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In their home neighborhoods, these individuals are marginalized due to their sexuality, and in the Castro they are marginalized due to their race and socioeconomic class. The corner of Market and Castro, then, is significant to these low-income queer people of color for a variety of reasons, including emotional and socioeconomic support, but namely in regard to identity formation. While marginalized, these low-income queer people of color manage to carve out a small space, however policed or challenged, that provides them with the platform to play with and embody their multiple, intersecting identities that they are unable to fully express in other spaces.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "All rights reserved", "short_name": "Copyright", "text": "© the author(s). All rights reserved.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "LGBT, inequality, community, identity" }, { "word": "sociology" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/15k0c25d", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Andrew", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Levine-Murray", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UC Berkeley", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-01-20T20:57:32Z", "date_accepted": "2013-01-20T20:57:32Z", "date_published": "2013-02-10T20:02:33Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_buj/article/5894/galley/3619/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5888, "title": "The Ramones: A Preliminary Towards the Poetics of Punk", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Despite a wide variety of writing on punk as style, social phenomena, counter subculture, and politicized youth movement, little has been said on the literary nature of the genre; if there is a literary nature of punk, it remains to be written about. This paper begins to answer that unknown. By closely reading and listening to the lyrics and records of many punk bands from the earliest New York 70s scene, where punk most tangibly began before crossing over to the UK and then the world, I highlight and analyze what could be considered the formal poetic features of punk verse while marrying it to the structure of the music. The focus on the Ramones, arguably the kings of their genre, is simply the beginning of a larger research project that aims to include all bands from that period, as well as the music and artists inspired by the punk movement.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "All rights reserved", "short_name": "Copyright", "text": "© the author(s). All rights reserved.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "punk" }, { "word": "Poetry" }, { "word": "ramones" }, { "word": "English" }, { "word": "Cultural Studies" }, { "word": "music" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0cp5v410", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Alex", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Taitague", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UC Berkeley", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-01-18T17:28:49Z", "date_accepted": "2013-01-18T17:28:49Z", "date_published": "2013-02-10T20:01:37Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_buj/article/5888/galley/3614/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5902, "title": "Beyond the Binary: New Roles and Implications of NGOs in Haiti", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Recent academic debates regarding the proliferation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Haiti often fall into the trap of pitting NGOs as an entity against the Haitian state. This paper seeks to follow academic arguments that go beyond this binary framework by examining the coordination and collaboration practices of health NGOs at the local level in the North Department of Haiti. Specifically, this paper will discuss how individuals, both Haitian and foreign, attempt to resist national and international hegemonic structures while still operating within these confines to present an acceptable “face” to the outside. To illustrate this point, I will draw on three specific instances and conversations I had while in Haiti that manifest acts of individual resistance. First, I will discuss how the Haitian state’s extreme centralization affects government workers and NGO partners at the local and regional level in Cap-Haitian. Second, I will illustrate the philosophy of one particular health NGO that negotiates both foreign and local ideologies and practices in an attempt to create a more accountable partnership with the local Haitian authorities. Third, I will explore how my participant observation became wrapped up in dominant power structures and relations. Drawing on the theoretical work of Antonio Gramsci and Michel Foucault, I will explore how individuals contest the power structures and hegemonic discourses within which they are embedded, thereby constantly creating new spaces for possibility and change.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "All rights reserved", "short_name": "Copyright", "text": "© the author(s). All rights reserved.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Haiti" }, { "word": "Cap-Haitian" }, { "word": "NGOs" }, { "word": "coordination" }, { "word": "hegemony" }, { "word": "state centralization" }, { "word": "partnership" }, { "word": "power relations" }, { "word": "Michel Foucault" }, { "word": "Antonio Gramsci" }, { "word": "Geography" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2dc48859", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Julia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Uyttewaal", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UC Berkeley", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-01-22T05:58:38Z", "date_accepted": "2013-01-22T05:58:38Z", "date_published": "2013-02-10T20:00:57Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_buj/article/5902/galley/3625/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5893, "title": "Multiculturialism: The Dutch Influence in America's Beginnings", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "In this paper, I explore the roots of America’s multicultural heritage through examination of Dutch influence in America’s beginnings. New Amsterdam (colonial New York) had one of the most diverse populations of it’s time due to the West India Company’s (WIC) involvement in the Pacific slave trade. The consequent diaspora across the Pacific created a contact zone in which the Dutch tradition of tolerance and equal recognition became the foundations on which America became a melting pot. By illustrating an underrepresented aspect of history, I hope for this paper to bring more understanding into the account of multiculturalism and America’s roots.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "All rights reserved", "short_name": "Copyright", "text": "© the author(s). All rights reserved.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "multiculturalism" }, { "word": "Dutch" }, { "word": "West India Company" }, { "word": "tolerance" }, { "word": "Equal Recognition" }, { "word": "Colonial America" }, { "word": "American Beginnings" }, { "word": "New Amsterdam" }, { "word": "New York" }, { "word": "History" }, { "word": "Cultural Studies" }, { "word": "International Affairs" }, { "word": "development" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0624j69x", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Marissa", "middle_name": "L", "last_name": "Teitelman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UC Berkeley", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-01-15T08:59:24Z", "date_accepted": "2013-01-15T08:59:24Z", "date_published": "2013-02-10T20:00:41Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_buj/article/5893/galley/3618/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5905, "title": "The Food System and a Role for Ecological Ethics", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This paper analyzes the contemporary food system using ethical philosophy, in hopes that this may help elucidate how to move forward in righting a system that leaves a wake of hunger, obesity, and environmental degradation. I have chosen to focus on the work of Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess, concentrating on his ecological ethics because of the way in which agriculture represents the meeting of, and blurring between, the human and the natural realms. My research first involved a survey of popular and academic works on the contemporary food system, focusing on broader analyses of political-economy, human and environmental impacts, and historical development. My research also involved a survey of Arne Naess’s work, from his earlier writings and articulation of Deep Ecology in the middle of the 20th century until his death in 2009. My research found that the main obstacle to building a more just food system is not a lack of ethical clarity, but rather the structural barriers of the capitalist economic system. I argue that ecological ethics must be a catalyst for systematic change, and that the possibility of the immediate realization of an ecological ethos is quite limited within the current political-economic system.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "All rights reserved", "short_name": "Copyright", "text": "© the author(s). All rights reserved.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Agriculture, Arne Naess, Deep Ecology, Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Food, Food System, Food Movement" }, { "word": "Philosophy, Environmental Studies, Scandinavian Studies" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1jz5m2rd", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Isaac", "middle_name": "de Araujo", "last_name": "Kreisman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UC Berkeley", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-01-22T19:10:09Z", "date_accepted": "2013-01-22T19:10:09Z", "date_published": "2013-02-10T19:59:08Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_buj/article/5905/galley/3628/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5903, "title": "The Constructed Landscapes of Horace’s Poetic Autobiography in the Odes", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "In this paper, I explore how the Latin poet Horace uses and transforms landscape in order to establish his poetic autobiography. This is accomplished through a close reading of \nOdes \n3.13, \nO Fons Bandusiae\n. The facets of this particular landscape that are highlighted through Horace’s poetry reflect the way the poet sees the world and his place in it. By manipulating the aesthetic and temporal qualities of the scene, Horace transforms it into a poetic landscape, one that cannot exist outside this particular poem. In this way, Horace asserts several facets of his poetic identity and demonstrates his poetic prowess, claiming his place in the canon of Greek and Latin lyric poets.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "All rights reserved", "short_name": "Copyright", "text": "© the author(s). All rights reserved.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Horace" }, { "word": "Fons Bandusiae" }, { "word": "Landscape" }, { "word": "autobiography" }, { "word": "lyric" }, { "word": "Classics" }, { "word": "Latin Poetry" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4nc4b3zq", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Erin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lam", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UC Berkeley", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-01-22T07:21:48Z", "date_accepted": "2013-01-22T07:21:48Z", "date_published": "2013-02-10T19:58:34Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_buj/article/5903/galley/3626/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5904, "title": "Contemplative Neuroscience: An Integrative Approach for Investigating Consciousness", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This paper explores the field of contemplative neuroscience as a means of studying consciousness on both neurological and experiential levels. While our current scientific paradigm favors the view that consciousness is a purely physical phenomenon and should be examined as such, contemplative neuroscience posits that awareness, attention, and emotion are malleable skills that can be refined in order to provide detailed, accurate self-reports about the conscious experience. These reports can then be used to inform neurological data, in order to form a more holistic understanding of consciousness as both a physical and mental process. Buddhist meditation techniques are a paradigm example of the type of training necessary to cultivate accurate awareness of mental states. I practiced Buddhist meditation extensively over several months as a way to inform my study. In addition, I conducted a comprehensive review of scientific publications on the current research being conducted on meditation, and philosophical literature on the importance of contemplative training in respect to neuroscience. My experience meditating highlighted the large difference between the untrained, unaware mind and the mind that has been trained in awareness, emphasizing the value of using experienced contemplative practitioners as a means to further consciousness studies. These results point to a need to use refined phenomenological reports as a more accurate way of interpreting neurological data, making use of subtleties and details that would not be available to us were we to use untrained subjects.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "All rights reserved", "short_name": "Copyright", "text": "© the author(s). All rights reserved.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Contemplative Neuroscience" }, { "word": "phenomenology" }, { "word": "Mind-body Problem" }, { "word": "Consciousness" }, { "word": "Buddhism" }, { "word": "Meditation" }, { "word": "Cognitive Science" }, { "word": "Contemplative Science" }, { "word": "Philosophy of Mind" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/553217g6", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Dayna", "middle_name": "Averiett", "last_name": "Stimson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UC Berkeley", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-01-22T19:15:09Z", "date_accepted": "2013-01-22T19:15:09Z", "date_published": "2013-02-10T19:55:25Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_buj/article/5904/galley/3627/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5892, "title": "Understanding and Self-Advocacy: Students with Learning Disabilities, Unrecognized Talent", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This is the first phase of a two-phase project that looks at the relationship between diagnostic testing and self-advocacy for students with learning disabilities (LD) within post-secondary education. In this first phase, data was obtained using in-depth, semi-structured interviews with professionals within the field of LD: three learning specialists, two administration staff, and five LD testing administrators. All data was thematically coded. Two four-year public universities in Northern California (one, a prominent research institution) participated. Findings show that university administrators often see students with disabilities as having less “economic value” than students without disabilities. In an effort to reduce costs, bureaucratic barriers are created through policies and burdensome documentation processes, which make it more difficult for students to gain or utilize support services. The data shows that few students understand their LDs, the diagnostic tests used, and their rights as a person legally defined as having a disability. The findings indicate that students’ primary focus is not on fully understanding their diagnosis and its implications. Rather, the initial data suggests that current policies require students to concentrate their energies on the documentation requirements to gain needed resources, and consequently, lower the possibility for self-advocacy.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "All rights reserved", "short_name": "Copyright", "text": "© the author(s). All rights reserved.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "special education" }, { "word": "Learning Debilities" }, { "word": "Economic Value Attitudes" }, { "word": "Diagnosis" }, { "word": "Equal Access" }, { "word": "Legal Rights" }, { "word": "Understanding" }, { "word": "Self-advocacy" }, { "word": "Post-secondary Education" }, { "word": "Documentation" }, { "word": "Diagnostic Testing" }, { "word": "sociology" }, { "word": "education" }, { "word": "psychology" }, { "word": "Disability Studies" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6ph5w1q8", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Tabitha", "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "Mancini", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-01-15T05:05:45Z", "date_accepted": "2013-01-15T05:05:45Z", "date_published": "2013-02-10T19:54:46Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_buj/article/5892/galley/3617/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5897, "title": "Taking Steps: Exploring College Predispositions in College Track, Oakland Youth", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This paper describes the factors that influenced rising 9th grade students from different middle schools in Oakland, CA, to apply to the College Track program. Using Urie Bronfenbrenner’s theory of Human Ecology, the author explains that students were influenced to apply to the program by peers, parents and school staff (i.e. teachers, counselors and principals) in their immediate environments.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "All rights reserved", "short_name": "Copyright", "text": "© the author(s). All rights reserved.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "After-school Program" }, { "word": "Human Ecology Theory" }, { "word": "Minority Youth" }, { "word": "Oakland" }, { "word": "inner-city" }, { "word": "Participation" }, { "word": "sociology" }, { "word": "education" }, { "word": "Social Welfare" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5c35j1dh", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Katherine", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zepeda Arreola", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UC Berkeley", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-01-21T23:03:13Z", "date_accepted": "2013-01-21T23:03:13Z", "date_published": "2013-02-10T19:54:20Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_buj/article/5897/galley/3622/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5889, "title": "Understanding Mechanisms behind Cultural Differences in Help Seeking Propensity", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Cultural psychological literatures have documented that in contrary to Caucasians who are individualist, prioritize autonomy and independence, Asians are collectivists, prioritize group goals, interpersonal harmony and possess self-construal that very much overlaps with others of their in-group. Hence, Asians (including Asian Americans) should be more likely to seek help from their in-group. However, clinical psychological studies have documented Asian Americans’ underutilization of professional mental health compared to Westerners even in times of distress. In attempt to resolve previous conflicting cultural and clinical psychological literatures, this is the first study that examined help-seeking tendencies in other daily-life domains apart from mental health. Help-seeking is comprised of three elements: the willingness to seek help, comfort level when seeking help and the extent to which help-seekers expect to benefit from others. In the present study, I found that: 1. it was neither Asian Americans nor Westerners but Tsinghua University Asian students who reported the highest overall help-seeking propensity for relational problem, emotional distress and personal religious conflict; and 2. indicated greater preference for seeking help from career-driven connections when they were low-context communicators or when primed with high implicit power. Implications of findings for encouraging Asian immigrants and Caucasians’ help-seeking are discussed and explored.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "All rights reserved", "short_name": "Copyright", "text": "© the author(s). All rights reserved.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "help-seeking, culture, power, communication style, relationship" }, { "word": "psychology" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/98q30656", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Josephine", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Juanamarga", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UC Berkeley", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-01-11T00:03:53Z", "date_accepted": "2013-01-11T00:03:53Z", "date_published": "2013-02-10T19:53:28Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_buj/article/5889/galley/3615/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5896, "title": "The effect of imagining outcomes on children’s causal reasoning", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This experiment investigates whether engaging in pretense may prompt preschool-aged children to reason counterfactually. Recent work suggests that ability to engage in pretense is associated with counterfactual reasoning abilities. While it is known that children are able to design accurate interventions on a causal system, are imagined interventions as informative as actual interventions in the real world? To this end, 4- and 5-year-old children were presented with a novel probabilistic causal apparatus. Children were either prompted to imagine actions performed on the structure, or were given a control task matched for attention and exploration of the apparatus. Children were then asked to choose the intervention that would be the most effective in producing the desired outcome. Preliminary findings have demonstrated no difference in performance between conditions. However, the data indicated that children in the control condition might have spontaneously engaged in pretense when exploring the novel causal structure. To address this issue, changes have been made to the methods, and we are in the process of piloting the amended methods.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "All rights reserved", "short_name": "Copyright", "text": "© the author(s). All rights reserved.