June 22, 2009 Vol. XXVI, No. 24 Sign up for our FREE PW e-newsletter Home Past Issues Search Industry PW E-News Subscribe Advertise Contact Us  Popular Articles  1. New Agent Relieves Moderate to Severe Acute Pain 2. Statins Take on Advanced Prostate Cancer 3. Experimental Drug for Diabetic Sensorimotor Polyneuropathy  Making The Rounds   Practice Management  Patients Seeking Care From Specialists      Ambulatory office-based activity of specialists appears to include routine and preventive care...  Clinical Update  Improving Mood & Quality of Life in Prostate Cancer      A brief pre-surgical stress management intervention may improve short- and long-term outcomes in... Can More Vitamin C Reduce Gout Risk?      Higher vitamin C intake appears to be independently associated with a lower risk of gout,...  Reading Room  Safe Practices Guide Updated      The National Quality Forum has updated its safe practices guide to reflect new evidence and...  Through The Pipeline  New Device Treats Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma      The FDA has approved a new device (Therakos Cellex Photopheresis System, Therakos, Inc.) for... This Week's Feature Story Preventing SSIs      New recommendations from infectious disease experts aim to help clinicians prevent common healthcare-associated infections. Practical recommendations are provided to assist acute care hospitals in efforts to prevent surgical site infections, or SSIs. [ More ]  In The News  Assessing Second Stroke Prevention Efforts      Use of many stroke secondary prevention services appears to be suboptimal, according to a study published in the May 1, 2009 issue of Stroke. Among adults with a history of stroke: [ More ] A Closer Look at Suicide      Most males who completed suicide and/or made serious suicide attempts in adolescence or early adulthood appear to have had psychiatric problems by age 8, according to findings from a study published in the April 2009 Archives of General Psychiatry. [ More ] Analyzing Hepatitis B Outbreaks in Healthcare Settings      Transmission pathways appear to be the most frequent routes for patient-to-patient transmission of hepatitis B virus (HBV), according to a study published in the April 8, 2009 issue of BMC Medicine. Dialysis units accounted for 30.3% of HBV outbreaks, followed by medical wards (21.2%), nursing homes (21.2%), surgery wards (15.2%), and outpatient clinics (12.1%). [ More ]  In My Opinion...  New Concepts in Coronary Revascularization "Patients and physicians can reference the recommendations to determine whether it’s reasonable to pursue revascularization or other options." MANESH R. PATEL, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Cardiology   Duke University Clinical Research Institute   To sign up for our FREE PW e-newsletter, click HERE To get Physician's Weekly posted in your hospital, click HERE Home | Past Issues | Search | Subscribe | Advertise | Contact Us Back To Top © 2009 Physician’s Weekly, LLC Web design and development by Spindustry Interactive™

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