Alternative perspectives on the biased foundations of medical technology assessment.

abstract：:Three cases of carbamazepine-induced granulomatous hepatitis are reported. Each patient had ingested carbamazepine for less than 1 month before presenting with a febrile illness suggestive of biliary tract infection. After withdrawal of carbamazepine, symptoms disappeared rapidly. Histologically, all patients had gran...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Levy M,Goodman MW,Van Dyne BJ,Sumner HW

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the rate of use of prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism in high-risk hospital patients. DESIGN:A retrospective medical record review. SETTING:A community-wide study in 16 short-stay hospitals in central Massachusetts. PATIENTS:A total of 2017 patients with multiple risk factors for venous th...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Anderson FA Jr,Wheeler HB,Goldberg RJ,Hosmer DW,Forcier A,Patwardhan NA

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ambulatory education has become an essential part of all internal medicine residencies. To develop excellent ambulatory education programs, we must thoroughly understand the opportunities available in such a setting, and the leaders in internal medicine must be willing to experiment with nontraditional locations and r...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Schuster BL

更新日期：1992-06-15 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:Optimal management of patients who are clinically suspected of having ventilator-associated pneumonia remains open to debate. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effect on clinical outcome and antibiotic use of two strategies to diagnose ventilator-associated pneumonia and select initial treatment for this condition....

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Fagon JY,Chastre J,Wolff M,Gervais C,Parer-Aubas S,Stéphan F,Similowski T,Mercat A,Diehl JL,Sollet JP,Tenaillon A

更新日期：2000-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary artery spasm is an important pathogenetic mechanism in some forms of myocardial ischemic disease. Factors that may be important in the genesis of spasm include the autonomic nervous system, prostaglandins, endoperoxides, thromboxanes, and the calcium availability to the contractile apparatus. Spasm results in...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Luchi RJ,Chahine RA,Raizner AE

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To characterize the role of cardiac function in septic shock, serial radionuclide cineangiographic and hemodynamic evaluations were done on 20 patients with documented septic shock. Although all patients had a normal or elevated cardiac index, 10 patients had moderate to severe depression of their ejection fraction wi...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Parker MM,Shelhamer JH,Bacharach SL,Green MV,Natanson C,Frederick TM,Damske BA,Parrillo JE

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For years patients hospitalized with viral hepatitis have been placed in two categories of isolation--enteric precautions and blood precautions. This strategy was based on the inability to differentiate between hepatitis A and B and on the assumption that feces and blood from patients with either type might be infecti...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Favero MS,Maynard JE,Leger RT,Graham DR,Dixon RE

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Four months of rifampin treatment for latent tuberculosis infection is safer, has superior treatment completion rates, and is as effective as 9 months of isoniazid. However, daily medication costs are higher for a 4-month rifampin regimen than a 9-month isoniazid regimen. OBJECTIVE:To compare health care us...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Bastos ML,Campbell JR,Oxlade O,Adjobimey M,Trajman A,Ruslami R,Kim HJ,Baah JO,Toelle BG,Long R,Hoeppner V,Elwood K,Al-Jahdali H,Apriani L,Benedetti A,Schwartzman K,Menzies D

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine whether patients with Parkinson disease are at an increased risk for postoperative confusion. DESIGN:Retrospective chart review of patients with Parkinson disease who remained in the hospital at least 48 hours after their surgery. Current data were compared with published historical contro...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Golden WE,Lavender RC,Metzer WS

更新日期：1989-08-01 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：PURPOSE:To review the electropharmacology, clinical applications, side effects, and hemodynamic profile of intravenous amiodarone. DATA SOURCES:The MEDLINE database was searched for English-language material, including reports of clinical trials and in vivo studies, review articles, and abstracts presented at national...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Desai AD,Chun S,Sung RJ

更新日期：1997-08-15 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：:Infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) may cause viral antigenemia, detected primarily as p24 viral core protein. Among 16 patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or AIDS-related complex studied serially, 12 had or developed antigenemia ranging from 16 to 3006 pg/mL in plasma. The level ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Jackson GG,Paul DA,Falk LA,Rubenis M,Despotes JC,Mack D,Knigge M,Emeson EE

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the frequency of tests done in the year before elective surgery that might substitute for preoperative screening tests and to determine the frequency of test results that change from a normal value to a value likely to alter perioperative management. DESIGN:Retrospective cohort analysis of compu...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Macpherson DS,Snow R,Lofgren RP

