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The randomized, controlled trial (RCT) is believed to provide the strongest evidence for verifying both effectiveness and ineffectiveness of a given treatment. Once the RCT judges the proposed treatment as ineffective, it is rare that the treatment is ever evaluated again.
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Good ED/ICU networks are becoming more important as more rural hospitals close due to lack of funding, says Janet Williams, MD, FACEP, director of the Center for Rural Emergency Medicine and Professor of Emergency Medicine at West Virginia University in Morgantown.
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Advancing technology continues to reshape the way care management is practiced in the ICU and elsewhere, but early experience shows that technology is no guarantee for physician buy-in at the front end, much less patient compliance at the back end.
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Lipid-lowering therapy reduces stroke incidence in coronary patients, especially when total cholesterol level is lowered to less than 232 mg/dL (6.0 mmol/L), which explains the best results being obtained with statins.
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Computer keyboards may serve as reservoirs for serious nosocomial pathogens.
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Iontophoresis was more effective than placebo in relieving tennis elbow symptoms in the short term.
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Even in physician-diagnosed peptic ulcer disease, test-and-treat strategy for H pylori did not reduce costs, and use of acid-reducing medications remained very high.
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An update on Oregons assisted suicide program since it became legal in 1997.
