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Connecting for Health, a collaborative of public and private stakeholders, will be launching a new phase of its effort to promote electronic connectivity in health care. The projects steering group, comprising more than 50 leaders and decision makers in the health care industry is committed to creating an incremental road map to achieving electronic connectivity.
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The loss of heterozygosity in the tumor tissue of carriers coupled with the high frequency of patient and family history of breast and ovarian malignancies suggest that USPC might be part of the manifestation of familial breast-ovarian cancer in Ashkenazi Jews.
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Ninety-five patients with vaginal vault prolapse were randomly assigned to having either an abdominal sacral colpopexy with Prolene mesh or unilateral sacrospinous colpopexy. All patients in both groups with stress incontinence also had Burch colposuspension. The abdominal approach was associated with longer operating room time, higher cost, and longer convalescence.
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To answer the title question a team of british investigators (Banerjee S, et al. Obstet Gynecol. 2004;103:287-293) inserted an intrauterine temperature sensor in 18 laboring patients with epidural anesthesia at the time they were inserting intrauterine pressure catheters. These patients then were monitored with periodic oral thermometer sampling, continuous skin temp assessment (taped to the inner thigh) and the commonly used ear canal temperature assessments.
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Antibiotics Associated With Cancer Risk; Topiramate Effective Against Migraine; Statin Therapy For Heart Failure; FDA Actions.
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Two of the nations leading health care epidemiologists recently held a provocative debate on the controversial topic of active surveillance cultures for multidrug-resistant pathogens. As infection control professionals are well aware, the topic has become one of the hottest issues in the field. Accordingly, the debate was recently held in Phoenix at the annual conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).
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The Centers for Disease Control and Preventions new draft guidelines for patient isolation have been criticized for not being aggressive enough in identifying and eradicating patient reservoirs of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). However, the guidelines include a section on enhanced surveillance and infection control measures for ICPs who want to ratchet up their efforts against MDROs.
