Both fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) and flexible sigmoidoscopy are effective in screening for colorectal cancer. FOBT can reduce mortality from colorectal cancer. [Strength of recommendation: A, based on high-quality ...

This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and therapeutics of pregnancy.

that influenced physicians' choices. Family, partners, and loan forgiveness were experiences that influenced practice type and location. Professional support and integration into the community were experiences influencing retention....

No single treatment for Morton's neuroma has been identified in the literature.A protocol of stepped care that showed good results in an uncontrolled trial seems reasonable: patient education and footwear or insole changes, ...

This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the screening for, prevention and prognosis of coronary artery disease.

. This is the first study to use the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to explore family violence assessment behaviors. This study used a cross-sectional design and a convenience sample of emergency and urgent care nurses and physicians (n = 132) from a large...

. The report uses the most current summary information available and many FY2005 charts are included. However, for some graphics, it was necessary to use older data to achieve a consistent frame of reference. Some Medicaid service types, particularly managed...

. 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...

No studies demonstrate that training patients to examine their skin decreases mortality from melanoma in the general population. Nor is there any evidence to suggest that teaching patients to monitor their skin for suspicious ...

patients should be placed on the following medications: antiplatelet agents (strength of recommendation [SOR]: A, meta-analysis for aspirin; A, multiple randomized controlled trials [RCTs] for aspirin plus clopidogrel) a ...

This report provides a graphical summary of the Missouri Medicaid program. It is intended to provide background information of the policy issues being considered by the Missouri Medicaid Reform Commission. Medicaid at the ...

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...

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...

We propose a new system called Clinical Content Tracking System (CCTS) that is a pre-component of a Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) system. CCTS is a tool that helps physicians build clinical contents, in an electronic format...

collection of all-payer, uniform, state-based inpatient surgery administrative data and covers the years of interest. Short-term cross-sectional analysis examined 12 months pre NCD (January 1, 1999 to March 31, 2003); and 12 months post NCD (April 1, 2003...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...