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Hardball, Softball Strategies Manage Night Wakings

Author:: Sherry Boschert

Publish date: May 10, 2012

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No Increased VTE Risk Found With NuvaRing

Author:: Sherry Boschert

Publish date: May 9, 2012

Major Finding: The 4-year risk of venous thromboembolism was 9 emboli/10,000 woman-years in patients on NuvaRing or combined oral contraceptives.<...

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Physicians Underestimate Patient Pain from IUD Insertion

Author:: Sherry Boschert

Publish date: May 8, 2012

Major Finding: Patients rated their maximum pain during IUD insertion at 64 mm on a 100-mm visual analogue scale, compared with a rating by provid...

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Prepare Parents to Leave Exam Room

Author:: Sherry Boschert

Publish date: May 3, 2012

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A Handoff Effect? Lower Hospitalist Continuity Increases Costs

Author:: Sherry Boschert

Publish date: May 3, 2012

Major Finding: Lower continuity of inpatient care among hospitalists increased total costs by 7% for each hospitalist on a case and by 12% for eac...

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Why Won't They Leave? Discharge Timing Doesn't Speed Departures

Author:: Sherry Boschert

Publish date: May 3, 2012

Major Finding: Efforts to complete discharge orders before 11 a.m.

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Empowerment's Price Tag: Shared Decision-Making May Be Costly

Author:: Sherry Boschert

Publish date: May 3, 2012

Major Finding: Inpatients who most strongly preferred to leave medical decisions to their [physicians were discharged 0.31 days sooner and paid $9...

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Care Plans Decreased High-Risk Patients' ED Visits

Author:: Sherry Boschert

Publish date: April 27, 2012

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Intensivist Service Reduced Infections, Ventilator Days

Author:: Sherry Boschert

Publish date: April 26, 2012

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Statins' Effect on Pneumonia Mortality Murky in Meta-Analysis

Author:: Sherry Boschert

Publish date: April 25, 2012

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Most Early Readmissions Followed by More Readmissions

Author:: Sherry Boschert

Publish date: April 20, 2012

Major Finding: Sixty-nine percent of patients readmitted within 30 days of hospital discharge were rehospitalized two or more times in the 6 month...

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Acetaminophen Safe in Alcoholics, Analysis Suggests

Author:: Sherry Boschert

Publish date: April 18, 2012

Major Finding: ALT levels changed by a median of 0.04 IU/L in alcohol drinkers and nondrinkers after taking acetaminophen for 4 days, with no sign...

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Inappropriate Bronchiolitis Care Plummets With Peer Networking

Author:: Sherry Boschert

Publish date: April 18, 2012

Major Finding: Use of bronchodilators for pediatric bronchiolitis declined from 70% of cases to 58%, and bronchodilator doses per patient decrease...

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Follow Clinical End Points, Not Clock, for Acetaminophen Overdose

Author:: Sherry Boschert

Publish date: April 17, 2012