Publications by authors named "Steven Groke"
Background: The US Preventive Services Task Force has recommended daily folic acid supplementation for women planning on becoming pregnant in an effort to prevent fetal neural tube defects. We evaluated pregnant patients presenting to the emergency department to determine rates of folic acid supplementation.
Methods: We surveyed a convenience sample of pregnant patients who presented to the University of Utah Emergency Department (ED) between 1 January 2008, and 30 April 2009, regarding pregnancy history and prior medical care.
Background: To the best of our knowledge, no study has compared the effect of using the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) on applicant pool characteristics for a new emergency medicine (EM) residency program.
Objective: We sought to compare applicants in an EM residency program's first year, in which the ERAS is not typically used, to applicants in year 2 (using ERAS).
Methods: We reviewed the applications to the new University of Utah EM residency program for the entering classes of 2005 (year 1) and 2006 (year 2).
Article Synopsis
- The study examined if patients with psychiatric complaints in the ED were more likely to be admitted to the hospital than those with non-psychiatric issues.
- The review of electronic records covered patients from January to February 2007, comparing those evaluated for psychiatric complaints against a group of non-psychiatric patients.
- The findings revealed no significant difference in admission rates between the two groups, but there was a higher rate of return visits to the ED within 30 days for psychiatric patients.
Background: Because of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and the Residency Review Committee (RRC) approval timelines, new residency programs cannot use Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) during their first year of applicants.
Aim: We sought to identify differences between program directors' subjective ratings of applicants from an emergency medicine (EM) residency program's first year (in which ERAS was not used) to their ratings of applicants the following year in which ERAS was used.
Method: The University of Utah Emergency Medicine Residency Program received approval from the ACGME in 2004.