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Police use of the taser with people with mental illness in crisis.

Tags: *Conflict (Psychology), *Crisis Intervention, *Police, 2006, Crime/*statistics & numerical data, Department of Psychiatry, Electroshock/*instrumentation, Firearms, Fitzgerald Antonia, Humans, Law Enforcement, Mental Disorders/*epidemiology/*psychology, Munetz Mark R, NEOMED College of Medicine, Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.), United States, Woody Michael

Integrating evidence-based practices and the recovery model.

Consumer advocacy has emerged as an important factor in mental health policy during the past few decades. Winning consumer support for evidence-based practices requires recognition that consumers' desires and needs for various types of treatments and…

Tags: *evidence-based medicine, *Patient Advocacy, *Public Opinion, *Research, 2001, Frese F J 3rd, Health Care, Humans, Kress K, Mental Disorders/*rehabilitation, Mental Health Associations, Models, Ohio, Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.), Psychological, Quality Assurance, Stanley J, United States, Vogel-Scibilia S

Thirty-Day Readmissions After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in the United States: Insights From the Nationwide Readmissions Database.

BACKGROUND: Readmissions after cardiac procedures are common and contribute to increased healthcare utilization and costs. Data on 30-day readmissions after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) are limited. METHODS AND RESULTS: Patients…

Tags: *aortic stenosis, *costs and cost analysis, *length of stay, *Patient Readmission/economics, *readmission, *rehospitalization, *transcatheter aortic valve implantation, *transcatheter aortic valve replacement, 2017, 80 and over, Abbott J Dawn, Aged, Aortic Valve Stenosis/diagnosis/economics/*surgery, Aronow Wilbert S, Bhatt Deepak L, Chatterjee Saurav, Circulation. Cardiovascular interventions, Comorbidity, Databases, Department of Internal Medicine, Factual, Female, Fonarow Gregg C, Gheewala Neil, Goldsweig Andrew, Gordon Paul C, Greenbaum Adam B, Gupta Tanush, Hospital Costs, Humans, Khera Sahil, Kolte Dhaval, Length of Stay, Male, NEOMED College of Medicine, Patient Discharge, Postoperative Complications/etiology, Risk Factors, Sardar M Rizwan, Sharaf Barry, Skilled Nursing Facilities, Time Factors, Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement/*adverse effects/economics, Treatment Outcome, United States

Willingness and Ability of Older Adults in the Emergency Department to Provide Clinical Information Using a Tablet Computer.

OBJECTIVES: To estimate the proportion of older adults in the emergency department (ED) who are willing and able to use a tablet computer to answer questions. DESIGN: Prospective, ED-based cross-sectional study. SETTING: Two U.S. academic EDs.…

Tags: *aged, *Attitude to Computers, *Computers, *Data Collection, *Elderly, *emergency department, *Emergency Service, 2016, 80 and over, Academic Medical Centers, Academic Medical Centers – North Carolina, Aged, Brahmandam Sruti, Braz Valerie A, Computers, Confidence Intervals, Convenience Sample, Cross Sectional Studies, CROSS-sectional method, Cross-Sectional Studies, Descriptive Statistics, Emergency Care – In Old Age, Emergency Medical Services, Emergency Service, Female, Handheld, Holland Wesley C, Hospital, HOSPITAL emergency services, Human, Humans, Hunold Katherine M, Jones Christopher W, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, LONGITUDINAL method, Male, Mangipudi Sowmya A, Mass Screening/*instrumentation, MEDICAL cooperation, Medlin Richard P, Multicenter Studies, New Jersey, North Carolina, OLD age, Patient Attitudes – Evaluation – In Old Age, PATIENTS' attitudes, Platts-Mills Timothy F, Portable – Utilization – In Old Age, PORTABLE computers, Prospective Studies, Research, SCALE analysis (Psychology), Scales, STATISTICAL sampling, Summated Rating Scaling, Surveys and Questionnaires, United States, User-Computer Interface

Simulation of breast cancer screening: quality assessment of two protocols.

Healthcare professionals must make breast cancer screening decisions without the help of clear answers in current medical knowledge. This study used computer simulation to evaluate two screening protocols. The American Cancer Society (ACS) protocol…

Inflammatory arthritis in Pongo.

