Physician-assisted suicide.

abstract：BACKGROUND:U.S. HIV treatment guidelines recommend branded once-daily, 1-pill efavirenz-emtricitabine-tenofovir as first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART). With the anticipated approval of generic efavirenz in the United States, a once-daily, 3-pill alternative (generic efavirenz, generic lamivudine, and tenofovir) wil...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Walensky RP,Sax PE,Nakamura YM,Weinstein MC,Pei PP,Freedberg KA,Paltiel AD,Schackman BR

更新日期：2013-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, antibodies to human T-cell leukemia virus membrane antigens (HTLV-MA) and elevated levels of beta 2-microglobulin and thymosin alpha 1 have been found with high frequency in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Prospective studies of asymptomatic persons at high risk for this syndrome will a...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kreiss JK,Lawrence DN,Kasper CK,Goldstein AL,Naylor PH,McLane MF,Lee TH,Essex M

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1969 to 1974, 19 cases of Serratia marcescens endocarditis were observed in the San Francisco Bay Area. Seventeen patients were intravenous drug users, and Serratia caused 14% of all addict-associated endocarditis in San Francisco. Serratia strains were nonpigmented and had typical antibiotic sensitivities, excep...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Mills J,Drew D

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The youthful habits and family attitudes of medical students who later developed or died from one of five disease states were different from those of healthy classmate controls to begin with. In medical school, the total disorder group had significantly more nervous tension, anxiety, and anger under stress, had more i...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Thomas CB

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dietary and lifestyle modification efforts are the primary treatments for people who are obese or overweight. The effect of dietary counseling on long-term weight change is unclear. PURPOSE:To perform a meta-analysis of the effect of dietary counseling compared with usual care on body mass index (BMI) over ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Dansinger ML,Tatsioni A,Wong JB,Chung M,Balk EM

更新日期：2007-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The systemic capillary leak syndrome (SCLS) is a rare disease of reversible plasma extravasation and vascular collapse accompanied by hemoconcentration and hypoalbuminemia. Its cause is unknown, although it is believed to be a manifestation of transient endothelial dysfunction due to endothelial contraction, apoptosis...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Druey KM,Greipp PR

更新日期：2010-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment selection markers, sometimes called predictive markers, are factors that help clinicians select therapies that maximize good outcomes and minimize adverse outcomes for patients. Existing statistical methods for evaluating a treatment selection marker include assessing its prognostic value, evaluating treatme...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Janes H,Pepe MS,Bossuyt PM,Barlow WE

更新日期：2011-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Each year, millions of patients worldwide have a perioperative myocardial infarction (MI) after noncardiac surgery. OBJECTIVE:To examine the characteristics and short-term outcome of perioperative MI. DESIGN:Cohort study. (ClinicalTrials.gov registration number: NCT00182039) SETTING:190 centers in 23 coun...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Devereaux PJ,Xavier D,Pogue J,Guyatt G,Sigamani A,Garutti I,Leslie K,Rao-Melacini P,Chrolavicius S,Yang H,Macdonald C,Avezum A,Lanthier L,Hu W,Yusuf S,POISE (PeriOperative ISchemic Evaluation) Investigators.

更新日期：2011-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the efficacy of orally administered ampicillin, 2 g/d, with that of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, 320 mg/d-1600 mg/d, given for 2 or 6 weeks for outpatient management of acute uncomplicated renal infection in women. Of 98 women participating in the trial, 60 had renal infections with susceptible strains, ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Stamm WE,McKevitt M,Counts GW

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess whether echocardiographic and electrocardiographic detection of left ventricular hypertrophy could predict cardiovascular morbid events in patients with uncomplicated essential hypertension, we followed 140 men for a mean of 4.8 years. Initial echocardiographic measurements of left ventricular mass were norm...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Casale PN,Devereux RB,Milner M,Zullo G,Harshfield GA,Pickering TG,Laragh JH

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endomyocardial biopsy was done 119 times in 98 patients receiving doxorubicin therapy once every 3 weeks and 41 times in 27 patients receiving doxorubicin therapy weekly. Factors contributing to the degree of anthracycline-induced endomyocardial injury were evaluated. Neither age, sex, type of malignancy, concomitant ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Torti FM,Bristow MR,Howes AE,Aston D,Stockdale FE,Carter SK,Kohler M,Brown BW Jr,Billingham ME

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arterial blood gas analysis is used to evaluate oxygen and carbon dioxide gas exchange and acid-base status. Few studies identify indications for arterial blood gas analysis, especially with regard to optimizing the quality of patient care. General indications in severely ill adults usually include pathophysiologic ab...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Raffin TA

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical significance of anatomic substage was assessed in 130 patients with Hodgkin's disease in pathologic stage III-A: stage III1-A includes involvement of spleen, or splenic, celiac, or portal nodes, or any combination of these; stage III2-A includes involvement of para-aortic, iliac, or mesenteric nodes, with...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Stein RS,Golomb HM,Diggs CH,Mauch P,Hellman S,Wiernik PH,Ultmann JE,Rosenthal DS

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine the effect of a nurse-managed intervention for smoking cessation in patients who have had a myocardial infarction. DESIGN:Randomized, with a 6-month treatment period and a 6-month follow-up. SETTING:Kaiser Foundation hospitals in Redwood City, Santa Clara, Hayward, and San Jose, Californi...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Taylor CB,Houston-Miller N,Killen JD,DeBusk RF

更新日期：1990-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Medicine has long sought to match diagnostic and treatment approaches to the particular needs and risks of individual patients. The decreasing cost and increasing ease of genetic sequencing have propelled the rise of precision medicine. Precision medicine aims to use genetic and other information to provide care tailo...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kiryluk K,Goldstein DB,Rowe JW,Gharavi AG,Wapner R,Chung WK

