Depression and associated risk factors among emergency medicine interns: Results from a national longitudinal cohort study.

Objective: Despite depression being common in residents, there are no published studies on the prevalence and risk factors for depression in emergency medicine (EM) interns. Our objectives were to explore the prevalence of depression among EM interns and to identify risk factors for depression including sleep, work hours, rotation type, race, ethnicity, sex, and age.

Methods: The Intern Health Study is a national longitudinal cohort study on intern mental health in all specialties.

Implementation and assessment of a telecytology quality assurance program.

Introduction: The College of American Pathologists mandates that telepathology services are included in laboratory quality management programs. The aim of this study was to assess a telecytology quality assurance (QA) process that we implemented in 2015.

Materials And Methods: Each month, a cytotechnologist randomly selected 3 telecytology fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cases from each cytopathologist on the FNA service that month.

Regional Intervention of Stroke Care to Increase Thrombolytic Therapy for Acute Ischemic Stroke.

Background and Purpose- The aims of this study were to investigate the effect of an intervention to unblind data on r-tPA (recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator) administration and sharing data with chief executive officers of participating hospitals, on r-tPA administration rates postintervention and on potential healthcare cost savings implemented at 26 Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council hospitals. Methods- Retrospective analysis of prospective data on thrombolytic therapy from 26 Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council hospitals, collected between April 2014 and June 2016. The control (blinded) period (Q2-2014 to Q2-2015) was followed by unblinding (Q3-2015).

Laparoscopic versus open appendectomy: what is the real difference? Results of a prospective randomized double-blinded trial.

Background: The comparison of laparoscopic to open appendectomy has been reviewed in many retrospective and prospective studies. Some report shorter hospital stays, less postoperative pain, and earlier return to work while others fail to demonstrate such differences. We performed a prospective, randomized double-blinded trial to evaluate this ongoing debate.

The impact of pediatric tracheotomy on parental caregiver burden and health status.

Objective: To explore the effects of the placement of a pediatric tracheotomy tube on the degree of caregiver burden and overall health status of parents using general and disease-specific instruments.

Methods: Between January and July 2001, the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form 12 (SF-12) and the Pediatric Tracheotomy Health Status Instrument (PTHSI) were administered to 154 families of children requiring tracheotomy. Summary scores were generated for each of the 2 scales of the SF-12 (the Physical Component Score [PCS] and the Mental Component Score [MCS]) as well as for the 4 previously established domains of the PTHSI: domain 1, physical symptoms of the child (7 items); domain 2, medical visits and cost (7 items); domain 3, parental rating of the child's psychological health status (3 items); and domain 4, parental rating of their own caregiver burden (17 items).