Protected Time for Research Among Academic Hospitalists: a Qualitative Study of Hospitalist Group Leaders.

Background: Protected time is an important determinant of scholarly success in academic hospital medicine but is a limited resource.

Objective: To explore how hospitalists procure protected time for scholarship from the perspective of academic hospital medicine leaders.

Design: Qualitative, thematic analysis of in-depth, semi-structured interviews.

COVID-19-Related Publications by Hospitalists in the United States.

Objective To determine the degree to which hospitalists published academic manuscripts related to COVID-19 during the first year of the pandemic. Patients and methods The study was a cross-sectional analysis of the author's specialty, defined by byline or professional online biography, from articles related to COVID-19 published between March 1, 2020, and February 28, 2021. It included the top four internal medicine journals by impact factor: , and .

Gender differences in COVID-19-related manuscript authorship by hospitalists during the pandemic: A bibliometric analysis.

Background: Hospital medicine (HM) has a well-described gender disparity related to academic work and promotion. During the COVID-19 pandemic, female authorship across medicine fell further behind historical averages.

Objective: Examine how COVID-19 affected the publication gender gap for hospitalists.

Successful recruitment and retention of academic physicians: hiring for longevity, productivity, and leadership in hospital medicine.

Background: Considerable resources are expended by hospitals to recruit and retain physicians that will be successful. Healthcare managers lack data to guide these decisions. In that vacuum, suppositions regarding what attributes contribute to physician success predominate.

A Taxonomic Review of Patient Complaints in Adult Hospital Medicine.

Previous studies show that patient complaints can identify gaps in quality of care, but it is difficult to identify trends without categorization. We conducted a review of complaints relating to admissions on hospital internal medicine (HIM) services over a 26-month period. Data were collected on person characteristics and key features of the complaint.

An Imaging Stewardship Initiative to Reduce Low-Value Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography Use in Hospitalized Patients.

This quality improvement initiative was aimed at reducing low-value Positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) studies performed on hospital inpatients. Requests for PET-CT with a predetermined low-value indication triggered a requirement for the ordering provider to call the Nuclear Medicine radiologist to discuss the case for approval of the testing. A retrospective review of inpatient PET-CT approximately 2 years immediately before and after the implementation revealed a 20.

TRAVeLer: a tool for template-based RNA secondary structure visualization.

Background: Visualization of RNA secondary structures is a complex task, and, especially in the case of large RNA structures where the expected layout is largely habitual, the existing visualization tools often fail to produce suitable visualizations. This led us to the idea to use existing layouts as templates for the visualization of new RNAs similarly to how templates are used in homology-based structure prediction.

Results: This article introduces Traveler, a software tool enabling visualization of a target RNA secondary structure using an existing layout of a sufficiently similar RNA structure as a template.

Hepatic dysfunction in hospitalized patients with acute thyrotoxicosis: a decade of experience.

Thyroid disease is a common condition, and thyroid hormone excess or deficiency is known to have wide-ranging effects on a variety of organ systems. Our objective is to describe the magnitude, biochemical features, and clinical characteristics of hepatic abnormalities in patients with acute thyrotoxicosis. We performed a retrospective review of all patients admitted to our institution between January 1, 1998 and December 31, 2008 with a discharge diagnosis of acute thyrotoxicosis excluding iatrogenic causes.

Diagnosis of carotid artery stenosis with oculopneumoplethysmography alone and in combination with MRA.

Background: The purpose of this study was to assess the accuracy of oculopneumoplethysmography (OPG) for the diagnosis of carotid artery stenosis both alone and in conjunction with carotid magnetic resonance angiography (MRA).

Methods: This retrospective study reviewed patients who had undergone both OPG and digital subtraction angiography (DSA, 90 patients, 174 vessels) within two weeks to determine the accuracy of OPG with DSA as the reference standard for the detection of carotid artery stenosis. Three carotid artery stenosis thresholds (≥50%, ≥70%, ≥80%) were analyzed.

Multiple Pyogenic Liver Abscesses Caused by Eggerthella lenta Treated with Ertapenem: A Case Report.

Anaerobic gram-positive bacilli can occasionally be implicated in infections but are difficult to identify in culture by conventional biochemical methods. We report a case of liver abscesses caused by Eggerthella lenta, identified via 16S rRNA sequencing in a previously healthy patient, successfully treated with percutaneous drainage and ertapenem.

Utility of transthoracic echocardiography to estimate severity of right ventricular dysfunction: an MRI comparison study.

Prognostic implications of severe right ventricular (RV) dysfunction are difficult to assess because of limitations in functional characterization using standard echocardiography (TTE) and the cost and availability of options such as MRI. We sought to determine how assessments of RV dysfunction via TTE correlate with RV ejection fraction (EF) by MRI. Patients undergoing MRI and TTE within 21 days of one another were included.

Epidemiology of eosinophilic esophagitis over three decades in Olmsted County, Minnesota.

Background & Aims: Data on secular trends and outcomes of eosinophilic esophagitis (EE) are scarce. We performed a population-based study to assess the epidemiology and outcomes of EE in Olmsted County, Minnesota, over the last 3 decades.

Methods: All cases of EE diagnosed between 1976 and 2005 were identified using the Rochester Epidemiology Project resources.