As the arboreal ape, Pongo, has an unusual ground ambulation adaptation, it was of interest to assess the impact of Pongo gait on patterns of arthritis. While osteoarthritis was not identified in Pongo, 11% of individual skeletons were afflicted with…

Tags: *Primate Diseases, 1996, Animals, Diagnosis, Differential, Female, Joints/pathology, Journal of medical primatology, Male, Museums, Osteoarthritis/pathology/*veterinary, Pongo pygmaeus, Rothschild B M, United States, Wild, Woods R J

Multicenter study of case finding in elderly emergency department patients.

OBJECTIVES: To assess the feasibility of a brief comprehensive case-finding program for detecting functional, cognitive, and social impairments among elderly ED patients and to estimate the prevalence of unknown, undetected, or untreated impairments…

Directing an emergency medicine residency: the problems and their potential solutions.

OBJECTIVE: To characterize the problems facing emergency medicine residency directors (EMRDs), to describe potential solutions, and to associate perceptions with anticipated duration in the position of EMRD. METHODS: A confidential questionnaire was…

Tags: 1995, Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Adult, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine/*education, Female, Gerson L W, Humans, Internship and Residency/*organization & administration, Job Satisfaction, Kuhn G, Male, Middle Aged, NEOMED College of Medicine, Physician Executives/*statistics & numerical data, United States, Weigand J

Supervision Requirements: Criteria for the Nurse and Auxiliary Staff When Providing Patient Care Visits.

Physician or advanced care clinicians' (advanced practice nurses, physician assistants) orders are routinely carried out by nursing staff, with the goals of implementing treatment plans and improving patient outcomes. In the outpatient setting,…

Timing and type of surgical treatment of Clostridium difficile-associated disease: a practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma.

BACKGROUND: Clostridium difficile infection is the leading cause of nosocomial diarrhea in the United States; however, few patients will develop fulminant C. difficile-associated disease (CDAD), necessitating an urgent operative intervention.…

Tags: *Clostridium difficile, *Practice Guidelines as Topic, *Societies, *Traumatology, 2014, Bosarge Patrick, Clostridium difficile, Clostridium Infections – Epidemiology, Clostridium Infections – Microbiology, Clostridium Infections – Surgery, Clostridium Infections/epidemiology/microbiology/*surgery, Cross Infection – Epidemiology, Cross Infection – Microbiology, Cross Infection – Surgery, Cross Infection/epidemiology/microbiology/*surgery, Dorion Heath, Duane Therese M, Enniss Toby, Ferrada Paula, Haut Elliott R, Human, Humans, Incidence, Johnson Emily, Martin Niels D, Medical, Medical Organizations, Meta Analysis, Operative Time, Praba-Egge Anita, Practice Guidelines, Rushing Amy, Sultan Shahnaz, Survival – Trends, Survival Rate/trends, systematic review, The journal of trauma and acute care surgery, Time Factors, Traumatology, United States, United States/epidemiology, Velopulos Catherine G

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

The Academic Health Department: the process of maturation.

The Academic Health Department (AHD) involves an arrangement between a governmental health agency and an academic institution, which provides mutual benefits in teaching, service, research, and practice. From its initial development in the mid-1980s…

Exploring the scope of post-intensive care syndrome therapy and care: engagement of non-critical care providers and survivors in a second stakeholders meeting.

BACKGROUND: Increasing numbers of survivors of critical illness are at risk for physical, cognitive, and/or mental health impairments that may persist for months or years after hospital discharge. The post-intensive care syndrome framework…

Tags: *Health Status, *Intensive Care Units, 2014, Awareness, Bemis-Dougherty Anita, Bienvenu O Joseph, Black Gary, Brady Susan, Brodsky Martin B, Continuity of Patient Care/*organization & administration, Critical care medicine, Critical Illness/*psychology, Davidson Judy E, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Deutschman Cliff, Doepp Diana, Elliott Doug, Flatley Carl, Fosnight Sue, Gittler Michelle, Gomez Belkys Teresa, Harvey Maurene A, Health Education, Hopkins Ramona O, Humans, Hyzy Robert, Iwashyna Theodore J, Louis Deborah, Mandel Ruth, Maxwell Carol, Mental Health, Muldoon Sean R, Needham Dale M, NEOMED College of Pharmacy, Perme Christiane S, Reilly Cynthia, Robinson Marla R, Rubin Eileen, Schmidt David M, Schuller Jessica, Scruth Elizabeth, Siegal Eric, Spill Gayle R, Sprenger Sharon, Straumanis John P, Survivors/*psychology, Sutton Pat, Swoboda Sandy M, Syndrome, Twaddle Martha L, United States, Wagner Jason, Weinert Craig, Wunsch Hannah

Primary care, the ROAD less traveled: what first-year medical students want in a specialty.

