JAMA, ISSN 0098-7484, 08/2013, Volume 310, Issue 7, pp. 731 - 741
IMPORTANCE Obstructive sleep apnea is a common disease, responsible for daytime sleepiness. Prior to referring patients for definitive testing, the likelihood...
MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | POPULATION-BASED SAMPLE | RISK-FACTORS | PHYSICAL-EXAMINATION | STOP-BANG | IDENTIFY PATIENTS | MALLAMPATI SCORE | PREDICTIVE-VALUE | HYPERTENSION | BERLIN QUESTIONNAIRE | ASSOCIATION | Airway Obstruction - etiology | Body Mass Index | Medical History Taking | Prevalence | Humans | Snoring - etiology | Physical Examination | Sleep Apnea, Obstructive - complications | Referral and Consultation | Sleep Apnea, Obstructive - epidemiology | Polysomnography | Sleep Apnea, Obstructive - diagnosis | Body mass index | Systematic review | Sleep apnea | Sleep | Medical diagnosis
MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | POPULATION-BASED SAMPLE | RISK-FACTORS | PHYSICAL-EXAMINATION | STOP-BANG | IDENTIFY PATIENTS | MALLAMPATI SCORE | PREDICTIVE-VALUE | HYPERTENSION | BERLIN QUESTIONNAIRE | ASSOCIATION | Airway Obstruction - etiology | Body Mass Index | Medical History Taking | Prevalence | Humans | Snoring - etiology | Physical Examination | Sleep Apnea, Obstructive - complications | Referral and Consultation | Sleep Apnea, Obstructive - epidemiology | Polysomnography | Sleep Apnea, Obstructive - diagnosis | Body mass index | Systematic review | Sleep apnea | Sleep | Medical diagnosis
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The New England Journal of Medicine, ISSN 0028-4793, 04/2014, Volume 370, Issue 16, pp. 1494 - 1503
In this trial, administering aspirin before surgery and during the early postsurgical period did not affect the rate of death or nonfatal MI but increased the...
ACETYLSALICYLIC-ACID | MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | THERAPY | METAANALYSIS | LOW-DOSE ASPIRIN | MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION | PLATELET-FUNCTION | PREVENTION | RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED-TRIAL | ASSOCIATION | VASCULAR-DISEASE | Perioperative Care | Myocardial Infarction - epidemiology | Surgical Procedures, Operative - mortality | Humans | Middle Aged | Kaplan-Meier Estimate | Postoperative Complications - prevention & control | Male | Postoperative Hemorrhage - chemically induced | Aspirin - adverse effects | Treatment Failure | Female | Aged | Aspirin - therapeutic use | Myocardial Infarction - prevention & control | Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors - therapeutic use | Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors - adverse effects | Prevention | Complications and side effects | Aspirin | United States | Surgery | Patient outcomes | Mortality | Dosage and administration | Research | Health aspects | Heart attack | Myocardial infarction | Medical research | Clonidine | Drug therapy | Bleeding | Blood clots
ACETYLSALICYLIC-ACID | MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | THERAPY | METAANALYSIS | LOW-DOSE ASPIRIN | MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION | PLATELET-FUNCTION | PREVENTION | RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED-TRIAL | ASSOCIATION | VASCULAR-DISEASE | Perioperative Care | Myocardial Infarction - epidemiology | Surgical Procedures, Operative - mortality | Humans | Middle Aged | Kaplan-Meier Estimate | Postoperative Complications - prevention & control | Male | Postoperative Hemorrhage - chemically induced | Aspirin - adverse effects | Treatment Failure | Female | Aged | Aspirin - therapeutic use | Myocardial Infarction - prevention & control | Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors - therapeutic use | Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors - adverse effects | Prevention | Complications and side effects | Aspirin | United States | Surgery | Patient outcomes | Mortality | Dosage and administration | Research | Health aspects | Heart attack | Myocardial infarction | Medical research | Clonidine | Drug therapy | Bleeding | Blood clots
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Neurology, ISSN 0028-3878, 10/2012, Volume 79, Issue 18, pp. 1862 - 1865
Objective: We synthesized the epidemiologic evidence concerning selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) exposure and the risk of CNS hemorrhage. Methods:...