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "counterfactuals" }, { "word": "pretense" }, { "word": "Causal Learning" }, { "word": "psychology" }, { "word": "Cognitive Development" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7rm2n6wv", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Rotem", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Aboody", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UC Berkeley", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-01-21T18:58:30Z", "date_accepted": "2013-01-21T18:58:30Z", "date_published": "2013-02-10T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_buj/article/5896/galley/3621/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 43809, "title": "Aggressive Management of Stage IV Colon Cancer for Long-term Survival", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Clinical Vignette" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0138q9s6", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Shahryar", "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "Ashouri", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "Medicine" }, { "first_name": "Melissa", "middle_name": "J", "last_name": "Cohen", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2013-02-08T02:46:45Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucladom_proceedings/article/43809/galley/32613/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 39316, "title": "Review: Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Book Review: Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "https://escholarship.org/terms" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Coffee, Primitive" }, { "word": "Anthropology" }, { "word": "ethnography" } ], "section": "Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/34m7q7nb", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Amy", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Harth", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Union Institute & University", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-01-14T03:44:20Z", "date_accepted": "2013-01-14T03:44:20Z", "date_published": "2013-02-04T20:53:59Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "other", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/egj/article/39316/galley/29677/download/" }, { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/egj/article/39316/galley/29678/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 39306, "title": "Review: Wicked Environmental Problems", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Review: Wicked Envrionmental Problems", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "https://escholarship.org/terms" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "environmental management" }, { "word": "environmental policy" } ], "section": "Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8b91g09h", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Jenkins", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Roundhouse Institute for Field Studies", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-13T17:57:41Z", "date_accepted": "2012-11-13T17:57:41Z", "date_published": "2013-02-04T20:50:14Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "other", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/egj/article/39306/galley/29660/download/" }, { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/egj/article/39306/galley/29661/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 39308, "title": "Review: A Landscape History of New England", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Book review: A Landscape History of New England", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "https://escholarship.org/terms" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "History" }, { "word": "environmental science" } ], "section": "Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/14d0j6h9", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Fred", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mason", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of New Brunswick", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-17T17:57:16Z", "date_accepted": "2012-11-17T17:57:16Z", "date_published": "2013-02-04T20:46:09Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "other", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/egj/article/39308/galley/29664/download/" }, { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/egj/article/39308/galley/29665/download/" }, { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/egj/article/39308/galley/29666/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 39307, "title": "Review: Manufacturing National Park Nature", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Book Review: Manufacturing national park nature : photography, ecology, and the wilderness industry of Jasper", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "https://escholarship.org/terms" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Nature photography" }, { "word": "ecology" } ], "section": "Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/874459hc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Fred", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mason", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of New Brunswick", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-16T20:09:24Z", "date_accepted": "2012-11-16T20:09:24Z", "date_published": "2013-02-04T20:41:46Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "other", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/egj/article/39307/galley/29662/download/" }, { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/egj/article/39307/galley/29663/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 39310, "title": "Review: Sacrifice Zones", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Book Review: Sacrifice Zones: The front lines of tocix chemical toxic chemical exposure in the United States", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "https://escholarship.org/terms" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "environmental science" } ], "section": "Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/49t1g9b7", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Peter", "middle_name": "C.", "last_name": "Little", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Oregon State University", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-28T01:04:35Z", "date_accepted": "2012-11-28T01:04:35Z", "date_published": "2013-02-04T20:36:37Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "other", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/egj/article/39310/galley/29669/download/" }, { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/egj/article/39310/galley/29670/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 39309, "title": "Review: Knowledge and Environmental Policy", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Book Review: Knowledge and Environmental Policy: Re-imagining the boundards of science and politics", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "https://escholarship.org/terms" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "environmental policy" }, { "word": "science" } ], "section": "Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/50d0t4qj", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Peter", "middle_name": "C.", "last_name": "Little", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Oregon State University", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-28T01:00:29Z", "date_accepted": "2012-11-28T01:00:29Z", "date_published": "2013-02-04T20:25:47Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "other", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/egj/article/39309/galley/29667/download/" }, { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/egj/article/39309/galley/29668/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 39302, "title": "Review: Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Book Review: Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "https://escholarship.org/terms" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "sociology" }, { "word": "Environmental Sciences" } ], "section": "Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/59c653cc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jamie", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Conklin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Southern Illinois University Edwardsville", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-10-09T16:28:04Z", "date_accepted": "2012-10-09T16:28:04Z", "date_published": "2013-02-04T18:48:53Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "other", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/egj/article/39302/galley/29656/download/" }, { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/egj/article/39302/galley/29657/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 59039, "title": "Algerian Ivy Removal Techniques along a Riparian Zone in Berkeley, California", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Algerian ivy is an invasive non-native vine that limits native plant biodiversity. In this study I examined three removal techniques for managing Algerian ivy: manual removal, foliar herbicide application (round up® Pro), and cut-stem herbicide application. I hypothesized that cut-stem herbicide application would be the most effective removal technique and that both herbicide applications would not affect native seedling growth. I measured plots monthly for ivy and native seedling growth and analyzed results using a random complete block design, tukey-Kramer analysis, and Simpson’s diversity Index (SdI). I found no significant difference in ivy re-growth among treatments and no significant difference in native seedling growth between plots. However, manual removal plots had an SdI double that of other treatments (0.7652). Based on these results, I recommend that further use of herbicides be ceased until investigations into the effects of herbicide on native plant diversity have been completed.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "invasive species" }, { "word": "Strawberry Creek" }, { "word": "restoration" }, { "word": "Round Up Pro" }, { "word": "species diversity" }, { "word": "environmental science" } ], "section": "Research", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3gq0v2sq", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Lindsey", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sanders", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-02-03T02:17:01Z", "date_accepted": "2013-02-03T02:17:01Z", "date_published": "2013-02-02T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_bsj/article/59039/galley/45080/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 59033, "title": "Artificial General Intelligence and the Future of the Human Race", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Artificial Intelligence" }, { "word": "machinery" } ], "section": "Features", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3mj1744v", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Bryon", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pavlacka", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-02-03T01:50:19Z", "date_accepted": "2013-02-03T01:50:19Z", "date_published": "2013-02-02T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_bsj/article/59033/galley/45074/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 59031, "title": "Cancer Therapies: A Bane and a Boon", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cancer" }, { "word": "chemotherapy" }, { "word": "Biology" } ], "section": "Features", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4tm796wc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Sushrita", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Neogi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-02-03T01:44:08Z", "date_accepted": "2013-02-03T01:44:08Z", "date_published": "2013-02-02T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_bsj/article/59031/galley/45072/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 59034, "title": "Fire: A Constructive Prescription", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "fire" }, { "word": "slash-and-burn" }, { "word": "ecology" }, { "word": "agriculture" } ], "section": "Features", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4xc824h6", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Michael", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sadighian", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-02-03T01:52:01Z", "date_accepted": "2013-02-03T01:52:01Z", "date_published": "2013-02-02T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_bsj/article/59034/galley/45075/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 59032, "title": "Grey Matters: How controversial and drastic neurosurgeries have contributed to our knowledge of the brain", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "plasticity" }, { "word": "neurosurgery" }, { "word": "HM" }, { "word": "neuroscience" } ], "section": "Features", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0mt2w8m0", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Tanu", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Patel", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-02-03T01:47:03Z", "date_accepted": "2013-02-03T01:47:03Z", "date_published": "2013-02-02T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_bsj/article/59032/galley/45073/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 59038, "title": "Identification of Burseraceae trees from Peru: a comparison of the nuclear DNA marker ITS and the plastid DNA marker rbcL for DNA barcoding", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The immense plant diversity that is characteristic of tropical rain forests often makes it difficult for ecological and conservation studies to identify individual plant species and measure biodiversity. DNA barcoding is a species identification technique that utilizes standard, short dnA sequences to distinguish between species when traditional taxonomic identification is not practical. Accurate identification of animals with DNA barcoding has been well established, but a universally accepted DNA barcode for plants still does not exist. The use of nuclear DNA markers and plastid DNA markers from the chloroplast are the two contending approaches to DNA barcoding. This study compares the utility of the nuclear DNA marker ItS and the plastid DNA marker rbcL as DNA barcodes among 35 Burseraceae tree species from the Peruvian Amazon. I found that the proposed DNA barcode rbcL greatly underperformed the nuclear marker ItS as a DNA barcode. While both markers exhibited greater than 90% amplification success ItS demonstrated a mean pairwise percentage sequence divergence of 5.4% while rbcL demonstrated 0.83%. Additionally, at 1% sequence divergence resolution ItS discriminated between 99% of species-pairs while rbcL only discriminated between 26%. The results of my study suggest that ItS should not be completely discounted from the plant DNA barcode debate and rbcL be reevaluated as a proposed universal barcode.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "plant identification" }, { "word": "Protium" }, { "word": "phylogeny" }, { "word": "Bayesian" }, { "word": "sequence divergence" }, { "word": "genetics" }, { "word": "Molecular biology" } ], "section": "Research", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2g9393hq", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Elias", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Elbogen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-02-03T02:13:26Z", "date_accepted": "2013-02-03T02:13:26Z", "date_published": "2013-02-02T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_bsj/article/59038/galley/45079/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 59026, "title": "Interview with BSJ Staff Advisor Leah Carroll: BSJ Throughout the Years", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "After graduating from Berkeley with a PhD in sociology, Leah Carroll returned to UC Berkeley in 2001 as the director of the Haas Scholars Program. Like Professor Kane, Leah became involved with Berkeley Scientific Journal through the undergraduate research programs in the Office of Undergraduate Research. She has guided BSJ since then and served as the staff advisor. Her experience in research and undergraduate education has been an invaluable asset, and her new position as the Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research is a testament to that. Leah’s new book, “Violent Democratization: Social Movements, Elites, and Politics in Columbia’s Rural War Zones,” shows her all-encompassing involvement in research, both in a mentoring and in pursuing her own fields of interest.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "BSJ" }, { "word": "Democratization" }, { "word": "research" }, { "word": "education" } ], "section": "Interviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2r01w4wm", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Kapil", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gururangan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Sushrita", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Neogi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Prashant", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bhat", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jared", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Rosen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jingyan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-02-03T01:25:27Z", "date_accepted": "2013-02-03T01:25:27Z", "date_published": "2013-02-02T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_bsj/article/59026/galley/45067/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 59027, "title": "Interview with Robert Knight and Brian Pasley: Brain-Machine Interfaces: Neural Prosthetics and Patient Care", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Professor Robert Knight served as the Director of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute from 2001 to 2011 and has run a lab in human neuroscience within that institute since 1998. Using electrophysiological techniques, the Knight lab studies the role of the prefrontal cortex in human cognition. After graduating with a BS in Physics from the Illinois Institute of Technology, he earned his MD from Northwestern University, completed his neurology training at UC San Diego, and finished his post-doctoral work at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. In 2010, Professor Knight helped found the Center for Neural Engineering and Prosthesis, a joint program between UC Berkeley and UCSF focused on brain-machine interfaces.\nBrian Pasley, a post-doctoral student in Dr. Knight’s lab since 2010, conceived the lab’s latest publication, which announced the possibility for scientists to reconstruct human speech from recorded brain activity. Both Pasley and Knight hope the research will lead to advances in neural prosthetics for patients with neurological disorders.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "brain-machine interface" }, { "word": "neuroscience" }, { "word": "prosthetics" }, { "word": "human speech reconstruction" }, { "word": "psychology" }, { "word": "Cognitive Science" }, { "word": "ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING" } ], "section": "Interviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8q6654gh", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Kapil", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gururangan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jingyan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Prashant", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bhat", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Sushrita", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Neogi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jared", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Rosen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-02-03T01:31:18Z", "date_accepted": "2013-02-03T01:31:18Z", "date_published": "2013-02-02T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_bsj/article/59027/galley/45068/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 59036, "title": "Overlooked? The Growing Threat of Desertification", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Desertification" }, { "word": "grazing" }, { "word": "sustainablility" }, { "word": "ecology" }, { "word": "agriculture" } ], "section": "Features", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9n89k3g3", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Julian", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zhu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-02-03T01:57:29Z", "date_accepted": "2013-02-03T01:57:29Z", "date_published": "2013-02-02T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_bsj/article/59036/galley/45077/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 59040, "title": "Peripheral benzodiazepine receptor protein expression in cells treated with alcohol and cytokines; a study on alcoholism", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Alcoholism is a complex disease that impacts the cnS through tolerance, dependence, brain damage and neurological and cognitive deficits. chronic exposure to ethanol brings neurodegeneration and an increase in the level of an outer mitochondrial membrane protein, called the peripheral benzodiazepine receptor, PBr for short. In this study, western blotting and immunocytochemical methods were used to detect the effects of ethanol and cytokine treatments on astrocytes, astrocytomas, and microglia. Although ethanol seemed to have led to a decrease in PBr in the astrocytes and microglia, it did produce an increase in astrocytomas. Additionally, LPS and cytokine mix seemed to have at least physically altered the appearance of these ethanol-exposed cells.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Alcoholism" }, { "word": "Neurodegeneration" }, { "word": "neuroscience" }, { "word": "Pharmacology" } ], "section": "Research", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3g32089d", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Mingmei", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Niu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Peter", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Syapin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-02-03T02:21:41Z", "date_accepted": "2013-02-03T02:21:41Z", "date_published": "2013-02-02T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_bsj/article/59040/galley/45081/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 59028, "title": "Pharmacogenomics: A Balancing Act", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "DNA microarray" }, { "word": "Pharmaceutical" }, { "word": "healthcare" }, { "word": "Pharmacogenomics" } ], "section": "Features", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/10b5112p", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Lindsay", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Forbes", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-02-03T01:35:19Z", "date_accepted": "2013-02-03T01:35:19Z", "date_published": "2013-02-02T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_bsj/article/59028/galley/45069/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 59030, "title": "Physics for Freedom: Opening the Cosmos for Those Inside", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "San Quentin" }, { "word": "physics" }, { "word": "Prisons" }, { "word": "education" } ], "section": "Features", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8fr970bn", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Alexandra", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Latshaw", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-02-03T01:42:00Z", "date_accepted": "2013-02-03T01:42:00Z", "date_published": "2013-02-02T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_bsj/article/59030/galley/45071/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 59029, "title": "Planet of the Machines", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "machinery" }, { "word": "automation" }, { "word": "jobs" }, { "word": "Economics" }, { "word": "computing" } ], "section": "Features", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5n86w1m9", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Tara", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Landers", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-02-03T01:39:28Z", "date_accepted": "2013-02-03T01:39:28Z", "date_published": "2013-02-02T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_bsj/article/59029/galley/45070/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 59037, "title": "Temporal and Spatial Dependence of Adaptation on Ganglion Cells", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "One of the visual system’s many tasks is to be able to distinguish objects from the background. The ability to do this is limited and affected by the relationship between the object (or stimulus) of interest and the background. Adaptation in retinal neurons is the process of changing the cell’s response to a stimulus according to that stimulus’s background. When the stimulus is hard to discern from the background, the retina adapts by improving its sensitivity to low contrast. The large response range maintained by adaptation comes at a cost, however. Adaptation complicates neural coding by making the brain interpret identical stimuli as different based on differences in background. In order to further our understanding of adaptation, this study modified the background to be in terms of time and space rather than light intensity as is the norm. By changing the interval between two circular stimuli (inter-stimuli interval; IsI) of the same diameter, and by changing the diameter over a common IsI, we measured a ganglion cell’s output for one stimulus relative to another stimulus. the results show saturation (loss of output to the 2nd stimulus) of stimuli at lower IsIs. Also, the degree of saturation for a given IsI depends on the diameter of the stimulus. These combinations of results illustrate the temporal and spatial dependence of adaptation on ganglion cells. A larger-diameter stimulus involves multiple neurons surrounding the ganglion cell being recorded so various pathways most likely influence that cell’s ultimate output. Rapid stimuli (low IsI) can be defined as having large mean luminosity that directly affects ganglion cell output.