March 1, 2010 Vol. XXVII, No. 9 Sign up for our FREE PW e-newsletter Home Past Issues Search Register Contact Us Back to Phys Weekly  Popular Articles  1. Managing COPD: An Update on GOLD Standards 2. Lessons Learned in Implementing HIV Testing in EDs 3. Preventing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia  Making The Rounds   Practice Management  Analyzing EHR Use by Office-Based Physicians      About 44% of office-based physicians used electronic health records (EHRs) in 2009, representing...  Clinical Update  Managing Chronic Low Back Pain      An investigation from the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American... The Impact of Pernicious Anemia on Hip Fracture      Patients with a diagnosis of pernicious anemia (PA) appear to have an elevated risk of hip...  Reading Room  Report: Hospital Quality Still Improving      A Joint Commission report has found that hospitals continue to improve the quality and safety of...  Through The Pipeline  A New Treatment for Moderately to Severely Active RA      The FDA has approved tocilizumab (Actemra, Roche) for the treatment of adult patients with... This Week's Feature Story Conference Highlights: ISET 2010      The International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy, or ISET, held its 2010 annual meeting from January 17-21 in Hollywood, Florida. The features below highlight some of the news emerging from the meeting. For more information on these items and other research that was presented, go to www.iset.org. [ More ]  In The News  Tailored Statin Interventions Help Prevent CAD Events      A tailored treatment strategy appears to help prevent more coronary artery disease (CAD) events while treating fewer people with high-dose statins than LDL cholesterol-based target approaches, according to a national study. Researchers compared tailored treatments based on a person’s 5-year CAD risk with treat-to-target approaches that escalate statin doses per National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) III guidelines. [ More ] Psychiatric Disorders Common After Traumatic Injuries      A significant range of psychiatric disorders appears to occur after traumatic injuries, according to findings from a prospective cohort study. At 1 year after injury, 31% of patients reported a psychiatric disorder, and 22% developed a psychiatric disorder that they had never experienced before. [ More ] Assessing Preventive Drug Use in Stroke Survivors      Swedish research suggests that persistent secondary prevention treatment declines rapidly during the first 2 years after stroke, particularly for statins and warfarin. The proportion of patients who were persistent users of drugs prescribed at hospital discharge declined progressively over the first 2 years. [ More ]  In My Opinion...  Extending Survival for HIV-Infected Patients ELENA LOSINA, PHD Director of Methodology Program in HIV Epidemiology/Outcomes Research, Division of General Medicine; Massachusetts General Hospital. Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Harvard Medical School To get Physician's Weekly posted in your hospital, click HERE PW Archives | Past Issues | Register | Contact Us | Search Archive | Back To Top © 2010 Physician’s Weekly, LLC Web design and development by Spindustry Interactive™

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