Brain death: reconciling definitions, criteria, and tests.

abstract：DESCRIPTION:The Women's Preventive Services Initiative (WPSI), a national coalition of women's health professional organizations and patient representatives, developed a recommendation on screening for anxiety in adolescent and adult women to improve detection; achieve earlier diagnosis and treatment; and improve healt...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Gregory KD,Chelmow D,Nelson HD,Van Niel MS,Conry JA,Garcia F,Kendig SM,O'Reilly N,Qaseem A,Ramos D,Salganicoff A,Son S,Wood JK,Zahn C,Women’s Preventive Services Initiative.

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:To reduce health care costs, some third-party payers have enlisted primary care physicians as gatekeepers to medical care. In gatekeeper systems, primary care physicians must approve all care provided to their patients. This approval is a condition of payment for the service, with the usual exception of true emergenci...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Eisenberg JM

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspirin exerts antiplatelet effects through irreversible inhibition of cyclooxygenase-1, whereas its anticancer effects may be due to inhibition of cyclooxygenase-2 and other pathways. In 2009, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force endorsed aspirin for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease. However, aspirin's...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Burns RB,Graham K,Sawhney MS,Reynolds EE

更新日期：2017-12-05 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 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vaccines are one of the greatest achievements in public health. Prevalence and clinical significance of emerging postapproval, vaccine-related safety issues have not been systematically studied. OBJECTIVE:To explore postmarketing safety modifications in U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved vacci...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Tau N,Yahav D,Shepshelovich D

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to gonorrhea and syphilis, both of which may develop primarily at anorectal or pharyngeal sites, a number of conditions, including Neisseria meningitidis urethritis, nonspecific urethritis, anorectal herpes, condyloma acuminatum, amebiasis, giardiasis, shigellosis, typhoid fever, enterobiasis, and hepatiti...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Owen WF Jr

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several adverse outcomes attributed to atypical antipsychotic drugs, specifically quetiapine, risperidone, and olanzapine, are known to cause acute kidney injury (AKI). Such outcomes include hypotension, acute urinary retention, and the neuroleptic malignant syndrome or rhabdomyolysis. OBJECTIVE:To investig...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hwang YJ,Dixon SN,Reiss JP,Wald R,Parikh CR,Gandhi S,Shariff SZ,Pannu N,Nash DM,Rehman F,Garg AX

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, yet it is still regarded by many as merely a bad habit. Most smokers want to quit but find it difficult. Behavioral counseling and pharmacotherapies are available, safe, and effective in the treatment of tobacco dependence. Nicotine replaceme...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Steinberg MB,Schmelzer AC,Richardson DL,Foulds J

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy homosexual men with unexplained persistent diffuse lymphadenopathy enrolled in a prospective natural history study from November 1981 to November 1982. These men had demographic, clinical, and laboratory findings similar to those of homosexual patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Pathologic ex...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Abrams DI,Lewis BJ,Beckstead JH,Casavant CA,Drew WL

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight patients developed grand mal seizures during intravenous theophylline therapy. None had a history of neurologic disorder, and all were acutely ill with severe pulmonary or cardiovascular disease, or both. Serum theophylline concentrations obtained within 1 hour of the seizure ranged from 25 mug/ml to 70mug/ml, w...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Zwillich CW,Sutton FD,Neff TA,Cohn WM,Matthay RA,Weinberger MM

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diagnosis of pulmonary embolism requires clinical probability assessment. Implicit assessment is accurate but is not standardized, and current prediction rules have shortcomings. OBJECTIVE:To construct a simple score based entirely on clinical variables and independent from physicians' implicit judgment. D...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Le Gal G,Righini M,Roy PM,Sanchez O,Aujesky D,Bounameaux H,Perrier A

更新日期：2006-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous research has supported screening for gonorrhea and chlamydia in asymptomatic, sexually active women (including pregnant women) who are younger than 25 years or at increased risk but not in other patient populations. PURPOSE:To update the 2005 and 2007 systematic reviews for the U.S. Preventive Serv...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Zakher B,Cantor AG,Pappas M,Daeges M,Nelson HD

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare inhaled pentamidine with intravenous pentamidine for the treatment of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). DESIGN:A randomized trial. SETTING:Community teaching hospital and hospital-based outpatient treatment center. PATIENTS:Twenty-one homosexual men...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Soo Hoo GW,Mohsenifar Z,Meyer RD

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Communication in the delivery of health care services occurs along 2 axes: between providers and patients and among several providers. In primary care, a principle objective in the provider-patient relationship is facilitating whole-person care, which is care provided in the context of family and community. In additio...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Weiner SJ,Barnet B,Cheng TL,Daaleman TP

