SPECIAL ARTICLE Society of Critical Care Medicine Guidelines on Glycemic Control for Critically Ill Children and Adults 2024: Executive Summary Honarmand, Kimia; Sirimaturos, Michael; Hirshberg, Eliotte L.; et al Critical Care Medicine 52(4):p 649-655, April 2024. KEY RECOMMENDATIONS Adult Target Question: Should insulin infusion therapy be titrated to achieve INT glucose levels, 4.4–7.7 mmol/L (80–139 mg/dL) or CONV glucose levels, 7.8–11.1 mmol/L (1...

CDC updates and simplifies respiratory virus recommendations Recommendations are easier to follow and help protect those most at risk CDC released today updated recommendations for how people can protect themselves and their communities from respiratory viruses, including COVID-19. The new guidance brings a unified approach to addressing risks from a range of common respiratory viral illnesses, such as COVID-19, flu, and RSV, which can cause significant he...

Guide to Statistics and Methods  Surgical Education Research January 3, 2024 Practical Guide to Ethics in Surgical Education Research Michael M. Awad, Amy H. Kaji, Timothy M. Pawlik JAMA Surg. Published online January 3, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2023.6705 Introduction Rigorous and well-designed research is integral to advance surgical education science. In contrast to clinical research in which study participants are patients, surgica...

Guide to Statistics and Methods  Surgical Education Research January 3, 2024 Practical Guide to Education Program Evaluation Research Marc de Moya, Jason S. Haukoos, Kamal M. F. Itani JAMA Surg. Published online January 3, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2023.6702 Introduction Program evaluation is the systematic assessment of a program’s implementation. In medical education, evaluation includes the synthesis and analysis of educational prog...

Guide to Statistics and Methods  Surgical Education Research January 3, 2024 Practical Guide to Curricular Development Research Kevin Y. Pei, Todd A. Schwartz, Marja A. Boermeester JAMA Surg. Published online January 3, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2023.6699 Introduction There has been a significant uptick of interest in curricular development, with more than 2500 publications in the last decade devoted to this area of health care educati...

Guide to Statistics and Methods  Surgical Education Research January 3, 2024 Practical Guide to Assessment Tool Development for Surgical Education Research Mohsen M. Shabahang, Todd A. Schwartz, Liane S. Feldman JAMA Surg. Published online January 3, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2023.6696 Introduction Rigorous assessment tools are a crucial part of the learning process.1,2 Assessment is the process of collecting evidence to evaluate ...

Guide to Statistics and Methods  Surgical Education Research January 3, 2024 Practical Guide to Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Research in Surgical Education Roy Phitayakorn, Todd A. Schwartz, Gerard M. Doherty JAMA Surg. Published online January 3, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2023.6693 Introduction Experimental and quasi-experimental study designs primarily stem from the positivism research paradigms, which argue that there is an o...

Guide to Statistics and Methods  Surgical Education Research January 3, 2024 Practical Guide to Pragmatic Clinical Trials in Surgical Education Research Karl Y. Bilimoria, Jason S. Haukoos, Gerard M. Doherty JAMA Surg. Published online January 3, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2023.6690 Introduction In 1967, Schwartz and Lellouch1 distinguished “explanatory” trials from “pragmatic” trials by the nature of study intent: clinical trials ...

Guide to Statistics and Methods  Surgical Education Research January 3, 2024 Practical Guide to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Surgical Education Research Daniel A. Hashimoto, Julian Varas, Todd A. Schwartz JAMA Surg. Published online January 3, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2023.6687 Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) is the study of machine intelligence as it relates to perceiving and inferring data, typically wit...

Guide to Statistics and Methods  Surgical Education Research January 3, 2024 Practical Guide to Surgical Simulation Research Aimee K. Gardner, Amy H. Kaji, Marja Boermeester JAMA Surg. Published online January 3, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2023.6684 Introduction Simulation has become a crucial component of surgical education and practice. Not only has simulation been widely integrated into surgical training curricula,1,2 but the im...