Publications by authors named "Crystal Jacovino"
Article Synopsis
- The study focuses on assessing a rubric for evaluating pre-clerkship medical students' proficiency in physical examinations before their clinical rotations.
- Clinical faculty analyzed student videos and scored them to determine the reliability of the rubric, finding excellent agreement among different raters (inter-rater) and consistent scores from the same raters (intra-rater).
- The findings suggest that the developed rubric is a dependable tool for certifying students' skills in physical examinations.
"Quality Improvement Success Stories" are published by the American Diabetes Association in collaboration with the American College of Physicians, Inc., and the National Diabetes Education Program. This series is intended to highlight best practices and strategies from programs and clinics that have successfully improved the quality of care for people with diabetes or related conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLook AHEAD is the only long-term study in a large cohort of subjects with type 2 diabetes that assessed the effect of intensive lifestyle, predominantly diet and exercise, on a number of outcomes. While Look AHEAD was not able to detect a significant effect of intensive lifestyle modification on cardiovascular outcomes, it clearly demonstrated numerous beneficial and sustained effects on health outcomes that are relevant to this population. Without the exceptional retention of study participants, it would have been difficult to detect these benefits.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To study the effects of high-protein versus high-carbohydrate diets on various metabolic end points (glucoregulation, oxidative stress [dichlorofluorescein], lipid peroxidation [malondialdehyde], proinflammatory cytokines [tumor necrosis factor-α and interleukin-6], adipokines, and resting energy expenditure [REE]) with high protein-low carbohydrate (HP) and high carbohydrate-low protein (HC) diets at baseline and after 6 months of dietary intervention.
Research Design And Methods: We recruited obese, premenopausal women aged 20-50 years with no diabetes or prediabetes who were randomized to HC (55% carbohydrates, 30% fat, and 15% protein) or HP (40% carbohydrates, 30% fat, and 30% protein) diets for 6 months. The diets were provided in prepackaged food, which provided 500 kcal restrictions per day.