Medical error arises from lack of awareness
A clinician who did not know a certain policy causes a chemotherapy problem.
Print Issue: September 01, 2014
Lifestyle interventions for obesity and weight-related complications
Behavioral strategies for sustainable weight loss can significantly improve clinical outcomes in obese patients.
What ways can providers improve the vaccine delivery process?
The Clinical Advisor asked Dr. Tan this question: What one thing can a primary-care NP or PA do to improve the vaccine-delivery process in his/her practice?
Acute or chronic pancreatitis?
How can a clinician distinguish chronic pancreatitis from acute pancreatitis in a patient with alcohol-abuse history?
Corticosteroid inhalers may reduce growth in kids
Regular use of inhaled corticosteroids may cause a small reduction in height or a dose-dependent reduction in growth velocity.
Processed, fried foods up mortality in chronic kidney disease
Patients who ate a diet of processed and fried foods, organ meats, and sweetened beverages had a 50% heightened risk of death.
Progressive difficulties swallowing indicated more than ‘just heartburn’
Extensive food allergy testing revealed that a patient’s difficulty swallowing was caused by foods common in her diet.
Easy formula for identifying normal glomerular filtration rate
Each patient loses 0.8% kidney function/year after the age of 30. If you round this to a loss of 1% per year (for simplicity), you can calculate if a GFR is normal for a patient’s age.
B vitamins ineffective in treating cognitive decline
Most aspects of cognitive function declined during the studies evaluated and vitamin B supplementation reduced circulating homocysteine concentrations, as expected.
Self pulse-monitoring may prevent second stroke
Patients were taught to identify atrial fibrillation by measuring the peripheral pulse at the radial artery to prevent a second stroke.
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