Electronic Health Records Features

• A Novel Technique to Identify Intimate Partner Violence A newly developed algorithm may help detect cases of intimate partner violence in an ED setting.
  Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health, November 25, 2022
• Do You Really Know Your Patient? It's a Key to Health Equity Making stronger connections with patients and listening to their stories offer a better way to improve healthcare delivery than merely recording their social and economic disparities.
  Medscape Blogs, November 15, 2022
• Nov 11 2022 This Week in Cardiology   AHA 2022 Part 1: ISCHEMIA-EXTEND, STRONG-HF, chlorthalidone vs HCTZ, experts vs practitioners; torsemide vs furosemide; and TG lowering are discussed by John Mandrola, MD, in this week’s podcast.
  theheart.org on Medscape, November 11, 2022
• Delirium Screening in a Community-Based Pediatric ICU This article describes the implementation of a clinical screening tool for the assessment and identification of delirium in critically ill children.
  Pediatric Nursing, November 11, 2022
• Infographic: The Good and Bad of Self-employment as a Doctor Physicians who typically are owners in a solo or group practice or partners reveal the five aspects of self-employment they enjoy the most, and five they like the least.
  Medscape, November 10, 2022
• Change Makers: Dr Isaacs on Healthcare Delivery Innovations Dr Whyte speaks with Permanente Medical Group CEO and Executive Director Dr Richard Isaacs about how the pandemic changed our expectations of healthcare delivery and upcoming innovations in patient care.
  Medscape, November 08, 2022
• Which mRNA Vaccine Poses a Lower Risk for Myocarditis?   Dr F. Perry Wilson comments on a study that compared myocarditis rates following Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines.
  Medscape, November 08, 2022
• The Importance of the Need for Hope Healthcare professionals are a symbol of hope, yet they are not immune to fear and despair. Where do we turn when we experience damage to hope.
  Medscape Blogs, November 08, 2022
• Cumulative Blood Pressure Measurement for CVD Prediction Does cumulative systolic blood pressure load, calculated from serial blood pressure measurements, provide better prediction of major cardiovascular events?
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology, November 07, 2022
• AHA 2022 HCTZ vs Chlorthalidone -- A Win for Practicing Doctors and Science In the Diuretic Comparison Project, hydrochlorothiazide held its own compared with chlorthalidone as first-line hypertension agent despite U.S. experts' preference for the latter -- a lesson for us all, writes John Mandrola, MD.
  theheart.org on Medscape, November 05, 2022
• Mandrola's Top 5 Picks From AHA 2022 Previewed John Mandrola, MD, previews his top 5 presentations from the upcoming American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in Chicago. They cover diuretics, iron therapy, early ablation, and CRISPR gene editing.
  theheart.org on Medscape, October 31, 2022
• A Tool for US Trends in Heart Disease and Stroke Mortality The authors created the created an online, interactive tool to enable visualization of death rates and trends for several CVD outcomes by age group, racial and ethnic group, and sex.
  Preventing Chronic Disease, October 31, 2022
• Biomarkers of Systemic Treatment Response in Psoriasis This review provides a comprehensive catalog of candidate biomarkers of systemic treatment response in psoriasis.
  The British Journal of Dermatology, October 28, 2022
• Carbon Dioxide, Blood Pressure, and Perioperative Stroke Postoperative stroke is a potentially devastating complication. Might a combination of intraoperative hypotension and either hypo- or hypercarbia be risk factors for postoperative ischemic stroke?
  Anesthesiology, October 27, 2022
• Is It Time To Stop Driving?: A Decision Aid for Older Drivers The authors developed an online decision aid to guide older adults as to whether and when to stop driving.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, October 27, 2022
• Emergency Medicine History and Expansion Into the Future Learn more about the history of emergency medicine and what the future has in store for this specialty.
  Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health, October 19, 2022
• Promoting Climate Change Resilience Weather-related disasters due to climate change can have significant economic and health effects. What strategies may help promote resilience and reduce the strain on health systems and resources?
  Nursing Economics, October 18, 2022
• Long COVID and COVID-19 Omicron Variant in Children Get up-to-date on what there is to know about long COVID and the Omicron variant in children.
  Pediatric Nursing, October 14, 2022
• Will Parkinson's Disease Therapy Move Past Carbidopa-Levodopa?   Kathrin LaFaver, MD, and Indu Subramanian, MD, discuss updates on Parkinson's disease, including highlights of the 2022 International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders.
  Medscape Neurology, October 13, 2022
• Playing the Fat Shame Game in Medicine: It Needs to Stop We know that weight stigma is a serious issue that affects the physical health and psychological well-being of our patients. So why are we, as healthcare providers, part of the problem?
  Medscape Blogs, October 13, 2022