CLINICAL NEUROLOGY | Cerebral Hemorrhage - chemically induced | Risk Assessment - methods | Anticoagulants - administration & dosage | Humans | Risk Factors | Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors - adverse effects | Depressive Disorder - drug therapy | Anticoagulants - adverse effects | Stroke - chemically induced | Cerebral Hemorrhage - epidemiology | Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors - administration & dosage | Drug Interactions - physiology | Stroke - epidemiology | Depressive Disorder - epidemiology
CLINICAL NEUROLOGY | Cerebral Hemorrhage - chemically induced | Risk Assessment - methods | Anticoagulants - administration & dosage | Humans | Risk Factors | Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors - adverse effects | Depressive Disorder - drug therapy | Anticoagulants - adverse effects | Stroke - chemically induced | Cerebral Hemorrhage - epidemiology | Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors - administration & dosage | Drug Interactions - physiology | Stroke - epidemiology | Depressive Disorder - epidemiology
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Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, ISSN 0895-4356, 2014, Volume 67, Issue 6, pp. 622 - 628
Abstract Objectives A P -value <0.05 is one metric used to evaluate the results of a randomized controlled trial (RCT). We wondered how often statistically...
Internal Medicine | Lost to follow-up | Research methodology | Randomized controlled trials | INTRAVENOUS MAGNESIUM-SULFATE | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | CLINICAL-TRIALS | HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES | ACUTE MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION | 2 PROPORTIONS | Data Interpretation, Statistical | Lost to Follow-Up | Sample Size | Humans | Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic | Medicine | Confidence intervals | Hypotheses | Heart attacks | Internal medicine | Journals | Clinical trials | Drug therapy
Internal Medicine | Lost to follow-up | Research methodology | Randomized controlled trials | INTRAVENOUS MAGNESIUM-SULFATE | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | CLINICAL-TRIALS | HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES | ACUTE MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION | 2 PROPORTIONS | Data Interpretation, Statistical | Lost to Follow-Up | Sample Size | Humans | Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic | Medicine | Confidence intervals | Hypotheses | Heart attacks | Internal medicine | Journals | Clinical trials | Drug therapy
Journal Article
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, ISSN 1471-2261, 12/2016, Volume 16, Issue 1, p. 246
Background: Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRAs) have been associated with improved patient outcomes in patients with heart failure with reduced...
Heart failure | Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction | Systematic review | Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction | Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists | LONG-TERM | MORTALITY | CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS | PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION | MILD | TRIAL | MORBIDITY | SPIRONOLACTONE | ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONISM | DOUBLE-BLIND | CHRONIC KIDNEY-DISEASE | Stroke Volume - drug effects | Hospitalization - trends | Humans | Heart Failure - physiopathology | Heart Failure - drug therapy | Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists - therapeutic use | Complications and side effects | Usage | Care and treatment | Patient outcomes | Mineralocorticoids | Research | Health aspects | Meta-analysis | Studies | Bias | Mortality | Diuretics | Clinical trials | Hospitalization | Morbidity
Heart failure | Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction | Systematic review | Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction | Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists | LONG-TERM | MORTALITY | CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS | PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION | MILD | TRIAL | MORBIDITY | SPIRONOLACTONE | ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONISM | DOUBLE-BLIND | CHRONIC KIDNEY-DISEASE | Stroke Volume - drug effects | Hospitalization - trends | Humans | Heart Failure - physiopathology | Heart Failure - drug therapy | Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists - therapeutic use | Complications and side effects | Usage | Care and treatment | Patient outcomes | Mineralocorticoids | Research | Health aspects | Meta-analysis | Studies | Bias | Mortality | Diuretics | Clinical trials | Hospitalization | Morbidity
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The New England Journal of Medicine, ISSN 0028-4793, 04/2014, Volume 370, Issue 16, pp. 1504 - 1513
In this trial, clonidine, an α2-adrenergic agonist, did not reduce the rate of death or MI among patients undergoing noncardiac surgery. Clonidine did increase...