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "adaptation" }, { "word": "contrast sensitivity" }, { "word": "Ganglion" }, { "word": "inter-stimuli interval" }, { "word": "ISI" }, { "word": "lateral interneurons" }, { "word": "luminosity" }, { "word": "MicroElectrode Array (MEA)" }, { "word": "photoreceptor" }, { "word": "Rabbit" }, { "word": "retina" }, { "word": "spatial" }, { "word": "temporal" }, { "word": "neuroscience" }, { "word": "neurobiology" } ], "section": "Research", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/21n2w7z1", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Aakash", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Amin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Reza", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Moazzezi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Frank", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Werblin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-02-03T02:07:28Z", "date_accepted": "2013-02-03T02:07:28Z", "date_published": "2013-02-02T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_bsj/article/59037/galley/45078/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 59035, "title": "The \"Backwards\" March of Evolution: The Destruction of Self to Ensure the Future", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "evolution" }, { "word": "barnacle" }, { "word": "Biology" } ], "section": "Features", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/04f4b0m9", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Wesley", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wong", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-02-03T01:55:50Z", "date_accepted": "2013-02-03T01:55:50Z", "date_published": "2013-02-02T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_bsj/article/59035/galley/45076/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 19053, "title": "Fatality and Injury Severity of Older Adult Motor Vehicle Collisions in Orange County, California, 1998-2007", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction: Injuries and fatalities in adult drivers 18–65 years of age have decreased in recent years due to safer vehicles, enhanced medical policies, and implementation of injury prevention policies. However, adult drivers over 65 years of age are continuing to suffer from motor vehicle collision-relatedinjuries and fatalities at a more constant rate. A number of physiological factors contribute to the deterioration in visual acuity, slower reaction speeds, and decreased awareness in older drivers. The objective of this study was to examine injury severity and fatality rates in older drivers compared to theiryounger counterparts in Orange County, California.\nMethods: This study used the Statewide Integrated Traffic Record System data for Orange County for the years 1998–2007. Drivers were categorized into 4 age groups: 25–64, 65–74, 75–84, and older than 85 years of age. Injury severity was assessed by the investigating officer.\nResults: Of the 197,814 drivers involved in motor vehicle collisions, 178,481 (90.2%) were in the 25– 64 age group; 11,397 (5.8%) were 65–74; 6,592 (3.3%) were 75–84; and 1,344 drivers (0.7%) were over 85. Those aged 25–64 had the lowest fatality rate per 100,000 people, 2.5, whereas those 75–84 had the highest fatality rate, 4.9. The percent of crashes involving a left turn increased with age, and the percent that were stopped in the road decreases with age. Change in injury collision involvement ratio in the 3 younger age groups decreased by 26% to 32%, but decreased by 18% among drivers aged 85years and older.\nConclusion: The decrease in collision fatalities was greater in the 25–64-year-old group compared to the older adult population. This disparity highlights the need for further injury prevention efforts for older drivers. [West J Emerg Med. 2013;14(1):63-68.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Older Adult Drivers" }, { "word": "motor vehicle collisions" }, { "word": "injury severity" }, { "word": "fatalities" }, { "word": "Community Health and Preventive Medicine" }, { "word": "Epidemiology" }, { "word": "Health Services Research" }, { "word": "Other Public Health" }, { "word": "Public Health Education and Promotion" } ], "section": "Injury Prevention and Population Health", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9tt8728t", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Shahram", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lotfipour", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Orange, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Rockan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sayegh", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Orange, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Bharath", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chakravarthy", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Orange, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Wirachin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hoonpongsimanont", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Orange, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Craig", "middle_name": "L", "last_name": "Anderson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Orange, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "J", "middle_name": "Christian", "last_name": "Fox", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Orange, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Federico", "middle_name": "E.", "last_name": "Vaca", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Yale University, Department of Emergency Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2010-07-22T18:43:46Z", "date_accepted": "2010-07-22T18:43:46Z", "date_published": "2013-02-01T21:28:09Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/19053/galley/9472/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5156, "title": "Approaches to Understanding and Managing Pacing in Sloth Bears in a Zoological Setting", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "A significant challenge for animal care staff in zoos is the prevention or reduction of stereotypic behaviors in the animals they manage. Zoo professionals work to create opportunities for animals to demonstrate species-typical behaviors and to teach visitors about the natural behaviors of the animals on exhibit. Therefore the expression of stereotypic behavior presents a multi-disciplinary problem. Behavioral researchers have repeatedly examined stereotypic behavior in zoological settings to determine successful approaches to address this challenge. Three investigations of pacing in two adult male sloth bears (Melursus ursinus) at Smithsonian's National Zoological Park are presented here. In addition, a case report detailing observations of the rapid onset of an intense stereotypy in a young male sloth bear is included. The first study investigates the effects of five different enrichment strategies on pacing behavior in an adult male with a long history of pacing. The second is a two-year study examining seasonal changes and the effects of social companionship on pacing when the same adult male was housed with a breeding female, a non-breeding (contracepted) female, or a young male. In the third study, we present preliminary data on the effects of the selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor, fluoxetine, as an adjunct pharmacological treatment for pacing. And finally, our case report details the development an intense stereotypy in a young male sloth bear just after he is weaned and separated from his mother. The findings reveal that the causes, degree, and effective management of even a single observed behavior such as pacing within even a single species can vary greatly by individual and circumstance, highlighting the need for individualized assessment and management plans.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Approaches" }, { "word": "Understanding" }, { "word": "Managing" }, { "word": "Pacing" }, { "word": "Sloth" }, { "word": "Bear" }, { "word": "Zoological" }, { "word": "Setting" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6xk212tz", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Erika", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bauer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Mindy", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Babitz", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Nancy", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Boedeker", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Heidi", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hellmuth", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-11-03T20:48:22Z", "date_accepted": "2013-11-03T20:48:22Z", "date_published": "2013-02-01T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5156/galley/3036/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5158, "title": "Behavioral Monitoring of Big Cats Involved in ‘Behind-the-Scenes’ Zoo Visitor Tours", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "While interactive tours have been argued to hold great conservation potential for zoo visitors, the influence on the participating animal’s behavior is often ignored. To investigate this, we observed the behavior of one Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) and three African lions (Panthera leo leo) involved in a protected contact tour, as well as that of three cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) involved in a hands-on tour, at Zoos South Australia. Instantaneous scan sampling (30-s intervals) was used to record animal behavior before, during, and after behind-the-scenes tours, as well as for equivalent times on non-tour days, over a three-month period. Estimated proximity (close, < 2 m; moderate, 2-5 m; and distant, > 5 m) to humans was also recorded as an indirect measure of interaction. The animals in the protected contact tour displayed decreased inactivity and increased feeding and pacing during the tours, compared to before and after. We suggest that the increased pacing is more associated with the animals being fed during the tours, rather than the tours being a stressful experience. Those in the hands-on tour showed variation in proportions of multiple behavior categories and primarily these were shifts in species-typical behaviors. In contrast to those in the protected contact tour, they showed decreased pacing during the tour sessions. No aggressive or otherwise antagonistic behaviors directed at humans were observed by animals in either tour, with these animals typically spending more than half of their tour times in distant proximity to keepers and visitors. Combined, these findings indicate that large felid behavior may be altered by participation in interactive tours, but that these changes are not necessarily indicative of compromised wellbeing. Additional research is needed to determine the impact that these experiences are having on the welfare of the animals. This study reinforces the potential for behavioral monitoring to be used as a method for assessing the influence of visitors on zoo animals.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "monitoring" }, { "word": "Cat" }, { "word": "Zoo" }, { "word": "Visitor" }, { "word": "Tour" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5xv8p6hp", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Monika", "middle_name": "S.", "last_name": "Szokalski", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of South Australia", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Wendy", "middle_name": "K.", "last_name": "Foster", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Zoos South Australia", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Carla", "middle_name": "A.", "last_name": "Litchfield", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of South Australia", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-11-03T21:08:45Z", "date_accepted": "2013-11-03T21:08:45Z", "date_published": "2013-02-01T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5158/galley/3038/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5159, "title": "Cognitive Research in Asian Small-Clawed Otters", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Little research has been conducted on cognitive abilities in Asian small-clawed otters (Aonyx cinereus) despite behavioral and social characteristics which suggest that this species would perform well on cognitive tasks and are likely to provide relevant data for comparison to other taxa. Asian small-clawed otters are relatively long-lived and have complex social systems that t involve cooperative breeding, paternal care and reproductive suppression. These life-history characteristics have been associated with highly intelligent behavior, yet little is known about the cognitive abilities of this species. The current study explored spatial memory in Asian small-clawed otters using a modification of the radial arm maze. Performance on all measures improved significantly across sessions. These results provide evidence that Asian small-clawed otters have spatial memory for food locations and illustrate the potential for cognitive testing with this species.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "Navigating" }, { "word": "cognitive" }, { "word": "research" }, { "word": "Asian" }, { "word": "Small-Clawed" }, { "word": "Otter" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7vv60657", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Bonnie", "middle_name": "M.", "last_name": "Perdue", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Georgia Institute of Technology\nZoo Atlanta\nGeorgia State University", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Rebecca", "middle_name": "J.", "last_name": "Snyder", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Zoo Atlanta", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Terry", "middle_name": "L.", "last_name": "Maple", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Georgia Institute of Technology\nFlorida Atlantic University", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-11-03T21:19:38Z", "date_accepted": "2013-11-03T21:19:38Z", "date_published": "2013-02-01T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5159/galley/3039/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 2639, "title": "Collaborative Collecting: A Literature Review", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This paper reviews literature spanning archival studies, social sciences, and human-computer interaction in order to frame inquiry into the topic area of collaborative collecting. To begin, I present a rationale for the research and frame the topic area in terms of both the social aspects of collecting and the standpoint of archival theory. I then review perspectives on collaborative collecting from human-computer interaction and social media studies. I then frame the topic of collaborative collecting in terms of aspects of collaborative collections, drawing on archival studies concepts. In conclusion, I suggest possible future directions for collections-based research in information studies.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Collections, Community Archives, Collecting" }, { "word": "Archival Studies" }, { "word": "Information Studies" }, { "word": "Social Media Studies" } ], "section": "Literature Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/43h2342f", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Amelia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Abreu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Washington", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-12-10T21:53:09Z", "date_accepted": "2012-12-10T21:53:09Z", "date_published": "2013-02-01T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/2639/galley/1580/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5157, "title": "Correlations of Swimming Patterns with Spinal Deformities in the Sand Tiger Shark, Carcharias Taurus", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Spinal deformities among captive sand tiger sharks, Carcharias taurus, are unfortunately common, and abnormal swimming behavior due to constrained aquarium space has been hypothesized to contribute to the development of this condition. Public aquaria across the United States were surveyed for number, condition (healthy vs. affected), and total length of resident C. taurus specimens and for dimensions of their aquaria. They were also asked to record 10 minute video segments of individual C. taurus swimming in lateral view. Total length of sharks, regardless of condition, averaged 225 ± 5 (mean ± SE) cm. Aquarium shapes varied widely, but aquaria held median volumes of 1.03 X 106 L, and were a median of 4.6 m in depth and 20.7 m in greatest horizontal distance. The greatest horizontal distance of aquaria was negatively correlated with disease prevalence of resident populations in a logarithmic fashion (r = 0.72). Behaviorally, sharks were assessed for total time and percentage of time spent swimming in a specific direction (clockwise, counter-clockwise, or linear), in a glide, and tail-beat duration. Regardless of condition, C. taurus spent a median of 98.9% of time swimming and 0.62% of time gliding. Healthy sharks spent a median of 0.67% gliding versus a median of 0% for afflicted sharks (p= 0.036), suggesting an increased swim-to-glide ratio among the latter group. All sharks swam asymmetrically in either a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction for a median of 99.7% of observed time. Affected specimens had tail beat durations of 3.37 ± 0.23 s vs. 2.72 ± 0.10 s for healthy sharks (p = 0.005). The increase in swim-to-glide ratios and inordinate time spent swimming asymmetrically for all affected sharks support the hypothesis that swimming patterns induced by captive exhibits may contribute to spinal deformities in C. taurus due to more stress placed on the spine. Large, complex aquarium designs are recommended in the planning of new exhibits to discourage stereotypical swimming behavior and also to provide sufficient length for sharks to complete natural swimming repertoires. Comprehensive behavioral enrichment activities that encourage complex movement are also recommended as well as considerations such as even weight distribution of the animal during capture, sourcing of appropriately aged sharks, and nutritional supplementation.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "correlation" }, { "word": "swimming" }, { "word": "Pattern" }, { "word": "Spinal" }, { "word": "Deformities" }, { "word": "sand" }, { "word": "Tiger" }, { "word": "Shark" }, { "word": "Carcharias" }, { "word": "Taurus" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1sp623k5", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Erin", "middle_name": "E.", "last_name": "Tate", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The Florida Aquarium Center for Conservation\nThe University of Tampa", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Paul", "middle_name": "A.", "last_name": "Anderson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The Florida Aquarium Center for Conservation", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Daniel", "middle_name": "R.", "last_name": "Huber", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The University of Tampa", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Ilze", "middle_name": "K.", "last_name": "Berzins", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The Florida Aquarium Center for Conservation", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-11-03T20:56:37Z", "date_accepted": "2013-11-03T20:56:37Z", "date_published": "2013-02-01T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5157/galley/3037/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5152, "title": "Sexual Conditioning in the Dyeing Poison Dart Frog (\nDendrobates Tinctorius\n)", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Amphibian populations worldwide are currently in decline. One approach to preventing extinction of some of the affected species is to create assurance colonies. These sustainable populations might some day be used to reestablish wild populations. One issue with creating assurance colonies is successful breeding; often difficulties arise when attempting to breed exotic animals in zoological institutions. Sexual conditioning, a form of Pavlovian conditioning, has been shown to improve breeding behavior. In this study the efficacy of sexual conditioning to improve breeding behavior in the dyeing dart frog (Dendrobates tinctorius) was tested. Pairs of frogs were exposed to one of three conditions. In two conditions pairs were trained with a stimulus (a flashing green light) that was either predictive of (experimental) or independent of (active control) exposure to a member of the opposite sex. The third condition was a no-treatment control. After training all three conditions were given five days to interact. Members of the experimental condition showed shorter latencies to a variety of breeding behaviors and produced more eggs than those in the control conditions. The sexual conditioning procedure was successful in increasing breeding behavior in this population of frogs.