Are Text Pages an Effective Nudge to Increase Attendance at Internal Medicine Morning Report Conferences? A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: Despite the importance of medical educational conferences, low attendance remains an issue. The utility of reminder text pages as a behavioral nudge to increase attendance is unknown. Our objective was to determine whether reminder text pages increase daily morning report attendance.

Education for Tobacco Use Disorder Treatment: Current State, Evidence, and Unmet Needs.

Background: Tobacco use is undertreated in the medical setting. One driver may be inadequate tobacco use disorder treatment (TUDT) training for clinicians in specialties treating tobacco-dependent patients.

Objective: We sought to evaluate the current state of TUDT training for diverse professionals and how these skills are assessed in credentialing exams.

Better Together: Development and Implementation of Fellow Group Evaluations of Faculty.

Background: High-quality trainee evaluations of faculty are essential for meaningful faculty development and for improving the clinical learning environment. However, concerns about anonymity can limit usefulness of trainee evaluations, particularly in smaller programs, such as subspecialty fellowships.

Objective: To develop and implement a fellow-driven group evaluation process to enhance trainee confidentiality and generate high-quality feedback for pulmonary and critical care medicine faculty.

Closeness-inducing discussions with a romantic partner increase cortisol and testosterone.

Despite progress in understanding the social neuroendocrinology of close relationship processes, most work has focused on negative experiences, such as relationship conflict or stress. As a result, much less is known about the neuroendocrine implications of positive, emotionally intimate relationship experiences. In the current study, we randomly assigned 105 dating or married couples to a 30-minute semi-structured discussion task that was designed to elicit either high or low levels of closeness.

Better to brag: Underestimating the risks of avoiding positive self-disclosures in close relationships.

Objective: Capitalization, or disclosing positive news in close relationships, is interpersonally and intrapersonally beneficial and expected by relational partners. Why do some individuals avoid capitalizing? How do close relational partners react when they later discover that positive news was not directly disclosed to them?

Method: We conducted nine correlational and experimental studies using vignettes and recalled events (N = 2,177).

Results: We find that individuals who are concerned about being seen as braggarts tend to avoid capitalizing with their close relationships even when it is likely their partner would ultimately learn of the news.

Patient and Care Delivery Characteristics Associated With Harm From Neuromuscular Blockade.

Objectives: To identify the prevalence of and evaluate factors associated with down-titration of sedation in patients receiving neuromuscular blockade.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: Tertiary care teaching hospital in Boston, MA.

National trends in the use of PSA, urinalysis, and digital rectal exam for evaluation of lower urinary tract symptoms in men.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe the practices of primary care physicians (PCPs) and urologists in their implementation of the 2010 American Urological Association (AUA) recommendations for the management of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in a nationally representative sample.

Methods: Data collected from 2008 to 2015 in the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) were used. Men aged 45 and older who presented with either a new complaint or exacerbation of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) were included.