Maren E. Shipe

TL;DR: A set of guidelines and heuristics for clinicians to use to develop a logistic regression-based prediction model for binary outcomes that is intended to augment clinical decision-making is described.

TL;DR: Immediate surgical biopsy of lung nodules suspicious for cancer in hospitals with low COVID-19 prevalence likely results in improved 5-year survival, however, as the risk of perioperative CO VID-19 infection increases above 13%, a delayed approach has similar or improved survival.

TL;DR: It is confirmed that histoplasma EIA testing can be useful for diagnosing benign IPN in areas with endemic histoplasmosis in a population at high risk for lung cancer.

TL;DR: Surgical decortication and intrapleural fibrinolysis have nearly equivalent cost-effectiveness for early empyema in patients that can tolerate both procedures, and surgeons should consider patient-specific factors as well as the cost and effectiveness of both modalities when deciding the initial treatment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore patient willingness to accept a kidney from HCV-infected donors compared to other high-risk donors and find that only a minority of respondents were willing to accept kidney from other high risk donors.