Hospital Medicine Alert – September 1, 2013

September 1, 2013

• Integrating Palliative Care into Daily Practice: When and How

  Patients, clinicians, and policy makers are increasingly focused on ways to improve the quality of care delivered and provide support to patients and families at the end of life (EOL).

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• Diminishing Returns with Long-term Steroids in COPD Exacerbations

  Five days of steroid treatment was as effective as 14 days of treatment in preventing repeat exacerbations of COPD in patients presenting to the emergency department with COPD exacerbations.

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• Neurological Complications of Infective Endocarditis

  The relationship between neurologic complications of infective endocarditis (IE), urgent valve surgery, and outcomes is poorly understood. Thus, these investigators performed a retrospective analysis of a prospectively collected database of IE cases from 1984-2009 in seven Spanish hospitals.

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• Clopidogrel Plus Aspirin After Transient Ischemic Attack

  Transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) and minor strokes are often the harbingers of a large, debilitating stroke.

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• Clinical Briefs in Primary Care

  Evidence-based updates in primary care medicine By Louis Kuritzky, MD

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• Pharmacology Watch: Do Statins Prevent Parkinson’s Disease?

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