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EHR Documentation May Help in Harm Reduction Initiatives

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EHR-based initiative tied to more than 30 percent reduction in harm for hospital-acquired infections
Physician burnout factors include control

Risk Factors in Six Areas Tied to Physician Burnout

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Tool gauging burnout focuses on workload, control, rewards, community, fairness, values
A proposal to replace private insurance with government-funded health care for all moved forward in California on Wednesday as Democrats on the Senate Health Committee voted to advance the measure.

Single-Payer Health System Bill Moves Forward in California

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Not yet clear where money for the single-payer system would come from
Deep learning with deep convolutional neural networks can result in accurate detection of tuberculosis on chest radiographs

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Accurately Detect TB

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Ensemble of AlexNet and GoogLeNet was best-performing classifier, with AUC of 0.99
The prescription drug abuse epidemic in the United States might be associated with a higher mortality rate than has been reported previously

CDC: Opioid-Related Mortality Rate Might Be Underestimated

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Death certificates from drug-linked infections may not label opioids as possible cause
Hepatitis B virus reactivation is a safety concern for patients with HBV and hepatitis C virus coinfection receiving direct-acting antiviral agents

HBV Reactivation Is Concern With DAA Tx in HBV-HCV Coinfection

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29 cases of HBV reactivation reported in patients with coinfection receiving direct-acting antivirals
Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio can predict 30-day mortality for elderly adults with community-acquired pneumonia

Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio Predicts Mortality in CAP

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NLR predicts 30-day mortality for elderly adults admitted with community-acquired pneumonia
In a case report published online April 17 in the Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics

Case Report Describes Adverse Reaction to Clindamycin

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Patient developed acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis after vancomycin, clindamycin use
The next seven great achievements in pediatric research are presented in an article published online April 21 in Pediatrics.

Next Seven Great Achievements in Pediatric Research Predicted

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Achievements include more pediatric immunizations, cancer immunotherapy, genomic discoveries
There is no advantage in testing morning first-void urine over later samples for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2+ detection using human papillomavirus testing

First-Void Morning Urine Not Necessary for CIN2+ Detection

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First-void urine also similar to physician-taken smears or brush-based self-samples