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The emergence of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) has joined with the aftershocks of SARS and the threat of pandemic flu to put respiratory protection issues for health care workers back on the front burner.
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One of the harsh lessons of the "unforgiving" outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Toronto was the infectious risk of the undiagnosed patient. While much has been made of the respiratory protection issues and fit-testing of N95 respirators, almost three-quarters of the health care workers infected in the 2003 Toronto outbreak were treating patients who had not been diagnosed with the emerging infection, said Allison McGeer, MD, infectious disease consultant at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.
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Compared with a lower dose, intensive treatment with atorvastatin in patients with stable coronary disease significantly reduces hospitalizations for HF.
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Obesity and the magnitude of nocturnal oxygen desaturation, which is an important pathophysiological consequence of OSA, are independent risk factors for incident AF in individuals <65 years of age.
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Elimination of daily routine CXRs reduced the number of CXRs in a mixed medical-surgical ICU, while not affecting readmission rate and ICU and hospital mortality rates.
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Current AP schedules do not appear to prevent catheter-related thrombosis. Systemic VTE and mortality, however, appeared lower after prophylaxis.
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Compared with a lower dose, intensive treatment with atorvastatin in patients with stable coronary disease significantly reduces hospitalizations for HF.
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As funding barriers are slowly being chipped away in California and some other parts of the country, increasing numbers of institutions are forming stem cell research oversight committees (SCROs), or embryonic stem cell research oversight committees (ESCRO), which often have some overlapping responsibilities with IRBs.
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The archives of medical colleges and hospitals can be a rich source of information for historians interested in how health care has been delivered throughout our nation's history. Old case files, collections of physicians' personal papers, even old photographs were donated to archives so that others could learn from them decades later.
