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Questioning the QALY: A closer look at the Quality-Adjusted Life …

WEBThe quality-adjusted life-year, or QALY, is a metric used to evaluate the effectiveness of health interventions in a standardized fashion, with the broader goal of …

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Complementary and Integrative Health: Where do U.S. Physicians …

WEBComplementary and Integrative Health: Where do U.S. Physicians Stand, and Where Should We? July 28, 2021

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The Ethics of Electronic Health Records – Clinical Correlations

WEBFaculty peer reviewed. The 111th Congress allocated $19 billion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 toward the creation of an electronic …

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Oxygen Saturation Target of 88-92% in COPD: Evidence-based …

WEBBy Christopher V. Cosgriff. Peer Reviewed. The American College of Physicians (ACP) recommends supplemental long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) in all …

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Clinical Correlations – The NYU Langone Online Journal of Medicine

WEBOctober 6, 2023. Cardiology 4 min read. By Zachary Henig. Peer Reviewed. Atherosclerosis is the primary risk factor for cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of …

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Timing is Everything: How World Wars and the Red Scare Delayed

WEBBy Brianna Knoll, MD. Peer Reviewed. Achieving universal healthcare is arguably one of the central topics of political debate that our new administration will be …

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Medical Eponyms: Recognizing the Medical Greats

WEBEponyms are prevalent in our medical and common languages. While some medical names are clinically illustrative (like Tetralogy of Fallot3), others are nonspecific …

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Ethical Considerations on the Use of Fear in Public Health …

WEBThe piece on “Ethical Considerations on the Use of Fear in Public Health Campaigns” offers an in-depth analysis of the ethical pro and cons of fear-based public …

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Do Hospital Visitors Impact Patient Outcomes

WEBA substantial body of research has identified positive patient outcomes related to open visitation policies, including rapid recovery times and decreased length …

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Is there such a thing as too much information

WEBIn healthcare decision making, there is often no right or wrong answer, but it is important to consider what information is truly relevant so that the patient can be …

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Does Wearable Technology Improve Physical Activity

WEBWearable fitness technology is an intriguing next step in the use of pedometers to increase activity. The use of consumer health trackers has exploded …

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Diet vs. Exercise: Which Is Superior for Weight Loss

WEBA meta-analysis of 28 weight-loss studies by Duhurandhar and colleagues demonstrated that dietary restriction and exercise techniques result in 12-44% and 55 …

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Little Knowledge, Large Problem: Lack of Nutrition and Obesity

WEBBy Elissa Driggin. Peer Reviewed. At almost every single one of my medical school interviews, each interviewer, noting my college major in nutritional science, asked …

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Health Care 2008: Where Do the Candidates Stand

WEBBob on January 3rd, 2008 - 2:47pm Clinton’s plan is, at face, reasonable. Agreed that banking on systems-based savings is a risky gambit. I continue to be concerned about …

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Outbreak: Toxic Tacos – Clinical Correlations

WEBadmin on December 8th, 2006 - 1:30pm Update: As per today’s 12/8/06 New York Times “health officials and food distributors zeroed in yesterday on a California farm as the …

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Bloodletting: A Brief Historical Perspective and Modern Medical

WEBHistorians suggest that the classic red-and-white barber pole is linked to bloodletting, with red representing blood and white representing the tourniquet used to …

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Is it Ethical to ‘Google’ a Patient

WEBWhat is “patient-targeted googling”? Patient-targeted googling (PTG) is the act of searching for information on a patient on social media platforms or publicly available internet browsers. The term bears no allegiance to any particular search engine, and is neither a criticism nor endorsement of the company Google.

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Primecuts – This Week In The Journals – Clinical Correlations

WEBBy Jessica Yee, MD. Peer Reviewed. Welcome to the first PrimeCuts of 2015! Welcome to the first PrimeCuts of 2015! The year started with a shout-out from …

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Twisted Translation: Using Friends and Family Members As …

WEBBy Nina Sainath, Class of 2011 Faculty Peer Reviewed According to the latest US Census Bureau report analyzing the use of languages in the United States, over 20% of Americans speak a language other than English at home.

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There’s an App for That: Fitness Apps and Behavior Change Theory

WEBAccording to the health belief model, behavior change is an individualized process, in which the patient’s self-efficacy is of upmost importance. MyFitnessPal may …

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Tales of Survival: Snapshots of Bellevue at Night

WEBWilliam Denson on July 2nd, 2011 - 12:30pm Last night my son, Josh, had his first night on call as an intern in Internal Medicine at Bellevue. 31 years ago (1981) I …

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