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NSAIDs and cardiovascular risk
February 13, 2017
Clinical question: Which NSAID confers the least cardiovascular risk?
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Anticoagulants: more harm than good in isolated calf DVT
February 10, 2017
Clinical question: Is therapeutic anticoagulation superior to placebo in patients with symptomatic acute calf deep venous thrombosis (DVT)?
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Consensus guidelines for calcium channel blocker poisoning
February 3, 2017
Clinical question: What is the best management approach for adults who are admitted to the hospital with a calcium channel blocker (CCB) overdose?
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Evidence suggests fondaparinux is more effective than LMWH in prevention of VTE and total DVT in the postoperative setting
February 2, 2017
Clinical question: How do pentasaccharides compare to other anticoagulants in postoperative venous thromboembolism prevention?
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Hospital-acquired VTE with high risk of recurrence
January 26, 2017
Clinical question: Is the risk of recurrence for a venous thromboembolism (VTE) acquired as an inpatient higher than other reversible risk factors?
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Instability of INRs
January 9, 2017
Clinical question: Does an initial stable international normalized ratio (INR) predict long-term stability?
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Nonischemic cardiomyopathy does not benefit from prophylactic ICDs
January 5, 2017
Nonischemic cardiomyopathy does not benefit from prophylactic ICDsClinical question: Do prophylactic implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) reduce long-term mortality in patients with symptomatic nonischemic systolic heart failure (NISHF)?[[{"fid":"175130","view_mode":"medstat_image_flus...
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Observational hospital stays for HF linked to worse outcomes
December 5, 2016
NEW ORLEANS – Heart failure patients admitted as inpatients had significantly better outcomes than those admitted for an observational stay.
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Heart failure readmission metric not linked to care quality
November 15, 2016
A new analysis suggests that metrics used by CMS to determine penalties for heart failure hospital readmissions are not associated with quality of care or overall clinical outcomes.
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Long-Term Mortality in Nondiabetic Patients Favors Coronary Artery Bypass Over Intervention with Drug-Eluting Stents
November 4, 2016
Is there a mortality difference in nondiabetic patients with multivessel coronary artery disease (CAD) treated with coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) versus percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)?
