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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: February 19, 2013
Major Finding: The rate of robotically assisted hysterectomy increased from 0.5% to 9.5% of all hysterectomies between 2007 and 2010.Data Source: ...
News
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: February 18, 2013
Major Finding: 18.4% of the study subjects reported that they smoked at some time during their hospitalization, even though smoking was prohibited...
News
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: February 12, 2013
Major Finding: Autistic disorder was diagnosed in 0.10% of children whose mothers took folic acid supplements periconceptually, compared with 0.21...
News
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: February 12, 2013
Major Finding: A total of 79.5% of patients receiving tedizolid and 79.4% receiving linezolid showed a treatment response within 48-72 hours; 80.2...
News
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: February 12, 2013
Major finding: A hospital’s performance on a measure of 30-day mortality was found to be unrelated to its performance on a measure of 30-day...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: February 12, 2013
Major Finding: An infarct in the subcortical gray matter was the only significant predictor of verbal memory in a logistic regression equation tha...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: February 11, 2013
Major Finding: The prevalence of advanced colorectal neoplasms was approximately three times higher among siblings of colorectal cancer patients (...
News
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: February 7, 2013
Major finding: Taking folic acid supplements had no significant effect on overall cancer incidence (7.7% vs.
News
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: February 7, 2013
Major Finding: Bathing patients daily with chlorhexidine-impregnated washcloths reduced the rate of bloodstream infections by 28%, the rate of cen...
News
- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: February 7, 2013
Major Finding: At 10-day follow-up, 2.7% of both study groups
had a thromboembolic event; at 35-day follow-up, 4.4% of subjects who received
rivar...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: February 5, 2013
Major Finding: Ramipril extended pain-free walking time by 77% and maximal walking time by 123%, compared with placebo.Data Source: A 6-month, dou...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: February 4, 2013
Major Finding: The use of calcium supplements correlated with a significantly elevated risk of total CVD mortality, heart disease mortality, and c...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 30, 2013
Major Finding: At 15-year follow-up, there were no significant differences in urinary, bowel, or sexual function between 1,164 men who had undergo...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 28, 2013
Major Finding: The incidence of nonamnestic MCI was significantly higher among women with cardiac disease (24.3/1,000 person-years) than in women ...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 23, 2013
Major Finding: 1-month mortality was significantly higher with HFOV (47%) than with control ventilation (35%) in the OSCILLATE study; no significa...
