BACKGROUND Data regarding both rates of acute respiratory illness in health care workers and experience with long-term antiviral prophylaxis are sparse. OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy and tolerability of oseltamivir prophylaxis versus seasonal influenza vaccine for the prevention of influenza among health care workers. METHODS We conducted a pilot, randomized control study during the 2...

INTRODUCTION Effective strategies for prevention of venous thromboembolism (VTE) are widely available, but still remain underused, mainly in our country. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to verify whether the implementation of a guideline for VTE prophylaxis for surgical patients influenced the prescription of prophylaxis by the medical staff. METHODS This was a retrospective preintervention-postinter...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS Considerable controversy exists regarding the role of antibiotic prophylaxis prior to endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), in that various studies of antibiotic prophylaxis have reached conflicting conclusions. The aim of this meta-analysis is to synthesize the data in order to determine whether antibiotic prophylaxis reduces the rate of occurrence of...

The aim was to verify the knowledge of nurses from inpatient units about risk factors and venous thromboembolism prophylaxis. study is descriptive prospective with a quantitative approach data were collected analysis medical records questionnaires applied nurses. results showed existence an important deficit in regarding prophylaxis it identified that these professionals are not inserted proces...

P embolism resulting from deep vein thrombosis (DVT) of leg veins is a frequent and preventable cause of death among hospitalized patients. Most of the patients admitted in medical or surgical wards have one or more risk factors for DVT putting these patients at higher risk of acquiring venous thromboembolism (VTE) and its complications. Yet, among hospital staff, compliance with VTE prophylaxi...

During July 2016-January 2017, two unrelated measles cases were identified in the Denver, Colorado area after patients traveled to countries with endemic measles transmission. Each case resulted in multiple exposures at health care facilities and public venues, and activated an immediate and complex response by local and state public health agencies, with activities led by the Tri-County Health...

BACKGROUND Dissemination of research results to study participants and stakeholders and provision of proven effective products in the immediate post-trial period are core elements of the conduct of biomedical HIV prevention clinical trials. Few biomedical HIV prevention trials have demonstrated HIV protection with novel interventions, and thus, communication of positive trial results and provis...

BACKGROUND Dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) has been found to reduce the risk of cardiac death, myocardial infarction, stroke, and stent thrombosis following acute coronary syndrome and percutaneous coronary intervention. However, this therapy has also been shown to increase the risk of gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding as high as 2-fold, especially in patients with multiple risk factors. Proton p...

Background: The homoeopathic prophylaxis (homeoprophylaxis) had been used in prevention of epidemic diseases and applied for more than 200 years to various different parts the world. A survey has undertaken primarily assess effects medicine as prophylactic Influenza like illness. Objective: objective this study was identify against flu symptoms most commonly homeoprophylaxis.Methods: An online ...

hepatitis b vaccination is safe and effective, although breakthrough infection occasionally occurs in those who receive the vaccine and hepatitis b immunoglobulin (hbig) prophylaxis. sequence variation in their antigenic regions is one of the most powerful strategies that are used by viruses to escape recognition by b and t cell-mediated immune responses. the aim of this study was to explore th...