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Even in physician-diagnosed peptic ulcer disease, test-and-treat strategy for H pylori did not reduce costs, and use of acid-reducing medications remained very high.
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Iontophoresis was more effective than placebo in relieving tennis elbow symptoms in the short term.
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Computer keyboards may serve as reservoirs for serious nosocomial pathogens.
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Lipid-lowering therapy reduces stroke incidence in coronary patients, especially when total cholesterol level is lowered to less than 232 mg/dL (6.0 mmol/L), which explains the best results being obtained with statins.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued infection control guidance for managing people in the health care setting and in the community who may be infected with the monkey pox virus. In a late June news briefing, a CDC official said the agency was investigating 33 cases of possible human infection with the virus in Wisconsin, Indiana, and Illinois.
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Nursing standing orders for ED patients with stroke symptoms at Community Medical Center in Toms River, NJ.
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Do stroke patients in your emergency department (ED) always receive a computed tomography (CT) scan within 25 minutes, and do you have results within 45 minutes? If not, you're not following recommended time frames for stroke care - a scenario commonly occurring in community EDs, according to a just-published study.
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When Millie Brown, a former manager in the billing department at Children's Health Care of Atlanta, became director of patient access at the hospital about two years ago, it was natural that she would look for opportunities for improvement in the quality of registration data.
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Greenfield RH. Adminstration of high-dose vitamin D to prevent fractures. Altern Med Alert 2003;6(7):84.
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Patient Handout: Relaxation Techniques. Altern Med Alert 2003;6(7 Suppl):S1-S2.