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- Author:
- Susan London
Publish date: November 26, 2014
News
- Author:
- Susan London
Publish date: November 26, 2014
Key clinical point: Relevant Google searches rose sharply as the debate unfolded.
Major finding: The mean monthly number of searches for “mo...
News
- Author:
- Susan London
Publish date: November 24, 2014
Key clinical point: An increase in elective colectomies has not been accompanied by a decrease in emergent/urgent colectomies.
Major finding: The ...
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- Author:
- Susan London
Publish date: November 17, 2014
Key clinical point: Patients undergoing certain open vascular procedures have better outcomes when operated on by vascular surgeons.
Major finding...
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- Author:
- Susan London
Publish date: November 12, 2014
Key clinical point: Hospitals charging more do not have lower adjusted morbidity or mortality.
Major finding: Patients undergoing surgery at hospi...
News
- Author:
- Susan London
Publish date: November 12, 2014
Key clinical point: Morbidity and mortality were lower with fellows involved than with residents involved.
Major finding: Patients were less likel...
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- Author:
- Susan London
Publish date: November 7, 2014
Key clinical point: Clopidogrel and anticoagulants are risk factors for hematoma after thyroid or parathyroid surgery.
Major finding: The odds of ...
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- Author:
- Susan London
Publish date: October 10, 2014
Key clinical point: Men had good preservation of quality of life 3 years after hypofractionated radiation therapy and 5 years after vessel-sparing...
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- Author:
- Susan London
Publish date: October 6, 2014
Key clinical point: Radiotherapy alone should remain standard of care for palliation.
Major finding: Chemoradiation was not significantly better t...
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- Author:
- Susan London
Publish date: September 24, 2014
Key clinical point: Men who undergo radiation therapy for high-risk prostate cancer are less likely to have a recurrence and to die if they also r...
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- Author:
- Susan London
Publish date: September 24, 2014
Key clinical point: Thoracic radiotherapy should be offered in addition to prophylactic cranial irradiation to patients with extensive small cell ...
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- Author:
- Susan London
Publish date: September 23, 2014
Key clinical point:The rate of lymphedema did not differ between breast cancer patients with pathologically negative sentinel nodes who did and di...
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- Author:
- Susan London
Publish date: September 22, 2014
Key clinical point: Longer follow-up of patients with early lung cancer treated with SBRT showed continued efficacy and revealed no significant la...
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- Author:
- Susan London
Publish date: September 5, 2014
Key clinical point: Wait-listed kidney transplant patients should be tested for higher PRA levels for increased risk of mortality.
News
- Author:
- Susan London
Publish date: September 5, 2014
Key clinical point: Choices of kidney to transplant may not need to hinge on left or right donor organ as a deciding factor.Major Finding: Recipie...
