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What's the best treatment setting for stable PE patients?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2018)
What's the best treatment setting for stable PE patients? The answer seems to be the outpatient setting. Here's why. PRACTICE CHANGER: Manage patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE) who are hemodynamically stable in the outpatient setting...
Does amniotomy shorten spontaneous labor or improve outcomes?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2018)
Q: Does amniotomy shorten spontaneous labor or improve outcomes? Evidence-based answer: No. Amniotomy neither shortens spontaneous labor nor improves any of the following outcomes: length of first stage of labor, cesarean section rate, maternal...
Early pregnancy loss : pretreat with mifepristone?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2019)
Early pregnancy loss : pretreat with mifepristone? Yes. While medical management of early pregnancy loss with misoprostol frequently results in treatment failure, pretreating with mifepristone can increase efficacy. PRACTICE CHANGER: Pretreat...
Consider this SGLT2 inhibitor for patients with HF with preserved ejection fraction
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2022-12)
Consider adding empagliflozin 10 mg to usual therapy to reduce hospitalization of symptomatic patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF; EF > 40%) and an N-terminal pro–B-type natriuretic peptide ...
Put down the electronics after a concussion?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2023-01)
Advise your teenaged and young adult patients with concussion to avoid electronic screens in the first 48 hours after a concussion to minimize time to symptom resolution.
Skip that repeat DXA scan in these postmenopausal women
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2021)
Skip that repeat DXA scan in these postmenopausal women. Repeat bone density measurement offers no advantage in predicting fracture risk in postmenopausal women who do not have osteoporosis. PRACTICE CHANGER: Do not routinely repeat bone density...
Rash in a Returning Traveler
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2016-10)
How do these 3 diabetes agents compare in reducing mortality?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2019)
How do these 3 diabetes agents compare in reducing mortality? A meta-analysis reveals that there may be advantages associated with SGLT-2 inhibitors and GLP-1 agonists that are not associated with DPP-4 inhibitors. PRACTICE CHANGER: Consider adding...
Updates in Hospital Palliative Care
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2019-10)
Background: This review critiques recent palliative care (PC) literature with likelihood of impacting general hospital practice in order to help address the PC needs of patients. Methods: Articles published between January and December 2018 were...
Volunteerism among hospitalists and non-hospitalists at academic and community medical centers in North Carolina
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2017-04)
Volunteerism is common in the United States, though less is known about volunteerism among medical professionals. We aimed to record and compare volunteer activities among hospitalists and non-hospitalists in academic and ...
Correlates of credit card adoption in urban China
(2012)
Analysis of data from the 2008 Survey of Chinese Consumer Finance and Investor Education indicated that 30.0 % of the sample households held at least one credit card. Significant factors associated with the probability ...
Q Which injections are effective for lateral epicondylitis?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2021-11)
Evidence-based answer: placebo injections actually improve lateral epicondylitis at high rates. No other injections convincingly improve it better than placebo. Corticosteroid injection is not superior to saline or anesthetic ...
The moderating effect of social-media among managerial capabilities and strategic innovations on Product Life Cycle Management and Distribution Performance
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2022)
The COVID-19 pandemic has created business difficulties for RTD tea, the second-most popular soft drink after bottled water. This study examines the impact of Managerial Capability and strategic innovation on Product ...
Changes in farms' environmental sustainability in Poland -- progress, or regress?
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2018)
that there is still a need to support farms in order to stimulate their environmental organization and desirable agricultural practice implementation....
Does regular walking improve lipid levels in adults?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2023-01)
Q: Evidence-based answer: Minimally. Regular moderateintensity walking for a period of 4 or more weeks minimally decreased total cholesterol (TC) and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) levels by about 7 mg/dL in women with ...
Do market returns influence risk tolerance? : Evidence from panel data
(2011)
This study used the 1992-2006 waves of the Health and Retirement Study to investigate changes in risk tolerance levels over time in response to stock market returns. Findings indicate that risk tolerance tends to increase ...
The Departure of the Commedia dell'Arte from Paris in 1697 : A Copy of a Lost Watteau
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2018)
Self-perceived age and attitudes toward marketing of older consumers in China
(2010)
Understanding consumer psychological characteristics and their impact on consumer behavior is an important foundation for business marketing strategies. Self-perceived age has a great impact on older consumers' behavior. ...
Source of information and projected household investment portfolio performance
(2016)
Using modern information economics as the conceptual framework and data from the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances, this study adopts a decomposition technique to explore the relationship between the primary information ...
A structural equation model of cooperative member satisfaction and long-term commitment
(Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2019)
The organizational growth of farmer cooperatives is tied to increased heterogeneity in member attitudes and perceptions. To inform possible solutions, a better understanding of the complex interrelationships of member ...