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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. -
User-friendliness of the Latest Generation of ICU Ventilators
In an attempt to reproduce the situation in which a covering physician is called urgently to a patient's bedside because of a ventilator-related problem, this laboratory study sought to determine how readily intensivists could operate new-generation ICU mechanical ventilators with which they were not personally familiar. -
Exogenous Surfactant Does Not Improve Outcomes in Adults with Acute Lung Injury or ARDS
This large-scale clinical trial of exogenous surfactant administration in adult patients with acute lung injury (ALI) or acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) used internationally accepted diagnostic criteria and the ARDS Net lung-protective ventilation protocol in all patients. -
Active Involvement of Families in ICU Care Improved Satisfaction with Care Provided
Generally, families of critical care patients are not actively involved in patient care in a consistent or meaningful way. -
Primary Care Reports - Full January 2010 Issue in PDF