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Early Chest CT Can Improve Treatment for Community-acquired Pneumonia
In patients with suspected community-acquired pneumonia, early chest CT significantly changed management decisions.
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Does a Sedation Strategy With or Without Daily Interruption Affect Recall of ICU Stay?
Recall of the ICU stay and the type of sedation strategy did not influence the types of memories reported by critically ill patients.
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IV Crystalloids: Is One Better Than the Other?
The decision of which fluid to use is highly variable and predominantly driven by local practice rather than patient or fluid characteristics.
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Clinical Briefs
In this section: revisiting cancer screening recommendations; weighing the benefits of a COPD treatment; and expanding the safe prescribing of metformin.
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Elvitegravir, Cobicistat, Emtricitabine, and Tenofovir Alafenamide (Genvoya)
A complete regimen for the treatment of HIV-1 infections in adults and pediatric patients ≥ 12 years of age.
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Fecal Microbiota Transplantation: Patients Need No Convincing
Fecal microbiota transplantation appears effective in approximately 55-90% of patients with relapsing and refractory Clostridium difficile infection, and will prove a blessing to those who have been in a miserable cycle of recurrent disease.
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Optimal Beta-blocker Dose Post-MI
Investigators from the Outcome of Beta-blocker Therapy After Myocardial Infarction (OBTAIN) study hypothesized that the higher the dose of beta-blocker the lower the mortality.
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Metformin and Colorectal Cancer Risk
In a retrospective cohort study of patients with type 2 diabetes who had ≥ 1 adenoma detected at baseline colonoscopy and a repeat colonoscopy 1-10 years later, metformin use lowered the risk of subsequent adenomas after polypectomy.
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Cardiovascular Events Associated with Masked Hypertension and White-coat Hypertension
Analysis from the Dallas Heart Study consisting of 3027 adults revealed that both white-coat hypertension and masked hypertension were independently associated with increased cardiovascular events, and, therefore, home blood pressure monitoring is recommended for U.S. adults, whether symptomatic or asymptomatic.
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ECG Review: Early Repolarization or Something More?