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Do vitamin C supplements reduce mortality in patients with cardiovascular disease?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2004)
Vitamin C, when taken as a dietary supplement, does not appear to reduce mortality in patients with cardiovascular disease. [Strength of recommendation: B, based on reviews of cohort studies and a single randomized controlled ...
Treating migraines : it's different for kids
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2018)
Treating migraines: Its different for kids. Certain medications used for migraine prevention in adults do not perform the same way in children and adolescents and can actually cause harm. PRACTICE CHANGER: Do not prescribe ...
When (and how) should you evaluate a child for obstructive sleep apnea?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2007)
Well-child visits are the appropriate time to screen all children for a history of snoring and apnea (strength of recommendation [SOR]: C, based on expert opinion). Children should be further evaluated for obstructive sleep ...
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...
Comparison of Patient-Reported Angina with Provider Assigned Canadian Cardiovascular Society Angina Class Before and After Revascularization
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
Background: The Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) classification system for angina is a critical
determinant of revascularization appropriateness. A major limitation of CCS is that it rates
patients’ symptoms from ...
What's the best treatment for CIN 2 or 3?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2007)
Excision or ablation of the transformation zone are equally effective for treating an initial diagnosis of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) grades 2 or 3 in women with a satisfactory colposcopy and no suggestion ...
Archives, 2014 Summer
(University of Missouri Health System, 2014)
This issue of Archives is Summer 2014.
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...
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...
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...
An arc of death : suicide, alcoholism, murder, accidents, and other early deaths in St. Louis, Missouri, 1875 to 1885
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
and interpreting deaths. These factors were whether the deceased had family members who testified on their behalf, whether the coroner believed that it was possible that another person may have caused or contributed to the death that he was investigating...
Hospital discharge destination decisions : exploring congruence in frail elders, their family members, and health care teams' decisions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This study used a mixed method design to explore congruence about the discharge destination decision of hospitalized frail older adults, their family members, and health care team members (HCTM). There was no common pattern of preferred level...
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 ...
Mizzou weekly (online version), volume 33, number 29
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Division of Marketing and Publications., 2012)
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 ...
The influence of media on implicit weight bias
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-04-16)
The purpose of this dissertation is to determine if exposure to media that exhibits weight bias increases implicit anti-fat attitudes using an objective assessment of emotional response to obesity cues. Participants completed ...
Stepping up, stepping back, being pushed, and stepping away : the process of making treatment decisions for children with cancer by parents who no longer live together
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
of parent involvement based on the parent's position in the family, involvement with the child before diagnosis, and stage of treatment. Psychosocial consequences for biological parent were linked to their decision making responsibility for the ill child...
Mizzou weekly, volume 25, number 07 (October 9, 2003)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. University Affairs. Publications and Alumni Communication., 2003)
Healing the frontier : Catholic sisters, hospitals, and medicine men in the Wisconsin Big Woods, 1880-1920
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This dissertation examines Gilded Age and Progressive Era frontier American images of health and sickness as well as the development and application of an early modern doctrine of health care. I do this through an examination of the archived history...