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Sexual" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "Dyeing" }, { "word": "poison" }, { "word": "Dart" }, { "word": "Frog" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9pg0q4gp", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Diann", "middle_name": "E.", "last_name": "Gaalema", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Georgia Institute of Technology", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-11-03T20:24:35Z", "date_accepted": "2013-11-03T20:24:35Z", "date_published": "2013-02-01T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5152/galley/3032/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5155, "title": "The Effects of Housing on Zoo Elephant Behavior: A Quantitative Case Study of Diurnal and Seasonal Variation", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "One of the greatest challenges for zoo managers is ensuring the best possible welfare for zoo elephants. Few studies have focused on behavioral health of elephants over a 24-hour period and across seasons, making evaluations of behavioral variation challenging. This study examined the behavior of two zoo-housed African elephants (\nLoxodonta africana\n) over a two-year period to determine the roles of 1) indoor/outdoor housing, 2) time of day, and 3) seasonal variation on activity. Daytime behavioral differences were contrasted with nighttime activity, and across seasons. Significant differences were noted when the elephants were indoors vs. outdoors, between day and night, and between summer and winter, suggesting that evaluations of zoo elephant activity should occur throughout circadian cycles and account for seasonal variability", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "The EffectInternational Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "housing" }, { "word": "Zoo" }, { "word": "Elephant" }, { "word": "quantitative" }, { "word": "Study" }, { "word": "Diurnal" }, { "word": "seasonal" }, { "word": "Variation" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0z8722ss", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Beth", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Posta", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Toledo Zoological Society", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Robert", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Huber", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Bowling Green State University", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Donald", "middle_name": "E.", "last_name": "Moore III", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-11-03T20:42:52Z", "date_accepted": "2013-11-03T20:42:52Z", "date_published": "2013-02-01T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5155/galley/3035/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5151, "title": "The Importance of Behavioral Research in Zoological Institutions: An Introduction to the Special Issue", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Behavioral research within zoological institutions (zoos and aquariums) has a long history that has helped to increase basic scientific knowledge and to facilitate the ability of institutions to make informed animal management decisions. Kleiman (1992) stated that \"behavior research in zoos has enormous potential to contribute positively to the science of animal management, long-term breeding programs, conservation biology, and the advancement of scientific theory\" (p. 309). As evidenced by the papers in this issue, behavioral research in zoos continues to be important. The purpose of this special issue is to highlight some of the behavioral research being conducted within zoos and aquariums and to demonstrate the importance of such work to zoological institutions and the greater scientific community. With a better understanding of the importance of behavioral research, we hope to inspire more zoological facilities to become involved either through funding/conducting research or by actively promoting the use of their animal collections for behavioral research to both the zoological and academic communities. Historically, most of the behavioral research in zoos and aquariums was intended to increase basic scientific knowledge. More recently, there has been a shift in focus to applied topics in order to help solve animal management issues (Hutchins & Thompson, 2008; Kleiman, 1992; Stoinski, Lukas, & Maple, 1998). Such issues range from reproduction and behavioral development of species that are difficult to breed to determining the effects of environmental or management factors on the welfare of individual or groups of animals. The abstracts submitted for consideration for this special issue reflect this trend towards applied research in zoos and aquariums. Applied research represented approximately 76% (n = 50) of the abstracts that were submitted for the special issue. While not necessarily representative of behavioral research as a whole throughout zoological institutions around the world, the numbers nonetheless suggest that applied research comprises the majority of the behavioral research focus within zoos and aquariums.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "research" }, { "word": "Zoological" }, { "word": "Institution" }, { "word": "Zoo" }, { "word": "Aquarium" }, { "word": "introduction" }, { "word": "Special Issue" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2gp340qj", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Lance", "middle_name": "J.", "last_name": "Miller", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Jill", "middle_name": "D.", "last_name": "Mellen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Disney’s Animal Kingdom", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Stan", "middle_name": "A.", "last_name": "Kuczaj II", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The University of Southern Mississippi", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-11-03T20:19:35Z", "date_accepted": "2013-11-03T20:19:35Z", "date_published": "2013-02-01T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5151/galley/3031/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5154, "title": "The Neighbor Effect in Bachelor and Breeding Groups of Western Lowland Gorillas (\nGorilla Gorilla Gorilla\n)", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Behavioral monitoring is an essential tool for understanding how animal management decisions, including exhibit design choices, impact animal behavior and welfare. The purpose of this study was to use behavioral monitoring techniques to determine the interaction between 2 groups (bachelor and breeding groups) of western lowland gorillas that are housed in separate habitats that partially face one another. We performed simultaneous, 30-minute group observations on the breeding and bachelor groups and recorded all occurrences of agonistic and affiliative behavior, vocalizations, and visual monitoring of the adjacent group. At 5-minute intervals, we also recorded which gorillas in the observed group were potentially visible to the neighboring group. Our results indicated that there was considerable variation in the percentage of time each gorilla spent monitoring the neighboring group. We were also able to demonstrate that the visibility of individuals in the breeding group of gorillas was related to behavior of the gorillas in the bachelor group. Although non-contact aggression increased with the visual presence of the adult male of the breeding group, more severe aggression that could cause injury was not influenced by his presence. Results also showed an association between visual presence of a particular female in the breeding group and a decrease in contact aggression in the bachelor group. Since many zoological exhibits allow visual access to other animals, it is important to determine the impact that neighbors may have on each other. Our study investigating interactions between neighboring gorilla groups is an example of how behavioral monitoring can be used to assess the impact of a wide range of management decisions on animal behavior and welfare.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "Neighbor" }, { "word": "Effect" }, { "word": "Bachelor" }, { "word": "breeding" }, { "word": "Group" }, { "word": "Western" }, { "word": "Lowland" }, { "word": "Gorilla" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7vw404nk", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Alison", "middle_name": "P.", "last_name": "Grand", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Disney’s Animal Kingdom", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Katherine", "middle_name": "A.", "last_name": "Leighty", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Disney’s Animal Kingdom", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Linda", "middle_name": "J.", "last_name": "Cory", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Disney’s Animal Kingdom", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Margaret", "middle_name": "A.", "last_name": "Maloney", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Disney’s Animal Kingdom", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Rebecca", "middle_name": "S.", "last_name": "Phillips", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Disney’s Animal Kingdom", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Tamara", "middle_name": "L.", "last_name": "Bettinger", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Disney’s Animal Kingdom", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-11-03T20:36:37Z", "date_accepted": "2013-11-03T20:36:37Z", "date_published": "2013-02-01T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5154/galley/3034/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5153, "title": "Utilizing First Occurrence, Nursing Behavior, and Growth Data to Enhance Animal Management: An Example with African Elephants (\nLoxodonta africana\n)", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "One of the many goals of zoological institutions is to actively breed endangered species to enhance conservation efforts. Unfortunately, many of these species are not reproducing at high enough levels to sustain populations within zoos. Low reproductive success and high infant mortality are two areas of concern for some of these species. Collecting behavioral data on developmental milestones following successful births can create a database of information to aide animal management to help make more informed decisions during subsequent births. The current study provides valuable information for African elephant calf developmental norms and demonstrates how data on first occurrences, nursing behavior and growth patterns can aide animal management. Data were collected on eleven African elephants (\nLoxodonta africana\n) at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, CA of which ten have survived. Results show that on average African elephant calves were standing within 40 minutes, attempted to nurse within an hour and a half, and successfully nursed within six hrs. There were no significant differences in nursing rates, growth patterns, or first occurrence behaviors between males and females during the first 75 days of life and elephants gained on average 0.59 kg/day over that same period of time. Results also show a significant change in nursing behavior on day 22 for the elephant calf that died. This information is intended to serve as a resource for elephant managers with newborn African elephants and to serve as a model to develop similar type databases for other species in need within zoological institutions.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "Nursing" }, { "word": "growth" }, { "word": "data" }, { "word": "Animal" }, { "word": "management" }, { "word": "African" }, { "word": "Elephant" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2bj7k018", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Lance", "middle_name": "J.", "last_name": "Miller", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego Zoo Global", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Jeff", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Andrews", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Zoological Operations, Busch Gardens Tampa", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-11-03T20:29:35Z", "date_accepted": "2013-11-03T20:29:35Z", "date_published": "2013-02-01T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5153/galley/3033/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 39312, "title": "Environmental Information Sources: Websites and Books", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Websites and books related to environmental science.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "https://escholarship.org/terms" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "ecology" }, { "word": "Environmental Studies" } ], "section": "Columns", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6cf654gd", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Flora", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Shrode", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Utah State University", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-12-14T22:02:54Z", "date_accepted": "2012-12-14T22:02:54Z", "date_published": "2013-01-31T23:34:38Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "other", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/egj/article/39312/galley/29673/download/" }, { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/egj/article/39312/galley/29674/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 2647, "title": "Critical Thinking as an Everyday Practice: A Discussion with Sandra Harding about the History of InterActions, Interdisciplinary Scholarship, and Her New Book", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "On January 9, 2013, \nInterActions \n(IA) editors sat down with Professor Sandra Harding for an interview to discuss the history of \nInterActions\n under her mentorship, the significance of interdisciplinary and critical scholarship, and the content of her new book, \nObjectivity and Diversity\n. The subsequent interview reveals how Dr. Harding’s work has embodied the commitments comprising \nInterActions\n’ mission: interdisciplinarity, critical perspectives, social justice, and the development of early career scholars The editors strived to provide IA readers with Professor Harding’s insight on the importance of critical inquiry “as an everyday practice.”", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Critical Scholarship" }, { "word": "Interdisciplinary Research" }, { "word": "Objectivity" }, { "word": "Science and Technology Studies" }, { "word": "Gender Studies" }, { "word": "philosophy" } ], "section": "Interviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0cp9z2fk", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Melissa", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Goodnight", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Los Angeles", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Amelia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Acker", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Los Angeles", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-01-22T00:31:56Z", "date_accepted": "2013-01-22T00:31:56Z", "date_published": "2013-01-31T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/2647/galley/1586/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 2650, "title": "Editors' Note", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "n/a", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [], "section": "Editor's Note", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6q86h5s1", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Amelia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Acker", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Melissa", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Goodnight", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kasch", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-02-04T04:09:07Z", "date_accepted": "2013-02-04T04:09:07Z", "date_published": "2013-01-31T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/2650/galley/1588/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 2934, "title": "Old Silver Readings: Mythology, Portraits, and Booker T. Washington", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Normative historical narratives of Booker T. Washington continually underestimate the genius of this politically savvy educator. Despite the recent groundswell of interest in photography in the history of education, only a handful of scholars have excavated BTW’s meticulously \nproduced\n portraits in light of his impact on North American civil rights. Washington’s images did not simply accentuate his message, they possessed an indelible mythological argument in themselves, reifying a time and place not yet achieved in full by his African-American community. While his Tuskegee Institute mostly accommodated the temperaments of White America, his photographs dissolved the very boundaries between black and white.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Booker T Washington, African-American Studies" }, { "word": "Higher education" }, { "word": "Tuskegee Institute" }, { "word": "Du Boise" }, { "word": "Photography" }, { "word": "History" }, { "word": "education" }, { "word": "African-American Studies" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/24g3j87f", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Hugh", "middle_name": "E", "last_name": "Schuckman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCLA", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2011-11-07T05:39:28Z", "date_accepted": "2011-11-07T05:39:28Z", "date_published": "2013-01-31T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/2934/galley/1737/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 2644, "title": "Review: Achieving Equity for Latino Students: Expanding the Pathway to Higher Education Through Public Policy by Frances Contreras", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Achieving equity for Latino students: Expanding the pathway to higher education through public policy by Frances Contreras\nThis book is a part of the Multicultural Education Series, Teachers College Press Edited by James A. Banks", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Latino students, education, higher education, policy, immigration, multicultural education." }, { "word": "education" } ], "section": "Book Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/27h7z5rm", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Llanet", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Martin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California - Los Angeles", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-01-12T01:35:02Z", "date_accepted": "2013-01-12T01:35:02Z", "date_published": "2013-01-31T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/2644/galley/1585/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 2642, "title": "Review: Ethnography and Language Policy edited by Teresa L. McCarty", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "n/a", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Language policy" }, { "word": "ethnography" }, { "word": "education" }, { "word": "Language Policy and Planning" }, { "word": "Sociolinguistics" } ], "section": "Book Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5ss288z4", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Michelle", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gaston", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCLA", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-12-21T05:16:01Z", "date_accepted": "2012-12-21T05:16:01Z", "date_published": "2013-01-31T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/2642/galley/1583/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 2640, "title": "Review: Mobile Interface Theory: Embodied Space and Locative Media by Jason Farman", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Mobile Interface Theory\n makes an important step toward a fuller reckoning with the social consequences of mobile technology.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Smartphones, Mobile, Pervasve Computing, Phenomenology" }, { "word": "Informatics, Performance Studies" } ], "section": "Book Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/20s24769", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Roderic", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Crooks", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCLA, Information Studies", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-12-13T19:39:05Z", "date_accepted": "2012-12-13T19:39:05Z", "date_published": "2013-01-31T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/2640/galley/1581/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 2637, "title": "Review: Oral Tradition and the Internet: Pathways of the Mind by John Miles Foley", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Review of \nOral Tradition and the Internet: Pathways of the Mind, \nby John Miles Foley.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "oral tradition, internet, print culture" }, { "word": "Information studies, media studies" } ], "section": "Book Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7nc353xx", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Rory", "middle_name": "B", "last_name": "Litwin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCLA", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-23T15:54:20Z", "date_accepted": "2012-11-23T15:54:20Z", "date_published": "2013-01-31T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/2637/galley/1578/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 2641, "title": "Review: Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929 by Markus Krajewski", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Markus Krajewski, a professor of Media History at Bauhaus University in Weimar, describes his book as the first attempt to trace the development of the card catalog, beginning as an aid to libraries’ flood of books and scholars’ deluge of citations, and later as the corporate office’s ubiquitous indexing system, ordering people, money, and inventory. He sees in the paper index card the prototypical universal machine defined by Alan Turing, and for this he puts its in lineage with the jacquard loom, electronic punch cards, the desktop computer, and today’s palm-sized processors.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Documents, cataloging, library history" }, { "word": "Information Studies" } ], "section": "Book Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/07h1s2w7", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Morgan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Currie", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCLA", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-12-20T02:32:52Z", "date_accepted": "2012-12-20T02:32:52Z", "date_published": "2013-01-31T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/2641/galley/1582/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 2609, "title": "Review: The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as a Culture Machine by Peter Lunenfeld", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "An evaluative review of \nThe Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as a Culture Machine\n, by Peter Lunenfeld.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [], "section": "Book Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8484g9t5", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Amanda", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Milbourn", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCLA", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-01-30T21:25:45Z", "date_accepted": "2012-01-30T21:25:45Z", "date_published": "2013-01-31T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/2609/galley/1571/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 2638, "title": "The Difficulty of An Ontology of Live Performance", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Live performance presents unique ontological challenges. This paper will attempt to identify and name the elements of live performance, to describe the relationships between those elements, and to account for the variation between them. The primary subject for this ontology will be theatrical performance, but we will attempt to apply the same principles to other kinds of performance, such as music performance, to test whether the conclusions hold.