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What Clinical Findings Can Be Used to Diagnose Deep Venous Thrombosis?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2004)
No single clinical finding can accurately diagnose DVT. [Strength of recommendation: A, based on a systematic review of homogeneous validating cohort studies with good reference standards.] However, when organized into ...
Screening Mammography in Women 40 to 49 Years of Age
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2004)
While there is strong agreement among experts and evidence in the literature to recommend that women 50 to 69 years of age undergo screening with mammography for breast cancer, the question of screening women 40 to 49 years ...
Treatment of Early Parkinson's Disease
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2005)
Treatment of early Parkinson's disease with either selegiline (Eldepryl), a dopamine agonist (pramipexole [Mirapex], ropinirole [Requip], or bromocriptine [Parlodel]), or the combination of levodopa and carbidopa (Sinemet) ...
Should we screen women for hypothyroidism?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2004)
Testing for thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) finds more cases of unrecognized hypothyroidism than history and physical examination (strength of recommendation [SOR]: A, based on cohort studies). Women with an initial ...
Smoking cessation counseling: What do physicians really say and how do they say it?
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012)
The U.S. Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guideline recommends that
physicians provide tobacco cessation interventions to their patients at every visit. While
many studies have examined the extent to which physicians ...
Vitamin D deficiency
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2009)
This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and therapeutics of Vitamin D deficiency.
What is the best test for peripheral vascular disease?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2008)
An ankle-brachial index is best for evaluating patients with symptoms of claudication (strength of recommendation [SOR]: B, multiple cohort studies). That said, duplex ultrasonography or magnetic resonance angiography may ...
Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP)
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2008)
This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and therapeutics of Henoch-Schönlein purpura.
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...
Nutrition in athletes: vitamins and supplements
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2008)
This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on vitamin and supplement requirements for athletes of all ages.
Mizzou weekly, volume 26, number 07 (October 7, 2004)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. University Affairs. Publications and Alumni Communication., 2004)
Psoriasis
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2012)
This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and therapeutics of psoriasis.
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 ...
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...
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...
How and in what context do osteopathic medical students learn about interprofessional practice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
The purpose of this study was to explore how and in what context osteopathic medical students learn about interprofessional practice. A mixed method design was used to gather data on attitudes of first- and second-year ...
Making the Frontier’s Anatomical Engineers: Osteopathy, A. T. Still (1828–1917), his Acolytes and Patients
(2020)
This project seeks to understand osteopathy as patients, students, and doctors did during the late nineteenth century. A. T. Still’s osteopathic medical theories proclaimed manual therapeutics to treat disease. Still’s ...
Three studies on psychological distress, health-risk behaviors, and health care access among Chinese, Filipino, and Asian Indian American Subgroups
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Asian Americans are the fastest-growing ethnic minority population in the United States. Among this group, Chinese-, Filipino-, and Asian Indian Americans are the most three largest Asian American subgroups. Yet, health-related research...
Portrait of success : a history of Mizzou nursing, Volume II. 1990-2004
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2004)
Effects of healthcare system distrust on cognition in African American older adults with type two diabetes mellitus
(2022)
might affect cognitive functioning in African American older adults. To examine the relationship between healthcare system distrust and cognition in African American older adults with T2DM, this study assessed healthcare distrust, diabetes management...