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The authors sent a survey questionnaire to almost 800 hospices. Responses were obtained from 414. The survey asked an administrator whether or not their facility had admitted patients with active ICDs, whether any of these patients had been shocked in the past year, and whether any patient had received multiple shocks.
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FDA is reviewing safety of TZDs; SSRI use with tamoxifen; Metformin smells like fish; FDA Actions.
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Even in people who had never smoked cigarettes, pipe and cigar smoking was associated with decreased lung function and increased odds of airflow obstruction.
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Staging of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is based primarily upon estimated GFR. Proteinuria (PRO) is a strong marker for kidney disease, yet its severity is not included in current risk stratification schemes, which are instead driven by GFR.
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For women with suspected urinary tract infection, there is no advantage to routinely sending midstream urine samples for testing; antibiotics based on dipstick tests with a delayed prescription as backup, or empirical delayed prescription, can help to reduce antibiotic use.
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Nonspecific chest pain is a persistent illness and patients with it are subject to overly extensive work-ups.
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The FDA has approved a potassium channel blocker to improve walking in adults with multiple sclerosis.
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Even if asymptomatic, early elective aortic valve replacement should be considered for increasingly symptomatic patients with severe aortic valve stenosis because they have a poor prognosis with a high event rate and a risk of rapid functional deterioration, especially if the peak aortic jet velocity is above 5.5 m/sec.
