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Background: Low-dose glucocorticoids are frequently used for the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other chronic conditions, but the safety of long-term use remains uncertain.
Objective: To quantify the risk for hospitalized...
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Risk for Serious Infection With Low-Dose Glucocorticoids in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis
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Patient-Reported Needs Following a Referral for Colorectal Cancer Screening
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Introduction: Patient-physician communication about colorectal cancer screening can affect screening use, but discussions often lack information that patients need for informed decision making and seldom address personal preferences or barriers. To address this...
The Women's Preventive Services Initiative Well-Woman Chart: A Helpful Tool for the Practice of Internal Medicine
The Women's Preventive Services Initiative (WPSI) is a national coalition of 21 professional organizations and patient representatives that develops, reviews, updates, and disseminates evidence-based clinical recommendations for women's preventive health care services, from adolescence into the...
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Meningococcal Vaccination: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, United States, 2020
This report compiles and summarizes all recommendations from CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for use of meningococcal vaccines in the United States. As a comprehensive summary and update of previously published recommendations, it replaces all previously published...
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Meningococcal Vaccination: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, United States, 2020
This report compiles and summarizes all recommendations from CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for use of meningococcal vaccines in the United States. As a comprehensive summary and update of previously published recommendations, it replaces all previously published...
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Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: A Review of Viral, Host, and Environmental Factors
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the etiologic agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has spread globally in a few short months. Substantial evidence now supports preliminary conclusions about transmission that can inform rational, evidence-...
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Tai Chi for Chronic Illness Management: Synthesizing Current Evidence from Meta-Analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials
An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) was conducted to evaluate the existing evidence of Tai Chi as a mind-body exercise for chronic illness management. MEDLINE/PubMed and Embase databases were searched from inception until 31st March...
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Pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with COVID-19: a spectrum of diseases with many names
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Kinetics of viral clearance and antibody production across age groups in SARS-CoV-2 infected children
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Objectives: To improve understanding of transition from viral infection to viral clearance, and antibody response in pediatric patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Study design: This retrospective analysis of children tested for SARS-CoV-2...