Low-dose (25 mcg) intravaginal misoprostol appears to be safe and effective for cervical ripening in term pregnancy for patients without a history of cesarean section. Compared with other cervical ripening methods, misoprostol ...

This issue of eMedRef provides to clinicians an overview of the injuries that may occur during dancing.

This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the injuries that may occur to the hip while dancing.

Compared with planned repeat low-transverse cesarean section, vaginal birth after cesarean section (VBAC) is not associated with increased risk of maternal or neonatal mortality (strength of recommendation [SOR]: B). ...

After clinical diagnosis and microscopic confirmation, tinea cruris is best treated with a topical allylamine or an azole antifungal (strength of recommendation: A, based on multiple randomized controlled trials [RCTs]). ...

Clinical evaluation and chest x-ray are recommended for asymptomatic patients with a positive purified protein derivative (PPD) test result, to exclude the slight possibility of active tuberculosis (TB). Patients with ...

This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on injuries that may occur to the foot and ankle while dancing.

This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the injuries that may occur to the shoulder while dancing.

This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the injuries that may occur to the spine while dancing.

This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the injuries that may occur to the knee and thigh while dancing.

This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on injuries to the elbow, wrist and hand that may occur during dancing.

Terbinafine, 250 mg daily for 12 to 16 weeks, produces higher clinical cure rates than either pulsed-dose itraconazole or weekly fluconazole (strength of recommendation [SOR]: A, multiple randomized controlled trials ...

This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and therapeutics of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.

This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and therapeutics of vulvodynia.

. An interdisciplinary team conceptualized nine interview questions over weekly group sessions and fictitious but typical acute and chronic physician's documentation (progress notes) was created by two family medicine physicians (JLB and RJK). An analysis of hour long...

of changing ten percent of the physician and nursing manpower, the clinic's expenses, patients' turnout to the operating margin of the clinic. The major accomplishments of this work included the incorporation of a system engineering tool to health care system...

considerable popularity in the United States as far back as the early part of the nineteenth century, with American physicians conducting similar experiments on patients in an effort to determine acupuncture’s underlying mechanism of action. In the second half...

Nurse practitioner (NP) practice regulations vary from state to state across the United States. Despite strong evidence supporting the quality of care and satisfaction with care provided by NPs, restrictive regulations ...

This project seeks to understand osteopathy as patients, students, and doctors did during the late nineteenth century. A. T. Still’s osteopathic medical theories proclaimed manual therapeutics to treat disease. Still’s ...

The purpose of this study was to explore how and in what context osteopathic medical students learn about interprofessional practice. A mixed method design was used to gather data on attitudes of first- and second-year ...