scholarly journals The experience of nurses deployed out of their clinical specialty role during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (9) ◽  
pp. 6-10
Author(s):  
Leigh Griffis ◽  
Donna Tanzi ◽  
Kimberly Kanner ◽  
Susan Knoepffler
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Specialty

Watch for the 2013 SIG Coordinating Committee Elections

ASHA Leader ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 56-56
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Intraoperative Monitoring ◽  
Research Career ◽  
Loss Prevention ◽  
Clinical Specialty ◽  
Specialty Program

Access Audiology Highlights Hearing Loss Prevention, Watch for the 2013 SIG Coordinating Committee Elections, ASHA CE Courses Offer Transparency, Did You Know?, Students: Save on ASHA Membership, Certification to Replace Recognition in Clinical Specialty Program, Specialty Recognition in Neurophysiological Intraoperative Monitoring, Academic Accreditation Group Seeks Applicants, ASHA Awards Grants to State Associations, Use Pathways to Launch Your Research Career, Board of Ethics Decisions

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ASHA Leader ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 61-61
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Intraoperative Monitoring ◽  
Research Career ◽  
Loss Prevention ◽  
Clinical Specialty ◽  
Specialty Program

Access Audiology Highlights Hearing Loss Prevention, Watch for the 2013 SIG Coordinating Committee Elections, ASHA CE Courses Offer Transparency, Did You Know?, Students: Save on ASHA Membership, Certification to Replace Recognition in Clinical Specialty Program, Specialty Recognition in Neurophysiological Intraoperative Monitoring, Academic Accreditation Group Seeks Applicants, ASHA Awards Grants to State Associations, Use Pathways to Launch Your Research Career, Board of Ethics Decisions

Specialty Recognition in Neurophysiological Intraoperative Monitoring

ASHA Leader ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 57-57
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Intraoperative Monitoring ◽  
Research Career ◽  
Loss Prevention ◽  
Clinical Specialty ◽  
Specialty Program

Access Audiology Highlights Hearing Loss Prevention, Watch for the 2013 SIG Coordinating Committee Elections, ASHA CE Courses Offer Transparency, Did You Know?, Students: Save on ASHA Membership, Certification to Replace Recognition in Clinical Specialty Program, Specialty Recognition in Neurophysiological Intraoperative Monitoring, Academic Accreditation Group Seeks Applicants, ASHA Awards Grants to State Associations, Use Pathways to Launch Your Research Career, Board of Ethics Decisions

scholarly journals Collecting specialty-related medical terms: Development and evaluation of a resource for Spanish

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pilar López-Úbeda ◽  
Alexandra Pomares-Quimbaya ◽  
Manuel Carlos Díaz-Galiano ◽  
Stefan Schulz
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Classification Problem ◽  
Snomed Ct ◽  
Language Resources ◽  
Clinical Specialty ◽  
Controlled Vocabularies ◽  
Clinical Text ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Medical Terms ◽  
Core Vocabulary

Abstract Background Controlled vocabularies are fundamental resources for information extraction from clinical texts using natural language processing (NLP). Standard language resources available in the healthcare domain such as the UMLS metathesaurus or SNOMED CT are widely used for this purpose, but with limitations such as lexical ambiguity of clinical terms. However, most of them are unambiguous within text limited to a given clinical specialty. This is one rationale besides others to classify clinical text by the clinical specialty to which they belong. Results This paper addresses this limitation by proposing and applying a method that automatically extracts Spanish medical terms classified and weighted per sub-domain, using Spanish MEDLINE titles and abstracts as input. The hypothesis is biomedical NLP tasks benefit from collections of domain terms that are specific to clinical subdomains. We use PubMed queries that generate sub-domain specific corpora from Spanish titles and abstracts, from which token n-grams are collected and metrics of relevance, discriminatory power, and broadness per sub-domain are computed. The generated term set, called Spanish core vocabulary about clinical specialties (SCOVACLIS), was made available to the scientific community and used in a text classification problem obtaining improvements of 6 percentage points in the F-measure compared to the baseline using Multilayer Perceptron, thus demonstrating the hypothesis that a specialized term set improves NLP tasks. Conclusion The creation and validation of SCOVACLIS support the hypothesis that specific term sets reduce the level of ambiguity when compared to a specialty-independent and broad-scope vocabulary.

