivariate Statistics, Checklists, Chi Square Test, Child, Child Development, Christopher Norman C, Clinical Child Psychology & Psychiatry, Confidence Intervals, Correlational Studies, Data Analysis Software, Delahanty Douglas L, Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Descriptive Research, Descriptive Statistics, Dissociative Disorders – Risk Factors, Family, Family Coping, Family Relations, Female, Funding Source, Human, Income, Interview Guides, Male, NEOMED College of Medicine, Nugent Nicole R, Ohio, Parametric Statistics, Parenting Education, Patient-Family Relations, Pearson's Correlation Coefficient, Pretest-Posttest Design, Prospective Studies, Questionnaires, Retrospective Design, Scales, Self Report, Semi-Structured Interview, Severity of Illness Indices, Sledjeski Eve M, Social Environment, Socioeconomic Factors, Wounds and Injuries – Complications

PTSD after Traumatic Injury: An Investigation of the Impact of Injury Severity and Peritraumatic Moderators.

Prior Peritraumatic Dissociative Experiences Affect Autonomic Reactivity During Trauma Recall.

Menstrual Irregularity and Musculoskeletal Injury in Female High School Athletes.

Context: The female athlete triad describes the interrelatedness of energy availability, menstrual function, and bone density. Although associations between triad components and musculoskeletal injury (INJ) have been reported in collegiate athletes,…

Tags: 2012, Adolescence, Adolescent Health, Amenorrhea, Athletes, Athletic Injuries – Epidemiology, Body Mass Index – Evaluation, Body Weights and Measures, Carr Kathleen E, Chi Square Test, Confidence Intervals, Continuing (Credit), Cross Sectional Studies, Data Analysis Software, Descriptive Statistics, Education, Female, Female – In Adolescence, Funding Source, High School, Human, Journal of Athletic Training (National Athletic Trainers' Association), Loud Keith J, McGuine Timothy A, Menarche, Menstruation Disorders – In Adolescence, Musculoskeletal System – Injuries – In Adolescence, Odds Ratio, Oligomenorrhea, One-Way Analysis of Variance, Post Hoc Analysis, Questionnaires, Rauh Mitchell J, Severity of Injury – Evaluation, Sex Maturation, Survey Research, Thein-Nissenbaum Jill M, Wisconsin, Women's Health

Behaviors and Characteristics of African American and European American Females That Impact Weight Management.

This report explores the extent to which sociodemographic and psychosocial factors could explain differences in obesity or dietary and exercise behaviors between middle-aged African American (AA) and European American (EA) women seen in primary care.…

Associations Between Disordered Eating, Menstrual Dysfunction, and Musculoskeletal Injury Among High School Athletes.

Tags: 2011, Adolescence, Adolescent Health, Adolescent Nutrition, Athletes, Athletic Injuries – Epidemiology – In Adolescence, Body Mass Index – Evaluation, Body Weights and Measures, Carr Kathleen E, Chi Square Test, Confidence Intervals, Data Analysis Software, Descriptive Statistics, Eating Behavior – Evaluation, Eating Disorders – Epidemiology – In Adolescence, Female, Female Athlete Triad, Funding Source, Health Status – Evaluation, High School, Human, Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy, Logistic Regression, Loud Keith J, McGuine Timothy A, Menstruation Disorders – Epidemiology – In Adolescence, Multivariate Analysis, Musculoskeletal System – Injuries – In Adolescence, Odds Ratio, One-Way Analysis of Variance, Post Hoc Analysis, Prospective Studies, Psychological Tests, Questionnaires, Rauh Mitchell J, Record Review, Retrospective Design, Self Report, Sports – Classification, Thein-Nissenbaum Jill M, Wisconsin, Women's Health

Providing Nutrition Support in the Electronic Health Record Era: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

Tags: 2012, Acute Care, America, Descriptive Statistics, Documentation, Electronic Health Records – Methods, Electronic Order Entry, Health Personnel, Human, Nutrition in Clinical Practice, Nutritional Support, Product Evaluation, Questionnaires, Safety, Summated Rating Scaling, Time Factors, Vanek Vincent W

Patient Preferences in Choosing a Primary Care Physician.

