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Month: January 2011

Subclavian cannulation with ultrasound: a novel method.

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Posted on January 31, 2011

Brain MRI as a predictor of CSF tap test response in patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus.

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Posted on January 31, 2011

Is deep vein thrombosis prophylaxis appropriate in the medical wards? A clinical pharmacists’ intervention study.

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Posted on January 31, 2011

Is deep vein thrombosis prophylaxis appropriate in the medical wards? A clinical pharmacists’ intervention study.

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Posted on January 31, 2011

Autoimmune acute liver failure: Proposed clinical and histological criteria.

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Posted on January 31, 2011

Noninvasive assessment of portal hypertension in patients with cirrhosis.

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Posted on January 31, 2011

Epidemiology, clinical features and outcomes of pneumonia in patients with chronic kidney disease.

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Posted on January 31, 2011

Pleural Fluid Analysis, Radiographic, Sonographic and Echocardiographic Characteristics of Hepatic Hydrothorax.

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Posted on January 31, 2011

Glidescope(®) videolaryngoscope improves intubation success rate in cardiac arrest scenarios without chest compressions interruption: A randomized cross-over manikin study.

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Posted on January 31, 2011

The effect of simvastatin alone versus simvastatin plus ezetimibe on the concentration of small dense low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in subjects with primary hypercholesterolemia.

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Posted on January 31, 2011

Usefulness of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide and C-reactive protein to predict ICU mortality in unselected medical ICU patients: a prospective, observational study.

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Posted on January 31, 2011

Antihypertensive Efficacy of Hydrochlorothiazide as Evaluated by Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials.

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Posted on January 29, 2011

Management of varices in cirrhosis.

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Posted on January 29, 2011

Development and implementation of a performance improvement project in adult intensive care units: overview of the Improving Medicine Through Pathway Assessment of Critical Therapy in Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (IMPACT-HAP) study.

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Posted on January 28, 2011

Improvement of Cardiac Function by Intracoronary Freshly Isolated Bone Marrow Cells Transplantation in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction.

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Posted on January 28, 2011

An antimicrobial stewardship program’s impact with rapid polymerase chain reaction methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus/S. aureus blood culture test in patients with S. aureus bacteremia.

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Posted on January 27, 2011

Effects of varying inpatient attending physician rotation length on medical students’ and attending physicians’ perceptions of teaching quality.

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Posted on January 27, 2011

Differences Between Inpatient Hospice Care and In-hospital Nonhospice Care for Cancer Patients.

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Posted on January 27, 2011

Technology and building design: initiatives to reduce inpatient falls among the elderly.

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Posted on January 27, 2011

Evidence on the efficacy of inpatient spending on Medicare patients.

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Posted on January 27, 2011

Medical device related pressure ulcers in hospitalized patients.

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Posted on January 27, 2011

A structured course teaching junior doctors invasive medical procedures results in sustained improvements in self-reported confidence.

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Posted on January 27, 2011

Survey study of anesthesiologists’ and surgeons’ ordering of unnecessary preoperative laboratory tests.

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Posted on January 27, 2011

Refeeding hypophosphataemia is more common in enteral than parenteral feeding in adult in patients.

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Posted on January 27, 2011

Hospital Discharge Risk Score System for the Assessment of Clinical Outcomes in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction (Korea Acute Myocardial Infarction Registry [KAMIR] Score).

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Posted on January 27, 2011

Relation of aspirin failure to clinical outcome and to platelet response to aspirin in patients with acute myocardial infarction.

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Posted on January 27, 2011

30-year trends in heart failure in patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction.

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Posted on January 27, 2011

Predicting the warfarin maintenance dose in elderly inpatients at treatment initiation: accuracy of dosing algorithms incorporating or not VKORC1/CYP2C9 genotypes.

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Posted on January 27, 2011

Clopidogrel 150 mg/day versus 75 mg/day in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: a meta-analysis.

