Publications by authors named "M Raffoul"

Background: Voice hearing occurs across a number of psychiatric diagnoses and appears to be present on a continuum within the general population. Previous research has highlighted the potential role of past experiences of shame in proneness to voice hearing in the general population.

Aims: This study aimed to extend this past research and compare people with distressing voices, people with voices but no distress, and a non-voice hearing control group, on various dimensions of shame and shame memory characteristics.

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Medication reconciliation is the process of comparing a patient's hospital medication orders to all of the medications that the patient has been taking prior to admission. The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of pharmacist-led medication reconciliation in reducing ED visit rates. The secondary aim of this study was to evaluate if a clinical pharmacist reduces medication errors in an ED observation unit (OBS).

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Audience And Type Of Curriculum: This curriculum, designed and implemented at the Ronald O. Perelman Department of Emergency Medicine at NYU Langone Health, primarily targets third- and fourth-year emergency medicine (EM) residents, and is an immersive observation medicine rotation that can be integrated into existing emergency medicine residency training.

Length Of Curriculum: The curriculum is designed for a dedicated rotation of two weeks for senior residents and can be expanded to 4 weeks.

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Objective: To improve timely sepsis care by implementing the 2018 Surviving Sepsis Campaign one-hour interventions.

Design: Ten-month prospective quality improvement project.

Setting: A 38-bed short stay unit within an 800-bed hospital in New York City.

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