New safety regulations reduced injuries requiring treatment for children, study suggests
... to publish them in a professional journal. We reviewed and analyzed all 5,402 reports of medically attended injuries in regulated childcare settings in North Carolina over the three and a half years from 1997 to June, 2000, Kotch said. We also conducted 294 playground safety inspections in late 1998 in r...Hospitalist care destined to become dominant model of inpatient care in the US, say UCSF researchers
...o-author of the article. Fifteen of the 19 studies reviewed by UCSF researchers found significant decreases in both hospital costs (average decrease 13.4 %) and lengths of stay (average decrease 16.6%). Two other studies demonstrated lower lengths of stay, but no decreases in costs. The researchers noted that...Mammography screening-the debate continues
...es from CornellMedical Center, New York, USA. They reviewed the Swedish trial previously reviewed by Gotzsche and Olsen, and conclude that reduction in breast-cancer mortality is apparent after suff...Canada lags in use of blood conservation techniques
...hese techniques remains low in Canada. The authors reviewed 4535 medical records from patients who underwent elective orthopedic procedures at 19 Canadian hospitals between June 1998 and January 1999. They found that of the 4422 patients whose eligibility status was known, 2561 (57.9%) were eligible to partic...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for February (first issue)
...or February of the American Thoracic Society peer- reviewed journal, adenosine 5'-monophosphate (AMP) may provide a more discriminating bronchoconstrictive stimulus for allergic asthma than does the currently used direct stimuli testsmethacholine and histamine. Stephen T. Holgate, M.D., of Southampton General...Over the counter cough medicines may be an unnecessary expense
...eeks BMJ. Researchers at the University of Bristol reviewed 15 trials, involving over 2,000 patients, that compared oral over the counter cough medicines with placebo in adults with acute cough. In nine trials, active treatment was no better than placebo. The positive results in the other six studies were of ...Stroke news tips for Thursday, Feb. 7, 2002
... for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) who reviewed hospital discharge data on ICH for 1990 99. Its among the first long-term studies to focus on ICH hospitalization rates. An estimated 540,901 people over age 45 were hospitalized for ICH during the 10-year period, an average of 63.9 per 100,000 in...Stroke news tips for Friday, Feb. 8, 2002
...ke patients for thrombolytic therapy. Researchers reviewed consecutive head CTs obtained during evaluation of acute stroke patients at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Two neurologists with specialized stroke training were allowed three minutes to analyze each of 54 acute stroke head CT scans ...Filatov Eye Institute contests validity of recent study
..., that it is difficult to compare results from the reviewed studies with current practices using the most recent generation of lasers because of the rapid evolution of LASIK technology and techniques. Dr. Filatov, trained at Yale, Harvard and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and with more than 5,000 LASI...Young women at greater risk of death than men after bypass surgery
...r women undergoing bypass surgery. The researchers reviewed records of 51,187 patients in the National Cardiovascular Network database who underwent bypass surgery at 23 medical centers between October 1993 and December 1999. Of these patients, 15,178 (or 29.7 percent) were women. A smaller percentage of wom...Cancer patients emotional needs often undetected by oncologists
...unication. Researchers at the University of Sydney reviewed transcripts of nine oncologists consultations with 298 adult cancer patients to understand how the patients communicated their informational and emotional needs and how the doctors responded. Each patient also answered questions measuring their satis...Health and fitness facilities need defibrillators
...ans, including written emergency policies that are reviewed at least every three months. Programs should be coordinated with area emergency medical services, most of which also can help plan programs and train staff. Most portable AEDs cost $3,000 to $4,500. The price is expected to decrease as their us...Patients may overestimate risk of side-effects from qualitative drug information
... of THE LANCET are calling for EU guidelines to be reviewed after results of research which shows that patients only given qualitative information about the side-effects of drugs substantially overestimate their personal risk. To make informed decisions about taking medicinal drugs, people need accurate inf...Lethal heart condition traced to cocaine use
... death rate rises to about 50 percent. Researchers reviewed hospital charts from 1981-2001 looking for cases of aortic dissection. They recorded demographic information as well as information on cocaine use and coronary risk factors. Of the 38 cases found, 37 percent were related to cocaine use. Cocaine us......or were a medical-legal case. Medical records were reviewed for demographics, coronary heart disease risk factors, menstrual status, and use of estrogen replacement therapy....Improving communications and support for doctors, patients and partners
...ne the information and finally the consumer groups reviewed the revised information. At each stage they were asked to comment upon the design, content and potential usefulness of the information. The resulting booklet is easy to read (it has a reading age of 12 years), is aimed at both patients and carers, i...Women face high risk of developing breast cancer following radiotherapy for Hodgkins Disease
...treatments. Prof Wahner-Roedler and her colleagues reviewed the records of 2,202 women with Hodgkins Disease who were seen at Mayo Clinic between 1950 and 1993 and studied the records of 653 women, who were treated at the Mayo Clinic with supradiaphragmatic radiation therapy (SDRT)1. Four patients who were d...Renal colic shows a circadian pattern
...tern, finds a study in this weeks BMJ. Researchers reviewed all episodes of renal colic from 1990 to 1996 in the emergency department of St Anna Hospital in Ferrara, Italy. Over 3,400 episodes of renal colic were reported. Kidney stones were found in almost half of patients. The average age of patients was 46...Study supports triple combination therapy for HIV
...o treat people with HIV. Researchers in Birmingham reviewed 54 trials involving over 20,000 patients with HIV infection who had not already received antiviral therapy. Combinations of up to three drugs were consistently and significantly more effective, but there was inadequate evidence on the effectiveness o...Aventis Pasteur donates approximately 75 to 90 million doses of smallpox vaccine to the U.S.
...an say has their name on it." The vaccine will be reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration as an Investigational New Drug (IND) for emergency use, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention serving as the sponsor. The company has also started to produce a new cell culture-based smallpox vaccin...