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Does a Low-Sodium Diet Reduce Blood Pressure?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2004)
Reducing sodium intake does lead to a slightly lower average blood pressure. However, no evidence from controlled trials proves that reducing sodium intake decreases morbidity or mortality, or proves that modest sodium ...
Do ACE inhibitors prevent nephropathy in type 2 diabetes without proteinuria?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2004)
Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors make a significant difference for patients with diabetes as a whole. If patients both with and without microalbuminuria are included together, ACE inhibitors significantly ...
An obesity remedy for diabetes
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2013)
Consider bariatric surgery for patients with diabetes who are obese; surgery is associated with higher remission rates than medical therapy, regardless of the amount of weight lost. Stength of recommendation: B: Based on ...
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 ...
What is the best treatment for Osgood-Schlatter disease?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2004)
Osgood-Schlatter disease is a common cause of pain and tenderness at the tibial tuberosity in active adolescents. It is typically a self-limited condition that waxes and wanes, but which often takes months to years to ...
Human parathyroid hormone for treating osteoporosis
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2012)
Human parathyroid hormone should be used in patients with severe osteoporosis to decrease the rate of vertebral and nonvertebral fractures. (Strength of Recommendation [SOR]: A, based on a systematic review and randomized ...
What is the best duration of steroid therapy for contact dermatitis (rhus)?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2006)
Scant evidence exists for the best duration of steroid therapy for contact dermatitis due to plants (rhus). Review articles recommend 10 to 21 days of treatment with topical or oral corticosteroids for moderate to severe ...
Are major bleeding events from falls more likely in patients on warfarin?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2006)
There is no evidence of increased risk for major bleeding as a result of falls in hospitalized patients taking warfarin (strength of recommendation [SOR]: B, based on retrospective cohort studies). In the average patient ...
This obscure herb works for the common cold
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2008)
Offer patients Pelargonium sidoides (30 drops 3 times a day) to reduce the severity and duration of common cold symptoms and to get patients back to work sooner. Stength of recommendation: B: A single well-designed randomized ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Portrait of success : a history of Mizzou nursing, Volume II. 1990-2004
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2004)
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 ...
A medicare benefit expansion: inpatient clinical and economic outcomes in deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's Disease
(University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2011-07-08)
to March 30, 2004). Long-term, cross-sectional analysis examined the three years, three months prior to the the short term pre period (January 1, 1999 to March 31, 2002); and the three years, nine months after the short term post period (April 1 2004...
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...
A study on the relationship of death anxiety and the completion of advance directives for oncology social workers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This study examined the extent to which the death anxiety of oncology social workers impacts the facilitation of the completion of their personal advance directives, and communication about advance directives with patients. ...
Investigating the Role of Clinical Rotation Payment in Clinical Education Quality and Student Self-Efficacy for Physician Assistant Education
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
As the need for Physician Assistants (PAs) increases in the United States,
education programs have a responsibility to graduate competent providers to help fill the
nation’s healthcare workforce needs. To do this, PA ...
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...