PURPOSE: Medical students are increasingly choosing non-primary-care specialties. Students consider lifestyle in selecting their specialty, but how entering medical students perceive lifestyle is unknown. This study investigates how first-year…

The scope and variety of combined baccalaureate-MD programs in the United States.

The landscape of combined baccalaureate-MD programs has changed substantially in the last two decades but has not been documented in detail. The authors review the current state of these programs and discuss opportunities for future study of their…

Cultural competency 2.0: exploring the concept of "difference" in engagement with the other.

Cultural competency efforts have received much attention in medical education. Most efforts focus on the acquisition of knowledge and skills about various groups based on race and ethnic identity, national origins, religion, and the like. The authors…

The 21st century faculty member in the educational process–what should be on the horizon?

One of Abraham Flexner's legacies was the concept of a professional faculty community responsible for teaching, scholarly work, and the creation and nurturing of the academic environment in medical schools. Dramatic shifts in society, health care,…

Tags: 2010, Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Canada, Education, Faculty, Forecasting, Guidelines as Topic, Medical/*standards, Medical/*standards/*trends, Nora Lois Margaret, Organizations, United States

Hidden in plain sight: the formal, informal, and hidden curricula of a psychiatry clerkship.

PURPOSE: To examine perceptions of the formal, informal, and hidden curricula in psychiatry as they are observed and experienced by (1) attending physicians who have teaching responsibilities for residents and medical students, (2) residents who are…

On outcomes and humility.

The competency movement in medical education asserts itself in every corner of students' experiences from matriculation through residency. Such a focus on making sure trainees achieve desired levels of skills, knowledge, and technique is highly…

Tags: *Cultural Diversity, *Virtues, 2008, Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Clinical Competence/*standards, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Education, Empathy, Humans, Medical/*standards, Medical/standards, Narration, NEOMED College of Medicine, Schools, United States, Wear Delese

Perspective: medical students' perceptions of the poor: what impact can medical education have?

There is currently little knowledge or understanding of medical students' knowledge and attitudes toward the poor. Teaching hospitals bring students face-to-face with poor and uninsured patients on a regular basis. However, an overview of the…

Medicine and the arts. Scenes from a Mastectomy [excerpt] by Alicia Ostriker. Commentary.

Tags: *Medicine in Literature, 2007, 20th Century, Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Breast Neoplasms/*psychology/*surgery, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Female, History, Humans, Mastectomy/*psychology, NEOMED College of Medicine, United States, Wear Delese

Lifestyle factors and primary care specialty selection: comparing 2012-2013 graduating and matriculating medical students' thoughts on specialty lifestyle.

PURPOSE: To compare how first-year (MS1) and fourth-year students (MS4) ascribe importance to lifestyle domains and specialty characteristics in specialty selection, and compare students' ratings with their primary care (PC) interest. METHOD: In…

New recommendations for the treatment of tuberculosis.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The aim of this article is to give practicing physicians a practical approach to the treatment of latent and active tuberculosis and to review newer recommendations and common problems encountered in the treatment of patients with…

Tags: 2005, Adult, Antitubercular Agents – Administration and Dosage, Antitubercular Agents – Adverse Effects, Antitubercular Agents – Pharmacodynamics, Antitubercular Agents – Therapeutic Use, Antitubercular Agents/adverse effects/pharmacology/*therapeutic use, Bacterial, Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury, Child, Current opinion in infectious diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Drug Resistance, Female, Hepatitis, HIV Infections – Complications, HIV Infections/complications, Humans, Infant, Microbial, Multiple, Myers Joseph P, NEOMED College of Medicine, Practice Guidelines, Practice Guidelines as Topic, Preschool, Prescribing Patterns – Standards, Tuberculin Test, Tuberculosis – Drug Therapy, Tuberculosis – Epidemiology, Tuberculosis – Prevention and Control, Tuberculosis/*drug therapy/epidemiology/prevention & control, United States

Attitudes of female nurses and female residents toward each other: a qualitative study in one U.S. teaching hospital.

