Publications by authors named "Em Long-Mills"
Objective: Summer research programs can support medical students' exposure to research and scholarly activity, and strengthen their applications for residency positions, particularly if students are able to generate peer-reviewed publications resulting from their summer experience. We aimed to estimate the rate of publication among medical student summer projects and identify any predictors of projects' progress to publication.
Methods: Projects were identified from abstract books published by five medical schools' summer research programs for rising second-year medical students.
Article Synopsis
- Pediatric patients often require both tracheostomy and gastrostomy tube (G-tube) placements for respiration and nutrition, but it's uncertain if performing them together reduces surgery time or risks compared to doing them separately.
- A study using national data (2016-2021) examined 14,047 G-tube only patients, 571 tracheostomy only patients, and 236 who had both, analyzing their outcomes through matched comparisons.
- Results suggested that combining both procedures led to lower complication risks and reduced anesthesia time, but did not significantly affect total operating time compared to conducting each procedure separately.