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Arterial Ischemic Stroke Prevention and Risk Factor Management
MONOGRAPH: Here is the best evidence-based practice for stroke diagnosis, prevention, and risk factor management.
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Current Management of Abscesses
Abscesses are common skin and soft tissue infections, and their incidence has continued to rise substantially over the years. Despite the high prevalence of abscesses in current care, the management of abscesses varies widely between care providers. This article reviews the current management options for simple cutaneous abscesses in patients, including review of the epidemiology, differential diagnosis, diagnostic studies, and changing practice of wound cultures and antibiotic therapy. In addition, this article outlines the essential steps of abscess management, informing practitioners of current best practice options as evidenced by current literature or expert opinion.
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Meningitis Update
MONOGRAPH: Meningitis is inflammation of the meninges lining the brain that if allowed to progress ultimately leads to increased intracranial pressure.
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Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke
MONOGRAPH: The faster definitive stroke treatment is administered, the better the outcomes. Unfortunately, most patients arrive too late.
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Strategies for Prescribing Opioids Appropriately
Prescription opiate abuse and misuse has become a growing epidemic recently, and the problem seems to be propagating without an immediate end in sight. It is known that prescription opiate abuse has clear links to heroin abuse (which also has become increasingly more prevalent), and, in some instances, primary care physicians may be adding fuel to the proverbial fire.
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Electronic Cigarette and Nicotine Toxicity
MONOGRAPH: Their health effects, potential toxicity with inappropriate consumption, role as a portal to other drugs, and the lack of adequate regulation.
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Evaluation of Syncope
MONOGRAPH: Here's how to determine the appropriate treatment and disposition outcomes in the most time- and cost-effective manner.
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Collaboration with Community Pharmacies in the Patient Centered Medical Home
The sometimes rocky road toward comprehensive reform makes it tough to remember the goal: improve the quality of care while reducing costs system-wide.
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Update
Over the past decade, this definition of COPD has changed dramatically, as has the characterization and treatment of individuals with COPD. Multiple new therapies alter the course of this disease, reduce exacerbations, improve quality of life, and increase survival; previous nihilistic approaches to the management of COPD have been replaced by directed and effective pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic therapies. This update will review current approaches to the diagnosis and management of COPD and present the most recent evidence for the classification of COPD phenotypes and the implications of these categories for COPD treatment and prognosis.
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Fibromyalgia and Other Soft Tissue Pain Syndromes
MONOGRAPH: Sometimes it's helpful to ask the patient, “Do you have anywhere on your body that doesn’t hurt?”