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Information Studies" }, { "word": "cataloging" }, { "word": "Categorization" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3jf4g75m", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Colin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Doty", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCLA", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-12-08T23:54:24Z", "date_accepted": "2012-12-08T23:54:24Z", "date_published": "2013-01-31T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/2638/galley/1579/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 43888, "title": "Thyrotoxicosis from Metastatic Lung Cancer to the Thyroid Gland: A case report", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Clinical Vignette" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/65j8r3x1", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Archana", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sadhu", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "Medicine" }, { "first_name": "Dorothy", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Martinez", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2013-01-30T23:45:59Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucladom_proceedings/article/43888/galley/32691/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 43795, "title": "A “Benign” Malignancy", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Clinical Vignette" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2pg3j3x5", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Gerard", "middle_name": "W", "last_name": "Frank", "name_suffix": "MD, PhD", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "Medicine" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2013-01-30T02:17:38Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucladom_proceedings/article/43795/galley/32599/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7701, "title": "Table of Contents February 2013", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Table of Contents February 2013", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Table of Contents", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8d9648vt", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Western Journal", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Emergency Medicine", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Editorial Director", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-01-29T23:17:41Z", "date_accepted": "2013-01-29T23:17:41Z", "date_published": "2013-01-29T23:33:37Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7701/galley/4509/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7702, "title": "Masthead February 2013", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Masthead February 2013", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Masthead", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3gw1b8v3", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Western Journal", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Emergency Medicine", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-01-29T23:19:09Z", "date_accepted": "2013-01-29T23:19:09Z", "date_published": "2013-01-29T23:32:54Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7702/galley/4510/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7703, "title": "President's Message February 2013", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "n/a", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [], "section": "CAL/AAEM Newsletter", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1bk722d0", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Trevor", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mills", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Editorial Director", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-01-29T23:24:57Z", "date_accepted": "2013-01-29T23:24:57Z", "date_published": "2013-01-29T23:32:10Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7703/galley/4511/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7704, "title": "California Chapter of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine’s San Francisco Speakers Series Returns to the Bay", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "n/a", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [], "section": "CAL/AAEM Newsletter", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1511x3gk", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Randy", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Woo", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Editorial Director", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-01-29T23:26:01Z", "date_accepted": "2013-01-29T23:26:01Z", "date_published": "2013-01-29T23:31:34Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7704/galley/4512/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7705, "title": "Digitally Available Emergency Department Orientation: Overcoming Hurdles to Early Exposure to the Field of Emergency Medicine in Medical Education", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "n/a", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [], "section": "CAL/AAEM Newsletter", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2vq7w9js", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Asghar", "middle_name": "Abbas", "last_name": "Haider", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Bryan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sloane", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-01-29T23:27:34Z", "date_accepted": "2013-01-29T23:27:34Z", "date_published": "2013-01-29T23:31:04Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7705/galley/4513/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7706, "title": "Ultrafest: Ultrasound Symposium Sweeps Medical Students Across California", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "n/a", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [], "section": "CAL/AAEM Newsletter", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/05d9r6ms", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Kiah", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bertoglio", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Cecilia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pham", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "J Christian", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fox", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-01-29T23:28:59Z", "date_accepted": "2013-01-29T23:28:59Z", "date_published": "2013-01-29T23:30:15Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7706/galley/4514/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 43858, "title": "Metformin Use in Chronic Kidney Disease: A Dilemma", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Clinical Vignette" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7wq6t0z2", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Janet", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Winikoff", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "Medicine" }, { "first_name": "Sheila", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ahmadi", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2013-01-29T22:40:56Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucladom_proceedings/article/43858/galley/32661/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7691, "title": "Guidelines for Field Triage of Injuried Patients", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published significant data and trends related to the national public health burden associated with trauma and injury. In the United States (U.S.), injury is the leading cause of death for persons aged 1-44 years. In 2008, approximately 30 million injuries resulted in an emergency department (ED) evaluation; 5.4 million (18%) of these patients were transported by Emergency Medical Services (EMS).1 EMS providers determine the severity of injury and begin initial management at the scene. The decisions to transport injured patients to the appropriate hospital are made through a process known as “field triage.” Since 1986, the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS-COT) has provided guidance for the field triage process though its “Field Triage Decision Scheme.” In 2005, the CDC, with financial support from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), collaborated with ASC-COT to convene the initial meeting of the National Expert Panel on Field Triage (the Panel) to revise the decision scheme. This revised version was published in 2006 by ASC-COT, and in 2009 the CDC published a detailed description of the scientific rational for revising the field triage criteria entitled, “Guidelines for FieldTriage of Injured Patients.”2-3 In 2011, the CDC reconvened the Panel to review the 2006 Guidelines and recommend any needed changes. We present the methodology, findings and updated guidelines from the Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) from the 2011 Panel along with commentary on the burden of injury in the U.S., and the role emergency physicians have in impacting morbidity and mortality at the population level. [West J Emerg Med. 2013;14(1):69-76.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Societal Impact on Emergency Care", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/21f7p09c", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Bharath", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chakravarthy", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Irvine, School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Irvine, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Christopher", "middle_name": "Eric", "last_name": "McCoy", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Shahram", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lotfipour", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Irvine, School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Irvine, California", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-01-24T22:17:10Z", "date_accepted": "2013-01-24T22:17:10Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T22:17:56Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7691/galley/4507/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7523, "title": "Mondor's Disease of the Penis", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "[West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):180.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Blood clot, thrombosis, penis" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" }, { "word": "Urology" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1n3079cv", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Justin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hamilton", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Madigan Army Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Tacoma,\nWashington", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Matthew", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mossanen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Washington Medical Center, Department of Urology, Seattle,\nWashington", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Jared", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Strote", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Washington Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine,\nSeattle, Washington", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-08-08T20:22:35Z", "date_accepted": "2012-08-08T20:22:35Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T22:06:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7523/galley/4434/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7561, "title": "A 37-year-old Woman with Altered Mental Status and Urinary Frequency", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "We present a case report of a patient who initially presented with altered mental status and significant urinary frequency. Over the course of her emergency department stay, she then developed tachycardia out of proportion to a new fever along with a respiratory alkalosis. Although each objective finding has a broad differential diagnosis, thyroid storm was the only unifying diagnosis when all findings were present. [West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):177-179.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Hyperthyroidism" }, { "word": "urinary frequency" }, { "word": "altered mental status" }, { "word": "emergency department" }, { "word": "endocrinology" }, { "word": "Urology" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/23p5z5mj", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Deepa", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ravikumar", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, San Francisco, Department of Emergency Medicine, San Francisco, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Michelle", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, San Francisco, Department of Emergency Medicine, San Francisco, California", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-09-18T00:36:28Z", "date_accepted": "2012-09-18T00:36:28Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T22:05:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7561/galley/4449/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7587, "title": "Posterior Communicating Artery Aneurysm in 20-year-old Female with Noonan’s Syndrome", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "[West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):175-176.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Noonan's Syndrome, Intracranial Aneurysm, occulomotor nerve palsy" }, { "word": "Neurology" }, { "word": "Opthamology" }, { "word": "neurosurgery" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3c801448", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Alexander", "middle_name": "J.", "last_name": "Scumpia", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Mount Sinai Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Miami Beach, Florida", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "John", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Serak", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Jackson Memorial Health System, Department of Neurosurgery, Miami, Florida", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Kirsten", "middle_name": "L.", "last_name": "Ritchie", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Mount Sinai Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Miami Beach, Florida", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Scott", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kohl", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Jackson Memorial Health System, Department of Emergency Medicine, Miami, Florida", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-10-25T22:26:01Z", "date_accepted": "2012-10-25T22:26:01Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T22:01:27Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7587/galley/4456/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7253, "title": "Shock Index and Early Recognition of Sepsis in the Emergency Department: Pilot Study", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction: \nScreening for severe sepsis in adult emergency department (ED) patients may involve potential delays while waiting for laboratory testing, leading to postponed identification or over-utilization of resources. The systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) criteria are inaccurate at predicting clinical outcomes in sepsis. Shock index (SI), defined as heart rate / systolic blood pressure, has previously been shown to identify high risk septic patients. Our objective was to compare the ability of SI, individual vital signs, and the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) criteria to predict the primary outcome of hyperlactatemia (serum lactate ≥ 4.0 mmol/L) as a surrogate for disease severity, and the secondary outcome of 28-day mortality.\n \nMethods: \nWe performed a retrospective analysis of a cohort of adult ED patients at an academic community trauma center with 95,000 annual visits, from February 1st, 2007 to May 28th, 2008. Adult patients presenting to the ED with a suspected infection were screened for severe sepsis using a standardized institutional electronic order set, which included triage vital signs, basic laboratory tests and an initial serum lactate level. Test characteristics were calculated for two outcomes: hyperlactatemia (marker for morbidity) and 28-day mortality. We considered the following covariates in our analysis: heart rate >90 beats/min; mean arterial pressure < 65 mmHg; respiratory rate > 20 breaths/min; ≥ 2 SIRS with vital signs only; ≥2 SIRS including white blood cell count; SI ≥ 0.7; and SI ≥ 1.0. We report sensitivities, specificities, and positive and negative predictive values for the primary and secondary outcomes.\n \nResults: \n2524 patients (89.4%) had complete records and were included in the analysis. 290 (11.5%) patients presented with hyperlactatemia and 361 (14%) patients died within 28 days. Subjects with an abnormal SI of 0.7 or greater (15.8%) were three times more likely to present with hyperlactatemia than those with a normal SI (4.9%). The negative predictive value (NPV) of a SI ≥ 0.7 was 95%, identical to the NPV of SIRS.\n \n \n \nConclusion: \nIn this cohort, SI ≥ 0.7 performed as well as SIRS in NPV and was the most sensitive screening test for hyperlactatemia and 28-day mortality. SI ≥ 1.0 was the most specific predictor of both outcomes. Future research should focus on multi-site validation, with implications for early identification of at-risk patients and resource utilization. [West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):168-174.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "sepsis, shock, screening, infection, resuscitation" }, { "word": "Medicine, Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3qn901v2", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Tony", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Berger", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Davis, Department of Emergency Medicine, Sacramento, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Jeffrey", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Green", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Davis, Department of Emergency Medicine, Sacramento, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Timothy", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Horeczko", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Davis, Department of Emergency Medicine, Sacramento, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Yolanda", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hagar", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Davis, Department of Biostatistics, Davis, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Nidhi", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Garg", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York Hospital Queens, Department of Emergency Medicine, Flushing, New York", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Alison", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Suarez", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York Hospital Queens, Department of Emergency Medicine, Flushing, New York", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Edward", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Panacek", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Davis, Department of Emergency Medicine, Sacramento, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Nathan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Shapiro", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Harvard University, Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2011-12-07T21:22:03Z", "date_accepted": "2011-12-07T21:22:03Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T22:00:39Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7253/galley/4335/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7489, "title": "Primary Meningococcal Arthritis Leading to Neisseria Meningitidies Purpura Fulminans", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "[West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):165-167.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Septic Joint" }, { "word": "Primary Meningococcal Arthritis" }, { "word": "Pupura Fulminans" }, { "word": "Low Synovial WBC" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" }, { "word": "Infectious disease" }, { "word": "Medicine" }, { "word": "Orthopaedics" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3565g3sj", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Michael", "middle_name": "D.", "last_name": "Michel", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Department of Emergency Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Louise", "middle_name": "W.", "last_name": "Kao", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Department of Emergency Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Brian", "middle_name": "K.", "last_name": "Sloan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Department of Emergency Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-07-02T02:40:23Z", "date_accepted": "2012-07-02T02:40:23Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:59:51Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7489/galley/4422/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7376, "title": "Hickam's Dictum", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "[West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):164.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Emergency Medicine, cognitive errors" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9fk3k9vg", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Nathan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Borden", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Fort Hood, Texas", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Derek", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Linklater", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Fort Hood, Texas", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-09-04T18:20:11Z", "date_accepted": "2012-09-04T18:20:11Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:54:36Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7376/galley/4375/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7517, "title": "Neonatal Umbilical Mass", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "[West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):163.