Attending physicians

This report describes a 2-year prospective, longitudinal survey of attending physicians in 3 clinical areas (family medicine, general pediatrics, internal medicine) who experienced a transition from a homegrown electronic health record (EHR) to a vendor EHR. Participants were already highly familiar with using EHRs.

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There have been several concerns about the quality of documentation in electronic health records (EHRs) when compared to paper charts. This study compares the accuracy of physical examination findings documentation between the two in initial progress notes.

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The ability to correctly classify fractures is of importance for choosing the appropriate treatment and for providing appropriate data for research and quality registers. In the Swedish Fracture Register (SFR) fractures of all types are registered by the attending physician, often a junior doctor.

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Non-attendance at gynecological clinics is a major limitation of cervical cancer screening and self-collection of samples may improve this situation. Although HPV testing of self-collected vaginal samples is acceptable, the specificity is inadequate. The current focus is increasing self-collection of vaginal samples to minimize clinic visits.

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Recommending the optimal treatment for an individual patient requires a well-balanced consideration of various medical, social and ethical factors. The interplay of these factors, interpretation of the patient’s situation and understanding of the existing clinical guidelines can lead to divergent therapy recommendations, depending on the attending physician.

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The risk factors for psychiatric morbidity and functional impairment in children attending the primary care unit of a teaching hospital in Ilorin, Nigeria was therefore investigated to obtain data that could be used in improving service provision by primary care physicians.

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The Resident Physician, who shall also be the Superintendent, shall be the chief executive officer of the Asylum; he shall have the general superintendence of the buildings, grounds, and property, subject to the laws and regulations of the Trustees; he shall have the sole control and management of the patients; he shall ascertain their condition, daily prescribe their treatment, and adopt such sanitary measures as he may think best; he shall appoint, with the approval of the Trustees, so many attendants and assistants as he may think proper and necessary for the economical and efficien...

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Written by residents, fellows in training, and experienced attending physicians, this pocket book presents an evidence-based clinical approach to cardiology in a concise quick-reference format. The book is designed for rapid point-of-care consultation and is ideal for residents, fellows, and practitioners who operate in a fast-paced environment.

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The essays which compose this volume deal chiefly with a variety of subjects to which every physician must have given more or less thought. Some of them touch on matters concerning the mutual relation of physician and patient, but are meant to interest and instruct the laity rather than the medical attendant. The larger number have from their .nature a closer relation to the needs of women than of men. It has been my fate of late years to have in my medical care very many women who, from one or another cause, were what is called nervous. Few of...

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The Manual of Nursing Home Practice for Psychiatrists is a product of the American Psychiatric Association Council on Aging and the Committee on Long-Term Care and Treatment of the Elderly. Its purpose is to give general psychiatrists, primary care physicians, and others with little if any nursing home experience a practical, accurate, and easily readable guide to serve their needs when responding to a consultation request, attending a patient, or exploring the opportunity to accept a position in a skilled nursing home or other long-term care setting....

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It demands of us that we attend to the enormous unmet needs in child and adolescent mental health, that we recognize the paucity of services precisely where needs are greatest, and that we insist on action to remedy the treatment gap. Some 30 years ago, Julian Tudor Hart, a primary care physician practicing in a low income community in Wales, proposed an inverse care law. It reads: “The availability of good medical care varies inversely with the need for it in the populations served.” Nothing better illustrates this proposition than the data in this Atlas on how few child psychiatrists.

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The Cosmetic Bootcamp arose from a simple concept asked at a lecture that I was delivering to a group of people attending a cosmetic meeting. An audience member responded to a statement that I made to the effect that the techniques I was discussing were best reserved for those individuals trained during a residency or fellowship to understand the anatomy and technical considerations involved.

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However, a recent study of Moriwaki and al [1] found ultrasound was 85% sensitive and 100% specific for detection of free air in a prospective study of 484 patients. Some small studies have also investigated the utility of ultrasound contrast agents to detect active bleeding [2]. Ultrasound is relatively sensitive for free abdominal fluid. In a study, continuous scanning of Morison’s pouch during infusion of DPL fluid revealed a mean detection limit of 619 mL.

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Welcome to the fi rst edition of Handbook of Dermatology: A Practical Manual, a pocket guide designed for practicing dermatologists, dermatology residents, medical students, and physicians in other fi elds who may be interested in dermatology. Written and edited by former residents and attending physicians in the Division of Dermatology at Washington University School of Medicine, this book is based on an in-house resident handbook which has been used by our department for the past fi ve years.

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Founded in 1902, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is consistently ranked as one of the top hospitals in the United States. Housed in seven buildings in west Los Angeles, including three, 16-story towers, Cedars- Sinai has more than 2,000 attending physicians and more than 8000 staff members from all walks of life (including research, teaching and community service), all involved in the care of patients.

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