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| Christopher R CarpenterSummaryAffiliation: Washington University School of Medicine Country: USA Publications
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Evidence-based diagnostics: adult septic arthritisChristopher R Carpenter
Division of Emergency Medicine, Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, MO, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:781-96. 2011..Septic arthritis in adults is a challenging diagnosis, but prompt differentiation of a bacterial etiology is crucial to minimize morbidity and mortality...- Identification of fall risk factors in older adult emergency department patientsChristopher R Carpenter
Division of Emergency Medicine, Washington University, St Louis, MO, USA
Acad Emerg Med 16:211-9. 2009..The objective of this study was to identify independent risk factors associated with an increased 6-month fall risk in community-dwelling older adults discharged from the emergency department (ED)... - The Six-Item Screener and AD8 for the detection of cognitive impairment in geriatric emergency department patientsChristopher R Carpenter
Division of Emergency Medicine, Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
Ann Emerg Med 57:653-61. 2011..We evaluate the diagnostic test characteristics of the Six-Item Screener and the AD8 to detect cognitive dysfunction in adults older than 65 years and using the emergency department (ED) for any reason... - Emergency orthogeriatrics: concepts and therapeutic alternativesChristopher R Carpenter
Division of Emergency Medicine, Barnes Jewish Hospital, Washington University in St Louis, Campus Box 8072, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Emerg Med Clin North Am 28:927-49. 2010..Recognizing the implications of aging physiology, acute care physicians should be aware of effective alternatives to analgesia, procedural sedation, and definitive imaging to promote early surgical management and postoperative recovery... - Four sensitive screening tools to detect cognitive dysfunction in geriatric emergency department patients: brief Alzheimer's Screen, Short Blessed Test, Ottawa 3DY, and the caregiver-completed AD8Christopher R Carpenter
Division of Emergency Medicine, Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, MO, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:374-84. 2011..While multiple brief screening instruments have been derived, ED validation trials have not previously demonstrated tools that are appropriately sensitive for clinical use... - Research priorities for high-quality geriatric emergency care: medication management, screening, and prevention and functional assessmentChristopher R Carpenter
Division of Emergency Medicine, Washington University in St Louis, MO, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:644-54. 2011..Health care providers have recently begun to focus on the development of quality indicators (QIs) to define a minimal standard of care... - Risk stratification of the potentially septic patient in the emergency department: the Mortality in the Emergency Department Sepsis (MEDS) scoreChristopher R Carpenter
Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri, USA
J Emerg Med 37:319-27. 2009..Recently, a brief prognostic tool has been derived and subsequently validated in heterogeneous ED populations... - Incorporating evidence-based medicine into resident education: a CORD survey of faculty and resident expectationsChristopher R Carpenter
Department of Emergency Medicine, Washington University in St Louis, School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
Acad Emerg Med 17:S54-61. 2010..The authors hypothesized that among a representative sample of emergency medicine (EM) residency programs, a wide variability in EBM resident training priorities, faculty expertise expectations, and curricula exists... - Brain natriuretic Peptide in the evaluation of emergency department dyspnea: is there a role?Christopher R Carpenter
Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
J Emerg Med 42:197-205. 2012.... - High yield research opportunities in geriatric emergency medicine: prehospital care, delirium, adverse drug events, and fallsChristopher R Carpenter
Division of Emergency Medicine, Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 66:775-83. 2011.... - Differentiating low-risk and no-risk PE patients: the PERC scoreChristopher R Carpenter
Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri, USA
J Emerg Med 36:317-22. 2009..The Pulmonary Embolism Rule-out Criteria (PERC) score, a decision aid to reliably distinguish low-risk from very low-risk PE patients, has been derived and validated... - Post-transient ischemic attack early stroke stratification: the ABCD(2) prognostic aidChristopher R Carpenter
Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri, USA
J Emerg Med 36:194-8; discussion 198-200. 2009..Three prognostic decision aids have been derived and validated to empower emergency physicians to stratify TIA patients for 2-day stroke risk based upon information readily available at the bedside... - Thrombolytic therapy for acute ischemic stroke beyond three hoursChristopher R Carpenter
Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
J Emerg Med 40:82-92. 2011..One recent trial demonstrated significant improvement when the therapeutic window was extended to 4.5h... - Consensus conference follow-up: inter-rater reliability assessment of the Best Evidence in Emergency Medicine (BEEM) rater scale, a medical literature rating tool for emergency physiciansAndrew Worster
Department of Emergency Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Acad Emerg Med 18:1193-200. 2011..Therefore, only those studies identified by BEEM raters as having the highest clinical relevance are selected for the subsequent critical appraisal process and, if found methodologically sound, are promoted as the best evidence in EM...