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Do Antibiotics Reduce Hormonal Contraceptive Effectiveness?
This is a systematic review of studies evaluating the effect of concomitant non-rifamycin antibiotic use on hormonal contraceptive effectiveness. Although data are limited, there is no evidence to support the existence of drug interactions.
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Pediatric Airway Management
Pediatric patients frequently present with respiratory complaints. Fortunately, most children respond well to simple medical interventions. Understanding a child's anatomic and physiologic differences is critical to effectively preventing respiratory failure and stabilizing a child when it occurs.
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Functional Outcomes After Receiving Life-sustaining Therapy in the ICU
Among patients who have spent at least three days in an ICU and required even brief mechanical ventilation and/or vasopressor support, almost half are dead and only one-third return to their baseline at six months. Several factors present on the first day of admission are associated with not returning to baseline status.
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Frailty as a Patient Assessment Tool Prior to Aortic Valve Replacement
Assessment of frailty adds important prognostic information about risk of death and disability following both surgical aortic valve replacement and transcatheter aortic valve replacement. Among the available instruments for assessing frailty, a scale known as the Essential Frailty Toolkit demonstrated the best correlation with outcomes.
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Percutaneous Coronary Interventions in Nonagenarians
Nonagenarians can undergo percutaneous coronary interventions with low in-lab complication rates, but 30-day and one-year mortality is considerably higher than in younger patients.
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Palliative Care-based Intervention Improves Quality of Life in Chronic Heart Failure
Among patients with advanced heart failure, implementation of an interdisciplinary palliative care intervention was associated with improved quality of life.
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Advance Care Planning Must Advance Forward
In a systematic review of 795,909 people in 150 studies, researchers found many Americans have not completed an advance directive.
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Secondary Heart Failure Affects Readmissions
Heart failure that develops or worsens during a hospital stay can affect outcomes, costs, and readmissions, so hospitals are advised to identify patients at risk for secondary heart failure.
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Hartford Healthcare Launching Quality Initiatives
Hartford HealthCare, a healthcare network in Connecticut, is launching a series of quality initiatives aimed at getting patients the care they need quickly and safely.
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Copy-and-Paste Continues to Threaten Documentation Safety
Copy-and-paste is so easy and time saving that it can be tempting to overuse it in the medical record, and some electronic medical records encourage clinicians to use blocks of text over and over. Liberal use of copy-and-paste can diminish the quality and reliability of an electronic medical record, however.