Publications by authors named "Lindsay Gietzen"
Article Synopsis
- Telemedicine and remote patient monitoring can lower healthcare costs by enhancing disease management and decreasing exacerbations, prompting this study on PAs' views on its effectiveness.
- A survey with 30 PAs highlighted their belief that telemedicine increases access to care but does not substitute traditional in-person consultations.
- Overall, while PAs recognized the benefits of telemedicine in easing obstacles to care, they maintained that face-to-face visits still play an essential role in healthcare.
Reliability and Validity of National End of Rotation Examinations: An Update.
J Physician Assist Educ
June 2018
Purpose: This study sought to evaluate the reliability of the PAEA End of Rotation™ exam scores used as a combined scale. The study also investigated how closely the individual exam scores and the combined scale correlate with Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam (PANCE) performance to validate their use as tools for assessing physician assistant (PA) students during their clinical training.
Methods: Deidentified PAEA End of Rotation examination and PANCE scores were used to calculate Pearson correlations, Cronbach's alpha, and value of Cronbach's alpha if individual exams were removed from the analysis.
This case report describes the diagnosis, surgical treatment, and management of a patient with low-grade chondrosarcoma of the cervical spine that initially presented as myositis ossificans. Chondrosarcoma is rare in the cervical spine and in this patient, may have been the result of an injury from a motor vehicle crash. The management of this patient has been unusual in that a complete excision was not performed because the patient refused standard treatment.
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