A Survey for Charting Intake, Output, and Body Weight in the Electronic Medical Record.

Background: The accuracy of documentation of body weight and fluid balance in hospitalized patients is frequently questioned.

Methods: We conducted a survey to understand provider perceptions of the accuracy of intake, output, and weight charting in the electronic medical record. We sent a six-item questionnaire to nurses and physicians who provide inpatient service in a community-based teaching hospital of the Northeastern United States.

Burnout, coping, and spirituality among internal medicine resident physicians.

Background: Burnout in physicians is common, and studies show a prevalence of 30% to 78%. Identifying constructive coping strategies and personal characteristics that protect residents against burnout may be helpful for reducing errors and improving physician satisfaction.

Objective: We explored the complex relationships between burnout, behaviors, emotional coping, and spirituality among internal medicine and internal medicine-pediatrics residents.

Out-of-Match Residency Offers: The Possible Extent and Implications of Prematching in Graduate Medical Education.

Background: When the data from the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) are used to analyze trends in medical students' career preferences, positions offered outside the match are omitted. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the extent and nature of out-of-match residency offers.

Methods: We obtained total resident complements and postgraduate year-1 positions offered in 7 specialties in 2007 and compared these with the 2007 NRMP match data.

Teaching resident physicians to provide exercise counseling: a needs assessment.

Purpose: To determine the behaviors, knowledge, and attitudes of resident physicians regarding exercise counseling.

Method: In 1997, a self-administered questionnaire was sent to 313 internal medicine resident physicians at six U.S.