Effectiveness and Clinical Usefulness of Electronic Agenda-setting in Psychiatric Practices: A South Texas Psychiatric PBRN Study.

There is a general consensus that the doctor-patient interview should be as productive and efficient as possible. This is becoming increasingly difficult in a health care insurance system that demands shorter appointment times. Clinicians must therefore find ways to condense the clinical encounter without sacrificing quality.

Comfort With Uncertainty in Medical Students and Their Residency Choice: A Residency Research Network of Texas Study.

Background And Objectives: Little is known about how comfort with uncertainty (CwU) influences career choice in medical students. The authors of this study examined the correlation between CwU and primary care career choice.

Methods: In academic years 2017-2018 and 2018-2019, the authors distributed surveys to third-year medical students from eight US medical schools, seven in Texas.

Incidence of and Trends in the Leading Cancers With Elevated Incidence Among American Indian and Alaska Native Populations, 2012-2016.

Cancer incidence varies among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations, as well as between AI/AN and White populations. This study examined trends for cancers with elevated incidence among AI/AN compared with non-Hispanic White populations and estimated potentially avoidable incident cases among AI/AN populations. Incident cases diagnosed during 2012-2016 were identified from population-based cancer registries and linked with the Indian Health Service patient registration databases to improve racial classification of AI/AN populations.