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Beta-blockers and noncardiac surgery; prenatal medication exposure and risk of autism; reasons for statin discontinuations; and FDA actions.
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As a federal program rolls out to award providers with incentives for achieving meaningful use in electronic health records, wide measure-by-measure variation can jeopardize the validity of electronic reporting.
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A nonrandomized, observational, comparative multicenter cohort study was conducted at 17 European medical centers. Patients treated with ampicillin+ceftriaxone (AC) were generally more ill at baseline than patients treated with ampicillin+gentamicin (AG).
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Bacteria were present on the cell phones of all hospital clinicians studied, with potentially pathogenic microorganisms isolated from 29% of them. Contamination with pathogens was found more commonly with smart phones than with non-smart phones, and by multivariable analysis no other factor was associated with this difference.
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The Get with the Guidelines-Resuscitation registry is a large, prospective registry of in-hospital cardiac arrests that analyzes data to promote quality improvement. In this paper, Chan and colleagues report the long-term outcomes in Medicare-age patients who suffered an in-hospital cardiac arrest and survived to discharge.
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Following an index episode of recurrent cellulitis, penicillin decreased the rate of recurrent leg cellulitis during a 12-month prophylactic period as compared with placebo, but this effect was not observed to be sustained.
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With the beginning of another year, many will be resolving to lose some weight. According to consumer surveys conducted for industries manufacturing low-calorie foods and beverages, 54% of Americans were trying to lose weight in 2010, up from 33% in 2004 and 24% in 2000.1 The U.S. market for all weight loss products and services is now worth $60.9 billion.2
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Every year in September throughout the United States, students return to school, and many people return to work from vacation and summer break. As weather cools with the coming fall and winter, people gather in close proximity in colleges, schools, daycares, clinics, and workplaces.
