Brief communication: National quality-of-care standards in home-based primary care.

abstract：Background:Zika virus has spread rapidly in the Americas and has been imported into many nonendemic countries by travelers. Objective:To describe clinical manifestations and epidemiology of Zika virus disease in travelers exposed in the Americas. Design:Descriptive, using GeoSentinel records. Setting:63 travel and t...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hamer DH,Barbre KA,Chen LH,Grobusch MP,Schlagenhauf P,Goorhuis A,van Genderen PJ,Molina I,Asgeirsson H,Kozarsky PE,Caumes E,Hagmann SH,Mockenhaupt FP,Eperon G,Barnett ED,Bottieau E,Boggild AK,Gautret P,Hynes NA,Kuhn

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:National guidelines recommend that physicians discuss end-of-life (EOL) care planning with patients with cancer whose life expectancy is less than 1 year. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the incidence of EOL care discussions for patients with stage IV lung or colorectal cancer and where, when, and with whom these dis...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Mack JW,Cronin A,Taback N,Huskamp HA,Keating NL,Malin JL,Earle CC,Weeks JC

更新日期：2012-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health care-associated infections from invasive medical devices in the intensive care unit (ICU) are a major threat to patient safety. Most published studies of ICU-acquired infections have come from industrialized western countries. In a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Nosocomial I...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Rosenthal VD,Maki DG,Salomao R,Moreno CA,Mehta Y,Higuera F,Cuellar LE,Arikan OA,Abouqal R,Leblebicioglu H,International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium.

更新日期：2006-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective study, mortality ratios were computed in relation to overweight, cancer, and other diseases. The study included 750 000 men and women followed for 12 years. Each person was given a weight index. Death rates for overweight and underweight persons were compared with rates for persons of average weight. ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Garfinkel L

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Variants in genes involved in warfarin metabolism and sensitivity affect individual warfarin requirements and the risk for bleeding. Testing for these variant alleles might allow more personalized dosing of warfarin during the induction phase. In 2007, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration changed the labeli...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Eckman MH,Rosand J,Greenberg SM,Gage BF

更新日期：2009-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Meta-analysis is the process of combining study results that can be used to draw conclusions about therapeutic effectiveness or to plan new studies. We review important design and statistical issues of this process. The design issues include protocol development, objectives, literature search, publication bias, measur...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： L'Abbé KA,Detsky AS,O'Rourke K

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Telaprevir (TVR) plus peginterferon-α2a (PEG-IFN-α2a) and ribavirin substantially increases treatment efficacy for genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection versus PEG-IFN-α2a-ribavirin alone. Its safety and efficacy in patients with HCV and HIV-1 are unknown. OBJECTIVE:To assess the safety and e...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Sulkowski MS,Sherman KE,Dieterich DT,Bsharat M,Mahnke L,Rockstroh JK,Gharakhanian S,McCallister S,Henshaw J,Girard PM,Adiwijaya B,Garg V,Rubin RA,Adda N,Soriano V

更新日期：2013-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether oral acyclovir reduces the incidence of recurrent herpes labialis in otherwise healthy patients with proven frequently recurrent disease. DESIGN:Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover trial. SETTING:Outpatient facility of the Clinical Center, National Institutes of Heal...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Rooney JF,Straus SE,Mannix ML,Wohlenberg CR,Alling DW,Dumois JA,Notkins AL

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe 13 infections caused by Mycobacterium haemophilum. DESIGN:Identification of patients by microbiologic record review, followed by medical record review and a case-control study. SETTING:Seven metropolitan hospitals in New York. PATIENTS:All patients with M. haemophilum infections diagnosed betwe...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Straus WL,Ostroff SM,Jernigan DB,Kiehn TE,Sordillo EM,Armstrong D,Boone N,Schneider N,Kilburn JO,Silcox VA,LaBombardi V,Good RC

更新日期：1994-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients had recurrent facial edema and peripheral blood eosinophilia. One patient showed a marked increase in the serum level of the eosinophil granule major basic protein. In both patients, skin biopsy samples showed nonspecific mononuclear cell inflammation with few eosinophils. However, immunofluorescence stai...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Songsiridej V,Peters MS,Dor PJ,Ackerman SJ,Gleich GJ,Busse WW

更新日期：1985-10-01 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:Difficulties with daily functioning are common in middle-aged adults. However, little is known about the epidemiology or clinical course of these problems, including the extent to which they share common features with functional impairment in older adults. Objective:To determine the epidemiology and clinica...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Brown RT,Diaz-Ramirez LG,Boscardin WJ,Lee SJ,Steinman MA

更新日期：2017-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In five patients with hypertension and marked impairment of renal function due to renal artery stenosis in a solitary functioning kidney, a nonsurgical technique, percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, was used to dilate the stenotic renal artery. Blood pressure improved in all five patients, and renal function improv...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Weinberger MH,Yune HY,Grim CE,Luft FC,Klatte EC,Donohue JP

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is characterized by inflammation, reversible airway obstruction, and increased airway responsiveness to various stimuli. It has received wide public attention in recent years because of increasing morbidity and deaths, particularly among black persons. The important role of inflammation in the immunopathogenesi...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Goldstein RA,Paul WE,Metcalfe DD,Busse WW,Reece ER

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult T-cell leukemia associated with human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) is characterized by a clonal expansion of a CD4-positive subset of T lymphocytes that constitutively express high numbers of interleukin-2 receptors and that frequently infiltrate the skin; osteolytic bone lesions, and hypercalcemia. Usi...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Marcon L,Rubin LA,Kurman CC,Fritz ME,Longo DL,Uchiyama T,Edwards BK,Nelson DL

