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This issue of Emergency Medicine Reports is devoted to increasing your understanding of these measures and the role they will play in your practice.
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High-Dose Statin Therapy, Value for Older Adults; Simvastatin, Best for
Parkinson's Disease; Polyethylene Glycol for Chronic Constipation; FDA
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The population of the United States is aging and by 2020, there will be 51 million Americans over the age of 65 years.
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The sample for this study comprised 15,846 patients admitted to 51 adult ICUs in 31 hospitals participating in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Nosocomial Infection Surveillance system.
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Several years ago, the PROWESS trial demonstrated a mortality benefit for drotrecogin alfa [activated] (DrotAA; APC) in patients with severe sepsis, and that this benefit was most pronounced in those at high risk of death (ie, APACHE score > 25 or multi-organ dysfunction).
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Despite an increasing array of methods for control of diabetes, not even half of patients currently have attained and maintain an A1c less than 7%.
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Disturbance of sleep continuity, but not simple sleep deprivation, impairs pain inhibition and increases spontaneous pain.
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Liver fibrosis from chronic hepatitis C is worse after menopause and less severe in women receiving hormone therapy.
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