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  • Electrodiagnostic testing of nerves and muscles: When, why, and how to order
    Electrodiagnostic testing of nerves and muscles: When, why, and how to order
    Kamal R. Chémali, MD and Bryan Tsao, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2005, 72 (1) 37-48;

    Electrodiagnostic testing is a powerful tool, but when and how to use it is not always clear.

  • Diabetes and coronary artery disease: The role of stress myocardial perfusion imaging
    Frans J. Th. Wackers, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2005, 72 (1) 21-33;

    Stress myocardial perfusion imaging holds promise but needs to undergo cost-effectiveness analysis.

  • Benefits of more aggressive VTE prophylaxis in hospitalized medical patients
    L. Bernardo Menajovsky, MD, MS and John Spandorfer, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2004, 71 (12) 947-960;

    Most hospitalized medical patients who should be receiving anticoagulants to prevent VTE according to current guidelines are not getting them, or are receiving subtherapeutic doses.

  • A guide to assessing decision-making capacity
    Roger C. Jones, MD and Timothy Holden, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2004, 71 (12) 971-975;

    Physicians must care for many patients who are neither fully capable nor totally incapable of understanding and expressing choices about their treatment. We present an algorithm for assessing decision-making capacity.

  • Epidural steroids for back and leg pain: Mechanism of action and efficacy
    Epidural steroids for back and leg pain: Mechanism of action and efficacy
    Robert F. McLain, MD, Leonardo Kapural, MD, PhD and Nagy A. Mekhail, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2004, 71 (12) 961-970;

    Epidural steroid injections may relieve the patient’s pain while healing occurs. Who should receive this therapy, and what kind of benefit can they reasonably expect?

  • Benign prostatic hyperplasia: Now we can begin to tailor treatment
    Benign prostatic hyperplasia: Now we can begin to tailor treatment
    Carl K. Gjertson, MD, Konstantin Walmsley, MD and Steven A. Kaplan, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2004, 71 (11) 857-880;

    The management of benign prostatic hyperplasia has improved considerably in recent years. A review of medications, surgery, and new minimally invasive procedures.

  • Safe use of opioids in chronic noncancer pain
    Teresa E. Dews, MD and Nagy Mekhail, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2004, 71 (11) 897-904;

    Many physicians needlessly avoid prescribing opioid analgesics for chronic pain because of misconceptions about efficacy, adverse effects, abuse, and addiction potential.

  • Radiologic imaging in rhinosinusitis
    Pete S. Batra, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2004, 71 (11) 886-888;

    Imaging may be necessary for rhinosinusitis that is refractory, chronic, recurrent, or complicated.

  • A guide to informed consent for clinician-investigators
    Katrina A. Bramstedt, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2004, 71 (11) 907-910;

    Informed consent is a process, not a form. It is a legal and ethical safeguard to ensure that subjects enter studies voluntarily and fully informed.

  • Treating osteoporosis in postmenopausal women: A case approach
    Michael I. Keller, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2004, 71 (10) 829-837;

    We now have several agents of different classes for treating postmenopausal osteoporosis. In this paper, a case report serves as the focus for a discussion of the risk factors for postmenopausal osteoporosis and of the available therapies.

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