Hospitalists who care for dementia patients near the end of life are much less likely to introduce a feeding tube than other physicians who follow such patients.
Compared with nonhospital...
LAS VEGAS – Among 100 hip fracture patients at Salem (Ore.) Hospital, those fed within 24 hours left the hospital sooner, and fewer of them died. Other patients went up to a week without being...
LAS VEGAS – Among 100 hip fracture patients at Salem (Ore.) Hospital, those fed within 24 hours left the hospital sooner, and fewer of them died. Other patients went up to a week without being...
LAS VEGAS – Among 100 hip fracture patients at Salem (Ore.) Hospital, those fed within 24 hours left the hospital sooner, and fewer of them died. Other patients went up to a week without being...
ORLANDO – The mortality risk associated with prescription of antipsychotics or valproic acid for behavioral disturbances in patients with dementia is considerably greater than previously estimated,...
ORLANDO – Right unilateral electroconvulsive therapy at six times the seizure threshold is markedly more effective in severely depressed patients aged 60 and older than in those who are younger,...
LAS VEGAS – About 40% of atrial fibrillation inpatients leave the hospital without a prescription for stroke prevention medications, according to a retrospective review from Northwestern University...
WASHINGTON – Transcatheter aortic valve replacement with the CoreValve device showed significantly higher 1-year survival than did surgical replacement, in a randomized trial of patients with severe...
WASHINGTON – Transcatheter aortic valve replacement with the CoreValve device showed significantly higher 1-year survival than did surgical replacement, in a randomized trial of patients with severe...
ORLANDO – Predicting whether add-on donepezil will improve residual cognitive deficits in an elderly patient on adequate antidepressant therapy may be as plain as the nose on the patient’s face....