PURPOSE: To describe the attitudes of female nurses and female resident physicians toward each other in surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics-gynecology, and emergency medicine in one Midwest teaching hospital in the United States. METHOD: Using a…

Insurgent multiculturalism: rethinking how and why we teach culture in medical education.

The author proposes a theoretical orientation for cultural competency that reorganizes common curricular responses to the study of culture in medical education. What has come to be known in medical education as cultural competency is theoretically…

Tags: *Attitude of Health Personnel, *Cultural Diversity, 2003, Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Attitudes, Curriculum, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Education, Health Knowledge, Humans, Medical/*organization & administration, NEOMED College of Medicine, Physician-Patient Relations, Physician's Role, Practice, Professional Competence/standards, Teaching/methods, United States, Wear Delese

The House of God : another look.

Since its publication in 1978, Samuel Shem's The House of God has sold over two million copies in over 50 countries. While it has remained popular among medical students, its value as a literary text to promote critical reflection on self and…

The contribution of noncognitive characteristics in predicting MCAT scores.

Tags: *Schools, 2001, Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Borges N J, College Admission Test/*statistics & numerical data, Female, Humans, Jones B J, Male, Medical, Predictive Value of Tests, United States

The spirit catches you and you fall down: a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures.

Tags: *Culture, *Medical History Taking, *Professional-Family Relations, *Seizures/diagnosis/drug therapy/psychology, 2001, Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Female, Humans, Infant, Medical Records, NEOMED College of Medicine, Nixon L L, Thailand, United States, Wear D

Measuring the costs of primary care education in the ambulatory setting.

In 1995, the authors obtained cost, operations, and educational activity data from 98 ambulatory care sites across the United States in which primary care teaching was occurring and compared those data with the corresponding data from 84 ambulatory…

Tags: *Ambulatory Care, 2000, Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Boex J R, Boll A, Budgets, Costs and Cost Analysis, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Education, Franzini L, Hogan A J, Irby D, Medical/*economics, Meservey P M, NEOMED College of Medicine, Rubin R M, Seifer S D, United States, Veloski J J

Understanding the costs of ambulatory care training.

While patient care has been shifting to the ambulatory setting, the education of health care professionals has remained essentially hospital-based. One factor discouraging the movement of training into community-based ambulatory settings is the lack…

Professional development of medical students: problems and promises.

Observers and critics of the medical profession, both within and without, urge that more attention be paid to the moral sensibilities, the characters, of medical students. Passing on particular moral values and actions to physicians has always been…

Tags: *Character, *Education, *Professional Practice, 1997, Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Cultural Diversity, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Feminism, Humans, Knowledge, Medical, Medical/*psychology, Models, NEOMED College of Medicine, Students, Theoretical, United States, Wear D

Factors contributing to the variability of direct costs for graduate medical education in teaching hospitals.

Medicare's support of graduate medical education includes funds allocated to the direct costs of graduate medical education: housestaff stipends and benefits, faculty costs, and related educational costs such as classroom space. As reimbursed through…

Tags: 1992, Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Boex J R, Costs and Cost Analysis/*statistics & numerical data, Data Collection, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Education, Faculty, Graduate/*economics, Hospitals, Medical, Medicare/legislation & jurisprudence, NEOMED College of Medicine, Regression Analysis, Reimbursement Mechanisms, Salaries and Fringe Benefits, Teaching/*economics, Training Support, United States

Ethical principles contained in currently professed medical oaths.

This study analyzed the pledges received from all U.S. medical schools accredited in 1989 by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education of both the Association of American Medical Colleges and the American Medical Association to determine what…

Tags: *Codes of Ethics, *Ethics, *Hippocratic Oath, 1991, Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Beneficence, Bioethics and Professional Ethics, Confidentiality, Dickstein E, Empirical Approach, Erlen J, Erlen J A, Humans, Medical, Patient Advocacy, Personal Autonomy, Physician-Patient Relations, Social Justice, United States