RESPONSES | TRIALS | MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | METAANALYSIS | EFFICACY | PERIOPERATIVE MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION | CARDIAC RISK | ISCHEMIA | STRESS | TRANSDERMAL CLONIDINE | VASCULAR-SURGERY | Perioperative Care | Surgical Procedures, Operative - mortality | Humans | Middle Aged | Kaplan-Meier Estimate | Postoperative Complications - prevention & control | Clonidine - adverse effects | Male | Clonidine - therapeutic use | Hypotension - chemically induced | Adrenergic alpha-2 Receptor Agonists - therapeutic use | Adrenergic alpha-2 Receptor Agonists - adverse effects | Treatment Failure | Female | Aged | Myocardial Infarction - prevention & control | Postoperative Complications - chemically induced | Prevention | United States | Surgery | Patient outcomes | Mortality | Clonidine | Dosage and administration | Research | Health aspects | Myocardial infarction | Medical research | Aspirin | Heart attacks | Sympathetic nervous system | Hypotension | Studies | Heart rate | Arteriosclerosis | Death | Drug therapy | Drug dosages
RESPONSES | TRIALS | MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | METAANALYSIS | EFFICACY | PERIOPERATIVE MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION | CARDIAC RISK | ISCHEMIA | STRESS | TRANSDERMAL CLONIDINE | VASCULAR-SURGERY | Perioperative Care | Surgical Procedures, Operative - mortality | Humans | Middle Aged | Kaplan-Meier Estimate | Postoperative Complications - prevention & control | Clonidine - adverse effects | Male | Clonidine - therapeutic use | Hypotension - chemically induced | Adrenergic alpha-2 Receptor Agonists - therapeutic use | Adrenergic alpha-2 Receptor Agonists - adverse effects | Treatment Failure | Female | Aged | Myocardial Infarction - prevention & control | Postoperative Complications - chemically induced | Prevention | United States | Surgery | Patient outcomes | Mortality | Clonidine | Dosage and administration | Research | Health aspects | Myocardial infarction | Medical research | Aspirin | Heart attacks | Sympathetic nervous system | Hypotension | Studies | Heart rate | Arteriosclerosis | Death | Drug therapy | Drug dosages
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BMJ Quality & Safety, ISSN 2044-5415, 01/2018, Volume 27, Issue 1, pp. 74 - 84
BackgroundThe quality and safety movement has reinvigorated interest in optimising morbidity and mortality (M&M) rounds. We performed a systematic review to...
FORMAT | PATIENT SAFETY | HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES | FRAMEWORK | HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES | MEDICAL-EDUCATION | ERROR | CONFERENCES | OUTCOMES | SURGICAL MORBIDITY | LEARNING CURRICULA | Quality Improvement - organization & administration | Organizational Objectives | Education, Medical - organization & administration | Humans | Mortality | Patient Safety | Teaching Rounds - organization & administration | Morbidity | Hospital patients | Safety and security measures | Hospitals | Analysis | Medical education | Health aspects | Quality management | Problem based learning | Studies | Intervention | Quality control | Patient safety | Curricula | Identification | Full text | Health education | Teaching
FORMAT | PATIENT SAFETY | HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES | FRAMEWORK | HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES | MEDICAL-EDUCATION | ERROR | CONFERENCES | OUTCOMES | SURGICAL MORBIDITY | LEARNING CURRICULA | Quality Improvement - organization & administration | Organizational Objectives | Education, Medical - organization & administration | Humans | Mortality | Patient Safety | Teaching Rounds - organization & administration | Morbidity | Hospital patients | Safety and security measures | Hospitals | Analysis | Medical education | Health aspects | Quality management | Problem based learning | Studies | Intervention | Quality control | Patient safety | Curricula | Identification | Full text | Health education | Teaching
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JAMA Internal Medicine, ISSN 2168-6106, 06/2013, Volume 173, Issue 12, pp. 1082 - 1083
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Anesthesiology, ISSN 0003-3022, 03/2014, Volume 120, Issue 3, pp. 564 - 578
BACKGROUND:Myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery (MINS) was defined as prognostically relevant myocardial injury due to ischemia that occurs during or...
