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As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and commercial payers move to base reimbursement on quality and consumers become more savvy about their choices of health care providers, complete and accurate documentation will become even more important.
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Yes, we've all heard this tongue-in-cheek summary of why surgery is used to determine what is wrong with a patient. Supposedly, an operation gets to the patient's underlying problem. The message is not subtle.
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The U.S. medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive Use is a newly available, free, evidence-based resource for clinicians. This resource provides guidance to aid contraceptive decision-making for women (and men) with comorbidities.
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The primary purpose of this study was to develop a gene expression profile of BRCA dysfunction ("BRCAness"), which could be used to discriminate sporadic ovarian cancer patients with or without dysfunction to the homologous repair pathway and correlate whether this profile would describe sensitivity to platinum-based chemotherapy and pharmacological inhibition of poly-ADP ribose polymerase (PARP).
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In 1972, liggins and howie demonstrated that antenatal corticosteroids (ACS) stimulated the production of surfactant in premature human fetuses.
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National estimates of contraceptive use and method choice from the most recent 2006-2008 cycle of the National Surveys of Family Growth (NSFG) were compared to earlier estimates based on the 1982, 1995, and 2002 surveys.
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In a phase-II study for patients with relapsed or refractory carcinoma of unknown primary, the combination of oxaliplatin and capecitabine was found to be both active and reasonably well tolerated.
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Although the combination of atra with anthracyclines has remarkable activity against low-risk APL (WBC < 5,000 and platelets > 20,000) (OS of 80%-90%), it is less active in patients with high-risk disease. Furthermore, there are long-term toxicities associated with the use of anthracyclines, including second malignancies (e.g., MDS and acute leukemia) and dilated cardiomyopathy.