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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 23, 2013
Major Finding: Patients with online access to clinicians and medical records had more in-person and telephone contacts with their clinicians than ...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 22, 2013
Major Finding: ED visits accounted for nearly 40% of all acute-care visits to hospitals during the month following discharge from inpatient medica...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 21, 2013
Major Finding: The incidence of neovascular (wet) age-related macular degeneration was approximately twice as high among adults taking aspirin the...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 21, 2013
Major Finding: Statin therapy reduced the risk of developing hepatocellular carcinoma by 37% overall; the risk reduction was stronger (48%) in Asi...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 17, 2013
Major Finding: The use of anesthesia assistance for routine outpatient colonoscopies was 8.7%, and the rate of use varied dramatically by practice...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 16, 2013
Major Finding: The overall cure rate of C. difficile infection was 94% with donor-feces infusion, 31% with vancomycin alone, and 23% with vancomyc...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 16, 2013
Major Finding: Women who were vaccinated during pregnancy in the H1N1 pandemic showed a slightly lower rate of fetal death (HR, 0.88), and those w...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 16, 2013
Major Finding: Rates of ventilator-associated pneumonia were 15.8% with residual gastric volume monitoring and 16.7% without it, a nonsignificant ...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 14, 2013
Major Finding: Sixty-one percent of the study subjects had recurrent seizures during their hospitalization, and 14% died or were discharged to hos...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 14, 2013
Major Finding: The percentage of patients with uncomplicated acute bronchitis who were prescribed antibiotics decreased by 11.7% (from 80.0% to 68...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 11, 2013
Major Finding: The recovery of left ventricular function and volume did not differ between patients who received stem-cell (BMC) therapy in an inf...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 9, 2013
Major Finding: Women given levonorgestrel-IUS showed statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in all six domains of the Men...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 9, 2013
Major Finding: Medicare payments for outpatient visits rose 6.5%, or $10.20 per beneficiary per quarter, during the first year after consultations...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 8, 2013
Major Finding: In infants and neonates given IV acetaminophen as the primary analgesic following major surgery, the mean cumulative dose of morphi...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: January 8, 2013
Major Finding: Vitamin D supplementation, compared with placebo, did not improve knee pain based on a similar decline of about 2 points in WOMAC p...
