An Orthopedic Performance Improvement Initiative at a Small Military Treatment Facility

Effects of deployment on depression screening scores in pregnancy at an army military treatment facility.

OBJECTIVE To estimate the relationship of positive screening for depression during and after pregnancy with deployment status of the spouse. METHODS We conducted a retrospective cohort study by reviewing a departmental database of women who completed the Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale during pregnancy from 2007 to 2009. Per departmental protocol, screening is offered at the initial obs...

Results of a Performance Improvement Initiative in Diabetes Care

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic and progressive disease, affecting approximately 24 million people in the United States, 6 million of whom are underdiagnosed [1]. Complications associated with diabetes include heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, neuropathy, and retinopathy. Research has shown that achieving and maintaining glycemic control, in addition to making lifestyle modifi...

Transforming an Academic Military Treatment Facility Into a Trauma Center: Lessons Learned From Operation Iraqi Freedom

BACKGROUND To manage the influx of patients with predominately extremity injuries from Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), our center was required to transform from a nontrauma academic hospital to a trauma hospital by using a multidisciplinary approach. STUDY DESIGN A retrospective chart review was performed of casualties from OIF who were received over 14 months. RESULTS A total of 313 casualt...

Improving Fellows’ Presentations at Case-Conference: A Quality Improvement Initiative

the role of application of dynamic assessment approach in improvement of iranian efl writing performance at different language proficiency levels

the present study sought to investigate the role of dynamic assessment (da) in improvement of iranian efl writing performance at different language proficiency levels. to this end, after conducting the quick placement test, 60 iranian efl learners were assigned to two groups with different language proficiency levels. in both groups each participant wrote two compositions, one before and one af...