TCT-706 Can Clinical Predictive Models Identify Patients Who Should Not Receive TAVR?

Who should receive bone mineral density testing?

Evidence A study of 860 postmenopausal Asian women examined 11 risk factors to predict osteoporosis1: • Multiple risk factors had minimal value over age and weight alone. • The OST was developed based on weight and age. Eight systematic reviews were conducted from 2007 to 2015, with up to 108 studies and 208 738 patients evaluating more than 9 tools to assess the risk of osteoporosis or fractur...

Patients who do not receive continuity of care.

BACKGROUND Continuity of care is much valued by general practitioners but little is known about those patients who do not receive continuity of care. AIM This study set out to identify and describe a group of patients who did not receive continuity of care from the general practitioner with whom they were personally registered. METHOD A total of 110 patients (71 female and 39 male) were ide...

Combination warfarin-ASA therapy: which patients should receive it, which patients should not, and why?

Combination warfarin-ASA therapy is currently used in approximately 800,000 patients in North America as long-term treatment for the primary and secondary prevention of atherothrombotic and thromboembolic diseases. Despite a potentially complementary action of anticoagulant and antiplatelet drugs, the use of combination warfarin-ASA therapy is not based on compelling evidence of a net therapeut...

Which infants should not receive intensive care?

intensive care ? Which infants should not receive

The practical comments offered by Hassall and Ament relating to paediatric colonoscopy are well taken. Any pathologist reviewing biopsies taken after bowel preparation should certainly expect to make allowance for a small increase in cellular infiltrate and significant mucus depletion. It is not our experience that either petechiae or significant erythema result from purgation or enemas, except...