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6001. Discharge Against Medical Advice | PSNet
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      July 01, 2017 - financial obligations; feeling bored, fed up, or well enough to leave; or dissatisfaction with their treatment … In general, physicians should offer outpatient therapies that may be helpful, even if they are suboptimal … Communication Provide the patient with a brief written summary of his or her diagnoses, treatments

6002. Recommendation: Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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      February 25, 2020 - Pharmacologic treatments approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for Alzheimer disease include … (eg, loss of function and relationships, financial misjudgments, and nonadherence with recommended therapies … evidence on the accuracy of screening tests to detect cognitive impairment and the benefits and harms of treatments … Since current medical therapies for dementia do not appear to affect its long-term course, the potential … Research is needed on treatments that clearly affect the long-term clinical course of cognitive impairment

6003. Maternal Safety and Perinatal Mental Health | PSNet
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      March 28, 2023 - Healthcare providers should identify and discuss the available treatment options for perinatal mental … health concerns, including medication, therapy, and support groups. … be personalized to the patient's needs and may include regular check-ins, medication management, and therapy … There are often questions about measuring screening and referral to treatment. … The pediatric provider will use another EMR, and the psychiatrist they may receive treatment from will

6004. Event Transcipt August (pdf file)
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      August 27, 2009 - policies, as well as appropriate use of prescription drug and the complications that can ensue from drug therapy … Therapeutic substitution here refers for example the use of inexpensive generic and effective medications … comes out, for example, and they want to let all of their patients know you can get to a less-costly treatment … technologies will offer an opportunity for individuals to become more direct participants in their medication therapy … Does the introduction of this technology potentially mean we will see a different way that medication therapy

6005. Traumatic Brain Injury and Depression (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2011 - Effectiveness Reviews, the program supports systematic appraisals of existing scientific evidence regarding treatments … Depression may be financially costly in undermining physical therapy efforts, treatment compliance in … rehabilitation, community-based rehabilitation, complementary and alternative medicine, neuromodulation therapies … , and other therapies? … Therapeutic alliance in post-acute brain injury rehabilitation: predictors of strength of alliance and

6006. Archived: Chlamydia and Gonorrhea: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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      September 22, 2014 - (STDs) and expedited partner therapy are available at www.cdc.gov/std/treatment/2010/default.htm and … sex partner who cannot be linked to care, the CDC suggests that clinicians consider expedited partner therapy … substantial prevalence of asymptomatic infection, the availability of accurate screening tests and effective treatments … Accurate screening tests and effective antibiotic treatments are available for chlamydia and gonorrhea … statement also includes clarifications on risk assessment, screening tests, screening intervals, and treatments

6007. Strongyloides: A Hidden Traveler and Potentially Lethal Missed Diagnosis. | PSNet
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      August 25, 2021 - Summarize approaches to diagnosis and treatment of Strongyloides infection. … Diagnosis and Treatment A key issue for this patient was to recognize his risk for Strongyloides … Strongyloides hyperinfection has a high mortality even with treatment. … Manifestations, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Strongyloides stercoralis Infection. … Pneumothorax August 25, 2021 Lessons learned in implementing a chronic opioid therapy

6008. Procedure Complications – Who is Responsible for Follow up? | PSNet
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      July 31, 2023 - Perforations – a complication of esophageal endoscopy Endoscopy is an important tool for both diagnostic and therapeutic … In the aggregate, therapeutic procedures carry about ten times higher risk of perforation than purely … advanced endoscopy fellows had higher complication rates, likely reflecting the risk of more complex therapeutic … Efficacy of surgical versus conservative treatment in esophageal perforation: a systematic review of … Endoluminal therapies for esophageal perforations and leaks.

6009. Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right (Kidney) | PSNet
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      April 01, 2010 - Once the surgeon decided he did not need the imaging to proceed with surgical treatment, the proverbial … Operating Room May 1, 2019 The effectiveness and risks of long-term opioid therapy

6010. No BP During NIBP | PSNet
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      March 01, 2011 - impact of pharmacological/pharmaceutical care on medication safety and patient-reported outcomes during treatment … April 21, 2021 Optimizing Therapy to Prevent Avoidable Hospital Admissions in Multimorbid

6011. A Mistaken Dose of Naloxone  | PSNet
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      March 21, 2009 - after chemotherapy, but his abdominal and bony pain due to metastases was well controlled with opioid therapy … opioid-related harm, the 2016 CDC guidelines provided recommendations on the use of opioids for the treatment … Erika Cutler, PharmD Pharmacy and Therapeutics Coordinator  University of California, Davis   Assistant

6012. Microsoft Word - HOSP EVENT FORM 2006 _legal_.doc (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2006 - [EXPLAIN IF NECESSARY: An example would be a patient who received a series of treatments, such as … patient has a condition that requires very frequent visits, such as once- or twice-a-week physical therapy

6013. Danger in Disruption | PSNet
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      July 29, 2020 - When the anesthesiologist arrived with an assistant, they took the patient to a treatment room for sedation … The anesthesiologist did eventually insert a peripheral IV and the re-hydration therapy resumed.

6014. References (doc file)
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      January 01, 2017 - Patients were assigned to SSD and/or treatment with sucralfate. … Drainage versus standard endotracheal treatment. … continuous aspiration of subglottic secretions (CASS) (n=359) and the control arm received conventional therapy … Subglottic secretion aspiration is a safe and effective therapy and should be implemented in patients … Meta-analysis – Drainage Versus Standard Endotracheal Treatment.

6015. Computer Assisted Medication and Patient Information Interface (CAMPII) - Final Report (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2012 - hypoglycemia information from diabetes patients, to enhance communication with providers and improve patient treatment … Therefore CAMPII focused on key time intensive information needed to make diabetes therapy changes: … Proposed Specific Aims This interface will obtain the essential information to make informed therapeutic … The effect of intensive treatment of diabetes on the development and progression of long-term complications … Intensive insulin therapy prevents the progression of diabetic microvascular complications in Japanese

6016. Final Progress Report: Automated Lab Test Followup To Reduce Medical Errors (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2025 - These included 16 (41%) of the 39 Chlamydia cases in which no treatment for the infection was prescribed … No form of treatment was initiated for these six patients, despite the fact that all of these lead levels … result becoming available and were given instructions about any necessary further investigation or therapy … If the diagnosis had already been made and appropriate therapy initiated, we deemed it unnecessary to

6017. The Hidden Danger of Unseen Intravenous Catheters | PSNet
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      October 04, 2023 - The Case A 6-week-old infant underwent a craniotomy and excision of abnormal brain tissue for treatment … Infusion therapy standards of practice, 8 th edition.

6018. Picking Up the Cause of the Stroke | PSNet
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      August 07, 2024 - relative risks and benefits associated with each device against factors such as proposed duration of therapy … Comparative effectiveness of intravenous vs oral antibiotics for postdischarge treatment of acute osteomyelitis

6019. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      July 08, 2022 - Ten days later, he was transferred to an academic medical center for treatment of L3-L4 discitis and … patient receives medications multiple times and/or from various routes before each dose reaches its peak therapeutic … Imaging & Therapy Practice. 2003 Mar 1:4.

6020. Safeguarding Diagnostic Testing at the Point of Care | PSNet
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      September 30, 2011 - point-of-care testing at home, such as international normalized ratio for monitoring warfarin anticoagulation therapy … Persistent human chorionic gonadotropin after methotrexate treatment and an emergency surgical procedure