The American journal of emergency medicine
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Comment Letter
The differential diagnosis of ischemic mitral regurgitation.
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Multicenter Study
Barriers to medication adherence in the emergency department: A cross-sectional study.
Medication nonadherence is a common problem that leads to increased healthcare utilization. It is unclear how patient insight and attitude towards their medications affect adherence in the ED. Furthermore, it is unclear how perceived medication importance differs between patients and ED physicians. ⋯ These data suggest that there is a difference in perceived medication importance between ED physicians and ED patients. Knowledge of a medication's purpose is significantly associated with perceived importance, while this importance appears to be significantly associated with compliance. These results suggest that concerted efforts by ED physicians and staff to educate patients on the utility and importance of their medications may improve adherence.
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Topic identification can facilitate knowledge curation, discover thematic relationships, trends, and predict future direction. We aimed to determine through an unsupervised, machine learning approach to topic modeling the most common research themes in emergency medicine over the last 40 years and summarize their trends and characteristics. ⋯ Topic modeling via unsupervised machine learning applied to emergency medicine abstracts discovered coherent topics, trends, and patterns of interaction.
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There is scarce data available on the prognostic application of chest CT. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the performance of a semi-quantitative CT severity score in identifying the risk of mortality in COVID-19 patients. ⋯ Our results show that mortality was significantly higher in patients with higher CT severity score even after adjustment for clinical, demographics and laboratory parameters. However, this study is performed retrospectively and needs to be validated in a prospective study.