MORTALITY | RISK | ANESTHESIOLOGY | INFARCTION | EVENTS | STRATEGY | Age Distribution | Prognosis | Prospective Studies | Surgical Procedures, Operative | Humans | Middle Aged | Myocardial Ischemia - blood | Postoperative Complications - blood | Male | Postoperative Complications - epidemiology | Patient Outcome Assessment | Postoperative Complications - diagnosis | Troponin T - blood | Aged | Myocardial Ischemia - diagnosis | Cohort Studies | Myocardial Ischemia - epidemiology
MORTALITY | RISK | ANESTHESIOLOGY | INFARCTION | EVENTS | STRATEGY | Age Distribution | Prognosis | Prospective Studies | Surgical Procedures, Operative | Humans | Middle Aged | Myocardial Ischemia - blood | Postoperative Complications - blood | Male | Postoperative Complications - epidemiology | Patient Outcome Assessment | Postoperative Complications - diagnosis | Troponin T - blood | Aged | Myocardial Ischemia - diagnosis | Cohort Studies | Myocardial Ischemia - epidemiology
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BMJ : British Medical Journal, ISSN 0959-8138, 7/2012, Volume 345, Issue 7871, pp. 15 - 15
Objective To synthesise the association of shift work with major vascular events as reported in the literature.Data sources Systematic searches of major...
Myocardial infarction | RESEARCH | Medical research | Research facilities | Strokes | Academic libraries | Research universities | Shift work | Universities | MORTALITY | MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | METABOLIC SYNDROME | SOCIAL-CLASS | JAPANESE WORKERS | EPIDEMIOLOGIC EVIDENCE | ACUTE MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION | ISCHEMIC-HEART-DISEASE | HEALTH | DANISH MEN | CARDIOVASCULAR RISK-FACTORS | Brain Ischemia - complications | Myocardial Infarction - epidemiology | Stroke - prevention & control | Risk Assessment | Humans | Risk Factors | Coronary Disease - etiology | Coronary Disease - epidemiology | Work Schedule Tolerance | Coronary Disease - prevention & control | Personnel Staffing and Scheduling | Stroke - etiology | Stroke - epidemiology | Myocardial Infarction - prevention & control | Odds Ratio | Myocardial Infarction - etiology
Myocardial infarction | RESEARCH | Medical research | Research facilities | Strokes | Academic libraries | Research universities | Shift work | Universities | MORTALITY | MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | METABOLIC SYNDROME | SOCIAL-CLASS | JAPANESE WORKERS | EPIDEMIOLOGIC EVIDENCE | ACUTE MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION | ISCHEMIC-HEART-DISEASE | HEALTH | DANISH MEN | CARDIOVASCULAR RISK-FACTORS | Brain Ischemia - complications | Myocardial Infarction - epidemiology | Stroke - prevention & control | Risk Assessment | Humans | Risk Factors | Coronary Disease - etiology | Coronary Disease - epidemiology | Work Schedule Tolerance | Coronary Disease - prevention & control | Personnel Staffing and Scheduling | Stroke - etiology | Stroke - epidemiology | Myocardial Infarction - prevention & control | Odds Ratio | Myocardial Infarction - etiology
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BMJ : British Medical Journal, ISSN 0959-8138, 4/2015, Volume 350, Issue apr22 15, pp. h1907 - h1907
Objectives To determine if coronary computed tomographic angiography enhances prediction of perioperative risk in patients before non-cardiac surgery and to...