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Posted on January 27, 2011

Emergence of Linezolid-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus after prolonged treatment of Cystic Fibrosis Patients in Cleveland.

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Posted on January 27, 2011

Long-term outcome in medical patients aged 80 or over following admission to an intensive care unit.

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Posted on January 27, 2011

Risk of Influenza-Like Illness in an Acute Health Care Setting During Community Influenza Epidemics in 2004-2005, 2005-2006, and 2006-2007: A Prospective Study.

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Posted on January 27, 2011

Aspiration-induced lung injury.

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Posted on January 27, 2011

Relationship between inhaled ?2-agonists and ventilator-associated pneumonia: A cohort study.

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Posted on January 27, 2011

Current role of emergency ultrasound of the chest*

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Posted on January 27, 2011

Thirty-day mortality rate in women with cancer and venous thromboembolism. Findings from the RIETE Registry.

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Posted on January 27, 2011

Overview on guidelines and recommendations for generic low-molecular-weight heparins.

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Posted on January 27, 2011

Postmenopausal hormone therapy and venous thromboembolism.

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Posted on January 27, 2011

Epidemiology of the contraceptive pill and venous thromboembolism.

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Posted on January 27, 2011

Antiphospholipid syndrome: Unusual clinical presentations.

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Posted on January 27, 2011

Prevention of VTE in women with cancer.

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Posted on January 27, 2011

Anticoagulant therapy in pregnant women with mechanical prosthetic heart valves: no easy option.

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Posted on January 27, 2011

Resistance to anti-platelet agents.

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Posted on January 27, 2011

Abdominopelvic CT Increases Diagnostic Certainty and Guides Management Decisions: A Prospective Investigation of 584 Patients in a Large Academic Medical Center.

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Posted on January 25, 2011

MRI of patients with cardiac pacemakers: a review of the medical literature.

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Posted on January 25, 2011

Implementation of guidelines for management of possible multidrug-resistant pneumonia in intensive care: an observational, multicentre cohort study.

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Posted on January 25, 2011

Opioids in chronic non-cancer pain.

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Posted on January 25, 2011

Prophylactic and therapeutic strategies in chemotherapy-induced neutropenia.

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Posted on January 25, 2011

Beyond efficacy: pharmacokinetic differences between clopidogrel, prasugrel and ticagrelor.

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Posted on January 25, 2011

Changing anticoagulant paradigms for atrial fibrillation: dabigatran, apixaban and rivaroxaban.

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Posted on January 25, 2011

Treatment of central sensitization in patients with ‘unexplained’ chronic pain: what options do we have?

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Posted on January 25, 2011

Anticoagulant use in cancer patients.

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Posted on January 25, 2011

Adjuvant analgesics in acute pain.

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Posted on January 25, 2011

Ivabradine: recent and potential applications in clinical practice.

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Posted on January 25, 2011

Clinical practice guideline for the use of antimicrobial agents in neutropenic patients with cancer: 2010 update by the infectious diseases society of america.

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Posted on January 25, 2011

Increasing Rates of Gastroenteritis Hospital Discharges in US Adults and the Contribution of Norovirus, 1996-2007.

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Posted on January 25, 2011

Nephrolithiasis: evaluation and management.

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Posted on January 25, 2011

Clinical emergencies and outcomes in patients admitted to a surgical versus medical service.

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Posted on January 22, 2011

Effect and Clinical Prediction of Worsening Renal Function in Acute Decompensated Heart Failure.

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Posted on January 22, 2011

Effect of Concomitant Use of Clopidogrel and Proton Pump Inhibitors After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.

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Posted on January 22, 2011

Fifty per cent of patients with pulmonary embolism can be treated as outpatients.

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Posted on January 22, 2011

Predictors of hepatic encephalopathy after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt in cirrhotic patients: a systematic review.

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Posted on January 22, 2011

The role of viruses in nosocomial pneumonia.

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Posted on January 22, 2011

Nursing home acquired pneumonia: approach to management.

