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Influence of Sacubitril/Valsartan on 30-day Readmission After Heart Failure
SYNOPSIS: Compared with enalapril, treatment with sacubitril/valsartan is more effective in reducing 30-day readmissions for any cause following discharge from congestive heart failure hospitalization.
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Growing Threat of Pyelonephritis Caused by Antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli
SYNOPSIS: In patients with acute pyelonephritis due Escherichia coli presenting to one of 10 emergency departments, the prevalence of fluoroquinolone resistance ranged from 6.3% to 19.9%, and the prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase production was 2.6% to 12.2%. Of those patients with resistant organisms, more than 50% received inactive empiric antibiotics.
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Safely Centralized Telemetry Off-site in a Multi-hospital System
SYNOPSIS: The hospitals in this study outsourced their cardiac telemetry to an off-site central monitoring center without an increase in adverse events.
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What If Beats 5 and 8 Had Children?
The easiest way to approach the interpretation of more challenging arrhythmias such as this one is to begin with the part of the tracing that is most evident and save the most difficult part for last.
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Clinical Briefs
In this section: water aerobics for overweight and hypertensive women; topicals for atopic dermatitis; removing ticks successfully.
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Etanercept-szzs Injection (Erelzi)
Etanercept-szzs is indicated for moderate to severe active rheumatoid arthritis, moderate to severe active polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, active ankylosing spondylitis, and chronic moderate to severe plaque psoriasis.
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Calcium Supplementation and Increased Dementia Risk
In this five-year observational study, women who were taking calcium supplementation and who presented with pre-existing cerebrovascular disease were at higher risk of dementia than women not taking extra calcium.
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Screening for Coronary Artery Disease Is Underused in Heart Failure
In a large retrospective cohort of patients hospitalized for new-onset heart failure, the majority did not receive testing for ischemic heart disease.
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How Much More Physical Activity Helps Patients Avoid Chronic Diseases?
Higher levels of total physical activity are strongly associated with lower risk of five common chronic diseases: breast and bowel cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.
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Managing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Part 1
MONOGRAPH: Covering sodium glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors, incretin-based therapies, amylin analog, and dopamine receptor agonists.