SMJ: November 2021 Vol. 114, No. 11

November 3, 2021 // Randy Glick

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.

Walking Speed and Mortality: An Updated Systematic Review

Irene Rosmaninho, MD, Pedro Ribeirinho-Soares, MD, José Pedro L. Nunes, MD

OPEN: Sentinel Lymph Node Sampling in Robot-Assisted Staging of Endometrial Cancer

Erin Curcio, DO, Briana Miller, PA-C, Alexandra Giglio, DO, Arda Akoluk, MD, Brian Erler, MD, James Bosscher, MD, Mark Borowsky, MD, Verda Hicks, MD, Karim ElSahwi, MD

OPEN: Initial Institutional Experience with 18F-Fluciclovine PET-CT in Biochemical Recurrence of Prostate Cancer

Amy B. Farkas, MD, Edward D. Green, MD, Anson L. Thaggard, MD, Vani Vijayakumar, MD, John C. Henegan, MD, Seth T. Lirette, PhD, Mary R. Nittala, DrPH, Srinivasan Vijayakumar, MD

COVID-19-Related Stress on Physicians

Robert Frierson, MD, Steven Lippmann, MD

CME Article: Investigating Barriers to Completion of Postpartum Tubal Ligation: A Retrospective Chart Review

June Ng, MD, Diana Ho, MD, Jharna M. Patel, MD, Cybill Esguerra, MD, Meike Schuster, DO, Jennifer Amico, MD, MPH

Uncomplicated Distal Radius Fractures: An Opportunity to Reduce Emergency Medicine Opioid Prescribing?

Jonathan Altman, MD, Christopher R. Wyatt, MD, Lawrence H. Brown, PhD

Fibrin-Associated Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma Found on Revision Arthroplasty of the Knee

Jordan Hall, MD, Craig Kampfer, MD, Ned Williams, DO, Michael Osswald, MD, Bradie Bishop, MD, Misty Hall, MD, Joseph Alderete, MD

Chaplaincy and Hospital Ethics Committees

Jim Q. Ho, BA, John R. Fishman, MAHL, Ware G. Kuschner, MD

CME Article: Effect of Dysphagia on Hospital Outcomes and Readmissions in Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Rosemary Nustas, MD, Raj Dalsania, MD, Jason Brown, MD, Srikrishna V. Patnana, MD, Emad Qayed, MD, MPH

Effects of Gestational Weight Gain on Delivery Outcomes in an Obese, Low-Income Population

Allison Archer Sellner, MD, Abigail Hook Garbarino, MD, Di Miao, PhD, Lisa Marie Hollier, MD, MPH, Bani Maheshwari Ratan, MD

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