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Cardiac Biomarkers: How to Use Them Wisely
How the use of cardiac biomarkers has changed. -
Emergency Medicine Reports - Full January 18, 2010 Issue in Streaming Audio/Downloadable MP3 Format
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Hospital Medicine Alert - Full February, 2010 Issue in PDF
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Clostridium difficile Diarrheal Disease in Children
Do children < 1-year-old actually develop diarrhea due to C. difficile? What should be the patient age cutoff below which laboratories should reject any stools for C. difficile testing? How will the new state-of-the-art molecular tests influence the interpretation of results in children? -
Drug Compliance and Persistence — A Major Public Health Problem
Patients who adhered to prescribed anti-hypertensive medication experienced a significantly decreased risk of acute cardiovascular events, yet only 6 months after diagnosis, only 8.1% of patients were classified as having high adherence, 40.5% demonstrated intermediate adherence, and 51.4% demonstrated low adherence to prescribed medication regimens. -
Critical Care Alert February 2010 Issue in PDF
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement
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Special Feature: Considerations in Developing a Policy for Organ Donation After Cardiac Death
There continues to be a huge discrepancy between the number of individuals on the national waiting list for vital organ transplant and the number of donor organs available. -
Lending a (Clean) Hand to Infection Prevention Measures: Improving Hand-hygiene Practices
Infection prevention is a priority area of focus for critical care units worldwide. -
Pharmacology Watch: Dabigatran: An Oral Direct Thrombin Inhibitor
In this issue: Results from a Phase 3 study of dabigatran, intensive lipid-lowering in CVD, H1N1 vaccine dosing and efficacy, and FDA Actions.