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A blinded, prospective, case-control study of 40 children meeting all of the DSM-IV criteria for PANDAS matched with 40 children with obsessive-compulsive disorder and/or a chronic tic disorder was conducted with periodic intensive laboratory testing for group A streptococcus for 2 years, especially with clinical exacerbations or acute illness.
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In this study, 100 consecutive patients, who were receiving several different cytotoxic chemotherapy regimens for a variety of cancers, were self-referred on the basis of perception of mucositis, elevated temperature at home, malaise, or were referred by a nurse based on assessment of potential infection or mucositis.
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A retrospective, cohort study of 200 episodes randomly selected from 315 episodes, during 2000-2003, at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, of laboratory-confirmed bloodstream infections among out-patient children with central venous catheters was performed to determine the optimum duration of antibiotic therapy before infection could be reliably excluded.
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The impact of 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) was studied using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, which is the largest source of inpatient data in the United States and drawn from about 1000 community hospitals.
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Consider this scenario: During a malpractice trial involving a patient's adverse outcome in your ED, the jury learns that you've been in the habit of accepting expensive dinners and vacations from drug companies.
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A 15-year-old girl's mother demands that you give her daughter a pregnancy test, but the child refuses. What do you do?
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Low back pain (LBP) is a common (more than 3 million ED visits per year in the United States) yet typically benign ED complaint.
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The scenario of a resident physician who is involved in a medical malpractice case occurs more commonly than you might think in the day-to-day practice of emergency medicine.
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In early July, The Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert on behavior among health care professionals and its effect on care.
