Stat Consult: Upper-respiratory infection
A quick review of medical treatment for upper-respiratory infections, using the best global evidence.
Diagnosis & Disease Information
Stress counseling lacking in primary care
Stress-management counseling is the least common type of counseling provided by primary-care clinicians, study shows.
Use upper endoscopy wisely
Inappropriate endoscopy use generates unnecessary costs and exposes patients to harms without improving outcomes.
Sciatica relief from epidural steroids is brief
Epidural corticosteroid injections only offers short-term relief of leg pain and disability for patients with sciatica.
Kidney decline linked with cognitive decline
Changes in renal functioning over time were associated with changes in global cognitive ability, verbal episodic memory and abstract reasoning.
Wrestler Hulk Hogan files $50 million malpractice suit
Hogan alleges he underwent several unnecessary endoscopic procedures that destabilized his injured back and significantly damaged his earnings potential as a professional wrestler.
Fraudulent practices set off alarms
What do you do when patient charts have been changed after the fact and medication doses altered?
Long waits common for resolving malpractice claims
During an average career spanning 40 years, clinicians will spend more than 10% of the time with an unresolved malpractice claim.
Assessing CVD risk with ankle-brachial index
The American Heart Association issues guidance for assessing CVD risk using ABI.
Surgical ‘never events’ occur at least 4,000 times annually
U.S. surgeons make mistakes, such as leaving a foreign object inside a patient’s body or performing operations on the wrong part of the body, frequently.
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