Development and Evaluation of a Health Behavior Change Clinic in Primary Care: An Interdisciplinary Partnership.

Providing effective healthy behavior change interventions within primary care presents numerous challenges. Obesity, tobacco use, and sedentary lifestyle negatively impact the health quality of numerous medical patients, particularly in underserved patient populations with limited resources. Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) models, which incorporate a Behavioral Health Consultant (BHC), can offer point-of-contact psychological consultation, treatment, and also provide opportunities for interdisciplinary psychologist-physician clinical partnerships to pair a BHC's health behavior change expertise with the physician's medical care.

Longitudinal Study of Emotional Intelligence, Well-being, and Burnout of Surgical and Medical Residents.

Introduction: Emotional intelligence (EI) as a concept is becoming increasingly relevant in the healthcare industry. In order to examine the relationship between EI, burnout, and wellness, we administered these measures quarterly in resident physicians and analyzed the variables in each subset to gain insights and understanding of their relationship.

Methods: In 2017 and 2018, all residents entering the training programs in year one (PGY-1) were administered (TEIQue-SF), The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), and The Physician Wellness Inventory (PWI).

Traumatic brain injury in the elderly with high Glasgow coma scale and low injury severity scores: Factors influencing outcomes.

Background: Current trauma activation guidelines do not clearly address age as a risk factor when leveling trauma patients. Glasgow coma scale (GCS) and mode of injury play a major role in leveling trauma patients. We studied the above relationship in our elderly patients presenting with traumatic head injury.

Implementing a sleep technician-supervised and personalized APAP interface fitting session prior to initiation of home APAP therapy improves adherence in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.

Study Objectives: Home automatic positive airway pressure (APAP) therapy is becoming a mainstay treatment of obstructive sleep apnea. It is typically prescribed without any prior supervised titration. Initial experience of APAP treatment dictates subsequent use.

Efficacy of Preoperative Usage of Dexamethasone in Diabetic Patients Undergoing Total Hip or Knee Arthroplasty for Control of Nausea and Vomiting.

Background: Dexamethasone has been used in surgical patients to decrease nausea, vomiting, and postoperative pain. However, it is not well studied how much dexamethasone complicates glucose control in diabetic patients and whether this leads to poor surgical outcomes.

Methods: We analyzed 256 diabetic patients who underwent elective hip and knee arthroplasty and evaluated the groups that received dexamethasone intraoperatively (201 patients), those who received dexamethasone postoperatively (237 patients), and those who did not receive the steroid intraoperatively (55 patients) and postoperatively (19 patients).

Fragility Vertebral Compression Fractures in Postmenopausal Women: The Role of a Fracture Liaison Service Program.

Background: As the aging population increases in the United States, so has the prevalence of osteoporosis (10.2 million adults aged 50 years and older in 2010). Programs to manage the increased incidence of fragility fractures in such patients particularly the postmenopausal women are the priority.