更新日期：1988-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Data on body weight and weight change collected from nationally representative samples of U.S. adults are reviewed. The body mass index (weight [kg]/height [m2]) has a low correlation with height and is used to compare body weights between persons of differing heights. The BMI varies to a greater degree in women than ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Williamson DF

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mounting evidence indicates that subclinical thyroid dysfunction has important clinical effects and prognostic implications, supporting the view that it is not a compensated biochemical change sensu strictu. PURPOSE:To review clinical information on the effects of subclinical thyroid dysfunction on the hear...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Biondi B,Palmieri EA,Lombardi G,Fazio S

更新日期：2002-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Screening women for Chlamydia trachomatis in family planning clinics is associated with a reduced incidence of chlamydial sequelae. However, the question of whom to screen to maintain efficient use of resources remains controversial. OBJECTIVE:To assess the cost-effectiveness of chlamydial screening done ac...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Howell MR,Quinn TC,Gaydos CA

更新日期：1998-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although weight loss improves risk factors for cardiovascular and metabolic disease, it is unclear whether intentional weight loss reduces mortality rates. OBJECTIVE:To examine the relationships among intention to lose weight, weight loss, and all-cause mortality. DESIGN:Prospective cohort study using a pr...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Gregg EW,Gerzoff RB,Thompson TJ,Williamson DF

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antioxidant vitamins are thought to play a role in atherosclerosis. Supplementation of these nutrients has been explored as a means of reducing cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. PURPOSE:To assess the evidence of the effectiveness of vitamin supplementation, specifically vitamins A, C, and E; beta-caro...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Morris CD,Carson S

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe pulmonary hypertension without pulmonary fibrosis occurred in 10 patients with the CREST syndrome (calcinosis, Raynaud's phenomenon, esophageal dysfunction, sclerodactyly, telangiectasia), reputedly a benign variant of progressive systemic sclerosis. Time from the initial symptom, Raynaud's phenomenon, to the r...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Salerni R,Rodnan GP,Leon DF,Shaver JA

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent postmarketing trials produced conflicting results about the risk for hospitalized heart failure (hHF) associated with dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors, creating uncertainty about the safety of these antihyperglycemic agents. OBJECTIVE:To examine the associations of hHF with saxagliptin and s...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Toh S,Hampp C,Reichman ME,Graham DJ,Balakrishnan S,Pucino F,Hamilton J,Lendle S,Iyer A,Rucker M,Pimentel M,Nathwani N,Griffin MR,Brown NJ,Fireman BH

更新日期：2016-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency of solid tumors was evaluated in 628 consecutive patients with multiple myeloma who had been treated with various melphalan-prednisone combinations. Among those patients who lived at least 2 months, the incidence and diversity of second tumors were similar to those in normal persons of the same age and d...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Stegman R,Alexanian R

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute bronchitis is an acute cough illness in otherwise healthy adults that usually lasts 1 to 3 weeks. This review describes the pathophysiology of the condition and provides a practical approach to the evaluation and treatment of adults with uncomplicated acute bronchitis. Practical points to be made are:1. Respirat...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Gonzales R,Sande MA

更新日期：2000-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether growth hormone replacement in older men improves functional ability. DESIGN:Randomized, controlled, double-blind trial. SETTING:General community. PATIENTS:52 healthy men older than 69 years of age with well-preserved functional ability but low baseline insulin-like growth factor 1 lev...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Papadakis MA,Grady D,Black D,Tierney MJ,Gooding GA,Schambelan M,Grunfeld C

更新日期：1996-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Because clinical diagnosis is inaccurate, objective testing is usually considered necessary when patients present with suspected deep venous thrombosis (DVT). OBJECTIVE:To determine whether a negative result on a quantitative latex D dimer assay eliminates the need for further investigation in patients with...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Bates SM,Kearon C,Crowther M,Linkins L,O'Donnell M,Douketis J,Lee AY,Weitz JI,Johnston M,Ginsberg JS

更新日期：2003-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinicians can use data to improve daily clinical practice. This paper offers eight principles for using data to support improvement in busy clinical settings: 1) seek usefulness, not perfection, in the measurement; 2) use a balanced set of process, outcome, and cost measures; 3) keep measurement simple (think big, bu...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Nelson EC,Splaine ME,Batalden PB,Plume SK

更新日期：1998-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:For the diagnosis of M7, the bone marrow aspirate shows a leukemic cell infiltrate that comprises 30% or more of all cells. These cells are identified as being of megakaryocyte lineage by the platelet peroxidase reaction on electron microscopy or by tests with monoclonal or polyclonal platelet-specific antibodies. Mye...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Bennett JM,Catovsky D,Daniel MT,Flandrin G,Galton DA,Gralnick HR,Sultan C

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have seen two patients whose hepatitis was due to the administration of aprindine, a new antiarrhythmic agent. In both patients evidence of hepatitis appeared within 3 weeks of initiating aprindine therapy and resolved rapidly when the drug was withdrawn. The reintroduction of aprindine in one patient was associate...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Herlong HF,Reid PR,Boitnott JK,Maddrey WC

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A controlled clinical trial compared three-drug and four-drug combination chemotherapy in 109 patients with advanced small-cell anaplastic carcinoma of the lung. The combination of vincristine, 1-(2-chloroethyl)-3-cyclohexyl-1-nitrosourea (CCNU), cyclophosphamide, and methotrexate was significantly superior to the com...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hansen HH,Dombernowsky P,Hansen M,Hirsch F

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00