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 Quizzes in AOA Custom Publications Now Valid for 18 Months

Carolyn Schierhorn
J Am Osteopath Assoc 2005 105: 170. [Full Text]  

 Student Essay Contest Focuses on Profession's Past To Strengthen Its Future

Michael Fitzgerald
J Am Osteopath Assoc 2005 105: 218-219. [Full Text] [PDF]  

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS:

Outpatient Osteopathic SOAP Note Form: Preliminary Results in Osteopathic Outcomes-Based Research

Sandra L. Sleszynski and Thomas Glonek
J Am Osteopath Assoc 2005 105: 181-205. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

The lack of a reliable, easy-to-use, validated system for recording, collecting, and evaluating clinical findings in a format that is suitable for long-term data collection has been one of the persistent challenges facing the osteopathic medical profession. In this study, the authors used participant-completed and previously validated Outpatient Osteopathic SOAP (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan) Note Forms (SNFs) and Outpatient Osteopathic SOAP Note-Follow-up Forms to obtain answers to 17 outcomes-based questions that the profession must address to meet the new challenges and demands of outcomes-based research. Ten osteopathic physicians and 196 osteopathic residents and undergraduate fellows submitted a total of 3908 patient SNFs for data analysis. A long-term goal of the SNF project is to create an electronic national database for osteopathic outcomes-based research.

REVIEW ARTICLES:

Slowing Progression Along the Renal Disease Continuum

Nelson P. Kopyt
J Am Osteopath Assoc 2005 105: 207-215. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Patients in whom nephropathy develops as a result of hypertension or diabetes mellitus are more likely to die of cardiovascular disease than of kidney disease. An early sign of impending nephropathy is microalbuminuria, which is a marker of endothelial dysfunction, vascular injury, and renal or cardiovascular disease and places patients at increased risk for myocardial infarction. Based on the results of clinical trials, the author recommends the use of angiotensin-receptor blockers or angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors to reduce cardiovascular risk and reverse microalbuminuria.

BOOK REVIEWS:

 Hard Boiled Eggs and Other Psychiatric Tales: The Rebirth of the Psychotherapy of Severe Mental Illness

Rene J. McGovern
J Am Osteopath Assoc 2005 105: 217. [Full Text] [PDF]  

"This book made me yearn for the days of fee-for-service and private insurance payments for long-term psychiatric hospitalizations--but I also found myself wondering whether I had the grit of psychotherapists from an earlier era."

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J Am Osteopath Assoc 2005 105: 225. [PDF]  

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