Press releases by academic medical centers: not so academic?

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the use of thyroid function tests to monitor therapy in patients taking levothyroxine. DATA IDENTIFICATION:Studies published between 1966 and January 1990 were identified through computer searches and references of identified studies. STUDY SELECTION:Studies that included a careful description of ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Helfand M,Crapo LM

更新日期：1990-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The usefulness of HbA, as a monitor of metabolic control was studied in 15 diabetic outpatients during periods of stable, deteriorating, and improving control. Mean fasting concentrations of HbA, and plasma glucose during a 3-month period of stable control were 12.6% +/- 0.8% and 120 +/- 8 mg/dL, respectively. One wee...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Boden G,Master RW,Gordon SS,Shuman CR,Owen OE

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous drug users are the second largest risk group for the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and a bridge to two other groups: children and heterosexual partners. In the absence of effective treatment or vaccines, control of the epidemic among drug users will rely on efforts to reduce needle sharing. How...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Des Jarlais DC,Friedman SR,Hopkins W

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gentamicin and tobramycin were compared for cost effectiveness in the treatment of adult patients with serious infections in a general medical service. We used data from a randomized double-blind trial in which the only observed difference between the clinical effects of these aminoglycosides was the incidence of neph...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Holloway JJ,Smith CR,Moore RD,Feroli ER Jr,Lietman PS

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To synthesize new data on breast cancer screening for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. DATA SOURCES:MEDLINE; the Cochrane Controlled Trials Registry; and reference lists of reviews, editorials, and original studies. STUDY SELECTION:Eight randomized, controlled trials of mammography and 2 trials evalua...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Humphrey LL,Helfand M,Chan BK,Woolf SH

更新日期：2002-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical technology assessment seeks to improve the care of individual patients (the conventional unit of clinical practice) through evaluation studies conducted in groups of patients (the conventional unit of clinical investigation). This distinction between individuals and groups has practical relevance to the design...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Diamond GA,Denton TA

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical implications of newly acquired left bundle-branch block (LBBB) were examined prospectively in the Framingham Study population. During 18 years of observation 55 people developed LBBB. The mean age at the onset of LBBB was 62; LBBB occurred largely in people with antecedent hypertension, cardiac enlargemen...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Schneider JF,Thomas HE Jr,Kreger BE,McNamara PM,Kannel WB

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Department of Health and Human Services recently called for public comment on human subjects research protections. OBJECTIVE:To assess variability in reviews across institutional review boards (IRBs) for a multisite, minimal-risk trial of financial incentives for evidence-based hypertension care and to ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Petersen LA,Simpson K,Sorelle R,Urech T,Chitwood SS

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:As the third decade since AIDS was first recognized comes to an end, extraordinary advances have occurred in the understanding, treatment, and prevention of HIV infection and AIDS. As a result of these successes, it is now time to focus on future challenges. Paramount among these is reaching the goal of truly controll...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Dieffenbach CW,Fauci AS

更新日期：2011-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether diabetic patients, when compared with nondiabetic patients, have a higher incidence of restenosis after coronary stenting, and, if so, whether restenosis is attributable to lesion or procedural differences or to a greater biologic tendency for late loss of minimum diameter in diabetic pat...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Carrozza JP Jr,Kuntz RE,Fishman RF,Baim DS

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five patients with chronic renal failure who were undergoing maintenance hemodialysis developed a self-limited bullous dermatosis restricted to light exposed areas, primarily involving the dorsa of the hands. Porphyrin levels and phototesting were normal, but histologic sections of the bullae showed thickening of venu...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Gilchrest B,Rowe JW,Mihm MC Jr

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The latest guidelines from the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association, released in fall 2013, provide a long-anticipated update to the recommendations of the Third Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Cook NR,Ridker PM

更新日期：2016-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Within 4 days, two oncology patients in the Clinical Research Unit had bacteremia causes by group Y Neisseria meningitidis. Three additional patients, identified by prevalence survey, were found to have nasopharyngeal colonization with that serogroup, compared with only one employee (not associated with patients) and ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Cohen MS,Steere AC,Baltimore R,von Graevenitz A,Pantelick E,Camp B,Root RK

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hemodialysis patients receiving deferoxamine for metal overload had fatal rhinocerebral rhizopus infections. Serious fungal infections are not commonly seen in patients on dialysis, and none of these patients had the usual risk factors for rhizopus infection. Deferoxamine is being used with increased frequency in...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Windus DW,Stokes TJ,Julian BA,Fenves AZ

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After marketing, drugs should be evaluated for safety and for efficacy. Present national systems are inadequate for both tasks. Safety can be evaluated by means of nonexperimental research, whereas evaluation of efficacy in a variety of settings representing normal medical practice generally requires experiments, rand...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Slone D,Shapiro S,Miettinen OS,Finkle WD,Stolley PD

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many states have laws requiring mammography facilities to tell women with dense breasts and negative results on screening mammography to discuss supplemental screening tests with their providers. The most readily available supplemental screening method is ultrasonography, but little is known about its effect...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Sprague BL,Stout NK,Schechter C,van Ravesteyn NT,Cevik M,Alagoz O,Lee CI,van den Broek JJ,Miglioretti DL,Mandelblatt JS,de Koning HJ,Kerlikowske K,Lehman CD,Tosteson AN