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "umbilical, granuloma, neonatal, umbilical mass," }, { "word": "Medicine, Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/539031zv", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Geoffrey", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Alexander", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Madigan Army Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Tacoma,\nWashington", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Ryan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Walsh", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Madigan Army Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Tacoma,\nWashington", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Adam", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Nielsen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Madigan Army Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Tacoma,\nWashington", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-08-02T21:33:02Z", "date_accepted": "2012-08-02T21:33:02Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:50:57Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7517/galley/4432/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7476, "title": "Perforation of Inferior Vena Cava by Inferior Vena Cava Filter", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "[West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):161-162.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "inferior vena cava filter" }, { "word": "celect IVC filter" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" }, { "word": "radiology" }, { "word": "Vascular surgery" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4b0302x0", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Sarah", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Unterman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Chicago, Illinois", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Tad", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Nair", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Internal Medicine, Chicago, Illinois", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-06-14T03:36:39Z", "date_accepted": "2012-06-14T03:36:39Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:49:31Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7476/galley/4417/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7341, "title": "Jael’s Syndrome: Facial Impalement", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "[West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):158-160.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Difficult Airway" }, { "word": "Glidescope" }, { "word": "Penetrating Trauma" }, { "word": "intubation" }, { "word": "management" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" }, { "word": "education" }, { "word": "Trauma" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8tv9b8j5", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jennifer", "middle_name": "A.", "last_name": "Cooper", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Brooke Army Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, San Antonio, Texas", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Curtis", "middle_name": "J.", "last_name": "Hunter", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Brooke Army Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, San Antonio, Texas", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-03-28T21:27:32Z", "date_accepted": "2012-03-28T21:27:32Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:48:24Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7341/galley/4363/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7522, "title": "Hepatic Abscess: Case Report And Review", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Hepatic abscess is an uncommon occurrence in North America, but can be a diagnostic challenge for emergency department physicians. The clinical signs and symptoms may vary, leading to delays in diagnosis and higher morbidity. We present a case of a 35-year old male with a hepatic abscess initially misdiagnosed as pneumonia. On subsequent return to the ED for back pain complaints, a bedside ultrasound led to the appropriate diagnosis. This case report and discussion will attempt to review the literature on the etiology, diagnosis and treatment of hepatic abscess for the emergency physician. [West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):154-157.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Hepatic Abscess, Ultrasound, Emergency Department, Pyogenic Abscess" }, { "word": "Medicine, Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4p19b6nr", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Conor", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "McKaigney", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Queen’s University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Colorado", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-08-07T17:18:50Z", "date_accepted": "2012-08-07T17:18:50Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:46:27Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7522/galley/4433/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7495, "title": "Acute Abdominal Pain in an End Stage Renal Disease Patient", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "[West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):153.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Nodular Calciphylaxis, End stage renal disease." }, { "word": "Nephrology,Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7924t2kz", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Unnikrishnan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ponnamma Kunjan Pillai", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Wayne State University, Department of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Krishna", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Balabhadrapatruni", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Wayne State University, Department of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Jatinder", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hothi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Wayne State University, Department of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Syed", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mohsin Raza", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Wayne State University, Department of Nephrology, Detroit, Michigan", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Yahya", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Osman Malik", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Wayne State University, Department of Nephrology, Detroit, Michigan", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-07-17T22:05:35Z", "date_accepted": "2012-07-17T22:05:35Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:45:32Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7495/galley/4426/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7490, "title": "Cardiac Tamponade", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "[West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):152.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cardiac Tamponade" }, { "word": "Beck's Triad" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/21j3x9wj", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jennifer", "middle_name": "G.", "last_name": "Wilson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Calfornia San Francisco, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Critical Care, San Francisco, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Sara", "middle_name": "M.", "last_name": "Epstein", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California San Francisco, Department of Internal Medicine, San Francisco, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Ralph", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California San Francisco, Department of Emergency Medicine, San Francisco California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Hemal", "middle_name": "K.", "last_name": "Kanzaria", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Los Angeles, Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Service Research, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-07-06T02:09:28Z", "date_accepted": "2012-07-06T02:09:28Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:43:56Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7490/galley/4423/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7598, "title": "Acute Vision Change in a 16-year-old Female", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "[West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):151-151.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "idiopathic intracranial hyperension" }, { "word": "pseudotumor cerebri" }, { "word": "medciine" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9st7b2rq", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Samuel", "middle_name": "H. F.", "last_name": "Lam", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Advocate Christ Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Oak Lawn, Illinois", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-03T00:23:18Z", "date_accepted": "2012-11-03T00:23:18Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:42:42Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7598/galley/4461/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7408, "title": "Levamisole-adulterated Cocaine Induced Vasculitis with Skin Ulcerations", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "[West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):149-150.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Vasculitis" }, { "word": "skin ulcerations" }, { "word": "levamisole" }, { "word": "Cocaine" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4rd630zt", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Malford", "middle_name": "T.", "last_name": "Pillow", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Baylor College of Medicine, Section of Emergency Medicine, Houston, Texas", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Adrienne", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hughes", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Baylor College of Medicine, Section of Emergency Medicine, Houston, Texas", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-04-14T20:23:06Z", "date_accepted": "2012-04-14T20:23:06Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:41:14Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7408/galley/4389/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7567, "title": "Letter to the Editor and Reply: Sedation-assisted Orthopedic Reduction in Emergency Medicine: The Safety and Success of a One Physician/ One Nurse Model", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "[West J Emerg Med. 2013;14(1):47-54.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Procedural sedation" }, { "word": "administration" } ], "section": "Discourse on Integrating Emergency Care and Population Health", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3426v8p4", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Samuel", "middle_name": "G.", "last_name": "Campbell", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Department of Emergency Medicine, Queen Elizabeth II Health Science Centre, Nova Scotia, Canada", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Patrick", "middle_name": "C.", "last_name": "Froese", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Department of Emergency Medicine, Queen Elizabeth II Health Science Centre, Nova Scotia, Canada", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-09-29T15:00:02Z", "date_accepted": "2012-09-29T15:00:02Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:40:24Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7567/galley/4450/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7392, "title": "Emergency Physicians’ Adherence to Center for Disease Control and Prevention Guidance During the 2009 Influenza A H1N1 Pandemic", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction: \nLittle is known regarding compliance with management guidelines for epidemic influenza in adult emergency department (ED) settings during the 2009 novel influenza A (H1N1) epidemic, especially in relation to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance.\n \nMethods: \nWe investigated all patients with a clinical diagnosis of influenza at an inner-city tertiary academic adult ED with an annual census of approximately 60,000 visits from May 2008 to December 2009. We aimed to determine patterns of presentation and management for adult patients with an ED diagnosis of influenza during the H1N1 pandemic, using seasonal influenza (pre-H1N1) as reference and to determine the ED provider’s adherence to American College of Emergency Physicians and CDC guidance during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. Adherence to key elements of CDC 2009 H1N1 guidance was defined as (1) the proportion of admitted patients who were recommended to receive testing or treatment who actually received testing for influenza or treatment with antivirals; and (2) the proportion of high-risk patients who were supposed to be treated who actually were treated with antivirals.\n \nResults: \nAmong 339 patients with clinically diagnosed influenza, 88% occurred during the H1N1 pandemic. Patients were similarly managed during both phases. Median length of visit (pre-H1N1: 385 min, H1N1: 355 min, \nP \n> 0.05) and admission rates (pre-H1N1: 8%, H1N1: 11%, \nP \n> 0.05) were similar between the 2 groups. 28% of patients in the pre-H1N1 group and 16% of patients in the H1N1 group were prescribed antibiotics during their ED visits (\nP \n> 0.05). There were 34 admitted patients during the pandemic;, 30 (88%) of them received influenza testing in the ED, and 22 (65%) were prescribed antivirals in the ED. Noticeably, 19 (56%) of the 34 admitted patients, including 6 with a positive influenza test, received antibiotic treatment during their ED stay.\n \nConclusion: \nDuring the recent H1N1 pandemic, most admitted patients received ED diagnostic testing corresponding to the current recommended guidance. Antibiotic treatment for ED patients admitted with suspected influenza is not uncommon. However, less than 70% of admitted patients and less than 50% of high-risk patients were treated with antivirals during their ED visit, indicating a specific call for closer adherence to guidelines in future influenza pandemics. [West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):191-199.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "influenza pandemic" }, { "word": "emergency department" }, { "word": "management" }, { "word": "adherence" }, { "word": "CDC guidance" }, { "word": "antibiotic prescription" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" }, { "word": "Infectious Diseases" } ], "section": "Endemic Infections", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6s2474gk", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Yu-Hsiang", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hsieh", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine,\nBaltimore, Maryland", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Gabor", "middle_name": "D.", "last_name": "Kelen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine,\nBaltimore, Maryland", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Andrea", "middle_name": "F.", "last_name": "Dugas", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine,\nBaltimore, Maryland", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Kuan-Fu", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine,\nBaltimore, Maryland; Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan; Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Richard", "middle_name": "E.", "last_name": "Rothman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine,\nBaltimore, Maryland", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-03-29T18:19:02Z", "date_accepted": "2012-03-29T18:19:02Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:39:01Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7392/galley/4383/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7471, "title": "Board-Certified Emergency Physicians Comprise a Minority of the Emergency Department Workforce in Iowa", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction: \nThe American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) endorses emergency medicine (EM) residency training as the only legitimate pathway to practicing EM, yet the economic reality of Iowa’s rural population will continue to require the hiring of non-EM trained physicians. The objective of our study is to better understand the current staffing practices of Iowa emergency departments (EDs). Specifically, we seek to determine the Iowa community size required to support hiring an emergency physician (EP), identify the number of EDs staffed by advanced practice providers (APPs) in solo coverage in EDs, determine the changes in staffing over a 4-year period, and understand the market forces that contribute to staffing decisions.\n \n \n \nMethods: \nResearchers surveyed all 119 hospitals throughout the state of Iowa regarding their ED hiring practices, both in 2008 and 2012. From these data, we determined the mean population that supports hiring EPs and performed a qualitative examination of the reasons given for hiring preferences.\n \n \n \nResults: \nWe found that a mean population of approximately 85,000 is needed to support EP-only staffing practices. In 2012, only 14 (11.8%) of Iowa’s EDs were staffed exclusively with EPs. Seventy-two (60.5%) staff with a combination of EPs and FPs, 33 (27.7%) staff with FPs alone, and 72 (60.5%) have physician assistants or nurse practitioners working in solo coverage for at least part of the week. Comparing the data from 2008 and 2012, there is no statistical change in the hiring of EPs versus FPs over the 4 years (Chi-square 0.68, p=0.7118), although there is a significant increase in the number of APPs in solo practice (Chi-square 11.36, p= 0.0008). Administrators at hospitals cited several factors for preferring to hire EPs: quality of care provided by EPs, availability of EPs, high patient acuity, and high patient volume.\n \n \n \nConclusion: \nMany EDs in Iowa remain staffed by family medicine-trained physicians and are being increasingly staffed by APPs. Without the contribution of family physicians, large areas of the state would be unable to provide adequate emergency care. Board-certified emergency physicians remain concentrated in urban areas of the state, where patient volumes and acuity support their hiring. [West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):186-190.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Workforce" }, { "word": "Rural" }, { "word": "practice management" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Provider Workforce", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8q259520", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Heather", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Groth", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Virginia, Department of Emergency Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Hans", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "House", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Iowa, Department of Emergency Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Rachel", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Overton", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "La Crosse-Mayo Clinic, Department of Family Medicine, La Crosse, Wisconsin", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Eric", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "DeRoo", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Indiana, Department of Urology, Indianapolis, Indiana", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-06-09T05:12:25Z", "date_accepted": "2012-06-09T05:12:25Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:37:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7471/galley/4415/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7579, "title": "Death Notification in the Emergency Department: Survivors and Physicians", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "When patients die in the emergency department (ED), emergency physicians (EP) must disclose the bad news to family members. The death is often unexpected and the act of notification can be difficult. Many EPs have not been trained in the skill of communicating death to family members. This article reviews the available literature regarding ED death notification training and proposes future directions for educational interventions to improve physician communication in ED death disclosure. [West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):181-185.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Grieving, Death Telling" }, { "word": "education" } ], "section": "Patient Communication", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1vx857xn", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jan", "middle_name": "M.", "last_name": "Shoenberger", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Department of Emergency Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of\nSouthern California, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Sevan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Yeghiazarian", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Claritza", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Rios", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Departments of Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine, SUNY Downstate\nMedical Center & Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Sean", "middle_name": "O", "last_name": "Henderson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Department of Emergency Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Department of Preventive Medicine Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-10-18T15:06:01Z", "date_accepted": "2012-10-18T15:06:01Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:36:44Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7579/galley/4454/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7448, "title": "Unique Mechanism of Chance Fracture in a Young Adult Male", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Since the first description of the Chance fracture in 1948, there have been few case reports of unique mechanisms causing this classical flexion-extension injury to the spine in motor vehicle accidents, sports injury, and falls. To our knowledge, this injury has not been reported from a fall with the mechanistic forces acting laterally on the spine and with spinal support in place. We present a 21-year-old male who slid down a flight of stairs onto his side wearing a heavy mountaineering style backpack, subsequently sustaining a Chance fracture of his first lumbar vertebrae. [West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):147-148.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Chance fracture" }, { "word": "Spine" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" }, { "word": "Orthopedics" } ], "section": "Injury Outcomes", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/47g976c6", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Aaron", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Birch", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Madigan Army Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Tacoma, Washington", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Ryan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Walsh", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Madigan Army Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Tacoma, Washington", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Diane", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Devita", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Madigan Army Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Tacoma, Washington", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-05-15T00:15:08Z", "date_accepted": "2012-05-15T00:15:08Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:33:41Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7448/galley/4404/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7537, "title": "Riding The Escalator – How Dangerous is it Really?", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction: \nAbout 10,000 escalator-related injuries per year result in emergency department treatment in the United States. Since the 1990s, a steady increase has been reported, but few statistics on escalator-related injuries have been published worldwide. We have therefore analyzed escalator accident statistics in admissions to our hospital in Switzerland since 2000.