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Al Lulla, MD, Receives MOCEP R.R. Hannas Resident of the Year Award (Links to an external site)
COVID-19 Specimen Bank Propels Coronavirus Research In St. Louis (Links to an external site)
The Hard Truth About Ventilators (Links to an external site)
WUSM MD Urges Caution with Unproven Steroid therapy in COVID Patients (Links to an external site)
ST. LOUIS CHILDREN’S RANKS NO. 1 AMONG MISSOURI CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
St. Louis, MO – June 16, 2020 – U.S. News & World Report has again ranked St. Louis Children’s Hospital Washington University School of Medicine among America’s Best Children’s Hospitals. The publication ranked St. Louis Children’s No. 1 in the state of Missouri and among the top 10 percent nationally. The report evaluated 193 children’s […]
Diagnosing COVID‐19 in the Emergency Department: A Scoping Review of Clinical Exam, Labs, Imaging Accuracy and Biases (Links to an external site)
Highlights the likely diagnostic biases and anticipated skew in measured sensitivity and specificity, as well as opportunities to improve the quality of research and peer-review in COVID-19 diagnostics moving forward.
Patients with COVID-19 donate specimens to advance research (Links to an external site)
Philip Mudd, MD, PhD, above, an emergency medicine physician, and his colleague, Jane O’Halloran, MD, PhD, an infectious diseases specialist, have led efforts to create a repository for storing and managing specimens collected from patients with COVID-19. To date, more than 7,000 samples, including blood, urine and saliva specimens, have been distributed to investigators conducting […]
Unconditional care in academic EDs (Links to an external site)
In response to racial disparities noted in COVID-19 outcomes and recent social unrest tied to police violence, SAEM and Academic Emergency Medicine Editorial Board leaders authored this essay re-stating emergency medicine’s commitment to all patients.
Interventions to improve older adults’ ED experience (Links to an external site)
Systematic review exploring efforts to improve patient satisfaction scores for older adults in the contemporary ED.