User-centered design of central venous access device documentation.

Objective: Safe care of central venous access devices (CVAD) requires clinicians be able to identify key CVAD properties from insertion until safe removal. Our objective was to design and evaluate interfaces to improve CVAD documentation quality and information retrieval.

Materials And Methods: We applied user-centered design (UCD) to CVAD property documentation interfaces.

Patients with isolated laryngopharyngeal reflux are not obese.

Objectives: The gastroenterology literature suggests that gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is often associated with obesity. The National Institutes of Health uses body mass index (BMI) to identify patients who are overweight (BMI 25-30) or obese (BMI > 30). The aim of this study was to determine whether there is a relationship between laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) and elevated BMI.