What is a wiki, and how can it be used in resident education?

Training as a radiology resident is a complex task. Residents frequently encounter multiple hospital systems, each with unique workflow patterns and heterogenous information systems. We identified an opportunity to ease some of the resulting anxiety and frustration by centralizing high-quality resources using a wiki.

Improved diagnostic effectiveness with a sequential diagnostic paradigm in idiopathic pediatric sensorineural hearing loss.

Objectives: To determine whether a stepwise diagnostic paradigm is more diagnostically efficient and cost-effective than a simultaneous testing approach in the evaluation of idiopathic pediatric sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL).

Design: Prospective prevalence study.

Setting: Tertiary referral children's hospital.

A diagnostic paradigm for childhood idiopathic sensorineural hearing loss.

Objective: Our objective was to determine the diagnostic yield of laboratory testing, radiological imaging, and GJB2 mutation screening in a large cohort of patients with differing severities of idiopathic sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL).

Design And Setting: We undertook a retrospective study of patients presenting with SNHL at our institution from 1993 to 2002.

Results: Laboratory testing had an extremely low yield.

Genotypic and phenotypic correlations of DFNB1-related hearing impairment in the Midwestern United States.

Objective: To determine the genotypic and phenotypic correlations of hearing impairment (HI) in a midwestern US population related to autosomal recessive nonsyndromic hearing loss locus 1 (DFNB1).

Design: A retrospective review.

Setting: Tertiary care children's hospital.