Isolating the risk factors that lead to suicide Volume 108, Issue 2 This issue of the Wisconsin Medical Journal includes two articles that look at the populations in Wisconsin most at risk for suicide. A compelling guest editorial also points out that physicians have a unique opportunity to provide intervention for individuals on the path toward suicide. Click on the cover to the left to open the virtual Journal and read any of the articles below. The virtual Journal requires Flash software. To download Flash, click here. View the archived Wisconsin Medical Journal volumes here.

Editorial

Suicide from the perspective of the patient’s family (PDF)
Pat Derer

Original Contributions

The Burden of Suicide in Wisconsin’s Older Adult Population (PDF)
Brendan T. Wanta, BS; Amy E. Schlotthauer, MPH; Clare E. Guse, MS; Stephen W. Hargarten, MD, MPH

A Comparison of Wisconsin’s Suicide Rates by Urbanization and Sex (PDF)
Zachary J. Baeseman, BS

Implementing an Electronic Medical Record at a Residency Site: Physicians’ Perceived Effects on Quality of Care, Documentation, and Productivity (PDF)
Gregory L. Brotzman, MD; Clare E. Guse, MS; David L. Fay, MD; Kenneth G. Schellhase, MD, MPH; Anne M. Marbella, MS

Recruiting Primary Care Clinicians for Public Health and Bioterrorism Surveillance (PDF)
Jonathan L. Temte, MD, PhD; Michael E. Grasmick, PhD

Case Reports

Acute Renal Failure in Patients Undergoing Cardiothoracic Surgery in a Community Hospital (PDF)
Leah I. Metz, MD; Michael E. LeBeau, MD; Jonathan A. Zlabek, MD, FACP; Michelle A. Mathiason, MS

Your Society

Society files appeal to overturn decision on IPFCF raid (PDF)
Steven Bergin, MD

Your Profession

Dean’s Corner
New standard for cancer care puts patient at the center of services (PDF)
Jonathan I. Ravdin, MD

Your Practice

From the Office of the General Counsel
Bush administration issued, and Obama administration seeks to rescind, ‘conscience clause’ regulation (PDF)
Brian L. Buchanan, JD

Making the most of turbulent markets (PDF)
Debbie Oswald

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Instructions to Authors

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