PP008—Drug-related problems in a general internal medicine service

Infusion phlebitis in patients in a general internal medicine service.

Possibilities include an unknown confounder that theoretically was controlled for during randomization, but can have an effect with small sample sizes,4 a postrandomization selection bias of some type that we did not detect, chance, and the possibility that we actually found a steroid effect at 2 h. One strength of our study that is not followed in other asthma studies was the recruitment of pa...

Update in general internal medicine.

Update in general internal medicine.

The big news in women’s health in 2002 came from the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) report, which found that combined hormone replacement therapy (HRT) (estrogen plus progestin) exposes postmenopausal women to more risk than benefit. Before this report, most observational studies showed that HRT decreased risk for heart disease by as much as 35%. In retrospect, however, many of these studies d...

Odontogenic infections in the Internal Medicine Service.

Most head and neck infections are due to odontogenic ethiologies.1 Complications may include locoregional collections and systemic dissemination, but scientific publications concerning the role of the Internal Medicine Service in diagnosis and treatment are lacking. We present a retrospective review of medical records from June 2005 to May 2009 from a tertiary care hospital in Buenos Aires. The...

Clinical pearls in general internal medicine 2012.

eneral A t the 2001 Annual Conference of the American College of Physicians, a new teaching format to aid physician learning, Clinical Pearls, was introduced. Clinical Pearls is designed with the 3 qualities of physician-learners in mind. First, we physicians enjoy learning from cases. Second, we like concise, practical points that we can use in our practice. Finally, we take pleasure in proble...