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Review of Systemic Antibiotic Treatments in Children with Rhinosinusitis

Sara Torretta, Lorenzo Drago, Paola Marchisio, Lorenzo Gaini, Claudio Guastella, Antonio Moffa, Vittorio Rinaldi, Manuel Casale, Lorenzo Pignataro
2019 Journal of Clinical Medicine  
There is an urgent need for dedicated controlled trials not only to test the actual clinical benefits deriving from the routine use of systemic antibiotics in different categories of patients but also  ...  The present paper reviews the role of systemic antibiotics in children with acute (ARS), chronic (CRS), recurrent (RARS), and complicated acute (CoARS) rhinosinusitis.  ...  There is an urgent need for dedicated controlled trials not only to test the actual clinical benefits of the routine use of systemic antibiotics in different categories of patients but also to compare  ... 
doi:10.3390/jcm8081162 pmid:31382570 pmcid:PMC6723210 fatcat:bshtknnl7rcudnywgpfnfjpakq

Impact of Health IT on Nature and Severity of Malpractice Claims

Deepti Singh, Shivendu Shivendu
2019 Americas Conference on Information Systems  
We provide a novel method to estimate information failures in malpractice claims using machine learning.  ...  We found the relative risk of malpractice claims with high level of medical error get reduced by 87-89% with each successful attestation to MU-Stage 2 and by 52-62% for MU-Stage 1.  ...  We inform the policy makers to lookout for such caveats while designing a phased program in order to achieve desired results.  ... 
dblp:conf/amcis/SinghS19 fatcat:mab7rtnaiva2hjluzz5vxzlz3a

Creating an Automated Health Attestation System During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic Using Google's G Suite

Erick M. Dubuque, Brandon Franklin, Josh K. Pritchard, Taylor Webb
2021 Behavior Analysis in Practice  
The purpose of this tutorial is to describe how an automated health attestation and notification system can be created using Google's G Suite platform at little to no cost to the organization.  ...  When combined with other mitigation strategies and strong organizational policies, health attestations may be an effective component for organizations to include in their response to the global pandemic  ...  Acknowledgements The authors would like to acknowledge Emily Zoernig for her assistance in piloting and providing feedback on the tutorial.  ... 
doi:10.1007/s40617-020-00545-5 pmid:33584996 pmcid:PMC7871955 fatcat:bqvg2skkljat5a5bhgjbdv4sei

The Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System and Heart Failure

Gabriel Sayer, Geetha Bhat
2014 Cardiology Clinics  
For example, HF patients with renal dysfunction have greater chance for readmission, longer hospital stay, and worse prognosis, and vascular injury has been linked to reduced exercise capacity, leading  ...  All experimental protocols were approved by the Institute for Animal Care and Use Committee at LSU Health Sciences Center and conformed to the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.  ... 
doi:10.1016/j.ccl.2013.09.002 pmid:24286576 fatcat:2s3vfmcwgvcbbbpgr4pyf7yjim

Exploring the Links Between Technology Acceptance and Use and the Attainment of Individual and Organizational Goals: A Case Study in the Community Health Sector

Louise K. Schaper, Graham P. Pervan
2005 Americas Conference on Information Systems  
The substantial data collected enables comprehensive analysis of the links between technology acceptance and use with the outcomes and impacts of use on individual and organisational goals.  ...  Results from this study provide qualitative support for the proposed model, demonstrate the invaluable role of individual commitment to the organisation and to the matching of organisational and individual  ...  We also wish to acknowledge the generous support of Neuber GbR, for the use of their Visual Timeanalyzer software.  ... 
dblp:conf/amcis/SchaperP05 fatcat:5uauj5kflzae3mb5dluhwlhig4

Current Opinions in Bleeding Peptic Ulcer Disease

2014 Journal of Gastrointestinal & Digestive System  
Progress in the development and the use of endoscopic and pharmacological therapies has revolutionised the management of bleeding peptic ulcer disease.  ...  bleeding, endoscopic therapy, pharmacological therapy, haemostasis, surgery for bleeding peptic ulcer.  ...  The scoring system also aims to enable cost-effective use of the available resources. Rockall et al.  ... 
doi:10.4172/2161-069x.1000172 fatcat:c57vcokqifbrzeybq46qoq55qe

Have Regulators Underestimated Cost of EHR Systems?

Rich Daly
2010 Psychiatric News  
under Medicare for covered professional services and inpatient hospital services provided by EPs and eligible hospitals failing to meaningfully use certified EHR technology; and other program participation  ...  L. 111-5) that provide incentive payments to eligible professionals (EPs) and eligible hospitals participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs that adopt and meaningfully use certified electronic health  ...  Attestation will utilize the same system for other attestation for meaningful use, and we propose to require for Medicare EPs that they attest to the following: • The information submitted with respect  ... 
doi:10.1176/pn.45.9.psychnews_45_9_009 fatcat:g4iossbov5amvc5muvguexozqm

Pharmacotherapy of systemic sclerosis

Arnold E Postlethwaite, L Jeff Harris, Syed H Raza, Swapna Kodura, Titilola Akhigbe
2010 Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy  
used as sources of information for this review.  ...  of the disease plus provide a review of results of completed clinical trials and current on-going clinical trials that address organ specific or global therapies for this disease which can aid physicians  ...  Analgesics are used to manage intractable pain due to the ischemia and ulceration, and unless contraindicated anti-platelet therapy should be started.  ... 
doi:10.1517/14656561003592177 pmid:20210685 pmcid:PMC2837533 fatcat:bxpltpkibjerhdopn4pzn5yfda

