The Looming Threat of Liability for Accountable Care Organizations and What to Do About It
H. Benjamin Harvey, MD, JD; I. Glenn Cohen, JD
Some Patients with Isolated Traumatic Intracranial Hemorrhage May Not Need Neurosurgical Evaluation
. . . or even transfer to a trauma center.
Current practice for patients with isolated traumatic intracranial hemorrhage includes emergent neurosurgical evaluation and transfer to a trauma center, yet few patients end up needing any intervention. These authors assessed predictors of clinical deterioration requiring intervention or neurosurgical evaluation in a retrospective cross-sectional study of 404 adult patients who presented to a single trauma center with traumatic intracranial hemorrhage, isolated blunt head injury, and Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) scores 13.
α-fetoprotein Levels After Interferon Therapy and Risk of Hepatocarcinogenesis in Chronic Hepatitis C
Asahina Y, Tsuchiya K, Nishimura T, Muraoka M, Suzuki Y, Tamaki N, Yasui Y, Hosokawa T, Ueda K, Nakanishi H, Itakura J, Takahashi Y, Kurosaki M, Enomoto N, Nakagawa M, Kakinuma S, Watanabe M, Izumi N
Clinical Ascertainment of Health Outcomes Among Adults Treated for Childhood Cancer
Melissa M. Hudson, MD; Kirsten K. Ness, PT, PhD; James G. Gurney, PhD; Daniel A. Mulrooney, MD, MS; Wassim Chemaitilly, MD; Kevin R. Krull, PhD; Daniel M. Green, MD; Gregory T. Armstrong, MD, MSCE; Kerri A. Nottage, MD; Kendra E. Jones, MS; Charles A. Sklar, MD; Deo Kumar Srivastava, PhD; Leslie L. Robison, PhD
The Effect of Rising Food Prices on Food Consumption: Systematic Review with Meta-regression
Rosemary Green, research fellow, Laura Cornelsen, research fellow, Alan D Dangour, senior lecturer, Rachel Turner, honorary research fellow, Bhavani Shankar, professor of international agriculture, food and health, Mario Mazzocchi, associate professor, Richard D Smith, professor of health system economics, dean
Should you use your hand to measure skin involvement or calculate amount of topical agents?
What percentage of total body surface area is involved? The answer to this question is necessary in computing severity scores, such as the Psoriasis Area Severity Index (PASI), the Atopic Dermatitis Severity Index (ADSI), the SCORing Atopic Dermatitis Index (SCORAD), and the mSWAT (Modified Severity Weighted Assessment Tool) for measuring cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
Do Statins Protect Against the Development of Clostridium difficile-associated Diarrhoea?
Nseir W, Bishara J, Mograbi J, Mahamid M, Khalaila W, Taha M, Farah R
Sven Cnattingius, MD, PhD; Eduardo Villamor, MD, DrPH; Stefan Johansson, MD, PhD; Anna-Karin Edstedt Bonamy, MD, PhD; Martina Persson, MD, PhD; Anna-Karin Wikström, MD, PhD; Fredrik Granath, PhD
Effect of Home Based HIV Counselling and Testing Intervention in Rural South Africa: Cluster Randomised Trial
Tanya Doherty, senior specialist scientist, Hanani Tabana, senior scientist, Debra Jackson, professor, Reshma Naik, PhD student, Wanga Zembe, senior scientist, Carl Lombard, unit director biostatistics, Sonja Swanevelder, senior statistician, Matthew P Fox, professor, Anna Thorson, professor, Anna Mia Ekström, professor, Mickey Chopra, head of health section
New Cardiovascular Risk Factor, Again: Gut Bugs, L-Carnitine, and TMAO
Trimethylamine-N-oxide production in the gut is associated with adverse cardiovascular events.
