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Full May 2008 Issue in PDF
Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement
Physician Attitudes Toward Reporting Errors
This study reports findings from a survey of 1,082 US physicians (62% response rate) regarding their attitudes about reporting medical errors and suggestions for ways to prevent common errors.Should We Regionalize the Care of Mechanically Ventilated Patients?
Regionalized health care systems exist for trauma and neonatal care and efforts are underway to institute similar systems for high-risk surgeries, three fields in which there is a positive relationship between the volume of cases handled and patient outcomes.Survival from In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest is Worse at Night and on Weekends
This study sought to determine whether the occurrence of in-hospital cardiac arrest at night and on weekends was associated with worse outcomes as compared with arrests during day/evening shifts and on weekdays.Pharmacology Watch: FDA Drug Approval to Change its Ways?
In This Issue: FDA drug approval to change? Urinary incontinence in women; how metabolism of certain drugs can be predicted by genetic analysis; bowel preps may compromise renal function especially in the elderly according to a new study; FDA Actions.Full May/June Issue in PDF
Pediatric Concussions
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an important public health problem. It has the potential for long-term complications with persistent morbidity, and also can result in missed school and workdays.Full April 14, 2008 Issue in PDF
Basics of Chronic Wound Care
Why would Emergency Medicine Reports publish an article about "chronic" wounds? As we well know, many patients with chronic conditions come to the emergency department (ED), and those with chronic wounds are no exception. The incidence of chronic skin wounds is likely to increase to due the rise in obesity and diabetes, as well as aging in the general population.