- Physician's Weekly

Big Dividends for an After-Hours Clinic Model

Feb 6, 2013

Using an after-hours clinic (AHC) that was off-site from a children’s hospital ED appears to...

Anesthesia Training: Private Vs Academic Settings

Feb 6, 2013

Private practice anesthesiology training appears to be preferred over academic rotations by...

Genitourinary Injuries in the ED

Feb 6, 2013

Acute genitourinary (GU) injuries appear to be frequently associated with the use of common...

Simple Tasks Campaign: The Value of Rheumatology

Feb 5, 2013

The American College of Rheumatology’s Simple Tasks campaign is designed to educate lawmakers,...

Comparing Treatments in Vertebral Fractures

Feb 4, 2013

Percutaneous therapy for treating patients with bony malignancy and vertebral fractures appears to...

A Look at Partial Nephrectomy in Medicare Patients

Feb 4, 2013

Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center have found that partial nephrectomy appears to have a...

Guideline Adherence Impacts Mortality in Schizophrenia

Jan 31, 2013

Adherence to the 2009 Schizophrenia Patient Outcomes Research Team (PORT) pharmacologic guidelines...

Trends in AF Among Hospitalized ACS Patients

Jan 31, 2013

Among patients hospitalized with an acute coronary syndrome (ACS), overall rates of atrial...

Surgical-Site Antisepsis in Cesarean Deliveries

Jan 31, 2013

Rates of surgical site infection (SSI) appear to be similar between cesarean deliveries using...

The Lupus Initiative

Jan 30, 2013

The Lupus Initiative is a national education program designed to reduce health disparities experienced by patients with lupus. The Lupus Initiative has developed a free resource toolkit for practitioners of medicine – CME...

Patients With CKD Have Higher Rates of CDI

Jan 29, 2013

Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) appear to have a higher risk of Clostridium difficile...

Hospital Length of Stay in Non-STEMI Patients

Jan 29, 2013

Duke University research suggests that patients with non-STEMI who spend more than 2 days in the...

A Look at Suicide Among Physicians

Jan 29, 2013

Mental illness appears to be an important comorbidity for physicians who complete a suicide, according to findings from a data review. After assessing postmortem toxicology data, researchers observed low rates of medication...

Highlights from the 2013 Adult Immunization Schedule

Jan 29, 2013

The Advisory committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control and...

Newsworthy Research from 2012 ACR/ARHP

Jan 29, 2013

More than 20 rheumatology studies were selected as newsworthy and highlighted during the 2012...

Survival Trends for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Jan 26, 2013

At hospitals participating in the Get With the Guidelines–Resuscitation registry, survival and...

Summary of Hypertriglyceridemia Recommendations

Jan 25, 2013

Summary of Recommendations 1.0 Diagnosis and Definitions 1.1. Severe and very severe hypertriglyceridemia increase the risk for pancreatitis while mildor moderate hypertriglyceridemia may be a risk factor for cardiovascular...