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As hospitals add more palliative care services, ethical issues arise that sometimes cannot be handled solely by a hospital ethics board because a broader community perspective is necessary.
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Developing a business model or marketing strategy that includes services focused on specific patient populations does not necessarily mean that a hospice is targeting higher revenue patients as implied in a study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association,
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Cherry picking" was the term used in an Associated Press headline for an article that described the results of a Journal of the American Medical Association article comparing diagnoses, length of stay, and patient care between not-for-profit and for-profit hospices.
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Long-Term CV Effects of Intensive Glucose Lowering: The ACCORD Study; Cysteine as a Biomarker for Sleep Apnea; Steroid or Steroid Plus Long-Acting Beta Agonist for Mild Persistent Asthma; Bisphosphonates and Femoral Fractures; Can Antihypertensive Treatment Benefit Persons Without Hypertension?; More Salt, Fewer Deaths in Diabetes: Who Would Have Thunk It?
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In animal models, aspirin (asa) has favorable effects on the incidence and/or growth rate of some cancers (CA).
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A broad-spectrum, parenteral, cephalosporin with activity against both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria has been approved by the FDA. Ceftaroline fosamil is the prodrug of ceftaroline and is marketed by Forest Pharmaceuticals as Teflaro™.
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In a two-year study, postmenopausal women randomized to nitroglycerin ointment group had significant increases in areal BMD at the lumbar spine, total hip, and femoral neck and decreased bone resorption.
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The Wells rule for identifying patients at high risk for DVT did not perform as well as one developed from an outpatient population.