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Vaginal Misoprostol for Cervical Ripening in Term Pregnancy
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2006)
Low-dose (25 mcg) intravaginal misoprostol appears to be safe and effective for cervical ripening in term pregnancy for patients without a history of cesarean section. Compared with other cervical ripening methods, misoprostol ...
Dance related injuries: overview
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2008)
This issue of eMedRef provides to clinicians an overview of the injuries that may occur during dancing.
Dance related injuries: hip
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2008)
This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the injuries that may occur to the hip while dancing.
How safe is vaginal birth after cesarean section for the mother and fetus?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2006)
Compared with planned repeat low-transverse cesarean section, vaginal birth after cesarean section (VBAC) is not associated with increased risk of maternal or neonatal mortality (strength of recommendation [SOR]: B). ...
What is the best way to treat tinea cruris?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2006)
After clinical diagnosis and microscopic confirmation, tinea cruris is best treated with a topical allylamine or an azole antifungal (strength of recommendation: A, based on multiple randomized controlled trials [RCTs]). ...
What is the recommended approach to asymptomatic patients who develop a reactive PPD?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2006)
Clinical evaluation and chest x-ray are recommended for asymptomatic patients with a positive purified protein derivative (PPD) test result, to exclude the slight possibility of active tuberculosis (TB). Patients with ...
Dance related injuries: shoulder
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2008)
This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the injuries that may occur to the shoulder while dancing.
Dance related injuries: foot and ankle
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2008)
This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on injuries that may occur to the foot and ankle while dancing.
Dance related injuries: spine
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2008)
This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the injuries that may occur to the spine while dancing.
Dance related injuries: knee, thigh
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2008)
This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the injuries that may occur to the knee and thigh while dancing.
Dance related injuries: elbow, wrist and hand
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2008)
This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on injuries to the elbow, wrist and hand that may occur during dancing.
Which oral antifungal works best for toenail onychomycosis?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2013)
Terbinafine, 250 mg daily for 12 to 16 weeks, produces higher clinical cure rates than either pulsed-dose itraconazole or weekly fluconazole (strength of recommendation [SOR]: A, multiple randomized controlled trials ...
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2012)
This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and therapeutics of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.
Vulvodynia
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2008)
This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and therapeutics of vulvodynia.
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...
A quantitative performace measurement framework for health care systems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
of changing ten percent of the physician and nursing manpower, the clinic's expenses, patients' turnout to the operating margin of the clinic. The major accomplishments of this work included the incorporation of a system engineering tool to health care system...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...