Warfarin Use and Outcomes in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Complicating...
Warfarin is associated with better 6-month outcomes among patients with atrial fibrillation complicating an acute coronary syndrome, but its use is not related to Congestive heart failure,...
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Why Are We Ignoring Guideline Recommendations? In the current issue of The American Journal of Medicine, Lopes et al(1) report discouraging news. They examined a large cohort of patients taken from 3...
View ArticleA Review of Clinical Guidelines with Some Thoughts about Their Utility and...
“Guidelines” has become one of the most common buzzwords for medical practitioners in the 21st century in our search to define and measure quality in health care. Physicians and other health care...
View ArticleWhen Will Malpractice Lawsuits Be Filed Against Armchair Doctors?
Blog Commentary Ferket and colleagues could have added to their long list a guideline from the Haute Autorité de Santé (High Authority for Health, the French agency for quality of care) which...
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Chasing Pulmonary Emboli
Chasing Pulmonary Emboli: Let’s Agree on One Big Thing Robert G. Stern, MD, AJM Specialty Editor Clinical practice guidelines can be great. It’s nice to have guidelines for the diagnosis, management,...
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Fraud in Academic Publishing: Researchers Under Cyber-Attacks
Percentage of suspicious e-mails that we received from May 2015 to May 2016. Day by day, researchers receive new suspicious e-mails in their inboxes. Many of them do not have sufficient information...
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