The World Medical Association (WMA), representing more than 10 million physicians worldwide, took an important step during its 2022 General Assembly in Berlin, Germany, by formally recognizing the existence of racism in medicine and condemning it in all its forms in the Declaration of Berlin on Racism in Medicine. The…
Objectives: A comprehensive cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention approach should address patients’ medical, behavioral, and psychological issues. The aim of this study was to understand the clinician-reported availability of a pertinent CVD preventive workforce across various specialties using a survey study in the southeastern United States, an area with a disproportionate…
Objectives: The triple aim of population health focuses on providing the right care to the right patient at the right time. Patient use of digital health tools may reduce the overuse of emergency services. We tested the safety and clinical applicability of a patient-facing, automated digital urgent care triage tool…
Objectives: Determine the association of high neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) values with inpatient mortality and other outcomes in older veterans hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Methods: This was a retrospective, multicenter, cohort study of hospitalized adults, with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 infection who were studied for 1 year after discharge or until…
The US Renal Data System (USRDS) reports that 15% of the adult US population has chronic kidney disease (CKD), whereas only 10% of those with CKD know that they have it.1 Timely interventions can prevent the debilitating effects of CKD. This perspective aims to share the experience of an innovative…
Objectives: This study explored the prevalence of nonadherence and preferences for breast cancer (BRC) and colorectal cancer (CRC) screening among hospitalized women with and without obesity who were cancer-free at baseline. In addition, the study evaluated risk factors associated with nonadherence among hospitalized women with obesity. Methods: A prospective interventional…
Objective: Pediatric injuries associated with participation in sports are common. Understanding the epidemiology and trends of sports-related injuries is an important component of injury prevention efforts and is the objective of this study. Methods: A retrospective review of sports injuries presenting during the course of 1 year (2019) to the…
Objectives: To evaluate employee burnout, work conditions, resilience, and mindfulness at an academic medical center in a US medically underserved region during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Methods: We surveyed employees from August 7, 2020 to January 17, 2021. Respondents completed the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), the Areas of Worklife…
Burnout remains a significant issue among US healthcare workers. According to a recent study, 62.8% of practicing physicians report one symptom of burnout, and satisfaction with work-life integration dropped to 30%.1 Although alarming, these numbers do not indicate the other costs of healthcare worker burnout, including worse patient outcomes, healthcare…
Objective: To evaluate the impact of implementing a comprehensive secondary onboarding and development program within a hospital medicine group at a large tertiary academic medical institution. Methods: This was a mixed-methods study with physician and advanced practice providers (APPs) at an academic medical institution. Results: For quantitative methods, improvement in…
Objectives: Many tobacco users are motivated to quit but lack the resources to do so. To date, studies characterizing tobacco users at student-run free clinics have used small sample sizes, which may not be large enough to detect differences across key variables. As such, we assessed sociodemographic differences between tobacco…
To the Editor: Recently, the number of total Emergency Medicine (EM) physicians has risen, and a future oversupply of EM physicians is expected. Despite this increase, the number of EM physicians practicing in rural areas has paradoxically declined because of a multitude of factors.1
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