Preoperative intervention for smoking cessation: A systematic review.

Background: Smoking is associated with increased postoperative complications. Pre-surgical smoking cessation remains a challenge. Our aim was to summarize pre-hospital smoking cessation interventions and impact on smoking cessation rates.

Multidisciplinary Teams and Obesity: Role of the Modern Patient-Centered Medical Home.

With the growing obesity epidemic, it is difficult for individual primary care providers to devote the time and effort necessary to achieve meaningful weight loss for significant numbers of patients. A variety of health care professionals provide value and evidence-based care that is effective in treating obesity and other preventable diseases. Multidisciplinary collaboration between primary care physicians and other trained health professionals within patient-centered medical homes offers an effective approach to sustainable behavioral treatment options for individuals who are obese or overweight.

Maternal shoe size and infant birth weight: correlation or fiction?

Objective: To determine whether maternal prepregnancy shoe size can be used to reliably predict infant birth weight.

Method: This is a cross-sectional study of 111 consecutive patients admitted to the maternity care unit of a small community hospital. Data collected included prepregnancy height, maternal weight, maternal shoe size, maternal age, gravidity, parity, ethnicity, and method of delivery.