Medical Management Of Sexual Assault Survivors At An Academic Medical Center

Variability in Diagnosing Brain Death at an Academic Medical Center

Objective. Research continues to highlight variability in hospital policy and documentation of brain death. The aim of our study was to characterize how strictly new guidelines of American Academy of Neurology (AAN) for death by neurological criteria were practiced in our hospital prior to appointment of neurointensivists. Method. This is a retrospective study of adults diagnosed as brain dead ...

Thirty-day postoperative death rate at an academic medical center.

OBJECTIVE To improve understanding of perioperative deaths at an academic medical center. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA Because published data have typically focused on specific patient populations, diagnoses, or procedures, there are few data regarding surgical deaths and complications in institutional or regional studies. Specifically, surgical adverse events and errors are generally not studied ...

Mentorship in an academic medical center.

AAIM is the largest academically focused specialty organization representing departments of internal medicine at medical schools and teaching hospitals in the United States and Canada. As a consortium of five organizations, AAIM represents department chairs and chiefs; clerkship, residency, and fellowship program directors; division chiefs; and academic and business administrators as well as ot...

Exploring the impact of tablet computers on medical training at an academic medical center.

Medicine trainees generate numerous clinical questions while caring for patients [1], but there are many obstacles to answering those questions, including lack of adequate training in where to find the answers, poor access to resources, and a nonsupportive culture [1–3]. Online retrieval systems can improve the quality of answers to questions [4] and can impact patient care decisions [5]. To fi...

Implementation of an Automated Electronic Medical Record “Antibiotic Timeout” Alert at a Tertiary, Academic Medical Center