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Longitudinal survey of clinician behavior change in CKD management.

JAAPA

April 2019

Marlene Shaw-Gallagher is an assistant professor in the PA program at the University of Detroit-Mercy in Detroit, Mich., and practices in the Department of Nephrology at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor, Mich. Rebecca Boyle practices at Stanford (Calif.) Hypertension Center. Kim Zuber is executive director of the American Academy of Nephrology PAs in Oceanside, Calif. The authors disclose that this research was supported by an unrestricted educational grant from the National Kidney Foundation. The authors have disclosed no other potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.

Objective: To assess longitudinal improvement for a simple intervention to teach physician assistants (PAs) and NPs management of patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Methods: The original cohort from the Kidneys in a Box quality improvement project was revisited at the 3-year mark and asked about patient statin use, A1C measurement, urine albumin-creatinine ratio (UACR), CKD staging, distribution of over-the-counter (OTC) medication caution lists, and documentation of smoking history.

Results: A statistically significant increase in quality metrics was seen at 3 months postintervention for the original cohort.

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Medical Schools' Willingness to Accommodate Medical Students with Sensory and Physical Disabilities: Ethical Foundations of a Functional Challenge to "Organic" Technical Standards.

AMA J Ethics

October 2016

Professor of family medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, where he is also co-director of the Department of Family Medicine, co-director of the University of Michigan Mixed Methods Research and Scholarship Program, co-editor of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research, and founder and director of the Japanese Family Health Program.

Students with sensory and physical disabilities are underrepresented in medical schools despite the availability of assistive technologies and accommodations. Unfortunately, many medical schools have adopted restrictive "organic" technical standards based on deficits rather than on the ability to do the work. Compelling ethical considerations of justice and beneficence should prompt change in this arena.

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Unit-based interventions: de-stressing the distressed.

Nurs Manage

August 2014

At the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor, Mich., Juanita S. Parry is the director of Nurse Recruitment and Retention & Magnet Recognition Program® Readiness, Margaret M. Calarco is the senior associate director of Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Services, and Barbara Hensinger is a nurse retention coordinator.

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What role does wheat play in the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome?

Gastroenterol Hepatol (N Y)

February 2013

Dr. Eswaran is a Clinical Lecturer at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dr. Goel is a Resident Physician in the Department of Internal Medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University in New York, New York. Dr. Chey is a Professor of Medicine, Director of the GI Physiology Laboratory, Co-Director of the Michigan Bowel Control Program, and H. Marvin Pollard Institute Scholar, all at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Recently, increasing attention has been paid to the pathologic role of food in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Nevertheless, healthcare providers often avoid addressing diet with their patients because of a lack of training, guideline consensus, and high-quality data. Recent literature supports the existence of a subgroup of IBS patients with undiagnosed nonceliac gluten sensitivity (NCGS), a term that is used to describe individuals who experience gastrointestinal and extraintestinal symptoms as a result of immunologic, morphologic, or symptomatic abnormalities that are precipitated by the ingestion of gluten.

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