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Hospital Medicine Alert - Full July 2012 Issue in PDF
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Improving Patient Safety During Postoperative Handoffs
This comprehensive review on postoperative patient handoffs confirms that they are high-risk events associated with adverse patient outcomes, and permits the identification of several strategies likely to improve the process despite the incompleteness and other limitations of the existing literature. -
Hospital Cultural and Organizational Characteristics Correlate with Important Mortality Differences in Managing Acute Myocardial Infarction
This study of 537 hospitals found that those with the lowest mortality rates for acute myocardial infarction have management strategies that differ in important ways from those at hospitals with higher acute myocardial infarction mortality. -
Should Cefazolin Be Preferred Treatment for Methicillin- susceptible S. aureus Bacteremia Instead of Nafcillin?
In a retrospective, propensity-score-matched, case-control study, investigators compared clinical outcomes and drug tolerabilities between nafcillin and cefazolin in the treatment of MSSA bacteremia. The authors found that cefazolin was as efficacious as nafcillin in the treatment of MSSA bacteremia while causing fewer adverse drug events. -
Traumatic Brain Injury
Head trauma is a common presenting problem among emergency department (ED) patients. It has been estimated that 1-2 million Americans sustain traumatic brain injury (TBI) annually. -
Trauma Reports November/December 2012 Issue in PDF
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FDA actions
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New recommendation for Tdap vaccine
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Pharmacology Watch - Full April 2012 Issue in PDF
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Do statins increase the risk of diabetes?