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Hospital’s Transitional Care Programs Help Heart Failure Patients Stay Healthier
Hospitals that focus on collaboration between case management and transitional care clinics for people with congestive heart failure are finding positive outcomes in their patients’ health and 30-day readmissions.
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Confusion, Skepticism Abound Regarding Convalescent Plasma as a COVID-19 Therapeutic
From collection to analysis to reporting, it seems everyone registered a complaint about the entire process.
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Guideline: Clinicians Should Use NSAIDs for Acute Musculoskeletal Pain
Orgs call for topical treatment as first-line agent for acute pain from non-low back-related injuries that lasts no more than four weeks.
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Nerve Disorders from Mutations in the BSCL2 Gene
The neuromuscular syndromes caused by BSCL2 gene mutations may mimic several other disorders, including Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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Molecular and Cellular Correlates of Human Nerve Regeneration
Specific and objective measures of improvement after carpal tunnel decompression (i.e., electrodiagnostic testing, somatosensory function, and intraepidermal nerve fiber density) also correlated with upregulation of ADCYAP1/PACAP genes. These genes may be potential therapeutic targets in the future.
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Dermatomyositis Sine Dermatitis Is an Important Clinical Entity
Dermatomyositis is an autoimmune disorder of skeletal muscle associated with a variety of auto-antibodies and specific muscle pathology but it may not have a skin rash. Muscle pathology and antibody determinations are important for accurate diagnosis and treatment.
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Randomized Diagnostic Trial of First-Line Genome Sequencing in Pediatric White Matter Disorders
The results of this study indicate that first-line genome sequencing in pediatric patients with suspected genetic white matter disease is more diagnostically efficient, defined as higher diagnostic efficacy and shorter time to diagnosis, than current standard of care approaches.
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Plasma Phospho-Tau217 Is a Promising Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarker
Validation and replication of findings in the use of the blood biomarker phospho-tau 217 for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease holds out the possibility for a new era in the early diagnosis and treatment of this debilitating illness.
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OSHA Enforcement Prioritizing Hazards Related to COVID-19 Response
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) stated it will prioritize investigations of complaints, referrals, fatalities, and hospitalizations related to the COVID-19 pandemic. That means risk managers should prepare to respond effectively to employee complaints or OSHA queries.
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Hospitals Cut Common Infection Cases by Half with Scalable Process for System Goals
When hospitals in Massachusetts were facing a merger, leaders sought to address the quality issue head-on and achieved substantial improvements in some categories, including a reduction in Clostridioides difficile cases.