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Many hospitals will be besieged and severely overcrowded if an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) occurs during the 2003-2004 influenza season, a government watchdog agency recently warned Congress.
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For almost two years now, we have had an active, very fun, and effective hand hygiene monitoring program.
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Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-1865) pioneered hand hygiene in medicine when trying to control the spread of puerperal (childbed) fever caused by Streptococcus pyogenes.
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Nasally Administered Flu Vaccine Comes to United States; Paxil: Not
Recommended for Children; Prilosec Granted OTC Status; Finasteride and
Prostate Cancer; Xolair: First Biologic Agent for Asthma; West Nile
Virus Update; Study Shows COX-2 Inhibitors Appear Safe with Aspirin in
Asthma Patients; Lamictal Approved for Bipolar Disorder
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Increase in Blood Glucose Concentration During Antihypertensive
Treatment as a Predictor of Myocardial Infarction; Adverse Drug Events
in Ambulatory Care; Prevention of Hip Fracture by External Hip
Protectors; Rapid MRI vs Radiographs for Patients with Low Back Pain;
Effectiveness of Anticholinergic Drugs Compared with Placebo in the
Treatment of Overactive Bladder; A Randomized Trial of a Low
Carbohydrate Diet for Obesity
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Affecting virtually every aspect of our health care system, the stunning growth and rapid integration of hospital-based medicine has affected the practice of both medicine and surgery by significantly modifying the delivery of inpatient, outpatient, and subacute care. This article details the history of hospitalists in the United States by defining the practice of hospital medicine and reviewing the evidence extolling its virtues. Although hospital medicine appears here to stay, work must still be done to address a number of current and future issues facing hospitalists and the health care community embracing them.
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The FDA has approved the first nasally administered flu vaccine to be marketed in this country. Medimmunes FluMist is also the first influenza vaccine to use live virus.
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Following radiation therapy, adjuvant extrafascial hysterectomy decreased the risk of relapse for patients with bulky stage IB cervical cancer without improving survival.
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Since the introduction of the 3-weekly CHOP (cyclophosphamide, adriamycin, vincristine, prednisone) chemotherapy 25 years ago, many efforts have been undertaken to improve the efficacy of multicycle polychemotherapy for patients with aggressive lymphoma.