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Advantages of a rapid response team extended beyond a reduction in codes to impact multiple endpoints, including positive effects on nurse morale and empowerment, unit workload, and education.
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Use of dexamethasone in community-acquired bacterial meningitis is associated with long-term survival in treated patients.
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The contraceptive vaginal ring (NuvaRing, Merck & Co., Whitehouse Station, NJ) and patch (Ortho Evra, Ortho Womens Health & Urology, Raritan, NJ). are two effective options for women who choose combined hormonal methods.
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When it comes to family planning, more women are choosing long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) methods such as intrauterine devices (IUDs) and the contraceptive implant, say respondents to the 2012 Contraceptive Technology Update Contraception Survey.
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The upswing of use of long-acting reversible contraception is making an impact on the use of combined oral contraceptives (oCs), according to responses to the 2012 Contraceptive Technology Update Contraception Survey.
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Birth control sabotage in which a partner deliberately pokes holes in condoms, destroys birth control pills, or tampers with the efficacy of a method is not uncommon.
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While several protocols are available to start women on a combined oral contraceptive (OC), respondents to the 2012 Contraceptive Technology Update Contraception Survey are firmly behind the Quick Start method of pill initiation.