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Home-based primary care for homebound seniors is complex, and practice constraints are unique. No quality-of-care standards exist. OBJECTIVE:To identify process quality indicators that are essential to high-quality, home-based primary care. DESIGN:An expert development panel reviewed established and new qu...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Smith KL,Soriano TA,Boal J

更新日期：2007-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pharmaceutical companies and other trial sponsors must submit certain trial results to ClinicalTrials.gov. The validity of these results is unclear. PURPOSE:To validate results posted on ClinicalTrials.gov against publicly available U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reviews on Drugs@FDA. DATA SOURCES...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Schwartz LM,Woloshin S,Zheng E,Tse T,Zarin DA

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Immediately after the liberation of Kuwait by a coalition of allied forces in March 1991, representatives of Physicians for Human Rights traveled to Kuwait and conducted an inquiry into human rights violations allegedly perpetrated by Iraqi forces. The inquiry focused on the abuses that were said to have occurred in h...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Brennan TA,Kirschner R

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cause of cancer-associated venous limb gangrene is unknown but could paradoxically be due to warfarin. OBJECTIVE:To determine the pathogenesis of venous gangrene in a patient with cancer. DESIGN:Case report. SETTING:University hospital in Ontario, Canada. PATIENT:66-year-old woman with metastatic lun...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Warkentin TE

更新日期：2001-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hyperuricemia is associated with risk for cardiovascular disease and death. However, the role of uric acid independent of established risk factors is uncertain. OBJECTIVE:To examine the relation of serum uric acid level to incident coronary heart disease, death from cardiovascular disease, and death from al...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Culleton BF,Larson MG,Kannel WB,Levy D

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To review the available data on the treatment of chronic stable angina and formulate a rational approach to the use of pharmacologic therapy, percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), and coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). DATA SOURCES:A MEDLINE search of English-language literature publ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Solomon AJ,Gersh BJ

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medical students may be at high risk for occupational exposures to blood. OBJECTIVE:To measure the frequency of medical students' exposure to infectious body substances, to identify factors that affect the probability of such exposure, and to suggest targets for the prevention of such exposure. DESIGN:Revi...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Osborn EH,Papadakis MA,Gerberding JL

更新日期：1999-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine the association between current non-aspirin nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use and fatal peptic ulcers or upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage. DESIGN:Nested case control study using a linked Medicaid-death certificate database. SETTING:Tennessee Medicaid enrollees aged 60 and g...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Griffin MR,Ray WA,Schaffner W

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hospitals are implementing discharge support programs to reduce readmissions, and these programs have had mixed success. OBJECTIVE:To examine whether a peridischarge, nurse-led intervention decreased emergency department (ED) visits or readmissions among ethnically and linguistically diverse older patients ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Goldman LE,Sarkar U,Kessell E,Guzman D,Schneidermann M,Pierluissi E,Walter B,Vittinghoff E,Critchfield J,Kushel M

更新日期：2014-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is part 1 of a 2-part series on interpretation of 12-lead resting electrocardiograms (ECGs). Part 1 is a position paper that presents recommendations for initial competency, competency assessment, and maintenance of competency on ECG interpretation, as well as recommendations for the role of computer-assist...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Salerno SM,Alguire PC,Waxman HS,American College of Physicians.

更新日期：2003-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The pandemic potential of influenza A (H5N1) virus is a prominent public health concern of the 21st century. OBJECTIVE:To estimate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of alternative pandemic (H5N1) mitigation and response strategies. DESIGN:Compartmental epidemic model in conjunction with a Markov mod...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Khazeni N,Hutton DW,Garber AM,Owens DK

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) remain a leading cause of injury-related deaths in the United States. Primary seat belt laws allow vehicle occupants to be ticketed solely for not wearing seat belts, and secondary laws allow ticketing only for failure to wear seat belts in the setting of other violations. OBJEC...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Lee LK,Monuteaux MC,Burghardt LC,Fleegler EW,Nigrovic LE,Meehan WP,Schutzman SA,Mannix R

更新日期：2015-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To review the radiofrequency ablation method, describe the technique, and discuss the indications, results, and limitations of its use in patients with cardiac tachyarrhythmias. DATA SOURCES:Peer-reviewed reports in the literature by clinical investigators who use radiofrequency catheter ablation as identified...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Manolis AS,Wang PJ,Estes NA 3rd

更新日期：1994-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:9-(1,3-dihydroxy-2-propoxymethyl) guanine (ganciclovir) was used to treat 41 patients (median age, 37 years) with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and cytomegalovirus gastrointestinal infection. Sites of infection were the colon in 31, the esophagus in 5, the rectum in 4, and the small bowel in 1. Patients recei...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Chachoua A,Dieterich D,Krasinski K,Greene J,Laubenstein L,Wernz J,Buhles W,Koretz S

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Triplex vaccine was developed to enhance cytomegalovirus (CMV)-specific T cells and prevent CMV reactivation early after hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HCT). Objective:To determine the safety and efficacy of Triplex. Design:First-in-patient, phase 2 trial. (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02506933). Setting:3...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Aldoss I,La Rosa C,Baden LR,Longmate J,Ariza-Heredia EJ,Rida WN,Lingaraju CR,Zhou Q,Martinez J,Kaltcheva T,Dagis A,Hardwick N,Issa NC,Farol L,Nademanee A,Al Malki MM,Forman S,Nakamura R,Diamond DJ,TRIPLEX VACCINE St

更新日期：2020-03-03 00:00:00