Medical Practice

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American Family Physician October 1, 2006 Mark B. Stephens	Preventive Health Counseling for Adolescents The key to providing relevant and useful preventive counseling for adolescent patients is developing the trust necessary to discuss the specific issues that impact this age group.
American Family Physician October 1, 2006 Kavan et al.	A Practical Guide to Crisis Management Physicians often are required to assist patients in crisis. An estimated 4% of visits to primary care physicians involve psychiatric or social crises.
Bio-IT World September 2006 Mark D. Uehling	Spotfire: Seeing Your Clinical Trial Data Jump Spotfire's DecisionSite system offers a new window on clinical research.
American Family Physician September 15, 2006 Wong et al.	Guidelines for the Use of Antibiotics in Acute Upper Respiratory Tract Infections To help physicians with the appropriate use of antibiotics in children and adults with upper respiratory tract infection, a multidisciplinary team evaluated existing guidelines and summarized key practice points.
American Family Physician September 15, 2006 Havas & Donner	Tight Control of Type 1 Diabetes: Recommendations for Patients Physicians play an important role in helping type 1 diabetes patients make essential lifestyle changes to help reduce the risk of microvascular and macrovascular complications.
American Family Physician September 15, 2006 Colgan et al.	Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Adults A common dilemma in clinical medicine is whether to treat asymptomatic patients who present with bacteria in their urine. There are few scenarios in which antibiotic treatment of asymptomatic bacteruria has been shown to improve patient outcomes.
American Family Physician September 15, 2006 Samiya Razzaq	Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome: An Emerging Health Risk Hemolytic uremic syndrome is caused primarily by Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7. The most common cause of acute renal failure in children, hemolytic uremic syndrome also can occur in adults.
American Family Physician September 15, 2006 Mark Shatsky	Rotavirus Vaccine, Live, Oral, Pentavalent (RotaTeq) for Prevention of Rotavirus Gastroenteritis Although costly, rotavirus pentavalent vaccine has been shown to be safe, with no increased risk of intussusception. It also has shown to reduce the need for hospitalization and emergency department visits connected with rotavirus gastroenteritis.
American Family Physician September 15, 2006 Mark H. Ebell	Predicting Short-term Risk of Stroke After TIA Because guidelines do not mandate hospitalization for patients who have had a transient ischemic attack, validated clinical prediction rules may be used to identify patients who should definitely be hospitalized for expedited evaluation and patients for whom outpatient evaluation is a reasonable option.
American Family Physician September 15, 2006	Putting Prevention Into Practice An Evidence-Based Approach: Screening for Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip
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