Clinical Medicine & Research is an indexed, peer-reviewed, medical research journal owned and published by Marshfield Clinic Health System, and edited within Marshfield Clinic Research Institute.
The June issue features original articles discussing screening for thyroid disorders in hypertensive patients, predicting severe acute pancreatitis, fluoroquinolone resistance in Wisconsin, the use of opioid analgesia after surgery, managing osteoporosis and spinal fractures, complications from Polydek sutures used in eyelid procedures, and follicular lymphoma of the conjunctivae mimicking nodular anterior scleritis. Authors from the Marshfield Clinic Health System are noted in bold.
Peer-reviewed original articles in this edition include:
“The Role of Health Care Costs in Understanding Patient Preferences of Providers” by Anna Breiburg and Ware G. Kuschner
“Screening for Thyroid Disorders Among Resistant Hypertension Patients: Are We Doing Enough?” by Nikos Pappan, Mian Tanveer Ud Din, Divya Venkat, Patrick Wedgeworth, and Sheng Fu
“Ketorolac and Predicted Severe Acute Pancreatitis: A Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial” by Zahra Vahdat Shariatpanahi, Shaahin Shahbazi, Erfan Shahbazi
“Surveillance of Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Wisconsin: Geographic Variation and Impact of Revised CLSI Breakpoints” by Giovanna Lazzerini, Stephen C. Lavey, Barry C. Fox, and Erik Munson
“The Use of Opioid Analgesia after Surgery: Assessing Postoperative Prescriptions from a Patient and Surgeon Perspective” by Roshini J. Ramwani and Jessica A. Wernberg
“Management of Osteoporosis and Spinal Fractures: Contemporary Guidelines and Evolving Paradigms” by Nasvin Imamudeen, Amjad Basheer, Anoop Mohamed Iqbal, Nihal Manjila, Nisha Nigil Haroon, and Sunil Manjila
“Complications Associated with Polydek Sutures Used in Eyelid Lateral Tarsal Strip Procedures” by Lin Chen and Robert B. Penne
“Primary Low Grade Follicular Lymphoma of the Conjunctivae Mimicking Nodular Anterior Scleritis: A Case Report” by Hui Yin Goh, Che Mahiran Binti Che Daud, Chandramalar Santhirathelagan and Shamala Retnasabapathy
Clinical Medicine & Research debuted in 2003 continuing the Health System’s long history of publishing scholarly journals that dates back to the first half of the 1900s. With an international reach, Clinical Medicine & Research is indexed in major U.S. and international databases of scientific information including Index Medicus/MEDLINE, PubMed Central, EMBASE, Scopus, Emerging Sources Citation Index and many more.
It is one of only a few medical research journals owned and published by private health systems and also included in the U.S. National Library of Medicine's prestigious Index Medicus/MEDLINE database. Other health systems with such indexed journals include Mayo Clinic Health System, Cleveland Clinic, Texas Heart Institute and Menninger Clinic.
Accepted articles are published online at www.clinmedres.org prior to appearing in a formal issue of the journal. The site is accessed more than 20,000 times per month and has more than 100,000 full-text article views or downloads per year.
To submit an article, visit www.editorialmanager.com/clinmedres. All submitted articles are peer-reviewed first by the executive editorial team. If selected during editorial review, articles are also peer-reviewed by external subject-matter experts. To reach the executive editorial team, email clinmedres@marshfieldresearch.org.
Members of the executive editorial team include Adedayo Onitilo, M.D., Ph.D., editor-in-chief; Sherry Salzman Scott, M.S., senior editor; Jamiu O. Busari, M.D., Ph.D., associate editor from Horacio Oduber Hospital in Oranjestad, Aruba; and Rohit Sharma, M.D., FACS, associate editor. Members of the editorial advisory board from Marshfield Clinic Health System include Kelley Anderson, M.D.; Jessica Engel, D.N.P.; Steven Taylor, M.D.; and Richard Dart, M.D., editor emeriti.