RESEARCH | MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | NONVASCULAR SURGERY | MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION | STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY | PERIOPERATIVE CARDIAC EVENTS | MAJOR VASCULAR-SURGERY | CT ANGIOGRAPHY | INTERNATIONAL MULTICENTER REGISTRY | ARTERY-DISEASE | DIAGNOSTIC-ACCURACY | CLINICAL-OUTCOMES | Predictive Value of Tests | Postoperative Complications - etiology | Prognosis | Prospective Studies | Risk Assessment | Surgical Procedures, Operative | Humans | Middle Aged | Risk Factors | Postoperative Complications - prevention & control | Death, Sudden, Cardiac - prevention & control | Male | Death, Sudden, Cardiac - etiology | Preoperative Care | Coronary Angiography | Female | Aged | Myocardial Infarction - prevention & control | Myocardial Infarction - etiology | Cohort Studies | Practice Guidelines as Topic
RESEARCH | MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | NONVASCULAR SURGERY | MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION | STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY | PERIOPERATIVE CARDIAC EVENTS | MAJOR VASCULAR-SURGERY | CT ANGIOGRAPHY | INTERNATIONAL MULTICENTER REGISTRY | ARTERY-DISEASE | DIAGNOSTIC-ACCURACY | CLINICAL-OUTCOMES | Predictive Value of Tests | Postoperative Complications - etiology | Prognosis | Prospective Studies | Risk Assessment | Surgical Procedures, Operative | Humans | Middle Aged | Risk Factors | Postoperative Complications - prevention & control | Death, Sudden, Cardiac - prevention & control | Male | Death, Sudden, Cardiac - etiology | Preoperative Care | Coronary Angiography | Female | Aged | Myocardial Infarction - prevention & control | Myocardial Infarction - etiology | Cohort Studies | Practice Guidelines as Topic
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JAMA, ISSN 0098-7484, 12/2014, Volume 312, Issue 21, pp. 2254 - 2264
IMPORTANCE: Acute kidney injury, a common complication of surgery, is associated with poor outcomes and high health care costs. Some studies suggest aspirin or...
TRANEXAMIC ACID | NEUROPROTECTINS | MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | DOCOSATRIENES | TRANSFUSION | RATIONALE | CARDIAC-SURGERY | DISEASE | ACUTE-RENAL-FAILURE | AGONISTS | OMEGA-3-DERIVED MEDIATORS | Perioperative Care | Drug Administration Schedule | Administration, Oral | Humans | Middle Aged | Clonidine - adverse effects | Male | Risk | Administration, Cutaneous | Hypotension - chemically induced | Acute Kidney Injury - prevention & control | Aspirin - administration & dosage | Adrenergic alpha-2 Receptor Agonists - administration & dosage | Aspirin - adverse effects | Adrenergic alpha-2 Receptor Agonists - adverse effects | Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors - administration & dosage | Creatinine - blood | Female | Aged | Clonidine - administration & dosage | Hemorrhage - chemically induced | Postoperative Complications | Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors - adverse effects | Clinical trials | Aspirin | Kidney diseases
TRANEXAMIC ACID | NEUROPROTECTINS | MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | DOCOSATRIENES | TRANSFUSION | RATIONALE | CARDIAC-SURGERY | DISEASE | ACUTE-RENAL-FAILURE | AGONISTS | OMEGA-3-DERIVED MEDIATORS | Perioperative Care | Drug Administration Schedule | Administration, Oral | Humans | Middle Aged | Clonidine - adverse effects | Male | Risk | Administration, Cutaneous | Hypotension - chemically induced | Acute Kidney Injury - prevention & control | Aspirin - administration & dosage | Adrenergic alpha-2 Receptor Agonists - administration & dosage | Aspirin - adverse effects | Adrenergic alpha-2 Receptor Agonists - adverse effects | Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors - administration & dosage | Creatinine - blood | Female | Aged | Clonidine - administration & dosage | Hemorrhage - chemically induced | Postoperative Complications | Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors - adverse effects | Clinical trials | Aspirin | Kidney diseases
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