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You should add a D for disability caused by neurological deficits to the A, B, C tenets of airway, breathing, and circulation. Your goal is to determine if the patient is awake, alert, and oriented.
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The prevalence of self-reported disordered eating behaviors or problem drinking behaviors does not differ among intercollegiate athletes as compared with a control population of nonathletes.
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Arthroscopic rotator cuff repair with mattress sutures and standard bone anchors worked reasonably well with no added holding strength provided by using a modified Mason-Allen stitch. Concerns remain that holding strength would still be inferior to transosseous tunnels with a standard open technique.
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Low intensity warfarin therapy effectively prevents recurrent venous thromboembolism, according to a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine. After a median of 6.5 months of full-dose anticoagulation therapy, 508 patients with idiopathic venous thromboembolism were randomized to placebo or low intensity warfarin therapy with target INRs of 1.5 to 2.0.
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When elderly people need long-term care for themselves or their loved ones, they often experience sticker shock when they find out the cost.
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Those baby boomers are doing it again. After dominating the job market, revolutionizing the music and entertainment scene, and setting American culture on its ear for all those years, theyre going to create major challenges to the health care market as they age.
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The U. S. Preventive Service Task Force has concluded that women older than 65 who have always had regular normal Pap smears may not benefit from continued routine screenings.
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The average consent form for clinical trial volunteers is written at the 10th-grade reading level, while an estimated one in two American adults reads at or below an eighth-grade level, a new study has concluded.
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has launched an Internet-based national quality measures clearinghouse containing current evidenced-based quality measures and measure sets to evaluate and improve the quality of health care.