Integrating a Resident-Driven Longitudinal Quality Improvement Curriculum Within an Ambulatory Block Schedule.

Background: Quality improvement (QI) is essential in clinical practice, requiring effective teaching in residency. Barriers include lack of structure, mentorship, and time.

Objective: To develop a longitudinal QI curriculum for an internal medicine residency program with limited faculty resources and evaluate its effectiveness.

Managing cardiovascular disease risk in patients treated with antipsychotics: a multidisciplinary approach.

Background: The use of antipsychotic medication in the United States and throughout the world has greatly increased over the last fifteen years. These drugs have significant side effect burdens, many of them relating to cardiovascular health.

Objective: To review the available evidence on the major cardiovascular issues that arise in patients taking antipsychotic medication.

Recall-promoting physician behaviors in primary care.

Background: Effective treatments can be rendered useless by poor patient recall of treatment instructions. Studies suggest that patients forget a great deal of important information and that recall can be increased through recall-promoting behaviors (RPBs) like repetition or summarization.

Objective: To assess how frequently RPBs are used in primary care, and to reveal how they might be applied more effectively.

Home monitoring using wearable radio frequency transmitters.

Background: Location tracking of a wearable radio frequency (RF) transmitter in a wireless network is a potentially useful tool for the home monitoring of patients in clinical applications. However, the problem of converting RF signals into accurate estimates of transmitter location remains a significant challenge.

Objectives: We wish to demonstrate that long-term home monitoring using RF transmitters is feasible.

Factors affecting physicians' responses to patients' requests for antidepressants: focus group study.

Background: The ways in which patients' requests for antidepressants affect physicians' prescribing behavior are poorly understood.

Objective: To describe physicians' affective and cognitive responses to standardized patients' (SPs) requests for antidepressants, as well as the attitudinal and contextual factors influencing prescribing behavior.

Design: Focus group interviews and brief demographic questionnaires.

Changing the P300 brain computer interface.

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are now feasible for use as an alternative control option for those with severe motor impairments. The P300 component of the evoked potential has proven useful as a control signal. Individuals do not need to be trained to produce the signal, and it is fairly stable and has a large evoked potential.