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Schoffs and colleagues looked at the occurrence of hip fracture (excluding pathologic fractures and fractures in prosthetic hips) from 1991 to 1999 and their relationship to thiazide diuretics and chlorthalidone, which is not strictly a thiazide, but behaves like one.
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In this sophisticated analysis of ECG-LVH regression, more than 9000 hypertensive patients were randomized to losartan or atenolol therapy, treated to target blood pressure levels, and followed for up to 5 years.
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For patients who required > 48 hours of mechanical ventilation, daily routine chest radiographs and films obtained based on clinical indications produced similar outcomes.
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Health care workers are expected to practice without error, an ideal that in reality does not occur. In fact, errors occur more frequently that we would prefer.
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Two severely ill patients in the emergency department of your hospital need admission to intensive care, but only one bed is available. Who gets admitted first?
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A generic form of paroxetine (PaxilGlaxoSmithKline) will soon be on the market. The drug marks the second SSRI antidepressant to go generic after fluoxetine (Prozac) last year.
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In this study, the effect of endotracheal suctioning-induced alveolar derecruitment was studied.
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In this retrospective review of 33 patients with bilateral pleural effusions who had the fluid on both sides tapped, the cause of the effusions was most often cardiac disease and seemed to be the same on both sides in every case.
