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SGEM#466: I Love ROC-n-Roll…But Not When It’s Hacked

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Evidence of questionable research practices in clinical prediction models. They recently listened to an episode examining a paper that used receiver operating characteristic curves or ROC curves to determine the accuracy of a predictive model by looking at the area under the curve or AUC. Date: January 9, 2025 Reference: White et al.

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Cervical Spine Imaging in Kids – the PECARN rule

Don't Forget the Bubbles

In adult trauma cases, there has been significant research to help decide which patients require X-ray or CT imaging for possible cervical spine injuries, leading to the development of the National Emergency X-Ray (NEXUS) prediction rule and the Canadian C-Spine Rule (CCR). Why is this study needed?

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Physicians and Technology: Avoiding Burnout

Advanced Medical Reviews

Research Behind Physician Burnout. Physicians who reported marginal time for documentation were 2.8 Many physicians often have too little time for documentation, utilize non-intuitive EHR user interfaces and have either not enough or too much data. What are the primary reasons for this physician burnout?

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Sepsis alerts work! Just not in the patients who fire the alerts

PulmCCM

This led the authors to speculate that qSOFA parameters were being documented more diligently on the wards randomized to screening. Saudi Arabia is considered an authoritarian society, and internationally significant research projects have important political value to the monarchy.

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Re-Engineering Flow in an Academic Emergency Department

ACEP Now

In 1901, UVA opened its first hospital with 25 beds and three operating rooms. But inside these charming historic walls is a research-driven, quaternary-care, academic, medical center. The emergency department (ED) at UVA was rebuilt in 2019 and the department had not fully optimized its operations when COVID-19 hit.

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The 85th Bubble Wrap Bristol Royal Children’s ED Journal Club x DFTB

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Ten thousand children in the UK are operated on a year for fingertip injuries, and 96% of surgeons currently report replacing the nail plate intra-operatively. In the project’s second phase, research leads were asked to submit the written discharge material routinely provided on discharge in their institution.

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Automated Computer Assistant for Kidney Transplant Rejection Diagnostics: Interview with Study Authors

Medagadget

A recent study in Nature Medicine , entitled “ An automated histological classification system for precision diagnostics of kidney allografts ,” has showcased the efforts of a group of researchers who have developed an automated system that can diagnose kidney transplant rejection.