Improved auscultation skills in paramedic students using a modified stethoscope.

Interactive Relationship Between Parent and Child Event Appraisals and Child PTSD Symptoms After an Injury.

Findings from a 10-year follow-up of bone mineral density in competitive perimenopausal runners.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate bone mineral density (BMD) in perimenopausal competitive runners with long-term follow-up. STUDY DESIGN: Fifteen master female runners between 40 and 50 years old who ran at least 20 miles per week were evaluated. BMD was…

Emergency medicine residency boot Camp curriculum: a pilot study.

INTRODUCTION: Establishing a boot camp curriculum is pertinent for emergency medicine (EM) residents in order to develop proficiency in a large scope of procedures and leadership skills. In this article, we describe our program's EM boot camp…

The Relationship Between Organizational Characteristics and Advance Care Planning Practices.

Organizational characteristics may impede the uniform adoption of advance care planning (ACP) best practices. We conducted telephone interviews with site directors of a Midwestern state's Medicaid waiver program administered by the Area Agencies on…

Tags: 2015, Administrative Personnel, Adult, advance care planning, Advance Care Planning/*organization & administration/standards, area agency on aging, Attitude of Health Personnel, Baughman Kristin R, care management, Case Management, Case Managers, Chi Square Test, Clinical Protocols/standards, community-based long-term care, Confidence Intervals, Cross Sectional Studies, Cross-Sectional Studies, Data Analysis Software, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Descriptive Research, Descriptive Statistics, Female, Funding Source, Government Agencies, Hazelett Susan, Human, Humans, Inservice Training/organization & administration, interviews, Logistic Regression, Long Term Care, Ludwick Ruth, Male, Medicaid, Medicaid/statistics & numerical data, Middle Age, Middle Aged, Midwestern United States, Multivariate Analysis, NEOMED College of Medicine, nurses, Odds Ratio, Ohio, organizational characteristics, Organizational Culture, Palmisano Barbara, Practice Guidelines as Topic, Questionnaires, registered nurses, Rural Areas, Sanders Margaret, social workers, Surveys, T-Tests, Telephone, The American journal of hospice & palliative care, United States, Urban Areas

Disentangling consumer and provider predictors of advance care planning.

Factorial surveys were used to examine community-based long-term care providers' judgments about consumers' need for advance care planning (ACP) and comfort levels in discussing ACP. Providers (448 registered nurses and social workers) judged…

Narrative analysis of the ethics in providing advance care planning.

Our objective was to better understand the values and ethical dilemmas surrounding advance care planning through stories told by registered nurses and licensed social workers, who were employed as care managers within Area Agencies on Aging. We…

Screen Exposure During Daily Routines and a Young Child's Risk for Having Social-Emotional Delay.

This cross-sectional study assessed associations between social-emotional development in young children and their number of daily routines involving an electronic screen. We hypothesized children with poor social-emotional development have a…

A broader understanding of care managers' attitudes of advance care planning: A concurrent nested design.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To examine barriers of advance care planning (ACP) experienced by care managers (CMs) through a mixed methods approach. A concurrent nested design was used to acquire a deeper understanding of ACP and to identify nuances between…

Tags: *Attitude of Health Personnel, *Health Knowledge, 2018, Adult, advance care planning, Advance Care Planning/*standards, Attitudes, Aultman Julie, Baughman Kristin R, Case Managers, Chi Square Test, College of Graduate Studies, Community health, Concurrent Prospective Studies, Convenience Sample, Decision-making, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Discussion, end of life, Female, Focus Groups, Funding Source, Health Services Accessibility/standards, Human, Humans, Journal of clinical nursing, Ludwick Ruth, Male, Middle Age, Middle Aged, Midwestern United States, Multicenter Studies, Multimethod Studies, NEOMED College of Graduate Studies, NEOMED College of Medicine, Nurse Attitudes, nurses, Practice, Qualitative, Qualitative Research, quantitative, Questionnaires, Surveys, Surveys and Questionnaires, Thematic Analysis

Exploring comorbid depression and physical health trajectories: A case-based computational modelling approach.

