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Quality managers: Periodic performance review can be a powerful quality tool
Do you shudder to think of the workload involved in completing the periodic performance review (PPR) now required by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations? Are you finding yourself solely responsible for all the data collection this entails? Is your goal to do the minimum required to pass muster with surveyors? -
Pharmacology Watch: Sinus and Allergy Health Partnership Releases New Guidelines for Treatment of Bacterial Rhinosinusitis
New guidelines for the treatment of bacterial rhinosinusitis were published in the January supplement of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery by the Sinus and Allergy Health Partnership. -
Full March 2004 Issue in PDF
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Azimilide in Patients With Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators
Data indicate that azimilide is a well-tolerated antiarrhythmic drug that decreases the frequency of ICD discharges or pacing in patients with ventricular tachycardia. -
Rate or Rhythm Control in Persistent Atrial Fibrillation?
Quality of life is impaired in patients with atrial fibrillation compared to healthy controls, but treatment strategy for atrial fibrillation results in the same net effect on quality of life. -
Effusive-Constrictive Pericarditis
Effusive-constrictive pericarditis is an uncommon syndrome in patients with pericarditis that often progresses to persistent constriction, although spontaneous resolution can occur. -
Vitamin Bites the Dust!
The Vitamin Intervention and Stroke Prevention investigators sought to determine whether 2 different doses of folic acid, as well as vitamins B6 and B12, given to individuals following a stroke would reduce subsequent recurrent stroke and CAD outcomes. -
Full January 2004 Issue in PDF
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Pharmacology Watch: Vioxx Might Control Postoperative Knee Pain
Oral rofecoxib (Vioxx) may have a role in controlling postoperative pain patients undergoing knee surgery. -
Clinical Briefs in Primary Care Supplement