Publications by authors named "F S Weinstein"

Article Synopsis
  • The study focuses on developing guidelines for the safe use of fluoroscopy in gastrointestinal endoscopy, balancing its benefits with concerns about radiation exposure to patients and healthcare workers.
  • A modified Delphi method was used, involving three rounds of surveys with 46 experts, resulting in 43 proposed statements, of which 31 achieved consensus and were prioritized across various categories such as Patient Safety and Staff Safety.
  • The final consensus statements highlight the importance of education and safety measures, with a significant majority rated as high priority, aiming to enhance safety culture in healthcare settings while utilizing fluoroscopy.
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Americans with disabilities represent the largest historically underserved and marginalized health disparity population in the United States. This perspective piece will raise the awareness of physical therapist faculty and clinicians on gaps in health care provider knowledge about disability and provide actionable strategies, frameworks, and resources available to improve disability competence to make changes in clinical education and practice. In this perspective piece, 3 contributions are made.

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Objective: Seminal advances in virtual human (VH) technology have introduced highly interactive, computer-animated VH interviewers. Their utility for aiding in chronic pain care is unknown. We developed three interactive telehealth VH interviews-a standard pain-focused, a psychosocial risk factor, and a pain psychology and neuroscience educational interview.

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Plastic pollution is a global problem with great local and regional variability. Plastic litter reaches beaches directly and indirectly through different pathways, due to both terrestrial and marine pressures. In this study, we assess and characterize meso and microplastic pollution on four Uruguayan oceanic beaches along a gradient of tourist use within a complex regional coastal marine system.

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Objectives: This study examined personality and treatment-related correlates of trustworthiness in chronic pain narratives.

Methods: 727 adults participated in an online survey and rated eight narratives written by patients with chronic pain. Eighty-six percent of the participants identified themselves as having experienced chronic pain (n = 626) and 14% identified themselves as people with a medical background (n = 101).

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