Study shows surprising decreased surgical infection risk after age 65
...atients, are older patients more likely to undergo conservative procedures, and younger patients aggressive procedures? Do trends in patient referral and selection differ according to surgical procedure? And if increasing age is truly associated with decreased risk for surgical-site infections, is there a biologi...Certain acne treatment does not increase symptoms of depression in adolescents
...ssive symptoms compared with patients treated with conservative therapy. At the beginning of the study, the resear...eived isotretinoin and 73 patients were prescribed conservative therapy, which included a topical antibiotic, topical retinoid, and an oral antibiotic. Depression w...Medical privacy vs. health care quality?
...retation, meaning that some hospitals might take a conservative approach and not attempt quality-improvement research, or allow researchers access to medical information at all. "We won't solve safety, quality and cost issues in health care unless we do quality research, and our findings show that HIPAA, as curr...Post-marketing analysis examines cholesterol-lowering drugs' side effects
...isk of heart attack." He recommends a balanced, conservative approach. "Doses of statins should not exceed those required to achieve current goals of therapy," Grundy said, adding that it seems unwise to use statins outside current cholesterol-management guidelines. Karas also urged doctors to individualize tr...Easy access to nicotine patches could help more smokers to quit
...uit, state the authors. Dr Frieden states: "On the conservative assumption that all the non-respondents to our follow-up survey sample continued to smoke, one in five NRT recipients, more than 6000 New Yorkers, stopped smoking as a result of this programme. If [survey] non-respondents stopped in similar proportio...A clinical return-to-work rule for patients with back pain
...o help decide whether a patient would benefit from conservative management or might require further interventions. Use of the algorithm may help to reduce unnecessary clinical interventions and associated costs. In a related commentary, Maher points out that Dionne and colleagues' algorithm is much better at pre...Report describes details of four transplant recipients who contracted rabies from donor
...en the population and known organ donation rate, a conservative estimated risk of rabies infection through solid organ transplantation is less than 1:1,000,000,000,000." "However, these cases demonstrate that the risk for transmission of rabies infection through solid organ transplantation exists, and the diagnos...Invasive treatment may be more effective for heart attack patients presenting late to hospital
...er the symptom onset, compared with a conventional conservative treatment strategy. The study, conducted from May ...intravenous medication abciximab or a conventional conservative treatment strategy (n=183), which included an intravenous infusion of heparin. The researchers foun...Conservative surgery preserves fertility in women with borderline ovarian tumours
...n tumours shows that fertility can be preserved if conservative surgery is used, a scientist said at the 21st annu...e was known regarding fertility determinants after conservative treatment for BOT", said Dr. Poncelet, "and we thought it was important both for our practice and fo...'Apollo Program' for hydrogen energy needed, Stanford researcher says
...ing costs and effects. "We believe the results are conservative since health costs associatedmostly with particles are now thought to be greater than those used in ourstudy," Jacobson said. "In addition, in the future we will have more fossil[fuel] vehicles than we currently have. So the future health benefit ofs...Survey finds women suffer in silence with pelvic floor disorders
...ck. "When medications don't help, we first try a conservative measure: the injection of a bulking agent into the bladder neck. This is usually pretty effective. And lastly, when all else has failed, a sling is surgically inserted to hold up the bladder neck," said Mydlo. "When multiple PFDs are involved, it's i...Cedars-Sinai's live donor liver transplant program receives 'unos-approved' designation
...rately through the process and continue to be very conservative to this day."...Spousal violence affects one in three Albanian wives
...Albania is known to be a country with particularly conservative ideas about sex roles. Among the challenges for post-communist Albania, and it's health professionals, is the need to reduce the prevalence of intimate partner violence, as well as to provide support for women who are in, or who have been in, violent...Hey doc, do I still need this catheter?
..., the researchers estimated. The savings, based on conservative estimates of the number of catheterized days, the proportion of doctors who would comply, the risk of urinary tract infection (5 percent for each day on a catheter) and the cost of treating symptomatic infection, would be about $53,449. That means th...PTSD, depression epidemic among Cambodian immigrants
...set out to allay such concerns by employing a more conservative approach. Native Khmer speakers conducted highly structured two-hour interviews with 490 randomly-selected former refugees, ages 35-75, in their Long Beach, CA homes, beginning in 2003. They used standardized questionnaires for gauging levels of viol...Orlando meeting highlights work about making systems, tools, and products safe and easy to use
...ch gap by demonstrating that teen drivers are less conservative when stopping at a stop light. These effects are further complicated by the use of cell phones: 28% of these young drivers simply failed to stop at an intersection while talking on the phone. Effects of Haptic Brake Pulse Warnings on Driver Behavior...Study examines safety of radical prostatectomy for older men
...astases, and higher overall survival compared with conservative management. However, few men older than age 70 are treated with radical prostatectomy. A recent survey found that 69% of Canadian urologists and 53% of American urologists believed that age 70 should be the upper age limit for the procedure. To deter...Physician behavior an underlying cause for health care cost
... - if all U.S. regions could safely adopt the more conservative practice patterns of lower-cost regions," said study co-author Dr. Elliott Fisher, professor of medicine at DMS and also a member of the VA Outcomes Group. The authors acknowledge that it is unlikely that physician behavior is the sole explanation fo...Capsules effective in treating acute manic and mixed episodes of Bipolar I Disorder
...he population in its lifetime. These estimates are conservative considering the difficulty in the diagnosis of bipolar disorder. In the United States, annual costs for prevalence-based bipolar disorder are estimated at $45.2 billion, while lifetime costs of incidence-based bipolar disorder amount to about $24 bi...HIV drug resistance increasing in UK and among highest in the world
... different definitions of resistance. Using a more conservative definition of resistance (high level resistance to at least one drug) gives an overall estimate of 9% for the UK for the years 1996-2003, with the rate being 12% in 2002-3. The authors say: 'The United Kingdom has among the highest reported rates of...