Times of Medical Education Crisis Require New Evaluation Approaches: Proof of Concept of a System-Based Program Evaluation Model.

There are no program evaluation approaches designed for a crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. It is critical to evaluate the educational impact of COVID-19 to keep administrators informed and guide decision-making. The authors used systems thinking to design an evaluation model.

Diabetic Nephropathy Screening in a Residency Clinic: Improvements Also Reveal Limits of Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) Metric.

Quality Improvement Success Stories are published by the American Diabetes Association in collaboration with the American College of Physicians, Inc., and the National Diabetes Education Program. This series is intended to highlight best practices and strategies from programs and clinics that have successfully improved the quality of care for people with diabetes or related conditions.

Diabetes Mellitus: Screening and Diagnosis.

Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common diagnoses made by family physicians. Uncontrolled diabetes can lead to blindness, limb amputation, kidney failure, and vascular and heart disease. Screening patients before signs and symptoms develop leads to earlier diagnosis and treatment, but may not reduce rates of end-organ damage.

Nasal ventilation alters mesenchymal cell turnover and improves alveolarization in preterm lambs.

Rationale: Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is a frequent cause of morbidity in preterm infants that is characterized by prolonged need for ventilatory support in an intensive care environment. BPD is characterized histopathologically by persistently thick, cellular distal airspace walls. In normally developing lungs, by comparison, remodeling of the immature parenchymal architecture is characterized by thinning of the future alveolar walls, a process predicated on cell loss through apoptosis.