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Posted on January 22, 2011

To treat or not to treat: adjunctive antibiotics for uncomplicated abscesses.

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Posted on January 22, 2011

Relationship between the MIC of vancomycin and clinical outcome in patients with MRSA nosocomial pneumonia.

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Posted on January 22, 2011

Recent advances in invasive pulmonary aspergillosis.

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Posted on January 22, 2011

Healthcare-associated pneumonia: the state of evidence to date.

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Posted on January 22, 2011

Minor elevations in troponin I are associated with mortality and adverse cardiac events in patients with atrial fibrillation.

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Posted on January 22, 2011

Blood culture contamination with Enterococci and skin organisms: Implications for surveillance definitions of primary bloodstream infections.

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Posted on January 21, 2011

Risk assessment in the first fifteen minutes: a prospective cohort study of a simple physiological scoring system in the emergency department.

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Posted on January 21, 2011

Impact of delayed admission to intensive care units on mortality of critically ill patients: a cohort study.

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Posted on January 21, 2011

Novel procedure- and device-based strategies in the management of systemic hypertension.

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Posted on January 21, 2011

The role of albumin as a resuscitation fluid for patients with sepsis: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Posted on January 21, 2011

Individual patient data meta-analysis of enoxaparin versus unfractionated heparin for venous thromboembolism prevention in medical patients.

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Posted on January 21, 2011

Misuse of Respiratory Inhalers in Hospitalized Patients with Asthma or COPD.

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Posted on January 21, 2011

Evaluation and mangement of intestinal obstruction.

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Posted on January 21, 2011

Echocardiographic assessment of pulmonary arterial pressure in the follow-up of patients with pulmonary embolism.

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Posted on January 21, 2011

Prescriber Compliance with a New Computerized Insulin Guideline for Noncritically Ill Adults (February).

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Posted on January 21, 2011

Comparison of acute nonthrombolytic and thrombolytic treatments in ischemic stroke patients 80 years or older.

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Posted on January 21, 2011

Statins for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease.

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Posted on January 21, 2011

Clopidogrel plus aspirin versus aspirin alone for preventing cardiovascular disease.

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Posted on January 21, 2011

Analgesia in patients with acute abdominal pain.

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Posted on January 21, 2011

Parenteral anticoagulation in patients with cancer who have no therapeutic or prophylactic indication for anticoagulation.

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Posted on January 21, 2011

Duration of intravenous antibiotic therapy in people with cystic fibrosis.

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Posted on January 21, 2011

Factor Xa inhibitors for acute coronary syndromes.

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Posted on January 21, 2011

Baclofen for alcohol withdrawal.

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Posted on January 21, 2011

Perspective: Malpractice in an Academic Medical Center: A Frequently Overlooked Aspect of Professionalism Education.

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Posted on January 21, 2011

Checklists to Reduce Diagnostic Errors.

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Posted on January 21, 2011

Urologic assessment of decreasing renal function.

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Posted on January 20, 2011

The diagnosis and management of scrotal masses.

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Posted on January 20, 2011

Beta-blockers: focus on mechanism of action. Which beta-blocker, when and why?

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Posted on January 20, 2011

Detection, evaluation, and management of preoperative anaemia in the elective orthopaedic surgical patient: NATA guidelines.

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Posted on January 20, 2011

The role of endoscopy in the management of obscure GI bleeding.

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Posted on January 20, 2011

Investigation of the patient with a venous ulcer.

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Posted on January 20, 2011

Quality of care for myocardial infarction in rural and urban hospitals.

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Posted on January 20, 2011

Patient safety outcomes in small urban and small rural hospitals.

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Posted on January 20, 2011

Palliative care consultations in hospitalized stroke patients.

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Posted on January 20, 2011

A comparison of characteristics and resource use between in-hospital and admitted patients with stroke.

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Posted on January 20, 2011

Medication history reconciliation by clinical pharmacists in elderly inpatients admitted from home or a nursing home.

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Posted on January 20, 2011

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