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27 Nov Association of Disability With Mortality From Opioid Overdose
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: [caption id="attachment_52316" align="alignleft" width="107"]
Dr. Yong-Fang Kuo[/caption]
Yong-Fang Kuo, PhD
Professor and Director, Office of Biostatistics
Don W. and Frances Powell Professor in Aging Research
[caption id="attachment_52317" align="alignleft" width="124"] Dr. Mukaila Raji[/caption]
Mukaila Raji, MD, MS, FACP
Professor & Director
Edgar Gnitzinger Distinguished Professorship in Aging
Preventive Medicine and Population Health
UTMB Health
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: Medicare beneficiaries who qualified because of disability constitute a growing population of patients hospitalized for opioid/heroin overdose. Although the CDC regularly generates reports of opioid overdose deaths by demographics and states, studies on policy actionable predictors of overdose mortality (e.g., clusters of medical and psychiatric conditions, types of disabling conditions) are lacking in this population.
27 Nov Which Hospitalist Schedules Are Better for Patients?
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:James S. Goodwin, M.D.
George and Cynthia Mitchell Distinguished Chair in Geriatric Medicine
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX 77555-0177
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: Full time hospital doctors, called hospitalists, now provide the medical care for most patients hospitalized in the US. Depending on the hospital and also the hospitalist group, the working schedules of hospitalists can have vary greatly. For example, some might work 8 AM to 5PM for seven days followed by seven days off. Others might work 24 hours on and 72 hours off. Depending on the schedule of the hospitalists proving care, a patient might have one or two or three or more different doctors proving care during their stay. Some patients see a new doctor each day.
Our goal was to see if patients who received care from hospitalists who tended to work several days in a row did better than those who were cared for many different hospitalists with intermittent schedules.
10 Oct Who Might Benefit From Early Screening for Colorectal Cancer?
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in Author Interviews, Cancer Research, Colon Cancer, Genetic Research, University Texas
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
[caption id="attachment_45179" align="alignleft" width="200"] Dr. Bilal[/caption]
Mohammad Bilal, MD
University of Texas Medical Branch
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the fourth most commonly diagnosed cancer among adults in the United States and the second leading cause of cancer related deaths. Recent studies have shown an increasing incidence of CRC in younger patients. This has led to increasing interests in identifying patient populations who might be at increased risk of developing CRC.
The U.S. Multi-Society Task Force of Colorectal Cancer (MSTF) recommends that CRC screening should begin at age 50 in average-risk persons. However, recently the American Cancer Society (ACS) have published recommendations to begin CRC screening at age 45 years in average risk patient population.
These recommendations were primarily based of modeling studies since there is little outcomes data in younger age groups in regards to prevention and detection of CRC. Despite these new recommendations from the ACS, there is limited direct evidence to support CRC screening at a younger age. In our study, we have evaluated the predictors of increased prevalence of adenomas in the 40 to 49-year-old individuals undergoing colonoscopy.