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Emergency Imaging: Femoral Pseudoaneurysm

Author:
Alex Koo
MD; Vincent Ball
MD

An 84-year-old man presented for evaluation of an increasingly swollen mass on his left groin.

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News

Don’t delay hip-fracture surgery

Author:
Glenn Moulder
MD
Publish date: April 26, 2018

What is the association of wait time and 30-day mortality in patients undergoing hip-fracture surgery?

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News

Lower risk of ICH with dabigatran as compared to warfarin in atrial fibrillation

Author:
Rahul Mehta
MD
Publish date: April 26, 2018

Is dabigatran superior to warfarin with regards to the risk of intracranial hemorrhage and myocardial infarction in patients with atrial...

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News

Providers’ prior imaging patterns and ownership of equipment are strong predictors of low-value imaging

Author:
Amber Inofuentes
MD
Publish date: April 19, 2018

Is there evidence that ownership of imaging equipment, prior ordering history, and ordering behavior in other clinical scenarios are associated...

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News

High 5-year mortality in patients admitted with heart failure regardless of ejection fraction

Author:
Miriam Gomez-Sanchez
MD
Publish date: April 18, 2018

Are there differences in 5-year outcomes in patients hospitalized with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (ejection fraction [EF],...

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News

Use procalcitonin-guided algorithms to guide antibiotic therapy for acute respiratory infections to improve patient outcomes

Author:
Michele Sundar
MD
Publish date: April 13, 2018

How does using procalcitonin levels for adults with acute respiratory infections (ARIs) affect patient outcomes?

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Audio

Myelodysplastic syndromes: etiologies, evaluation, and therapy

Author:
David Henry
MD; David Steensma
MD
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News

Delaying lumbar punctures for a head CT may result in increased mortality in acute bacterial meningitis

Author:
Noble Maleque
MD
FHM
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Publish date: April 10, 2018

Can we safely perform lumbar punctures (LP) without neuroimaging in patients with acute bacterial meningitis (ABM)?

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Article

Neuromodulation for Treatment-Refractory PTSD

Author:
Jean-Philippe Langevin
MD; Ralph J. Koek
MD; Holly N. Schwartz
MD; James W.Y. Chen
MD
PhD; David L. Sultzer
MD; Mark A. Mandelkern
PhD; Alexis D. Kulick
PhD; and Scott E. Krahl
PhD

Deep brain stimulation has been successful in treating Parkinson disease and essential tremor and is now reducing PTSD symptoms in the first...

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Opinion

Defensive medicine’s stranglehold on the realities of practice

Author:
Allan M. Block
MD
Publish date: March 6, 2018

Patient history can unfortunately take a back seat to defensive medicine in emergency situations, writes Dr. Allan M. Block.

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Opinion

Clinical Challenges - March 2018 What's your diagnosis?

Author:
Uichiro Fuchizaki
MD
Kazutoshi Yamada
and Shogo Matsuda
Publish date: February 28, 2018
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News

Triple therapy in question

Author:
By Kinnear Theobald
MD
Publish date: January 16, 2018

Clinical question: In patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), is dabigatran plus a...

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Article

The Frontier of Transition Medicine: A Unique Inpatient Model for Transitions of Care

Author:
Brian Lonquich, MD
Jennifer P. Woo, MD
Matthew Stutz, MD
and
MD
Alice A. Kuo, MD, PhD, MBA

Section on Medicine-Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.*Address for...

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Article

Penalizing Physicians for Low-Value Care in Hospital Medicine: A Randomized Survey

Author:
Joshua M. Liao, MD, MSc
Amol S. Navathe, MD, PhD
Marilyn M. Schapira
MD
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Arlene Weissman, PhD
Nandita Mitra PhD
David A. Asch, MD, MBA

1Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; 2UW Medicine Center for Scholarship in Patient Care Quality and Safety,...

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News

Isolation precautions are associated with higher costs, longer LOS

Author:
Adam Wachter
MD
Publish date: December 22, 2017

Clinical question: What are the effects of isolation precautions on hospital outcomes and cost of care?

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