The following abstracts were accepted and presented during Southern Medical Association’s virtual Physicians-in-Training Leadership Conference, April 16-18, 2021, and are listed in order of presentation. *Abstracts are published as submitted.
To date, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has taken more than 3.5 million lives. Many of these deaths have been attributed to misleading information that fragmented a coordinated effort to mitigate loss of life. Future pandemics will continue to be a threat, so it is important to lay bare…
In his perspective entitled “COVID-19 Pandemic Origins: Bioweapons and the History of Laboratory Leaks,” Dr Dacre Knight has endeavored to provide an evidence-based and historical contextual rejection of speculative theories regarding the origin of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) virus as a research bioweapon that was accidentally leaked from a…
Objectives: To determine the effect of preoperative depressive symptoms on patient-reported function and pain following total joint arthroplasty (TJA) after controlling for potential confounding factors; how depressive symptoms changed after TJA; and the impact of postoperative depressive symptoms on recovery. Methods: A prospective cohort study undertaken in a metropolitan region…
Objectives: Health care in the United States is costly, fragmented, and often ineffective. Transitions of care (TOC), particularly from the inpatient to the outpatient setting, is an especially complicated time and one that is potentially fraught with errors that contribute to negative outcomes. The coronavirus 2019 pandemic exacerbated many of…
To the Editor: As emergency departments and hospitals have become inundated with patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), several treatment modalities have been investigated to help improve COVID-19 symptoms and reduce hospitalizations. Bamlanivimab was approved under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on November 10,…
Objectives: Little is known about whether improving the quality of written discharge instructions can result in improved readmission rates and whether there are differences in the quality of discharge instructions based on provider and patient characteristics. We set out to determine provider characteristics associated with high quality discharge instructions and…
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