What Do Medical Students Actually Want from Learning Communities? A Comprehensive Needs Assessment.

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A One-Year Institutional View of Resident Physician Burnout.

Objectives: This prospective study explores the prevalence, associated characteristics, and trajectory of burnout over one academic year in a multidisciplinary sample of resident physicians using a relatively new burnout survey instrument.

Methods: All residents from a U.S.

Vitamin D Levels and Sociodemographic and Clinical Correlates in Individuals With Serious Mental Illness Admitted to an Acute Psychiatry Unit.

Objective: To describe the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in psychiatric inpatients with serious mental illness. Associated clinical and sociodemographic factors are also explored.

Method: Data were collected using a retrospective review of medical records.

Adverse childhood experiences and geriatric depression: results from the 2010 BRFSS.

Objective: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), including physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, have been shown to result in a variety of poor outcomes including depression. The majority of research has examined the impact of such events on adolescents and young adults leaving a dearth of information regarding how these events may affect depressive symptom point prevalence later in life.

Methods: Data from the U.

Monitoring for metabolic side effects among outpatients with dementia receiving antipsychotics.

Objective: This study examined monitoring for metabolic side effects among older outpatients with dementia starting a new antipsychotic.

Methods: In a retrospective cohort analysis of U.S.

Cyclic antidepressants and the risk of sudden cardiac death.

Background: Tricyclic and other related cyclic antidepressants (TCAs), used frequently for the treatment of depression and several other indications, have cardiovascular effects that may increase the risk of sudden cardiac death. We thus sought to quantify the risk of sudden cardiac death among TCA users, according to dose, as well as among users of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study in Tennessee Medicaid, from Jan 1, 1988, through Dec 31, 1993, which included large numbers of antidepressant users and computer files describing medication use and comorbidity.

P.R.N. (As-needed) orders and exposure of psychiatric inpatients to unnecessary psychotropic medications.

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate whether the practice of writing standing p.r.n.

Misclassification of current benzodiazepine exposure by use of a single baseline measurement and its effects upon studies of injuries.

Purpose: Measurement of drug exposure is a major methodologic challenge for pharmacoepidemiologic studies of acute effects of medications taken intermittently. If the effect is plausible only during periods of active drug use, daily (or even more frequent) exposure measurement is optimal. Benzodiazepines, episodically used hypnotics and anxiolytics, impair psychomotor function and some epidemiologic studies have reported users have increased risk of unintentional injuries.