Anti-Clotting Drug May Cause Potentially Fatal Platelet Disorder
...n group specializing in plasma exchange andmedical records of patients with this syndrome who had been treated at one ofthe Medical School's affiliated teaching hospitals. Bennett said that this study also raises concern that additionalmeasures by the FDA or the pharmaceutical company are likely to...Earliest Warning Sign Indicates Need To Test For Condition Associated With Fetal Deaths
...tal death. Gugino and colleagues reviewed the records of 804 perinatal deaths that occurred in Children'..., Gugino said. By comparing patient records during the pregnancy with results of the laboratory analysis of placental tissue after the fetal or ...National Office Of Drug Safety Is Needed, Experts Say In JAMA
...ous arrhythmias, but a systematicstudy of Medicare records found 202,211 hospitalizations in a seven-year periodfor digoxin-adverse reactions. Digoxin is prescribed for heart failure. Some adverse reactions are disguised because an event might naturally beexpected with the disease being treated. For......itten diary. In addition, a small computer, which records the date andtime the drug is taken, was embedded into all asthma inhalers. Failure to follow physician instruction while being treated for asthma can leadto multiple emergency room visits, more frequent doctor visits, and days missedfrom school or w...Stopping High Blood Pressure Drugs May Start A Stroke
...ce. The three-year study analyzed medical records from 331 individuals whohad a bleeding stroke, called intracerebral hemorrhage, from 1990 through 1992and compared them to a control group of 331 of the same age and sex. "Our study demonstrates that people with high blood pressure have moret..."Happy Hour" Is Unhappy For Many Cardiac Arrest Victims
...logy at the University of Washington,Seattle, used records from the Seattle EMS and found a high number of calls forcardiac arrests in the late afternoon. Studies, including this one, have shownthat many cardiac arrests occur around 8 a.m. This is the first to show adefinitive peak in the "happy hour" time...Prenatal Cocaine Exposure Leads To Lower Child IQ Scores, Language Skills
...stimates more than 375,000, based on medical records from city hospitals. Both surveys are problematic becauseof the way information was obtained; the true number is likely somewhere inthe middle, Lester said. Based on those figures, the researchers were able to predict the numberof ...Hospital Stays Longer Than Three Days For 'Simple' Heart Attacks May Not Be Cost Effective
...t Association meeting that based on a study of the records of22,454 patients who stayed in the hospital for a...l." The research team studied detailed records of more than 40,000 patientswho had participated in the GUSTO-I clinical trial between 1990 and 1993...UI Study Finds Social Support May Increase Longevity Of People With Schizophrenia
...l psychology. The researchers examined the medical records of 133 patients with schizophreniawho were admitte...also noted that this study's dependence onhospital records rather than firsthand interviews might have masked themultifaceted nature of social support. The stu...National Study Suggests Heart Attack Severity May Be Declining
...se mortality in each ARIC community. Goff studied records of patients between ages 35 and 74 in the ARIC communities who had definite or probable heart attacks between Jan. 1, 1987, and Dec. 31, 1994. Of the 8,807 cases, he focused on 4903 first heart attacks. Of these, 71.7 percent met the criteria for ...UI Researcher Determines Vital Sign Norms For Cesarean Section Procedure
...rease dramatically during cesarean sections. Using records of 1,300 women who had cesarean sections, Franklin...ow been substandard," Dexter said. Dexter examined records from 1,300 women who underwent cesarean section at Dukewith general or spinal anesthesia between Apr...Oregon's Terminally Ill Patients More Likely to Have End-Of-Life Choices Respected, Study Finds
...aining Treatment (POLST)form. The bright-pink form records a dying patient's decision to have or limitlife-sustaining treatment; it is signed by the patient's physician and meant tofollow the patient from a home or nursing home through transport by ambulance tothe hospital. The second study, Barriers to Impr...Mayo Clinic Researchers Identify Predictors of Intracranial Saccular Aneurysms
...ultiple aneurysms. The study looked at the medical records of 270 people who were residents ofOlmsted County, Minn. who had intracranial aneurysms detected between 1965 and1995. Various risk factors were analyzed in the study including gender, age,smoking history, alcohol-use history, hypertension, hyperlip...Early Heart Repair For Marfan Syndrome Patients Critical To Survival
...n. For the study, researchers examined the records of 675 Marfan syndromepatients who underwent replacement of the aortic root at 10 surgical centers --seven in North America and three in Europe -- between October 1968 and March1996. The patients ranged in age from 4 to 73; 70 percent were male. Th......oral observation, language testing and a review of records and observations made by parents and teachers. A month following injection, the same evaluation will be repeated to note any changes in the children, according to Unis and Dawson. Scientists have known for a long time, said Unis, that children with ......proach to restricting access to electronic patient records may be overly restrictive. He argues that it may deny clinicians the ability to share data, which he says is a missed opportunity, especially when it is perfectly feasible to collect data whilst maintaining the anonymity of the patient. O'Conor con...Kidney Transplant Recipients Require Less Long-Term Care If They Receive Well-Matched Donor Organs
...Research group compared national kidney transplant records from theUnited Network on Organ Sharing (UNOS) with Medicare claims for the samepatients. All 27,050 had received an organ from a deceased donor between 1992and 1997. They determined the cost of their care from 30 days after transplantuntil three yea...Kidney Transplants From Living Donors Reduce Long-Term Costs Of Care
...edicare claims for thesame patients. They analyzed records of 13,754 people who received living donorkidneys and 42,868 who received kidneys from cadavers. They then estimated how much it would have cost to keep these patientson dialysis for five years using dialysis costs from the year prior totran...... the study not checking its findingsagainst school records of actual events. "While prospective studies such as the present one are sorely needed," theauthors say, "theoretically rich studies are imperative to better understand theroots of adolescent violence." Working with Sussman on this study were Dent; I...