A practice profile of native American physicians

American College of Physicians

American College of Physicians

Purpose: To determine the disease-free survival and post treatment toxicity following salvage permanent prostate brachytherapy (sPPB) as a second curative treatment in patients with biopsy proven local recurrence after initial external beam radiation treatment (EBRT) for prostate cancer. Materials and Methods: Between June, 1996, and December 2007, 23 patients were treated with sPPB for histolo...

Treatment of pressure ulcers: a clinical practice guideline from the American College of Physicians.

DESCRIPTION The American College of Physicians (ACP) developed this guideline to present the evidence and provide clinical recommendations based on the comparative effectiveness of treatments of pressure ulcers. METHODS This guideline is based on published literature on this topic that was identified by using MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, EBM Reviews, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Tr...

Management of Acute and Recurrent Gout: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the American College of Physicians.

Description The American College of Physicians (ACP) developed this guideline to present the evidence and provide clinical recommendations on the management of gout. Methods Using the ACP grading system, the committee based these recommendations on a systematic review of randomized, controlled trials; systematic reviews; and large observational studies published between January 2010 and March...

Future studies of physicians' practice and digital health

The article is a letter to the editor, so it has no abstract.