News Author: Sharon Worcester Publish date: July 3, 2013
Major finding: Five-year event-free survival was 70% with chlorambucil plus rituximab, 52% for chlorambucil and 51% for rituximab.Data source: A p...
News Author: Sharon Worcester Publish date: June 24, 2013
Major finding: Key numerical finding (e.g., number needed to treat to prevent one death/event; number lived or died as result of intervention). Ma...
News Author: Sharon Worcester Publish date: June 19, 2013
News Author: Sharon Worcester Publish date: June 10, 2013
Major finding: Extended-duration thromboprophylaxis is preferable to inpatient-only thromboprophylaxis when VTE risk is 0.88% or greater.Data sour...
News Author: Sharon Worcester Publish date: June 10, 2013
Major finding: Between 1992 and 2012, the percentage of fellows in solo practice decreased from 32% to 19%, while the percentage employed by hospi...
News Author: Sharon Worcester Publish date: June 10, 2013
Major finding: SVR at 24 months after treatment was 63% and 50% with telaprevir triple-drug regimens vs. 25% with standard therapy.Data source: A ...
News Author: Sharon Worcester Publish date: June 10, 2013
Major finding: No significant differences were seen between the groups with respect to 2-year esophageal cancer-free survival (93.5% and 89.6% in ...
News Author: Sharon Worcester Publish date: June 10, 2013
Major finding: Nosocomial infections were associated with length of stay (odds ratio, 23.34 per day) and acute kidney injury (odds ratio, 2.82).Da...
News Author: Sharon Worcester Publish date: June 10, 2013
Major finding: 18.5% vs. 23% of deceased vs. living patients had a colonoscopy, 17.4% vs. 23.9% had colonoscopy plus FOBT, and 41.4% vs.
News Author: Sharon Worcester Publish date: June 7, 2013
Major finding: A novel urinary test has 85% sensitivity and 91% specificity for distinguishing pancreatic cancer and chronic pancreatitis.Data sou...
News Author: Sharon Worcester Publish date: June 6, 2013
News Author: Sharon Worcester Publish date: June 5, 2013
Major finding: 49% vs. 67% 18-month recurrence rates for risk-based vs. standard drug therapy.Data source: Data from 174 adults in the randomized,...
News Author: Sharon Worcester Publish date: June 5, 2013
News Author: Sharon Worcester Publish date: June 5, 2013
Major finding: Histologic eradication was 93.2% with cold snare polypectomy, compared with 75.9% for cold forceps polypectomy.Data source: A singl...
News Author: Sharon Worcester Publish date: June 4, 2013
Major finding: A medical error disclosure program significantly reduced the rate of gastroenterology-related claims from 0.16% to 0.068% per 1,000...