更新日期：1990-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Even with optimal pharmacotherapy, symptomatic heart failure is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. PURPOSE:To determine the efficacy and safety of cardiac resynchronization therapy in adults with advanced systolic heart failure. DATA SOURCES:The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Tri...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： McAlister FA,Ezekowitz JA,Wiebe N,Rowe B,Spooner C,Crumley E,Hartling L,Klassen T,Abraham W

更新日期：2004-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasingly, interventions aimed at improving care are likely to use such technologies as machine learning and artificial intelligence. However, health care has been relatively late to adopt them. This article provides clinical examples in which machine learning and artificial intelligence are already in use in healt...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Bates DW,Auerbach A,Schulam P,Wright A,Saria S

更新日期：2020-06-02 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：:The growing population of older persons in our society will require increased attention. It is contended that the current pattern of third-party reimbursement for hospitalization and technical procedures focuses upon acute care and cure. The philosophy underlying medical education and practice is a barrier to the prov...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Eisdorfer C

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To reassess the natural history of polycythemia vera and to obtain reliable estimates of both incidence of thrombosis and survival for use in defining the sample size for therapeutic clinical trials. STUDY DESIGN:Retrospective cohort study of patients with polycythemia who had been followed for 20 years. SE...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors：

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to prevent cytomegalovirus infection among seronegative patients having marrow transplants, a globulin with high antibody levels against cytomegalovirus was given before and for 11 weeks after transplantation in a randomized trial. Among 36 patients who received no prophylactic granulocyte transfusions, g...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Meyers JD,Leszczynski J,Zaia JA,Flournoy N,Newton B,Snydman DR,Wright GG,Levin MJ,Thomas ED

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 17-year-old girl with a clinical diagnosis of adult-type juvenile rheumatoid arthritis developed a severe hepatotoxic reaction to 3.6 g of aspirin per day. This was associated with a microangiopathic anemia and transient congestive cardiac failure. She responded well to steroids, and when all laboratory test finding...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Sbarbaro JA,Bennett RM

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Access to information about clinical trials is important to researchers, health care professionals, and patients. Many have argued for the establishment of clinical trials registries, citing their substantial benefits. Although some registries do exist, it has been difficult to create comprehensive, easily accessible ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： McCray AT

更新日期：2000-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with a retained bullet developed lead poisoning in association with thyrotoxicosis. The clinical and laboratory data suggest that lead was mobilized from an increased mobile bone pool during the hypermetabolic period with resultant poisoning. The findings give factual support to earlier concepts that lead po...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Cagin CR,Diloy-Puray M,Westerman MP

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the safety and efficacy of intravenous adenosine in terminating acute episodes of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia. DESIGN:Two prospective, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trials to evaluate dose response in patients receiving adenosine and to compare the effects of adenosine wi...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： DiMarco JP,Miles W,Akhtar M,Milstein S,Sharma AD,Platia E,McGovern B,Scheinman MM,Govier WC

更新日期：1990-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite extensive literature, the diagnostic role of d-dimer for deep venous thrombosis (DVT) or pulmonary embolism (PE) remains unclear, reflecting multiple d-dimer assays and concerns about differing sensitivities and variability. PURPOSE:To systematically review trials that assessed sensitivity, specific...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Stein PD,Hull RD,Patel KC,Olson RE,Ghali WA,Brant R,Biel RK,Bharadia V,Kalra NK

更新日期：2004-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the low mortality and morbidity of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) compared with other public health scourges, is the attention devoted to it misdirected? The SARS experience has provided at least 4 enduring lessons. First, by providing a test of the capacity of each part of the public health system...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Emanuel EJ

更新日期：2003-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To review epidemiologic studies on the association between homocyst(e)ine level and risk for cardiovascular disease and the potential benefits of homocysteine-decreasing therapies. DATA SOURCES:Computerized and manual searches of the literature on total homocysteine levels and cardiovascular disease. STUDY SE...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Eikelboom JW,Lonn E,Genest J Jr,Hankey G,Yusuf S

更新日期：1999-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In observational studies or nonrandomized experiments, treated and control groups may differ in their outcomes even if the treatment has no effect; this may happen if the groups were not comparable before the start of treatment. The groups may fail to be comparable in either of two ways: They may differ with respect t...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Rosenbaum PR

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissues from guinea pigs inoculated intraperitoneally with the Legionnaires' disease (LD) bacterium were studied with light, immunofluorescent, and electron microscopy. The principal gross lesion was diffuse peritonitis of varying severity. Microscopically, the peritonitis of covered by a mixed inflammatory infiltrate...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Chandler FW,McDade JE,Hicklin MD,Blackmon JA,Thomason BM,Ewing EP Jr

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00