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There is no difference in rates of treatment failure, death, or readmission for COPD between patients treated with oral or intravenous steroids for exacerbation of COPD, but the IV route may be associated with increased cost and length of stay.
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In this before-and-after study of more than 275,000 patients admitted to a Swedish hospital before-and-after implementation of a medical emergency team, in-hospital cardiac arrests decreased and overall in-hospital mortality fell by 10% in the two years following the team's implementation.
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Autochthonous transmission of dengue virus infection has been detected in Florida.
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Unfortunate outcomes are a fact of medicine, as too are lawsuits for alleged malpractice.
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Inclusion of fasciculation potentials as evidence for denervation, will dramatically increase the diagnostic sensitivity of EMG in patients with motor neuron disease.
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When compared with controls, patients with Bell's palsy were found to have a higher incidence of impaired glucose tolerance.
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Olfactory dysfunction is associated with cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease (PD), and both are linked by cholinergic pathway deficits.
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A mutation in a single copy of the PINK1 gene may be a susceptibility factor for subtle but progressive motor and non-motor signs of Parkinson's disease.