Risk factors for Ebola virus disease among household care providers, Sierra Leone, 2015.

Background: Household contacts who provide care to an Ebola virus disease (EVD) case have a 3-fold higher risk of EVD compared with contacts who do not provide care.

Methods: We enrolled persons with confirmed EVD from December 2014 to April 2015 in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and their household contacts. Index cases and contacts were interviewed, and contacts were followed for 21 days to identify secondary cases.

Association of community engagement with vaccination confidence and uptake: A cross-sectional survey in Sierra Leone, 2019.

Background: The 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic disrupted childhood immunization in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. After the epidemic, the Government of Sierra Leone prioritized community engagement to increase vaccination confidence and uptake. To support these efforts, we examined potential drivers of vaccination confidence and uptake in Sierra Leone.

Social and Political Dimensions of Disseminating Research Findings on Emerging Zoonotic Viruses: Our Experience in Sierra Leone.

Disseminating research findings on emerging zoonotic viruses is a complex and sensitive process, particularly in contexts with histories of outbreaks. It requires an operational framework that considers the social and political context of stakeholders aiming to empower people to protect their health, while also supporting government leaders to advance global health security.

Community knowledge, perceptions and practices around COVID-19 in Sierra Leone: a nationwide, cross-sectional survey.

Objectives: To assess the public's knowledge, attitudes and practices about the novel coronavirus in Sierra Leone to inform an evidence-based communication strategy around COVID-19.

Design: Nationwide, cross-sectional Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices survey.

Setting: 56 randomly selected communities in all 14 districts in Sierra Leone.

Ebola Patient Virus Cycle Threshold and Risk of Household Transmission of Ebola Virus.

Background: Identifying risk factors for household transmission of Ebola virus (EBOV) is important to guide preventive measures during Ebola outbreaks.

Methods: We enrolled all confirmed persons with EBOV disease who were the first case patient in a household from December 2014 to April 2015 in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and their household contacts. Index patients and contacts were interviewed, and contacts were followed up for 21 days to identify secondary cases.

Household Transmission of Ebola Virus: Risks and Preventive Factors, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 2015.

Background: Knowing risk factors for household transmission of Ebola virus is important to guide preventive measures during Ebola outbreaks.

Methods: We enrolled all confirmed persons with Ebola who were the first case in a household, December 2014-April 2015, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and their household contacts. Cases and contacts were interviewed, contacts followed prospectively through the 21-day incubation period, and secondary cases confirmed by laboratory testing.

Transmission dynamics of Ebola virus disease and intervention effectiveness in Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone is the most severely affected country by an unprecedented outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa. Although successfully contained, the transmission dynamics of EVD and the impact of interventions in the country remain unclear. We established a database of confirmed and suspected EVD cases from May 2014 to September 2015 in Sierra Leone and mapped the spatiotemporal distribution of cases at the chiefdom level.

Report of the Task Force on Residency Training Information (2009-2010), American Board of Emergency Medicine.

The American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) gathers extensive background information on emergency medicine residency training programs and the residents in those programs. We present the 2010 annual report on the status of US emergency medicine training programs.

Issues of concern to emergency physicians in pre-retirement years: a survey.

Background: Many members of the American College of Emergency Physicians are now over the age of 50. Little is known regarding age-specific issues that may impact the careers of emergency physicians in the latter stages of their professional lives.

Objectives: To determine issues of concern regarding aging and retirement among a cohort of emergency physicians in pre-retirement years.

Report of the Task Force on Residency Training Information (2008-2009), American Board of Emergency Medicine.

The American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) gathers extensive background information on emergency medicine residency training programs and the residents in those programs. We present the 2009 annual report on the status of US emergency medicine residency programs.

Report of the Task Force on Residency Training Information (2007-2008), American Board of Emergency Medicine.

The American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) gathers extensive background information on emergency medicine residency training programs and the residents training in those programs. We present the eleventh annual report on the status of US emergency medicine residency programs.

Report of the Task Force on Residency Training Information (2006-2007), American Board of Emergency Medicine.

The American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) gathers extensive background information on emergency medicine residency training programs and the residents training in those programs. We present the tenth annual report on the status of US emergency medicine residency programs.

Report of the Task Force on Residency Training Information (2005-2006), American Board of Emergency Medicine.

The American Board of Emergency Medicine gathers extensive background information on emergency medicine residency training programs and the residents training in those programs. We present the ninth annual report on the status of US emergency medicine residency programs.

Report of the Task Force on Residency Training Information (2004-2005), American Board of Emergency Medicine.

The American Board of Emergency Medicine gathers extensive background information on emergency medicine residency training programs and the residents training in those programs. We present the eighth annual report on the status of US emergency medicine residency programs.

Report of the Task Force on Residency Training Information (2003-2004), American Board of Emergency Medicine.

The American Board of Emergency Medicine gathers extensive background information on emergency medicine residents and the programs in which they train. We present the seventh annual report on the status of US emergency medicine residency programs.

Results from a practice-based lipid clinic model in achieving low density lipoprotein cholesterol goals.

Objective: Lipid clinic models that combine diet and drug therapy have shown significantly better hyperlipidemia management than usual care. The objective is to demonstrate that such a model can be established and utilized in a primary care practice, replicating the results obtained in specialty clinic settings.

Design: This study evaluated a "lipid clinic" model for cholesterol management in a primary care setting.

Application of the medical knowledge general competency to emergency medicine.

In February 1999, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) identified six general competencies as the basic educational goals required by all training programs for their residents. This places emphasis on educational outcome assessment in residency programs and in the accreditation process. A concomitant goal is to have increasingly valid, reliable assessments of the ability of a resident physician to provide safe, evidenced-based, humanistic medical care to their patients.

Coping with medical mistakes and errors in judgment.

Attention has recently been focused on medical errors as a cause of morbidity and mortality in clinical practice. Although much has been written regarding the cognitive aspects of decision making and the importance of systems management as an approach to medical error reduction, little consideration has been given to the emotional impact of errors on the practitioner. Evidence exists that errors are common in clinical practice and that physicians often deal with them in dysfunctional ways.