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A return to full normal activities, including work at 2 weeks, after AMI appears to be safe in patients who are stratified to a low-risk group. This should have significant medical and socioeconomic implications.
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Cleansing patients with chlorhexidine-saturated cloths reduced VRE contamination of patients' skin, the environment, and health care workers' hands, and also decreased VRE acquisition.
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That deep venous thrombosis (DVT) can occur after air flight is not a new observation, having been first reported in the 1950s.
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The Nikolsky Sign (also commonly spelled Nikolskiy) is performed by placing pressure upon skin adjacent to tissue involved with bullae.
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Six patients developed lactic acidosis during prolonged linezolid therapy, possibly as the result of mitochondrial protein synthesis.
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The results of this study underline the uncertainty regarding the risk/benefit ratio of rtPA treatment in acute stroke in patients older than 80 years of age.
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The number of previous acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis (AECBs) and the baseline FEV1 level are potent prognostic factors of the short- and long-term outcomes of AECB.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has proposed sweeping changes to the payment structure for hospitals, including the first significant revision of the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) since it was implemented in 1983.
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In the first year after reorganizing the case management department, Lake Granbury (TX) Medical Center, a 59-bed facility, substantially increased reimbursement by improving documentation and saved $35,000 by putting case managers in charge of getting Medicaid forms signed, rather than relying on an outside vendor.
