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ARBs and cancer risk
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Folic acid and vitamin B12 for CAD
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CVD decreases with aggressive treatment
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Emergency Medicine Reports - Full August 2, 2010 Issue in PDF
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Emergency Medicine Reports - Full August 2, 2010 Issue in Streaming Audio/Downloadable MP3 Format
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Strangulation Injuries
You are on duty in the ED when the paramedics bring in a patient from the county jail who had tried to hang himself. When the patient arrives, you are told by the accompanying guard that the patient was found with a tightly twisted bedsheet around his neck and looped over the bedpost of the metal bunkbed. -
Continuing CR-BSIs an 'accountability failure'
Despite dramatic and widely reported breakthroughs in preventing bloodstream infections, the cold truth is that too many infection preventionists labor in obscurity, their programs woefully underfunded by administrators blind to the power of prevention. -
Discharge Planning Advisor - Full August/September 2010 Issue in PDF
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What does DP do at patient EOL?
Hospitalized patients with terminal illnesses often feel abandoned by their physicians at the end of their lives. Their physicians might experience a lack of closure that is unsettling. -
Provide better ED discharge planning
The health care system benefits when unnecessary hospital admissions are avoided, and sometimes the best place to impact that trend is by focusing discharge services on the hospital emergency department (ED), an expert says.