BACKGROUND The use of intravenous thrombolysis for stroke is limited by contraindications that may be difficult to identify promptly and accurately. Evidence supports the use of information technology-based clinical decision support (CDS) tools to achieve improvements in care delivery. The objective of this pilot study was to investigate the efficacy of a CDS tool to screen health records for c...

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a lymphangiogram in order to definitely determine whether disease exists below the diaphragm in the retroperitoneal space. If disease is found, current evidence indicates that it should be treated with radiation therapy. Lymphangiography is usually not indicated in patients with Stages IIB and III disease. Retroperitoneal disease almost invariably exists and the procedure should only be done fo...

Patients with chronic liver disease and certain patients with acute liver failure require liver transplantation as a life-saving measure. Liver transplantation has undergone major improvements, with better selection of candidates for transplantation and allocation of scarce deceased donor organs (according to more objective criteria). Living donor liver transplantation came into existence to ov...

The official recommendations on the contraindications to whooping cough immunisation are currently couched in general terms. The results of a simple inquiry made to directors of public health laboratories, general paediatriciains, paediatric neurologists, medical officers, general practitioners, and health visitors to see how they would interpret the contraindications in certain specific cases ...