\n \nMethods: \nUsing retrospective electronic patient chart analysis, we included in our study patients >16 years treated over an 11-year period. We categorized patients in terms of gender, age and associated risk factors, and classified accidents according to day, time, location and cause. Resulting trauma was categorized according to type and location. We divided post-admission treatment into surgical and conservative, and into treatment as an outpatient, in a short-stay unit, or as a hospital admission. Women and men were compared using Fisher’s exact test.\n \n \n \nResults: \nWe identified 173 patients with 285 discrete injuries. Of these, 87 patients (50%) were women. Fifty-three (61%) of the women and 38 (44%) of the men were >60 years old (\nP \n= 0.033). Fifty percent of the men (43/86)of the men, but only 7% (6/87) of the women showed signs of alcohol intoxication (\nP \n< 0.0001). Accidents in women occurred predominantly on Tuesdays (19/87; 22%) between 12PM and 6PM (35/87; 40%), and in men on Saturdays (16/86; 19%) between 6PM and 12AM (29/86; 34%; \nP \n= 0.0097). Sixty-two percent (44/71) of the accidents were in public transport facilities and 30% (21/71) in shopping centers. The majority of injuries in women were to the lower extremities (49/87; 56%), while most accidents in men were to the head and neck (51/86; 59%; \nP \n= 0.0052). About half (90; 52%) of the patients were treated conservatively. Almost half of all patients (76, 44%) required hospital admission. Of those, 45% left the hospital within 24 hours of admission (short stay unit) and 55% stayed longer than 24 hours.\n \nConclusion: \nEscalator accidents can result in severe trauma. Significant gender differences in escalator accidents have been observed. Alcohol intoxication and age are significant risk factors in escalator-related accidents and might be possible targets for preventive measures. [West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):141-145.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "escalators, trauma, emergency medicine" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Injury Outcomes", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9p38c0sz", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Louisa", "middle_name": "H", "last_name": "Schminke", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Bern, Department of Emergency Medicine, Bern, Switzerland", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Victor", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Jeger", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Bern, Department of Emergency Medicine, Bern, Switzerland", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Dimitrios", "middle_name": "Stergios", "last_name": "Evangelopoulos", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Bern, Department of Emergency Medicine, Bern, Switzerland", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Heinz", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zimmermann", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Bern, Department of Emergency Medicine, Bern, Switzerland", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Aristomenis", "middle_name": "K", "last_name": "Exadaktylos", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Bern, Department of Emergency Medicine, Bern, Switzerland", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-08-27T19:57:06Z", "date_accepted": "2012-08-27T19:57:06Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:33:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7537/galley/4440/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7569, "title": "Catastrophic Spinal Injury After Minor Fall in a Patient with Ankylosing Spondylitis", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "[West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):146.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "spine, injury, emergency, fracture" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Injury Outcomes", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4kb7b0hh", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jim", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kennedy", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Department of Emergency Medicine, Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin, Ireland", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Noel", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cassidy", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Department of Emergency Medicine, Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin, Ireland", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-10-03T14:50:14Z", "date_accepted": "2012-10-03T14:50:14Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:32:46Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7569/galley/4451/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7391, "title": "Bedside Teaching on Time to Disposition Improves Length of Stay for Critically-ill Emergency Departments Patients", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction: \nWe tested the effect of a brief disposition process intervention on residents’ time to disposition and emergency department (ED) length of stay (LOS) in high acuity ED patients.\n \nMethods: \nThis was a quasi-experimental study design in a single teaching hospital where ED residents are responsible for administrative bed requests for patients. Enrollment was performed for intervention and control groups on an even-odd day schedule. Inclusion criteria were ED patients triaged as Emergency Severity Index (ESI) 1 and 2. In the intervention group, the attending physician prompted the resident to make the disposition immediately after the evaluation of resuscitation patients. In the control group, the attending physicians did not intervene in the disposition process unless more than 2 hours passed without a disposition. Main outcomes were time to disposition and total ED LOS.\n \nResults: \nA total of 104 patients were enrolled; 53 (51%) in the intervention group and 51 (49%) in the control group. After controlling for ESI and resident training year, mean disposition time was significantly shorter in the intervention group by 41.4 minutes (95% CI: 32.6-50.1). LOS was also shorter in the intervention group by 93.3 minutes (95% CI: 41.9-144.6).\n \nConclusion: \nPrompting residents to enter administrative disposition orders in high acuity patients is associated with significant reduction in both time to disposition and ED LOS. [West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):137-140.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Resident education, Overcrowding" }, { "word": "education" } ], "section": "Education", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7xd1w0k3", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Ali", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pourmand", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "George Washington University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Washington, DC", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Raymond", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lucas", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "George Washington University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Washington, DC", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Jesse", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pines", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "George Washington University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Washington, DC; George Washington University, Department of Health Policy, Washington, DC", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Hamid", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Shokoohi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "George Washington University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Washington, DC", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Kabir", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Yadav", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "George Washington University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Washington, DC", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-03-29T02:41:12Z", "date_accepted": "2012-03-29T02:41:12Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:31:25Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7391/galley/4382/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7386, "title": "Multimedia Education Increases Elder Knowledge of Emergency Department Care", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction: \nElders who utilize the emergency department (ED) may have little prospective knowledge of appropriate expectations during an ED encounter. Improving elder orientation to ED expectations is important for satisfaction and health education. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a multi-media education intervention as a method for informing independently living elders about ED care. The program delivered messages categorically as, the number of tests, providers, decisions and disposition decision making.\n \nMethods: \nInterventional trial of representative elders over 59 years of age comparing pre and post multimedia program exposure. A brief (0.3 hour) video that chronicled the key events after a hypothetical 911 call for chest pain was shown. The video used a clinical narrator, 15 ED health care providers, and 2 professional actors for the patient and spouse. Pre- and post-video tests results were obtained with audience response technology (ART) assessed learning using a 4 point Likert scale.\n \nResults: \nValid data from 142 participants were analyzed pre to post rankings (Wilcoxon signed-rank tests). The following four learning objectives showed significant improvements: number of tests expected [median differences on a 4-point Likert scale with 95% confidence intervals: 0.50 (0.00, 1.00)]; number of providers expected 1.0 (1.00, 1.50); communications 1.0 (1.00, 1.50); and pre-hospital medical treatment 0.50 (0.00, 1.00). Elders (96%) judged the intervention as improving their ability to cope with an ED encounter.\n \nConclusion: \nA short video with graphic side-bar information is an effective educational strategy to improve elder understanding of expectations during a hypothetical ED encounter following calling 911. [West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):132-136.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Multimedia" }, { "word": "emergency care" }, { "word": "Elder Care" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" }, { "word": "Multimedia Education" }, { "word": "Geriatric Medical Care" } ], "section": "Education", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3175k07j", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Thomas", "middle_name": "E", "last_name": "Terndrup", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Penn State College of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Sameer", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ali", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Penn State College of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Steve", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hulse", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "JPL Integrated Communications, Inc., Harrisburg, Pennsylvania", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Michele", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Shaffer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Penn State College of Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences, Hershey, Pennsylvania", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Tom", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lloyd", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Penn State College of Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences, Hershey, Pennsylvania", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-03-27T20:14:03Z", "date_accepted": "2012-03-27T20:14:03Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:30:36Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7386/galley/4379/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 19044, "title": "Implementation of Computerized Physician Order Entry for Critical Patients in an Academic Emergency Department is Not Associated with a Change in Mortality Rate", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction\n: There is limited literature on the effect of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) on mortality. The objective of our study was to determine if there was a change in mortality among critically ill patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) after the implementation of a CPOE system.\n \n \n \nMethods\n: This was a retrospective study of all critically ill patients in the ED during the year before and the year after CPOE implementation. The primary outcome measures were mortality in the ED, after admission, and overall. Secondary outcome measures included length of stay in the resuscitation area of the ED, length of hospital stay, and disposition following hospitalization. Patient disposition was used as a marker for neurologic function, and patients were grouped as either being discharged to home vs. nursing home, rehabilitation center, or a long-term healthcare facility. We analyzed data using descriptive statistics, chi- square, and Wilcoxon rank sum tests.\n \n \n \nResults\n: There were 2,974 critically ill patients in the year preceding CPOE and 2,969 patients in the year following CPOE implementation. There were no differences in mortality between the two groups in the ED, after admission, or overall. The pre- and post-CPOE mortality rate for the ED, hospital, or overall was 2.52% vs. 2.02% (\nP \n= 0.19, 95% confidence interval [CI] -0.3 to 1.3), 7.8% versus 8.29% (\nP \n= 0.61, 95% CI -1.9 to 0.9), and 10.32% vs. 10.31% (\nP \n= .60, 95% CI -1.5 to 1.6), respectively. There was no difference in hospital length of stay between pre- and post- CPOE patients (3 days versus 3 days), a difference of 0.05 days (95% CI -0.47 to 0.57). Length of stay in the ED resuscitation area was longer in the post-CPOE group (31 versus 32 minutes), a difference of -1.96 minutes (95% CI -3.4 to -0.53). More patients were discharged to home in the pre-CPOE group (66.8% versus 64.3%), a difference of 2.54% (95% CI 0.13% to 4.96%).\n \n \n \nConclusion\n: The implementation of CPOE was not associated with a change in mortality of critically ill ED patients, but was associated with a decrease in proportion of patients discharged to home after hospitalization. [West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):114-120.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "computer" }, { "word": "Electronic medical record" }, { "word": "CPOE" }, { "word": "Mortality" }, { "word": "patient care" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" }, { "word": "Health and Medical Administrative Services" } ], "section": "Technology at the Bedside", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5m28m553", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Doug", "middle_name": "D.", "last_name": "Brunette", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Hennepin County Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Minneapolis,\nMinnesota", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Jean", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Tersteeg", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Hennepin County Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Minneapolis,\nMinnesota", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Nicholas", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Brown", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Hennepin County Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Minneapolis,\nMinnesota", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Valerie", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Johnson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Hennepin County Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Minneapolis,\nMinnesota", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Stephen", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Dunlop", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Hennepin County Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Minneapolis,\nMinnesota", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "James", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Karambay", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Hennepin County Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Minneapolis,\nMinnesota", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "James", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Miner", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Hennepin County Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Minneapolis,\nMinnesota", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2010-06-29T19:34:50Z", "date_accepted": "2010-06-29T19:34:50Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:30:14Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/19044/galley/9471/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7552, "title": "Use of an Electronic Medical Record “Dotphrase” Data Template for a Prospective Head Injury Study", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction: \nThe adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) in emergency departments (EDs) has changed the way that healthcare information is collected, charted, and stored. A challenge for researchers is to determine how EMRs may be leveraged to facilitate study data collection efforts. Our objective is to describe the use of a unique data collection system leveraging EMR technology and to compare data entry error rates to traditional paper data collection.\n \n \n \nMethods: \nThis was a retrospective review of data collection methods during a multicenter study of ED, anti-coagulated, head injury patients. On-shift physicians at 4 centers enrolled patients and prospectively completed data forms. These physicians had the option of completing a paper data form or an electronic “dotphrase” (DP) data form. A feature of our Epic®-based EMR is the ability to use DPs to assist in medical information entry. A DP is a preset template that may be inserted into the EMR when the physician types a period followed by a code phrase (in this case “.ichstudy”). Once the study DP was inserted at the bottom of the electronic ED note, it prompted enrolling physicians to answer study questions. Investigators then extracted data directly from the EMR.\n \n \n \nResults: \nFrom July 2009 through December 2010, we enrolled 883 patients. DP data forms were used in 288 (32.6%; 95% confidence interval [CI] 29.5, 35.7%) cases and paper data forms in 595 (67.4%; 95% CI 64.3, 70.5%). Sixty-six (43.7%; 95% CI 35.8, 51.6%) of 151 physicians enrolling patients used DP data entry at least once. Using multivariate analysis, we found no association between physician age, gender, or tenure and DP use. Data entry errors were more likely on paper forms (234/595, 39.3%; 95% CI 35.4, 43.3%) than DP forms (19/288, 6.6%; 95% CI 3.7, 9.5%), difference in error rates 32.7% (95% CI 27.9, 37.6%, \nP \n< 0.001).\n \n \n \nConclusion: \nDP data collection is a feasible means of data collection. DP data forms maintain all study data within the secure EMR environment, obviating the need to maintain and collect paper data forms. This innovation was embraced by many of our emergency physicians and resulted in lower data entry error rates. [West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):109-113.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Electronic medical record (EMR), electronic data collection, dotphrase, Research methods" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Technology at the Bedside", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9b01n9c4", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Steven", "middle_name": "R.", "last_name": "Offerman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento, Department of Emergency Medicine, Sacramento, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Adina", "middle_name": "S.", "last_name": "Rauchwerger", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Kaiser Permanente, Division of Research, Oakland, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Daniel", "middle_name": "K.", "last_name": "Nishijima", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Dustin", "middle_name": "W.", "last_name": "Ballard", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Kaiser Permanente San Rafael, Department of Emergency Medicine, San Rafael,\nCalifornia", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Uli", "middle_name": "K.", "last_name": "Chettipally", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Kaiser Permanente South San Francisco, Department of Emergency Medicine, San Francisco, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "R.", "last_name": "Vinson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Kaiser Permanente Roseville, Department of Emergency Medicine, Roseville,\nCalifornia", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Mary", "middle_name": "E.", "last_name": "Reed", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Kaiser Permanente, Division of Research, Oakland, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "James", "middle_name": "F.", "last_name": "Holmes", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, California", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-09-09T04:43:42Z", "date_accepted": "2012-09-09T04:43:42Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:29:41Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7552/galley/4445/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7454, "title": "Clinician-performed Beside Ultrasound for the Diagnosis of Traumatic Pneumothorax", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction: \nPrior studies have reported conflicting results regarding the utility of ultrasound in the diagnosis of traumatic pneumothorax (PTX) because they have used sonologists with extensive experience. This study evaluates the characteristics of ultrasound for PTX for a large cohort of trauma and emergency physicians.\n \n \n \nMethods: \nThis was a prospective, observational study on a convenience sample of patients presenting to a trauma center who had a thoracic ultrasound (TUS) evaluation for PTX performed after the Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma exam. Sonologists recorded their findings prior to any other diagnostic studies. The results of TUS were compared to one or more of the following: chest computed tomography, escape of air on chest tube insertion, or supine chest radiography followed by clinical observation.