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Appropriate use of cardiac imaging in Australia
... of appropriate use from the original to the revised versions may merely reflect an easier classification of patients and a change in attribution of the proportion of appropriate testing rather than a ...
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Appropriate use of antimicrobials: An ongoing and coordinated effort
... the appropriate use of antimicrobials by all healthcare professionals and in all health ...antimicrobial use and participate in AMS programmes, within the multi-disciplinary healthcare team, and at ...
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EVALUATION OF APPROPRIATE USE OF ANTIFUNGAL THERAPY IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL
... During the past several decades, opportunistic fungi have emerged as a serious nosocomial threat particularly among patients in tertiary hospitals [1]. One of the most challenging aspects of treating invasive fungal ...
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Factors associated with the appropriate use of preoperatory hospital stays: historical cohort study
... the use of available resources ...the appropriate use of hospital care is especially relevant, as it allows inappropriate stays and admissions to be identified and minimised ...
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Pediatric Appropriate Use Criteria for Echocardiography: Implications for Clinical Practice
... 2014 Appropriate Use Criteria for Initial Transthoracic Echocardiography in Outpatient Pediatric Cardiology: a report of the American College of Cardiology Appropriate Use Criteria Task Force, ...
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Applying appropriate-use criteria to cardiac revascularisation in India
... medication use, these are based on physician reports and we could not verify this information inde- ...of appropriate cases in our ...national appropriate-use criteria rather than those ...
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<p>Practice Advisory on the Appropriate Use of NSAIDs in Primary Care</p>
... NSAIDs use has emerged, guidelines have evolved to re fl ect differences in risks among ...regarding appropriate NSAID use based on a review of current evidence by a multidisciplinary group of expert ...
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Evaluation of the appropriate use of commonly prescribed fluoroquinolones and the risk of dysglycemia
... fluoroquinolone use to the discharge ...the appropriate use of fluoroquinolones, which included patient demographic information, past medical his- tory, the use of antidiabetic drugs, and ...
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Appropriate use of vancomycin in an educational tertiary care hospital in Tehran, Iran
... recent use of corticosteroids defined as greater than ...of use of vancomycin was then determined by applying the CDC guidelines [1] to determine the compatibility of vancomycin prescription with such ...
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Bridging the gap between education and appropriate use of benzodiazepines in psychiatric clinical practice
... the use of BDZs in clinical ...long-term use, short (eg, zolpidem, triazolam) and medium (eg, lorazepam) half-life compounds are preferable, and are also preferred given their rapid ...
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Intervention to improve the appropriate use of polypharmacy for older patients with hip fractures: an observational study
... The baseline characteristics of the study population were compared using Fisher’s exact test for categorical variables and Student’s t-test for continuous variables. For patients who survived until discharge, the propor- ...
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Development Fund Overview: Efficacy and appropriate use of electronic assessment techniques for computing subjects
... not appropriate as students could potentially pool answers) or are there set questions for all the cohort at a set time? How much control do students have over when they take the test or are they undertaken in ...
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Appropriate use of indwelling urethra catheters in hospitalized patients: results of a multicentre prevalence study
... catheter use may affect the results, we conducted a sensitivity analysis in which we repeated the univariate and multivariate analyses in- cluding these missing values categorized as appropriate and ...
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Gastroprotective strategies among NSAID users: guidelines for appropriate use in chronic illness.
... and those with cardiovascular disease or who are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Cyclooxygenase- 2 inhibitors can be used for patients who have no risk fac- tors for cardiovascular disease or for patients ...
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Developing guidance for the appropriate use of Computed Tomography within a hybrid imaging environment
... additional support during certain hybrid imaging examinations and the nuclear medicine practitioner should not rely purely upon the use of technology (ie CCTV, intercoms) to provide care. Indeed, there is a ...
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Promoting the Appropriate Use of Oral Antibiotics: There Is Some Very Good News
... 31. Bauchner H, Osganian S, Smith K, Triant R. Improving parent knowl- edge about antibiotics: a video intervention. Pediatrics. 2001;108:845– 850 32. Samore M, Magill MK, Alder SC, et al. High rate of multiple ...
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#BetterRules: The Appropriate Use of Social Media in Rulemaking
... agencies’ use of social media in rulemaking, the APA imposes more serious limits on the use of those tools, at least when agencies are using them for purposes of evangelization, as opposed to the other ...
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An overview of insulin pump therapy: appropriate use of an expensive resource
... Infection at the infusion sites is another potential risk. This can be minimised by regularly changing infusion sites (at least every two to three days), as well as by maintaining good hygiene practices. The patient who ...
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Safety, tolerability and appropriate use of nintedanib in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
... the use of tyrosine kinase inhibitors in oncology have reported an association between drug-related adverse events such as rash and diarrhea and efficacy [17, ...
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Making a difference - the appropriate use of web technology
... The Health Forum has now been making use of Information Technology for about 5 years. The first component was a web site. This made the Forum much more powerful as an organisation. It was able to publish its ...
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