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Counseling or Antidepressants for Treating Depression?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2005)
Both antidepressant medications and psychologic treatment are beneficial for adult patients with mild to moderate depression, with no consistent evidence that one type of treatment is more effective than the other. [Strength ...
Human parathyroid hormone for treating osteoporosis
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2012)
].) The parathyroid hormone teriparatide (Forteo) should be reserved for patients who do not respond to bisphosphonates or who have severe bone loss. (SOR: C, based on expert opinion.)...
Have pedometer, will travel
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2008)
Advise your patients to use a pedometer, set a step goal, and keep a step diary. This simple intervention takes only a few moments and is effective in increasing patients' physical activity and decreasing both body mass ...
Prenatal care: diagnostics
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2009)
This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the care that should be given during and immediately after a pregnancy.
Analysis of the information needs of primary care physicians in an electronic health record (EHR)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
. An interdisciplinary team conceptualized nine interview questions over weekly group sessions and fictitious but typical acute and chronic physician's documentation (progress notes) was created by two family medicine physicians (JLB and RJK). An analysis of hour long...
Understanding family violence assessment practices of pediatric emergency department nurses and physicians
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-12-16)
between nurses and physicians were found. Personal experience with family violence was reported by 26.2% of participants and 63.1% reported knowing someone personally who has experienced family violence. Thus, exposure to family violence is a common...
An evaluation of an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) based system to characterize and correlate physician burnout and EMR use
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
suggests that Electronic Medical Record use (EMR) is one major contributor due to the increased clerical burden that decreases patient contact time and disrupts the provider clinical workflow. The challenge of improving the physician EMR experience...
AI-driven techniques for enhanced efficiency in psychiatry clinical scheduling
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
of tolerating early and late arrivals include disruption of the timetable and lengthier wait times for incoming patients, which may lead to patient dissatisfaction and physician fatigue. Considering these problems, psychiatric clinics strive to improve...
Designated hospice rooms in nursing homes : a new model of end-of-life care
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
An aging population, the prediction that approximately 40% of elderly Americans will die in a nursing home by the year 2020, and a paucity of nursing homes designed to meet the needs of dying residents is creating the perfect storm. In an effort...
Impact of Nurse Practitioner Practice Regulation on Access to Healthcare Services
(2014-09-26)
Nurse practitioner (NP) practice regulations vary from state to state across the United States. Despite strong evidence supporting the quality of care and satisfaction with care provided by NPs, restrictive regulations ...
Mizzou weekly, volume 26, number 29 (June 9, 2005)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. University Affairs. Publications and Alumni Communication., 2005)
How and in what context do osteopathic medical students learn about interprofessional practice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
and maintain effective teams, (c) reservations about sharing leadership in the team, and (d) relative confidence about their teamwork skills. Post-program data showed statistically significant positive change in attitudes about the value of teamwork, efficiency...
From ‘Remedy Highly Esteemed’ to ‘Barbarous Practice’: The Rise and Fall of Acupuncture in Nineteenth-Century America
(2015-05-27)
considerable popularity in the United States as far back as the early part of the nineteenth century, with American physicians conducting similar experiments on patients in an effort to determine acupuncture’s underlying mechanism of action. In the second half...
Associations between urinary metabolites of di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate and reproductive hormones in fertile men
(2011-08)
Widely used man-made chemicals, including phthalates, can induce hormonal alterations through a variety of cellular and molecular mechanisms. A number of rodent and observational studies have consistently demonstrated the ...
A socioecological perspective : the "ups and downs" of living with type 2 diabetes among working adults in the rural south
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Persons with higher patient activation levels are more likely to engage in preventive health behaviors. This qualitative study addressed a population that may be particularly vulnerable to poor diabetes outcomes: rural, working adults with type 2...
The Relationship between Social Support and Health Care Utilization among African-American Men Post-acute Myocardial Infarction
(2014-09-30)
African-American men have more health disparities in the form of higher rates of
chronic illness and shorter life expectancies when compared to their Caucasian
counterparts. A health disparity example is the higher ...
Autism Overview
(GeneReviews, 2005-12)
This overviews Autism, including causes, evaluation Strategies, genetic counseling, management and further resources.
Impact of a psychoeducational intervention on dementia caregiving
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-12-16)
.036) from Time 1 (M = 11.6 points) to Time 2 (M = 14.6 points). Although, caregiver's coping and stress did not change significantly, scores improved for coping from Time 1 (M = 58.6 points) to Time 2 (M = 72.6 points) and stress from Time 1 (M = 20.7 points...
The role of the P2Y₂ nucleotide receptor in inflammation: the mechanisms of P2Y₂ receptor-mediated activation of G proteins
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
, or stress. This dissertation concerns the mechanisms whereby the P2Y₂R mediates chemotaxis as well as the modulation of endothelial intercellular junctions. Since G proteins, such as heterotrimeric G₁₂ and Gi/o and the monomeric Rho family of GTPases...
Developing a model of psychiatric visit non-adherence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Non-adherence to psychiatry visits costs the US mental health care system more than one hundred billion dollars annually. Non-adherent visits undermine improvements to patient care quality, erode patient well-being, and ...