While comorbid depression/physical health is a major clinical concern, the conventional methods of medicine make it difficult to model the complexities of this relationship. Such challenges include cataloguing multiple trends, developing multiple…

Short-term functional decline and service use in older emergency department patients with blunt injuries.

BACKGROUND: Injuries are a common reason for emergency department (ED) visits by older patients. Although injuries in older patients can be serious, 75% of these patients are discharged home after their ED visit. These patients may be at risk for…

Tags: *Activities of Daily Living, 2010, 80 and over, Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Academic Medical Centers, Activities of Daily Living, Aged, Allen Kyle R, Blanda Michelle, Bone/physiopathology/therapy, Clinical Assessment Tools, Comorbidity, Confidence Intervals, Department of Emergency Medicine, Descriptive Statistics, Emergency Care – In Old Age, Emergency Patients – In Old Age, Emergency Service, Family, Female, Fisher's Exact Test, Fractures, Functional Status – In Old Age, Geriatric Assessment, Geriatric Functional Assessment, Gerson Lowell W, Health Resource Utilization – In Old Age, Hospital/*statistics & numerical data, Hospitals, Human, Humans, Logistic Models, Logistic Regression, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Mental Status Schedule, NEOMED College of Medicine, Nonpenetrating – In Old Age, Nonpenetrating/*physiopathology/*therapy, OARS Multidimensional Functional Assessment Questionnaire, Odds Ratio, Ohio, Outcome Assessment, Outpatients, P-Value, Predictive Value of Tests, Prospective Studies, Questionnaires, Record Review, ROC Curve, Scales, Summated Rating Scaling, Surveys and Questionnaires, T-Tests, Teaching, Treatment Outcome, Treatment Outcomes, Wilber Scott T, Wounds

Characteristics of Academic Health Departments: Initial Findings From a Cross-Sectional Survey.

Academic Health Departments (AHDs) represent collaborative relationships between public health academia and practice. The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of AHD characteristics, to document the extent of collaboration between…

Tags: 2016, Academic Medical Centers – Evaluation, Academies and Institutes/*classification, Amos Kathleen, Barlow Patrick, Brownson Ross C, Community Health Services, Cross Sectional Studies, Cross-Sectional Studies, Erwin Paul Campbell, Human, Humans, Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP, Keck C William, Public Health Administration, Questionnaires, Surveys and Questionnaires, United States, United States Public Health Service/*classification/trends

Long-term results of percutaneous lumbar decompression for LSS: two-year outcomes.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this report was to evaluate the long-term effectiveness and safety of mild lumbar decompression for the treatment of neurogenic claudication associated with lumbar spinal stenosis. This technique uses a percutaneous dorsal…

Mindfulness as a predictor of positive reappraisal and burnout in standardized patients.

BACKGROUND: Standardized patients (SPs) portray emotionally intense roles that can have unintended deleterious effects including burnout. PURPOSE: This study explored SP characteristics that could serve as protective factors against these adverse…

Adapting cognitive behavioral therapy for psychosis for case managers: increasing access to services in a community mental health agency.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this article is twofold: (a) to describe the adaptation of an evidence-based practice and, (b) using a dissemination framework, to describe the process of implementing the practice at a community mental health agency.…