Progressive Stroke, Lacunae, and Systemic Blood Pressure

M. Bergui, G. B. Bradac, W. Steinke, S. C. Ley
2002 Stroke  
Include a fax number for the corresponding author and a completed copyright transfer agreement form (published in every other issue).  ...  Stroke welcomes Letters to the Editor and will publish them, if suitable, as space permits. They should not exceed 750 words (excluding references) and may be subject to editing or abridgment.  ...  worsening is strongly linked to the presence of a lacunar infarction or to an occlusion of large extracranial arteries. 4, 5 The possible management of these patients includes vessel recanalization  ... 
doi:10.1161/01.str.0000042001.93827.2c pmid:12468761 fatcat:ckhrfowpk5bz3i35vualsvimjm

Erysipelas: complement system and SIRS

O Chernyshev, A Petrov, A Shatil, N Serebryanaya, N Bubnova
2012 Critical Care  
Causative bacterial infections were linked to primary infection sites. In order to minimize overparameterization, the model was allowed to estimate outputs using the best three input parameters.  ...  Overall, these models appear useful to the task of sorting out organ failure endpoints and mechanisms in individual patients with sepsis progression across sepsis to septic shock.  ...  Comparisons of numeric data between groups were made using the oneway ANOVA test for multiple groups.  ... 
doi:10.1186/cc11748 pmcid:PMC3504862 fatcat:sfnyajlkjfckng4sqzeq4o23ji

Therapeutic applications of circadian rhythms for the cardiovascular system

Elena V. Tsimakouridze, Faisal J. Alibhai, Tami A. Martino
2015 Frontiers in Pharmacology  
The cardiovascular system exhibits dramatic time-of-day dependent rhythms, for example the diurnal variation of heart rate, blood pressure, and timing of onset of adverse cardiovascular events such as  ...  Here we describe leading-edge therapeutic applications of circadian biology including (1) timing of therapy to maximize efficacy in treating heart disease (chronotherapy); (2) novel biomarkers discovered  ...  Acknowledgment This work was supported by funding from CIHR to TM.  ... 
doi:10.3389/fphar.2015.00077 pmid:25941487 pmcid:PMC4400861 fatcat:nmo5stb4xzchnpbdtinezgxpwe

Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system blockers after KDIGO stage 3 acute kidney injury: use and impact on 2-year mortality in the AKIKI trial

Mathilde Scarton, Anne Oppenheimer, Khalil Chaïbi, Didier Dreyfuss, Stéphane Gaudry
2019 Critical Care  
All patients discharged alive from ICU were included, and their long-term prognosis (2-year all-cause mortality) was assessed according to treatment with ACEi/ARB at ICU discharge using both univariate  ...  However, 2-year all-cause mortality did not significantly differ between the two groups (12/45 (27%) with ACEi/ARB vs 55/303 (18%) without, p = 0.18).  ...  According to French law, because the treatments and strategies used in the study were classified as standard care, there was no requirement for signed consent, but the patients or next of kin were informed  ... 
doi:10.1186/s13054-019-2447-0 pmid:31036047 pmcid:PMC6489288 fatcat:5ry5asnzwzfs5fbisvdblnxt3i

Specific Properties and Effect of Perindopril in Controlling the Renin–Angiotensin System

R FERRARI, G PASANISI, P NOTARSTEFANO, G CAMPO, E GARDINI, C CECONI
2005 American Journal of Hypertension  
Its efficacy, safety, and tolerability are well established in the treatment of hypertension and heart failure.  ...  management and should therefore be considered as a firstline antihypertensive agent, forming a consistent part of the comprehensive strategy against hypertension and related cardiovascular complications  ...  Tolerability Over 15 years of clinical experience with perindopril, especially for hypertension and chronic heart failure, attest that perindopril is well tolerated.  ... 
doi:10.1016/j.amjhyper.2005.05.037 pmid:16125051 fatcat:3gppfq4cljecjlwzyxlu4dg55e

Psoriasis [chapter]

Adolfo Fernandez-Obregon
2012 Psoriasis - A Systemic Disease  
UVB can also be used as adjunct therapy for a temporary period for patients who have responded to systemic therapy, but experience an unexpected setback in disease activity.  ...  avoid using PUVA on patients with family or past medical history of malignant melanoma, and to those that have already received 200 treatments. 230 Systemic therapy Systemic therapy is reversed for  ... 
doi:10.5772/25894 fatcat:iqbx3thl2ja7laedsa2ctgcmty

Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation for poor-prognosis systemic sclerosis

J. M. van Laar, K. Naraghi, A. Tyndall
2015 Rheumatology  
These results attest to the profound effects of HSCT.  ...  Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) following intensive immune suppression has been used in >2000 patients with severe autoimmune diseases for 18 years, including 300 with SSc.  ...  Introduction For decades, autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) has been used to re-establish normal haematopoiesis after major cytoreductive therapy for malignant disorders.  ... 
doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kev117 pmid:25953700 fatcat:nhcztrf6hzhqlnqgnyhdi5noju
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