A comprehensive evidence-based approach to fever of unknown origin

O Mourad, V Palda, AS Detsky - Archives of internal medicine, 2003 - jamanetwork.com
Background Fever of unknown origin (FUO) is defined as a temperature higher than 38.3C
on several occasions and lasting longer than 3 weeks, with a diagnosis that remains …

Does this patient with diabetes have osteomyelitis of the lower extremity?

…, VA Palda, RJ Sargeant, AS Detsky, O Mourad - Jama, 2008 - jamanetwork.com
Context Osteomyelitis of the lower extremity is a commonly encountered problem in patients
with diabetes and is an important cause of amputation and admission to the hospital. The …

[HTML][HTML] Point-of-care ultrasound as a competency for general internists: a survey of internal medicine training programs in Canada

J Ailon, O Mourad, M Nadjafi… - Canadian medical …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is increasingly used on General Internal
Medicine (GIM) inpatient services, creating a need for defined competencies and formalized …

Electronic versus dictated hospital discharge summaries: a randomized controlled trial

…, RE Leiter, J Griesman, C Arnott, O Mourad… - Journal of general …, 2009 - Springer
BACKGROUND Patient care transitions are periods of enhanced risk. Discharge summaries
have been used to communicate essential information between hospital-based physicians …

[HTML][HTML] Developing and validating a prediction model for death or critical illness in hospitalized adults, an opportunity for human-computer collaboration

…, J Murray, B Nestor, S Bell, O Mourad… - Critical Care …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
OBJECTIVES: Hospital early warning systems that use machine learning (ML) to predict
clinical deterioration are increasingly being used to aid clinical decision-making. However, it is …

An electronic documentation system improves the quality of admission notes: a randomized trial

…, J Ailon, V Chien, O Mourad - Journal of the American …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Objective: There are concerns that structured electronic documentation systems can limit
expressivity and encourage long and unreadable notes. We assessed the impact of an …

Lead toxicity from glazed ceramic cookware

M Fralick, A Thomspson, O Mourad - CMAJ, 2016 - Can Med Assoc
Discussion Lead-contaminated ceramics from Mexico, China and some European countries
are well-established sources of clinically significant lead poisoning. 1 Leaded glazes have …

Clinical teaching and clinical outcomes: teaching capability and its association with patient outcomes

O Mourad, DA Redelmeier - Medical education, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Background There is little research on the impact of medical education on patient outcome.
We studied whether teaching capability is associated with altered short‐term patient …

An adult patient with new-onset dysphagia

K McIntyre, S McVaugh-Smock, O Mourad - Cmaj, 2006 - Can Med Assoc
Fig. 1: Imaging results during the Tensilon test. Videofluorographs before (left) and immediately
after an intravenous administration of 10 mg of edrophonium. The patient’s swallowing …

Substituent Effects on Associative Reactions of the Clusters Ru5C(CO)14L (L = P(OPh)3 and P(C6Hl1)3) with Phosphorus-Donor Nucleophiles

DH Farrar, J Hao, O Mourad, AJ Poë - Organometallics, 1997 - ACS Publications
The substitution reactions of the high-nuclearity carbonyl clusters Ru 5 C(CO) 14 L (L = P(OPh)
3 and PCy 3 ) with a series of P-donor nucleophiles in heptane have been shown to …