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"As many as 98,000 deaths per year are due to errors in hospital care.1" ... "A RAND Health study found that only 54.9% of patients received recommended care.2"
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Do long-acting beta agonist inhalers increase the severity of asthma? Yes, according to the results from a large meta-analysis recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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Corticosteroids have been studied in various phases in the treatment of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), which is characterized by an inflammatory injury to the lung resulting in acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. Four trials of steroids in early ARDS failed to show any improvement.
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Artinian and colleagues performed a retrospective analysis on a large prospectively acquired database from ICUs across the United States to examine the effect of initiating early enteral feeding on outcomes in non-surgical, mechanically ventilated ICU patients.
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Mueller and colleagues at the University Hospital in Basel, Switzerland, investigated the clinical utility and cost-effectiveness of immediately measuring the serum level of B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) in patients presenting to the emergency department with acute dyspnea.
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One in 5 Americans dies in or shortly after discharge from an intensive care unit (ICU), an outcome that exposes critical care clinicians to frequent discussions that concern end-of-life care.
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The STAR Trial (Tamoxifen and Raloxifene); FDA Actions
