Latest issue of Spartan Medical Research Journal (Volume 7, Issue 1) has been published online!

The latest edition of the Spartan Medical Research Journal (SMRJ) includes nine articles from the following clinical specialty areas: Radiology, EM, Orthpedic Surgery; and authors from, Ascension Macomb-Oakland, Spectrum Lakeland Health, , Henry Ford Wyandotte, and Ascension Providence.

Quality Improvement/Patient Safety

1. Quality Improvement Intervention associated with Improved Lung Protective Ventilation Settings in an Emergency Department

Clinical Practice

2. Closed Fracture Treatment in Adults, When is it Still Relevant?

Original Contributions

3. Quality and Implementation of Diabetic Care at a Free Clinic
4. Safety and Efficacy of External Nasal Dilator Strips with N95 Respirator Masks by Emergency Department Personnel
5. Tuberculosis Screening via Chest X-Ray is Financially Burdensome in Previously Independently Living Elective Total Knee Arthroplasty Patients
6. “Fantasy Points” associated with Professional Athlete Performance after Lumbar Discectomy or Microdiscectomy
7. Time Sequence of Measurement Affects Blood Pressure Level in an African American Cohort
8. Is Fat Deposition of Renal Sinus a Concomitant Finding to Fatty Liver Disease? The First Study Regarding the Relationship Between Kidney and Liver Fat Content with Non-Contrast Computed Tomography
9. Racial Variations in Emergency Department Management of Chest Pain in a Community-based Setting

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