6 results match your criteria: "Hofstra Zucker School of Medicine[Affiliation]"

Background And Objective: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic condition that has been increasing in prevalence and incidence worldwide. Although, most cases are described in Caucasian populations, there has been a rise in IBD diagnosis among other populations. In this article, we will discuss the disparities in the presentation, management, medical and surgical outcomes of IBD patients among different racial and ethnic groups.

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Augmenting a Transitional Care Model With Artificial Intelligence Decreased Readmissions.

J Am Med Dir Assoc

July 2023

Northwell Health, Health Solutions Population Health Management, Manhasset, NY, USA.

Objectives: Evaluate if augmenting a transitions of care delivery model with insights from artificial intelligence (AI) that applied clinical and exogenous social determinants of health data would reduce rehospitalization in older adults.

Design: Retrospective case-control study.

Setting And Participants: Adult patients discharged from integrated health system between November 1, 2019, and February 31, 2020, and enrolled in a rehospitalization reduction transitional care management program.

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Transient global amnesia (TGA) is described as a sudden onset of anterograde and retrograde amnesia. In this case report, we present a case of a 52-year-old man who came to our hospital experiencing sudden-onset confusion and memory loss an hour after engaging in sexual activity with his wife. Before this, the patient had no previous medical history.

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Representation of women plenary speakers at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting.

Neurology

December 2020

From the Department of Neurology (D.S.), University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City; Department of Neurology (A.M.B.), Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (J.A.P., J.K.S.), Harvard Medical School; Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital (J.A.P., J.K.S.), Boston, MA; Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine (T.L.D.), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; American College of Cardiology (R.P.), Washington, DC; Massachusetts General Hospital (R.P.), Boston; Department of Surgery (S.P.), Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Department of Anesthesiology (H.W.H.), University of Utah, Salt Lake City; Department of Anesthesiology (R.C.), University of California San Diego; Department of Dermatology (A.R.L.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; and Brigham and Women's Hospital (J.K.S.), Boston, MA. Dr. Bank is now at the Department of Neurology, Lenox Hill Hospital/Northwell Health, Hofstra Zucker School of Medicine, New York.

Objective: To determine whether women have been equitably represented among plenary speakers at the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Annual Meeting by counting and categorizing speakers and comparing outcomes to AAN membership and US neurology workforce data.

Methods: Lists of plenary speakers between 1958 and 2019 (62 years) were obtained from the AAN. The primary outcome measures were numbers and proportions of men and women in aggregate and among physicians.

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Impact of a Resident-Guided Rounding Initiative on the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Survey Scores in Orthopaedic Surgery Inpatients.

J Am Acad Orthop Surg Glob Res Rev

April 2019

Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Long Island Jewish Valley Stream Hospital, Valley Stream, New York (Dr. Stapleton, Dr. Frane, Dr. Lentz, and Dr. Yngstrom); the Department Orthopedic Surgery, Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook, New York (Dr. Healy); the, Orthopedic Surgery (Dr. Cohn), Hofstra/Zucker School of Medicine; and the Orthopedic Surgery (Dr. Katsigiorgis), Long Island Jewish Valley Stream Hospital, Valley Stream, New York.

Patient-centered medicine is becoming the main focus of many healthcare systems, and the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey is a tool used to track patient satisfaction. In this study, we evaluate the HCAHPS scores in orthopaedic surgery inpatients before and after implementation of a resident-guided rounding protocol. Analyses of the HCAHPS surveys for 154 orthopaedic surgical inpatients at one community hospital were compared 6 months before and after implementation of a resident-guided rounding initiative.

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