SMJ: May 2021 Vol. 114, No. 05
The Southern Medical Journal(SMJ) is the official, peer-reviewed journal of the Southern Medical Association. It has a multidisciplinary and inter-professional focus that covers a broad range of topics relevant to physicians and other healthcare specialists, including medicine; surgery; women’s and children’s health; mental health; emergency and disaster medicine; public health and environmental medicine; bioethics and medical education; and quality health care, patient safety, and best practices.
Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Young Adolescents: Results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1988–2016
Eric M. Hecht, MD, PhD, Ana-Ysabel P. Williams, BS, Gary A. Abrams, MD, Rod S. Passman, MD
CME Article: Descriptive Epidemiology of Pediatric Drowning Patients Presenting to a Large Southern US Children’s Hospital
Alicia C. Webb, MD, Austin Wheeler, MD, Alexis Ricci, MD, Blake Foxworthy, MD, Brittany Hinten, BS, Nipam Shah, MBBS, MPH, Kathy W. Monroe, MD, MSQI, Michele H. Nichols, MD
Innocents
Joseph Werthammer, MD
Grit Does Not Predict Burnout among First-Year Internal Medicine Residents
Andrew J. Klein, MD, MS, Thomas Grau, MD, Carla L. Spagnoletti, MD, MS, Scott D. Rothenberger, PhD, Kathryn Berlacher, MD, MS
Consideration of Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases during Differential Diagnosis
Steven T. Peper, PhD, Adam C. Jones, PhD, Cynthia Reinoso Webb, PhD, Mark Lacy, MD, Steven M. Presley, PhD
Adapting Existing Resources for Serious Illness Communication Skills Training for Internal Medicine Residents
Dheepa R. Sekar, MD, Caitlin H. Siropaides, DO, Lauren N. Smith, MD, Oanh Kieu Nguyen, MD, MAS
Safety of Baricitinib 4 mg for the Treatment of Moderate to Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis
Tracey D. Dabal, MD, Matthew B. Haltom, MD, Puja P. Patel, DO, Christine K. Son, MD, Kiran P. Joglekar, MD, Charles M. Groeschell, MD, Mason M. Chumpia, MD, Sehrish F. Kamal, MD, Ankur Seth, MD, Christopher D. Jackson, MD
Assessing Colorectal Cancer Screening Barriers in Rural Appalachia
Thao Wolbert, MD, Rahman Barry, MD, Todd Gress, MD, MPH, Amanda Arrington, MD, Errington Thompson, MD
Health Disparities among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Adults in Nashville, Tennessee
Gilbert Gonzales, PhD, MHA, Caroline Young, MS, Emily Masters, MA, Emilio Loret de Mola, BA
COVID-19 in a Mississippi Community Hospital
Ijlal Babar, MD, Okechukwu Ekenna, MD, Maggie Ramsey Clarkson, MSN, Daralyn Boudreaux, MSN, William Bennett, MD, Randy Roth, MD
COVID-19 Impact on Orthopedic Surgeons: Elective Procedures, Telehealth, and Income
Kyle D. Paul, BS, Eli Levitt MS, Gerald McGwin, PhD, Eugene W. Brabston, MD, Shawn R. Gilbert, MD, Brent A. Ponce, MD, Amit M. Momaya, MD
Ulysses Syndrome and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Malvinder S. Parmar, MB, MS
Discharge Summary Completion Timeliness and the Association of 30-Day Readmission
Patricia Lewis, APRN, Kathryn Braddock, APRN, Leila Tolaymat, MD, Claire Haga, MD, Melinda Gillis, MEd, Mingyuan Yin, MS, MHA, Nancy Dawson, MD
Implementing a Second-Level Observation Unit at a Large Academic Medical Center
Padageshwar R. Sunkara, MD, MMCi, William C. Lippert, MD, MPH, Gary E. Rosenthal, MD, Brian C. Hiestand, MD, John Blalock, MHA, Chi C. Huang, MD
