Demographic differences in opioid prescribing by patient race and ethnicity have been widely reported; Black and Hispanic patients receive lower rates and dosages of opioid prescriptions for the same conditions and reported pain level as white patients. At the same time, higher dosage opioid prescriptions have been associated with higher rates of new long-term opioid use and high-risk use, and opioid stewardship is being increasingly emphasized. Today we’re talking aout a new study in this area with lead author Aidan Crowley: Disparities in Emergency Department and Urgent Care Opioid Prescribing Before and After Randomized Clinician Feedback Interventions.
Dr. Sally Santen and Dr. Martin Pusic discuss their team's new commentary and perspective piece in AEM Education and Training entitled, "Our responsibility to patients: Maintain competency or ... stop practicing."
The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as ChatGPT, are gaining popularity for a variety of academic writing tasks and offer an innovative solution to relieve the burden of letter writing. The authors conducted a study aimed at determining whether academic physicians can distinguish between AI and human-generated letters of recommendation.
In the podcast the author references a gendered language calculator, which can be found here:
Conversations about code status in seriously ill patients at end of life is unfortunately a frequent event in the emergency department. Today we are discussing a paper in AEM entitled The differences in code status conversation approaches reported by emergency medicine and palliative care clinicians: a mixed method study. Lead author Dr. Kei Ouchi is here to discuss it with us.
We discuss this new article, A Qualitative Analysis of Patients’ Experiences with an ED Diagnosis of GI Cancer, with senior author Dr. Haejin In.
Today we are speaking to senior author Dr. Dmitri Papanagnou about his team’s new paper in AEM Education and Training entitled Making decisions “in the dark”: Learning through uncertainty in clinical practice during Covid-19.
Patients with (LEP) have been shown to experience disparities in (ED) care. The objectives of this study were to examine the LEP and irregular ED departures and return ED visits. We interview senior author Dr. Derick Jones about this new AEM paper.
Emergency care workforce concerns have gained national prominence given recent data suggesting higher than previously estimated attrition. With little known regarding characteristics of physicians leaving the workforce, this paper sought to investigate the age and number of years since residency graduation at which male and female EM physicians exhibited workforce attrition. We speak with primary author Dr. Cameron Gettel.
General emergency physicians provide most pediatric emergency care in the United States yet report more challenges managing emergencies in children than adults. Recommendations for standardized pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) curricula to address educational gaps due to variations in pediatric exposure during emergency medicine (EM) training lack learner input. This study surveyed senior EM residents and recent graduates about their perceived preparedness to manage pedi- atric emergencies to better inform PEM curricula design.
Dr. Pensa interviews author Dr. Michelle Suh about her teams recent E&T publication, “I’d rather see action”: Application and recruitment experiences of underrepresented in emergency medicine trainees."
Amiodarone and lidocaine have not been shown to have a clear survival benefit
compared to placebo for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). However, randomized trials may have been impacted by delayed administration of the study drugs. Today we’re talking with Dr. Joshua Lupton, first author on a new AEM paper entitled “ Survival by Time-to-Administration of Amiodarone, Lidocaine, or Placebo in Shock-Refractory Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest.”
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