Improving Emergency Department ESI Acuity Assignment Using Machine Learning and Clinical Natural Language Processing [PDF]
Effective triage is critical to mitigating the effect of increased volume by accurately determining patient acuity, need for resources, and establishing effective acuity-based patient prioritization. The purpose of this retrospective study was to determine whether historical EHR data can be extracted and synthesized with clinical natural language ...
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Time for the osteopathic profession to take the lead in musculoskeletal research [PDF]
Musculoskeletal conditions, such as low back pain, are prevalent in the United States. These conditions exact an enormous toll on society, both in terms of their detrimental impact on quality of life and on the costs of treatment and lost productivity ...
Licciardone, John C
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Recommendations from the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors: Osteopathic Applicants
The Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD) Advising Students Committee (ASC-EM) has previously published student advising recommendations for general emergency medicine (EM) applicants in an effort to disseminate standardized ...
Liza Smith+5 more
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Medical Leadership in Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities in the United States
Objective Inpatient rehabilitation facilities treat patients with extensive postacute care rehabilitation needs. Physiatrists are uniquely trained in the complexities of such patients; however, not all inpatient rehabilitation facilities use physiatrists
Shane M. Davis+5 more
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Rediscovering the classic osteopathic literature to advance contemporary patient-oriented research: A new look at diabetes mellitus [PDF]
Patient care experiences represent opportunities for establishing theories, testable hypotheses, and data to assess the potential use of osteopathic manipulative treatment in various disease conditions.
Licciardone, John C
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Introduction: With the development of and progression toward a single graduate medical education accreditation system combining the current Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and American Osteopathic Association (AOA) residency ...
Megan Stobart-Gallagher+1 more
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Spirituality and Medicine: Prevalence of Spirituality-in-Medicine Instruction at Osteopathic Medical Schools [PDF]
Context: Since the 1990s, there has been a heightened awareness of the value of teaching medical students about how aspects of spirituality and religion may affect patient care.
Desai, Gautam+3 more
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Assessing the consistency of community structure in complex networks [PDF]
In recent years, community structure has emerged as a key component of complex network analysis. As more data has been collected, researchers have begun investigating changing community structure across multiple networks. Several methods exist to analyze changing communities, but most of these are limited to evolution of a single network over time.
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Spinal and sacroiliac assessment and treatment techniques used by osteopathic physicians in the United States [PDF]
Osteopathic manipulative medicine texts and educators advocate a range of approaches for physical assessment and treatment, but little is known about their use by osteopathic physicians in the United States.
Fryer, Gary+2 more
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Transformative Leadership: Emergency Physicians Lead AOA and AMA
This was a historic summer in Chicago for emergency medicine. On July 18, 2015, John W. Becher, DO, became the 119th president of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), while a month earlier, on June 9, 2015, Steven J.
Chadd K. Kraus
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