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- How physicians can prevent medication errors: practical strategies
Until improved systems are in place to detect and analyze medication errors, physicians can prevent many serious medication errors by observing some basic safety practices.
- Pitfalls in managing routine medical problems of patients with spinal cord injury
Physicians caring for patients with spinal cord injury need to know how to apply management strategies uniquely appropriate in these patients.
- Lipid-lowering therapy after coronary artery bypass surgery: the Post-CABG trial
The Post-CABG trial is an important milestone that demonstrates the benefits of treating hypercholesterolemia in patients who have had bypass surgery.
- Adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS): current management, future directions
Half of the patients who develop ARDS die of it. However, a number of new ideas about supportive management and experimental therapies offer hope of reducing the mortality rate.
- Arthralgias, myalgias, facial erythema, and a positive ANA: not necessarily SLE
Physicians frequently see patients with vague musculoskeletal complaints and intermittent rashes who are thought to have a connective tissue disease.
- Adult vaccinations: a short review
Recommended use of vaccines against pneumococcal pneumonia, influenza, hepatitis A and B, varicella, measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, and diphtheria.
- Evaluating adrenal incidentalomas
Adrenal incidentalomas are detected on approximately 1% to 2% of all abdominal CT scans. The question is, how clinically significant are they?
- Cyclospora: update on an emerging pathogen
Cyclospora cayetanensis, an emerging pathogen with worldwide distribution, causes diarrhea in both immunocompetent and HIV-infected patients, and was responsible for a 1996 outbreak in the United States.