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Multiple Neck Operations in a Patient With Severe Motor Tics
In this patient with Tourette's syndrome, severe motor tics and involuntary neck movements caused cervical degeneration and myelopathy. What surgical approach provided relief?
Implementation of VAP Clinical Guideline (Bundle)
VAP prolongs ventilator days and length of stay in both the ICU and in the hospital itself, and nurses hold the keys to improving outcomes.
Extramammary Paget's Disease
Even though theories have been suggested regarding the pathogenesis of EMPD for more than 100 years, a consensus has not yet been reached.
Hand Hygiene and Face Touching in Family Medicine Offices
Family medicine offices are potential hot spots for the transmission of common infectious diseases. Are physicians and staff taking the proper precautions?
Vitamin D and Mortality
This meta-analysis of eight large cohort studies from Europe and the U.S. investigated the prognostic association of serum vitamin D measurements with all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality.
Physical Activity in Stable Coronary Heart Disease
Learn more about the determinants of physical inactivity in patients with chronic CHD.
Disparities in Breast Cancer Survival Among Asian Women
What factors contribute to breast cancer survival in the Asian immigrant community?
Financial Incentives in Smoking Cessation Treatment
Could offering small financial incentives encourage economically disadvantaged smokers to quit?
Gamification for Enhancing Graduate Medical Education
A new gamification-based educational software platform could be a novel approach to supplementing medical education.
Individualized Weight Monitoring Using the Heartphone
Should your patients be using heartphones instead of smartphones?
Visual Impairment and Mobility Performance in Older Adults
Using walking speed as a measure, this study evaluated how visual impairment effects mobility in older adults over time.
To Achieve "Health for All" We Must Shift the World's Paradigm
Evidence suggests that it is through enhanced primary care that health can truly be improved.
Gun Deaths in Rural and Urban Settings
Although there are substantial differences in the types of guns that are used, the similarities between urban and rural gun deaths are striking.
Clinical Response to Unintended Infusion of Doxorubicin and Vincristine
A patient with multiple myeloma received a 96-hour supply of these drugs in 1 day because an incorrect infusion rate was set on her portable infusion pump.
The Attributable Mortality of Delirium in Critically Ill Patients
How dangerous is delirium in severely ill patients, and how it could contribute to mortality? This new study takes a look at recent research.
The Continuity of Care Document, Research, and Public Health
How can the Continuity of Care Document help clinicians, especially those involved in public health, better conduct research into health issues and ultimately to deliver better healthcare?
Making Sense of Head Injuries in Young Athletes
What can practitioners do to reduce the risk of concussion for kids in sports?
Utility of an HIV-1 RNA Assay
Find out about the first reported case of a sexually active young woman with symptoms suggestive of ARS in whom RT-PCR for HIV-1 was falsely positive.
Quetiapine-Induced Sleep-Related Eating Disorder-Like Behavior
Involuntary eating while sleepwalking has been reported with many medications, but not previously with the antipsychotic quetiapine, as seen in these two patients.
Standardization in Patient Safety: The WHO High 5s Project
An overview of the WHO High 5s project, which aims to facilitate the implementation of global protocols to achieve significant reductions in challenging patient safety problems.