更新日期：2015-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：Background:More than half of enrollees in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are also covered by Medicare and can choose to receive their prescriptions from VA or from Medicare-participating providers. Such dual-system care may lead to unsafe opioid use if providers in these 2 systems do not coordinate care o...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Moyo P,Zhao X,Thorpe CT,Thorpe JM,Sileanu FE,Cashy JP,Hale JA,Mor MK,Radomski TR,Donohue JM,Hausmann LRM,Hanlon JT,Good CB,Fine MJ,Gellad WF

更新日期：2019-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:An investigation of patient care in four hospitals compared levels of resource use between 1964 and 1974 for patients with a primary diagnosis of pneumonia. Results showed a decreased length of stay in all hospitals. Unique patterns of increases and decreases existed in each hospital for the changing use of diagnostic...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Sheeley DR,Sherman H

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medicare's value-based purchasing (VBP) and the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) could disproportionately affect safety-net hospitals. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether safety-net hospitals incur larger financial penalties than other hospitals under VBP and HRRP. DESIGN:Cross-sectional analysis....

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Gilman M,Hockenberry JM,Adams EK,Milstein AS,Wilson IB,Becker ER

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The safety of using inhaled beclomethasone dipropionate for the treatment of severe asthma during pregnancy was evaluated during 45 pregnancies in 40 women. Despite chronic administration of theophylline and, in some women, ephedrine, the asthma was so severe that corticosteroids were essential to prevent emergency ro...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Greenberger PA,Patterson R

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-six patients who required heparin therapy were randomly assigned to receive bovine or porcine heparin. Abnormal concentrations of alanine transaminase and aspartate transaminase developed during treatment in 59.3% and 26.7% of patients, respectively. Patient characteristics that significantly influenced the dev...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Dukes GE Jr,Sanders SW,Russo J Jr,Swenson E,Burnakis TG,Saffle JR,Warden GD

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the efficacy and safety of fluconazole treatment of coccidioidal meningitis. DESIGN:Uncontrolled clinical trial. SETTING:Four university-based treatment centers in California, Arizona, and Texas. Most therapy was conducted without hospitalization. PATIENTS:Fifty consecutive patients with activ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Galgiani JN,Catanzaro A,Cloud GA,Higgs J,Friedman BA,Larsen RA,Graybill JR

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the 6-month change in cardiovascular (coronary heart disease) risk as a function of diet and drug therapy for mild hypertension. DESIGN:Collaborative randomized, controlled clinical trial to assess the efficacy of alternative regimens in treating mild hypertension. SETTING:Three university-based...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Oberman A,Wassertheil-Smoller S,Langford HG,Blaufox MD,Davis BR,Blaszkowski T,Zimbaldi N,Hawkins CM

更新日期：1990-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many dispensing errors made in hospital pharmacies can harm patients. Some hospitals are investing in bar code technology to reduce these errors, but data about its efficacy are limited. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate whether implementation of bar code technology reduced dispensing errors and potential adverse drug ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Poon EG,Cina JL,Churchill W,Patel N,Featherstone E,Rothschild JM,Keohane CA,Whittemore AD,Bates DW,Gandhi TK

更新日期：2006-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Staphylococcus aureus is a common cause of serious infection in patients infected with HIV. OBJECTIVES:To evaluate risk factors for and quantitative effect of S. aureus infection in HIV-infected patients, with special attention to nasal carriage. DESIGN:Prospective, multihospital cohort study. SETTING:Thr...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Nguyen MH,Kauffman CA,Goodman RP,Squier C,Arbeit RD,Singh N,Wagener MM,Yu VL

更新日期：1999-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The effect of physician diagnostic variability on accuracy at a population level depends on the prevalence of diagnoses. OBJECTIVE:To estimate how diagnostic variability affects accuracy from the perspective of a U.S. woman aged 50 to 59 years having a breast biopsy. DESIGN:Applied probability using Bayes'...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Elmore JG,Nelson HD,Pepe MS,Longton GM,Tosteson AN,Geller B,Onega T,Carney PA,Jackson SL,Allison KH,Weaver DL

更新日期：2016-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical school graduates are avoiding primary care. The very aspects that once attracted students have been subverted. The breadth of practice that was once appealing has become the breadth of heavy-handed scrutiny, as politicians and business leaders have demanded quality--simplistically defined as dogmatic adherence...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Norenberg DD

更新日期：2009-05-19 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：:After decades of silence, the German Society for Internal Medicine (DGIM) has made considerable efforts to come to terms with its role and actions during the Nazi era (1933 to 1945). This is particularly important because, with more than 27 000 members, the DGIM is the largest medical society in present-day Germany. S...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hofer HG,Forsbach R,Fölsch UR

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical symptoms account for more than half of all outpatient visits, but the specific causes and treatments of many common symptoms are frequently not well established. Because clinical research has primarily targeted specific diseases, symptoms-based research is still an emerging field of scientific inquiry, and op...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kroenke K

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00