Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic caused substantial disruptions in geriatric psychiatry education. In response, the AAGP created the "AAGP COVID-19 Online Trainee Curriculum" (Curriculum) a free online resource consisting of 33 recorded lectures. This study examined the uptake and impact of the Curriculum.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The role of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) expands but affordable and reproducible prognostic biomarkers are needed. We investigated the association between baseline and 3-month absolute lymphocyte count (ALC) and survival for patients on ICI.
Methods: A retrospective study investigated patients who received ICI July 2014-August 2019.
Background: Discharge communication between hospitalists and primary care clinicians is essential to improve care coordination, minimize adverse events, and decrease unplanned health services use. Health-related social needs are key drivers of health, and hospitalists and primary care clinicians value communicating social needs at discharge.
Objective: To 1) characterize the current state of discharge communications between an academic medical center hospital and primary care clinicians at associated clinics; 2) seek feedback about the potential usefulness of discharge readiness information to primary care clinicians.
Background: The increasing prevalence of obesity necessitates innovative interventions to address this grave public health concern. Standard behavioral therapy has been the mainstay for promoting weight loss, but its access and uptake are limited. The SMARTER randomized controlled trial aimed to explore the effects of self-monitoring with real-time, remotely delivered tailored feedback to recorded physical activity (PA) on weight loss.
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