General & Internal Medicine
Recent Submissions
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(Journal Of Happiness Studies, 2022-12-17)Psychological well-being is linked to healthy aging in older women, but associations with health behaviors are not well understood. Our study aims to evaluate the relationships between objectively-measured physical behavior ...
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(Intensive Care Medicine, 2020-02)
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(American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2020-03-01)
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(BMJ Open, 2019-11)Objectives Medication reconciliation (MedRec) is an important patient safety strategy and is widespread in US hospitals and globally. Nevertheless, high quality MedRec has been difficult to implement. As part of a larger ...
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(BMJ Open, 2019-11)Introduction Non-attendance and delay in vaccination schedules remain a big challenge to healthcare workers. With the continuous growth of mobile network coverage and exponential penetration of mobile devices in the ...
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(Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2020-01)Historically, medical therapy for ulcerative colitis (UC) was limited to corticosteroids. Excitingly, over the past just 1-2 decades, the options for medical therapy have expanded and include biologics and small molecules, ...
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(Military Medicine, 2020-01)Introduction Given the role of perceived stress in disability and suicidality in the military, intervening early before service members become at risk for severe injuries, hospitalizations, and chronic disability could ...
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(BMJ Open, 2019-10)Objective To explore how three indicators of social capital (ie, group membership, social support and cognitive social capital and specific types within each type) are associated with infant birth weight. Study design ...
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(BMJ Open, 2019-10)Introduction Patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures are increasingly developed with multisite, representative patient populations so that they can serve as a primary endpoint in clinical trials and longitudinal studies. ...
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(BMJ-British Medical Journal, 2020-02-05)OBJECTIVE To assess whether an association exists between financial links to the indoor tanning industry and conclusions of indoor tanning literature. DESIGN Systematic review. DATA SOURCE PubMed, Embase, ...
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(Critical Care Medicine, 2019-10)Objectives: To provide a concise review of the literature and data pertaining to the use of nurse practitioners and physician assistants, collectively called advanced practice providers, in ICU and acute care settings. ...
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(American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2020-01-15)
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(JAMA Network Open, 2019-11)IMPORTANCE Despite the rapidly changing policy environment regarding substance use during pregnancy, information is lacking on the association of state policies with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). OBJECTIVE To ...
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(2020-01-01)Introduction: Targeted temperature management (TTM) after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) has been recommended in international guidelines since 2005. The TTM-trial published in 2013 showed no difference in survival ...
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(Medicine, 2019-06)Studies investigating the association between transforming growth factor (TGF-beta-509C/T, rs1800469) promoter polymorphism and myocardial infarction (MI) risk reported inconsistent results. The aim of our study was to ...
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(Nutrition & Diabetes, 2019-09-02)Background: Aerobic exercise training is known to have beneficial effects on whole-body glucose metabolism in people with type 2 diabetes (T2D). The responses of the liver to such training are less well understood. The ...
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(Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, 2020-05)Background Teduglutide response, in terms of parenteral support (PS) volume reduction, is associated with specific disease characteristics among adults with short bowel syndrome-associated intestinal failure (SBS-IF). ...
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(Medicine, 2019-06)Higher trait optimism and/or lower cynical hostility are associated with healthier behaviors and lower risk of morbidity and mortality, yet their association with health care utilization has been understudied. Whether these ...
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Interventions to prevent iatrogenic anemia: a Laboratory Medicine Best Practices systematic review (Critical Care, 2019-08-09)Background As many as 90% of patients develop anemia by their third day in an intensive care unit (ICU). We evaluated the efficacy of interventions to reduce phlebotomy-related blood loss on the volume of blood lost, ...
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A taxonomy of impacts on clinical and translational research from community stakeholder engagement (Health Expectations, 2019-08)Background Community engagement is increasingly recognized as a valuable tool in clinical and translational research; however, the impact of engagement is not fully understood. No standard nomenclature yet exists to clearly ...