The role of paediatricians in specialist nurse training: a community child health example

2021 ◽  
pp. edpract-2020-320797
Author(s):  
Cliona Ni Bhrolchain
Keyword(s):  
Child Health ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Formal Training ◽  
Nurse Training ◽  
Training Curriculum ◽  
Clinical Specialty ◽  
Specialist Nurse ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
Nursing Roles

Specialist and advanced nursing roles have started to emerge in paediatrics and paediatricians may be asked to support nurses through their training. While there are specific training programmes for some areas of practice eg, neonatology, there are currently no programmes for others. Paediatricians may therefore find themselves being asked to train nurse specialists outside a formal training programme, or to provide the clinical specialty component linked to a generic MSc course, where the paediatrician may be required to devise a training curriculum specific to their area of practice. Using, neonatology, there are currently no programmes for others. Paediatricians may therefore find themselves being asked to train nurse specialists outside a formal training programme, or to provide the clinical specialty component linked to a generic MSc course, where the paediatrician may be required to devise a training curriculum specific to their area of practice. Using community child health as an example, this paper outlines how paediatricians might approach this, based on the experience of the author. However, the principles outlined can apply to any area of paediatrics.

Polypharmacy as a Clinical Pharmacist Specialist Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-37
Author(s):  
Michael J. Schuh ◽  
Sheena Crosby
Keyword(s):  
Ambulatory Care ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Medical Clinic ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Clinical Specialty ◽  
Direct To Consumer ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Medical Issues ◽  
Specialist Practice ◽  
Pharmacist Services

The objective of this manuscript is to review an ambulatory care pharmacist service that evolved into a pharmacotherapy, polypharmacy service with multiple submodels. The practice is located in a multispecialty, tertiary care, destination medical clinic in Florida. Ambulatory care pharmacist services have evolved to demand expertise in multiple, specialized areas to address the more complex medical issues of the polypharmacy patient. Many of these patients are older than 65 years of age, with broad medical care needs. A number of changes have led to the need for these expanded services: the growth and diversification of pharmacists' ambulatory care services, the multitude of sophisticated medications, the continued direct-to-consumer commercialization, the growth of dietary supplements, and the implementation of pharmacogenomic testing, In addition, new advances in clinical and laboratory technologies make polypharmacy a viable pharmacist clinical specialty. With the broad knowledge base needed for these patients, a polypharmacy pharmacist may function as a pharmacology troubleshooter expert.

scholarly journals Characteristics of criminal cases against physicians charged with opioid-related offenses reported in the US news media, 1995–2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia B. Berman ◽  
Guohua Li
Keyword(s):  
Money Laundering ◽  
News Media ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Annual Number ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Clinical Specialty ◽  
The Us ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Opioid Medications ◽  
Legal Consequences

Abstract Background Pharmaceutical companies and drug distributors are intensely scrutinized in numerous lawsuits for their role in instigating the opioid epidemic. Many individual physicians have also been held accountable for activities related to prescribing opioid medications. The purpose of this study was to examine the epidemiologic patterns of criminal cases against physicians charged with opioid-related offenses reported in the US news media. Methods We searched the Nexis Uni® database for news media reports on physicians who had been arrested, indicted or criminally charged for illegally prescribing opioids between January 1995 and December 2019. Data collected from the news media reports include defendant’s age, sex, clinical specialty, type of crime and legal consequences. Results The annual number of criminal cases against physicians charged with opioid-related offenses reported in the US news media increased from 0 in 1995 to 42 in 2019. Of the 372 physician defendants in these criminal cases, 90.1% were male, 27.4% were 65 years and older, and 23.4% were charged in Florida. Of the 358 physician defendants with known clinical specialty, 245 (68.4%) practiced in internal medicine, family medicine, or pain management. Drug trafficking was the most commonly convicted crime (accounting for 54.2% of all convicted cases), followed by fraud (19.1%), money laundering (11.0%) and manslaughter (5.6%). Of the 244 convicted physicians with known sentences, 85.0% were sentenced to prison with an average prison term of 127.3 ± 120.3 months. Conclusions The US news media has reported on an increasing number of opioid-related criminal cases against physicians from a wide variety of clinical specialties. The most commonly convicted crime in these cases is drug trafficking, followed by fraud, money laundering, and manslaughter.

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