\n \n \n \nResults: \nThere were 549 patients enrolled. The median injury severity score of the patients was 5 (inter-quartile range [IQR] 1-14); 36 different sonologists performed TUS. Forty-seven of the 549 patients had traumatic PTX, for an incidence of 9%. TUS correctly identified 27/47 patients with PTX for a sensitivity of 57% (confidence interval [CI] 42-72%). There were 3 false positive cases of TUS for a specificity of 99% (CI 98%-100%). A “wet” chest radiograph reading done in the trauma bay showed a sensitivity of 40% (CI 23-59) and a specificity of 100% (99-100).\n \n \n \nConclusion: \nIn a large heterogenous group of clinicians who typically care for trauma patients, the sonographic evaluation for pneumothorax was as accurate as supine chest radiography. Thoracic ultrasound may be helpful in the initial evaluation of patients with truncal trauma. [West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):103-108.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "ultrasound" }, { "word": "Trauma" }, { "word": "Pneumothorax" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Technology at the Bedside", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/95z1z0mg", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Bon", "middle_name": "S.", "last_name": "Ku", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Thomas Jefferson University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "J. Matthew", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fields", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Thomas Jefferson University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Brendan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Carr", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Pennsylvania, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Worth", "middle_name": "W.", "last_name": "Everett", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Pennsylvania, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Vincent", "middle_name": "H.", "last_name": "Gracias", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Robert Wood Johnson University, Department of Surgery, New Brunswick, New Jersey", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Anthony", "middle_name": "J.", "last_name": "Dean", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Robert Wood Johnson University, Department of Surgery, New Brunswick, New Jersey", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-05-25T11:21:53Z", "date_accepted": "2012-05-25T11:21:53Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:29:25Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7454/galley/4406/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7616, "title": "Ultrasound Diagnosis of a Left Atrial Myxoma in the Emergency Department", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "[West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):130-131.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "ultrasound, emergency ultrasound, cardiac echocardiography, cardiac myxoma, cardiac valvular pathology" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine, Cardiology" } ], "section": "Technology at the Bedside", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0xc814g5", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Joelle", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Torregrossa", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center, Department of\nEmergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Phillips", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Perera", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Stanford University Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford,\nCalifornia", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Thomas", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mailhot", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center, Department of\nEmergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Diku", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mandavia", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center, Department of\nEmergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-17T10:08:21Z", "date_accepted": "2012-11-17T10:08:21Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:28:58Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7616/galley/4470/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7445, "title": "Bedside Ultrasound in a Case of Blunt Scrotal Trauma", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This case study describes a patient who suffered blunt force trauma to the scrotum. Use of bedside emergency ultrasound facilitated early diagnosis of a ruptured testicle and allowed for prompt urological consultation and timely surgical repair. The utility of bedside emergency ultrasound in the evaluation of testicular trauma, as well as the outcome of our case, is discussed here. [West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):127-129.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "ultrasound, scrotum, trauma, testicular trauma, testicular fracture, testicular rupture" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Technology at the Bedside", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/11n860vv", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Mark", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cannis", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center, Department of\nEmergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Thomas", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mailhot", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center, Department of\nEmergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Phillips", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Perera", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center, Department of\nEmergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-05-13T10:29:15Z", "date_accepted": "2012-05-13T10:29:15Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:28:36Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7445/galley/4403/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7433, "title": "Ultrasound detection of a renal mass in a patient with flank pain and hematuria", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Flank pain with hematuria is a common chief complaint in the emergency department (ED). Patients are often diagnosed with renal calculi or pyelonephritis and discharged with analgesics or antibiotics and follow-up. This case study describes a patient who presented to the ED with a 1 week history of flank pain and hematuria and was subsequently found to have a large renal mass on bedside ultrasound. [West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):123-126.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "ultrasound, kidney, hematuria, renal cell carcinoma" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Technology at the Bedside", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/80m490tw", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Karl", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Marzec", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Thomas", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mailhot", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Phillips", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Perera", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-05-04T13:20:15Z", "date_accepted": "2012-05-04T13:20:15Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:26:57Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7433/galley/4399/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7500, "title": "Ultrasound Detection of a Molar Pregnancy in the Emergency Department", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "[West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):121-122.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "ultrasound, pregnancy, molar pregnancy, hydatidiform mole," }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Technology at the Bedside", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/48z703qd", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Amin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Abdi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Shannon", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Stacy", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Thomas", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mailhot", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Phillips", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Perera", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-07-20T07:44:06Z", "date_accepted": "2012-07-20T07:44:06Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:26:40Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7500/galley/4428/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 19121, "title": "Education On Prehospital Pain Management: A Follow Up Study", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction\n: The most common reason patients seek medical attention is pain. However, there may be significant delays in initiating prehospital pain therapy. In a 2001 quality improvement (QI) study, we demonstrated improvement in paramedic knowledge, perceptions, and management of pain. This follow-up study examines the impact of this QI program, repeated educational intervention (EI), and effectiveness of a new pain management standard operating procedure.\n \nMethods\n: 176 paramedics from 10 urban and suburban fire departments and two private ambulance services participated in a 3-hour EI. A survey was performed prior to the EI and repeated one month after the EI. We reviewed emergency medical services (EMS) runs with pain complaints prior to the EI and one month after the EI. Follow-up results were compared to our prior study. We performed data analysis using descriptive statistics and chi-square tests.\n \nResults\n: The authors reviewed 352 surveys and 438 EMS runs with pain complaints. Using the same survey questions, even before the EI, 2007 paramedics demonstrated significant improvement in the knowledge (18.2%; 95% CI 8.9%, 27.9%), perceptions (9.2%; 95% CI 6.5%, 11.9%), and management of pain (13.8%; 95% CI 11.3%, 16.2%) compared to 2001. Following EI in 2007, there were no significant improvements in the baseline knowledge (0%; 95% CI 5.3%, 5.3%) but significant improvements in the perceptions of pain principles (6.4%; 95% CI 3.9%, 9.0%) and the management of pain (14.7%; 95% CI 11.4%, 18.0%).\n \nConclusion\n: In this follow up study, paramedics’ baseline knowledge, perceptions, and management of pain have all improved from 6 years ago. Following a repeat educational intervention, paramedics further improved their field management of pain suggesting paramedics will still benefit from both initial and also ongoing continuing education on the topic of pain management. [West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):96-102.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "emergency medical services" }, { "word": "Pain" }, { "word": "Assessment" }, { "word": "therapy" }, { "word": "survey" }, { "word": "education" }, { "word": "Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Prehospital Care", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9qp925q9", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Scott", "middle_name": "C.", "last_name": "French", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Saint Francis Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Evanston, Illinois", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Shu", "middle_name": "B.", "last_name": "Chan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Resurrection Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Chicago, Illinois", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Jill", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ramaker", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "North Shore University Health System, Highland Park Hospital, Highland Park, Illinois", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2010-11-29T17:40:04Z", "date_accepted": "2010-11-29T17:40:04Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:25:28Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/19121/galley/9483/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 19135, "title": "Safety and Efficacy of Prehospital Diltiazem", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction:\n Very few studies exist on the use of diltiazem in the prehospital setting. Some practitioners believe this medication is prone to causing hypotension in this setting. Our goals were to determine whether the prehospital administration of diltiazem induced hypotension and to evaluate the efficacy of the drug.\nMethods\n: Our two-tiered system is located in a suburban region of New Jersey with advanced life support (ALS) care provided by fly-car units. The ALS units do not transport patients, and all of them are hospital based. The ALS providers are employed by the hospital system. In New Jersey, all ALS care requires online medical control, including the administration of diltiazem. We retrospectively reviewed patient care records for those who were believed to be in rapid atrial fibrillation and were given diltiazem in a suburban emergeny medical services system over a 22-month period. We examined the differences between heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP) on the initial evaluation and on arrival to the emergency department (ED). A hypotensive response was defined as a final systolic BP (SBP) less than 90 mmHg and a drop in SBP of at least 10 mmHg. Diltiazem was considered effective if the ED HR was ,100 beats per minute (bpm) or if it decreased [1]20%.\nResults\n: During the study period, 26,979 patients were transported. Of these patients, 2,488 had a documented rhythm of atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter. Of the 320 patients who received diltiazem, 42 patient encounters were excluded for incomplete data, yielding 278 patients for analysis. The average initial SBP was 139 mmHg and the average diastolic BP was 84 mmHg. The average diltiazem dosage was 16.7 mg. Two patients became hypotensive. The average initial HR was 154 bpm. On arrival to the ED, 33% of the patients had an HR , 100 bpm and 69% had a drop in HR [1] 20%. The overall efficacy of prehospital diltiazem was 73%.\nConclusion\n: In the prehospital setting, diltiazem is associated with a very low rate of hypotension and appears to be effective in decreasing HR adequately. Prospective studies are needed to confirm these findings. [West J Emerg Med. 2013;14(3):296–300.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "prehospital" }, { "word": "atrial fibrillation" }, { "word": "diltiazem" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Prehospital Care", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4mz7j8nd", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jeffrey", "middle_name": "H", "last_name": "Luk", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine,\nCleveland, Ohio", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Brian", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Walsh", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Morristown Memorial Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Morristown,\nNew Jersey", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Paul", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Yasbin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Chilton Hospital, Pompton Plains, New Jersey", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2010-12-24T03:19:32Z", "date_accepted": "2010-12-24T03:19:32Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:25:06Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/19135/galley/9487/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7478, "title": "Comparison Between Emergency Department and Inpatient Nurses’ Perceptions of Boarding of Admitted Patients", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction: \nThe boarding of admitted patients in the emergency department (ED) is a major cause of crowding and access block. One solution is boarding admitted patients in inpatient ward (W) hallways. This study queried and compared ED and W nurses’ opinions toward ED and W boarding. It also assessed their preferred boarding location if they were patients.\n \nMethods: \nA survey administered to a convenience sample of ED and W nurses was performed in a 631-bed academic medical center (30,000 admissions/year) with a 68-bed ED (70,000 visits/ year). We identified nurses as ED or W, and if W, whether they had previously worked in the ED. The nurses were asked if there were any circumstances where admitted patients should be boarded in ED or W hallways. They were also asked their preferred location if they were admitted as a patient. Six clinical scenarios were then presented, and the nurses’ opinions on boarding based on each scenario were queried.\n \nResults: \nNinety nurses completed the survey, with a response rate of 60%; 35 (39%) were current ED nurses (cED), 40 (44%) had previously worked in the ED (pED). For all nurses surveyed 46 (52%) believed admitted patients should board in the ED. Overall, 52 (58%) were opposed to W boarding, with 20% of cED versus 83% of current W (cW) nurses (\nP \n< 0.0001), and 28% of pED versus 85% of nurses never having worked in the ED (nED) were opposed (\nP \n< 0.001). If admitted as patients themselves, 43 (54%) of all nurses preferred W boarding, with 82% of cED versus 33% of cW nurses (\nP \n< 0.0001) and 74% of pED versus 34% nED nurses (\nP \n= 0.0007). The most commonly cited reasons for opposition to hallway boarding were lack of monitoring and patient privacy. For the 6 clinical scenarios, significant differences in opinion regarding W boarding existed in all but 2 cases: a patient with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease but requiring oxygen, and an intubated, unstable sepsis patient.\n \nConclusion: \nInpatient nurses and those who have never worked in the ED are more opposed to inpatient boarding than ED nurses and nurses who have worked previously in the ED. Primary nursing concerns about boarding are lack of monitoring and privacy in hallway beds. Nurses admitted as patients seemed to prefer not being boarded where they work. ED and inpatient nurses seemed to agree that unstable or potentially unstable patients should remain in the ED but disagreed on where more stable patients should board. [West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):90-95.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "crowding" }, { "word": "overcrowding" }, { "word": "hallway" }, { "word": "emergency department" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Emergency Department Access", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3bw4p9rb", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Bryce", "middle_name": "C.", "last_name": "Pulliam", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Davis Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine,\nSacramento, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Mark", "middle_name": "Y.", "last_name": "Liao", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Davis Medical Center, School of Medicine, Sacramento,\nCalifornia", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Theodore", "middle_name": "M.", "last_name": "Geissler", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Davis Medical Center, School of Medicine, Sacramento,\nCalifornia", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "John", "middle_name": "R.", "last_name": "Richards", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Davis Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine,\nSacramento, California", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-06-20T09:02:27Z", "date_accepted": "2012-06-20T09:02:27Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:21:15Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7478/galley/4418/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7377, "title": "Established and Novel Initiatives to Reduce Crowding in Emergency Departments", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction: \nThe American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Task Force on Boarding described high-impact initiatives to decrease crowding. Furthermore, some emergency departments (EDs) have implemented a novel initiative we term “vertical patient flow,” i.e. segmenting patients who can be safely evaluated, managed, admitted or discharged without occupying a traditional ED room. We sought to determine the degree that ACEP-identified high-impact initiatives for ED crowding and vertical patient flow have been implemented in academic EDs in the United States (U.S.).\n \nMethods: \nWe surveyed the physician leadership of all U.S. academic EDs from March to May 2010 using a 2-minute online survey. Academic ED was defined by the primary site of an emergency residency program.\n \nResults: \nWe had a response rate of 73% (106/145) and a completion rate of 71% (103/145). The most prevalent hospital-based initiative was inpatient discharge coordination (46% [47/103] of respondents) while the least fully initiated was surgical schedule smoothing (11% [11/103]). The most prevalent ED-based initiative was fast track (79% [81/103]) while the least initiated was physician triage (12% [12/103]). Vertical patient flow had been implemented in 29% (30/103) of responding EDs while an additional 41% (42/103) reported partial/in progress implementation.\n \nConclusion: \nWe found great variability in the extent academic EDs have implemented ACEP’s established high-impact ED crowding initiatives, yet most (70%) have adopted to some extent the novel initiative vertical patient flow. Future studies should examine barriers to implementing these crowding initiatives and how they affect outcomes such as patient safety, ED throughput and patient/provider satisfaction. [West J Emerg Med 2013;14(2):85-89.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "emergency medicine, crowding, health policy" }, { "word": "Medicine" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" }, { "word": "health administration" } ], "section": "Emergency Department Access", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4wt9n24h", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Shan", "middle_name": "W.", "last_name": "Liu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Department of Emergency\nMedicine, Boston, Massachusetts", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Azita", "middle_name": "G.", "last_name": "Hamedani", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Wisconsin, Department of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "F.M.", "last_name": "Brown", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Department of Emergency\nMedicine, Boston, Massachusetts", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Brent", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Asplin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Fairview Medical Group, St. Paul, Minnesota", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Carlos", "middle_name": "A.", "last_name": "Camargo, Jr.", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Department of Emergency\nMedicine, Boston, Massachusetts; Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Boston, Massachusetts", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-03-20T17:04:36Z", "date_accepted": "2012-03-20T17:04:36Z", "date_published": "2013-01-24T21:21:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7377/galley/4376/download/" } ] } ] }