Watchful Waiting
Cost-Effectiveness of Watchful Waiting in Acute Otitis Media
... WHAT THIS STUDY ADDS: This study examines the cost-effectiveness of American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines for watchful waiting compared with current practice for acute otitis med[r] ...
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Development of a clinical trial to determine whether watchful waiting is an acceptable alternative to surgical repair for patients with oligosymptomatic incisional hernia: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... Participants randomized into the watchful waiting group will receive standardized oral information and written instructions which, like those described by Fitz- gibbons et al., will deal with physical ...
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Nonsevere Acute Otitis Media: A Clinical Trial Comparing Outcomes of Watchful Waiting Versus Immediate Antibiotic Treatment
... Methodology. Children 6 months to 12 years old with AOM were screened by using a novel AOM-severity screening index. Parents of children with nonsevere AOM received an educational intervention, and their children were ...
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Rationale for and design of the "POSTA" study: Evaluation of neurocognitive outcomes after immediate adenotonsillectomy compared to watchful waiting in preschool children
... The POSTA (Pre-school OSA Tonsillectomy Adenoidect- omy study) is a randomized, controlled trial of adenotonsil- lectomy in pre-school age children, with mild to moderate OSA, designed to evaluate neurocognitive outcomes ...
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High-dose chemoradiotherapy and watchful waiting for distal rectal cancer: a prospective observational study
... A small number of studies, mainly retrospective, have reported encouraging outcomes with careful patient selection and close follow-up watchful waiting,10-12 although others have been un[r] ...
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Survival in men older than 75 years with low- and intermediate-grade prostate cancer managed with watchful waiting with active surveillance
... There are other limitations in this study. First, the study was limited by the lack of additional measures in the SEER- Medicare database that would make it possible to describe the patients’ clinical presentation in ...
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Long-Term Clinical Outcomes of Radical Prostatectomy versus Watchful Waiting in Localized Prostate Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
... Hence, managing clinically localized prostate can- cer to prevent unnecessary treatment, obtaining the highest benefit of the interventions and sim- ultaneously preserving the value of the money in health care sector ...
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The effect of watchful waiting compared to immediate test ordering instructions on general practitioners' blood test ordering behaviour for patients with unexplained complaints; a randomized clinical trial (ISRCTN55755886)
... A limitation of the study was that selective patient inclusion may have caused bias. The GPs of group two (watchful waiting without quality improvement strategy) included fewer patients in the study than ...
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Watchful Waiting for Acute Otitis Media: Are Parents and Physicians Ready?
... The purpose of our primary analysis was to iden- tify physician factors associated with at least occa- sionally using initial observation among children ⱖ 2 years old compared with those who report never doing so. When ...
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Fine needle aspiration cytology of lymph nodes in breast cancer follow-up is a feasible alternative to watchful waiting and to histology
... The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of the minor invasive ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in sonomorphologically suspicious lymph no[r] ...
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Watchful waiting for some children with a mediastinal mass: the potential role for 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography: a case report and review of the literature
... We report for the first time the diagnostic value of fluorodeoxyglucose 18 F positron emission tomography for patients with incidentally identified anterior mediastinal masses to avoid b[r] ...
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Tonsillectomy Versus Watchful Waiting for Recurrent Throat Infection: A Systematic Review
... Overall, comparative effectiveness assessment of tonsillectomy versus no surgery to improve number of throat infections, associated health care utilization, days of work/school miss[r] ...
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High-dose chemoradiotherapy and watchful waiting for distal rectal cancer: a prospective observational study
... Supplementary Material Appendix 1: Trial design Inclusion in trial prior to chemoradiotherapy High dose chemoradiotherapy Evaluation 6 weeks after the end of treatment Clinical examinati[r] ...
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Effectiveness of Tympanostomy Tubes for Otitis Media: A Meta-analysis
... with watchful waiting) in children with chronic middle ear effusion, results in improved average hearing thresholds at 1 to 3 months after surgery (a period when the majority of tubes are ...
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Tonsillectomy for Obstructive Sleep-Disordered Breathing: A Meta-analysis
... or antiinflammatory medications. However, because the most common culprit in children is tonsillar hypertrophy-related oropharyngeal obstruction, tonsillectomy is often used to establish an adequate airway. In this ...
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Surgical Treatments for Otitis Media With Effusion: A Systematic Review
... including watchful waiting and delayed treatment); these are the most com- mon modalities for managing ...either watchful wait- ing or ...or watchful waiting be- yond 1 or 2 years after ...
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Clinico-pathological features and outcome of acute appendicitis: A prospective study in our institution
... Grisolle 1839 Advocated drainage of abdominal abscesses following watchful waiting until fluctuation Volz 1846 Identified the appendix as the origin of RLQ inflammatory process Henry Han[r] ...
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Is radical prostatectomy the best option for localized prostate cancer? Current opinion and research
... rate, overall mortality and disease-specific mortality are significantly better with radical prostatectomy compared with watchful waiting. These differences remained stable at 10 years post-treatment. This ...
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Quantifying patient preferences for symptomatic breast clinic referral: a decision analysis study
... preferring watchful waiting using the upper limit of the 95% CI and the number of patients prefer- ring watchful waiting using the lower limit of the 95% CI for each probability estimate (the ...
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Pediatrician and Family Physician Prescription of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors
... and watchful waiting), vol- ume of pediatric patients with depressive symptoms, prescription of SSRIs for depression and other diagnoses, and potential influ- ences on SSRI prescribing ...
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