P-2050. Enhancing Patient Outcomes and System Efficiency Through Active Screening for Recurrent Clostridioides difficile and Specialty Treatment at an Infectious Diseases Clinic [PDF]
Open Forum Infect DisBackground Recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (rCDI) increases healthcare costs and leads to poor patient outcomes. FDA-approved fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) therapies that are effective at breaking the cycle of recurrence are now ...
Thomas Holowka +7 more
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Information resource preferences by general pediatricians in office settings: a qualitative study [PDF]
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2005 Background Information needs and resource preferences of office-based general pediatricians have not been well characterized. Methods Data collected from a sample of twenty office-based urban/suburban general pediatricians consisted of: (a) a demographic
Lehmann Harold P +2 more
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Representation of medical specialties in dean’s cabinets at the top 40 NIH-funded United States medical schools [PDF]
BMC Medical EducationBackground Academic leadership within medical schools shapes institutional culture, policy, and educational priorities. While demographic diversity has been studied, specialty representation in leadership is less understood.
Anagha Balaji Thiagarajan +3 more
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P-562. Tracking the Increase: Diagnostic Trends in Infectious Disease Among New Patients at a Large Urban Safety Net Health System, New York City (NYC) 2021-2023 [PDF]
Open Forum Infect DisBackground NYC Health + Hospitals (H+H), the nation’s largest municipal health system, provides healthcare to a large proportion of uninsured and socially vulnerable persons, including those newly arrived to the city.
Eliana Jacobson +6 more
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Practical tips for bedside teaching of infectious diseases practice to junior doctors
MedEdPublish, 2017 Infectious diseases, being a cognitive specialty, is commonly perceived to be difficult to teach at the bedside. Most junior doctors have had variable amounts of exposure to infectious diseases as medical students, primarily in the form of lectures as ...
Sharavan Sadasiv Mucheli +1 more
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P-2106. A Pediatric Infectious Diseases Asynchronous eConsult Program: An Evaluation of Content, Impact Assessment and User Feedback [PDF]
Open Forum Infect DisBackground Asynchronous electronic consults, or eConsults, are a novel way for pediatric infectious disease (PID) physicians to provide non-urgent specialty advice to other clinicians.
Vandana L Madhavan +3 more
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Establishing tropical medicine as a recognized medical specialty or strengthening its training within infectious diseases residency programs in Colombia: an urgent need [PDF]
Rev Soc Bras Med TropSilva-Ramos C +3 more
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What do medical students and graduated physicians think about infectious disease specialists?
Infectious Diseases Now, 2023 OBJECTIVES This study evaluated the social representation and stereotypes on infectious disease (ID) specialists among medical students and physicians in France after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yousra Kherabi +7 more
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Invasive fungal infections in children with leukemia in a tertiary hospital in Oman: An eight-year review [PDF]
Current Medical Mycology, 2023 Background and Purpose: Invasive fungal disease (IFD) is a common and serious consequence of leukemia in children and the incidence of these infections has increased due to chemotherapy.
Hind Al Hajri +6 more
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Experience of Non-Infectious Disease Doctors Redeployed to COVID-19 Duties in a Tertiary Centre
Erciyes Medical Journal, 2022 Objective: The global healthcare system was severely impacted by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Healthcare professionals, especially doctors, faced a tremendous amount of responsibility irrespective of the specialty and levels of ex-perience ...
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