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- The electronic health record: Getting more bang for the click
Bemoaning the technology is not the answer—we need to refine the EHR, but we also need to do better documentation.
- Multiple intracardiac thrombi
A 60-year-old woman presents with massive venous thrombosis. What is the cause?
- How to interpret surveys in medical research: A practical approach
Was the survey well designed? Was the sample appropriate and the response rate adequate? And do the data support the conclusions?
- Practical management of bleeding due to the anticoagulants dabigatran, rivaroxaban, and apixaban
How these new drugs work, what coagulation tests can tell us, and how to reverse the drugs’ anticoagulant effect.
- Correction
An error appeared in Figure 1 of: Park K, Bavry AA. Aspirin: its risks, benefits, and optimal use in preventing cardiovascular events (Cleve Clin J Med 2013; 80:318–326).
- Electronic siloing: An unintended consequence of the electronic health record
For all their purported benefits, electronic systems drive caregivers to work alone, thereby discouraging spontaneous interaction.
- Electronic health records: We need to find needles, not stack more hay
We need a system that extends our abilities and improves the care we give—and we don’t have it yet.
Paget disease of bone: Diagnosis and drug therapyThis focal disorder of aging bone may be asymptomatic or cause pain, bowing deformities, fractures, or nonspecific rheumatic complaints.
- Which patients may benefit from coronary artery calcification scoring?
Although no randomized trial has yet shown that the test improves outcomes, it is best used in asymptomatic patients at intermediate risk.
Evaluation and management of premature ventricular complexesThe diagnostic evaluation should include an assessment for structural heart disease and ambulatory Holter monitoring.