更新日期：2005-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Timing of initiation of screening for breast cancer is controversial in the United States. OBJECTIVE:To determine the threshold relative risk (RR) at which the harm-benefit ratio of screening women aged 40 to 49 years equals that of biennial screening for women aged 50 to 74 years. DESIGN:Comparative model...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： van Ravesteyn NT,Miglioretti DL,Stout NK,Lee SJ,Schechter CB,Buist DS,Huang H,Heijnsdijk EA,Trentham-Dietz A,Alagoz O,Near AM,Kerlikowske K,Nelson HD,Mandelblatt JS,de Koning HJ

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opioid dependence is a chronic relapsing medical condition with substantial health and societal complications. Recent federal initiatives are designed to enhance the medical treatment of patients with opioid dependence and will expand the role of internists in the care of these patients. These initiatives include a pr...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Fiellin DA,O'Connor PG

更新日期：2002-10-15 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：:Amantadine HCl administration has resulted in accelerated resolution of influenza A illness. Prolonged abnormalities in pulmonary function have been described in uncomplicated influenza A. To study the effect of amantadine on these changes, we evaluated young adults with documented natural influenza A with clear chest...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Little JW,Hall WJ,Douglas RG Jr,Hyde RW,Speers DM

更新日期：1976-08-01 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：BACKGROUND:Although clinicians avoid giving meropenem to patients with penicillin allergy because of potential cross-reactivity, the rate of cross-reactivity between penicillins and meropenem has not been prospectively determined. OBJECTIVE:To assess the tolerability of meropenem in patients with documented penicillin...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Romano A,Viola M,Guéant-Rodriguez RM,Gaeta F,Valluzzi R,Guéant JL

更新日期：2007-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：SOURCE CITATION:Liu J, Li L, Li S, et al. Sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors and the risk of diabetic ketoacidosis in patients with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Diabetes Obes Metab. 2020;22:1619-27. 32364674. ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Griffin TP,Dinneen SF

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The Federated Council for Internal Medicine (FCIM) comprises the American Board of Internal Medicine, American College of Physicians, American Society of Internal Medicine, Association of Professors of Medicine, Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine, and the Society of General Internal Medicine. The Co...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors：

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Radiation therapy is one of many treatment options for patients with prostate cancer. PURPOSE:To update findings on the clinical and biochemical outcomes of radiation therapies for localized prostate cancer. DATA SOURCES:MEDLINE (2007 through March 2011) and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Tria...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Bannuru RR,Dvorak T,Obadan N,Yu WW,Patel K,Chung M,Ip S

更新日期：2011-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the risk factors for ventilator-associated pneumonia can help to assess prognosis and devise and test preventive strategies. OBJECTIVE:To examine the baseline and time-dependent risk factors for ventilator-associated pneumonia and to determine the conditional probability and cumulative risk ov...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Cook DJ,Walter SD,Cook RJ,Griffith LE,Guyatt GH,Leasa D,Jaeschke RZ,Brun-Buisson C

更新日期：1998-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To define the clinical and hematologic effects of recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (rhGM-CSF) on patients with chronic severe neutropenia. DESIGN:Open-label, phase II study of rhGM-CSF. SETTING:Inpatient hematology and surgery clinic at a university medical center. P...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Ganser A,Ottmann OG,Erdmann H,Schulz G,Hoelzer D

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Iron chelation therapy (ICT) in patients with lower-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) has not been evaluated in randomized studies. Objective:To evaluate event-free survival (EFS) and safety of ICT in iron-overloaded patients with low- or intermediate-1-risk MDS. Design:Multicenter, randomized, double-b...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Angelucci E,Li J,Greenberg P,Wu D,Hou M,Montano Figueroa EH,Rodriguez MG,Dong X,Ghosh J,Izquierdo M,Garcia-Manero G,TELESTO Study Investigators.

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroblastoma, the second commonest solid tumor in children, is a neoplasm of the peripheral autonomic nervous system that usually occurs before children are 6 years old. Therapy of localized tumor (clinical stage I and II) and of a special form of metastatic tumor (clinical stage IV-S) is usually successful, but trea...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Seeger RC,Siegel SE,Sidell N

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Extended-duration low-molecular-weight heparin has been shown to prevent venous thromboembolism (VTE) in high-risk surgical patients. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the efficacy and safety of extended-duration enoxaparin thromboprophylaxis in acutely ill medical patients. DESIGN:Randomized, parallel, placebo-contro...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hull RD,Schellong SM,Tapson VF,Monreal M,Samama MM,Nicol P,Vicaut E,Turpie AG,Yusen RD,EXCLAIM (Extended Prophylaxis for Venous ThromboEmbolism in Acutely Ill Medical Patients With Prolonged Immobilization) study.

更新日期：2010-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the usefulness of computed tomography (CT) brain scanning in alcoholic patients with withdrawal seizures (n = 151) and other neurologic problems (n = 87) and compared the findings of a detailed neurologic examination to the results of CT scanning. In patients with seizures, nearly 50% of CT scans were nor...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Feussner JR,Linfors EW,Blessing CL,Starmer CF

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00