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New buprenorphine formulation approved for medication-assisted treatment
December 2, 2017
Patients who are currently taking other buprenorphine formulations can be transitioned.
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Pediatric acute appendicitis: Is it time for nonoperative treatment (NOT)?
December 1, 2017
Nonoperative treatment may be a reasonable alternative to standard surgical management for acute uncomplicated appendicitis in children.
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Observing BP measurement made no difference in SPRINT
November 28, 2017
ANAHEIM, CALIF. – It didn’t matter whether BP measurements were observed or not; blood pressure control and outcomes were largely the same either way.
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Improving the risk assessment of patients with acute pulmonary embolism
November 21, 2017
Hospital-based physicians inadequately assess for severity of pulmonary embolism in patients and fail to ask for consultations from specialists.
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Journal of Hospital Medicine – Nov. 2017
November 21, 2017
Read the latest research from the Journal of Hospital Medicine, the premier publication for dissemination of research and education for the specialty of hospital medicine.
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Heart failure readmission penalties linked with rise in deaths
November 18, 2017
Heart failure readmissions penalties linked with rise in deaths ANAHEIM, CALIF. – Evidence continues to mount that Medicare’s penalization of hospitals with excess heart failure readmissions has cut readmissions but at the apparent price of more deaths.During the penalty phase of...
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Two changes are made to resuscitation practice in delivery room
November 17, 2017
One is in regard to heart rate assessment, the other to meconium.
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Antibiotics after incision and drainage for simple abscesses improves outcomes
November 17, 2017
Clinical question: Does antibiotic administration after incision and drainage of simple abscesses improve cure rates?
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Prescribers mostly ignore clopidogrel pharmacogenomic profiling
November 16, 2017
ANAHEIM, CALIF. – Physicians treating ACS patients with an antiplatelet all but ignore their genetically assessed ability to metabolize clopidogrel.
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Summary of guidelines for DMARDs for elective surgery
November 16, 2017
What is the best management for disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) for patients with RA, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, or systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) undergoing elective total knee arthroplasty (TKA) or total hip arthroplasty (THA)?
