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States that pass laws requiring universal active surveillance cultures for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) may saddle some small, community hospitals with a practice that is not cost-effective, according to ongoing research in an upstate New York hospital group.
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A wicked combination of crude surveillance systems, outdated patient risk assessments and increasing demand for infection rate data could ultimately lead to denial of care for high-risk surgical patients, a leading surgeon warns.
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It appears the old adage in pediatric medicine "children are not little adults" holds true for anthrax infection. The limited data available on children with anthrax suggest that their clinical presentation may differ from adults with anthrax.
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A recently published study using a large national administrative database found that only two-thirds of patients hospitalized with exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) received care that was consistent with current guidelines of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Chest Physicians.
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The Truth About Multivitamins; Statins and Hepatitis C; Preventing Hot
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Previous large, randomized studies have demonstrated improved neurological outcome in comatose patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation (VF) who are managed with therapeutic hypothermia (TH): those with other arrhythmias or shock were excluded.
