SMJ: October 2021 Vol. 114, No. 10
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.
CME Article: Trends in Incidence and Mortality Rates of Uterine Cancer in Kentucky
Matthew R. Nichols, MD, Jeremy T. Gaskins, PhD, Daniel S. Metzinger, MD, Sarah L. Todd, MD, Harriet B. Eldredge-Hindy, MD, Scott R. Silva, MD, PhD
Preparing Health Professions Students to Serve Southern Rural Communities in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond: A Model for Interprofessional Online Telehealth Education
Teri Browne, PhD, Selina H. McKinney, PhD, Lauren Duck, MPH, Elizabeth W. Blake, PharmD, Beverly Baliko, PhD, Sara English, PhD, Rebecca Christopher, MSW
Do We Know Where They Go? Obtaining Travel History in Pediatric Patients
Pranaya H. Chilukuri, MD, MPH, Mary Orr, MD, MPH, Shaundra Blakemore, MD, Meghan E. Hofto, MD, MPH
Health Disparities of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Texas, March–July 2020
Christy Xavier, MS, PharmD, Rafia S. Rasu, MPharm, PhD
National Resident Matching Program Rank Order and Performance in an Internal Medicine Residency
George D. Everett, MD, MS, Edward Maharam, MD, Fanchao, Yi MS
CME Article: Sugammadex Reduces PACU Recovery Time after Abdominal Surgery Compared with Neostigmine
Jin Deng, MS, Maha Balouch, MA, Michael Albrink, MD, Enrico M. Camporesi, MD
On “On Aristotle and Upper Leveling”
G. Richard Holt, MD, MSE, MPH, MABE, D Bioethics
Association between Opioids Prescribed to Medical Inpatients with Pain and Long-Term Opioid Use
Kaitlin E. Keenan, MD, Michael B. Rothberg, MD, MPH, Shoshana J. Herzig, MD, MPH, Simon Lam, PharmD, BCPS, Vicente Velez, MD, Kathryn A. Martinez, PhD, MPH
Association of the All-Patient Refined Diagnosis-Related Groups Severity of Illness and Risk of Mortality Classification with Outcomes
Emadeldeen Elgwairi, MD, Shengping Yang, PhD, Kenneth Nugent, MD
Pediatric Providers’ Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, and Barriers to Firearms Safety Counseling
Avni M. Bhalakia, MD, Annalyn DeMello, MPH, RN, Kristen Beckworth, MPH, Brittany Johnson, MD, Bindi Naik-Mathuria, MD, MPH
On Aristotle and Upper Leveling
Benjamin W. Frush, MD, MA