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Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract
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August 2023
Career selection in medicine is a complex and underexplored process. Most medical career studies performed in the U.S. focused on the effect of demographic variables and medical education debt on career choice. Considering ongoing U.S. physician workforce ...
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Hastings Cent Rep
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January 2023
This ethnographic study introduces the term "distressed work" to describe the emergence of chronic frictions between moral imperatives for health care workers to keep working and the dramatic increase in distress during the Covid-19 pandemic. Interviews an ...
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Int J Cardiovasc Imaging
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September 2017
This retrospective study evaluated the diagnostic characteristics of a combination of echocardiographic parameters for pulmonary hypertension (PH). Right ventricular systolic pressure (RVSP) estimation by echocardiography (echo) is used to screen for PH. H ...
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J Healthc Leadersh
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2017
PURPOSE: Despite increasing awareness of the importance of leadership in healthcare, our understanding of the competencies of effective leadership remains limited. We used a concept mapping approach (a blend of qualitative and quantitative analysis of grou ...
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Med Educ
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July 2016
CONTEXT: Graduate medical trainees have a critical role in the teaching of other trainees. Improving their teaching requires an understanding of their attitudes towards teaching and their motivation to teach. Both have been incompletely explored in this po ...
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Adv Physiol Educ
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September 2015
Medical education reform is underway, but the optimal course for change has yet to be seen. While planning for the redesign of a renal physiology course at the Duke School of Medicine, the authors used a Q-sort survey to assess students' attitudes and lear ...
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Chest
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May 2014
BACKGROUND: Current treatments for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) have been shown to improve dyspnea, 6-min walk distance (6MWD), and pulmonary hemodynamics, but few studies were designed to compare treatment regimens or assess the impact of treatme ...
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J Hosp Med
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May 2009
BACKGROUND: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a life-threatening condition for which thrombolytic therapy may be beneficial. The appropriate setting for the use of thrombolytic therapy remains controversial. More than 10 years ago we described the case-based ...
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Semin Respir Crit Care Med
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February 2008
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is extraordinarily common and is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. However, accurate and timely diagnosis of VTE is confounded by its kaleidoscopic presentation. Clinical prediction rules (CPRs) and D-dimer testing have ...
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Lung
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2006
A case of giant cell interstitial pneumonia (GIF) that occurred in association with exposure to nitrofurantoin is presented. While the diagnosis of GIP is confirmed by histopathology, this diagnosis can be supported by the findings of bizarre multinucleate ...
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Semin Respir Crit Care Med
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August 2005
Brain or B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) is one of the new biomarkers employed within the last decade to help clarify difficult cardiovascular problems. Plasma BNP is elevated in cardiac ventricular dysfunction and plays a key role in protecting the body ...
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Ann Surg
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June 1997
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the study is to evaluate the prevalence of occult breast carcinoma in surgical breast biopsies performed on nonpalpable breast lesions diagnosed initially as atypical ductal hyperplasia (ADH) by core needle biopsy. BACKGROUND: Aty ...
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