The American journal of emergency medicine
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Multicenter Study
Inflammatory markers are poorly predictive of clinical outcomes among hospitalized patients with COVID-19.
Inflammatory markers are often elevated in patients with COVID-19. The objective of this study is to assess the prognostic capability of these tests in predicting clinical outcomes. ⋯ Inflammatory markers drawn within 48 h of arrival, though often correlated with clinical outcomes, are not individually highly predictive of which patients in a predominantly older and minority population will die or require intubation, RRT, or ICU admission.
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Comparative Study
First and last authorship by gender in emergency medicine publications- a comparison of 2008 vs. 2018.
Recently, investigators reported that there remain substantial disparities in the proportion of women within emergency medicine (EM) who have achieved promotion to higher academic rankings, received grant funding, and attained departmental leadership positions. In 2007, women were first authors on 24% of EM-based peer-reviewed articles. Currently, 28% of the academic EM physician workforce is comprised of women. The goal of this study was to identify whether the proportion of female first authors of original research published in three U.S.-based EM journals increased in 2018 as compared to 2008. ⋯ While female physicians make up a disproportionate 28% of the academic workforce, we found that they were proportionally represented as first authors within several of the most prominent U.S.-based EM journals. Female resident physicians remain underrepresented as first authors and women remain underrepresented as last authors in the same journals.
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The purpose of this study was to establish a nomogram to predict the risk of complicating ventricular tachyarrhythmia (VTA) in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) during hospitalization and to verify the accuracy of the model. ⋯ The nomogram with five variables is practical to clinicians in estimating the risk of complicating VTA after AMI during hospitalization.