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Simplified Tool Assesses 5-Year Risk of Diabetes : With only three predictors – age, BMI, and family history – the measure is easier for patients to use.
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- Diana Mahoney
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Study Makes Case for Appropriate OPAT Refusals
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- Diana Mahoney
Major Finding: True clinical failures occurred in 4 of 57 patients who were denied outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy by the infectious...
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Simplified Tool Assesses Risk of Diabetes Development
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- Diana Mahoney
Major Finding: Nondiabetic persons who were positive for all three of the risk criteria of a simplified prediction had a nearly 20% risk of...
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Acute Skin Infections: Initial Treatment Failure Is 23%
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- Diana Mahoney
Major Finding: Of 3,535 patients hospitalized for acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections, 22.5% failed initial antibiotic therapy and...
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Hospital Stay for Nosocomial Pneumonia Shortened by Tapering Antibiotic
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- Diana Mahoney
Major Finding: The ICU length of stay for patients with nosocomial pneumonia in whom initial empiric antibiotic therapy was de-escalated was 9.4...
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Copper Surfaces in ICU Rooms Slash Hospital-Acquired Infections
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- Diana Mahoney
Major Finding: The rate of hospital-acquired infections was significantly lower in patients placed in medical intensive care unit rooms outfitted...
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Gastric Bypass's Metabolic Gains Persist at 6 Years
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- Diana Mahoney
Major Finding: Six years after gastric bypass surgery, the rate of diabetes remission in a cohort of morbidly obese patients was 75%, compared...
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Clinicians Slow to Embrace Sipuleucel-T for Prostate Cancer
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- Diana Mahoney
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Raloxifene Did Not Increase Lupus Activity in Study
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- Diana Mahoney
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Skin and Soft Tissue Infection Rates, Costs Rise
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- Diana Mahoney
Major Finding: More than 11 million skin and soft tissue infections occur annually in the U.S.
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Doripenem Knocks Out Tough Pediatric Infections
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- Diana Mahoney
Major Finding: The microbiological cure rate for doripenem among the 75 subjects in whom at least one bacterial pathogen was isolated at baseline...
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Shorter Telaprevir Regimen Yields Best HCV Outcomes
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- Diana Mahoney
Major Finding: Twenty-four weeks of response-guided telaprevir-based HCV treatment is as effective as 48 weeks with fewer side effects in...
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It's All in the Translation
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- Diana Mahoney
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Two Questions Best Surveys for Sleep Apnea in Pregnancy
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- Diana Mahoney
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Genetic Discovery Shows Pathway of ESRD : Variants in APOL1 gene may explain fourfold higher rate of nondiabetic ESRD in African Americans
- Author:
- Diana Mahoney