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03/27/2024
Nearly 108,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2022, surpassing the previous year’s record total, according to a CDC report. Although the official number of deaths caused by overdoses—107,941—breaks the...
03/27/2024
03/21/2024
In this video, Aldis H. Petriceks, BA, discusses his team's study, which set out to determine the optimal timepoints for assessing orthostatic hypotension in older adults, as well as the association between...
03/21/2024
03/13/2024
The study findings potentially challenge the conventional wisdom that the risk of Richter transformation would increase as patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia live longer with novel treatments. This...
03/13/2024
Interactive Features
02/29/2024
Cannabis use for medicinal effects is a highly debated topic, though research has shown positive effects of cannabis use for some health conditions. Do you think it has positive effects for sleep...
02/29/2024
11/12/2023
The CDC’s latest Youth Risk Behavior Survey was given to more than 17,000 adolescents at high schools across the United States in the fall of 2021. Do you know which way the percentage of female adolescents...
11/12/2023
08/18/2022
A patient scheduled for a positron emission tomography (PET) scan who wanted medication to relieve her anxiety was prescribed Versed, but the nurse mistakenly injected the patient with a fatal dose of...
08/18/2022
05/05/2022
A private practice did not provide a patient with a complete copy of the patient’s medical records. Instead, the practice relied on a state regulation that permitted giving a summary of the medical records....
05/05/2022
10/15/2019
It is Infection Prevention Week. To build capacity to prevent health-care–associated infections, has your practice implemented state activities?
10/15/2019
Clinical Insights
03/21/2024
In this video, Aldis H. Petriceks, BA, discusses his team's study, which set out to determine the optimal timepoints for assessing orthostatic hypotension in older adults, as well as the association between...
03/21/2024
03/01/2024
Gerard Slobogean, MD, MPH
Gerard Slobogean, MD, MPH
In this video, Gerard Slobogean, MD, MPH, reviews his recent study that compared two well-known preoperative skin antisepsis solutions with alcohol for patients with either closed or open extremity...
03/01/2024
08/27/2018
In this podcast, Dr Thomas Stelfox from the University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services spoke in-depth about his study, which found that select patients may benefit from being discharged directly from...
08/27/2018