Articles: emergency-medicine.
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To determine whether integrating primary care sports medicine into academic emergency medicine (EM) can enhance both revenue and the academic program. ⋯ The integration of primary care sports medicine into an academic EM faculty practice can enhance revenue through the establishment of an ED follow-up sports medicine clinic while also providing an opportunity to expand resident learning experiences.
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To compare the performance of an evidence-based medicine (EBM) approach and a traditional approach to teaching critical appraisal skills to emergency medicine residents. ⋯ Compared with a traditional approach, an EBM approach to teaching critical appraisal did not appear to improve the critical appraisal skills of emergency medicine residents. However, because of the small number of subjects studied, small differences in critical appraisal skill improvement cannot be ruled out.
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Pediatric emergency care · Aug 1999
Comparative StudyDiscordant radiograph interpretation between emergency physicians and radiologists in a pediatric emergency department.
To describe the types of discrepancies in radiograph interpretation between emergency physicians and radiologists in a pediatric emergency department, and to determine the impact of discrepant interpretations on patient care. ⋯ Emergency physicians would benefit from more rigorous interpretation of chest x-rays to avoid unnecessary treatment with antibiotics. Emergency physicians do a good job interpreting plain radiographs, but occasionally miss significant findings that could lead to adverse outcomes. The presence of radiologists to immediately read radiographs 24 hours a day could prevent missed findings, but, given the small number of significant misinterpretations, is unlikely to be cost effective.