An Evaluation of Risk Attitudes and Risk Tolerance in Emergency Medicine Residents

An underlying issue to our current healthcare system is how decisions made in the emergency department affect patients. This is paramount for underserved populations, which are more likely to have poor physical and mental health, lack of primary care, greater use of health services, and be generally dissatisfied with their medical care.1,2 What should the emergency physician (EP) do for these patients? These decisions are largely based upon individual risk tolerance. While risk is a indelible part of emergency medicine (EM), a risk profile of EM residents has not been compiled. Knowledge of risk taking tendencies among this niche of medical professionals could be critical. If EM residents have great risk aversion, they might practice defensive medicine, thereby incurring crippling costs4. On the other hand, if emergency medicine residents are greatly risk tolerant, they may make decisions that lead to significant morbidity and mortality. It is essential to establish a baseline risk profile before any corrective measures can be advanced. This study attempted to accomplish precisely that using Risk Type CompassTM.https://jdc.jefferson.edu/cwicposters/1023/thumbnail.jp

Contributing Factors to Under-Five Child Malnutrition in Rural Bangladesh

Background and objectives: Bangladesh has the highest malnutrition rates in the world. The main objective of this study is to identify and determine the main factors for child malnutrition among children under the age 5 years in rural Bangladesh. Material and methods: This research was conducted in rural areas at Meherpur district in Bangladesh. Convenience sampling method is used and 85 under 5 child information is collected through a structured questionnaire. The information’s of child’s are gathered from the mothers of the child. Malnourished children is measured by using APLS method and WHO Child Growth Standard Median Index. Binary logistic regression model is used to find out the key factors of malnutrition. Results: It is found that family income, maintain proper diet during pregnancy period, proper diet maintain for children have negative significant (p\u3c0.05) effect on child malnutrition. Conclusion: The magnitude of the child’s malnutrition still is of great concern in Bangladesh. Since, poverty, imbalanced diet during pregnancy period and imbalanced diet for under 5 children influences to malnutrition are significantly associated with high prevalence of malnutrition, so government and people should reduce these factor to reduce malnutrition in rural area of Bangladesh