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Improving Scholarship in a Community Hospital Residency Program with a Curriculum featuring a Structured Roadmap, Indi [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Scholarly output of residents graduating between 2016-2018 (pre-intervention) was compared to those graduating from 2019 -2021 (post-intervention). Results Between July 2016 and 2021, thirty-one Family-Medicine residents graduated from the program.

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Predictors of exposure to high-priority drug-drug interactions among non-elderly adults in Quebec, Canada [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Drug reimbursement claims were used to identify periods of overlapping exposure to 2 or more prescription drugs between April 1, 2015 and March 31, 2016. Study design and Analysis: Retrospective cohort study using provincial administrative health databases. DDI were identified using the list of high-priority DDI of the U.S.

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Timing of Repeat Epinephrine in Pediatric Anaphylaxis: How Long Should We Observe?

PEMBlog

Researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study across 30 US and 1 Canadian pediatric emergency departments, analyzing data from 5641 children (ages 6 months to 17 years) treated with epinephrine for an acute allergic reaction between 2016 and 2019.

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Study examines racial disparities in older patients hospitalized for heart attacks

Medical Xpress

In an analysis in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society that included data on 2,918 patients aged 75 years or older who were hospitalized for heart attacks at 94 US hospitals from 2013–2016, Black participants were more likely than white participants to have impairments in cognition (37.6% versus 14.5%), mobility (66.0%

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Episode 288: WDx #23: Clinical Unknown Discussion with Dr Rebecca Berger

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Dr. Rebecca Berger Rebecca is an academic hospitalist and assistant professor of medicine at Weil Cornell Medicine and New York Presbyterian Hospital. She served as a NEJM Editorial Fellow from 2016-2017 and worked as a hospitalist at MGH before moving to Cornell in 2018. Download CPSolvers App here

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Cessation of Public Water Fluoridation Would Increase Tooth Decay

Physician's Weekly

from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, both in Boston, examined the cost-effectiveness of cessation of public water fluoridation and associations with oral health among children aged 0 to 19 years. Sung Eun Choi, Ph.D., from Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and Lisa Simon, M.D., percentage points and by 25.4 million QALYs at a cost of $9.8

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From Surgeries To Keeping Company: The Place Of Robots In Healthcare

The Medical Futurist

Assisting surgeries, disinfecting rooms, dispensing medication, keeping company: believe it or not these are the tasks medical robots will soon undertake in hospitals, pharmacies, or your nearest doctor’s office. These new ‘colleagues’ will definitely make a difference in every field of medicine.