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In a large cohort of patients admitted to New York hospitals with diabetic ketoacidosis, about half were admitted to the ICU, with a range of 2% to 88% among individual hospitals. This large practice variation was unassociated with mortality or length of stay, and more than half of it remained unaccounted for after extensive adjustments for patient and institutional characteristics.
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Nasal swabs identified only two-thirds of MRSA carriers.
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Side effects of statins; effects of cannabis use; antihypertensives and lip cancer; and FDA actions.
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An 8-year-old girl from rural California who had been scratched by unvaccinated cats developed flaccid paralysis and rabies encephalitis. She was treated with a therapeutic coma protocol and survived after a 52-day hospitalization.
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This blinded, randomized, controlled trial reports a higher risk of mortality, need for renal replacement therapy, and blood product transfusion in patients treated with the colloid solution hydroxyethyl starch compared to those treated with the crystalloid solution Ringers acetate.
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Scenario: The ECG shown above was obtained from a patient whose blood pressure was dropping. How many reasons can you cite to support a diagnosis of ventricular tachycardia (VT)?
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Emergency contraception (EC) should be widely available and easily accessible to all women, according to a just-released committee opinion issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).
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Public health is a familiar setting for many readers of Contraceptive Technology Update. About 51% of respondents to the 2012 Salary Survey say they work in a health department, and most noted no changes in 2012 staffing numbers.
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An annual Pap smear might soon become a thing of the past. Most women should be screened for cervical cancer no more often than once every three to five years, according to new cervical cancer screening guidance issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).
