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For patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty

Patient Factors Differ for Surgical, All-Cause Readmission

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Highest odds of return to theater after hip surgery tied to drug abuse, psychoses, dementia, depression
General practitioners are less likely to support cessation of smoking in patients with cancer than in those with coronary heart disease

Smoking Cessation Support Less Likely for Cancer Patients

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General practitioners less likely to support smoking cessation in patients with cancer than with CHD
For patients with acute heart failure admitted to the emergency department

ER Risk Score Predicts 30-Day Mortality in Acute Heart Failure

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Risk score based on 13 independent risk factors has excellent discrimination and calibration
Prescription opioid-related inpatient and emergency department discharges have decreased since 2010

Hospital Discharges for Prescription Opioids Have Fallen

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But inpatient and ED discharges related to heroin have increased in past decade
A vascular surgeon and primary care physician agree that an asymptomatic patient with cardiovascular risk and stenosis of 50 percent on screening carotid ultrasonography should not undergo carotid artery stenosis screening

Patient With CAS of 50 Percent Should Not Undergo Screening

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Vascular surgeon, primary care physician agree that patient should participate in trial
Regular leisure-time exercise of any intensity is associated with reduced incidence of future depression

Regular Leisure-Time Exercise May Cut Incidence of Depression

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Correlation was seen for future depression, but not anxiety, regardless of intensity of exercise
Epsom salt intake can lead to severe liver injury in predisposed patients

High Epsom Salt Intake Can Lead to Severe Liver Injury

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Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis might act as risk factor for development of Epsom salt-related liver injury
Over the short term there is not a significantly increased overall cancer risk among individuals with type 2 diabetes using sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors

Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors Not Cancer Risk Factor

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Overall cancer risk not increased compared with placebo, other active glucose-lowering treatments
An intervention targeting gaps in staff communication and coordination (complexity science-based staff training intervention) does not improve the impact of an evidence-based falls quality improvement program

Staff Training Intervention Doesn’t Impact Fall Prevention

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Complexity science-based staff training has no impact on falls program in nursing homes
For clinically healthy older adults

Subjective Cognitive Decline Linked to Global Tau Burden

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Greater SCD tied to increasing entorhinal cortical tau burden, Aβ burden in clinically healthy elderly