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Clinical practice guidelines recommend maintaining serum potassium levels between 4.0 and 5.0 mEq/L in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). These guidelines are based on small studies that associated low potassium levels with ventricular arrhythmias in the pre-β-blocker...
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PMID: 22235086
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We present the first analysis of age-at-onset in the NIMH LOAD sample that allows for both a multilocus trait model and genetic heterogeneity among the contributing sites, while at the same time accommodating age censoring, effects of known genetic covariates, and full pedigree and marker informatio...
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PMID: 21812099
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This final rule sets forth updates to the home health prospective payment system (HH PPS) rates, including: the national standardized 60-day episode rates; the national per-visit rates; and the low utilization payment amount (LUPA) under the Medicare PPS for home health agencies effe...
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PMID: 22059280
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This interim final rule with comment period establishes waivers of the application of the Physician Self-Referral Law, the Federal anti-kickback statute, and certain civil monetary penalties (CMP) law provisions to specified arrangements involving accountable care organizations (ACOs...
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PMID: 22046632
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This final rule implements section 3022 of the Affordable Care Act which contains provisions relating to Medicare payments to providers of services and suppliers participating in Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) under the Medicare Shared Savings Program. Under these provisions,...
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PMID: 22046633
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Eric A Engels,
Ruth M Pfeiffer,
Joseph F Fraumeni,
Bertram L Kasiske,
Ajay K Israni,
Jon J Snyder,
Robert A Wolfe,
Nathan P Goodrich,
A Rana Bayakly,
Christina A Clarke,
Glenn Copeland,
Jack L Finch,
Mary Lou Fleissner,
Marc T Goodman,
Amy Kahn,
Lori Koch,
Charles F Lynch,
Margaret M Madeleine,
Karen Pawlish,
Chandrika Rao,
Melanie A Williams,
David Castenson,
Michael Curry,
Ruth Parsons,
Gregory Fant and
Monica Lin
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Solid organ transplant recipients have elevated cancer risk due to immunosuppression and oncogenic viral infections. Because most prior research has concerned kidney recipients, large studies that include recipients of differing organs can inform cancer etiology.
To d...
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PMID: 22045767
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We studied the impact of early pancreas graft failure on long-term kidney and patient survival. METHODS.: We included all primary SPK transplants performed in the United States between January 1, 2000, and December 31, 2007, who had maintained kidney graft function at 90 days posttransplantation. Ka...
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PMID: 21832957
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Abstract. During May 4, 2007-February 29, 2008, the United States resettled 6,159 refugees from Tanzania. Refugees received pre-departure antimalarial treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP), partially supervised (three/six doses) artemether-lumefantrine (AL), or fully supervised AL. Thirty-nin...
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PMID: 21976559
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Abstract. The epidemiology of soil-transmitted helminth infections (hookworm, Trichuris trichiura, Ascaris lumbricoides, and Strongyloides stercoralis) in the United States is poorly understood. To gain understanding of the status of disease, a systematic review was performed to assess the prevalence...
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PMID: 21976572
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: To identify the factors associated with inclusion of a gynecologic oncologist in managing the care of a woman with suspected ovarian cancer.
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PMID: 21934449
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We sought to assess whether the alteration of the peri-implantation maternal environment resulting from ovarian stimulation may contribute to increased risk of low birth weight in IVF births....
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PMID: 21934450
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Electronic consultation (e-consultation) is an emerging tool that primary care clinicians can use to communicate with specialists about patients asynchronously—that is, at different times that are convenient for each physician. To conduct an e-consultation, clinicians use either a...
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PMID: 22059281
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We compared RISE scores with primary pathology board certification success for residents graduating in 2008 and 2009. Overall RISE and nearly all sectional scores in anatomic and clinical pathology were significantly higher for residents passing all certifying examinations at the first attempt vs re...
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PMID: 21917671
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Dental therapists-midlevel dental providers who are roughly analogous to nurse practitioners in medicine-might constitute a disruptive innovation within US dentistry. Proponents tend to claim that dental therapists will provide more equitable access to dental care; opponents tend to view them from a...
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PMID: 21852623
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All soldiers in the U.S. Army are required to complete mask confidence training with o-chlorobenzylidene malononitrile (CS). To instill confidence in the protective capability of the military protective mask, CS is thermally dispersed in a room where soldiers wearing military protect...
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PMID: 22010329
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While violent eruptions are well documented in the ED, there is a not a lot of research into what strategies are most effective at both curbing violence and managing incidents when they do occur. Experts suggest that ED managers should consider staff training and visible security measures when develo...
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PMID: 21972755
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A new study shows that use of computed tomography (CT) scanning has exploded in the ED in recent years, despite high-profile concerns regarding patient exposure to radiation. The retrospective study, which looked at CT use in the ED from 1996 to 2007, suggests that use of the technology grew by 330%...
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PMID: 21972756
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Since the 1950s, the standard U.S. military troop parachute system has been the T-10. TheT-10 is currently being replaced by the newer T-11 system.
This investigation compared injury incidence between the T-10 and T-11 military parachute systems.
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PMID: 21961396
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