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A controlled trial of an interactive, web-based virtual reality program for teaching physical diagnosis skills to medical students by Grundman, J A, Wigton, R S, Nickol, D

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Selection of predictor variables for pneumonia using neural networks and genetic algorithms by Heckerling, P S, Gerber, B S, Tape, T G, Wigton, R S

“…Artificial neural networks (ANN) can be used to select sets of predictor variable that incorporate nonlinear interactions between variables. We used a genetic…”
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Procedural skills training in internal medicine residencies. A survey of program directors by Wigton, R S, Blank, L L, Nicolas, J A, Tape, T G

“…To obtain the opinions of internal medicine residency program directors about which procedural skills residents master during training and the amount of…”
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Factors explaining variability among caregivers in the intent to restrict life-support interventions in a pediatric intensive care unit by Randolph, Adrienne G, Zollo, Mary B, Wigton, Robert S, Yeh, Timothy S

“…OBJECTIVETo explore patient-related factors which influence the decisions of pediatric intensive care unit (ICU) caregivers to restrict life-support…”
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Variation by Specialty in the Treatment of Urinary Tract Infection in Women by Wigton, Robert S., Longenecker, J. Craig, Bryan, Teresa J., Parenti, Connie, Flach, Stephen D., Tape, Thomas G.

“…To determine practicing physicians' strategies for diagnosing and managing uncomplicated urinary tract infection, we surveyed physicians in general internal…”
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Procedural skills of practicing pulmonologists. A national survey of 1,000 members of the American College of Physicians by Tape, T G, Blank, L L, Wigton, R S

“…We surveyed pulmonologists to determine which procedures they do in practice, where they learned the procedures, and how much training they recommend to attain…”
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Clinical prediction rule for pulmonary infiltrates by Heckerling, P S, Tape, T G, Wigton, R S, Hissong, K K, Leikin, J B, Ornato, J P, Cameron, J L, Racht, E M

“…To derive and validate a clinical rule for predicting pneumonic infiltrates in adult patients with acute respiratory illness. Prevalence studies in three…”
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Use of linear models to analyze physicians' decisions by Wigton, R S

“…Linear models of judgment are powerful tools for studying medical decision making. The recent increase in applications of these models to medicine reflects…”
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Procedural skills of the general internist. A survey of 2500 physicians by Wigton, R S, Nicolas, J A, Blank, L L

“…To determine which of 40 clinical procedures general internists do in their practice, how often these procedures are done, and what training is needed to…”
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The influence of treatment descriptions on advance medical directive decisions by Malloy, T R, Wigton, R S, Meeske, J, Tape, T G

“…To determine whether the wording of the descriptions of life-sustaining interventions would affect the choices elderly patients make when completing advance…”
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Training internists in procedural skills by Wigton, R S

“…The procedural skills of internists have been scrutinized recently because of concern for quality of care and because of economic and liability issues. The…”
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The Effect of Obesity on Medical Students' Approach to Patients with Abdominal Pain by Wigton, Robert S., McGaghie, William C.

“…Because widely held stereotypes characterize obese people as less intelligent, unhappy, lacking in self control and more prone to psychological problems, we…”
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Use of genetic algorithms for neural networks to predict community-acquired pneumonia by Heckerling, Paul S, Gerber, Ben S, Tape, Thomas G, Wigton, Robert S

“…Background: Genetic algorithms have been used to solve optimization problems for artificial neural networks (ANN) in several domains. We used genetic…”
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Attitudes and expectations of 1995 gastroenterology graduates about gastroenterology by McCashland, T M, Zetterman, R K, Ruby, E I, McCashland, C R, Wigton, R S

“…To learn more about current attitudes and expectations of recent (June 1995) graduates of gastroenterology fellowship programs, why they chose either a private…”
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Intracavitary bleomycin and tetracycline in the management of malignant pleural effusions: a randomized study by Kessinger, A, Wigton, R S

“…Both bleomycin and tetracycline have been suggested as the sclerosing agent of choice in the management of malignant pleural effusions. To determine if one…”
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Procedural experience and comfort level in internal medicine trainees by HICKS, Christopher M, GONZALES, Ralph, MORTON, Michael T, GIBBONS, Robert V, WIGTON, Robert S, ANDERSON, Robert J

“…The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) has recommended a specific number of procedures be done as a minimum standard for ensuring competence in various…”
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Discrimination and reproducibility of an information maximizing multivariable model by Heckerling, P S, Conant, R C, Tape, T G, Wigton, R S

“…Predictor variables for multivariate rules are frequently selected by methods that maximize likelihood rather than information. We compared the discrimination…”
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Computerized reference management ― filing the literature by GURNEY, J. W, WIGTON, R. S

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Measuring procedural skills by Wigton, R S

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Addition of peripheral blood stem cells collected without mobilization techniques to transplanted autologous bone marrow did not hasten marrow recovery following myeloablative therapy by Lobo, F, Kessinger, A, Landmark, J D, Smith, D M, Weisenburger, D D, Wigton, R S, Armitage, J O

“…A randomized prospective trial was conducted to determine if the addition of cryopreserved autologous peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) collected without…”
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