Second, indications for thromboprophylaxis varied widely among physicians and within hospitals, introducing an inherent selection bias.
The results of this study will have to be confirmed by studies among a larger and more varied population of physicians in different hospitals.
Inasmuch as number of practicing physicians varied widely among provinces, our findings suggest that availability and access to screening services, particularly to gastroenterologists that perform colonoscopy, do not influence adherence to CRC screening guidelines in Canada.
The CASES-PMS (Carotid Artery Stenting With Emboli Protection Surveillance Post-Marketing Study) multicenter, prospective, single-arm, surveillance study was designed to assess the safety and efficacy of carotid artery stenting (CAS) when performed by physicians with varied experience in CAS utilizing a formal training program.
Respective figures in favor of CO are 14% in Hong Kong (physicians of varied specialties), almost one third in the UK (OB/GYN trainees) and as high as 80% in Portugal (GYN).
Endoscopy remains part of a varied working life for both physicians and surgeons within our hospital, rather than operators performing solely endoscopy.
In summary, this study demonstrated that physicians who participated in varied formats of selected Internet CME activities were more likely, following participation, to make evidence-based clinical choices in response to case vignettes than non-participants.
Strengths of the study include the large number of physician participants and the varied Internet CME formats assessed.
Physician-assessed FN risk estimates varied widely and did not consistently increase as model-predicted risk estimates increased beyond 30%, suggesting that the physicians included in this study may have underestimated FN risk for some regimen and patient characteristic combinations.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the authors showed increased ETI success rates for highly trained physicians compared with such a varied group of nonphysicians.
