Annual surgical volumes were compared to those at a level I trauma center in the United States, the San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH).There were 24 surgeons in Ghana compared to 23,956 in the United States. There were 7 orthopedic residents and 1 residency program in Ghana versus 3,371...
Real-world practices to prevent venous thromboembolism with pharmacological prophylaxis in US orthopedic surgery patients: an analysis of an integrated hea... Major orthopedic surgery patients are at high risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in-hospital and post-discharge. This study assessed real-world...
Annual surgical volumes were compared to those at a level I trauma center in the United States, the San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH). Results There were 24 surgeons in Ghana compared to 23,956 in the United States. There were 7 orthopedic residents and 1 residency program in Ghana ...
A vivid example of this can be seen in Vieques, one of the two eastern municipal islands of the Archipelago, where the only hospital has been closed for more than four years and medical personnel are scarce [16]. Most of the residents of Vieques have to wait for hours to catch a ferry...
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In addition to the specialty criteria, we included only surgeons who reported their major professional activity as office-based practice, hospital staff, or locum tenens. A final requirement for inclusion was that the surgeon be 62 years or younger during the study year. This requirement was ...
Methods: A point-in-time survey was conducted in 729 primary care physicians, rheumatologists, orthopedic surgeons, and 2,316 patients with knee OA across three geographical regions: Japan, the United States (US), and Europe (EUR: France, Spain, Italy, Germany, and the United Kingdom),...
in their respective primary specialties (for example, internal medicine, anesthesiology, emergency medicine, surgery, and pediatrics) and are also board-certified in critical care medicine [3]. Most intensive care in the U.S is provided under a multidisciplinary umbrella, often involving hospitalists...
So a hospital must develop a comprehensive program with pain care specialists and spine therapists working as a multi-disciplinary spine care team." Growth at Prizm-developed spine centers provides opportunities for new spine surgeons and physical medicine specialists 2015 and 2016 can be a turbulent...
Fig 5. The distribution of the number of Zenith fenestrated endovascular graft (ZFEN) devices ordered per hospital with a trained physician (N = 246). ID, Identification. In light of the fact that there was an increase seen in both grafts ordered and physicians trained over time, we account...