The approach to patients with acute pain begins by identifying the underlying cause and a
disease-specific treatment. The first-line pharmacologic agent for the symptomatic treatment of …

Rationale Adverse cognitive effects associated with lithium are often implicated as contributing
to vocational and social impairment, as well as medication noncompliance. As impaired …

Introduction: Since the 1990s prescriptions for and the non-medical use of opioids have
increased. This study examines associations between opioid prescribing, non-medical use, and …

Background Increasing socioeconomic distress has been associated with worse cardiac
surgery outcomes. The extent to which the pandemic affected cardiac surgical access and …

Safety has not been well studied in the long-term care setting. This pilot study assesses staff
attitudes regarding safety culture at one 250-bed skilled nursing facility. A valid and reliable …

Background: Despite the current evidence of preventive screening effectiveness, rates of
breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer in the United States fall below national targets. We …

Background Failure to rescue (FTR) is a new quality measure in The Society of Thoracic
Surgeons (STS) Adult Cardiac Surgery Database. The STS defines FTR as death after …

The present study is a cross-validation of the effectiveness of the Luria-Nebraska
Neuropsychological Battery in determining the presence, lateralization, and localization of brain …

The current study evaluated the utility of the WMS-III Faces I subtest (Faces) for the
assessment of malingering. Thirty nonlitigating traumatic brain injury patients and 30 control …

Objective Mice with global null mutation of Ceacam1 (Cc1 −/− ), display impairment of insulin
clearance that causes hyperinsulinemia followed by insulin resistance, elevated hepatic de …