Using existing systematic reviews in complex systematic reviews.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is an indolent but ultimately fatal disease. Because the natural history of CML varies and quality of life with CML may be excellent until shortly before death, deciding whether and when to pursue unrelated donor bone marrow transplantation is often difficult. OBJECTIVE:To...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Lee SJ,Kuntz KM,Horowitz MM,McGlave PB,Goldman JM,Sobocinski KA,Hegland J,Kollman C,Parsons SK,Weinstein MC,Weeks JC,Antin JH

更新日期：1997-12-15 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：:This article applies major economic concepts, such as supply, demand, monopoly, monopsony, adverse selection, and moral hazard, to central features of U.S. health care. These illustrations help explain some of the principal problems of health policy-high cost and the uninsured-and why solutions are difficult to obtain...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Fuchs VR

更新日期：2015-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In a double-blind study of four patients with hereditary angioedema, the efficacy of methyltestosterone (taken daily in 10-mg linguet form) in preventing attacks was shown. There were 19 episodes during 11.8 months of placebo administration, compared with only four attacks during the 46 months of cumulative methyltest...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Sheffer AL,Fearon DT,Austen KF

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To critically assess original studies evaluating the role of preoperative pulmonary function testing in predicting postoperative outcomes. DESIGN:MEDLINE search of English-language articles from 1966 to 1987 using the following medical subjects headings respiratory function tests, lung, lung diseases, ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Zibrak JD,O'Donnell CR,Marton K

更新日期：1990-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary prevention of Alzheimer disease and other types of dementia (all-cause dementia) is an important public health goal. Evidence to date is insufficient to recommend any lifestyle change to prevent or delay the onset of dementia. OBJECTIVE:To assess the association between objectively measured midlife ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Defina LF,Willis BL,Radford NB,Gao A,Leonard D,Haskell WL,Weiner MF,Berry JD

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A lack of national health goals has allowed physician manpower policy to be dominated by an expansionist philosophy. Scarce resources have been channeled into the production of specialist physicians trained to provide complex and expensive care for uncommon diseases, using other scare and expensive resources and addin...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Bloom BS,Peterson OL

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several trends in medical education affect our supply of future physicians. The number of new physicians has increased so that each year there is an excess of about 6000 over the number of physicians produced per year a decade ago. Increasing numbers of women and members of minority groups are entering the profession ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Cooper JA

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Screening for hereditary hemochromatosis is traditionally done by using serum iron studies. However, mutation analysis of the hemochromatosis-associated HFE gene has recently become available. OBJECTIVE:To compare the cost-effectiveness of no screening with four screening strategies that incorporate HFE gen...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： El-Serag HB,Inadomi JM,Kowdley KV

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cost-effectiveness analysis and other forms of decision analysis are becoming more common in the medical literature and are increasingly influential in the development of health policy. Nevertheless, many clinicians find it difficult to apply policies developed from these analyses to individual encounters with patient...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Asch DA,Hershey JC

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lack of awareness of hypoglycemia is a major limiting factor in the management of type 1 diabetes. OBJECTIVE:To examine whether reduction in the number of episodes of hypoglycemia restores hypoglycemia awareness by influencing beta-adrenergic sensitivity in patients with type 1 diabetes. DESIGN:Controlled ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Fritsche A,Stefan N,Häring H,Gerich J,Stumvoll M

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pursuit of the ideal tumor marker has generated many tests for use in the diagnosis and management of cancer, several of which are now widely available. Tumor markers have five potential uses in patient care: They can be used for screening, for diagnosis, for establishing prognosis, for monitoring treatment, and f...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Bates SE

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The approximately 1.2 million inmates in U.S. correctional institutions have a high prevalence of communicable diseases, such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, tuberculosis, hepatitis B virus infection, and gonorrhea. Before their incarceration, most inmates had limited access to health care, which, tog...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Glaser JB,Greifinger RB

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the effect of treating Helicobacter pylori infection on the recurrence of gastric and duodenal ulcer disease. DESIGN:Follow-up of up to 2 years in patients with healed ulcers who had participated in randomized, controlled trials. SETTING:A Veterans Affairs hospital. PARTICIPANTS:A total of 109...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Graham DY,Lew GM,Klein PD,Evans DG,Evans DJ Jr,Saeed ZA,Malaty HM

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV-1 genotypic and phenotypic susceptibility testing (GPT) optimizes antiretroviral selection, but its effect on survival is unknown. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the association between GPT and survival. DESIGN:Cohort study. SETTING:10 U.S. HIV clinics. PATIENTS:2699 HIV-infected patients eligible for GPT (pl...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Palella FJ Jr,Armon C,Buchacz K,Cole SR,Chmiel JS,Novak RM,Wood K,Moorman AC,Brooks JT,HOPS (HIV Outpatient Study) Investigators.