Tags: *Community Mental Health Services, *Diffusion of Innovation, *Health Services Accessibility, 2014, Adult, Case Management, Case Managers, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy/education/*methods, Cognitive Therapy – Methods, collaboration, Community Mental Health Services – United States, Cooperative Behavior, Department of Psychiatry, Evidence-Based, Evidence-Based Practice/education/methods, Female, Human, Humans, Inservice Training, Interinstitutional Relations, Male, Montesano Vicki L, Munetz Mark R, NEOMED College of Medicine, Pelton Jeremy R, Pilot Studies, Professional Practice, Program Implementation – Methods, Psychiatric rehabilitation journal, Psychotic Disorders/*therapy, Questionnaires, Scales, Schizophrenia – Rehabilitation, Schizophrenia/*therapy, Sivec Harry J, Staff Development, Thematic Analysis, Treatment Outcome, Turkington Douglas, United Kingdom, United States

Single versus multiple fractions of repeat radiation for painful bone metastases: a randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial.

BACKGROUND: Although repeat radiation treatment has been shown to palliate pain in patients with bone metastases from multiple primary origin sites, data for the best possible dose fractionation schedules are lacking. We aimed to assess two dose…

Tags: *Dose Fractionation, *Radiotherapy, 2014, Aged, Analgesics – Therapeutic Use, Analgesics/therapeutic use, Australia, Babington Scott, Bone Neoplasms, Bone Neoplasms – Complications, Bone Neoplasms – Radiotherapy, Bone Neoplasms/complications/*radiotherapy/*secondary, Brief pain inventory, Brundage Michael D, Canada, Cauda Equina, Chen Bingshu E, Chi Square Test, Chi-Square Distribution, Chow Edward, Clinical Assessment Tools, Clinical Trials, Computer-Assisted, Computer-Assisted – Adverse Effects, Computer-Assisted/adverse effects, Demas William F, Europe, Female, Fractures, Funding Source, Hartsell William F, Hoskin Peter, Human, Humans, Intention to Treat Analysis, Israel, Logistic Models, Logistic Regression, Male, Meyer Ralph M, Middle Age, Middle Aged, Nabid Abdenour, New Zealand, Odds Ratio, Oei Bing, Pain – Diagnosis, Pain – Drug Therapy, Pain – Etiology, Pain – Radiotherapy, Pain Measurement, Pain/diagnosis/drug therapy/*etiology/*radiotherapy, Questionnaires, Radiation, Radiation Dosage, Radiotherapy, Radiotherapy Planning, Risk Factors, Roos Daniel, Scales, Spinal Cord Compression – Etiology, Spinal Cord Compression/etiology, Spontaneous – Etiology, Spontaneous/etiology, Surveys and Questionnaires, The Lancet. Oncology, Time Factors, Tissing-Tan Caroline J A, Treatment Outcome, Treatment Outcomes, van der Linden Yvette M, Wilson Carolyn F, Wong Rebecca K S, Wu Jackson S Y

Professional judgments about advance care planning with community-dwelling consumers.

CONTEXT: There is limited research on how community-based long-term care (CBLTC) providers' personal characteristics and attitudes affect their decisions to initiate advance care planning (ACP) conversations with consumers. OBJECTIVES: To examine…

Tags: *Attitude of Health Personnel, *Decision Making, *Health Care Surveys, 2012, advance care planning, Advance Care Planning/organization & administration/*statistics & numerical data, Attitude of Health Personnel, Baughman Kristin R, Consumer Behavior/*statistics & numerical data, Consumer Satisfaction – Statistics and Numerical Data, Decision Making, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Hazelett Susan, Hewit Michael, Human, Humans, Journal of pain and symptom management, Ludwick Ruth E, Management, Merolla David M, Midwestern United States, Models, NEOMED College of Medicine, Organizational, Palmisano Barbara, Patient Satisfaction – Statistics and Numerical Data, Patient Satisfaction/*statistics & numerical data, Population Surveillance, Questionnaires, RANDOMIZED controlled trials, Surveys, Surveys and Questionnaires, Winchell Janice

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