Residents, Attendings, & ED Resource Use
Research suggests that it costs more to provide care at academic medical centers in the United...
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Research suggests that it costs more to provide care at academic medical centers in the United...
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The CDC’s most recent National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey revealed that EDs in the...
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American investigators suggest that bariatric surgery appears to substantially reduce urinary...
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Study results suggest that the number of lymph nodes removed during gastrectomy for adenocarcinoma...
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Dutch research indicates that working night shifts appears to affect surgeon’s circadian rhythm....
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Following the release of professional guidance from the American College of Cardiology, the...
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Study investigators suggest that adolescent and young adult lesbians appear to be less likely to...
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A screening instrument for drug use that uses only two questions appears to have excellent statistical properties for screening for drug use, according to a study. The screening tool asks patients about days of drug use (other...
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Research from Yale and Harvard indicates that all-cause mortality and hospitalization rates, as...
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In 2014, the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) released an...
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Over the past decade, surgery residency programs have adopted structural changes to improve...
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Nephrolithiasis—a condition more commonly known as kidney stones—occurs in about 13% of men and 7%...
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Swedish research suggests that mass screening for atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients aged 75 or...
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Mortality rates per 1,000 person-years appear to be similar among patients with diabetes (15.6),...
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Study results suggest that the current 10-year atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk...
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The use of percutaneous ventricular assist devices (PVADs) appears to have increased substantially...
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Among ED patients with sepsis who progress to septic shock between 4 and 48 hours of arrival, special consideration should be given to those with certain characteristics, according to a study. Predictors included: Female gender...
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Advanced radiography use in the ED appears to have increased since 2007 in injured patients despite a decreasing diagnostic yield for non-head CTs, according to a study. Head CT use increased from 9.6% in 2007 to 11.6% in 2010,...
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Results of a systematic review indicate that three simple crowding measures appear to be linked to quality of care. Of 15 crowding measures with links to quality of care, the three most frequently linked were: Number of patients...
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Study investigators suggest that revisits following an index ED encounter appear to be more frequent than previously reported, due in part to many revisits occurring outside the index institution. Among adults in six states with...
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