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March 2002 - Volume 7 - 2

Purpose and procedure

PURPOSE AND PROCEDURE (1 March, 2002) Free

Additional articles abstracted in ACP Journal club

ADDITIONAL ARTICLES ABSTRACTED IN ACP JOURNAL CLUB (1 March, 2002) Free

EBM notebook

Clinical expertise in the era of evidence-based medicine and patient choice (1 March, 2002) Free
R Brian Haynes, P J Devereaux, Gordon H Guyatt

Resource corner

Users' Guides to the Medical Literature (1 March, 2002) Free
Jennifer Kleinbart, Mark V Williams
Critical Appraisal for Psychiatry (1 March, 2002) Free
Patrick G O'Malley

Therapeutics

The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension diet lowered systolic blood pressure in stage 1 isolated systolic hypertension (1 March, 2002) Free
Combined treatment with indapamide and perindopril but not perindopril alone reduced the risk for recurrent stroke (1 March, 2002) Free
Clopidogrel plus aspirin was effective but increased bleeding in acute coronary syndromes without ST-segment elevation (1 March, 2002) Free
A nurse-led intervention reduced risk factors, anxiety, and depression in patients waiting for CABG (1 March, 2002) Free
Revascularisation led to less angina and fewer adverse cardiac events than did optimal medical care in angina pectoris in the elderly (1 March, 2002) Free
Continuous and intermittent sibutramine were equally effective at 44 weeks for reducing weight in obesity (1 March, 2002) Free
Levodopa plus carbidopa before physiotherapy increased motor recovery after stroke (1 March, 2002) Free
Review: thrombolysis increases short term death and intracranial haemorrhage but decreases long term death or dependence (1 March, 2002) Free
Review: studies on the cardiovascular effects of selective COX-2 inhibitors show mixed results (1 March, 2002) Free
Review: long term lithium treatment lowers suicide risk in major affective disorder (1 March, 2002) Free
Review: problem solving treatment after deliberate self harm improves depression, hopelessness, and personal problems (1 March, 2002) Free
Review: behavioural interventions show the most promise for chronic fatigue syndrome (1 March, 2002) Free
Review: mucolytic drugs reduce exacerbations, illness days, and antibiotic use in chronic bronchitis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (1 March, 2002) Free
Zinc or vitamin A reduced diarrhoea in young, poor Bangladeshi children (1 March, 2002) Free
A rice based diet with green banana or pectin reduced diarrhoea in infants better than a rice alone diet (1 March, 2002) Free
Physiotherapy, aerobics, and training devices reduced pain intensity and frequency in chronic low back pain (1 March, 2002) Free
Review: antidepressants improve headache in patients with chronic headache (1 March, 2002) Free

Diagnosis

Review: CT angiography and magnetic resonance imaging are the best less invasive tests for renal artery stenosis (1 March, 2002) Free
B-natriuretic peptide concentrations had high sensitivity and specificity for detecting abnormal ventricular function (1 March, 2002) Free

Prognosis

Children infected with meningitis before 1 year of age were at increased risk for disability at 5 years of age (1 March, 2002) Free

Etiology

Low level prenatal alcohol exposure was associated with adverse behavioural outcomes in children at 6 to 7 years of age (1 March, 2002) Free

Quality improvement

Review: multidisciplinary coronary heart disease management programmes improve the process of care and reduce hospital admissions (1 March, 2002) Free

Economics

An intranasal influenza vaccine for the prevention of influenza in healthy children was cost effective (1 March, 2002) Free

Differential diagnosis

A standardised sequential clinical examination identified probable causes of syncope in 69% of patients (1 March, 2002) Free

Glossary

Glossary (1 March, 2002) Free

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