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Remote Monitoring Can Enhance Case Management and Reduce Costs
A remote monitoring program can save thousands of dollars per patient by giving case managers and providers real-time data and trends of vital signs and other health information.
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Care Transition Program Targets High-risk Patients With Data
Good data and a quick phone call sometimes are all it takes to keep at-risk patients well and out of the hospital.
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Pediatric Syncope: Current Status of Diagnostic Evaluation and Management
Children may present to the emergency department with a potential syncopal event. Although the presentation is unusual, everyone fears missing a cardiac issue. The authors present a concise review, focusing on the history, physical exam, and ECG, of how to evaluate and manage a child with syncope, differentiating other mimics and discussing the current therapeutic approach to the most common diagnosis.
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Abortion for Fetal Anomalies: Trends in Gestational Age
In this retrospective cohort study, the median gestational age at the time of abortion for fetal aneuploidy decreased from 19 weeks in 2004 to 14 weeks in 2014. However, the gestational age at the time of abortion for fetal structural abnormalities remained at ≥ 20 weeks over the study period.
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Preparation for the Next Pregnancy
This special feature addresses ways a woman can optimize outcomes in her next pregnancy by following specific preparatory activities during her interpregnancy interval.
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Contraception: More Effective Than Ever?
A new analysis from the National Survey of Family Growth demonstrates a decrease from 12% in 2002 to 10% in 2006-2010 in the overall rate of failure among women using reversible methods of contraception.
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Nocturnal Enuresis: Are Your Patients Affected?
Nocturnal enuresis was prevalent in women seen in a urogynecology setting and can be associated with nocturia, overactive bladder symptoms, and stress incontinence.
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Is Exposure to Arterial Hyperoxia During Critical Illness Dangerous?
Exposure to severe hyperoxia during critical illness is associated positively with increased ICU and hospital mortality and associated negatively with ventilator-free days.
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Risk Factors for Hospital Readmissions Ending in Death or Transition to Hospice
This study highlights factors that are associated with an increased risk of hospital readmission within 30 days and adds to the growing body of literature on healthcare use after a hospitalization for sepsis.
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Healthcare Use in Survivors of Sepsis
The need to understand patterns of healthcare use in sepsis survivors has gained momentum to assess whether readmissions could be prevented.