JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association
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To assess possible explanations for the finding that the percentage of women medical school faculty members holding associate or full professor rank remains well below the percentage of men. ⋯ Women physician medical school faculty are promoted more slowly than men. Gender differences in rank achieved are not explained by productivity or by differential attrition from academic medicine.
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To determine the prevalence of Bordetella pertussis infection in adult patients with persistent cough. ⋯ Pertussis is a common cause of persistent cough in adults and should be considered in the differential diagnosis. Clinical symptoms, pertussis culture, direct fluorescent antibody testing, and lymphocytosis are of limited value in making the diagnosis.