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- Author:
- Patrice Wendling
Publish date: December 6, 2012
Major Finding: Breast mammography among women on Medicare declined 4.3% in 2010, the first full year after the USPSTF recommendations came out.Dat...
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- Author:
- Patrice Wendling
Publish date: November 30, 2012
Major Finding: For the apical compartment, success at 24 months was reported in 93.5% of patients with a prior hysterectomy (29 patients), 94.4% o...
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- Author:
- Patrice Wendling
Publish date: November 30, 2012
Major Finding: Physicians who reported performing laparoscopic hysterectomies most often were significantly more likely to have graduated from res...
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- Author:
- Patrice Wendling
Publish date: November 29, 2012
Major Finding: One case of evisceration and 4 cases of dehiscence occurred with the intracorporeal continuous suture vs. 11 cases of dehiscence wi...
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- Author:
- Patrice Wendling
Publish date: November 29, 2012
Major Finding: There was larger bilateral gray matter volume in the cingulate gyrus, hippocampus, and temporal lobes – areas responsible for...
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- Author:
- Patrice Wendling
Publish date: November 27, 2012
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- Author:
- Patrice Wendling
Publish date: November 27, 2012
Major Finding: Medicare Part B payments for noninvasive diagnostic imaging rose 101% from $5.9 million in 2000 to $11.9 billion in 2006, before fa...
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- Author:
- Patrice Wendling
Publish date: November 16, 2012
Major Finding: Death rates were similar between women and men at 30 days (2.5% vs. 1.5%) as were rates for combined early or late death (hazard ra...
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- Author:
- Patrice Wendling
Publish date: November 16, 2012
Major Finding: General surgery residents in a community-based program experienced a significant 49% decline in open aortic surgeries from 2000 to ...
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- Author:
- Patrice Wendling
Publish date: November 14, 2012
Major Finding: An estimated 479,229 hysterectomies were performed in 2009, compared with 518,828 in 2005.Data Source: Data are from an analysis of...
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- Author:
- Patrice Wendling
Publish date: November 14, 2012
Major Finding: Symptom severity scores decreased significantly from a mean of 61.4 at baseline to 28.7 at 3 months, 28.6 at 6 months and 26.4 at 1...
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- Author:
- Patrice Wendling
Publish date: November 13, 2012
Major Finding: At 1 year, overall survival was 82.1% and cardiovascular survival 88.2%.Data Source: International, postmarket phase IV study of 1,...
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- Author:
- Patrice Wendling
Publish date: November 9, 2012
Major Finding: In-hospital mortality was 2.2% for conventional aortic valve replacement surgery, 4.6% for conventional surgery with coronary arter...
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- Author:
- Patrice Wendling
Publish date: November 9, 2012
Major Finding: In-hospital mortality was 2.2% for conventional aortic valve replacement surgery, 4.6% for conventional surgery with coronary arter...
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- Author:
- Patrice Wendling
Publish date: November 8, 2012
Major Finding: The limit of detection in the assay for 24,25(OH)2D3 was 0.08 ng/mL; the limit for 24,25(OH)2D2 was 0.5 ng/mL.Data Source: Data are...
