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An alternate-day steroid protocol appears to be just as efficacious as every-day steroids over the long term in a group of patients with undifferentiated polymyositis, with less serious long-term side effects.
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In this well-designed, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial of antioxidant supplements for Alzheimer's disease, there was no benefit, and some agents were associated with worse outcome.
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Coding patterns for emergency services have been scrutinized in the press recently.
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In an effort to drive down health care expenditures, a key target of state legislatures and health care policy makers in recent years has been frequent users of the ED.
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While studies show that most people come to the ED because of an urgent or emergent medical concern, some people wind up in an emergency setting because they are not plugged in to the kind of social or medical resources that could more appropriately meet their needs.
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The Joint Commission (TJC) is in the process of developing new tools, solutions, and performance measures aimed at improving the processes used to transition patients from one health care setting to another.
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You know there is a problem when the average wait time to see a provider is in the four-to-five-hour range, and 3% to 7% of incoming patients are routinely leaving the ED without being seen (LWBS).
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The incidence of epileptic seizures is much higher in elderly patients with Alzheimer's disease than those who are elderly but non-demented.