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- PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY: -PERFORM THE MORE EFFECTIVE TESTS: -Neuropathy patients more likely to receive high-cost, screening instead of more effective tests
U-M researchers found more efficient diagnostic tools are not always used, results reported in Archives of Internal Medicine Researchers at the University of Michigan analyzed the tremendous cost ...
- NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASE: -Facing a “slow-motion disaster” — the un meeting on noncommunicable diseases
You might think Linda Ezekiel would always be in a hurry. As the first nephrologist in Tanzania, she started and now runs her country's only public-sector dialysis unit. She is ...
- MYOPATHY & STATINS: -: -Weighing the benefits of high-dose simvastatin against the risk of myopathy
Statins are the most widely prescribed class of drugs for treating dyslipidemia — in particular, elevated levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. Nearly 20 years of ...
- INTERNAL MEDICINE: -The effect of catheter to vein ratio on blood flow rates in a simulated model of peripherally inserted central venous catheters
BACKGROUND: Catheter-related thrombosis is a common complication in all anatomic sites, especially when smaller veins of the upper extremity are considered. It is presumed that the ...
- INTERNAL MEDICINE: -COMPARATIVE RESEARCH EFFECTIVENESS: -Comparative effectiveness research and patients with multiple chronic conditions
The aim of comparative effectiveness research (CER) is to improve the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of health care and to help patients, health care professionals, and ...
- INTERNAL MEDICINE: -ETNHICITY DIFFERENCES & FATAL PULMONARY EMBOLISM: -Ethnic differences in out-of-hospital fatal pulmonary embolism
Abstract Top Abstract Methods Results Discussion Conclusions Disclosures References Background— In-hospital pulmonary embolism (PE) has been extensively studied in ...
