Resident-Driven Dysphagia Screening Protocol for Expedited Antithrombotic Delivery in Acute Ischemic Stroke.

Background: We implemented a multi-disciplinary process improvement intervention at our Comprehensive Stroke Center with speech/language pathologists to expedite oral medication delivery in stroke patients. Following a failed nursing dysphagia screen, trained neurology physicians screened dysphagia further to approve use of oral medications. We analyzed the safety and efficacy of this intervention.

Role of Causality Orientations in Predicting Alcohol Use and Abstinence Self-Efficacy.

In the present study, we examined the ability of Self-Determination Theory's causality orientations to predict alcohol use and abstinence self-efficacy. We also provided suggestions for counselors supporting client and student autonomy in clinical practice. This study sought to answer the following questions: (a) Does a person's causality orientation (autonomy, control, and impersonal) predict their alcohol use? (2) Does a person's causality orientation (autonomy, control, and impersonal) predict their temptation to use drugs and alcohol? (3) Does a person's causality orientation (autonomy, control, and impersonal) predict their confidence to use drugs and alcohol? We utilized Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk), a crowdsourced online labor market approach to collect data from a community sample.