undergoing Cesarean section Kerri Huber, RN, MSN, CIC; Geeta Sood, MD; Jonathan M. Zenilman, MD, FIDSA; Trish M. Perl, MD, MSc, FIDSA, FSHEA; Cynthia Argani, MD; Infection Control, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD; Infectious Disease, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medica...

Richard Platt, MD, MS, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Harvard Medical School; Kathleen Blake, MD, MPH, American Medical Association; Patricia Franklin, MD, MBA, MPH, University of Massachusetts Medical School; J. Michael Gaziano, MD, MPH, VA Boston Healthcare System/Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School; Robert Harrington, MD, Stanford University; Adrian Hernandez, MD, MHS...

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Laboratory of Experimental Neurology and Neurophysiology/DFF/UFC and Institute of Biomedicine of the Brazilian Semiarid/ INCT/CNPq: MD, MSc; MD, PhD, Full Professor of Neurology and Neurophysiology/DFF/UFC; MD, Medical Doctor of the Brasília Base Hospital; MSc, PhD, Associate Professor of the Medicine Course of the Christus Faculty; DVM; DVM, PhD, Professor of the Superior School of Agriculture...

Xu Zhang, PhD; Wei Zhang, PhD; Shwu-Fan Ma, PhD; Ankit A. Desai, MD; Santosh Saraf, MD; Galina Miasniakova, MD; Adelina Sergueeva, MD; Tatiana Ammosova, PhD; Min Xu, PhD; Sergei Nekhai, PhD; Taimur Abbasi, MD; Nancy G. Casanova, MD; Martin H. Steinberg, MD; Clinton T. Baldwin, PhD; Paola Sebastiani, PhD; Josef T. Prchal, MD; Rick Kittles, PhD; Joe G. N. Garcia, MD; Roberto F. Machado, MD; Victo...

First submission on 19/09/12; last submission on 21/01/13; accepted for publication on 21/01/13; published on 20/04/13 1. Master’s degree in Tropical Medicine at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE); attending doctorate in Tropical Medicine at UFPE. 2. Doctor in Tropical Medicine at UFPE; researcher and quality manager at Ministry of Health-Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ-PE). 3. Doctor in ...

Hironi Makita, MD, Yasuyuki Nasuhara, MD, Katsura Nagai, MD, Yoko Ito, MD, Masaru Hasegawa, MD, Tomoko Betsuyaku, MD, Yuya Onodera, MD, Nobuyuki Hizawa, MD, Masaharu Nishimura, MD. First Department of Medicine and Department of Radiology, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan See end of article for all contributors to the Hokkaido COPD cohort study.

Background:  Geographic and doctor-to-doctor variations in care are a focus of quality and safety efforts in medicine. This study addresses factors associated with variation in the rate of operative treatment of de Quervain tendinopathy.   Methods: We used a database including all patient encounters at 2 large medical centers, to study the experience of 10 hand surgeons and 1 physiatrist workin...

*: Member of the Committee on Post-Marketing Surveillance of Japan College of Rheumatology 1) Tsutomu Takeuchi MD; Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University, Saitama, Japan. 2) Yoshihiko Tatsuki; Pharmaceuticals Sales & Marketing Headquarters, Yoshihide Nogami; Compliance & Assurance Headquarters, Tanabe Seiyaku Co., LTD, Osaka, Japan. ...

158. Trends of Antibiotic Consumption in Korea according to Nation-wide Reimbursement Data (2008-2012): A Population-Based Epidemiologic Study Young Kyung Yoon, MD, PhD; Gi Chan Park; Hyonggin An, PhD; Byung Chul Chun, MD, PhD; Jang-Wook Sohn, MD, PhD; MIN JA KIM, MD, PhD; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea;...