Browsing: Emergency Medicine

Social media posts with visual abstracts — images with text and icons that convey a study’s methods and findings — of clinical trials published online in peer-reviewed academic journals increased social media engagement compared to social media posts with article figures, according to a recent research letter published in JAMA.

Shortages of mental health professionals across U.S. counties were associated with an increase in youth suicides, according to a Northwestern Medicine study.

Geography played a role in opioid-involved overdose deaths in the past, but a coming wave may discriminate between rural and urban areas, according to a recent study.

Feinberg students are being trained in a two-week emergency preparedness course on how to manage natural disasters, mass shootings or pandemics.

Living in U.S. counties with higher concentrations of poverty was associated with increased risk of firearm-related deaths among children and young adults, according to a recent study.

Pediatric patients with sepsis who completed a series of treatments within one hour of sepsis recognition had better outcomes, according to a new multi-center study.

Lori Post, director of Feinberg’s Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics, takes a high-level approach to protect worldwide victims of abuse, neglect and exploitation.

Through innovative transitional care programs,
Northwestern Medicine clinicians help vulnerable
patients achieve healthier lives after leaving the hospital.

A simple toolkit of checklists, education materials and feedback reporting improved the quality of care, but not outcomes, in a group of 60 hospitals in south India, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.