更新日期：2009-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:It is currently unknown whether intensive insulin treatment of diabetes decreases the risk for cardiovascular complications by lowering glucose levels or increases the risk by postulated direct atherogenic effects. This article reviews published data from two long-term, randomized clinical trials that compared ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Genuth S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors slow renal disease progression and reduce cardiac morbidity and mortality in patients with diabetes. Patients' out-of-pocket costs pose a barrier to using this effective therapy. OBJECTIVE:To estimate the cost-effectiveness to Medicare of first-dollar coverage ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Rosen AB,Hamel MB,Weinstein MC,Cutler DM,Fendrick AM,Vijan S

更新日期：2005-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the necessity of posteroanterior chest roentgenography for the identification of pneumothorax and other complications after thoracentesis. DESIGN:Prospective cohort study. SETTING:Tertiary care teaching hospital. PATIENTS:67 men and 43 women (mean age +/- SD, 62.4 +/- 13.2 years). Exclusion cr...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Doyle JJ,Hnatiuk OW,Torrington KG,Slade AR,Howard RS

更新日期：1996-05-01 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：:Despite some impressive recent gains, improving the glaring deficiencies in health care quality is proving to be very hard. Improvement is local, rather than system-wide, and is sustained with difficulty, rather than becoming an intrinsic feature of care. My right knee will probably need to be replaced soon. This has ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Berwick DM

更新日期：2005-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ClinicalTrials.gov requires reporting of result summaries for many drug and device trials. PURPOSE:To evaluate the consistency of reporting of trials that are registered in the ClinicalTrials.gov results database and published in the literature. DATA SOURCES:ClinicalTrials.gov results database and matched ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hartung DM,Zarin DA,Guise JM,McDonagh M,Paynter R,Helfand M

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Young adults with cystic fibrosis have lower blood pressures than control subjects of similar age and sex. The low blood pressure may be related to the excessive loss of salt in the sweat of these patients. A beneficial effect of the cystic fibrosis gene may be protection against developing hypertension in both the ho...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Lieberman J,Rodbard S

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In AIDS, nodular skin disease can result from various causes. OBJECTIVE:To report a new manifestation of microsporidial infection presenting as nodular skin disease with underlying osteomyelitis. DESIGN:Case report. SETTING:Tertiary-care military medical center in Washington, D.C. PATIENT:A 36-year-old w...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kester KE,Turiansky GW,McEvoy PL

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine, through structured methodologic review of published articles, the effectiveness of short-course (< or = 2 weeks) antibiotic therapy for catheter-related Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. DATA SOURCES:English-language publications on catheter-related S. aureus bacteremia identified using MEDLINE...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Jernigan JA,Farr BM

更新日期：1993-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In two patients with thyroiditis caused by Coccidioides immitis, presented thyroid symptoms and findings were characteristic of subacute thyroiditis. Fine needle aspiration biopsy of the thyroid proved useful in establishing the diagnosis of coccidioidomycosis. This is the first report of coccidioidomycosis presenting...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Loeb JM,Livermore BM,Wofsy D

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Life space is a measure of where a person goes, the frequency of going there, and the dependency in getting there. It may be a more accurate measure of mobility in older adults because it reflects participation in society as well as physical ability. OBJECTIVE:To assess effects of hospitalization on life sp...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Brown CJ,Roth DL,Allman RM,Sawyer P,Ritchie CS,Roseman JM

更新日期：2009-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To review the current knowledge about breast cancer in black women--including epidemiology, risk factors, screening practices, pathology, clinical manifestations, treatment, and outcome--with emphasis on issues that might explain why the survival rate in this population of women is lower than that in white wome...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Moormeier J

更新日期：1996-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In previous open-label noncomparative clinical trials, both fluconazole and itraconazole were effective therapy for progressive forms of coccidioidomycosis. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether fluconazole or itraconazole is superior for treatment of nonmeningeal progressive coccidioidal infections. DESIGN:Rando...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Galgiani JN,Catanzaro A,Cloud GA,Johnson RH,Williams PL,Mirels LF,Nassar F,Lutz JE,Stevens DA,Sharkey PK,Singh VR,Larsen RA,Delgado KL,Flanigan C,Rinaldi MG

更新日期：2000-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1978 the Institute of Medicine issued "A Manpower Policy for Health Care," the report of a study of major issues bearing on the availability of an adequate number of physicians for provision of primary care and on potential strategies for an appropriate manpower policy. The report was analyzed by committees of the ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Peterson ML

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether self-assessment of purified protein derivative of tuberculin (PPD) skin test reactions, done using a simple two-choice approach, is an effective screening method for tuberculosis. DESIGN:Double-blind comparison between self-assessments and trained professional readings of PPD skin test r...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Prezant DJ,Kelly KJ,Karwa ML,Kavanagh K

更新日期：1996-08-15 00:00:00