Clinical Archives - Page 265 of 400

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Rural residents admitted for opioid overdoses increasingly are hospitalized in urban hospitals
January 24, 2018
Is there an association between rurality and trends and characteristics of hospitalizations for opioid overdose?
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Beware the COPD exacerbation
January 23, 2018
If a COPD patient has all the classic symptoms of an exacerbation, are there still other diagnoses to consider?
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PPIs, certain antibiotics increase risk of hospital onset C. difficile infection
January 23, 2018
Deprescribing acid suppression therapy coupled with antibiotic stewardship could greatly reduce the incidence of hospital-onset C. difficile infection.
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NSAIDs reduce spinal pain but are not “clinically important”
January 19, 2018
Are nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs effective at reducing neck and low back pain?
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Charting a new course in sepsis management
January 18, 2018
Quality improvement initiatives help hospitalists navigate the challenges of ward-based sepsis care.
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Risk-stratification tool predicts severe hypoglycemia
January 18, 2018
Can a clinical tool be developed to predict severe hypoglycemia in at-risk patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D)?
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Brief preoperative score predicts postoperative complications in the elderly
January 17, 2018
Can a geriatric assessment scale, performed by nonphysician surgical staff, be used to predict postoperative complications in the elderly?
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U.S. influenza activity widespread to start 2018
January 16, 2018
In one way at least, this flu season is already worse than 2016-2017.
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Bariatric surgery comes with some risk of complications
January 16, 2018
A long-term follow-up study of bariatric surgery patients revealed complication risks.
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Triple therapy in question
January 16, 2018
Clinical question: In patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), is dabigatran plus a P2Y12 inhibitor safer than, and as efficacious as, triple therapy with warfarin?