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A system has been implemented that enables collection of pre- and postoperative data for patients with nasal obstruction who undergo functional septorhinoplasty

System Collects Data on Functional Septorhinoplasty

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Outcomes data have been collected for more than 1,000 patients since the process was implemented
Physicians spend almost six hours per day in the electronic health record

Doctors Spend Almost Six Hours Per Day on EHR Tasks

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Clerical and administrative tasks including order entry, billing account for almost half of hours

American Academy of Otolaryngology, Sept. 10-13

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The 121st Annual American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Meeting and OTO Experience The annual meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head...
Most physicians on Twitter with a financial conflict of interest and frequent tweets mention specific drugs for which they have a conflict

Physicians Tweeting About Drugs May Have Conflict of Interest

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Physicians with financial conflict of interest often mention specific drugs for which they have a conflict
A clinical consensus statement on balloon dilation of the sinuses has been approved by the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) Board of Directors and presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

AAO-HNSF: New Consensus on Balloon Dilation of Sinuses

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Clinical consensus statement for adults 18 years or older with chronic or recurrent rhinosinusitis
The age-adjusted U.S. cancer death rate decreased 25 percent from 1991 to 2014

AACR Releases 2017 Cancer Progress Report

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Twenty-five percent decrease in age-adjusted U.S. cancer death rate from 1991 to 2014
Certain aspects of empathy improve during medical student training

Some Aspects of Empathy Improve During Medical Training

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Decrease in empathy as assessed by JSPE, but overall cognitive empathy improved on the QCAE
Humanitarian surgical care has been provided to local national civilians during the Afghanistan conflict

Study Details Humanitarian Surgical Care in Afghanistan

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A total of 5,768 local national civilians had surgery; 49.3 percent classified as non-war-related conditions
Does being a physician carry a moral obligation to respond to calls for medical assistance on airplanes? That is the topic of an article published in the Sept. 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Are Physicians Obligated to Help on Planes?

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One administrative physician explains his sense of obligation to help
Complete blood cell count parameters at commonly used or optimal thresholds do not offer high accuracy in identifying invasive bacterial infections in febrile infants (≤60 days of age)

‘Modest at Best’ Discriminatory Ability for CBC Test in Infants

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Findings among febrile infants (≤60 days) with invasive bacterial infections