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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care
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Gloves Are Not Perfect
After caring for patients with Clostridium difficile infection, nearly 25% of health care workers were found to have hand contamination with C. difficile spores. -
Clinical Briefs in Primary Care Supplement
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Patients with Multiple Medical Emergency Team Calls Are at High Risk for Adverse Outcomes
In this large observational study in four hospitals with a standardized rapid response system, among patients with an initial team activation who were not immediately transferred to the ICU, those with one or more additional activations during the hospitalization were more likely to need ICU care and had both longer hospital stays and higher mortality. -
Can We Prevent the Avoidable Readmission When Time Is of the Essence?
There are four predictors for a potentially avoidable readmission due to end-of-life issues: number of admissions in the past year, opiate prescription at discharge, neoplasm and Elixhauser comorbidity index.