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Many factors keep people from putting into practice what they have learned about diabetes.
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To create a scorecard to evaluate how layout and design impacts the readability of an educational handout.
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For some patients Sally Neff, RN, BSN, sees, something as simple as calling their physician for an appointment presents challenges they can't overcome.
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The Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course for doctors was introduced in Nebraska in 1978 and given nationally for the first time in 1980 by the American College of Surgeons. The goal of ATLS is to serve as a safe and reliable method for managing patients with traumatic injury and provide a "common baseline for the continued innovation and challenge of existing paradigms in trauma care."
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Polypharmacy is the simultaneous use of multiple medications. Many authors have defined polypharmacy as the simultaneous use of at least five or six medications. Others have suggested that polypharmacy should not be determined by the absolute number of medications, but rather the use of even a single medication that is not clearly indicated.
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Tamoxifen and CYP2D6 inhibitors, FDA Actions, and FDA Warnings.
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[Editor's note: President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress have agreed to spend more than $1 billion on comparative effectiveness research (CER), which some critics say will lead to an unethical strategy of the government justifying rationing health care. Others say it will provide needed information to clinicians about which medical treatment works best. But from an IRB perspective, will CER trials pose any new or more serious risks to human subjects? IRB Advisor asks CER experts nationwide to help us answer this question and others about CER in two stories in this month's issue.]
